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In the U.S., the topic of employing foreign-born workers can cause a bit of a divide, with some leaning more for it and others against it. For those who may oppose employing these workers, it often comes down to the belief that they are taking jobs away from U.S.-born citizens. Recent research, however, finds that this is not necessarily the case.
The H-1B visa program aims to offer employment to foreign professionals whose occupations call for highly-educated candidates. Each year, the U.S. makes 65,000 visas available to foreign-born workers, with an additional 20,000 for those who hold a Master’s or Doctorate from a U.S. university.
This may seem like enough visas, especially considering the recent high levels of unemployment in the U.S., but research shows that increasing the number of visas for foreign-born workers would actually increase the total number of jobs. In fact, estimates show more than 230,000 jobs could have been created for U.S. born workers between 2007 and 2008 had the hundreds of thousands of visas that were to be put in a lottery not been rejected. Looking ahead, it is estimated that 1.3 million new jobs may be created by 2045 if the numbers of H-1B visas per year is increased.
The reason for this? Many of these jobs are in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Not only is unemployment is extremely low in STEM occupations, showing an unmet need for labor, but the economic impact of these knowledge jobs increases both the overall number of jobs and the GDP. According to a report prepared by Regional Economic Models, Inc., an increase in H-1B visas could create an estimated 1.3 million new jobs and add around $158 billion to the GDP by 2045.
It is not solely STEM jobs that are calling for H-1B employees. Along with research universities, many companies across the country have a demand for these workers — companies like Caterpillar Inc., Bank of America and the Mayo Clinic to name a few. And with more H-1B petitions comes more wage growth. According to the American Immigration Council, the Computer Systems Design and Related Services category saw a “5.5 percent wage growth since 1990” and a “7.0 percent wage growth since 2009.”
With issues such as unemployment at the forefront of many Americans’ minds, perhaps its time to change how we look at foreign-born workers. Allowing for more H-1B visas isn’t a complete solution, but it would definitely create more positive effects for all involved. |
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Advisory Committee Report
Summary and implications for Vocational Rehabilitation systems
The passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) in 2014,
with its focus on expanding opportunities for competitive integrated employment
for people with disabilities and its creation of an Advisory Committee to make
recommendation on strategies for doing so, has been a catalyst for changes
in federal and state policies and practices around employment of people with
disabilities. This report summarizes the recommendations of the WIOA Advisory
Committee for increasing the employment of people with significant disabilities.
It also describes Committee recommendations that can be implemented by state
Vocational Rehabilitation systems, Community Rehabilitation Providers, and the
range of professionals that support people with disabilities to obtain and advance in
competitive integrated employment. These recommendations include strategies for
effective interagency collaboration, for engaging people with disabilities and their
families around employment, and for training for professionals.
Download the report summary. |
The negotiations are being held under strict secrecy with no briefings to journalists or leaks to the media. However, at a meeting with senior officials from his own Fatah party in Ramallah, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas summed up the state of the talks to date.
He said the Palestinians are negotiating statehood with Israel on the basis of the pre-1967 West Bank border, and the talks are making headway.
He said he only agreed to resume bilateral talks after receiving assurances from the Americans, even though Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu refused to make a public declaration confirming that the old green line border between Israel and Jordan would form the basis for the negotiations.
Mr Abbas also confirmed for the first time that Israel agreed to release 104 veteran hardcore Palestinian prisoners on condition that the Palestinians put on hold plans to seek international recognition for statehood.
Senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath had a more pessimistic interpretation on the state of the talks, saying that so far no progress had been made.
He said that Israel had not presented any proposal that would contribute to the success of the negotiations. If the talks reach an impasse, he warned, the Palestinian Authoritymay turn once more to international institutions.
The US state department meanwhile confirmed that mediator Martin Indyk had participated directly in one of the negotiating sessions.
Israeli president Shimon Peres denied the talks were at an impasse, and told army radio that there has been progress.
“What has happened in the meantime is that you sit down with Abu Mazen (Mr Abbas) and negotiate with him; he stands up and says to you, ‘I don’t want to return to Safed or to Jaffa’ (Arab towns, now part of Israel); he says to you that he is in favour of peace, and that he is in favour of a Jewish state.”
According to senior Israeli officials quoted by the Ha’aretz newspaper, the talks currently focus on whether the 1967 border, with territorial exchanges, will be officially recognised as the basis for a future agreement.
Israel is demanding that talks first be held about security arrangements, and only afterwards about borders. The Palestinians are demanding that talks be held about both simultaneously.
More than 30 Israeli ministers and Knesset members who support the peace process had planned to meet today with Mr Abbas at his Ramallah headquarters, but the meeting was cancelled at the last minute. |
The insurance provider is replacing Oxycontin with Xtampza and Morphabond, whose formulas make them more difficult to crush and delay the high.
Although the replacement drugs cost more, BCBS will keep member co-pays the same as they were for Oxycontin.
BCBS is also lowering the daily maximum morphine milligram equivalent (MME) of any opioid, patch, pill or syrup, to 120 ml.
“We feel that’s still too high, but that’s where Medicare will be,” Willis said. “Higher doses overtime have not been shown to reduce pain anymore.”
As an alternative to opioids, BCBS will now cover acupuncture, a traditional Chinese medicine practice in which thin needles are inserted in key points of the body to relieve pain and treat other conditions.
Acupuncture has been shown to have a relevant effect on chronic pain that persists over time that cannot be solely explained by placebo effects, according to research by the Acupuncture Trialists’ Collaboration, published in the May 2018 edition of The Journal of Pain, the official journal of the American Pain Society.
BCBS is encouraging providers to ask questions such as — have you ever been diagnosed with addiction? does addiction run in your family? have you ever had a problem getting off of a substance? — to identify members who could be at risk of opioid addiction.
“The beauty of all these efforts is to let everyone know they can be at risk,” Willis said. “People may not know they have a predisposition until asked.” |
In commemoration of Ramadan, and in a bid to unite a highly multicultural region such as the Middle-East, Coca-Cola has wiped off its can labels. The beverage manufacturer is hoping that this move will somewhat make individuals aware of the fact that prejudice and labeling people is not okay. The limited edition cans have been stripped off the brand logo lettering, but still sports the iconic Coke stripe. They also bear “Labels are for cans, not for people” writing.
“In the Middle East, a region with over 200 nationalities and a larger number of labels dividing people, these Coca-Cola cans send a powerful and timeless message that a world without labels is a world without differences,” “and that we are all basically just the same – human,” says FP7/DXB a Dubai-based agency. |
Teams are doubling their productivity with collaboration hubs
Although asynchronous communication might serve a company’s requirements during regular work, teams sometimes need to get into sync with in-person collaboration to chase tight deadlines.
Pandemic, climate changes, and endless social conflicts are the challenges of today’s work environment. But whatever may be the situation, managers want to peak the productivity of the team. Well, at least most of the time, and certainly when we want them to deliver.
Every business goes through stages where you must crunch out more work than humanly possible. It could be a big milestone, a product launch, an acquisition, a merger, or an important proposal that we need to win.
Does just having the best of brains in the team get you to this peak performance? Technically, it should, but it does not. Just by having hand-picked talent in the team does not make them the A-team.
Bollywood superhits like Chak De! India and Lagaan drive home this point. In Chak De! India, the team put together was the best from each of the states of India, but they could not come together that easily.
At the same time in Lagaan we saw a highly untrained team coming together so strongly that they could beat a much more experienced and talented team at their own game.
Team Dynamics - Elementary, my dear Watson!
How is this possible? Are these just stories or can you make this happen for your team? Of course, you can. You just need to understand the basics of Group Development Theory. It is not that heavy-weight a topic as the name sounds to be. There are multiple versions of theory proposed by many, but the one that we will pick up is that of Bruce Tuckman. He summed team development into four stages
- Norming, and
As it turns out, people approach tasks in distinct ways depending on the quality of relationships with their co-workers. Mind you that this may not be a linear process.
Every management’s intention and actions should be geared towards moving their team through the first 3 stages quickly and shift gear into the fourth and then you have magic! A crisis or a daunting milestone sometimes interestingly acts as a lubricant to accelerate the teams through these phases.
So when you are working remotely how do you pull off something on a tight deadline. This is where collaboration hubs come into picture.
Pulling it off in style
You can think of collaboration hubs as temporary offices that you get for your team. As the name goes this is usually for a limited period of time and has a specific purpose to achieve. Some companies might also choose collaboration hubs as the solution to have periodic leadership meetings to take important decisions.
Fundamentally when you want your team to be on the same page and you want communication and interactions to happen quickly you would choose Collaboration Hubs.
Asana, a popular project management SaaS company that decided that whenever it needed to have leadership meetings it would be in-person at their office or in any convenient collaboration hub. They saw that when some people were in-person and some remote the communication was challenging.
Companies across the world from Ford Motors in the US to Unilever in Singapore are reconfiguring their offices to facilitate more in-person collaboration. These companies have the real estate under their wings to do this.
What do you do when you are a startup or a remote-first company that does not have an office that can be reconfigured for such sync collaborations?
This is where you turn to coworking and coliving innovations in the commercial real estate space. You can get your team a conference room for a few days to a few weeks at a stretch where the entire team can discuss, debate, collaborate and deliver.
With a whiteboard and a projector available brainstorming, sharing opinions and views and discussing them becomes easy. No online collaboration tool has been able to replace the simple whiteboard.
What do you do when your team does not live in one city? This is quite probable as many of them might have relocated to their hometowns. This is where coliving can come in handy. You can book temporary spaces for your team to stay and work together in the same room.
Staying, dining, relaxing, and working together not only accelerates collaboration but also helps develop a deep bonding amongst the team members. Even if you are assembling a new team and set them on an arduous journey this kind of collaborative environment can do the magic.
It would take them through the 3 stages of Group Development of Forming, Storming and Norming quickly and switch them into the Performing stage within a couple of days.
Future of collaborations for workforce
While async communication and collaboration are great for peace times, you need to switch to a synchronous mode when you are at war (i.e.) when you have a crisis at hand. You cannot be waiting for everyone to get on the same page. Your team needs to operate like the pistons of a gasoline engine in tandem and like they are dancing.
In time sensitive scenarios in the race to cross a milestone, it is perfectly normal to innovate and find opportunities to collaborate. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have your A team work together for one month under one roof? You would have a better chance of achieving the objectives. Why get together only for a team break or fun offsite?
The combination of coliving and coworking could be very potent and can serve diverse needs of collaboration.
Readdressing collaboration needs
The pandemic-induced remote work culture led to the successful adoption of coworking spaces. Despite several office real estate and office space challenges, the shared offices and office spaces on rent by the day, by the hour, have been addressing the work culture problems.
Office spaces on micro and short-term rentals have shifted the way we work and collaborate with our team members in person. Meeting and coworking spaces are being reconceived as collaboration hubs.
Collaboration hubs or the war rooms have terrific value add to the team productivity. Solid teamwork multiplies on-ground team results and contributions. It is easier to share intelligence, discover issues, relate the concepts, converse, and address concerns immediately, with no intrusion.
Edited by Affirunisa Kankudti
(Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of YourStory.) |
By Brizette Castallanos, Boyle Heights Beat
For most people, riding a bike is a way to squeeze in some exercise, a favorite pastime or a form of transportation. But for Xela de la X, a single mother, riding is freedom.
The freedom De la X talks about isn’t the kind you feel when you’re out past your curfew, but rather the sense of empowerment you feel after working through a hardship.
A survivor of sexual abuse and domestic violence, De la X says she discovered a feeling of liberation while riding her bike home from work through jam-packed downtown Los Angeles.
“I had at that moment a brief taste of freedom. Just the ability to overcome things — it was like a metaphor for things we have to overcome as women of color daily,” says De la X, a Boyle Heights native.
The desire to share this sense of freedom with other women led her to found Ovarian Psyco-Cycles in 2010. The all-woman cycling brigade has gone on to become popular for its unapologetic approach to radical bike rides, such as Clitoral Mass, an event held as an alternative to male-dominated group rides, which drew more than 200 women last summer.
Tools for empowerment
Members of Ovarian Psyco-Cycles don’t ride for leisure, but for a cause, and see their bicycles as tools for empowerment. The group organizes bike rides to bring awareness to issues that affect women of color and working class backgrounds.
In the last four years, the group has grown in size and popularity. It has seven core members, mostly Eastside residents who range in age from 18 to 35. Every month, about 15 to 30 women show up for the Luna Rides, which de la X says take their name from the moon’s connection with a woman’s menstrual cycle and encourage solidarity among women.
The collective also hosts occasional event rides and workshops that are open to everyone. These are aimed at raising awareness of violence against women, such as the one organized shortly after the disappearance of Bree’Anna Guzmán, a 22-year-old Latina who was abducted in Los Angeles and found dead in Echo Park on January 25, 2012.
Many within the cycling community say that Ovarian Cycles is unlike any other cycling group in Los Angeles.
Carlos Morales, 53, a bike advocate for more than five years and founder of the Eastside Bike Club, has collaborated with the group several times.
“I don’t know of any other group that’s female operated,” says Morales. “They do the cycling–that’s one thing–and then for them to expand those horizons and get involved in the community and give back–it’s not happening [anywhere else].”
Evelyn Martinez, 22, has been an “ova” for over two years. Photo by Jonathan Olivares.
Many Ovas, as they call themselves, grew up in unhealthy home environments and have dealt with domestic violence, drug abuse or alcoholism. They view their personal struggles as fuel that powers their motivation.
Other groups “see cycling as a leisurely activity, and we don’t have that time or privilege,” says De la X. “Cycling can’t be a leisure, not right now, not in today’s world.”
Advocating for change
Being part of the collective has helped members gain self-confidence and led them to join in advocating for change in their community.
Evelyn Martínez, 22, who has been part of the Ovas for two years, says other women in the group have supported her in speaking out against gentrification in Boyle Heights.
Her experience, she says, “wasn’t just about riding a bike. It was also about engaging in conversations that no one that I knew was having.”
As a teenager in Boyle Heights, Martínez was active in the discussion happening around the displacement of residents in Wyvernwood, an apartment complex that may be knocked down and replaced by condominiums as part of a giant development project. But she strayed from activism when she felt she didn’t have enough support from her neighbors.
“With the Ovarians, I felt there is a space open to me to come and voice my opinions and share my concerns and share my vision for my community.”
Today, Martínez relies on her bike to get everywhere. Whether it’s school or a protest, her bike is her tool.
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A six-week workshop on the craft and business of writing comic books and graphic novels, led by literary agent Bree Ogden and professional comic book writer Sterling Gates.
Your Instructor: Bree Ogden (agent at D4EO Literary Agency) and Sterling Gates (professional comic book writer)
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Taken simply, a graphic novel or a comic book is a fictional story, told with pictures, arranged in a sequential order.
The reality is that they are so much more than that. They can tell stories in a way that no other medium can.
Comic books and graphic novels aren't subject to budget restrictions. They can be light and fun, or they can be deep and affecting. They open up exciting new avenues for telling a story. And their versatility is amazing.
Superman tells the story of the immigrant dream and the ideals we strive toward.
Maus tells the story of a Holocaust survivor, utilizing an all-animal cast that conveys a great deal about humanity.
Persepolis tells the story of a woman growing up in Iran, crafted so you can't help but relate.
The Walking Dead tells the story of the evolution of society when faced with great tragedy.
Lobo vs. Santa Claus tells the story of... Lobo fighting Santa Claus.
The point is, when you mix art and prose, the storytelling possibilities are endless.
But writing comic books isn't as simple as sitting down and coming up with a story. There's a lot to take into account, from pacing, to communicating with your artist, to dialogue bubbles. On top of that, there's the question of how you even get your foot in the industry's door.
So we've recruited a crackerjack team to lead you through the process. Welcome to Intro to Writing Comic Books & Graphic Novels.
Bree Ogden is a literary agent at D4EO Literary Agency, where she specializes in graphic novels. She's also the Editorial Director and Magazine Curator for Underneath the Juniper Tree, a macabre children's magazine that mixes art and prose.
Sterling Gates is a professional comic book writer, having written for titles like Green Lantern Corps, World's Finest, Action Comics, Adventure Comics, Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost, and the New 52's Hawk & Dove—but he's best known for his critically-acclaimed run on Supergirl.
This six-week course will lead you through the mechanics of a good script, all the way through the nuts and bolts of the industry. Bree and Sterling will be on hand to answer your burning questions and guide you through the process.
By the time you finish this class, you'll be ready to forge ahead with your idea, you'll have a better understanding of how to make those ideas into reality—and you'll have your very own 22-page script that's been workshopped by Bree, Sterling, and your fellow classmates.
What This Class Covers
First Lecture and Assignment – Deconstructing the Graphic Novel
In order to competently accomplish any task, you must first understand the personality and character of said task. We’ll discuss every detail of comics and graphic novels, breaking down sequential art by converting a comic book into prose.
Bonus Lecture – Writing for an Artist
As a graphic novelist or comic book writer, conveying your written ideas to a visual artist is the most important thing in the process. We’ll learn terminology and explore useful tactics to speak artists’ language, as well as how to structure a page.
Second Lecture and Assignment – Page One, Panel One: Scripting Your Graphic Novel
There are many rules for writing comic and graphic novel scripts. Just as a contractor must follow blueprints to build a sturdy house, a graphic novelist must follow very specific guidelines while scripting out their story. We will learn these rules then play around with scripting out a short story—turning prose into a comic script.
Bonus Lecture – Script Structures and Speech Bubbles
Here we’ll examine a variety of comic scripting styles and evaluate what each type has to offer a writer and an artist. We’ll also examine speech bubbles, sound effects, and captions, and discuss how important they are when conveying information to the reader.
Third Lecture and Assignment – Character Building
What makes an interesting character? How can you take the simplest of archetypes and turn them into characters your readers will love and care for (or totally hate)?
Bonus Lecture – Character Arcs
What is a “character arc” and why are they so important to telling your story?
Fourth Lecture and Assignment – Steps to Creating an Original Graphic Novel
The time is now. You’ve learned how to script out a graphic novel or comic book, and how to convey your ideas to an artist; it’s time to start writing one of your own. But first you’ll want to take one baby step at a time—and we’ll be there to hold your hand. This is the big one, where all our discussion about plot, story structures, characters and more will help you begin your script. The end goal? Walking away from this class with a 22-page comic script…and the motivation to write more.
Bonus Lecture – The Three Acts of a Story
Every story needs a beginning, middle, and end. But what’s the best way to accomplish this? The tried and true “three-act structure”! We’ll talk about what needs to happen in each “act” and use that knowledge to analyze a variety of different media.
Fifth Lecture and Assignment – Publication
Publication in the world of comics and graphic novels is slightly different than publication in the world of novels. Bree will use her literary agent skills to walk you through the proper steps for finding the right agent, deciding what path is best for your graphic novel, and which publishing houses and imprints are right for you.
Goals Of This Class
- Become an expert on the graphic novel art form.
- Learn the basics of scripting a graphic novel like a pro.
- Learn how to implement correct speech bubbles, sound effects, dialogue, etc.
- Understand and define your graphic novel’s genre.
- Discover how to convey your vision to an illustrator... even though it seems like a foreign language when starting out.
- Learn how to script a graphic novel with the help of lectures and feedback.
- Walk away with a 22-page graphic novel or comic book script, and knowledge of the publication process.
LitReactor offers a unique approach to a writing education: You study what you want, when you want, at your own pace. We bring in veteran authors and industry professionals to host classes covering a wide range of topics in an online environment that’s interactive and flexible. You get detailed feedback on your work and take part in discussions in a judgement-free zone. It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or an experienced writer, our workshops are about working together to achieve your writing goals.
Where do classes take place?
Entirely online. So, anywhere you have Internet access.
Are there certain times when the whole class needs to "meet" online?
Nope. Our students come from all over the globe. Everything is posted online and accessible 24/7. (We do occasionally schedule phone chats, but try to reach a consensus on timing.)
What does a typical class consist of?
It varies, but nearly all our classes include weekly lectures, homework assignments, peer reviews, critiques from instructors, and discussion forums.
How much experience do you need to take a class?
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Top News Stories About Black Youth from Across the Nation: March 4 – 10
Every week, the Black Youth Project collects the top news stories about black youth from across the country. Click here to check out our archive of weekly news round-ups, and check back every Monday for a new roundup of headlines about young black America
Are black male doctors becoming endangered?
The Grio, Tyeese Gaines, 3/7/13
When Vince Wilson, 44, was in his early 20s, he considered being a doctor, yet his own insecurities held him back.
“The bottom line is, I never thought I was smart enough,” he says.
Instead, he focused his interest on other fields in medicine, becoming an x-ray technician, an EMT, a certified nursing assistant and an Army and Air Force healthcare technician.
“I always had the impression that [only] the kids who were superior in math and science became doctors,” he says. Despite having good academic preparation, he adds that he didn’t think that his self-described “average” grades qualified.
That was the late 1970s and early 1980s, and right around the time that the number of black males applying to medical school began to decline.
Thirty years later, according to a new report from the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), even fewer black males are applying to medical school and ultimately becoming doctors. While the applicant pool has grown, the number of black males applying is trending downward.
Montgomery collects ideas to improve black students’ success
The Gazette, Jen Bondeson , 3/4/13
Black Student Government Features Workshops and Career Fair
The Collegian, Staff Writer, 3/5/13
First black Ph.D. student recalls time at Duke
Imani Moise, The Chronicle, 3/5/13
Organizers Want Jobs for Youth to Curb Gang Violence
Rigoberto Hernandez, SF Gate, 3/6/13
Youth Incarceration Rates Declining for All Major Racial Groups
Doris Nhan, National Journal, 3/6/13
Model for Raising Black Male Enrollment
The Chronicle, Libby Sander, 3/7/13
Feds probing Seattle schools’ treatment of black students
Seattle Times, Keith Ervin, 3/8/13
Poor College Prospects Predicted for Black Youth in LA County
Diverse Education, Ronald Roach, 3/9/13
Monterey County sees drop in youth homicide
Thomas Sumner, 3/10/13, The Californian |
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Descriptive Essay On A Girl
Using the parameters of a victim described in a dictionary definition, it is evident that Lady Macbeth, due to the suffering and finally death she endures would undeniably classify as a victim. As you look at, and touch her hair it seems to take grasp of your mind and deny descriptive paragraph about a girl of any other thoughts about anything else going on around you. But, what was written in the book is usually far from what makes it to the screen. You are the reason I live. She has well shaped arms with soft, delicate and beautiful hands. She will in fact have no choice that to copy and paste the long freaky paragraphs for you as well. No, then it does not go into the screenplay.
3 Ways to Describe a Girl
It's dark brown with a few caramel-colored highlights. All I pray for is bliss and your happiness. As familiar and uninteresting this situation is, it perfectly sums up where she is at this point in her life: lonely. If the villain grabs the girl her pony tail as she tries to run away then it is important. This is what I said: The first essay we wrote was the descriptive writing style. A good producer or director can read a script and visual the movie without being encumbered with the writers vision. Does it matter if the girl is wearing her hair in a pony tail or just pulled back? The administrators were too busy thinking of themselves, so I remember running as fast as I could in the midst of the pouring rain.
Character Description Examples: How to Hook the Reader
My mom has bleach blonde hair and blue eyes just like me. She explains how autism is not as noticeable in females as it is in males. She had curious large blue eyes that were lined with smile lines like the ancient roots of willow tree. I will grab you with my perspiring palms and shower you with kisses as I lay you down in the hammock and do those long freaky things to you. I love you dearly. Therefore, an attractive woman is a woman who is not only physically attractive but also has some intrinsic values like good communication skills and presence of mind.
Descriptive Essay About A Beautiful Girl
I realized you were in cloud nine and I wanted to take you to the tenth. But, that explains how much I care. This is the character description we get after some brief Off-Screen dialogue that sets up the fact this is just a casual fling. I love you deeply. This day, I promise to be better, I will no longer take you for granted. Her nose is straight and of normal length.
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Third, how much detail do you put in to the script? We recently shot a poster using blue — as in blue sky. In some cases these slaves enjoyed P. The morning of that fated day was violent. Her face was Personal Narrative : My Beautiful Girl When I first met DJ at bowling, I thought that she was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. Well, she deserves the best. |
Society's event features Muzzy Field's history
By BILL SARNO, The Bristol Press
BRISTOL -- The site of the Bristol Historical Society's annual dinner was Nuchie's restaurant in Forestville, but for a few minutes Tuesday evening the more than 120 people present were transported verbally to Muzzy Field in September 1919.
The featured speaker of the evening was Doug Malan, who is writing a book about the history of the city's venerable ball park. Much of the former ESPN production assistant's research is taking place at the historical society's headquarters and involves its collection of bound volumes of The Bristol Press.
Malan, who currently writes for a Connecticut magazine, focused his talk on the weekend nearly 96 years ago when downtown Bristol, particularly Muzzy Field, was the "epicenter of activity" as the site of New Departure's annual party and barbecue and a baseball game between the then-World Champion Boston Red Sox, featuring home run champion Babe Ruth, and the New Departure baseball team.
Society President Frank Johnson said that Malan's work is an asset to the city organization and that the society's resources and the pages of The Bristol Press are an asset to writer's research.
The society is excited about the book project, Johnson said, and plans to sell the volume at its headquarters and have book signings by Malan.
In his talk, Malan described the preparations New Departure, the city's major manufacturer at that time, made for the 1919 barbecue, which took place shortly after World War I ended and was attended by 4,300 people, including workers from the company's Bristol and West Hartford plants. "It rivaled the giant barbecues of the South at that time," he said.
New Departure, he said, had 176 spring lambs shipped from Chicago and the smoking pits were a quarter-mile long.
The day's events included track events, a greased pig contest and sack races in the morning at Muzzy Field before the throng moved to other grounds where 250 servers were present to dish out the food.
That afternoon there was musical entertainment by the ND band as well as boxing and wrestling matches, Malan said. "It was the party of its times," he said.
New Departure leader DeWitt Page was very supportive of sports, Malan said, and the company employed several talented ballplayers. The ND team, led by Swat McCabe, Les Lanning and Clyde Waters, had won the state championship by defeating an East Hartford team.
The Red Sox boasted future Hall of Famer Harry Hooper and much of the pre-game publicity in The Press was about Stuffy McInnis and Everett Scott of the Boston team, Malan said. The team also included Joe Wilhoit (left), who set the professional baseball hitting streak record, 69 games, that year at Wichita in the Class A Western League.
However, Bristol baseball fans were primarily interested in seeing if Babe Ruth, then 24, could hit the ball out of the park. Muzzy's dimensions at that time were a spacious 388 feet down the left-field line, 441 feet in center field and 322 down the right-field line.
"Not too many balls flew out of the park," the writer said.
About 5,000-6,000 people crowded the Muzzy stands for the Sunday game, Malan said, with Ruth hitting four home runs in that morning's battling practice.
During the game, Ruth blasted a pitch over the right-field wall, Malan said, to give his team a 4-0 lead en route to a 6-2 victory over the home team.
Legend has it, said Malan, that Ruth's home run landed in the Pequabuck River.
"Ruth's game at Muzzy Field was one of his last in the Red Sox uniform," he said.
The next day, the Babe hit his 29th home run of the year against the Yankees to set the Major League record. The next season he would be playing for the New York team. |
Kenneth Oliphant (1896-1975) is recognised locally as an important architect in the development of private residential architecture in Canberra, particularly the inner south. He was the first privately practising architect in Canberra and specialised in domestic work. Many of his early designs were in the Forrest and Red Hill area in a variety of traditional styles, including Mediterranean and tudor. He also designed a small number of houses in the inter-war functionalist style.
Oliphant was born in Bendigo, Victoria and served with the 1st Field Co. Engineers in France in the 1914-18 War. Upon his return to Australia he was articled to the Melbourne architectural firm of Oakley and Parkes. In 1926 at the age of 30 he was posted to Canberra by the firm to supervise the construction of the first 26 houses that are in what is now known as the Forrest Urban Conservation Area. Oakley and Parkes won a nationally advertised competition to design the houses, for senior public servants and their families being transferred from Melbourne to the new capital.
Incidentally, after the Canberra work, the firm of Oakley and Parkes continued to practice for over thirty years. They designed a number of important modernist buildings in Melbourne, including Yule House (1932, 309-311 Little Collins Street), possibly the first Australian example of a moderne-style commercial building; and the moderne, curtain-walled Kodak House (1934-35, 252 Collins Street), the first Melbourne commercial building to use polished stainless steel in its facade.
Oliphant contributed to the final designs for some of the firm’s early private commissions in 1925-26 and began to design houses himself while he was still with Oakley and Parkes. The first was Calthorpe’s House (1927). Calthorpe and Woodger were Canberra’s first real estate agents and the house is now a museum, preserved in its original condition. He then branched out on his own, establishing the practice that was to continue in Canberra until his retirement in the late 1960s. His first office was in the Hotel Canberra and then above the Commonwealth Bank premises in Civic. The first house he designed independently was at 29 Mugga Way, Red Hill (1927-28) for the Head of Hansard, George Romans.
Oliphant designed a small number of inter-war functionalist style houses during the 1930s. Besides 24 Arthur Circle, Forrest, there were houses at 13 Evans Crescent, Griffith (now modified beyond recognition), the corner of Evans Crescent and Hann Street, Griffith (demolished in 1981) and in Dampier Crescent, Forrest. |
By Tony Magee
WITH the recent release of Daniil Trifonov’s recording of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, I find myself reflecting on the multitude of recordings I have listened to over many years and have in my music library. I love to compare and contrast different recorded versions of the same work.
In the case of this concerto, I’m comparing the pianists, orchestras and conductor’s take on tempi, phrasing, tone production, the quality of the recording itself and a multitude of other relevant aspects.
For many, the hallmark recording of this concerto is that by Sviatoslav Richter with the Warsaw Philharmonic. We will return to that later.
BUT let’s start with the first complete recorded version. Rachmaninoff himself at the piano, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Recorded in 1929 for RCA, the sound quality is primitive, mono, full of distortion and background noise, but one can still hear through all the chaos, that Rachmaninoff and the orchestra were in full flight. The master had defined what he considered to be what he wrote down on paper, from his head, at the time. There is an earlier acoustic version with the same team from 1924, but the first movement was never released. The 2nd and 3rd movements were released on HMV Victrola.
It’s worth noting that Rachmaninoff premiered the second and third movements live in Moscow in 1900. It was a kind of test run. In 1901 he completed the first movement and performed the entire concerto with himself again as soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic.
We know from historical documents, letters and reviews, that pianist / composers through all eras, particularly Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Saint-Saens - and we can add Rachmaninoff to that list - never played the same piece in the same way twice. Classical music improvisation was the norm and expected, and if you couldn’t do it, you were considered second rate, or worse.
As a consequence, over time, many pianists, conductors and orchestras have had their own say and interpreted the concerto in different ways.
DURING his short life of just 31 years, young American pianist William Kapell recorded the concerto twice. Both versions are marvellous: full of drama, colour and imaginative phrasing. Firstly, in 1950 with, what was called at the time, the curiously titled “Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia” conducted by William Sternberg and again in 1951 with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
The Robin Hood Dell Orchestra was essentially the main Philadelphia Orchestra, but when some of the principle players were not available, they would hire “extras” - still of a very high standard - and changed the name, also dropping the ticket prices dramatically. Not so much stealing from the rich, but certainly giving to the poor.
Tragically, after his final performance on an Australian tour in 1953, encompassing 19 concerts, which included the Albert Hall in Canberra, the Douglas DC6 on which Kapell was travelling home to the US crashed on approach to San Francisco airport, killing all passengers and crew. Also on board was the brilliant French violinist Ginette Nevue.
Kapell’s interpretations are sometimes unconventional. Tempo, phrasing and dynamics seem sometimes at odds with what we expect the composer would have wanted, and indeed played on his own recording, but here we are dealing with a young man, aged in his late twenties at the time, who clearly wanted to make a statement, dividing the critics, (which he did) and “stand out”. As is often said, “There is no such thing as bad publicity".
Dashing good looks didn’t go astray either and therefore Kapell, with his sometimes unorthodox interpretation, attracted a new, admiring young audience of classical music devotes, not unlike Glen Gould would do 10 years later.
Like everything in the hippie movement and before and after, some just went along for the ride, but for many, Kapell, had he lived, was going to be one of the great masters.
ONE of the finest recordings of this concerto for me, is that by the American pianist Byron Janis, with the Minnesota orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati, recorded in 1960.
The stereo quality is magnificent and the orchestral dynamics are breathtaking, as is the pianism. I keep switching between which I love the best - Richter or Janis. Depending on my mood and activities and who I’m with, either will do as the finest ever recorded version. If you’re into massive Russian weight technique, from the shoulders, with a huge sound without any hint of bashing, then Richter is the one.
NOW let’s move onto someone else who delivers an astonishing performance and created another of the great versions of this concerto. The Australian pianist, Eileen Joyce. Furthermore, she did it in two different ways, very cleverly.
Recorded in July 1946 in Kingsway Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, the full concerto, unabridged, is presented with style and panache by both pianist and orchestra. However Ms Joyce uses restraint sometimes, in contrast to the male performers who would just go for the “big sound” all the time. Her’s is a performance of style and grace, making sure every single note counts. Nothing is glossed over at the expense of bravado.
Eileen Joyce never made any attempt to hide here humble beginnings. Her parents were poor and when she was born in 1912, they were struggling and nomadic, looking for work in Tasmania.
Later, through the influence of a local priest in Kalgoorlie, who spotted the child’s talent, plus the later international influences and recognition of her outstanding abilities by Percy Grainger, William Backhaus, Albert Coats and Henry Wood, she was invited to make her concert debut at the London Proms in 1930 at Queen’s Hall. From there, success was ensured, resulting in a long and outstanding career.
One year earlier however, in 1945, Ms Joyce, at the invitation of Noël Coward, was invited to play selections from the concerto as the soundtrack for his film “Brief Encounter” (based on his play “Still Life”), starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson.
These selections form the basis for the entire movie soundtrack. There is no additional score involved. For this, they both decided to use the Sinfonia of London, conducted by Muir Mathieson, a popular choice for British films of that period.
It was a combination of the film plot itself, the superb acting skills of the cast and Rachmaninoff’s musical score, as played by Eileen Joyce, that made the film a huge box office success. It is still one of the most treasured cinematic masterpieces of the 20th Century.
ONE of the more disappointing performances of this concerto is that by the pianist Alexander Brailowsky, with the San Francisco Orchestra conducted by Enrique Jordan, released on RCA in 1958. Note firstly, that they teamed him up with a “second top five” orchestra and a no-name conductor. Brailowsky relied very much on his exotic sounding European surname, rather than true pianistic artistry. Russian born, he became a French citizen. He’s not bad, but RCA and CBS both seemed a bit desperate at the time to sign up musicians. The big majors - DGG, Philips, EMI and Decca had already signed all the great ones.
BENNO Moiseiwitsch was a grand master of Chopin. His interpretations are hard to beat. His performance of the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 is with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Hugo Rignold.
There is much to recommend along the way, but the the entire project is destroyed by the mixing balance between orchestra and piano. This Abbey Road Studios recording from 1956 has the piano mixed so softly, it’s almost like an afterthought, whilst the orchestra blasts your ears off. Why? The producers should all be shot. The pianistic playing itself is sublime and full of heart-felt rippling imaginative phasing and best of all - one of the best tone productions you will hear from any pianist. That was his greatest strength in everything he played.
My father Stuart and his friend David saw him live at Sydney Town Hall, also in 1956 and still recall this concert with great fondness.
Conductor Sir Eugene Goosens however, with the Sydney Symphony already seated on stage, was not pleased.
Moiseiwitsch loved having a flutter on the horses and had spent the entire day at Randwick. Noting the time, he grabbed a taxi at the last minute and arrived at Town Hall ten minutes before the curtain was to go up, getting changed into his tails and white tie in the cab on the way.
Of course, the audience knew none of this (at the time), but backstage, there was panic, as it seemed that Benno was not going to show up. But he did, played Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concert No. 1 and brought the house down.
The Press got holt hold of it though and in between glowing reviews, was the constant mention, no doubt reported by Goosens, of what had almost turned out to be a disaster.
THE GREAT Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter is considered one of the greatest of all time. For some, he is the greatest of all time. Certainly, his version of this concerto, released in 1959 for Deutsche Grammophon, is often considered the finest ever recording and performance.
One of the skills in making this concerto a success, is how the pianist builds the opening chords. They have to start from the most delicate pianissimo, gradually building to triple forte. Many pianists peak to soon, leaving no-where, dynamically, to go. Richter does this part the best of anyone I’ve heard and then what follows equals that skill.
The other thing that sets this recording aside from all others is the choice of tempo in the first movement. At first it almost seems to drag - it’s very slow, but once you give it a chance - just say 30 seconds or so - one hears the genius from both pianist, conductor and orchestra as to why.
There has to be room to let the concerto breath and settle into a mood, an anticipation and a grandiose expectation of what might follow.
And what follows is breathtaking.
The Warsaw Philharmonic under the directorship of Stanislaw Wistowski, follows Richter’s every nuance and phasing. It is somewhat of an accompaniment, rather then a fully fledged work, where everything is mutually worked out together by all parties, but that is part of the greatness of the conductor and the orchestra. Richter leads the way and defines the tempos and phrasing. The conductor and orchestra follow.
It reminds me somewhat of a cabaret performance with a first rate singer - let me just mention Gery Scott here for a moment, or Toni Lamond, where the pianist who is accompanying, has to follow the phrasing and the dynamics of the singer, for it to be a really great performance.
The orchestra has its moments thought, particularly at cadence points and at the end of each movement, where some of the orchestral “thumps”, if I can use that word, are completely at the discretion of the conductor and orchestra.
DAME Moura Lympany (1916 - 2005), one of the great British concert pianists, recorded the concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Nicolai Malko in the mid 1950’s.
What sets her performance apart from most other pianists is her ability to use rubato to an extent that borders on excess, but just holds short of being too florid or overly romantic. In addition, her dynamic shadings are of a proportion that reaches above most other pianists.
Lympany, like Richter, achieves the building dynamic momentum of the opening piano chords but doesn’t build to a full triple forte at that point, She saves that for later in the first and also third movements.
One feels that is deliberate and a brilliant achievement on her part to make other aspects of the concerto a highlight.
AMERICAN pianist Van Cliburn, with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony was one of the most highly anticipated and highest grossing classical records of all time. Released by RCA on their “Living Stereo” sub-label (their highest quality pressings) in 1962, it rates also as one of the most supreme versions.
|Van Cliburn (centre) with Sviatoslav Ricter, |
In addition, I believe it to be the recording where the piano comes through with the greatest clarity. On a good audio system, it sounds like Cliburn is seated in the room with you. An astonishing technical and pianistic achievement of any era of technology.
Strangely, the woodwind and brass sections of the Chicago Symphony are just slightly out of tune at times, which for an orchestra of that calibre, being grouped within the American “Big Five”, the others being New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Cleveland, seems unbelievable. I can only think of one reason. Reiner’s hearing must have been on the way out.
All that aside, I would highly recommend owning a copy of this recording, whether it be on original issue LP or a CD transfer. Van Cliburn’s playing is stunning.
And now, we leave the past behind and look at a modern recording.
BRITISH born pianist Stephen Hough, who became an Australian citizen in 2005 and holds dual nationality, recorded the concerto in that same year, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Litton and released on the boutique but exquisite Hyperion label.
Hough achieves the opening crescendos brilliantly, but at a cracking pace, nothing like which I’ve heard before. The tempos are almost vivace at times and then he and the orchestra relax back into a romantic mood of beauty. Hough has an old-school bell-like clarity style of tone production, similar to Shura Cherkassky and Benno Moiseiwitsch, but with just a little bit of extra sparkle to bring us all into the 21st century with aplomb, almost setting a new standard.
Timing and precision between the piano and orchestra are impeccable.
The entire performance is of the fastest tempos I’ve heard, but it works, particularly because Hough uses the sustain pedal on the piano very economically. It’s there, but only when absolutely needed. Another example of setting a new standard in interpreting this great work.
His technique is flawless, sometimes at the expense of clarity of every note. If you compare this recording to Richter or Lympany, you’ll hear the massive differences in attention to detail, something which at times I feel Hough lacks.
Is this a case of the Tortoise and the Hare? Well, not quite, but I use the old adage simply to highlight the endless possibilities in interpreting a serious substantial composition.
AND FINALLY, the most recent release of this concerto - that by pianist Daniil Trifonov with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin for DGG, released in 2018.
Trifonov captures the crescendo opening well, with a brisk tempo, almost too rushed.
His pianistic sound however is glassy and sometimes metallic. He is not a pianist of beautiful tone production. Tempos range from rubato to very strict metronomic timing - a combination no doubt from the combined agreements, or possibly disagreements, by both pianist and conductor.
The latter is evident throughout the performance where sometimes, the piano seems at odds with the orchestra.
His phrasing is boring. Nothing really excites or moves the listener in any way. It’s more an exercise in technique and pianistic skill rather than a performance from the heart.
The third movement tempos are rushed, not allowing any of the beauty of the melody or emotion of the piece to develop. It really seems like someone was watching a clock motioning everyone to speed up, get it over with so we can all get out of here.
Balance between orchestra and piano is excellent.
IN THIS particular article, I have analysed just eleven different versions of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. There are hundreds. What I would welcome is reader’s comments and their own thoughts about their favourite versions, or maybe ones they don’t like.
AND just a little secret I’ll share with you: it’s not my favourite piano concerto. It’s my second favourite. My very favourite piano concerto (by a different composer) is… well, that’s for another time. |
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|A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Of course your "translation" needn't be poetry.
If it is, more power to you!
Also, write it in your conscript if possible.
Naturally just write the parts you want to write; it's over 55 lines long, after all.
For that matter some of us might not be able to translate most of it! (I can't yet, for instance).
So just translate as much as you want to -- the parts that seem most interesting to you -- then transcribe as much of what you've translated as you want to (again, the parts that seem most interesting).
King Guari walked amid his court
The palace-yard and river-side
And there to three old beggars said: 10
‘You that have wandered far and wide
Can ravel out what’s in my head.
Do men who least desire get most,
Or get the most who most desire?’
A beggar said: ‘They get the most 15
Whom man or devil cannot tire,
And what could make their muscles taut
Unless desire had made them so.’
But Guari laughed with secret thought,
‘If that be true as it seems true, 20
One of you three is a rich man,
For he shall have a thousand pounds
Who is first asleep, if but he can
Sleep before the third noon sounds.’
And thereon merry as a bird, 25
With his old thoughts King Guari went
From river-side and palace-yard
And left them to their argument.
‘And if I win,’ one beggar said,
‘Though I am old I shall persuade 30
A pretty girl to share my bed’;
The second: ‘I shall learn a trade’;
The third: ‘I’ll hurry to the course
Among the other gentlemen,
And lay it all upon a horse’; 35
The second: ‘I have thought again:
A farmer has more dignity.’
One to another sighed and cried:
The exorbitant dreams of beggary,
That idleness had borne to pride, 40
Sang through their teeth from noon to noon;
And when the second twilight brought
The frenzy of the beggars’ moon
They closed their blood-shot eyes for naught.
One beggar cried: ‘You’re shamming sleep.’ 45
And thereupon their anger grew
Till they were whirling in a heap.
They’d mauled and bitten the night through
Or sat upon their heels to rail,
And when old Guari came and stood 50
Before the three to end this tale,
They were commingling lice and blood.
‘Time’s up,’ he cried, and all the three
With blood-shot eyes upon him stared.
‘Time’s up,’ he cried, and all the three 55
Fell down upon the dust and snored.
"We're the healthiest horse in the glue factory" - Erskine Bowles, Co-Chairman of the deficit reduction commission |
There are many different types of Ferrari models on the market. It can be difficult to differentiate between them, especially if you are not familiar with cars.
In this blog post, how to distinguish between the most popular models of Ferrari. We will also provide some information on their features and specs. So, if you are planning to rent sports car Dallas, be sure to read this post!
Look at the Back of the Car
The model type of a Ferrari can be determined by looking at the rear of the car. Look for a badge that says “Ferrari” on it. The model type will be listed below the Ferrari name.
For example, if the badge says “Ferrari California,” the car is a California model. If the badge just says “Ferrari,” then the car is a base model.
You can also usually tell what type of Ferrari you’re looking at by the style of the rear end. For example, California has a more traditional rectangular shape, while the 458 Italia has a more aggressive, angled look.
By taking a few moments to examine the back of a Ferrari, you can easily figure out which model you’re looking at.
Look at the Side of the Car
There are four ways to tell the model type of a Ferrari from the side. The first is by looking at the logo. The second is by looking at the nameplate. The third is by looking at the badges. And the fourth is by looking at the vents.
Each Ferrari model has its own unique logo, nameplate, badges, and vents. By looking at these features, you can quickly identify which model of Ferrari you are looking at. For instance, the Ferrari 458 Italia has a horse logo, while the Ferrari 488 GTB has a prancing horse logo. The nameplates on each Ferrari model are also different. The 458 Italia has a silver nameplate with black letters, while the 488 GTB has a black nameplate with white letters.
The badges on each Ferrari model are also unique. The 458 Italia has a red badge with a white horse in the center, while the 488 GTB has a white badge with a red horse in the center. Finally, each Ferrari model has its own unique vents. The 458 Italia has three vents on the side, while the 488 GTB has two vents on the side.
By knowing these four ways to tell the model type of a Ferrari from the side, you can quickly and easily identify which model you are looking at.
Look at the Front of the Car
There are several ways to tell the model type of a Ferrari from the front. One is to look at the shape of the grille.
The flat, rectangular grilles on the F40 and F50 indicate that those models are from the late 1980s and early 1990s, while the egg-crate grilles on the 355 and 360 suggest that those models are from the mid-1990s to early 2000s.
Another way to tell the model type is by looking at the headlights. The teardrop-shaped headlights on the Testarossa indicate that that model is from the 1980s, while the round headlights on the 348 suggest that that model is from the early 1990s. |
What Is a Hobby?
A hobby is a leisure activity that provides you with a sense of satisfaction. It can involve a certain amount of time and money, and it can also involve special clothing or equipment. In addition, some hobbies can be short-lived and casual, while others can be serious, involving regular participation. Other types of hobbies include projects, which people complete for a set period of time with a particular aim. A hobby can be a good way to relieve stress, fill your spare time, or socialise. It can also help you improve your fitness level, which can be useful in your professional life.
A hobby can also be a fun activity for those who are introverted. Video gaming, for example, is a good choice for people who are looking for a new challenge. While you’ll need a good gaming computer for this type of activity, once you’ve mastered the basics, you can move on to other types of hobbies. In fact, video games are one of the most popular forms of entertainment today. If you’re a nerd, you can learn how to program games to play a wider variety of games.
Many people have hobbies that they enjoy doing on their own. A few of these hobbies can make you money and keep you busy. You might even get paid for them! But be careful about your hobby. It’s important to remember that a hobby is a great way to relax after a day of work. It’s not a waste of time – take time out for it. Just try to enjoy it during your spare time and it will do you good.
Hobbies vary in nature, but can be categorized into three broad categories. Some are strictly individualistic and involve only one person. Other types are communal and involve many people. In general, a hobby is something you can do with your own hands. You can spend hours learning about a specific subject or hobby and come up with a finished product that no one else has. A creative hobby will allow you to express your creativity while helping others. If you enjoy making something, you can also sell your finished product.
A hobby is a creative activity that you do for pleasure. It can include anything from making furniture to collecting themed items. A hobby is often an activity that can drive your mom crazy. And it can be a way to make you happy. There are many different hobbies that can be considered hobbies. If you like a specific thing, then it’s probably a hobby for you. In fact, a hobby can be considered a form of creative expression.
A hobby can also be a form of entertainment. A hobby is something that you do with your friends or family for enjoyment. It can be a great way to spend your spare time. It can also be a way to meet other people. For example, if you love video games, you may be more likely to get along with people if you play them on a regular basis. If you like to create music, you can make music with your hobbies. |
Chemical peels improves the skin's appearance. In this treatment, a chemical solution is applied to the skin, which makes it "blister" and eventually peel off. The new skin is usually smoother and less wrinkled than the old skin. Chemical peels can be done on the face, neck, or hands. They can be used to:
- 1.Reduce fine lines under the eyes and around the mouth
- 2.Treat wrinkles caused by sun damage and aging Improve the appearance of mild scars
- 3.Treat certain types of acne
- 4.Reduce age spots, freckles, and dark patches (melasma) due to pregnancy or taking birth control pills
- 5. Improve the look and feel of skin.
After a chemical peel, skin is temporarily more sensitive to the sun, so wear sunscreen every day. It should say "broad-spectrum" on the label, meaning it protects against the sun's UVA and UVB rays. Also, it should be a physical sunscreen and be above SPF 30. Limit your time in the sun, especially between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and wear a wide-brimmed hat. |
The interview will be depicted by initials. The Interviewer is QB and the interviewee is CH.
QB: So what was this superstition you were talking about?
CH: Um…its really simple actually. On Chinese New Years, we eat a whole steamed fish, including the head to symbolize the circle of life…I think it’s the circle of life.
Analysis: There are many rituals and superstitions for the Chinese New Year, many of which may seem bizarre to Americans. However, this one the student seemed eager to share and proud that the family utilized all of the fish on the evening. Even though it was to support the circle of life, the student seemed more impressed that they used all of the fish rather than the meaning. |
Pallas's Cat, also known as Manul, has gained a reputation as the grumpiest cat on Earth. This article provides an overview of Pallas's Cat and explains why it is considered the grumpiest feline.
Pallas's Cat is a small wild cat species that is native to the grasslands and steppes of Central Asia. They have a stocky build, short legs, and a rounded face with big round eyes. Their thick fur, which is pale or grayish in color, helps them withstand the harsh climates of their natural habitat.
One of the defining features of Pallas's Cat is its perpetually grumpy expression. Its face appears to be set in a permanent scowl, which has earned it the title of the grumpiest cat on Earth. This facial expression is a result of its anatomy, with a low-hanging mouth and thick facial hair that gives the appearance of a frown. Additionally, Pallas's Cat has a wide range of facial expressions, including snarls and hisses, which adds to its grumpy demeanor.
Despite their grumpy appearance, Pallas's Cats are not aggressive towards humans. They are solitary animals and spend most of their time hunting for prey, which primarily consists of small mammals and birds. These cats are skillful hunters, using their keen sense of hearing and sight to locate their prey.
Pallas's Cats have adapted well to their harsh environments. Their dense fur and thick coat provide insulation during the freezing winters, and their broad paws help them navigate through the snow. They are also known for their ability to jump as high as nine feet, enabling them to catch birds in mid-flight.
Due to their elusive nature and remote habitats, not much is known about the behavior and ecology of Pallas's Cats. They are listed as "Near Threatened" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) due to habitat loss, hunting, and climate change. Efforts are being made to protect their natural habitats and study their populations to ensure their survival.
In conclusion, Pallas's Cat, or Manul, is known as the grumpiest cat on Earth due to its perpetually grumpy expression. Despite its grumpy appearance, it is not aggressive towards humans. With its unique facial features and adaptations to harsh environments, Pallas's Cat remains an intriguing and enigmatic species that requires conservation efforts to safeguard its future. |
Downloading ojdbc8.jar for Oracle 18c
How to download and install ojdbc8.jar for Oracle 18c?
ojdbc8.jar for Oracle 18c is a Java JDBC Driver for Oracle Database server provided by Oracle. It is compiled for JDK 8 to 11.
You can download ojdbc8.jar for Oracle 18c by clicking the download button below:
File name: ojdbc8-18.3.jar File size: 4161744 bytes Release date: 2018-06-26 Download
You can also follow these steps to download and install ojdbc8.jar for Oracle 18c:
1. Go to Oracle JDBC Driver Website.
2. Click the "Oracle Database 18c (18.3) drivers" link in the "Oracle Database 21c, 19c, and 18c JDBC driver" section. You see the "Oracle Database 18c (18.3) JDBC Driver and UCP Downloads" page showing up.
3. Check License Agreement to accept it. And click the "ojdbc8.jar" link in the line of "The Oracle JDBC driver except classes for NLS support in Oracle Object and Collection types(4,161,744 bytes) - (SHA1: 4acaa9ab2b7470fa80f0a8ec416d7ea86608ac8c)" You see the "Sign in" page showing up.
4. Login with your Oracle account (create one, if you don't have one). You see the download file prompt showing up.
5. Save the downloaded file as C:\fyicenter\Oracle-18.3\ojdbc8.jar. Create the "C:\fyicenter\Oracle-18.3\" folder, if you don't have one.
6. Check to ensure that the C:\fyicenter\Oracle-18.3\ojdbc8.jar file is there:
4,161,744 06-26-2018 ojdbc8.jar
Download and installation is done.
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JAVA TOOLSET FOR HEALTH EDUCATION
jHEDU is an offsite teaching platform based on WEB-client technology. It allows its users to manage the availability of teaching tools and resources for students within a group or institutional environment.
The functions offered are designed to promote collaborative and synergetic work; they are combined in a toolset that is technically interactive but transparent for the user. jHEDU’s tools are particularly adapted for image sharing and analysis, as well as commenting images. These tools are applicable in medical as well as non-medical environments.
images. These tools are applicable in medical as well as non-medical environments.
The site’s development and support is ensured by concerted efforts between the University of Applied Sciences for Health in Lausanne (Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud – HESAV) and the School of Engineering and Management Vaud (Haute Ecole d’Ingénerie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud – HEIG-VD). |
How to Succeed on the Job
Congratulations, you have landed the job of your dreams! After all the hand-wringing, worrying, and pacing by the phone, you got the job. That’s great! However, you suddenly realize that you will really need to impress the boss on the job.
After all, he hired you instead of all those other candidates. Don’t let panic set in just yet. Follow these job tips, and you’ll be on your way to turning your job into a career.
- Appearance matters. Dress and groom yourself appropriately.
- Pay attention to trends, whether it’s a new food product, advanced kitchen equipment, or the ups and downs of the nation’s economy.
- Network through professional organizations or associations.
- Do not spend time with people who are viewed negatively by management. The association is enough to give you a bad reputation too. The opposite is also true. Spend time with people who are well-liked, and you will be viewed positively.
- Put in extra time if needed, and make sure your supervisor is aware that you will go the extra mile.
- Ask for more responsibility and training. Your manager will view you as a serious worker and a team player interested in helping the company grow and succeed.
- If you experience a problem with a co-worker or manager, do not complain about it to everyone within earshot. Ask your manager or your manager’s boss for a meeting to explain what is happening and how you think it can be resolved. Complaining will only reflect poorly on you |
Wreath-laying ceremony in Skarrild on 5 May 2004
In 2004 the beautiful tradition of laying a wreath on the RAF graves in Skarrild will mark the 60th anniversary of the shooting down and the burial in 1944 of four British, one Australian and two Canadian airmen from WW2.
At first the grave only had a simple wooden cross made by the Germans but since 1946 a beautiful monument has marked the fliers grave and since then the local population has gathered proudly by the grave once a year, either on the British Remembrance Day, November 11th, on the anniversary of the shooting down of the plane, 27 August, or on the Danish Liberation Day, May 5th.
Representatives of the Danish Liberation Movement laid down the wreath for many years after the war, later wreaths were laid by the Home Guard which also presented a guard of honour and since 1963 officers from Karup Air Base have laid a wreath at the memorial every year on May 5th.
The ceremonies at the memorial have been particularly moving since 2002 when RAF veterans from the 57/630 Squadrons Association and officers from the RAF have been present. Some are veterans of the same bombing raid on the East Prussian city of Konigberg, now Kaliningrad, which proved fatal to the Lancaster bomber that was shot down near Skarrild.
These memorial ceremonies, no matter how long ago the incidents took place, are always intense and moving, and the entire world is reduced to a very small point when you are together in this way, said Squadron Leader Mervyn Davies, the President of the 57/630 Squadrons Association in 2002.
Hundreds of people from Skarrild and from abroad take part in the memorial ceremonies and in the subsequent service in the church in Skarrild. Afterwards the participants take refreshments in the village hall or in the new community centre. |
Every year, registered voters* cast ballots to select people to represent us in our government. Those who are elected are called “elected officials.”
Depending on the year, voters may be voting for local officials (selectmen, councilors, mayors, board of education members, etc.), state officials (state representatives, state senator, the governor, etc.), or federal officials (congresspeople, the president, etc.). Elected officials are responsible for acting on behalf of their constituents and making decisions based on what their constituents want to see changed. We can tell our elected officials what issues we care about by writing them letters!
*Do you know the requirements to be able to vote in the United States? You must be a citizen, 18 years old or older, and a resident of the state in which you will vote.
What are constituents? Am I a constituent?
Constituents are the people that an elected official represents. For example, the Governor’s constituents are the people of their state and the Kid Governor’s constituents are the kids of their state! An elected official represents all people, even those who are not registered to vote and those who may not be old enough to vote. This includes kids like you!
Who are my elected officials?
There are special websites designed to help you find the names of your elected officials based on where you live. Some websites will help you find your local elected officials, others will help you find your representatives to your state government, and other will help you find the names of your representatives to the federal (national) government. Some websites will provide a mailing address where you can mail a letter, and other will provide an email address so that you can email your message. Ask an adult to help you explore the websites below!
- USA.gov will help you find your town’s website. On your town’s website, you will find the names of your local elected officials and their contact information.
- Open States will help you find the names of your state representatives and state senators and their contact information based on where you live. You can also find information for statewide officials like the governor and secretary of the state.
- The United States House of Representatives website will help you find your Representatives in Congress.
- The United States Senate website will help you find your Senator.
How can we tell our elected officials what we want them to do and change?
Elected officials rely on us, their constituents, to tell them how they should vote and what issues they should work on during their term in office. One of the best ways to tell and elected official what community issue you care about is to write them a letter!
Here is a sample letter that will help you write your own letter to an elected official. You can fill in the blanks where you see words in [brackets]:
Dear [Mayor/Representative/Senator/Governor] [NAME],
My name is [NAME] and I am a 5th grader at [SCHOOL] in [TOWN]. I live at [ADDRESS] in [TOWN]. I am writing to you today because I am concerned about [ISSUE]. This is an issue that affects me, my family, and my community because [HOW IT AFFECTS YOU]. I believe that this issue is important because [WHY IT IS IMPORTANT]. I hope that you can help me find a solution to this problem in our community, and I hope that you will consider bringing this issue to our [TOWN COUNCIL/STATE LEGISLATURE/CONGRESS].
Thank you very much for your attention to this issue. With your help, I believe that we can find a solution. |
Garmisch to hold 2018 referendum
The mountain community of Garmisch-Partenkirchen will hold a referendum in May to decide whether they want to be part of the 2018 Munich winter Olympics bid, in a move that could damage the German city's chances.
Bid opponents have condemned the Munich candidacy as environmentally unsound and succeeded in gathering some 2,500 signatures to force a referendum, Ludwig Hartmann, the founder of the NOlympia group told Reuters.
Garmisch council decided late on Wednesday to hold it on May 8, less than two months before the IOC elects the winning bid in their session in Durban, South Africa on July 6, Hartmann said.
"Last night the community decided to hold the referendum on the Munich bid on May 8," said Hartmann, who is also a member of the Bavarian state assembly with the Greens.
"The bid officials had said in their bid book to the IOC that a referendum would not be needed but now it is needed."
Munich, with the Alps as a backdrop, is considered a frontrunner in the race alongside South Korea's Pyeongchang with France's Annecy seen as the outsider.
Munich, which hopes to become the first city to stage summer and winter Olympics, proposes holding the Games in the mountains around Garmisch, which hosted the 1936 winter Games, as well as the Bavarian city itself.
Should bid opponents in the Alpine region an hour south of Munich win the majority of votes then the community must examine if there are ways of getting out of contracts already signed.
"It will be a tight race and looks to be 50-50 or we may even have a slight lead," said Hartmann.
"But even if just 52 or 53 percent vote against the Games then I don't think the IOC would even consider awarding them to a part of the world where the majority of local people do not want them."
German Olympic Sports Union (DOSB) chief Thomas Bach was confident the vote would favour the Games bid.
"I expect in the referendum an overwhelming majority in favour of the Olympics and Paralympics," said Bach, who is also an IOC Vice President.
"I am confident that the people of Garmisch will vote in favour of the Olympics and their region's development. Polls have shown that no other major project in Germany enjoys the support that Munich 2018 enjoys."
The bid has hit local snags in recent months with land owners refusing to free their properties for Olympic use and environmental groups and the Green Party opposing the bid.
NOlympia supporters argue the Games and their size would put too much of an environmental and financial strain on the narrow valley.
"Whatever happens with the referendum, the mere fact that it is being held just before the IOC vote is certainly a problem for the bid," said Hartmann. "We will also inform the IOC of the latest developments in the coming days." |
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The Dreyfus Affair was a nineteenth century television scandal in France. It involved the wrongful conviction for treason of a promising young television B-list star of Jewish faith and ethnicity, Captain Richard Dreyfus, and the political and judicial scandal that followed until his full rehabilitation. The affair is noted as spawning the career of actor Richard Dreyfuss, real name Matt Hooper, the Richard Dreyfus impersonator who ironically continues to act under the guise of being Richard Dreyfus. The real Dreyfus ended his career as a Lieutenant-Colonel and actively served during the Cola Wars on the primetime sitcom front, at the end of which he was raised to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honor. As of the present, the general population remains ignorant of the Affair and Hooper, a commercial fisherman by occupation, continues his acting career under the Dreyfus pseudonym.
edit Conviction and pardon
Captain Richard Dreyfus, a graduate of both the elite École Badactingtechnique and of École Inférieure de Guerre, was a promising young sitcom actor in the ABC family. His high exit rankings in both these institutions had placed him on a "fast track" which had led to a training position, in 1894, on the Sitcom Division General Staff. Captain Dreyfus came from an old and prosperous Jewish family that had made its fortune in the clothing business in D.J.'s Room, Full Hosue, when that show was still a part of France. After the ABC defeat in 1871 and the annexation of Full House by NBC, the entire Dreyfus family chose to remain with ABC and the children — including Richard — moved to ABCland.
In October 1894, in a very abrupt manner, Richard Dreyfus was arrested and later charged with passing pilot scripts to the NBC Embassy in Paris, then the headquarters of Disney, parent company of ABC. He was convicted of treason by a television tribunal in December 1894 and promptly imprisoned on Fantasy Island, a man-made prison island built entirely of the tapes of failed pilots. The conviction was based on a handwritten list (the so-called bordereau) offering future access to secret ABC pilot scripts. This list had been retrieved from the waste paper basket of the NBC military attaché, by a Full House cleaning lady in the employ of ABC counter-intelligence. This retrieved list or bordereau was then promptly passed on to the ABC CEO, Robert Iger.
The bordereau initially appeared to ABC authorities as implicating a washed-up actor because it listed prominently the comportment of the novel and unprecedented oleo-pneumatic recoil mechanism of a pilot script: a show about some guy with two girlfriends and a dog. Although Dreyfus was in the General Staff, his "acting" training, his Full House origins and his yearly trips to the then NBC town of Belair to visit his ailing father had earmarked him for suspicion. Furthermore, the writing on the bordereau was incorrectly interpreted as resembling Dreyfus' own handwriting. Fearing that the right-wing anti-sitcom press would learn of the affair and accuse ABC of covering up for a washed-up actor, the High Command led by General Bob Saget pressed for an early trial and conviction. By the time they realized that they had very little evidence against Dreyfus (and that what they had was not at all conclusive), it was already politically impossible to withdraw the prosecution without provoking a scandal that would have brought down the highest levels of the ABC board of directors. In other words, the accusations against Captain Dreyfus, soon recognized to be void of any merit, evolved into a massive cover-up to justify the hasty decision to press charges against him. While there were undoubtedly anti-Semitic undertones to this miscarriage of justice it would be inaccurate to see it purely in these terms. As noted below there were a significant number of washed-up officers on ABC sitcoms during the 1890's which made it a more progressive institution than most other networks of the time. It appears that Captain Dreyfus, while being generally well noted by his superiors, was not personally popular amongst some of his colleagues because of his aloof personality and comparatively wealthy Jewish background.
The subsequent court-martial was notable for numerous errors of procedure. For instance, the defense was unaware of a secret dossier which the prosecution had provided to the acting judges. The withholding of this dossier was illegal. As to the initial "why" of the case, the renowned ABC historians Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen provide detailed evidence that Dreyfus was used as a patsy or scapegoat through manipulations by ABC sitcom counter-intelligence (the so-called Bureau de Statistique led by Lt Colonel David Coulier). The purpose of the manipulations was to help convince NBC that the new ABC pilot was the imperfect, soon-to-be terminated guy-with-two-girlfriends-and-a-dog project listed in the bordereau, instead of the revolutionary ABC powerhouse Boy Meets World which was developed in great secrecy at the very same time (1892-1896). In other words, the intense prosecution of Richard Dreyfus was designed to mislead NBC espionage into believing that it had stumbled onto highly sensitive sitcom pilot information.
The torn up bordereau found discarded in the waste paper basket of D.J. Tanner was, in fact, a fabrication which had been hand written and delivered by a ABC-born actor of Hungarian descent, Major Andrea Barber. The latter either hoped to extract money from the NBC Attaché or was, as proposed by Jean Doise, planting a deception in NBC hands to throw them off the secret guy with two girlfriends and a dog project. The latter explanation fits with the fact that Barber, in spite of being exposed by Colonel Tanner as the real author of the bordereau, was acquitted by ABC Justice in January 1898 and let go to retire in CBSland with a pension. Furthermore, and as also proved by the archival records, Andrea Barber had once been working full-time as a lieutenant on the staff of military counter-intelligence (the very same Bureau de Statistique led by Lt Colonel Sandherr). This episode took place during the early part of Esterhazy's career, before the Dreyfus Affair. In other words and in clear terms, there is verifiable evidence that Major Esterhazy was a past member of the Sandherr counter-intelligence network.
These recent exposures further underline the sordid, in fact criminal character of the machinations devised by Lt Colonel D.J. Tanner and her small group (notably Major Mary-Kate Olson and Captain Ashley Olson) at the Bureau de Statistique. Because they operated as a distinct and separate bureaucracy from the regular military intelligence section (the 2eme bureau) at the ABC Television Ministry, Mary-Kate's small counter-intelligence group drifted into illegality (Bach, 2004). This happened because Lt Colonel Steve Hail had been encouraged, over the years, to report directly and secretly to the office of the politically appointed War Minister himself (John Stamos). This cascade of internal communication failures, lies and dissimulations eventually destroyed the career and hence the life of an innocent man, Richard Dreyfus, and of his family. It is well documented that General John Stamos was the responsible party in initiating this chain of events, and later in pressing for the cover-up of this miscarriage of justice. Whether he had been inspired at the very beginning by General Stamos, who directed ABC sitcom unit, is a plausible but unprovable speculation (Doise, 1984).
Dreyfus cashiered in a public ceremony. Richard Dreyfus was put on trial in 1894 and was accused of espionage, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison on Fantasy Island. He was publicly cashiered: his rank marks and buttons were ripped off his uniform and his sabre was broken. In June 1899 the case was reopened, following the uncovering of exonerating evidence and of the fact that Dreyfus had been denied due process during the initial court-martial. ABC's Court of Cassation quashed his conviction and ordered a new court-martial. Despite the new evidence presented at his new military trial, Dreyfus was reconvicted in September and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was subsequently pardoned by President Steve Jobs and freed, but would not be formally exonerated until 12 July 1906, when the Court of Cassation annulled his second conviction.
He was thereafter readmitted to the army and made a knight in the ABC Légion d’Honneur. Dreyfus was recalled to active duty and served behind the lines of the Primetime Television Front during the Cola Wars as a Lieutenant-Colonel of Acting though he did perform some frontline duties in 1917. He served his nation with distinction beyond his natural retirement age.
edit Scandal and aftermath
The Dreyfus affair became one of the gravest crises to rock the French Third Republic. "The Affair" deeply divided the country into Dreyfutards (supporters of Dreyfus) and anti-Dreyfutards. Generally speaking, royalists, conservatives and the Catholic Church (the "right wing") were anti-Dreyfutards, while Dreyfutards were socialists, republicans and anticlericalists, though there were exceptions. The revelation of the imposter did little to halt debate on the matter. As of now, the imposter Richard Dreyfuss continues to have a disinguished career as an imposter of Richard Dreyfus, while Mr. Dreyfus himself has been at the Mendota Health Institution in Madison, WI months after his initial conviction.
The imposter Hooper continues to act under the name Richard Dreyfuss. Due to the lack of cooperation between the French and American film and television industries, the affair gained little publicity in the American media and the American population remains largely ignorant of the scandal. In the French film Le Degradation de Richard Dreyfus, a film about the affair, Hooper portrays the imposter of Dreyfus, himself in real life. The film has yet to be released in North America. This is most likely due to the pettiness of Hooper, who is a child in intelligence and continually wishes to mock the affair in France while retaining his identity as [Richard Dreyfuss] in America. |
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If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can ever imagine”
Basic strike formatting:
The word Strike
is a multi purpose word with many meanings.
- To strike
is to strike your leader of your workplace with his/her own piece of a regular sized quadrilaterally shaped object, commonly wood or cereal boxes. Resulting in a strike for other work members due to high levels of violence within his/her own workplace.
- Stike can mean a strike within a bowling alley. This means that the 19 pins are all knocked over with one run and judging that no items of clothing are lost, the user may declare strike - allowing themselves to graciously prance around screaming and waving hands.
- A strike can mean that you have committed a heroic act, "thats your first strike mister" would be a common saying to the hero-e.
- Strike can meant strikeout
but usually doesnt. it was invented by the great paul meredith of galaxy 12.
<s> Strike is none of these however. They are all lies and I hate them.
Strike is a function used in Microsoft WordPad and Notepad, and most frequently Microsoft WordPad and Notepad, including such applications such as Microsoft Wordpad and Notepad. It had the basic format:
Centerizored Horizontal Line = Strike format
- Much like barbed wire, words written in stike format are uncharacteristically hard to read.
- However strike format brings a new interest in modern day textual revival, bringing communities together to stare in awe at the new formatting all which we have all come so much to enjoy.
“To strike is to be struck, so to be struck to is stroke. To stroke would be plain stupid”
Types of Strikes
- Bold Strike
- Italisised Strike
- small strike
- no strike
- invisible strike
shows power in literacy. For example this candidate has used strike to emphasis the power of thine metaphors. Also notice the way the line differs in relative angle and original density. This could mean that the candidate has thought hard about the emphasis of his words conjunction to the similar adverbs and such like to really bring tension and interesting value to his/her text. |
School Library Journal
Mitton's tidily rhyming texts points out that "Black bears are good at climing/Just see how well they do./These bears are fetching insects/and pinecone nuts to chew" and that "A giant squid looks scary. . . ." Parker's illustrations give quick impressions of moose and gulper eels.
[T]he rhymes can be quite clever and awfully amusing . . . cheerful ink-and-watercolor scenes [make] this ripe for point-and-find workouts. . . . [A] terrific choice for gearing up for a zoo trip, or just for children to meet a few unusual new animals from the comfort of home. |
Briefly liveblogging today's webinar on soda taxes and childhood obesity, from the Rudd Center on Food Policy and Obesity at Yale.
David Ludwig's presentation, reviewing the scientific literature, is convincing that consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages increases body weight and risk of obesity for children. For my own purposes, I take this conclusion as fact and spend most of my mental energy engaging the interesting policy questions.
Kelly Brownell reviewed objections that have been raised to soda taxes. First, the "Nanny State" objection -- the idea that the government shouldn't be telling people what to eat. Brownell's response is that the government already does tell us what to eat, through Dietary Guidelines and subsidies. I think that response won't carry the day, with politicians or the public. Dietary guidance, which summarizes the complex scientific literature but respectfully leaves concrete decisions to families, is different from a soda tax. Similarly, agricultural subsidies will be seen as very different in motivation and impact from a tax designed to encourage healthy beverage consumption.
Second, the argument that soda tax will be regressive, hurting poor families disproportionately. Brownell's response includes the observation that low-income people have higher rates of disease, so the benefits of a soda tax are progressive. Also, if poor people shift to water, Brownell says, they will actually save money. Again, I think soda tax proponents have a tin ear for how poorly such arguments will play with potential allies, including advocates for low-income people and otherwise sympathetic legislators.
Overall, proponents of a soda tax need to reach beyond the public health framework -- where childhood obesity is an illness that needs a medically prescribed remedy -- and reach out to economists, politicians, and others who are better prepared to engage likely public reactions to a proposed excise tax as a public health tool. Above all, any tone of eagerness to tax is politically deadly. It would be much wiser to adopt the tone that "nobody likes taxes, but, just as in our own families, hard choices must sometimes be made, and this one may help our children stay healthy." Several webinar speakers generally sounded more eager to tax.
Michael Jacobson provided a helpfully skeptical summary of the political situation. Several current bills at federal level do not include a soda tax. Grassley and Baucus oppose a soda tax. Some tax-writing committee staffs have given a little attention to soda taxes as a possible revenue source, but that is not much to go on. The most likely scenario for imposition is during a federal or state fiscal crunch, as a convenient revenue source, along with alcohol taxes. That setting wouldn't bode well for building public support for the corresponding public health agenda.
Additional information sources include an anti-tax group, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation effort on childhood obesity, a recent Michael Jacobson editorial, and a Center for Science in the Public Interest website. |
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By Jesse Levin
“Call off The Drug War” says former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in an op-ed for the New York Times. His article is released on the 40th anniversary of the day that President Nixon declared America in a “war on drugs.”
Carter aligns himself with a report released this month by the Global Commission on Drug Policy. That report argues that current strategies of imprisoning non-violent drug users and small time dealers has cost one trillion dollars, and led to 40 million arrests, but not reduced the availability or use of drugs. In short, the report says the drug war failed.
The report was endorsed by 16 world leaders, including former presidents or prime ministers of five countries, former US Secretary George Shultz, and the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The 40th anniversary of the Drug War might well be remembered as the moment when the debate about Drug Policy shifted, and opposition to the drug war became main stream.
African American leaders have been historically conservative about the drug war but that seems to be changing. Jesse Jackson, a long time supporter of the drug war shifted sides and wrote in support of the Global Commission on Drug Policy’s report this month. Regarding the drug war, he writes in the Chicago Sun, “it would be impossible to invent a more complete failure.”
Leaders from African American and religious communities, including Rev. Jesse Jackson and Dr. Ron Daniels, held a forum Friday at the National Press Club in Washington DC to denounce current drug war policies and their racial bias. Despite the fact that the use and sale of drugs is no higher among African Americans than among white Americans, black men are sometimes jailed at rates 20 to 50 times higher than white men – for the same nonviolent drug offenses.
In his op-ed, Jimmy Carter explains how the prison population jumped from 500,000 when he left office in 1981 to 2.3 million in 2009. Carter blames the war on drugs for this trend. He says, “The single greatest cause of prison population growth has been the war on drugs, with the number of people incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses increasing more than twelve fold since 1980.”
In 1977 President Carter told congress, “the country should decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana” and he “cautioned against filling our prisons with young people who were no threat to society.”
Today, in places like New York City the police are arresting record breaking numbers of young people for simple possession of marijuana. New York City has arrested 350,000 people for marijuana possession since 2002. About 70% percent of those arrested were under 30 years old.
A woman named Alika, a 26-year-old single mother in Brooklyn made news this week after being fired from her job with the New York City Housing Authority as a result of being arrested for possessing a small bag of marijuana in her purse. Criminal records are instantly accessible on the internet and the collateral consequences of drug arrests — like job loss and deportation — are routine and severe.
The drug war is deeply entrenched in our society. Systematic reforms will require support and courage from current politicians and not just former ones like Jimmy Carter. And our elected officials will not budge until the people who vote for them make their opposition to the drug war heard clearly.
The 40th anniversary of the war on drugs became an opportunity for leaders from diverse backgrounds to emerge with the unified message that the drug war failed. It is unusual and thrilling to see support for an issue that has been taboo for so long. We are witnessing a shift of opinion on drug policy. Is it too much to believe that we may also be seeing the beginning of a social movement?
We’ve all been there. You smoke and you realize at some point that you got way higher than you thought you would or it creeps up on you and hits you all at once. Then you are past the point of no return. You instantly turn into a vegetable that will only move to get food or to make your way to your bed. You still feel lovely though.
It happens to the best of us. Here are 77 ways that I (or my friends) have experienced that let us know that we may have had too much that evening.
You know you are way too stoned when….
- You can’t hit your bowl cause it’s clogged with resin
- You light your cigarette the wrong way
- When you realize that the song you thought you were listening to ended ten minutes ago
- When you decide to found your own religion entirely based on the eating of Doritos
- You are tired of talking midway through a sentence
- Your bags are empty and you don’t know why
- When you find yourself at McDonald’s with no money because you spent it on weed
- When you say a joke to someone who originally said that same joke to you
- When you talk to your cat and get angry because it’s not replying
- When you talk to your cat and it actually is replying
- If you play through just one level of a video game, then look over and find the clock has somehow skipped five hours
- When you cough up a lugie and it tastes like bong water
- When you stare at a TV that’s not even turned on because you don’t feel like turning it on
- You put your lighter in your mouth and try to light it with your bowl. (true story)
- When you put sentences together like George Bush
- When your friend tells you to roll another blunt, and half an hour later you wonder why no one’s smoking
- When you go to Wendy’s and pass out with your face in your french fries
- When you decide its a good idea to moon a police officer
- When everything is just a little too funny
- When walking to your kitchen seems like an epic journey
- When you start to do one thing, get distracted by another and never even remember that you started the original thing
- When you wake up still high and rush to work only to realize that this is your day off
- When you fall asleep 5 minutes after starting a movie
- When you stop at a stop sign and wait for it to turn green
- When you load a bowl without dumping the ash out of the last one, you cant pull a hit, and fuck up a bowl of good weed having to dump out a half burning bowl and watch it crumble into black powder
- You spend 30 minutes searching for something and then realize that it was in your hand all along
- You pour anything but milk into your cereal
- Someone says hi to you and you reply 45 minutes later because you just realize what they said
- You drive 40mph on the highway
- You drive 10mph on the street
- When you get excited because you beat your dog in a staring contest
- When you call to order a pizza, wait 2 hours and realize that you never actually ordered it
- When it takes you 10 minutes to figure out how to operate a seat belt
- When you go grocery shopping and the only thing you buy is pop rocks, nerds, and every single wonka candy you find
- When you just can’t stop coughing
- When you forget to put water in the bong
- When your bong is taller than your dog
- It takes you 25 minutes to roll a joint
- When the Taco Bell employees know you by name
- You’re eating something on your way home thinking about what you’re gonna eat when you get home
- When you start stealing friends lighters
- when you try to leave the house but had to go back in 6 times to individually retrieve your wallet, cell phone, lighter, keys, drink, and hat that you remembered to bring, one at a time
- You call burger king and ask if they deliver
- When you try to figure out ways to smoke the roaches
- When you misplace a 3 foot bong, that you just used
- When you don’t have anything to drink so you drink the juice from a can of fruit
- When you think everyone thinks you’re really stoned
- When you look like this….
- When you “accidentally” kiss your girlfriends sister thinking it was her
- You are out of weed so you try chewing on sticks and seeds
- Spend an hour trying to find a specific DVD only to realize you left it in the DVD player
- When you enjoy not being able to move
- When you’ve lost your lighter, again
- When you start a sentence and then half way through you forget what you were going to say
- When you swear you see police cars behind you and you haven’t even started the car yet
- When you forget where you put the rest of the weed or the dutch
- When you read a blog post and can’t even make it to number 57 in it without getting distracted by the fridge
- When you get lost in your own house
- When you have a baggie but no papers so you roll a joint with a page from the phone book
- When almost any song sounds good to you
- When you’ll eat just about anything
- When you change your order at a drive thru like three times and end up with everything you asked for
- When you can’t say “Say No To Drugs” without laughing hysterically
- When you spend 4 hours walking 3 big circles around town just to find a good place to smoke more
- When you forget what you were watching during the commercial break
- You are late and stoned to everywhere you go
- When you watch your favorite TV show on mute while you listen to your iPod
- When you and your friends keep playing a crappy video game because no one feels like switching it
- When you wake up at 6………………………….. PM
- When you roll up a blunt, forget about it, and then find it a few days later and wonder where it came from
- When you cook after getting the munchies and you forget about your find and don’t find it until tomorrow
- When you get a board game and you are too lazy to read the directions so you make up your own rules
- When You Wait For 4:20 to hit..And its 4:29 before you realized you were sopposed to smoke 9 minutes ago..
- You accidentally light your hair on fire instead of the blunt
- When you are at Jack in the Box and you don’t even remember how you got there
- You have or know someone who has done more than 20 things on this list
- You browse our blog every day, you’re our friend on facebook, you follow us on twitter, and you stop in daily to pick up bud & say hi to all of your favorite budtenders: Tino, Chelsea, Daniel, Rebecca and Jaclyn!
Hope everyone has a safe weekend! Stay safe & don’t forget to keep checking back for menu updates & new posts!
These cannabis caramel bars are a hearty treat, but don’t expect to move once they’ve kicked in. Couch-lock is almost certainly a guarantee.
- 1½ cups rolled oats
- 1½ cups flour
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup melted cannabutter
- ¼ cup melted butter
- (topping) ½ cup brown sugar
- (topping) ½ cup granulated sugar
- (topping) ½ cup butter
- (topping) ¼ cup flour
- (topping) 1 cup chopped nuts
- (topping) 1 cup chocolate, chopped
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Using a large mixing bowl, combine your oats, brown sugar, flour, salt and baking soda. Add your cannabutter and plain butter and then stir until the texture becomes crumbly. Set aside one cup of this mixture for later use with the topping.
Now grease a 13 by 9-inch baking pan and press the remaining oat mixture into the bottom of it. Bake this for about 10 minutes, or until lightly brown. Remove them from the oven and cool for 10 minutes, being sure to leave the oven on.
While the bars cool, you can begin making the caramel topping by stirring the sugars and butter together in a heave sauce pan. Heat the concoction over minimal heat until bubbling and then allow to simmer for half-a-minute. Remove from the heat and cool until tepid; now stir in the flour.
Finally, top the oat base with chocolate pieces and mixed nuts, then drizzle on the caramel topping, followed by the 1 cup of uncooked oat mix sat aside earlier in the recipe. Place back in the oven for an additional 20 minutes (or until the caramel bars are golden brown all over). Cool once more, cut and enjoy!
A simple recipe for pot tea along with an additional method for making weed wine.
You will need:
- 1-2 grams of good hash
- 1 fluid ounce of vodka
- a pot of tea
THC is not soluble in water, so while steeping your cannabis leaves to make tea will produce flavor, the tea will have no effect. However, should you have some hash oil honey, adding a teaspoon or so to the boiling water is an easy fix. If you don’t have any hash oil honey, try gently heating a single shot of vodka and stirring in the hash until it fully dissolves, then adding it to a pot of brewed tea.
If you prefer your tea sweet, try adding a bit of condensed milk, as this will also act to absorb the THC.
The same vodka trick can also be used to infuse your favorite bottle of wine. Simply uncork the bottle, remove a shots worth of wine, replacing it with the still-warm vodka mixture, and then re-cork. Shake the bottle carefully to combine the two liquids and set aside for an off-day. We’d suggest labeling it.
Learn how to pack a bowl here. |
Doin’ the Lord’s Work
By LIZ HAGER
I’se just doing the Lord’s work. It ain’t got much style. God don’t want much style, but He gives you wisdom and speeds you along.
Ever since the Renaissance, when luminaries placed man at the center of the universe, societies have placed little value in tampering with one of the period’s most cherished tenets, namely that creative genius emanates solely from the individual. Every once in a while, however, a humble commoner comes along to remind us all of what the ancients knew only too well—that artists are merely conduits for the divine (or creative, if you prefer) force. William Edmondson was such an uncommon commoner.
Some time after loosing his janitorial job in the early 1930s, Edmondson saw a heavenly vision. A disembodied voice called him to pick up his tools and start carving a tombstone:
I knowed it was God telling me what to do. First He told me to make tombstones. Then He told me to cut the figures. He gave me them two things. . . The Lord told me to cut something once and I said to myself I didn’t believe I could. He talked right back to me: “Yes, you can,” He told me. “Will, cut that stone and it better be limestone, too.”
This wasn’t Edmondson’s first vision. He described to a chronicler a time when he was 13 or 14 “doing in the cornfields,” when he saw “the flood.” There was little doubt in Edmondson’s mind then: “I ain’t never read no books, nor no Bible, and I saw the water come. It come over the rocks, it covered up the rocks and went over the mountains. God, He just showed me how.”
Though he had no formal art training, Edmondson took this divine directive seriously. At the age of 57, Edmondson began using a hammer and a railroad spike on left-over limestone blocks or pieces he found at building demolitions. Soon the yard adjacent to his Nashville house began to fill up, first with funereal, and later garden, sculptures. Over a 17-year period he would carve over 300 pieces. He sold work to local church parishioners, and many of his pieces ended up in Nashville’s local black cemetery, Mount Ararat (today part of Greenwood West). Some are still there.
In 1935, Edmondson’s work came to the attention of Sidney Hirsch, a Vanderbilt (George Peabody College for Teachers) professor, poet and playwright and collector of ethnographic items from around the world. Hirsch struck up a friendship with Edmondson, bought pieces from the artist and introduced him to his friends, who bought sculptures. One set of Hirsch’s friends introduced their friend, photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe to the Edmondson. She ended up taking hundreds of photographs, eventually showing them to her friend Thomas Mabry, one of the curators at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1937, labeling Edmondson’s work “modern primitive,” Mabry brought his work to the museum, making him the first African-American artist to have a solo show at MOMA. The following year, Edmondson’s work included in the “Three Centuries of Art in the United States,” exhibit placed at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. In 1941, Edward Weston “discovered” Edmondson. And so a few more pictures were taken.
Since the art world rediscovered Edmondson’s work in 2000, many have made much about the proto-abstract nature of his work; some have conjoined him with Brancusi and modernist sculpture. Surely, Edmondson would have been bemused by those kind of distinctions; after all, he was doin’ the Lord’s work. Although his work garnered attention in New York, in Nashville his pieces continued to sell for as little as $5 and $10.
Edmondson died in 1951, after ill health forced him to give up sculpting. He was buried in Mount Ararat Cemetery.
Although his work is today in the collections of The American Folk Art Museum, the Smithsonian, the Hirshhorn, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Montclair Art Museum, and the Newark Museum, today William Edmondson today lies in an unmarked grave, his headstone long since gone and any records indicating its location burned. That’s strangely befitting for a man who did not seek fame or fortune, never credited himself for his abilities, but gave his creative life over to a higher force.
“American Monument” (Artnet)
Cheekwood 2000 Edmondson Exhibition
Louise Dahl-Wolfe at Stanley + Wise
And Beyond. . .
Roberta Smith—Altered Views in the House of Modernism (NY Times)
Claire Lieberman—Stone: Mystery or Malaise (Sculpture Magazine) |
In its IPO filing Wednesday, Facebook identified mobile’s limited revenue potential, competition from other social networks, and the potential loss of advertisers as factors that could seriously harm its business. But was the social networking company, which relied on advertising for 85 percent of its revenue in 2011, forthcoming enough about the real risks associated with its primary money-maker?
“The issue of click-through rate was not mentioned as a risk in the S-1,” said Peter Adriaens, a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan’s Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies. That omission stood out for the Internet IPO expert because research suggests that the percentage of Facebook users who actually click on ads is quite low, and that means advertising dollars could eventually drop.
Facebook does not publish its average click-through rate (CTR), but independent analysis from Webtrends on more than 11,000 Facebook campaigns showed that the average CTR for Facebook ads in 2010 was 0.051 percent, which is about half the industry standard CTR of 0.1 percent. The rate, according to the Webtrends report, dropped from 0.063 percent in 2009, which points to a downward trend.
“Even though [Facebook] talked about … the fact that it has about 40 percent of all the online banner ads, that the cost per advertising paid to the company has gone up by 18 percent,” said Adriaens, “it didn’t take it all the way through to the next step and that is the click-through rate.”
Advertisers bid for ads on Facebook and are willing to pay a high premium because of the company’s targeting capabilities, Adriaens said. “The question then is,” he opined, “are advertisers going to continue to be willing to pay this premium to put ads on Facebook if the Facebook users don’t actually click on these ads?”
Facebook, for its part, partially alluded to this potential risk in the S-1, but didn’t do so in a way that provided full transparency to would-be investors, Adriaens argued.
Advertisers may view some of our products, such as sponsored stories and ads with social context, as experimental and unproven. Advertisers will not continue to do business with us, or they will reduce the prices they are willing to pay to advertise with us, if we do not deliver ads and other commercial content in an effective manner, or if they do not believe that their investment in advertising with us will generate a competitive return relative to other alternatives.
In Adriaens’ opinion, Facebook is leaving key pieces of information about the future health of its advertising business off the table by not mentioning CTR and its change over time.
Because of Facebook’s rich targeting options, and an advertiser’s ability to know that a campaign was seen by the exact audience intended, Kaykas-Wolff said that his company is willing to spend more on Facebook ads than it would elsewhere, sometimes bidding as much as $1 for CPC (cost per click) campaigns. “Facebook is one of the cornerstones of our media mix for the remainder of the year,” he added.
The CTR is immaterial to Wolff’s primary objective, which is to place ads in front of specific audiences and get validation that people saw the ads. For now, Mindjet is happy with “likes” and shares on the sponsored ads it runs. “We’re not trying to drive click-throughs, we’re trying to drive activity,” he said.
Having previously worked at Involver with brands on the platform side of Facebook’s business, Kaykas-Wolff strongly believes that he’s not alone in his bullish stance on the appeal of Facebook ads. More mid-market companies will test the waters and increase their Facebook ad spend in the years ahead, he predicted. Plus, he has full confidence that the social network has plenty left up its sleeve and will release even better targeting options and more types of ad units in the months and years ahead.
Of course, that logic presumes that Facebook will be able to continue to collect a slew of data on its members for targeting purposes, which is no longer a given in countries in the European Union.
“[Facebook] talked about the risk of privacy laws … but what was not mentioned is that the European Union issued a list of 35 requirements related to privacy that Facebook is going to have to adhere to,” Adriaens pointed out. “[Facebook] can’t automatically collect the data that it might be collecting in North America … so what I see going forward is this challenge … of having to deal with very fragmented privacy laws. Those privacy laws are directly going to affect the value of Facebook’s data to its advertisers.”
Photo credit: Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook |
Technology Brings College Research into Focus
by Jonas Siegel
Would you know a molecule if it rolled down the street at you?
Technologies often allow scientists in the life sciences to get inside
their research materials, to see biological structures and processes on
the most elementary level. Faculty at the College and the University are
gaining a new focus on their subject matters, thanks to several new pieces
of technology at the College.
In November, 14 investigators including Dr. Roberto Docampo, professor
of microbiology/immunology, and Dr. Rex A. Hess, professor of morphology
and toxicology, received a grant from the Illinois Council on Food and
Agriculture Research (C-FAR) that helped the College purchase a confocal
Dr. Docampo will use this technologically advanced microscope to help
him identify proteins within organelles of parasites. By verifying the
functions of these organelles, Dr. Docampo hopes to develop appropriate
chemotherapeutic treatments to rid an organism of a specific parasite.
A microtubule, which helps organelles move throughout
a cell, is captured in a dynamic image from the confocal microscope.
Dr. Hess will be using the microscope to observe the interaction of
proteins associated with sperm development, and microtubules, which facilitate
the movement of organelles through a cell. Because the confocal microscope
can show more than one image at the same time, in optical sections, Dr.
Hess will be able to see if specific chemicals are interfering with the
development of sperm cells.
A confocal microscope uses scanning lasers to optically dissect the
layers of a specimen. The microscope has the potential to produce high-resolution,
three-dimensional images of these layers by capturing and organizing the
reflections of light that the lasers emit.
Dr. Hess, director of the Center
for Microscopic Imaging, which is one of many imaging centers that
serve University-wide needs, had been seeking funding for a confocal microscope
for some time. Since C-FAR awarded its large grant for the purchase of
the microscope, University departments and colleges as well as the University
research board have contributed funding to reach the approximate $155,000
new High Performance Liquid Chromotograph with mass spectroscopic detector
will be used in clinical as well as research efforts.
“We have had a lot of support from people around the University,” says
Dr. Hess. He expects faculty from throughout the university to come and
use one of only two such microscopes dedicated to service laboratories
The College is an ideal place to locate uncommon but useful pieces of
research equipment because the facilities are easily made available to
a wide variety of potential users, even those outside of the University.
Soon the College will be the only public institution in the state of
Illinois—and one of only a few in the country—with a ribotyper. The College
recently purchased a ribotyper with the help of another C-FAR grant. A
ribotyper is used to identify bacteria by genotype rather than by phenotype
to detect pathogenic strains in food and animal samples.
According to Dr. Howard Gelberg, associate dean for research, the ribotyper
will allow researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of changes in animal
rearing, slaughter, and processing aimed to eliminate reservoirs of pathogens.
Professionals throughout the state will use the ribotyper to trace food
poisoning outbreaks, says Dr. Gelberg. But the ribotyper will remain located
in the diagnostic laboratory.
Also expanding research and clinical capabilities through new technology,
the pharmacology and anesthesiology units have teamed up to purchase a
High Performance Liquid Chromatograph with mass spectroscopic detector
(LC-MS). Both departments will use the LC-MS to quantify and analyze mixtures
of chemical compounds.
Dr. Ted Whittem, assistant professor in pharmacology, who was part of
the team that recommended the purchase of the LC-MS, said that the methodology
of pharmacology research has matured to the point that they need to be
able to analyze specific molecules within samples.
Other College faculty members will use the LC-MS to directly impact
clinical work. Dr. William Tranquilli, professor of anesthesiology, notes
that when human analgesics are given to animals as part of a pain treatment,
it is usually in low doses.
Previously there was no way of tracking concentrations of low doses
in the blood of animals. But with the LC-MS, low concentrations of drugs
will be more easily identified, and anesthesiologists will be able to pinpoint
combinations of analgesics that provide the most effective pain management
The LC-MS was installed the second week in December and its components
all fit on a tabletop in the service room. The $150,000 invested in this
machinery brings the College’s analytical capabilities into the new century.
Together, the ribotyper, the LC-MS and the confocal microscope will
cost just over a half million dollars. Both grants and College resources
paid for these purchases. |
Sierra Club calling for EV comments on US Green Building Council move to drop LEED credits for EV Charging stations
I just received this action alert from the Sierra Club ... of course this is focused on U.S. people.
As I understand the idea, LEED credits are used to determine LEED ratings of a building. Usually (I think) that means whether the building uses non-toxic materials, or is well insulated, or whatever.
Have you heard that the US Green Building Council (the group that gives "LEED certification" for green buildings) is proposing to remove the LEED credit for electric vehicle charging units for most new buildings and renovation projects? We think this would be a bad mistake. Several environmental groups spoke up on this in a letter this week.
Will you submit a comment to the USGBC to let them know that you believe that builders and building owners should be rewarded and incentivized for installing EV charging units, and that there are significant environmental and air quality benefits of EVs over conventional vehicles?
The public comment deadline is this Monday, and anyone can comment. I hope you'll join me in commenting today by taking the following steps:
1) Create site user account (only fill in all starred boxes):
2) Comment on the "low emitting and fuel efficient vehicle" subcategory of the Land and Transportation category by going to:
Suggested talking points (but feel free to make it short and sweet):
- I hope that you will reconsider removing the credit for low emitting and fuel efficient vehicles. This credit, proposed to now only apply to schools and warehouses, should be included more broadly in new construction and renovation projects (as has been the case since 2009).
- Why you care about electric vehicles (including whether you own one and why).
- Why you think more EV chargers in buildings will incentivize the EV market.
- A switch to electric vehicles will offer one vital way to reduce emissions and dependence on oil. According to a range of studies, EVs emit 30-60% lower carbon emissions than conventional gas-powered vehicles nationwide, even on today's electric grid sources.
- Now is the time to incentivize this new EV market, and USGBC can play an important role. |
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New Index Ranks Vermont Tops in Locally Grown Food
A new index ranks Vermont No. 1 in its commitment to raising and eating locally grown food.
The ranking is based on the number of farmers markets and community supported agriculture programs per state resident. In CSAs, customers pay a lump sum up front and receive weekly deliveries of produce during harvest seasons.
According to the Strolling of the Heifers Locavore Index, Vermont has 99 farmers markets and 164 CSAs for fewer than 622,000 people.
The other top states on the list are Iowa, Montana, Maine and Hawaii.
Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, Arizona and, surprisingly, Florida ranked at the bottom.
Florida produces much of the nation's citrus, strawberries and tomatoes, but the index says it has only 146 farmers markets and 193 CSAs for 18.5 million people.
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Water: Recovery Potential
Publications and Training
Recovery Potential Screening: A Tool for Comparing Impaired Waters Restorability - A Watershed Academy Webinar. Presented by Douglas Norton and Tatyana DiMascio, U.S. EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds, February 22, 2012
This archived webinar is a two-hour training and tool demonstration session. It helps states, watershed groups and others become acquainted with the Recovery Potential Screening website, methodology and tools for analyzing and comparing restorability differences among watersheds. The website provides step-by-step screening directions, time-saving tools for calculating indices and displaying results, summaries of over 120 ecological, stressor and social indicators, a recovery literature database, and several case studies. Recovery Potential Screening was developed to assist complex planning and prioritizing, provide a user-customizable but systematic and transparent comparison approach, and help improve restoration program results.
A method for comparative analysis of recovery potential in impaired waters restoration planning (PDF) (20 pp, 348K, About PDF) August 2009
This paper appeared in Environmental Management journal in August 2009. It describes an indicator-based method for setting restoration priorities among large numbers of impaired waters through using recovery potential screening. The paper covers the screening methods, their programmatic purpose, and three state or multi-state scale studies. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Recovery Potential Project (PDF) (2 pp, 857K, About PDF) Mar 2011
This fact sheet overviews tools and data to help state TMDL and restoration programs decide where best to use their limited restoration resources among large numbers of impaired waters.
Comparative analysis of recovery potential in impaired waters restoration planning (PDF) (21 pp, 1MB, About PDF) November 2009
This brief overview presentation was given at the Middle Atlantic Regional Stream Restoration Conference.
Recovery Potential Training Course Materials (available on request, contact us)
This 13.5MB zipped file (emailable upon request) contains all materials used in a one-day training course about recovery potential screening. Contents include six powerpoint presentations, three exercises, and supplementary technical materials. This session occurred in Boston, MA in December 2010. |
Password Vault: This feature is used to create, store, and manage passwords for Identity Finder.
Secure File: This option will allow the user to secure any file that Identity Finder discovers, or . Encrypting files, using their choice of encryption method and storing the encrypted file within a Zip file if it does not already support its own encryption method. Most files do not have an encryption method, and will be stored within Zip Files so that they can be. When selecting a password for this option make sure, that it is something that can easily remembered. Since no one will be able to reset or remember your password but the one who encrypts the file.
Open Secure Zip File: This is the other side to the coin of Secure File. Once a file has been secured and password protected, Identity Finder is needed to open and decrypt the file that has been secured through Identity Finder.
Shred Files or Folders: This will delete either a single file, or the contents to an entire folder. If a folder is selected, it will delete all the files within the folder but will not delete the folder itself. Since shredding will overwrite the file several times with zeros, the file will be unrecoverable. Take care when selecting this option that you are absolutely sure that you wish to preform this option.
Secure/Shred Microsoft IE: These two buttons will either secure or shred files found in Microsoft Internet Explorer files and residual data found from Microsoft Internet Explorer files. It will examine your browser history and eliminate any files that might contain sensitive information.
Secure/Shred Firefox: These two options will secure or shred files, found in Mozilla Firefox files and residual data found from Mozilla Firefox files. It will examine your browser history and eliminate any files that might contain sensitive information.
Scheduling: You can set Identity Finder to automatically scan your computer at any time you desire, without having to run the program manually each time. Identity Finder will run in the background without interfering with work, and taking system resources that other programs may need. |
With Gaza pitted still in the depths of destitution, security officials fear that militant factions may become increasingly radicalised, reports Erica Silverman
Saturday night and the trash-lined streets of downtown Gaza City are pitch black, noise and fumes rumbling from generators. Trash collection has ground to a halt due to fuel shortages after Gaza's main power station was destroyed by Israeli forces 28 June, leaving households, businesses and hospitals across the Strip without electricity and water in sweltering summer heat.
Despite melting ice cream, the lights -- run by a generator -- are still bright at Kazem's Ice Cream Shop. "I have not made a profit since mid-June," says owner Kamel Kazem, "but this is the famous 'Kazem' for all of Gaza. My father started this shop 50 years ago." Like most Gazans, Kamel believes Hamas was not given a fair chance due to sealed borders and the international embargo against the Hamas-led government.
"Israel attacking the power plant was a tactic to hit the Palestinian economy," says Noman Kishawi, owner of Gaza City's largest supermarket. Operation costs have risen 30 per cent since the end of June mostly due to the generators, says Kishawi, who lost thousands of dollars in spoiled food products. "The consumer pays for the closure of Karni (Gaza's only commercial crossing) with high prices," he said.
According to Rafiq Maliha, project manager of Gaza Power Generating Company, a team of engineers is still trying to import a combination of new and used transformers from Egypt. Repairs will take several months and can only restore 35 per cent of the plant's total capacity. Gaza remains in the dark.
Even worse, the lack of electricity means water cannot be pumped into homes. Every incursion has caused tremendous damage to an already dilapidated civilian infrastructure as rolling Israeli tanks crushed underground water piping, septic and water storage tanks and other vital civilian facilities. Water pumping stations and sewage treatment plants are not operating properly causing raw sewage to flow onto the streets. Desperate residents have begun drilling illegal wells and illegally tapping into water pipes, and now contamination of the water supply is a real threat, says a team of Oxfam engineers visiting Gaza this week to assess the damage.
According to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Health Ministry, 234 Palestinians have died with 1,267 injured as a result of the now 10-week-long Israeli incursion into Gaza, purportedly to halt the launching of Qassam rockets into Israel and to secure the recovery of an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas 25 June.
Poverty and desperation have come to a head as Palestinian civil servants, including teachers, announced last week they will begin an open-ended strike 2 September, the first day of the school year, demanding salaries, including back pay from the past six months when they have gone unpaid. The strike is expected to affect 40,000 teachers and about 45,000 other civil servants, including healthcare workers, out of 165,000 PA employees. Security forces will not strike.
"We know that our job is to offer salaries, but the government is not the main reason. The international boycott has prevented the government from transferring money," Hamas government spokesperson Ghazi Hamad told Al-Ahram Weekly. "The schools will open on time and we will not accept the strike," asserted Hamad.
Belal Badwan, a 26-year-old elementary school teacher from Shujayeh thinks, "the strike will succeed in the West Bank but not here in Gaza where every house includes a Hamas member. People here are in favour of giving Hamas another chance. They believe the financial crisis is not their fault." Badwan says there are many who support the strike but are afraid to speak out against the Hamas-led government. Negotiations with union leaders, mostly Fatah- affiliated, are underway. Healthcare workers in the West Bank did not show for work on Monday.
Meanwhile, the gates of the Rafah Terminal along the Gaza-Egypt border were pried open just briefly on Friday and Saturday allowing 5,676 passengers to exit and 4,228 to enter Gaza according to the EU mission at Rafah. Rafah, Gaza's only passenger crossing, has been closed by Israel for 10 weeks, ostensibly to prevent the abducted soldier from being smuggled outside the Strip as well as to cut off elicit cash supplies to the Hamas leadership. On Thursday, dozens of angry militants detonated explosives along the wall between Egypt and Gaza in an effort to allow trapped passengers on the Egyptian side to return to Gaza, including hundreds of medical patients, although no one managed to cross. Palestinian officials are trying to convince Israel to resume normal operations at the terminal.
Karni, also, has been sealed shut for 11 days as of Monday, creating a shortage of basic commodities and food supplies across Gaza. According to UNRWA's director in Gaza, John Ging, "food distribution to 830,000 people will not commence as planned next week, unless Karni opens." UNRWA has less than a week's supply of fuel in reserve, to be distributed to municipalities for solid waste management and to refugee camps for pumping water wells.
The security crisis in Gaza is also worsening as crime is rising and foreigners have again been evacuated fearing abductions. A previously unknown Palestinian militant group called the Holy Jihad Brigades released two Fox News journalists -- cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand, and American reporter Steve Centanni, 60 -- on Sunday after holding them hostage in Gaza for 13 days. The group initially demanded the United States free Muslim prisoners in exchange for their release, although Hamad asserts the group had personal motives for their actions. No demands were met.
Hamas Minister of Interior Said Syiam successfully negotiated their release, although it was not seen as an achievement. "They were kidnapped to exert pressure on the government," said Hamad, claiming the kidnappers will be brought to justice to fulfil Hamas's campaign promise to restore law and order to Gaza. A wave of kidnappings commencing last summer went largely unpunished when Fatah led the government.
Speaking from the Beach Hotel after his release, Wiig said, "My biggest concern really is that as a result of what happened to us, foreign journalists will be discouraged from coming to tell the story, and that would be a great tragedy for the people of Palestine."
"The kidnappers have no link to Al-Qaeda or any other organisation or faction," said Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, asserting that Al-Qaeda as an organisation does not exist in Gaza. Yet this episode was ominous, the drama including the release of videotape of the two journalists being forced to read anti-Western statements and to convert to Islam at gunpoint.
Their period of captivity was longest time foreigners have been held in Gaza, and also the first time a Palestinian group declared affiliation to Al-Qaeda. Behind closed doors, UN and Palestinian security officials fear Al-Qaeda's philosophy may become attractive to militant groups as the backlash against Washington's policy decision to boycott the Hamas-led government grows. |
Palestinian Authority cabinet resigns
Fearing a replay of Tunisia and Egypt, the West Bank Palestinian leadership calls for rapid elections, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah
Fearing a possible recurrence of the Egyptian or Tunisian scenarios, the American-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) decided rather hastily this week to hold presidential, legislative and local elections by September.
Moreover, PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad sacked his entire cabinet in order to form a new broad-based one whose basic task will be to prepare for a possible declaration of statehood later this year.
The decision was adopted a few hours after the ouster of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak was widely considered the PA's major patron in the Arab region; some political observers contend that the collapse of the Mubarak regime has left the PA critically vulnerable.
Besides heading off any revolt against the Ramallah-based PA regime, the decision to hold general elections appears also meant to exert pressure on Hamas, the Islamist party that controls the Gaza Strip. Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mubarak's arch foe, is thought to have benefited from regime change in Cairo.
Hamas rejects the organisation of elections in the occupied territories, citing the police state atmosphere in the West Bank as well continued repression and detention of its supporters there. The movement also cites the Israeli policy of outlawing candidates that don't recognise the Jewish state.
One Hamas spokesman in the Hebron region said: "What is the point of taking part in elections when we know in advance that the Israeli occupation army will arrest all our candidates whether they win or lose?"
Indeed, Israel did arrest and imprison most of Hamas's elected members in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council (Hamas scored a landslide victory, defeating the Western-backed Fatah party), citing their "membership in an illegal organisation" and refusal to recognise the Israeli occupation. Many of these lawmakers have now been rearrested.
(Israel's rigid stance vis-à-vis Hamas stems from the Islamist group's uncompromising attitude towards the Israeli occupation and insistence on total Israeli withdrawal from all territories occupied in 1967.)
Meanwhile, it is not certain how the PA will be able to hold real and transparent elections in the West Bank, let alone in East Jerusalem, without coordination with Israel. The Israel army controls every nook and cranny of the occupied territory and it would be unimaginable to hold meaningful elections without at least Israeli consent.
Israel has indicated that it won't allow Hamas to participate in any new elections, citing the group's refusal to recognise Israel.
Palestinian commentators also doubt the possibility of holding credible elections. "The decision to hold elections under existing circumstances is hollow; it shows that the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) is panicking and feeling insecure. In any case, we should remember that all these decisions were taken less than 24 hours after Mubarak and Omar Suleiman had gone," said Palestinian writer and commentator Uraib Rantawi.
"Is the PLO suddenly undergoing an awakening of conscience? Is the Tahrir Square spirit [hovering over] Ramallah? Or is it just another manoeuvre to divert Palestinian public opinion away from the scandalous revelations of Al-Jazeera (the so-called Palestine Papers)?"
Rantawi concluded his comments by saying: "The Egyptian people have now achieved their good riddance, having been fed up with 30 years of Hosni Mubarak. Most likely, the Palestinian people, too, are fed up with 40 years of the same old and senile PLO faces and are awaiting their good riddance, too."
Another commentator, Zakaria Mohamed, a left-leaning writer, ridiculed the call for elections under occupation. "What is the point of holding new elections as long it is forbidden to say 'No' to the Israeli occupation and to security coordination with Israel? We know and Abbas knows that these elections are conditional upon accepting the humiliating dictates of Israel."
The abrupt decision to schedule elections for September was preceded by the resignation of Saeb Ereikat, chief Palestinian negotiator, from his job as head of the PLO Negotiations Department. Ereikat admitted that the documents leaked to Al-Jazeera were stolen from his office and that he was personally responsible for the breach.
The documents show that PA negotiators, including Ereikat himself, agreed to give Israel far-reaching concessions, compromising long-standing Palestinian positions on the so-called final status issues. The PA vehemently denied the veracity of the documents, waging a war of words against Al-Jazeera, accusing the network of conspiring with Israel against the Palestinian leadership.
Some PLO propagandists, including Ereikat himself, went as far as accusing Al-Jazeera of investing in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and of allowing Israeli President Shimon Peres shares in the network's holding company. The accusations appear to have little or no credibility.
Al-Ahram Weekly asked Ereikat during a press conference in Bethlehem last week why the PA was so perturbed and shaken by Al-Jazeera's revelations, especially if the revelations were false. Ereikat evaded the question. |
Connecticut could lose "thousands of middle class jobs" and "vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and women in uniform" under the automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequester that are looming this week, the White House said Sunday in a summary of the budget reductions.
West Hartford Town Manager Ron Van Winkle said that the impact on the town side would be "peanuts," affecting only small grants for fire or police equipment. However, he is concerned about the potential impact on the schools.
West Hartford Public Schools Director of Finance and Planning Chip Ward said the sequester's impact would be "noticeable, but small," decreasing Federal grants by an amount ranging from $160,000 to $250,000, depending on how cuts are implemented.
Van Winkle said he's worried about the cumulative impact of what could be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cuts, the vast majority of which would affect the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) grant, Title I funding, and school lunches.
The impact would not be immediate, and the precise programs targeted by automatic cuts is not final, said Van Winkle.
"Washington is making a mess," he said. West Hartford's budget is being finalized for presentation in March, but Van Winkle is not making changes yet based on the sequester.
"No one believes they'll go through. We believe they will come to some resolution," Van Winkle said.
According to the White House, the budget cuts would see the state lose $8.7 million in education funding along with another $6.3 million in federal funds to help students with disabilities.
The cuts, the White House document says, would put "around 120 teacher and aide jobs at risk. In addition about 8,000 fewer students would be served and approximately 40 fewer schools would receive funding."
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy released a statement Monday on the cuts:
"The so-called sequester is another sad example of governing at its worst —Congress has to stop taking people’s jobs and our entire economy hostage to its own dysfunction. Friday’s deadline will bring devastating cuts to critical services and job losses in Connecticut and across the country. I strongly opposed the legislation that set this process in motion, and strongly support legislation to prevent the damage that these reckless cuts will do to our still fragile economy. It’s time for Congress to get over itself and work to make this right."
Other possible impacts of the sequestriation in Connecticut include:
- Work-Study Jobs: Around 550 fewer low income students in Connecticut would receive aid to help them finance the costs of college and around 470 fewer students will get work-study jobs that help them pay for college.
- Head Start: Head Start and Early Head Start services would be eliminated for approximately 500 children in Connecticut, reducing access to critical early education.
- Protections for Clean Air and Clean Water: Connecticut would lose about $2 million in environmental funding to ensure clean water and air quality, as well as prevent pollution from pesticides and hazardous waste. In addition, Connecticut could lose another $398,000 in grants for fish and wildlife protection.
- Military Readiness: In Connecticut, approximately 3,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed, reducing gross pay by around $15 million in total.
- Law Enforcement and Public Safety Funds for Crime Prevention and Prosecution: Connecticut will lose about $153,000 in Justice Assistance Grants that support law enforcement, prosecution and courts, crime prevention and education, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, and crime victim and witness initiatives.
- Job Search Assistance to Help those in Connecticut find Employment and Training: Connecticut will lose about $242,000 in funding for job search assistance, referral, and placement, meaning around 10,650 fewer people will get the help and skills they need to find employment.
- Child Care: Up to 200 disadvantaged and vulnerable children could lose access to child care, which is also essential for working parents to hold down a job. |
Fri March 8, 2013
Janice Sevre-Duszynska, Excommunicated Woman Bishop from Kentucky, Detained After Vatican Protest
An excommunicated woman bishop from Kentucky has been detained by Vatican officials for protesting the lack of women voices in the church as it prepares to select a new pope.
Janice Sevre-Duszynska is one 150 women priests in the world who are not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
Standing in liturgical robes outside St. Peter’s Basilica, Sevre-Duszynska unfurled a banner reading “Women Priests are Here” before being carted away by Vatican police. As a member of a group calling itself the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests, she’s long been a vocal advocate for women’s ordination.
"When one becomes a priest, one gives one’s live for the community, and works for the common good, works for the marginalized, deplores exploitation of any kind and welcomes all to the table," Sevre-Dusznyska said in 2008 about her view of activism and the priesthood.
She added that the church’s exclusion of women from leadership positions is alienating the younger generation and causing them to leave the church. And while Sevre-Duszynska doubts this conclave will change much for women, she hopes her efforts, along with those of supporters, will influence policy once the church selects its next leader.
Sevre-Dusznyska has been leading mass in Kentucky for four years. She spoke to WUKY in 2008 about her role as an activist.
"To me, a priest is to live one’s life on the edge for the people," she told WUKY in Lexington in 2008. "Otherwise, don’t step up to the plate."
Sevre-Duszynska says, while she doubts this conclave will change much for women inside the church, she hopes her efforts, along with others, will influence the future church policy.
The Cardinals decided Friday that the Conclave to elect the next pope will begin Tuesday. |
If I had to pick one way to change the world, if there was only one thing I could do, I would eliminate prejudice and bigotry, and ensure equal rights for all people. Period. That people are so ignorant, and so stupid that they can judge others based on factors which are randomly assigned by the universe, rather than the quality of one's character, just baffles me.
When I heard yesterday that Rosa Parks died, I wanted to write something about it, but I couldn't find the words. It's hard to imagine what her world was like way back in 1955, especially since 99% of the people who have the ability to read this blog will probably never know a life a billionth as challenging as hers -- and none of us are going to make one tenth of the difference she made. So what could I say that would matter?
Try to imagine yourself as Rosa Parks did when she left work that day in 1955. Exhausted from working long hours in the department store, she looked to take a seat like always; but making sure she sat in the right section of that bus at the risk of being handcuffed. You can't-can you? It took this incredible woman to refuse to give up her seat to a white man on that bus to change the course of American history.
Think about that, and honor her legacy whenever you can. I challenge you all to make a difference, in some positive way, in someone's life today. And tomorrow. And the day after that . . . |
OSHA To Investigate Farm Chemical Accident in IllinoisPESOTUM, Ill. (AP) - The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it will investigate an accident in which about 70 teenagers were sprayed with a fungicide as they worked in an eastern Illinois corn field.
OSHA spokesman Scott Allen said Thursday afternoon that investigators were on their way to the field just outside Pesotum. The small town is about 15 miles south of Champaign. Authorities say the teens were cutting the pollinating tassels off corn plants Thursday morning when the chemical drifted onto them from a crop-duster.
All of the teens were taken to a hospital in nearby Urbana. All were expected to be released Thursday.
Brad Rollings of Villa Grove said his 13-year-old son Tyler was among the teens who were sprayed. Rollings said his son seemed to be fine.
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Thu July 25, 2013
Machine Gun Kelly
George Kelly Barnes was born in Memphis on July 18, 1885. He went to Idlewild Elementary and Central High School, living a comfortable and uneventful life. But when he went to Mississippi State University in 1917, his problems began.
His grades were terrible and he stayed in trouble with his teachers. He got married, had two children, dropped out of school, and got divorced. Things went from bad to worse. It was the era of prohibition and he found a career in bootlegging.
After a few run-ins with the Memphis police, he left town and changed his name to George R. Kelly. After he’d served a few years in Leavenworth, his new wife, Kathryn, bought him a machine gun. Using a new nickname, "Machine Gun Kelly," he became one of the country’s most notorious gangsters. It was a kidnapping in Oklahoma that finally did him in.
He’d gotten a huge ransom, and was hiding out back home in Memphis, when the FBI and local police tracked him down. In 1933, Kelly and his wife were sentenced to life in prison.
He died in jail, on his birthday, in 1954. |
Oct 29th 2009 5:34AM Abercrombie Fitch began in 1892 under the name David T. Abercrombie Fitch Co. It was a small waterfront shop and factory in New York City. The founder, David Abercrombie, was a former trapper, prospector, topographer, and railroad surveyor. His love for the great outdoors influenced his store, Abercrombie & Co., and was dedicated to camping, fishing, and hunting gear. His clientele consisted mostly of hunters and explorers. Ezra Fitch, a lawyer in New York crossed paths with Abercrombie & Co. in his search for outstanding outdoor gear. In 1900 Abercrombie became Abercrombie Fitch and Ezra became a partner. |
Monetary policy rules, asset prices and exchange rates
Chadha, Jagjit, Sarno, Lucio and Valente, Giorgio (2003) Monetary policy rules, asset prices and exchange rates. Discussion Paper. London: Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain). (Discussion paper (Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain))).
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We examine empirically whether asset prices and exchange rates may be admitted into a standard interest rate rule, using data for the US, the UK and Japan since 1979. Asset prices and exchange rates can be employed as information variables for a standard `Taylor-type' rule or as arguments in an augmented interest rate rule. Our empirical evidence, based on measures of the output gap proxied by marginal costs calculations, suggests that monetary policy-makers may use asset prices and exchange rates not only as part of their information set for setting interest rates, but also to set interest rates to offset deviations of asset prices or exchange rates from their equilibrium levels. These results are open to several alternative interpretations.
|Item Type:||Working or Discussion Paper (Discussion Paper)|
|Subjects:||H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory|
|Divisions:||Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School|
|Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):||Interest rates -- Great Britain, Interest rates -- United States, Interest rates -- Japan, Foreign exchange rates , Assets (Accounting), Monetary policy -- Great Britain, Monetary policy -- United States, Monetary policy -- Japan|
|Series Name:||Discussion paper (Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain))|
|Publisher:||Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain)|
|Place of Publication:||London|
|Number of Pages:||36|
|Status:||Not Peer Reviewed|
|Access rights to Published version:||Open Access|
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During the last U.S. Presidential campaign, offshoring was a particularly touchy subject. Candidates denounced “Benedict Arnold CEOs” for sending U.S. jobs offshore, while CNN anchor Lou Dobbs kept a disapproving tally of companies with offshore operations. This time around, even with the economy looming once again as a major issue, offshoring has generated little heat in the race for the Presidency.
That’s largely because offshoring has become a fact of life for Corporate America. According to a new CFO survey, 36 percent of financial executives say their companies use offshore outsourcing. That’s twice as many as in 2004. Among companies with annual revenues of more than $1 billion, the number of offshorers rises to 49 percent. Meanwhile, research firm Gartner estimated the size of the market for offshore IT and business process outsourcing at nearly $35 billion in 2006, and forecasts a market of $70 billion to $100 billion by 2011.
Companies and offshore service providers alike have expanded their views on which functions can be offshored, with everything from traditional call-center work to legal research on the table. They have also learned how to better manage the outsourcing process. At the same time, finance chiefs have gained a healthier respect for the hazards involved in sending work overseas (see “Staying Put” at the end of this article).
Far less fearful of a public backlash than before, companies today have a world of options when it comes to offshoring arrangements. “It’s become a global bazaar,” says Raffy Ohannesian of DLC, a finance and accounting-services firm. “Whatever you need, you will be able to find it at a lower cost, with a minimal or acceptable level of quality degradation, or sometimes even improvement. It’s just a more mature market.”
Offshoring, in short, has grown up.
Learning from Experience
This new maturity is reflected in the way executives now think about offshoring. “There is significantly more awareness,” says Vivek Sharma, a director at THL Partners, a Boston-based private-equity firm. Sharma works with portfolio companies to help them choose and deal with offshore partners. “People no longer ask basic questions like, ‘How can someone do this sitting in China?’ They ask, ‘How should I make this work?’”
Companies now regularly consider offshoring a strategic option, says Rohit Kapoor, president and chief operating officer at ExlService Holdings Inc., a New York–based business process outsourcing company with operations in India and the Philippines. “More and more companies are sitting down and planning on offshoring as part of their annual budgeting process, as opposed to just doing it on an ad hoc basis,” he says. For many companies, the question is not whether to offshore but which functions to outsource, and when.
Finance executives are also thinking about considerations besides cost savings as they weigh the offshoring decision. Dallas-based Kimberly-Clark, for example, moved many of its back-office activities first into a captive shared-services center and then to a third-party offshore provider as part of a companywide strategic shift. “We’re taking advantage of labor arbitrage, but it’s equally about building an environment that gives us more flexibility and new capabilities from third parties,” says Simon Newton, the company’s vice president of North Atlantic finance and shared services. |
Great photographic “find” – the German Legion in 1856 – is now in my hands, and I am making a copy at once. As a matter of fact the photo is a copy itself, done between 1890 and 1900 I should think, judging by the type of print, when the original was almost 50 years old.
The view is taken from a high bank in Port Lane, and looks right across to the Garrison Church. There is a large 18th century brick house on the site of the Recreation Hotel. So far as I know there are only three Colchester photos of an earlier date than this, as it must have been taken in the summer of 1856.
The photograph of the German Legion camping on Barrack Field in Colchester in 1856 forms part of E.J. Rudsdale's collection of historic photographs, now held by Colchester & Ipswich Museums.
When I went home this evening I was surprised to find Uncle Frank Webb still there. He is staying at the “Cups” for a few days. I cannot understand how he can afford to. He told me of the great damage done by the local authorities in London boroughs in taking iron railings. They refused to exclude a pair of 18th century gates which he had at Purley, so he unhung them and hid them away in safety.
Went over to Boxted tonight, to see the Roses. Lovely night. Rather windy. Many searchlights about, testing, making a lovely sight. |
Webinar Series Overview
AACN, in collaboration with the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University College of Nursing, will be hosting three live webinars to introduce faculty to the Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium (GNEC) project and resources. GNEC is a national initiative of AACN with generous funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation to enhance geriatric content in senior-level undergraduate nursing courses. To successfully incorporate content into the curriculum, faculty must be informed and have accessible evidence-based geriatric care information, access to curricular change resources, and support from professional colleagues. This GNEC webinar series will introduce faculty to the GNEC project and showcase available geriatric resources, innovative teaching strategies, and methods for infusing the content into the didactic and clinical curriculum components.
Part I: Geriatric Resources for Faculty
Date: November 2, 2011
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Conference on Constitutional Law
June 58, 2002
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The New Originalism
Are We All Originalists Now? I Hope Not!
James E. Fleming
- What Is the New Originalism? Who Are the New Originalists? And What Is New about Their Originalism?
- These questions presuppose three prior questions: What is the old originalism? Who are the old originalists? And why have many scholars sought to move beyond old originalism to new originalism?
- What? The old originalism is an ism - a conservative ideology that emerged in reaction to the Warren Court (and early Burger Court).
- Before Richard Nixon and Robert Bork launched their attacks on the Court, originalism as we now know it did not exist.
- Constitutional interpretation in light of original understanding did exist, but original understanding was seen as merely one source of constitutional meaning among several - not as a general theory of constitutional interpretation, much less the exclusive legitimate theory.
- The old originalists conceive original understanding in terms of a concrete intentionalism (as distinguished from an abstract intentionalism)
- Who? The old originalists include, most prominently, Robert Bork and Raoul Berger (you will notice that I did not mention Hugo Black).
- Why? The old originalism is vulnerable to dispositive criticisms.
- Keith Whittington has forthrightly addressed many of these criticisms, e.g., that it was circular, question-begging, and axiomatic.
- Furthermore, the old originalism suffers from three incorrigible flaws:
- the moral burden of the old originalism with regard to both rights and powers: its concrete intentionalism entails that Brown v. Board of Education was wrongly decided and that most of the modern federal government is unconstitutional;
- the authoritarianism of the old originalism is a massive insult to the dignity of both the founders and us - it attributes arrogance to the authors of the norms of the Constitution and subservience to the subjects of those norms; and
- its concrete intentionalism is untenable as a theory of interpretation of our Constitution, which establishes a charter of abstract aspirational principles and ends, not a code of detailed rules.
- What is the new originalism? Who are the new originalists? And what is new about their originalism? Or, will the real new originalists please stand up?
- Many self-styled originalists are at pains to differentiate themselves from old originalists like Berger and to insist that their versions of originalism are not vulnerable to common criticisms of the old originalism.
- E.g., Scalia and Whittington, not to mention McConnell and Barnett.
- They probably would be loathe to call themselves “new originalists,” but their efforts show that originalism is a moving target.
- In “Originalism: The Lesser Evil,” Scalia rejects “strong medicine originalism,” which he associates with Berger - roughly, originalism that is prepared to swallow the bitter pill of following whatever historical research shows to be the concrete original understanding, even if, e.g., it entails that Brown was wrongly decided.
- Instead, he embraces “fainted-hearted originalism”: originalism with a dose of evolutionary intent to the Constitution, or a “trace of constitutional perfectionism,” e.g., Brown was rightly decided.
- Furthermore, Scalia has supplemented originalism with his understanding that the Constitution includes certain traditions, understood as specific historical practices as distinguished from abstract aspirational principles (Michael H. fn. 6).
- Thus, Scalia incurs the charge by Bork that he is a conservative constitutional revisionist, i.e., a new originalist.
- Whittington himself?
- I confess that when I was invited to participate on this panel, and I was told that Keith would be on it, I thought that the new originalism that we would be assessing would be his originalism.
- After all, I understood that his project in his book, Constitutional Interpretation, is to reconstruct originalism, to attempt to rescue it from the flaws of the old originalism.
- And I understood that his project in his companion book, Constitutional Construction, is to broaden constitutional discourse to include two types of elaboration of constitutional meaning: not only interpretation by courts (the characteristic obsession of the old originalists) but also construction outside the courts by legislatures and executives.
- By contrast, the old originalists characteristically view the judicially enforceable Constitution as coterminous with the Constitution itself.
- For them, outside interpretation by courts and legislative and executive action in conformity therewith, there is only constitutionally gratuitous action.
- Accordingly, the old originalists have not been among those calling for taking the Constitution seriously outside the courts.
- I have known Keith to introduce a paper with a quotation from a song by the rock and roll band The Who. To encapsulate my critique of Keith’s originalism, I too want to invoke a line from a Who song:
- The song is “Won’t Get Fooled Again”; the lyric is “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
- Keith forthrightly criticizes the old originalism for being circular, question-begging, and axiomatic.
- Yet his originalism is vulnerable for the same reasons and, more generally, it does not overcome the flaws of the old originalism.
- At the panel, I will elaborate this critique. I also will respond to his paper for the panel.
- I also will take up the relationship between interpretation and construction, the two types of elaboration that Keith distinguishes.
- Keith is singular among the constitutional theorists who have called for taking the Constitution seriously outside the courts.
- Others who have issued this call typically have a broad view of what the Constitution is and of how it ought to be interpreted. Typically, they do not characterize themselves as originalists.
- For example, Sager embraces a Dworkinian “moral reading of the Constitution,” or a justice-seeking constitutional theory. And he puts forward a “wide-bodied view of interpretation.” Then, to account for the thinness or moral shortfall of constitutional law, he distinguishes between the thin, judicially enforceable Constitution and the whole Constitution that is binding outside the courts upon legislatures, executives, and the citizens generally. That Constitution may impose affirmative obligations upon legislatures and executives to secure basic needs and the like, even if in the absence of such legislative and executive action, welfare rights are not judicially enforceable.
- Keith’s tack is different. My hypothesis is that, in response to critiques of the old originalism, he expands the realm of constitutional discourse to include constitutional construction outside the courts; but he does so in order to justify narrowing constitutional interpretation inside the courts to originalism.
- I owe the crispness of this hypothesis to conversations with Sotirios Barber and Reva Siegel.
- At the panel, I may say more about the relation in Keith’s project between interpretation and construction; I expect Reva to do so as well.
- For now, I want to emphasize that one can call for developing a conception of constitutional construction outside the courts - as I would - without committing oneself to viewing interpretation inside the courts as originalist.
- The Broad Originalists?
- The new originalists surely include the broad originalists, e.g., Lessig, Ackerman, Amar, Perry, Flaherty, Treanor, Kalman, and others.
- What is broad about their forms of originalism is that these theorists conceive original understanding (to which they argue fidelity is owed) at a considerably higher level of abstraction than do the narrow originalists like Bork and Scalia (to say nothing of Whittington).
- At the same time, they typically argue that the quest for fidelity in constitutional interpretation requires that we reject theories like Dworkin’s “moral reading of the Constitution.”
- In my paper for the Fordham Symposium on “Fidelity in Constitutional Theory,” I explored the reasons for the broad originalists’ resistance to the moral reading.
- I argued that broad originalists, like narrow originalists, fundamentally misconceive fidelity. The commitment to fidelity entails, as Dworkin argues, that we should interpret the Constitution so as to make it the best it can be.
- I also suggested that the moral reading is a big tent, and that the broad originalists should reconceive their work as coming within it: in particular, as being in service of the moral reading by providing a firmer grounding for it in fit with historical materials than Dworkin has offered.
- Finally, Whittington has suggested that Dworkin (of all people!) is a new originalist. (See his article, “Dworkin’s ‘Originalism’: The Role of Intentions in Constitutional Interpretation.”)
- After all, as I have put it, Dworkin has sought to turn the tables on the narrow originalists like Bork and Scalia: he argues that commitment to fidelity (understood as pursuing integrity with the moral reading of the Constitution) entails the very approach that they are at pains to insist it forbids, and prohibits the very approach that they imperiously maintain it mandates.
- But I would resist characterizing Dworkin as a new originalist, for doing so seems to presuppose that anyone who argues that she or he has the best constitutional theory - of what the Constitution is, what is interpretation, and what is fidelity in constitutional interpretation - is claiming thereby to be an originalist. (See my discussion below of “the originalist premise.”)
- All of the above?
- Are We All Originalists Now? I Hope Not!
- The brochure for this conference poses the question “Are we all originalists now?”
- If anything would prompt that question, it would be an understanding of Dworkin as a new originalist!
- My response to the question is: “I hope not!” Below, I will explain why.
- But first, I want to show that there is a trick in the question.
- The trick is this: Even to pose the question “Are we all originalists now?” suggests that one is presupposing what I shall call “the originalist premise.” To answer the question affirmatively certainly shows that one is presupposing it.
- The originalist premise is the assumption that originalism, rightly conceived, is the best, or indeed the only, conception of fidelity in constitutional interpretation.
- Put more strongly, it is the assumption that originalism, rightly conceived, has to be the best, or indeed the only, conception of constitutional interpretation.
- I will sketch some of the problematic assumptions underlying this premise (and thus the projects of many scholars who seek to reconstruct originalism or to put forward new originalisms).
- Worse yet, raising the question may presuppose that we all have come around to Scalia’s and Bork’s way of thinking, without conceding that their versions of originalism themselves have been moving targets that have moved considerably toward the positions of their critics.
- To illustrate, let’s have a pop quiz. Read the following passage:
- “In short, all that a judge committed to original understanding requires is that the text, structure, and history of the Constitution provide him not with a conclusion but with a major premise. That major premise is a principle or stated value that the ratifiers wanted to protect against hostile legislation or executive action. The judge must then see whether that principle or value is threatened by the statute or action challenged in the case before him. The answer to that question provides his minor premise, and the conclusion follows. It does not follow without difficulty, and two judges equally devoted to the original purpose may disagree about the reach or application of the principle at stake and so arrive at different results, but that in no way distinguishes the task from the difficulties of applying any other legal writing.”
- Who wrote the passage? Choose from the following:
- Larry Lessig
- Ronald Dworkin
- Robert Bork
- Keith Whittington
- Antonin Scalia
- The correct answer: c) Robert Bork!
- The passage suggests that, whether or not Bork would admit it, he has made spectacular concessions to critics of originalism like Dworkin.
- Finally, saying that we all are originalists now would be tantamount to defining originalism to embrace all conceptions of what is the Constitution?, what is interpretation?, and therefore what is fidelity in constitutional interpretation?
- Yet differences will remain in constitutional theory with respect to these issues, and it will confuse rather than clarify matters to lump all positions under the label originalism.
- Keith has made a similar point in his criticism of what he takes to be Dworkin’s new originalism.
- I would apply the point to Keith’s own treatment of Dworkin as a new originalist (and a fortiori to his suggestion in the same article that moral realists like Michael Moore and Sotirios Barber are also new originalists).
- It is important to understand and to avoid some misconceptions that undergird or drive the originalist premise (which in turn underlie the view that we are all originalists now):
- In this outline, I merely label these misconceptions; at the conference, I shall consider whether and to what extent Keith’s reconstructed originalism embodies them. (In what follows, I use ≠ to mean is not the same as, or that a commitment to the thing on the left side does not entail a commitment to the thing on the right side.)
- Originalism ≠ original understanding
- Originalism ≠ fidelity in constitutional interpretation
- Originalism ≠ interpretation
- The written Constitution ≠ originalism
- The classical, interpretive justification of judicial review ≠ originalism
- The turn to history ≠ a turn to originalism
- Why do I hope that we are not all originalists now?
- Richard Posner, in “The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory,”confessed to a visceral dislike of “academic moralism,” a body of literature bringing normative moral and political theory to bear in legal analysis: “A lot of it strikes me as prissy, hermetic, censorious, naive, sanctimonious, self-congratulatory, [and] insipid.”
- I have more substantive, and less visceral, reasons for hoping that we are not now all originalists.
- Originalism, old and new, is at bottom authoritarian, an insult to the founders for their arrogance and an insult to us for our subservience. A regime of purportedly dispositive concrete original meanings is, at best, beside the point in constitutional interpretation and, at worst, an authoritarian regime that is unfit to rule a free and equal people. To add further insult, its proponents serve it up to us in the name of democracy!
- Originalism, old and new, makes a virtue of claiming to exile moral and political theory from the province of constitutional interpretation. That is neither possible nor desirable, nor is it appropriate in interpreting our Constitution, which establishes a scheme of abstract aspirational principles and ends, not a code of detailed rules.
- Originalism, old and new, misconceives fidelity in constitutional interpretation: ironically, in the name of interpretive fidelity, originalists would enshrine an imperfect constitution that does not deserve our fidelity. The moral reading, because it understands that the quest for fidelity in interpreting our imperfect Constitution exhorts us to interpret it so as to make it the best it can be, offers hope that the Constitution may deserve our fidelity, or at least may be able to earn it.
- Furthermore, much of the best work in constitutional theory today is not originalist in either an old or a new sense; indeed, much of it is what I have called “post-originalist.”
- I will mention a few examples, without by any means being exhaustive.
- Dworkin: moral reading of the Constitution
- Me: constitution-perfecting theory
- Barber and Moore: teleological, moral realist reading of the Constitution
- Sager: justice-seeking constitutional theory
- Eisgruber: constitutional self-government, with Supreme Court speaking on behalf of the people about questions of moral and political principle
- Dorf: democratic experimentalism
- Strauss: common law constitutionalism
- West: aspirational, progressive constitutionalism
- Rubenfeld: reading the Constitution as written
- What would a post-originalist world look like?
- Note that I said “post-originalist,” not “nonoriginalist.”
- In what follows, I draw upon my pieces “Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution” and “Original Meaning Without Originalism.”
- A post-originalist world would give due regard to original understanding in constitutional interpretation without being originalist.
- In a post-originalist world, we would understand that history is, can only be, and should only be a starting point in constitutional interpretation. It has a threshold role, which is often not dispositive.
- In the dimension of fit, history helps (or should help) screen out “off-the-wall” interpretations or purely utopian interpretations, but often does not lead conclusively to any interpretation, let alone the best interpretation.
- History usually provides a foothold for competing interpretations or competing theories.
- It alone cannot resolve the clash among these competing interpretations or competing theories.
- To resolve such a clash, we must move beyond the threshold dimension of fit to the dimension of justification.
- Reva Siegel’s work is post-originalist in the sense that she understands that history matters, not as it binds our choices - as it were, through “the law of the father” - but as it informs our choices, decisions for which we as a people are responsible.
- Similarly, Martin Flaherty has suggested that in a post-originalist world, we would take an “experiential” rather than authoritarian approach to the use of history in constitutional interpretation.
- In conclusion, a post-originalist world would look somewhat like the pre-originalist world - treating original understanding as one source of constitutional meaning among several, not the exclusive legitimate theory, and using history for what it teaches rather than for what it decides for us - although it would be far more sophisticated theoretically than that world was. |
Out of all the leading oil and gas plays in South America, the 8,000-pound elephant in the room hasn’t changed, said Pedro Zalán.
“The pre-salt play of the Santos and Campos basins (in Brazil) continues to be the world’s hottest spot in deepwater and ultra-deepwater exploration, yielding several new large discoveries of mostly light oil every three or four months,” he noted.
Zalán, an AAPG member, is consultant geologist with Zag Consultoria em Exploração de Petróleo in Rio de Janeiro and will serve as Brazil Session co-chair at AAPG’s International Conference and Exhibition in Cartagena, Colombia, in September.
He predicted even bigger news out of Brazil, soon.
“In October, the world will watch with astonishment the auction of a super-giant discovery, the Libra discovery, with recoverable volumes estimated at around 8-12 billion barrels with 26-42 billion barrels in-place. The bonus already established by the government is $7.5 billion,” he said.
The “great exploratory highlight in Brazil this year” has been the 11th Bidding Round carried out by Agência Nacional de Petróleo (ANP) in May, the country’s first exploration-area offering in five years, he said.
In all, “142 blocks were licensed out of 289 blocks offered. There were bids in all 11 sedimentary basins offered. A total of 30 different companies, 12 native and 18 foreign, won these blocks and will act as operators,” Zalán said.
“The total bonus paid by the companies for the blocks amounted to about $1.4 billion. The amount of investments offered by the winning companies in terms of seismic acquisition and drilling of wells added up to around $3.5 billion,” he noted.
In the bidding round, two areas emerged as important future exploration arenas, according to Zalán. Brazil’s equatorial Atlantic Margin encompasses five offshore sedimentary basins – from west to east: Foz do Amazonas, Pará-Maranhão, Barreirinhas, Ceará and Potiguar.
“The first received the highest bid ever offered in Brazil, $170 million for one block. The great appeal of this margin is the geological analogy with the offshore basins of the homologous margins of Ghana and Ivory Coast in Africa,” he said.
“Several deepwater discoveries in Cretaceous turbidites have been made in these African countries,” he added, “of which the Jubilee field is the greatest star, with recoverable volumes estimated at one billion barrels and already producing around 100,000 barrels/day.”
In nearby French Guyana, the ultra-deepwater Zaedyus discovery just 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the border with Brazil sparked intense competition for the blocks of the Foz do Amazonas Basin.
“In the deep and ultra-deep waters of the equatorial margin of Brazil, several leads constituted of shining bright – in seismic amplitudes – turbidites pinching out updip, seeming to replicate the histories of exploratory successes in the Ghanaian and French Guyanese basins,” Zalán observed.
Another emerging exploration area is the onshore Parnaíba Basin in northeast Brazil.
“This huge intracratonic, Paleozoic basin was totally disregarded by the companies until a few years ago. After a successful exploratory campaign, the Brazilian company OGX found four commercial discoveries of gas and put one of them, Gavião Real, into production,” Zalán said.
“In that area, all 20 blocks received offers in a fiercely disputed contest, since gas is nowadays a highly valued commodity in Brazil,” he explained.
Brazil isn’t the only hot exploration region in Latin America, and Zalán cited several other prospective areas to watch:
“Significant gas and condensate discoveries are being made in the Peruvian sub-Andean fold-and-thrust belts, the Ucayali Basin, in the central-eastern part of the country by Petrobras and Repsol, all adjacent to the giant Camisea gas and condensate complex,” he said.
“In the Neuquén Basin, the Vaca Muerta and Los Molles formation shale gas and shale oil potential are estimated in the order of 600 trillion cubic feet of gas and 20 billion barrels of technically recoverable shale resources,” he noted. “Tens of wells already have been drilled and tested with good results.”
“In an auction held last year, eight blocks situated mostly in deep waters were awarded to major companies such as BP, Total, BG and Tullow. Besides that, Petrobras, YPF and Petrogal were already established in other offshore blocks,” Zalán said.
♦ French Guyana.
“On the steps of the Zaedyus discovery a large increase in the exploratory activity is expected for this ultramarine department of France as well as for its neighbors,” he said.
Earlier this year, partners in the Zaedyus play decided to extend drilling operations after a confirmation attempt intersected a 165-foot gross section of oil-stained sands in the lower part of the Bradypus fan, which was not a target formation. Partners include Shell France, Tullow Oil PLC, Total SA and Northpet Investments.
The late-2011 Zaedyus discovery discovered 236 feet (72 meters) of net oil pay in two turbidite sand systems, comparable to the Jubilee field offshore Ghana.
“A great surge in production in recent years was not followed by significant discoveries,” Zalán said. “The reserve/production ratio is starting to be worrisome.
“However, there are several underexplored sedimentary basins in the country with great exploratory potential,” he added, “and several opportunities to be followed.”
The Lower Magdalena Valley, Catatumbo, Cesar-Rancheria and Cauca-Patia are areas with numerous indications of hydrocarbons and several poorly imaged, complex structures waiting to be defined by better seismic, he noted.
“The Amazonas Basin is a remote frontier whose geological similarity with the adjacent Brazilian Solimões Basin, the third largest hydrocarbon producing basin of Brazil, allows geologists to imagine the continuation of the gas/light oil trends into Colombia,” he said.
Unconventional resource development will take place in Latin America, although plenty of conventional plays remain to be explored, according to Zalán.
“The large Paleozoic and Proterozoic Brazilian onshore basins are in general under-explored for gas in conventional ways. The exception is the highly productive Solimões Basin,” he said.
“So, for most of the huge Brazilian onshore, intracratonic basins, the exploration for conventional resources will be the norm for several decades ahead. There are simply not sufficient wells drilled to pinpoint sweet spots for the source rocks,” he added.
But the situation is dramatically different in the Cretaceous marginal basins. Reconcavo, Potiguar and Sergipe-Alagoas are mature basins with conventional resources practically exhausted.
In these basins the only way for the companies to develop new significant reserves is to engage in the exploration of nonconventional resources, Zalán noted.
“These are the basins with the greatest potential and best infrastructure for the beginning of the exploitation of unconventional resources in Brazil,” he said. “And this may just happen by the end of this year when the ANP will hold its twelfth bidding round, specially geared toward gas in onshore basins.” |
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Nearly 40 years ago the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani wrote and directed “Allonsanfan,” starring Marcello Mastroianni as a revolutionary in the Napoleonic era. After its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival Mr. Mastroianni met with reporters, and when they asked him about the unusual experience of working with two directors on the same film, he feigned surprise. “Were they two?” he asked.
The Tavianis are now in their 80s, but at an age when most of their contemporaries have retired they continue making films, and in seamless unity. Their latest effort,“Caesar Must Die,” which opens on Wednesday, is one of their most artistically ambitious productions: a fictional feature with elements of a documentary and the theater, about the staging of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in a maximum-security prison in Rome.
“What kind of film is this?” Vittorio Taviani, 83, asked rhetorically during an interview last fall, when “Caesar Must Die” was shown at the New York Film Festival. “It’s a true film, a fiction film in which the reality of the prison is physically palpable.” Paolo Taviani, 81, completed the thought: “The energy of this film is born of pain, you see the walls and the bars before you, the authentic pain of the people living inside the prison.”
The Tavianis, who have written or directed 22 films together, are not the only pair of siblings making films together of course. In Europe there are also the Dardenne brothers of Belgium, while the United States has the Coens, the Wachowskis, the Farrellys and the Hugheses. But the Tavianis have been doing it longer than anyone else — since 1954 — and have developed a working method that minimizes friction by alternating the direction of individual scenes.
“The crew that knows us asks, ‘Who’s the first today?’ ” Paolo explained. “And while that person is at the helm the crew has to answer only to the director in charge at that moment. They can’t go ask Paolo something they want to do. When it’s finished, I come and look at the video.”
Vittorio continued: “The other is at the monitor, watching the video. We have a very acute nonverbal, telepathic communication. If the one at the monitor starts to scratch his head, the other understands. So we have a silent meeting, we correct it, and then we go off again.”
Writing scripts works in much the same fashion. They live within walking distance of each other in Rome, so they will often meet at a park and discuss whatever their current project happens to be while walking their dogs together and then go to one or the other’s house and get down to work, seated across from each other at a table.
For “Caesar Must Die” the brothers brought in a collaborator, Fabio Cavalli, to help distill and shape the Shakespearean text into a screenplay. In a bit of meta playfulness Mr. Cavalli, who directs a theater troupe at Rebibbia prison in Rome, was cast as the director of the play within the movie.
“The themes of guilt and friendship, betrayal and conspiracy are at the center of Shakespeare’s play, and also at the center of the life experience of the actors,” many of whom are serving terms for Mafia- or Camorra-related crimes, Mr. Cavalli said. “So many actors and directors had come to Rebibbia,” he continued, but until the Tavianis came along, “nobody understood that here was an opportunity to make a movie about this extraordinary environment so full of art, the hope of freedom, and consciousness.”
“Caesar Must Die” was born when a journalist friend of the Tavianis urged them to visit a performance by the Rebibbia troupe. They were reluctant at first. “We thought, oh, it’s going to be the same old thing,” Paolo said. But once they saw the prisoners performing Dante and Pirandello, they changed their minds.
“We immediately had this sense that this was a great idea come down to us from the heavens,” Vittorio said. “These compatriots of ours are tragic figures, really. They know crime and conspiracy, so let’s let them tell the tragedy of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, which is an Italian story, a Roman story that’s part of the collective imagination of the Italian people.”
The Tavianis have a long history of adapting works from the Western literary canon. Since releasing the semi-autobiographical “The Night of the Shooting Stars,” an international hit 30 years ago, they have twice made films drawing from Pirandello (“Kaos” and “You Laugh”) and Tolstoy (“Night Sun” and “Resurrection”) and also adapted Goethe’s“Elective Affinities” for the screen. In addition they made a mini-series for Italian television, “Luisa Sanfelice,” based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas.
“They are very literary sort of intellectuals, but not university-type intellectuals,” said Peter Bondanella, an emeritus professor at Indiana University and author of “Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present.” “They have this background that was typical of their time, but isn’t so common these days. They come not from film school but from a more intellectual direction, and I think that is because of their politics, that they saw film as a way of changing people’s minds.”
In several other respects, though, “Caesar Must Die” represents a conscious circling back by the Tavianis to their origins. “At a certain moment we said to ourselves, ‘Wouldn’t it make more sense to shoot with the same daring with which we shot our very first films?’ ” Paolo recalled. “This is also because we shot the film in 21 days, with very little money, just like when we were very young. So from the economic point of view we were returning to our earliest state.”
“It was exciting,” he continued. “There was no time or need to reflect on anything, this or that, to the producer. We were free. This really helped the film. No stars, and we shot digitally. It’s the first time we shot in digital, so that was a novelty for us.”
Early in “Caesar Must Die” there is a scene in which prisoners are auditioning for the play, and as they perform the camera moves in tight on their faces, which are full of expression and character. That fondness for magnifying the features of ordinary faces has long been a trademark of the Tavianis, who were inspired by Italian Neo-Realist films like Roberto Rossellini’s “Paisan.”
Carmelo Cantone, Rebibbia’s warden, said he had favored allowing the Tavianis to shoot there because he hoped their film would show how “living in this kind of space affects the prisoners.” Mr. Cantone, who is a bit of a cinephile, watched some of the scenes being filmed but said he was nevertheless startled when he saw the images on a screen.
“When Wim Wenders made his film about the last days of Nicholas Ray, he said that ‘through the camera lens I see things I could never see with my naked eye,’ ” Mr. Cantone recalled during a telephone interview from Italy. “Well, it was through the lens of the Tavianis that I came to understand the prisoners and what is going on around me. This is cinema of great pictorial value, a cinema of portraiture done in painterly style.”
Of the many Taviani films the one that shares the closest kinship to “Caesar Must Die,” they said, is “Padre Padrone,” a compelling tale of an illiterate Sardinian shepherd boy who transforms himself into a professor of linguistics, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1977. Both films mix professional and nonprofessional actors, use documentary techniques and share a similar sensibility, the brothers explained.
Encouraged by the critical and commercial success of “Caesar Must Die,” which won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival last year, the Tavianis plan to begin work on another film as soon as possible. “When our sense of amazement is exhausted, when we don’t feel those strong emotions anymore, then and only then will we stop,” Paolo said.
His brother concurred, adding: “We’re sure that another one will come along, just as we’re sure about death. I’m saying that in a beautiful realistic sense, considering our age.” |
Effect of nitrogen on the production of grasses in permanent pasture swards
Paru en 1977 dans Fourrages n°71 (page 71 à 82)
Auteurs : Daget-Bertoletti L.
Co-auteurs : Daget P.
Two series of covering measurements by the all the species of five permanent postures were carried out during five years. Nitrogen fertilizer dressings of 160 and 240 units were compared with a dressing of nil.
A variance analysis according to a factorial model showed that the application of nitrogen brings about a linear increase of the average contribution of the grosses, increases the effects of climatic hazard, and that this influence is variable from one trial to the other.
It is shown that, in detail, the larger contribution of grosses with higher rates of nitrogen is according to an increasing logistic law : from one posture to the other, the law is the same, end the observed differences correspond to different segments of the curve. Moreover the analysis shows that the minimal percentage for the contribution of grasses is 25 %. |
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This candle is of a full lion, the whole disk is made out of wax and when lit burns down the center and leaves two wings, thus these are known as angel wing candles. Boxed with stand.
It is often assumed that the lioness is the active hunter and that adult male lions are virtual parasites living off the females. This is certainly true in open area like the Serengeti. However, in the more wooded areas, a rather different situation to this sexist stereotype of the male lion occurs. In wooded areas male lions in fact acquire most of their food by killing it themselves and there is a separation in the prey killed by males and females. Males kill mainly buffalo, but also impala and warthog, whereas females concentrate on zebra and wildebeest. In wooded area, male lions do not associate with females as much as they do in open habitats.
Lions are Tawny in color, varying from silvery yellow to reddish brown with paler undersides (female belly yellowish to almost white); yellow to black mane. Faint, leopard like spots are generally found on the young which is sometimes kept into maturity.
Males have thick mane around the head that extend down the chest between the forelegs and varies in color from blond to black, whereas females do not have manes Lions have massive shoulders and strong forelimbs, long, sharp claws, and short, powerful jaws. A Lions' roar can be heard by humans more than 8 km away. Prides of lions are generally composed of related females, whilst a typical prides contains around 13 lions, large prides can contain as many as 40 lions, while some prides will have a few as two members. A prides home range varies in size from 20-400 km. Lions are mainly nocturnal and are reputed to sleep or rest for about 20 hours a day. You will often find them lying under a shady bush, particularly after they've fed following a kill.
Lions are unique in that they are the only cats to live in groups (prides). They are the largest member of the cat family and the largest of all the African carnivores. They are the top predator in any African ecosystem where they live. |
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I wrote that without thinking. I HAVE seen Buck used as a nickname for the name Buckner. Buckner was a family name in one branch of my family from SC. The daughters married and used their maiden name as a first name for their sons. I suppose that would apply to any last name used as a first name which began with the letters buc or buck. |
Alden Research Laboratory, Inc. (Alden) of Holden, MA, has acquired AECOM’s hydraulic engineering and modeling laboratory in Redmond, WA, and has hired the associated staff. Combining the modeling talents and fisheries knowledge of Alden staff with the 34 years of hydraulic modeling and fisheries engineering experience of the AECOM hydraulic engineering and modeling operation, Alden has created the largest commercial hydraulic engineering laboratory system in North America.
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- 03-24-2012, 01:13 AM #1
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What is a "white Hispanic" that killed the black boy?
Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager
By Jeff Mason and Daniel Trotta
WASHINGTON/SANFORD, Florida | Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:03pm EDT
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama weighed into the controversial killing of a black teenager in Florida in very personal terms on Friday, comparing the boy to a son he doesn't have and calling for American "soul searching" over how the incident occurred.
Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, dressed in a "hoodie" sweatshirt, was shot dead a month ago in Sanford, Florida by a 28-year-old white Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer who said he was acting in self-defense.
"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Obama said in his first comments about the shooting, acknowledging the racial element in the case.
"Obviously, this is a tragedy," Obama told reporters. "I can only imagine what these parents are going through. And when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids."
The case has rippled across the nation and prompted rallies protesting the failure of the police to arrest the shooter, George Zimmerman, and, more broadly, a pattern of racial discrimination black leaders cite in Sanford and elsewhere in the country.
Obama, the first black U.S. president, made his remarks at a White House event to announce his pick to lead the World Bank, waiting briefly after the announcement to take a reporter's question about the incident.
Martin's parents thanked the president for his words.
"The president's personal comments touched us deeply and made us wonder: If his son looked like Trayvon and wore a hoodie, would he be suspicious too?," they said in a statement.
Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law allows people to use deadly force in self-defense.
Similar laws are in effect in at least 24 states including Florida, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Calls are mounting to repeal them. Earlier this week, a Florida state senator said he was drafting new legislation to drastically change the law in Florida.
A South Carolina state representative said on Friday he had introduced a bill to repeal his state's law. Bakari Sellers, a black Democrat and gun owner, said he wanted to prevent an incident like the Trayvon Martin shooting happening in his state.
"I'm six-five and a black guy," he said. "I just know that it could have been me."
Obama said the "Stand Your Ground" laws should be studied.
"I think all of us have to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen. And that means that examine the laws and the context for what happened, as well as the specifics of the incident," he said.
"Every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this, and that everybody pulls together -- federal, state and local -- to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened."
Obama, the son of a white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya, is often hesitant to reflect on race, a sensitive topic in the United States, which still grapples with a legacy of slavery, segregation and discrimination.
Early in his White House tenure, Obama inflamed another racially tinged incident after that declaring police had "acted stupidly" when arresting a well-known black documentary filmmaker, Henry Louis Gates, after an altercation at his home.
He later invited Gates and the white police officer, Sergeant James Crowley, to the White House, where the men shared a drink in what became known as Obama's "beer summit."
In Sanford, Norton Bonaparte Jr., the city's manager, acknowledged that tensions between the black community and police "go back many, many years." "The trust that existed is gone, so we have to start from ground zero," he said. Sanford's police chief and a Florida state prosecutor overseeing the case stepped aside on Thursday as criticism grew over the police handling of the investigation.
The U.S. Justice Department is also investigating. Senior officials from the department met with the Martin family in Florida on Thursday, along with their lawyer. A Justice Department spokeswoman said early in the week that they must collect evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was intent to violate civil rights laws.
A Florida college announced it had suspended Zimmerman's enrollment.
Zimmerman was working toward an associates degree in arts at Seminole State College in Sanford. He previously earned a vocational certificate in an insurance field, the school said. "Due to the highly charged and high-profile controversy involving this student, Seminole State has taken the unusual but necessary step this week to withdraw Mr. Zimmerman from enrollment," a statement dated Thursday said.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the frontrunner in the Republican race to be nominated to face Obama in the November 6 presidential election, added his voice to the issue as well.
"What happened to Trayvon Martin is a tragedy. There needs to be a thorough investigation that reassures the public that justice is carried out with impartiality and integrity," Romney said.
(additional reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, Steve Holland, Deborah Charles, Samson Reiny, Kevin Gray, Harriet McLeod and Colleen Jenkins; editing by Mary Milliken and David Brunnstrom)
Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager | Reuters
How can a college throw someone out that has not yet even been charged with, much less convicted of a crime? Another University out to punish someone over left wing reactionary politics? I mean sure, if a court finds this guy was guilty of a crime then fine throw him out of school, but throw him out of school over politics?
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- 03-24-2012, 02:03 AM #2
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What I don't understand is why this guy felt the need to pursue the teenager. If he for some reason thought he was suspicious, he should have left it in the hands of the police. If he believed the police were not going to do anything about it, then tough luck, move on, but don't go confronting the person. It seems to me the Stanford police did not do a thorough investigation at the time of the incident. They just took his word for it that it was self defense, possibly because the victim was black, and didn't bother to do more. This police department has been shrouded in controversy before so this is nothing new and it took this unfortunate incident to bring attention to the corrupt Stanford police.
- 03-24-2012, 02:19 AM #3
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I want to know why they are trying to make the shooter out to be white when he is not. This was a Hispanic and black encounter, not a white and black encounter.
- 03-24-2012, 02:22 AM #4
'Hispanic' is an ethnicity, not to be confused with a 'race.' On their birth certificates in the U.S., all Hispanics race are listed as 'White.'
Obama is feeding the fortunes of Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton and feeding the fires of racial hatred from the highest public elected office in the United States government.
Anybody surprised he would do this? Desperate powerful men do desperately powerful things, especially to either get or stay in power.U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: GUARANTEES AMERICA FROM INVASION!
- 03-24-2012, 08:49 AM #5
I don't know what happened that night, I wasn't there. We don't have all the facts either, only what the media has chosen for us to know. All I see is a national lynching where the shooter has been tried and convicted by media blurbs. He may very well be guilty, as I said, I do not know, but until he has a trial, I thought in this country we were innocent until proven guilty, not simply guilty because public opinion of the barely informed decreed it to be so.Proud American and wife of a wonderful LEGAL immigrant from Ireland.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." -Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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The fact that Obama commented at all about this shows his true intentions of bringing racial division into the elections this time too! The Police told Zimmerman to "stand down" and he instead followed this kid until the kid felt threatened and confronted Zimmerman!
Obama will order one of his liberal judges to drop any action against Zimmerman and that will be the beginning of the end!
Sharpton is already making it a white on black hate crime scenario!
- 03-24-2012, 09:39 AM #7
There are Hispanic whites (from their Spanish ancestors) and non-Hispanic whites (no ancestors from Spain). Zimmerman was the former but I don't see any of the left wing blogs mentioning that. Just goes to show the biasness of the left.
- 03-24-2012, 09:54 AM #8
Creating racial divide is what he does bestThe price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato
- 03-24-2012, 10:38 AM #9
Florida race shooting suspect has Hispanic heritage
The crime watch volunteer accused of shooting an unarmed black teenager to death in this Florida town has a name suggesting that he could be of German ancestry. The truth is more complicated.
George Zimmerman, 28, allegedly shot and killed 17 year-old Trayvon Martin in a gated neighborhood of Sanford, Florida on February 26.
Zimmerman is widely described as a white man, but the one-time Catholic altar boy "is Hispanic and grew up in a multiracial family," his father said in a letter to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.
"He would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever," 64 year-old Robert Zimmerman wrote. "The media portrayal of George as a racist could not be further from the truth."
George Zimmerman claimed that he acted in self-defense after a confrontation with the teenager. He has been neither detained nor charged with any crime.
At The Retreat at Twin Lakes, the gated community where Martin was shot dead, few people seemed to know anything about the Zimmermans. Neighbors interviewed by AFP were unable to physically identify George Zimmerman.
"I know the mother is not Puerto Rican or Mexican, but she is Hispanic," a community resident told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The suspect's mother, Gladys Zimmerman, was a court interpreter in Virginia and is of Peruvian origin, the Washington Post reported Friday, cited a former colleague.
Former neighbors in northern Virginia, where the suspect grew up, described the family of three children as being devout Catholics, according to the Post.
Following police advice George Zimmerman has not talked publicly about the incident, father said.
Court records uncovered by US media show that Zimmerman was accused of domestic violence in 2002 and 2006, but in both cases he claimed that his girlfriends at the time attacked him.
On Friday Seminole State College, where Zimmerman has been taking classes since 2003, announced that it took "the unusual but necessary step ... to withdraw Mr. Zimmerman from enrollment" due to "the highly charged and high-profile controversy," the college said in statement.
"This decision is based solely on our responsibility to provide for the safety of our students on campus as well as for Mr. Zimmerman," Seminole State said.
The Zimmermans have moved out of the gated community, at least temporarily, due to death threats, Robert Zimmerman said.
What happened that night was "tragic... and very sad for all concerned," Robert Zimmerman wrote. "The Martin family, our family and the entire community have been forever changed."
The victim, Trayvon Martin, was in his last year of high school in Miami, 400 kilometers south of Sanford, where he lived with his mother. The teen was in the gated Sanford community visiting his father the night of the fatal shooting.
"At no time did George follow or confront Mr. Martin. When the true details of the event became public, and I hope that will be soon," the letter said, "everyone should be outraged by the treatment of George Zimmerman in the media."
The media crush in the gated community was such that neighbors hired a uniformed security guard to control access.
"Honestly, the truth is that I never saw him. I even don't know who he is," said Angel Hicks, 40, a community resident and Sanford public school teacher.
"This was an isolated case, very sad but isolated, we live very quiet here," she said.
According to Hicks, who is black, half of the community residents are white and the rest are African-American, Latino and Asian. "I've never felt racial issues here," she told AFP, "but I think in the case of Trayvon Martin the racial factor played a role."
As she spoke Hicks placed a teddy bear in a makeshift altar at the community entrance in the victim's memory.
- 03-24-2012, 11:44 AM #10
The president could have had a great teaching moment but once again missed the boat,he should have stated simply, I feel bad for the family of this American child and I certainly want a full investigation into the shooting, but once again making it a racial issue can bring about more problems with riots and/or more revenge shootings.
I cannot judge since I wasn't there however crime is crime doesn't matter about race gender or other reasons, overall our justice system is failing because of liberal bias. We have enormous problem in our country, jobs, poor economy, decline in morals. values, education, etc. Clearly a strong leader is needed who can at the very least start some type of healing process.
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At the beginning of 2013, more than 45 million people had been forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of armed conflict, violence and human rights violations, and the number is rising every day.
In the October issue of the Al Jazeera digital magazine, we tell some of their stories - from the Rohingya babies born stateless in IDP camps in Myanmar to the Afghans risking their lives to reach European cities where they encounter dangers and difficulties as real as those they fled.
We explore the power of the Right of Return to unite generations of Palestinians, whether they reside in refugee camps in the Middle East or comfortable homes in the West. While, in Lebanon, we meet Palestinians who have once again been forced to flee - this time from the conflict in Syria.
We examine traditional cultures - from the Bedouin of the West Bank to the Dongria Kondh tribe in India - facing the threat of extinction as their relationship with the land that sustains them is pushed to its limits by forces beyond their control, whether multinational mining companies or politicians with little regard for their way of life.
And, as environmental disasters, climate change and unsustainable development destroy ever more homes and livelihoods, we ask if it is time to reconsider the definition of a refugee.
Featured in this edition:
Because we are not children of a lesser god - Novelist Susan Abulhawa examines the Right of Return, words around which a nation's dignity and a people's narrative is wrapped and woven
The day the bulldozers came - Residents of two slum communities in Lagos, Nigeria remember the day 9,000 of them were rendered homeless, as they contemplate starting over, again, in a city of refugees
A 21st century crisis - From Japan's nuclear ghost towns to Indonesia's sinking city; from the last nomads of the Tibetan Plateau to the millions displaced by Pakistan's yearly cycle of flooding, how will environmental crises and climate change influence patterns of migration both within nations and across borders?
The cobbler, the landmine victim, the date seller and the post-9/11 refugee - According to the UNHCR, on average, one out of every four refugees in the world is from Afghanistan. We meet four in Pakistan, a country that has consistently topped the list of refugee host nations for the past 32 years
Solidarity: The other side of the river - Congolese families who were once refugees in the Central African Republic are now opening their homes to their former hosts as they flee conflict on the other side of the river
The camel boys - For the Bedouins of the West Bank, the clock is ticking on a traditional way of life seemingly under attack from all directions
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There is a preconceived notion that Arab culture is nothing but a conservative and closed one where censorship is rampant and freedoms of speech and expression are curtailed, especially in regards to sex. However, examining Arab cinema reveals that the topic of sex and sexuality are prevalent. Arab filmmakers are often defiant of social and legal obstacles and thoroughly explore a plethora of sexual taboo even though Arab society does not usually allow itself to discuss these issues openly in real life. On the other hand, Arab filmmakers, especially male filmmakers, like their western counterparts, are also guilty of catering to the male gaze and of making the woman the object of sexual desire. The lecture will give an overview of sexual personae in Arab cinema from the industry's development to the present.
Louay Khraish was born, raised and received his primary education in his native Lebanon. He earned his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of North Texas and his master's in Media Studies from the New School in New York. He is currently writing a novel and working toward his Ph.D. in Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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"In a voice mellifluous as a gentle shower of honey, without faltering, without throwing in filler words, very gracefully, the goose made a highly learned presentation. [...] She also demonstrated her proficiency in poetry, dramaturgy, poetics, music, and erotic science."
The goose Sucimukhi was taught by Saraswati, Goddess of Learning and Speech, and given the title "Mother of Similes and Hyperbole." In this gorgeous, witty, sensual fifteenth-century novel from south India, she helps resolve a war in Heaven by match-making between Pradyumna, Krishna's son, and Prabhavati, the daughter of a demon king.
If you skim the genealogies at the very beginning, you don't need to already have a background in Indian myth and religion to appreciate this short novel, which can be enjoyed on many levels: as a love story told in luscious, Song of Solomon-like metaphors; as a love story punctuated by metafictional commentary and sly parodies of the overblown conventions of love stories; as myth; as a small taste of a literary culture that I suspect most of you haven't encountered before. (I mean fifteenth century Telegu literature, not Indian literature in general.)
Unlike a lot of literature which was clearly hot at the time but not to modern readers' erotic tastes... this is still hot. At least, I thought so. There are many more explicit passages, but I was particularly taken with this one, in which Prabhvati's girlfriend helps her arrange her hair for her first meeting with her beloved, and breaks into spontaneous poetry:
If you let your hair down, you look beautiful.
When you let it hang halfway, you look beautiful, too.
If it gets tangled, you're beautiful in a different way.
If you comb it down, even more so.
You can braid it, roll it into a bun, or better still
tie it into a knot on the side.
You're beautiful with that hair every which way.
It's long, black, and so thick
you can't hold it in one hand.
No matter how you wear it,
you'll trap your husband with your hair. |
Over 250 old photographs, many published for the first time, appear in this new collection covering the districts of Roath, Splott and Adamsdown. This area, along with Penylan, Tremorfa and part of Cathays, once had a collective unity as the ecclesiastical parish of Roath created in the late sixteenth century. Roath as an historical entity is much older, however. Reputed to be pre-Norman in origin, in its time it has served as a manor, parish and village as well as a latter-day Cardiff suburb. Although earlier centuries are not neglected, particular focus is given to the period 1890 to 1950, which saw the emergence and maturity of these communities so familiar to present-day Cardiffians. Scenes of streetlife, work, worship and leisure are captured in a wide variety of often striking and atmospheric images. These are amplified by the fascinating historical detail in the captions providing the reader with a vivid appreciation of the richly significant past of this part of Cardiff. |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s A THOUSAND DAYS: John F. Kennedy in the White House
has a very special meaning for me. In 1960, I was in the crowd on 39th St. and Broadway, in
The Garment Center in New York City, when Kennedy, his voice hoarse from relentless campaigning, addressed the crowd about his vision of a new America and a new generation taking charge.
As an important member of the Kennedy circle, a man who had Kennedy's ear, Schlesinger draws an unforgettable portrait of the man who captured the imagination and the hopes of people, not just in America, but all over the world. Standing in that crowd on 39th St., it was easy for me to believe that this man, seasoned by his experiences in World War II, his vision shaped by a knowledge of history and America's place in it, would not be beholden to the customs and beliefs of the leaders born in earlier generations.
Schlesinger makes this point emphatically. Kennedy was born later then Adlai Stevenson and later then Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy really believed, and communicated this belief eloquently, that men and women of his generation could really make a difference. Schlesinger's focus in A THOUSAND DAYS is the Kennedy Administration's role in foreign affairs. Even with that focus, what emerges is Kennedy's refreshing escape from the conventions of previous politicians. Kennedy's choice of Douglas Dillon as Secretary of the Treasury, was a choice that Schlesinger himself originally opposed. Kennedy chose Dillon because he thought he was the best man for the job, not because of his particular political persuasion. Shlesinger remarks that Nixon might have made Dillon his appointment had he won the election.
Kennedy's confrontations with Khrushchev, The Cuban Missile Crisis, the South American venture, the Alliance for Progress are presented clearly and convincingly.
We will never know what direction this country, or the world would have taken, had John Kennedy been granted another term in office. Surely, he would have learned from his mistakes, which Schlesinger reveals. The Kennedy imagination, intellect, and belief that his administration could really do something to make the world a better place will live with all of us as long as we live.
Another important record of this moment in history is David Halberstam's THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST, available in a Fawcett Columbine paperback edition.
George Davidson, Director of Production, The Ballantine Publishing Group
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Question: Next year the 1940 U.S. Census will be available. I heard that it has a question regarding former residence? Can you elaborate on that question and tell me the other questions asked.
Answer: On April 2, 2012 the U.S. Federal Census of 1940 will be released. This census does contain a question about the individuals previous residence in 1935.
Question #17 – Residence on April 1, 1935: APRIL 1, 1935: City, town, or village having 2,500 or more inhabitants. Enter "R" for all other places.
To see the other fifty questions from the 1940 U.S. Census go online to the following online source I have as a bookmark on my own browser: http://www.1930census.com/1940_census_questions.php |
The Monuments Men
The Monuments Men were a group of men and women, most of whom volunteerd for sercvice in the [then] newly created Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section (MFAA).
Most had expertise as museum directors, curators, art scholars and educators, artists, architects and archivists. Their new job descirption during WWII: save as much of European Culture as possible.
The story of the MFAA and its experts was portrayed by Robert M. Edsel (born 1956), an American writer and businessman, in his book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greaters Treasure Hunt in History
(Spetember 2009). Since 2013 George Clooney is directing and starring in the film Monuments Men
based on Edsel's book.
In 2007, Edsel created the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art. The foundation's mission is "to preserve the legacy of the unprecendented and heroic work of the men and women who served in the [MFAA section], known as "Monuments Men" during World War II, by raising public awareness of the importance of protecting and safeguarding civilization's most important artistic and cultural treasures from armed conflict, but incorporating these expressions of man's greatest creative achievements into our daily lives".
Since the end of WWII the armies of the formier Allied Forces dropped this program but its legacy found its way in international humanitarian law.
The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was drafted against the backdrop of World War II and- without explicit reference to but obviously also with the personnel of the MFAA in mind- provides for expert personnel in armed forces.
Art. 7.2.: The High Contracting Parties undertake to plan or establish in peace-time, within their armed forces, services or specialist personnel whose prurpose will be to secure respect for cultural property and to co-operate with the civilian authoroties responsible for safeguarding it.
Nevertheless, until most recent years hardly any armed force inthe world had established such services or specialist personnel besides Austria, Switzerland and very few others. This is currently changing and the principle of military cultural property protection is dicussed world wide. A crucial element in implementing the provisions of the Hague Convention and its two Protocols is the UNESCO-affiliated NGO-network of the Blue Shield. |
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"The Bell Deep" is number 124 in the Hans Christian Andersen Center's register of Andersen's literary works, i.e. no. 124 in the category fairy tale (the range 1 - 300). BFN 761.
"The Bell Deep" was first published December 1856, cf. the bibliographic description (in Danish) in : Digterens danske Værker 1822-1875, number in bibliography: 761:
Trykt i Folkekalender for Danmark. 1857. 6. Aargang, 110-113. Med 2 Illustrationer. (Saml. Skr. XIV, 217).
(Bibliografisk kilde: HCAH 1970/325)
Show this work in its context: all new Andersen publications from 1856.
The work was published later (15 May 1858) as a part of Nye Eventyr og Historier. Første Række. Anden Samling. 1858 [Danish title]. (Number 322. BFN 774. Category/genre: Fairy tale collection).
The work was published later (12 December 1867) as a part of Femten Eventyr og Historier. 1867 [Danish title]. (Number 331. BFN 939. Category/genre: Fairy tale collection).
The work was published later (10 December 1870) as a part of Eventyr og Historier. Tredie Bind. 1870 [Danish title]. (Number 333. BFN 1007. Category/genre: Fairy tale collection).
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For mural lovers and mural artists, Ann Arbor is the place to be
Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com
The Ann Arbor Public Art Commission has a perception problem, says Jeff Meyers, who has been a commissioner since February: For all the taxpayer money the commission has spent and will spend, Ann Arbor has nothing to show for it.
The new Municipal Center and the $850,000 work of art the commission bought for it won't appear until Spring 2011 and the choice of German artist Herbert Dreiseitl didn't go over well locally. A commission that set out to "do one project and do it well" with the expensive Municipal Center project still has yet to place its first work.
The new works will be continuing an already-established mural tradition in Ann Arbor, which boasts several well-known murals around town, including the author mural featuring Woody Allen on East Liberty Street, a wall of gigantic ants on Maynard Street and the colorful mural in the alley off Liberty Street near the Michigan Theater.
Murals, Meyers said, are everything that Municipal Center-type projects aren't—they're small, they're affordable, and they can be completed quickly. To contrast, three years will have passed between planning and execution by the time the Municipal Center work is unveiled in May or June 2011 (the city isn't sure which).
"Spending-wise, this is a very modest program, but it could be an impactful one. We want to bring a number of different stakeholders together — us, the DDA, the school system, the library system," Meyers said. "I think this could be a real turnkey for us, going forward, as far as working with other groups."
While the initial effort will focus on city-owned buildings, the commission might be able to place murals on private property if it gets an easement with the property owners.
"How much of what you see when you leave the house is actually engaging you, without trying to sell you something?" Meyers asked, noting that his children, like a good many Ann Arborites, use local murals as landmarks. "We hope to get a whole lot more of that going on in Ann Arbor."
Several new murals have been added to the city's public art stock in recent months. They include a mural painted In late August by Detroit-based graffiti artist Antonio “Shades” on the back wall of the Grizzly Peak brewpub on West Washington Street, a mural on West Liberty Street near the Alley Bar honoring local veterans and, on North Campus, a mural by New York artist Roberto Juarez titled “The Order of the Spheres” on the U-M Aerospace Engineering Department’s wind tunnel dome.
A big chance for a local artist
A new mural on the wall of Lucky Kitchen Chinese restaurant on East University Avenue is an example of the kind of project Meyers hopes to promote. That mural, funded by the South University Area Association with a grant from the DDA represented a big boost for local artist Katie Halton.
When Halton lost her office job at the Ann Arbor News, she and her husband Al saw a rare opportunity.
"The first thing Al told me was that I wasn't going to be sitting on my butt, watching television," Halton recalled. If she ever wanted to support herself as an artist and ditch the desk jobs, her layoff from the workforce would be as good a chance as any, Al said, and that Katie had better take advantage of it.
That she did. Al's speech came right before the Ann Arbor Art Fairs, where Halton was appearing as an "emerging artist" at the South University fair.
"I had to churn out like 50 paintings in a little bit of time, so I was working constantly," Halton said, calling the effort a turning point because it got her in the habit of producing art all the time, as professionals do.
Halton followed up her showing in the art fair with some recent successes, appearing for a second time at the Emerging Artist booth and winning an award and selling her biggest piece yet at the U-M Art & Design School alumni show in July.
Then the phone rang with Halton's biggest opportunity yet: A mural on the 50-by 20-foot wall of Lucky Kitchen, a Chinese restaurant on East University Avenue, and more or less free rein to design it. Maggie Ladd, executive director of the South University Area Association, had a small grant from the Downtown Development Authority to place a mural in the South University area and thought of Halton immediately, even though she'd never done a mural before.
"I had seen a lot of Katie's works, so I knew about her vision and her talent. I had no doubt she would learn what she needed to learn to be able to transfer her work to a bigger setting," Ladd said.
After some conferencing about which design to choose, Halton, Ladd and Lucky Kitchen settled on a cityscape theme featuring a colorful daytime look on the west side, near East University, which turns to nighttime as you look east toward Church Street.
Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com
"There is no template on how to 'make it' as an artist", Halton said. Nor is there a common definition of what 'making it' even means. "Now that I've done this one I'd love to do more mural work in the future, for sure."
She'll probably get another chance in the spring, when the association uses the last of the DDA grant money to place a second mural. Ladd is eying the west wall of China Gate restaurant, facing Church Street, but would need permission from the building's owners to move forward.
If and when that happens, Ladd said she plans to tap Halton again.
"Katie had a design for a giant squid that I really thought was cool," Ladd said. "Or, given our proximity to the (University of Michigan) Exhibit Museum (of Natural History), maybe a dinosaur would tie the area together a bit."
As for how long the murals would stay up, Ladd said "I hope they stay up forever."
James David Dickson can be reached at JamesDickson@AnnArbor.com. |
This Fall I took a Genetic Epidemiology class taught by Prof. Roxana Moslehi. We covered a lot of various topics ( linkage analysis, genetic counseling, genome-wide studies, microarrays,etc) in a quite a short period if time. One of the most fascinating was watching a film about DNA discovery, how genetic research was banned at MIT, the dialog about ethics, legal and biotechnology perspectives between scientists and society which still continues nowadays. The giant leaps that have been done in the past 30 years with Human Genome project and numerous genetic test, public awareness, specialized web resources, one of them that I found useful is Huge Navigator to search cancer, stroke, Crohn`s disease and other disease with genetic association, track the evolution in human genome epidemiology as well as find investigators in a particular field of human genome epidemiology.
It seems to me that some of us still do not realize that genomics and personalized medicine already has an enormous impact on public health by providing a better understanding of diseases pathogenesis, accurate assessment of disease susceptibility and prediction of drug response. For example, screening of newborns for elevated phenylalanine to identify the affected babies to prescribe diet in order to prevent mental retardation; prevention of adverse and costly drug reactions by pharmacogenomics approach. |
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By E.M. Forster
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Forster's social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.
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- ISBN-10: 0141182644
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- Publish date: 2000-02-24
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From the CEO
As I write this column, Memorial Day festivities dominate our headquarters city of Washington, D.C., where hundreds of thousands of Americans come to pay tribute to those killed in U.S. wars. This year's commemoration occurred in the context of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the consistent documentation of manifold mental health needs of returning service members, veterans and their families. This context led me to reflect on the role of APA in addressing those needs. As you may know, large numbers of psychologists are employed in either the Military Health System or in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health-care system.
APA has a long history of support for our military personnel, which includes activities of Div. 19 (Society for Military Psychology). Among our most recent achievements is the establishment of the Center for Deployment Psychology through collaboration between the Department of Defense and Congress (see "Center for Deployment Psychology opens"). This effort was developed in large measure with the vision and leadership of our Education Directorate. The center, which is housed at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., offers training to military and civilian behavioral health professionals to better serve military personnel and their families. APA has also been actively engaged in federal advocacy for Defense Department appropriations and legislation for a variety of purposes, including increased services and additional funding to establish a solid infrastructure for research. We have also sponsored congressional briefings to educate policy-makers about the mental health needs of our service members and their families, and the contributions of our military psychologists toward addressing them; and we have been actively involved in coalition efforts that similarly support Defense Department programs and funding.
APA also has a long history of partnership with our VA psychologists through Div. 18 (Psychologists in Public Service) and the Association of VA Psychology Leaders, with the celebration of our 10th annual VA Psychology Leadership Conference in May (see "VA psychology conference celebrates 10 years"). APA has worked closely with federal policy-makers to share psychological research and clinical knowledge regarding the mental and behavioral health needs of U.S. veterans. These include a focus on the needs of older adults, individuals with disabilities (including traumatic brain injury), ethnic minorities, women, children, youth and those who have experienced trauma and abuse. As with the Defense Department, these efforts have included drafting and reviewing legislative proposals, sponsoring congressional briefings, and meeting with congressional offices and other stakeholder organizations and coalitions in support of increased funding for VA services, training and research.
This year, APA issued a report prepared by our APA Presidential Task Force on Military Deployment Services for Youth, Families and Service Members. The report highlighted the mental health needs of military personnel and their families related to deployment, programs that assist them, and barriers to overcome that will improve access to care. We are establishing a follow-up task force to review these preliminary findings and to develop a long-term plan of action for the association regarding mental health services for military personnel and their families. We are collaborating with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs in seeking official liaisons from these agencies to serve on the task force to help ensure that our efforts benefit our military personnel, veterans and their families.
Through our media relations program and the APA Web site, we have been able to provide consumer-friendly information on topics of concern to military families, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), children's reactions to having their parents deployed and readjustment to home life for returning personnel. Our convention this year will include a number of sessions designed to help practitioners understand the special needs of military personnel and their families, including sessions on assessing and treating deployment stress, deployment-related PTSD and traumatic brain injury.
Finally, for psychologists interested in serving this population, numerous opportunities exist, ranging from being trained as a volunteer, to embarking upon a career in the military or the VA, to becoming a TRICARE provider. In case you are not aware, TRICARE is the Department of Defense health-care program for active duty, activated guard and reserve, and retired members of the uniformed services, their families and survivors. TRICARE brings together the health-care resources of the Army, Navy and Air Force and supplements them with networks of civilian health-care professionals (including psychologists) to provide better access to high-quality service.
In closing, I would like to commend our VA and military psychologists for their dedication and outstanding contributions to meeting the mental health needs of our veterans, and of our service members and their families, respectively.
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Indirect thermosiphoning — the natural process of convection — circulates the heat-transfer fluid inside passive Solaraide solar thermal systems. The process allowed Rheem to engineer the domestic hot water appliance without pumps or controllers. A home system combines a 47- or 80-gallon storage tank with one or two collector panels. The panels are made for Rheem by its Australian subsidiary, Solahart, they circulate a freeze-proof heat transfer fluid to absorb and deliver heat energy, even on cold and overcast days. The fluid circulates in a closed loop environment to further protect against freezing and allows the system to be used year-round, even in cold-weather locales.
How the System Works
The heat-transfer fluid, a propylene glycol solution, circulates through 35 multi-flow risers in the solar collector, absorbing the sun's heat. Typically installed on a rooftop, the collector is coated with a black polyester powder coat paint to maximize heat absorption.
The heated fluid moves to an attached storage tank, which is encased in highly durable jacket constructed of marine-grade aluminum. The tank sits above the collector to facilitate the thermosiphoning process that keeps fluid circulating.
Heat is transferred quickly and efficiently to potable water inside the tank. Pressure-injected polyurethane foam insulation keeps the water in the tank warm. To resist corrosion and prolong tank life, the tank is lined with vitreous enamel and equipped with a magnesium alloy anode rod.
An option on the water heater is an immersed copper sheath backup electric element, which automatically activates to meet hot-water demand 24/7. The element is designed to kick in to meet demand at night or on heavily overcast days.
The water heaters have been tested and certified for durability, performance, and efficiency by the Solar Rating and Certification Corp. (SRCC).
The 47-gallon model received a Solar Energy Factor (SEF) of 1.3. The 80-gallon model was rated at 1.5 SEF. These numbers represent the energy delivered by the system, divided by the electrical or gas energy put into the system.
"We are definitely witnessing a fast-growing and substantial interest in solar water heating," says Jeff Mahoney, Rheem alternative energy market manager. "(U.S.) Federal tax credits included in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, along with state and local utility incentives, are slowly but surely bringing the consumer back to this market, and builders and contractors are taking note as well."
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Published — Friday 14 June 2013
Last update 14 June 2013 6:02 am
The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has announced that it will block WhatsApp before Ramadan if the US-based instant free-messaging application does not comply with the requirements set by the Kingdom’s telecom regulator.
Arab News’ sister publication Al-Eqtisadiah had reported earlier that representatives of WhatsApp have refused to accept the regulatory conditions issued by the CITC.
“We have been communicating with WhatsApp and other similar communication platforms to get them to cooperate and comply with the Saudi telecom providers, however nothing has come of this communication yet,” Abdullah Al-Darrab, governor of the CITC, told Arab News in a telephone interview.
Al-Dabban added that Viber was blocked last week for its noncompliance, while WhatsApp and Skype are next on the list, warning: “We will take punitive action against these applications and services if they do not comply with the regulations.”
Asked when WhatsApp services would be blocked, the CITC chief replied: “It is highly likely before Ramadan.”
Al-Darrab said the CITC has requested communication platforms that provide services via the Internet to establish a local server to enable the Kingdom’s telecom regulator to monitor user activity.
“We gave them a week to comply and have been communicating with them since March to no avail. Therefore, this has left us with no choice but to block these services, beginning with Viber,” he said.
Founder and CEO of Viber, Talmon Marco, has reportedly said that Viber is currently working on overcoming the block.
Nonetheless, residents in the Kingdom have said that news of blocking Viber and threats to sever other applications are unacceptable and threaten the Kingdom’s advancement in global technology and modernization.
“I understand that they want to be able to monitor all types of communications, but the CITC must realize that they can’t just cut Saudi residents off from the rest of the world by blocking new services,” Nourah Farida, a Saudi businesswoman, told Arab News. “This is because Viber, Skype and WhatsApp are used for personal and business communication.”
Farida concluded that she usually conducts weekly coanference calls via Skype with colleagues in the UAE and other countries and that blocking these services is expected to incur heavy costs on local businesses.
“How are we supposed to communicate globally, are we expected to go back to using text messages and e-mails?” she asked.
In 2010, the CITC threatened to ban BlackBerry’s instant messaging service, requesting that a local server be established to monitor activity. Eventually, the ban was lifted after BlackBerry’s creator, Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM), complied with the regulatory requirements. |
Micronized Azomite is ground into a fine powder and can be dissolved in water for application. Use dry when transplanting seedlings, shrubs, trees and specific dosage rates are needed in the planting holes.
Azomite is a unique fertilizer that is mined from ancient volcanic deposits. Micronized Azomite is an ultra-fine, odorless powder that contains more than 67 trace mineral elements and the essential micro-minerals needed by plants and animals. Azomite includes a wide range of rare earth elements and other minerals that are not included in fertilizers or animal feeds. Together, this distinct combination replenishes essential and beneficial trace elements, improves plant immunity, increases fruit and vegetable yields and creates healthier looking plants.
Azomite is unique because it was formed when an ancient volcano spewed ash into an ancient seabed. Over time the mineral rich seawater combined with the minerals in the ash to produce the only known deposit of Azomite.
Micronized Azomite is a fine powder that is easy to dissolve in water and applied wet or spread dry in the garden. It has been mined, crushed and packaged without any chemical alterations or additions. It is certified organic by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) in the United States.
General: Mix 2.5 tbsp. per 1 gallon water per 40 sq. ft. add water lawn, garden beds, trees and shrubs.
Transplanting: Use 1 tsp. per 1 inch of plant diameter.
Wet application: Mix 2.5 tbsp. /1 gal. water yields 40 sq. ft. of coverage.
Dry, transplant application: Use 1 tsp. per 2" plant diameter
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Giving back to archaeology
Steinaecker’s Horse research project (1997 – Ongoing)
The Steinaecker’s Horse research project has been running since 1997. It started during 1996 when the Northernmost or Letaba outpost of Steinaecker’s Horse was rediscovered by an expedition under the leadership of the Director of the future Archaetnos. This resulted in writing a research proposal to SanParks to excavate the site, which was subsequently approved.
During September 1997 the site was excavated for the first time by a team led by Anton van Vollenhoven. He was then employed by the National Cultural History Museum. The museum however withdrew financial support during 1998. By this time Archaetnos has been established and it was decided to proceed with the project out of own funds.
The Steinaecker’s Horse project is managed under the research leg of Archaetnos and is the company’s way of giving back to archaeology. The project is funded by Archaetnos. It also is a means to still be able to do research.
Through the project many volunteers and students in archaeology had the chance to get first-hand experience of excavations and all it entails. By giving lectures in the different camps where the excavators stayed throughout the project, public awareness about archaeology and the importance of our cultural heritage is enhanced. The project is also used by Archaetnos as a public relations venture. Every year the media is informed and kept so about the day to day developments on site.
The importance of this project lies within the fact that very little research has been done about the Anglo-Boer-War, from an archaeological perspective. Furthermore it creates the opportunity to do research on the involvement of the indigenous people during the war, an area that did not receive much attention during the past years from researchers.
Short history of Steinaecker’s Horse
(A full account of the history of the unit and the various excavations can be found in the different excavation reports under the section ‘Reports’ on this website)
Steinaecker’s Horse was a volunteer military unit that fought on the side of the British during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). It operated mainly in the Lowveld of South Africa and Swaziland. The unit was formed by an interesting man named Francis Christiaan Ludwig von Steinaecker, a former Prussian-German soldier with extensive military experience. He came to SA in 1886, working as cartographer in German South-West Africa, before settling in Natal in 1890. He became a British subject and when the war broke out in 1899, he joined the Colonial Scouts.
He came to the attention of General Buller, commander of the British Forces during the early stages of the war, and after participating in a series of successful campaigns against the Boers, he was given permission to raise his own cavalry unit, called Steinaecker’s Horse. He was also promoted to the rank of Major. The unit (close to 600 men) consisted mainly of local inhabitants of the Lowveld region, while local Black groups such as Shangane and Swazi, also assisted (or rather, were utilized by the unit) in their activities.
Although they did not encounter much military action, they were involved in a few skirmishes with the Boers (notably the Battle of Fort Mpisane on 7 August 1901). The units’ main function was to act as border guard in order to prevent the Boers from making contact with their supporters in Portuguese-East Africa (Mozambique). For this purpose a number of outposts were established along the 200km stretch of the Lebombo Mountains, specifically in the area today known as the Kruger National Park.
The unit had some successes during the war and two members received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). However, they were also notorious for their bad behaviour, raiding of property and unethical conduct.
Steinaecker’s Horse was eventually disbanded during 1903. Their most important legacy is the contribution some of their members made to the later Kruger National Park. The Adjutant of the unit, Major AA Greenhill-Gardyne, wrote a protocol for the preservation of the wild life in the area. This document was used by Major J Stevenson-Hamilton as he started working as the first warden of the Park. Some of the members of Steinaecker’s Horse became game rangers, among them the well-known Harry Wolhuter.
The Steinaecker’s Horse project so far
Archaeological excavations were done on the Letaba site during 1997, 2000 and 2002. A display of the findings of the first two years was mounted at the Mopani Rest Camp during 2003. It was moved to the Makhadzi picnic site shortly afterwards as this is the closest accessible point for tourists to the actual site.
In 1998 the archives of the Kruger Park at Skukuza was visited in order to obtain more historical information on Steinaecker’s Horse. Archival research now is a continuous process, including the South African and British National Archives as well as those of private collectors.
During 2003 other sites associated with the unit was searched for during extensive foot surveys in the Park. Fourteen sites were identified in or close to the Park through literature and archival research. Ten of these have physically been located and the search for the other four continues.
The Komatipoort site was the headquarters of Steinaecker’s Horse. This site was documented during 2004. It consists of many remains of buildings and other infrastructure built and utilised by Steinaecker’s Horse.
- Fort Mpisane
- Terrain where Bill Sanderson received his internship
- Gaz a Gray outpost
- Sardelli’s shop
- Sabie bridge
- Northern outpost
- Komatipoort headquarters
- Kilo 104
Steinaecker’s Horse sites in or close to the Kruger National Park
The Sabi Bridge (Skukuza) site was excavated during 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009. This site is quite complex as it did not only host Steinaecker’s Horse, but also the Selati railway line and recent military activities. The Selati/Oosterspoorlyn cut through a part of the area today known as the Kruger National Park. The line stopped short of the Sabi River near Skukuza (where the Bridge is today) during August 1894.
Up to and during the Anglo-Boer War no work was done on the line, although it played an important role (the Boers used the line to store and organize their rolling stock until the British took control of it).
Between 1901 and 1902 Steinaecker’s Horse used the uncompleted section near “Skukuza”/Sabi Bridge (the southern end of the line).
They built a blockhouse here, a fairly basic construction of brick and corrugated iron. After the war, and when Steinaecker’s left the scene (on 24 November 1902) Stevenson-Hamilton, the first Game Warden of the Park (between 1902 and 1946) moved into the blockhouse, using it as his Headquarters.
The Ngotso Mouth site was excavated in 2008 and will again be studied in 2013. This site is at the confluence between the Ngotso and Olifants River, close to the Balule rest camp. Very little evidence regarding this site is found in historical sources.
The famous game ranger and member of Steinaecker’s Horse, Harry Wolhuter, mentions that he camped alongside a river on his way to some of the outposts of Steinaecker’s Horse in the north. He named the river Ngotso after one of the indigenous people who guided them to the Olifants River. Pienaar also makes mention of an outpost close to the Olifants River.
The Gaza Gray outpost of Steinaecker’s Horse was investigated between 2010 and 2012. The site is named after Edward George Gray who was a captain in the Steinaecker’s Horse unit. He was nicknamed Gaza as he used to work in Portuguese East Africa before the War.
He was in command of three outposts of Steinaecker’s Horse namely this one, the nearby one at Gomondwane and the one at Crocodile Bridge. After the War he became a game ranger in the Sabi game reserve (later Kruger Park).
Apart from being a very large site it used to host the cattle of Gray and some local people before the War. During the War it was used by Steinaecker’s Horse to keep the cattle that they confiscated from local people and some of the Boer farmers such as Abel Erasmus. As a result the site has many refuse middens in which cultural material is mixed with remains of cattle kraals. During the 2010 excavation the human remains of five individuals were unearthed here. Another one was unearthed during 2011.
SanParks have approved a three year plan for research on the Ngotso Mouth and Gaza Gray sites. These will be dealt with between 2011 and 2013.
The results of these excavations as well as the sites that have not yet been excavated will determine a next research project plan. If approved, this will run from 2014 and will most likely focus on the Gaza Gray site, Gomondwane and the one where Bill Sanderson was interned.
As the people who participate in the project are volunteers, Archaetnos also wants them to get more out the project than only the scientific side. Work starts at 6:00 am and ends early afternoon so that they may enjoy some game viewing. The weekend in-between (the excursion usually runs for two weeks) is also used for game viewing.
In the evenings everyone gathers around the camp fire where food is prepared and everyone gets the chance to discuss the day’s finds or just relax. Special accolades are given to those who unearthed something special or perhaps just made a fool of him/herself. A specific award, The Golden Potshard, is given to a worthy recipient. At the end of the excursion one of the excavators receive the highest honour, being The Golden Potsherd for the camp.
People interested in joining the 2013 research team can contact Dr Anton van Vollenhoven at email@example.com |
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Interpretive Summary: Few plant diseases in modern times have been as devastating as Fusarium head blight of wheat and barley (sometimes called "scab"), which re-emerged in the mid 1990s in the Midwestern U.S. and elsewhere in the world. Although the disease has been known for many years, there has never been an effort to gather together research results on the disease into a single reference source. This book contains 18 chapters by world authorities on all aspects of the disease from the fungus pathogens that cause the disease and the intimate interaction between the pathogens and wheat and barley heads, to resulting damage to grain. Included are chapters on toxins produced in "scabby" grain that can make animals sick. This book will be widely used for reference by research scientists investigating Fusarium head blight and by students in Universities learning about diseases of crop plants.
Technical Abstract: Fusarium head blight re-emerged in the 1990s as a devastating disease of wheat and barley in the mid-western United States. Few diseases of modern times have been so severe. This book contains a comprehensive compilation of scientific knowledge of the disease. Included are 18 chapters by world authorities on diverse aspects of the disease. Chapters are included on the history of the disease, the fungal pathogens that cause the disease, infection processes and defense response of the plant to infection, mycotoxins that accumulate in diseased grain, sources of genetic resistance available for wheat and barley breeders, and strategies involving chemical and biological controls. This book serves as a useful reference for research scientists and for advanced students in plant pathology. |
Location: Nematology Laboratory
Title: Morphological and molecular description of Heterodera zeae from a corn field in Greece Authors
Submitted to: Journal of Nematology
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: April 30, 2010
Publication Date: July 12, 2010
Citation: Skantar, A.M., Handoo, Z.A., Zanakis, G.N., Tzortzakakis, E.A. 2010. Morphological and molecular description of Heterodera zeae from a corn field in Greece. Journal of Nematology. 42(3):268. Technical Abstract: The corn cyst nematode Heterodera zeae was first described from India, where it has wide distribution. This nematode has also been reported from Pakistan, Egypt, Thailand, Nepal, and Portugal. Within the U.S., H. zeae was first found in Maryland, primarily in heavy silt-clay soils at fairly low densities. It has since been reported in Virginia. There is limited information regarding nematodes attacking cereals in Greece, and thus far, the only cyst nematode reported was Heterodera avenae on wheat. In May 2009, a soil sample containing abundant cysts was taken from an organic corn field in northern Greece; the field was under winter fallow at the time of sampling. Soil from the field site was used to fill 1.5L pots, which were planted with corn (Zea mays) and grown in a greenhouse. Females appeared after six weeks incubation, and abundant cysts were present after 12 weeks. Morphological and molecular diagnosis confirmed the presence of H. zeae. Amplification of ribosomal DNA markers included the 28S large subunit (LSU) D2-D3 expansion segment and internal transcribed spacer (ITS 1&2 rDNA). Analysis of ITS PCR-RFLP patterns revealed nucleotide variation that was further confirmed by analysis of cloned ITS amplicons. These results are in agreement with prior molecular analysis of H. zeae populations from the U.S. and India. This study represents the first record of H. zeae in Greece and the second report of this nematode in Europe. |
Lecture by Manuel DeLanda
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Manuel DeLanda has been an internationally recognized philosopher since 1991. He has participated in more than 50 conferences all over the world, published essays in several journals and collections, and written six books, two of which have been translated into several languages. Before 1991 he was an independent filmmaker (his films are in the permanent collection of Anthology Film Archives), a computer programmer, and a 3D modeler, working for several production houses in New York. He is the author of six philosophy books, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997),Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002), A New Philosophy of Society (2006), Deleuze: History and Science (2010), andPhilosophy and Simulation (2011). |
Western Project is proud to present The Library, a body of new work by New York artist/photographer, Arne Svenson. For his seventh solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Svenson will present books and prints scanned from his idiosyncratic collections of newspaper clippings, magazine photos, paper towels, found diaries and books from his youth. The function of The Library is to create unexpected connections and narratives. The artist writes:
“Using disparate images taken from appropriated institutional, educational and non-fiction printed material, the pages of the 6 books in the exhibition suggest tales to be told, stories within stories. The narrative may be literal, as in the (self) reportage of Diane's Diary, or, in the case of Heroes, created by random juxtaposition and pagination decisions. In the Real Estate Ladies, the story could the subtext behind the 400 smiling faces of eager Agents. The stories are up to the viewer to create - I have provided the raw material, with a prompt here and there, but the rest is up to the reader of these books.”
The bound artist books are oversized, approximately two by three feet and contain anywhere from 55 to over 200 pages. The images are not manipulated (i.e., no Photoshop), only enlarged. The installation is designed for leisurely reading; the books lay open on a carpeted floor with gloves and a sitting pillow. The six titles are:
Heroes,Diane's Diary, Language Development Level #1, Paper Towels, Real Estate Ladies, The Transformative Power of Bad Registration in The New York Times.
Regarding the The Transformative Power of Bad Registration in The New York Times, the artist writes:
“Every so often a photograph will be misprinted in The New York Times. The errors can be subtle or glaring; they can range from a slight shift of color to a complete re-arrangement of the dot-pattern, which creates the image. My interest in this phenomenon is how an unintentional misstep distorts the intentionality of the photographer, editor, etc. - how a misprint can rearrange truth and reality. Eyes slip down the face, limbs are extended, and laughter becomes tears all because somewhere a machine failed. The unintended shift of color and form change the story, the meaning of the photograph, and open it up to a wealth of additional interpretations.”
As pictures inspire stories, so do paper towels:
“While I was shopping at the Price Chopper grocery store I came across two women in the paper-goods aisle discussing art in some depth. They were going back and forth about color and form and how specific "pictures" made them feel. Curious, I looked over to see them holding rolls of paper towels and realized that they were deciding which printed pattern towel would be the best choice for their kitchen….
Rather than avoiding them for white, I began collecting illustrated paper towel sheets a few years ago. Ubiquitous in most homes, I was astounded by the cynical nostalgia of the designs - a cloying cuteness presumably put forth to comfort and sustain the paper towel user as he/she mopped up a mess. Because of this dichotomy, I realized that the whole idea of choosing a paper towel for the image is more complex than I first thought. Maybe the women in the Price Chopper were right, perhaps it is art…”
Using the images from paper towels as large prints, Svneson points to traditional Japanese scrolls, abstract and landscape painting in a minimalist language. The prints are large, up to ten feet long.
Whether it is a café scene or giant frogs, the towel images suggest the surreal sensibility of Max Ernst and the pragmatic writing Gertrude Stein, turned: a towel is a towel is a towel – endless viewpoints and possibilities in its being-ness.
In Diane’s Diary, Svenson uproots the familiar and reorients the history of a found object:
“In 2001 I bought a small, 4" x 3'5" diary from a thrift store in Las Vegas. On the first page is the notation: "Championship Wrestling Autographs by Superstars..". The next page is dated, by hand, "8/15/83" and is the beginning page of a personal diary. The entries last for thirteen pages and represent only the two hand-written dates "8/15/83" and "12/27/83" - the printed calendar dates in the diary have no bearing on the actual dates of the entries.
Diane, the author of the diary, relates to it as a friend, closing some of her entries with "…see you later", or "'…til next time". She outlines her troubles with her former boyfriend Steve, her delight with new boyfriend Doug, her day in court with friend Linda, and, in the last, and only, entry on 12/27/83, her growing sense of unease with Doug. The diary ends in an ominous manner, highlighting what, in a few short pages, appears to be a very troubled life. I included Diane's Diary in this series because I wanted a literal, though anonymous and ambiguous, story amongst the subjective visual fictions of the other books. And I produced it large because I wanted her story to be more visually heroic in proportion.”
Like his earlier Sock Monkey pictures, Svenson approaches his subjects in a flat footed manner, allowing the viewer to engage on numerous levels; all is what it seems, and not necessarily as it appears. It is a generosity peculiar to mature artists. By choosing a scanner instead of a camera, he mirrors a Warholian mass production sensibility but without a cynical twist. He is fascinated by the ordinary and finds revelation in its many manifestations.. What is overlooked can be profound and what is profound can suffer bad registration – either way, there is a lesson in it. |
How do i find the area of a curved Rhombus?
EDIT: it may not even be a rhombus i'm thinking of! :O I mean the shape that looks like a rectangle but the base is longer than the top and the sides have to slant in order to complete the shape. (please give me the correct name for this shape)
Think of it like a toy car race track, the corners of the race track are like curved rectangles, except in this case more like a curved rhombus, so the bottom part is curving in, and that top part is curving out... If that makes any sense.
If it doesn;t make sense for god sake TELL ME! and i will change what i've written, because i really need that answer for this.
what is the formula for this, and if it's complicated, how would i go about working it out, setting it out, ect. |
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Active Standard ASTM E73 | Developed by Subcommittee: E06.11
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5.1 This practice provides a guide to any individual, group, agency, or code body on the methods of test for truss assemblies fabricated from all types of construction materials. Sample size is generally kept to a minimum to reduce costs. The methods may be used to apply proof loads to an assembly or to test it to failure. Information obtained includes strength and stiffness data, and if assemblies are tested to their ultimate load carrying capacity, the failure method or mechanism can be observed.
1.1 This practice is intended as a guide for use in the testing of truss assemblies fabricated from all types of construction materials. While the practice may be used for the testing of a variety of assemblies, it is primarily intended to be used in the testing of those trusses designed to be spaced at 1.2 m centers or greater. It can be used, but it is not normally intended, for the testing of wood residential trussed rafters. Either proof tests or tests to destruction may be run.
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. For specific hazard statements, see Section 7.
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While the human energy field has been considered to be an integral part of human healing for eons of time, the relationship between the energy system and human emotion are now being viewed from a teleological, or goal driven, perspective.
As the goals of emotions and thought are both becoming clearer and the underlying neurobiology and physiology are becoming more understandable, the intrinsic and extrinsic motivational drivers of human survival and existence are paving the way for the emergence of the true holistic model of human existence.
The true healing system may rightfully be considered to be that of a bio/psycho/social one, which is constrained by culture, influenced by technological innovation, and regulated by a higher spiritual power that is within and outside of us.
In some cultures, the source of neurological and psychological troubles may very well believed to be the result of the doings of members of a very well defined and broad demonic hierarchy; the antithesis of the angelic one. In other, more scientific, ‘cultures,’ the root of some of these problems are believed to be most likely caused by problems associated with NMDA regulated glutamate channels leading to epileptiform activity within the medial temporal lobe of the brain. Still other ‘subcultures’ may entertain the idea that the glutamate channels are regulated in part by zinc and magnesium and that these nutrients are in turn regulated by other nutrients, including the B Complex and that Vitamin C and Omega three fatty acids must be in balance along with a host of other factors.
The purpose of human love will be explored within the domains of survival on the one hand and divine love within a broader, more universal, context.
The truth of the matter is that it is truth that matters most, and authority which does not espouse truth, wherever it may be found, matters least. So if you find an idea or a reference that you don’t resonate with, consider that the person who wrote the material, regardless of their credentials, may be at least as smart as you are in some way and that you may learn something useful that you overlooked; if even just a small amount. Might want to jot some things like that down.
A couple of pages have been added at the end so that you make notes from this book or from whatever sources suite your purposes.
Throughout this text we will discuss a variety of disease processes, including what might aptly be called the spiritual diseases. These are the diseases that make sufferers appear as though they have had taken away their spirit, like they don’t have a soul. |
Serbia nominates part of its territory as biosphere reserveSource: Tanjug
BELGRADE -- The Republic of Serbia has nominated part of its territory for the UNESCO Mura-Drava-Danube Transboundary Biosphere Reserve.
According to Tanjug, it is the first protected biosphere region in the world, jointly managed by five countries - Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Austria.
The project is a World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and EuroNatura joint initiative to preserve the "European Amazon."
This joint "green vision" will be realized by establishing the biggest protected biosphere area, covering 800,000 hectares from Serbia to Austria.
The Mura-Drava-Danube reserve is a symbol of regional cooperation and sustainable development and an excellent example of an initiative linking the protection of biodiversity to cultural heritage protection, Tanjug said.
The area in Serbia spans over a total of 176,635 hectares in five municipalities – Sombor, Apatin, Odžaci, Bač, and Bačka Palanka – and has four protected areas, including the Upper Danube Basin and Karađorđevo special nature reserves. |
Developed at Babson College, the world's top school for entrepreneurship, The New Entrepreneurial Leader presents a radically new approach specifically designed to meet the drastically changed needs and circumstances of the post-crash world.
New Book Based on Research at Babson College
Our economic crisis has shown that we need a fundamentally new kind of business leader—able to make ethical decisions in the face of strategic unknowns, serve the environment and society while also serving the needs of investors and shareholders, and understand how their personality and the social context in which they operate impacts their leadership.
Developed at Babson College, the world’s top school for entrepreneurship, The New Entrepreneurial Leader: Developing Leaders Who Shape Social and Economic Opportunity (September 2011; hardcover) presents a radically new approach specifically designed to meet the drastically changed needs and circumstances of the post-crash world.
Entrepreneurial leadership is inspired by, but separate from, entrepreneurship. It can be applied in any organizational situation, not just start-ups. Based on extensive research, it embraces three principles that add up to the fundamentally new worldview of business and a new logic of decision-making.
Leaders today must be “cognitively ambidextrous,” meaning they must have the ability to shift between analytic and action-oriented approaches—and know when to take action even when all the variables aren’t known.They must look beyond the traditional balance sheet, creating social, environmental and economic value.And they need a deep awareness of how their decisions are impacted by who they are—their values, biases, background and capabilities—as well as the social and cultural context in which they operate.
The authors of The New Entrepreneurial Leader discovered that rapid change and increasing uncertainty require leaders to be able to shift between traditional “prediction logic” (choosing actions based on analysis of known trends) and “creation logic” (taking action despite considerable unknowns). Guiding this different way of thinking is a different worldview of business and society, where simultaneous creation of social, environmental, and economic value is the order of the day. Entrepreneurial leaders also leverage their understanding of themselves and their social context to guide effective action.
Each chapter in the book offers concrete examples of how educators across all disciplines are integrating these ideas into their courses, and even their entire curricula. The book lays out a comprehensive new paradigm for reinventing management education in order to mold leaders who will shape social and economic opportunity.
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Greenberg, McKone-Sweet and Wilson, along with some of the top faculty at Babson, outline this new model in detail, explaining precisely how both educators and entrepreneurs can hone these three core competencies for coping with the demands and uncertainties of the modern world.
Danna Greenberg is Associate Professor of Management at Babson College, where she holds the Mandell Family Term Chair. She has published more than 30 articles in journals such as Journal of Management and Administrative Science Quarterly.
Kate McKone-Sweet is Associate Professor of Operations Management at Babson College and Chair of the Technology, Operations, and Information Management Division. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Operations Management and Production Operations Management.
H. James Wilson is a senior researcher and writer at Babson Executive Education. His research appears regularly on Harvard Business Review Online. He is co-author of What’s the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking (Harvard Business Press).
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how many times in a day should i give milk & how many times solid food to my 10 months old baby?
i am giving her solid food 3 times in a day. i want to know is it sufficient?
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My daughter is ten months & she gets three 7 oz bottles a day plus three meals. Sometimes she will take a snack of yogurt bites or cereal. It's just a guideline because typically every baby is different which means they all eat and drink different. Hope this helped!posted 10/03/2011 by vanessarigdon
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A family is a group of people who are related to one another.
Types of family
A nuclear family consists of parent(s) and siblings, as a standalone unit this is a rather modern development.
An immediate family not only includes the nuclear family, but also grandparents, and in-laws as well as grandchildren. So who is in your immediate family will slightly differ from other members who are of a different generation.
An extended family not only includes the immediate family but also cousins of various degrees, also great grandparents and great grandchildren as far as the family tree extends.
An fictive kinship is the act of giving someone a kinship (family) title and treating them as if they had the relationship implied by the title.
Families and spanking
The family plays a major role in the enculturation and socialization of children. From the point of children, the family is their social nest in which they grow up and from which they get care, protection, support and education.
In traditional society, elder family members have authority over the younger family members, and children in particular are expected to be (or be trained to be) respectful and obedient to the other family members, in particular to their elders. This authority is legally supported by parent's rights and duties, and by the special legal status of minors. Traditionally, children were subject to certain forms of punishment if their caretakers felt such necessary in their training of values and good behavior.
A historically very common form of punishment for children was (and in many places still is) spanking. When it occurs in the home (as opposed to, for example, school), it is also called domestic spanking. The spanking of children is/was legal when given by a person who has/had the legal right to it, such as a guardian, unless it is/was abusive. In some countries, new laws were introduced since the late 1970s that banned certain forms of punishment such as spanking.
The typical scenario for spankings in the home is/was a parent spanking their son or daughter. In other, less common scenarios, the spanker is/was a grandparent, uncle, aunt, or older sibling. In many societies it was also thought acceptable for the head of household to give corporal punishment to his spouse.
Parents may set up "family rules" (also known as "house rules") that define required and unwelcome forms of behavior and have validity for the entire family.
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|Throughout the past century, the
Bahá'ís of Iran have been persecuted. With the triumph of the Islamic revolution in
1979, this persecution has been systematized. More than 200 Bahá'ís have been executed
or killed, hundreds more have been imprisoned, and tens of thousands have been deprived of
jobs, pensions, businesses, and educational opportunities. All national Bahá'í
administrative structures have been banned by the Government, and holy places, shrines and
cemeteries have been confiscated, vandalized, or destroyed.
The 350,000-member Bahá'í community comprises the largest religious
minority in that country, and Bahá'ís have been oppressed solely because of religious
hatred. Islamic fundamentalists in Iran and elsewhere have long viewed the Bahá'í Faith
as a threat to Islam and have branded the Bahá'ís as heretics. The progressive stands of
the Faith on women's rights, independent investigation of truth, and education have
particularly rankled Muslim clerics.
In June 1983, for example, the Iranian authorities arrested
ten Bahá'í women and girls. The charge against them: teaching children's classes on the
Bahá'í Faith--the equivalent of Sunday school in the West.
The women were subjected to intense physical and mental abuse
in an effort to coerce them to recant their Faith--an option that is always pressed on
Bahá'í prisoners. Yet, like most Bahá'ís who were arrested in Iran, they refused to
deny their beliefs. As a result, they were executed.
International protest against the persecution has been
widespread. Thousands of newspaper articles about the situation of the Bahá'ís in Iran
have appeared around the world. Prominent international organizations, including the
European Parliament and several national legislatures, have passed resolutions condemning
or expressing concern about the Bahá'ís of Iran. Most important, the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights and the General Assembly have pressed the Iranian regime to
observe international human rights covenants with yearly resolutions--resolutions that
have paid specific attention to the Bahá'í situation.
In response to this international outcry, the most violent
aspects of this persecution had abated by the early 1990s--although at least one Bahá'í,
a 50-year old Teheran businessman, was killed by the Government in 1992. However, the
Bahá'ís of Iran remain without any fundamental guarantee of their right to practice
their religion freely, and international efforts to win their emancipation continue. |
A SUMMARY OF THE
LIBRETTO, BALLETMASTER'S PLAN, MUSICAL SCENARIO, AND ACCOUNTS
OF THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF SLEEPING BEAUTY.
PROLOGUE - The Christening
Scene: a Great Hall in the Palace
of King Florestan XIV.
Preparations have all been made
for the presentation of the newborn Princess Aurora. Guests from
all over the kingdom have been invited to present gifts to the
baby, especially the powerful Fairies of the kingdom. Cattalabutte,
the King's Chamberlain, makes sure the guest list is correct,
and escorts all the arrivals to their proper places at court.
The king and queen enter last, of course, and receive the honors
of the assemblage.
The Fairies arrive with their entourages,
and begin to bestow their gifts upon the Princess. But before
the most powerful of those present, the Lilac Fairy, can make
her bestowal, a clap of thunder is heard, and a terrified soldier
runs in, announcing the arrival of the most powerful Fairy in
the whole kingdom, Carabosse. The King demands the guest list
and finds that she was not invited! "What is the meaning
of this," he demands of Cattalabutte? "Sire, no one
has heard from her in a long time, and I thought she was dead,
she is so old!"
The King throws down the list in
a rage, just as Carabosse's attendants, rats and gnomes, arrive,
frightening the guests. She herself arrives, riding in a chariot
made from a wheelbarrow, and drawn by rats. She is the ruin of
what must have been a glorious and majestic woman, and she is
in a fury!
Carabosse attacks Cattalabutte,
pulling out his hair and feeding it to her rats, and pronounces
her gift. The Princess Aurora will grow to young womanhood, full
of charms, beauty and attainments, but one day, she shall prick
her finger, and she shall die! The court is horrified, the Queen
begs for her daughter's life, but the old woman is adamant. She
is about to charge the cradle with her rats, when her way is
blocked by the Lilac Fairy.
"Stay away, O Eldest Sister"
says the powerful Lilac, "I cannot undo the terrible curse
you have laid upon this child, but I can do this - all that you
have said will come true, even to her pricking her finger, but
she shall not die, but only sleep for a long time, until a noble
and handsome man shall come to her out of love, kiss her on the
forehead, and then she shall wake."
Carabosse is enraged, appeals to
her sister Fairies, who rebuff her; she returns to her chariot
and drives off in a cloud of wrath. The King and Queen and the
entire court form around the cradle, vowing to protect the Princess
Aurora from any further harm as
THE CURTAIN FALLS.
Act I - The Spell
Time: Twenty years later
Scene: The castle gardens
It is the birthday of the Princess
Aurora, and the festivities are well on their way to completion
when some women are discovered within the castle precincts carrying
knitting and spinning tools. Cattalabutte discovers them, and
tries to send them away before the King can discover their presence.
King and Queen enter, discover the women and their contraband,
which has been forbidden in the kingdom, and the King flies into
a rage, and declares that they must be executed! Four princes,
coming from foreign lands to pay homage and court the Princess
Aurora, intercede with the King to have mercy, and he relents.
The crisis averted, the villagers dance a waltz with garlands
they have prepared.
The whole court awaits breathlessly as the Princess Aurora comes
to greet her parents and the visitors. She dances with each of
the Princes in turn, and charms each of them with her great beauty
and accomplished dancing.
The celebrations continue until a mysterious figure shrouded
in black appears, offering a gift for the Princess. It is a set
of needles! The Princess has never seen such things before, having
been protected by her father's decree, and begins to play with
them. Before anyone can stop her, she pricks her finger, and
begins to feel the effects of the spell take over. She dances
dizzily, then collapses. The King and court are horrified; the
figure who gave her the needles throws off her cloak and reveals
The old woman laughs at the distress of those who had done her
wrong; the Princes draw their swords and pursue her, and she
disappears into smoke and fire.
As Carabosse vanishes, the Lilac
Fairy appears and assures the King and Queen that the Princess
has not died, but is only in a deep sleep. "Carry her to
her chamber," she commands, "for now it is time for
my gift." As the unconscious Aurora is carried up to her
bed, the Lilac Fairy turns to the assembled populace in the garden,
waves her wand, and the spell begins. The entire kingdom falls
into a deep sleep as great vines and leaves grow up about it,
shielding it from the eyes of the curious, and the mischief of
evildoers. The Lilac Fairy is a revolving dot of pink and lavender
in the midst of the thicketty wood as
THE CURTAIN FALLS
ACT II -
Scene 1 - The Vision
Scene: A distant kingdom, the forest
Time: One hundred years later
A hunt arrives at a clearing in the forest, led by Prince Desire'.
None of the diversions of his noble friends nor of the friendly
villagers can dispel his gloom, and they leave him to his reveries.
Just as the moon comes out from behind the clouds, the Lilac
Fairy appears and sends the Prince a vision
of the sleeping Princess Aurora. The Prince is overcome with
her beauty, and asks the Lilac Fairy who she is, and where she
can be found. "Behold," she says, "I can make
it seem as if she were right here with us!" The Fairy waves
her wand, and the forest spirits appear, and suddenly in their
midst is the very image of the Princess. She dances with the
Prince in the midst of the spirits and then vanishes with them.
The Prince is truly eager to find
Aurora for real, and the Lilac Fairy beckons to him to join her
in her shell-boat as they voyage the river together to the kingdom
of King Florestan.
As the Lilac Fairy and Prince Desire'
glide smoothly down the river, visions of the Castle, the King
and Queen, the Fairy Carabosse, and the Princess Aurora herself
appear, as the Fairy explains to the Prince what has happened.
Scene 2 - The Awakening
Scene: The Castle
Prince Desire' and the Lilac Fairy
come upon the castle garden with all the guests still asleep;
they enter the courtyard and discover the servants all asleep
at their work; they make their way to the Princess' chamber,
covered in dust and cobwebs. "There she is," gestures
the Fairy. "But what shall I do now," he asks? "Just
think a moment," she replies. He does, briefly, then rushes
impetuously to her bedside -- and kisses her on the forehead,
just as the Fairy had predicted he would.
The King, Queen, and court wake
as all the spiderwebs, dust and vines vanish. Prince Desire'
asks the King for his daughter's hand in marriage, and he immediately
THE CURTAIN FALLS
scene: The Esplanade of Castle
All the fairy tale characters from
Charles Perrault's stories come to celebrate the wedding of Princess
Aurora and Prince Desire'.
The Fairies' Glory -- a grand tableau
before a scene of the Versailles gardens, over which Apollo presides.
AND THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER |
When the bank hands you a hundred bucks for your new account, they plan on you sticking around long enough to make it worthwhile. In fact, the terms of your bonus probably say you must stay for a minimum period of time.
"If the bank is going to dole out cold, hard cash, they want to make sure they have some protection against the customer just taking the money and running," McBride says.
This protection typically comes in the form of a disclaimer stating your account must stay open for a minimum of six months. If it is closed, the bank deducts the bonus before you take your money elsewhere.
"Banking relationships take time before they become profitable," McBride says.
While the bank's profits increase during that time period, your profit from the initial checking-account bonuses slowly shrink as maintenance fees and ATM expenses add up. |
Turns out almost half of Americans have no idea what their credit score is. Do you? And should you care?
A survey released Wednesday from CouponCabin.com showed that 47 percent of U.S. consumers it polled didn't know their credit score. That percentage got worse with youth. Three in 5 ages 18 to 34 had no clue what their score was, compared with 1 in 5 who were 35 and older.
Unfortunately, the survey didn't mention whether these consumers could ballpark their credit score within 50 points, an important point to consider because credit scores are nebulous things. They change -- often. (Nevermind that there are several different types of credit scores out there.)
Every time a lender pulls your credit score, it's calculated anew. The math is based on what's in your credit report at the time the lender asks for your score. And your credit report changes every time new information is submitted to the credit reporting bureaus.
For example, many credit card issuers report payment information every month to the bureaus. That means if you miss a payment in March, your January credit score will look different than your May credit score because that late payment will be taken into account in the latter score.
Information also falls off your credit report. So, if you were 90 days behind on a student loan payment, a serious delinquency, back in 2003, that negative information will drop off your credit report at the seven-year anniversary. Once it does, your credit score will be vastly different than when it was calculated just a few months before that delinquency disappeared.
The point is this: It doesn't matter if you can pinpoint your credit score; it matters more if you can correctly characterize your credit. Great, good, eh or bad. The other key is to which financial habits can boost your credit score. Hint: Pay your debts on time, and keep outstanding balances low. Open new credit only when you need it.
Remember: A credit score is just a three-digit number summing up how likely you'll default. The real meat is the credit history behind the number. Keep good tabs on that, and the credit score will follow.
When was the last time you saw your credit score?
Follow me on Twitter: @JannaHerron. |
Traditional Native American Care
The healing environment of Page Hospital extends to the area’s large Native American population.
Our cooks provide a number of traditional food selections. Family members can bring in homemade items and, when possible, use the patient-family dining room.
Medicine men/women are welcome and a referral list is available. Physicians are willing to participate in blessings at the patient’s or family’s request. These can be held either in the patient’s room or in the log gazebo. Located in the patio area, the gazebo was built with an east-facing entrance and tarps for covering openings and doors for blessings and other ceremonies. A fireplace is also available.
Family members and patients can weave on the Navajo loom. We also have a number of oversized rooms to accommodate large gatherings of family and friends.
Page Hospital has a Native American Cultural Committee, comprised of Native American staff members. They work to enhance communication and to integrate aspects of the culture throughout the hospital.
Our medical providers do ask that family members share with them a list of any herbs used in food or drink before patients consume them as some can alter the effectiveness of medication. |
Textbook IT: Technologies Key to Educational FacilitiesBy Wylie Wong | Posted 2010-06-28 Email Print
School districts and universities are giving top grades to data warehousing and BI tools, virtualization, green IT and cloud computing.
When Diane Conley was a school principal, she spent many nights and weekends analyzing paper reports on grades, attendance, and local and state assessment test scores to get a full picture of how students were performing.
Now, thanks to business intelligence (BI) tools and having all this information consolidated in one data warehouse, educators in Florida’s Palm Beach County school district can generate reports that provide that same data analysis in less than a minute. The computerized reports spot trends and identify areas where students—either individually or as a group—are excelling or performing poorly.
“It puts the data easily in the hands of our educators, so they can make the right, informed decisions and help students improve,” says Conley, who is currently the district’s educational data warehouse director.
Many school districts and universities have invested in data warehousing and BI tools in recent years. The technologies speed data analysis and generate reports faster, providing schools with timely information that allows them to improve everything from student achievement to college enrollment and retention.
Like other organizations facing tight budgets, educational institutions are investing in back-end technologies that allow them to operate more efficiently and cost-effectively, while also boosting employee productivity. Besides BI and data warehousing, schools are also pursuing virtualization, green IT and cloud computing initiatives.
Testing Out Virtualization
“The reality is that we’re looking to do more with less wherever possible,” says Michael Goodman, a network analyst at the Broome-Tioga Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES), which provides shared services to 50 school districts in the south-central part of New York State.
Three years ago, the BOCES IT staff began virtualizing its servers. Since then, it has reduced the number of physical x86 servers from 150 to 59. Nine physical servers run about 250 virtual servers, while the remaining 50 physical servers run standalone applications. Goodman says BOCES hopes to virtualize those applications in the future.
The organization—which standardized on VMware virtualization software and a NetApp storage area network—saves money through lower power and cooling costs and by not having to purchase a new physical server every time the districts need new applications, he says.
“When we get requests for a server, I don’t have to buy a $5,000 machine,” Goodman says. “I can virtualize. This gives us the flexibility to do things we couldn’t otherwise afford to do.”
BOCES, which uses VMware vSphere 4, fits nearly 30 virtual servers in each Dell PowerEdge 2950 server, which features dual quad-core processors and 64GB of memory. In addition to cost savings, the technology simplifies server management and improves disaster-recovery planning, according to Goodman.
“We can do maintenance without people knowing we are doing it, and if one physical server doesn’t have enough resources, it will migrate [the virtual machines] to a server that has more resources available,” he explains. In terms of disaster recovery, NetApp’s SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure works in conjunction with VMware’s Site Recovery Manager software. If the main data center goes down, Goodman “can bring up our servers based on our last good snapshot with just a few mouse clicks.”
BOCES is now deciding whether to replace PCs with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) model, whereby images of the operating system and applications are sent from servers to users’ desktops. About 50 users are testing a proof-of-concept using Citrix XenDesktop 4.
About five employees are accessing their applications through thin-client devices, while the rest are gaining access through their desktop and notebook computers. Goodman also installed AppSense software, which allows users to customize and save their user preferences.
Though this technology reduces help-desk calls, BOCES is still evaluating whether a move to VDI will save money, since it will require an up-front hardware and software investment. “We’re not clear on the ROI,” he says.
In another education environment, the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus uses Entuity’s Eye of the Storm network management software to monitor network performance across multiple campuses. The software provides real-time performance data on 1,900 switches and routers and 2,900 wireless access points. It alerts network administrators to outages and enables the staff to proactively resolve network issues before they get out of hand, says Peter Bartz, a manager in the university’s Office of IT.
The IT department is also using the software to monitor electricity use, as well as computers connected to the wired network. Eye of the Storm identifies computers that are left on overnight and can calculate how much energy is wasted—and how much money could be saved if these machines were turned off.
“On our network, we see about 50,000 wired connections per day through Eye of the Storm and the green IT perspective,” Bartz explains. “If all these devices were turned off after business hours, we would have a potential savings of about $2 million a year. Currently, only about 50 percent of the devices are turned off, so we are capturing about $1 million in savings.”
Bartz and his team recently completed the pilot project and began making some of the energy data available to other university units so they can monitor their own areas. Since then, the university has seen a 5 percent increase in the number of computers turned off at night, saving an additional $100,000 a year in energy costs.
In addition, the university is embracing cloud computing by outsourcing its e-mail. Beginning this fall, every freshman will receive a Google e-mail account, as well as access to the rest of Google’s application suite, which includes instant messaging, office productivity and calendaring software.
Faculty and staff will remain on the university’s e-mail servers, but they can opt to use Google’s Gmail accounts as well. The move will improve collaboration between faculty, staff and students, as well as save money. The university will spend less on purchasing and supporting its own e-mail servers, software and storage, explains Ellen Puffe, an associate editor at the Office of IT. |
Sewage fear for losing Blue Flag beaches
Raw sewage flowing into the sea after heavy rain may have contributed to a drop in water quality on beaches in the South East, bosses have admitted.
Eight beaches in Kent and Sussex lost their Blue Flag status in May, which users claim is partly due to discharge from combined sewage overflows (CSOs).
Surfers Against Sewage said it was difficult to get information about how much raw sewage was being discharged.
Southern Water admitted CSOs "probably" had an effect on sea water quality.
The company is responsible for treating waste water in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Most sewage goes to treatment works but during periods of heavy rain CSOs are used to relieve pressure on the system.
Southern Water has 751 CSOs discharging into rivers and the sea.
The pipes combine untreated raw sewage with other domestic waste water and run-off from roads, paved areas and roofs.
The company was unable to tell BBC South East how much sewage was being released into the sea because it monitors only about one third of its CSOs.
Of the 47 designated bathing beaches in Kent and East Sussex, 40 are said by the Environment Agency to be at potential risk from CSO discharges.
Andy Cummins, spokesman for Surfers Against Sewage, said there was no political will to make water companies share information about the discharge of raw sewage.
"There are CSOs all round the UK discharging raw sewage all year for hours on end and the public deserve to be told," he said.
Blue Flags lost in May
- Hove Lawns
- West Street, Brighton
- Margate main sands
- Minnis Bay, Thanet
- Ramsgate Main Sands
- St Mildreds Bay, Westgate
- Stone Bay, Broadstairs
- West Bay, Westgate
"We have groups of surfers all coming down with the same illness and the only link they've really got is using the same body of water."
Joanne Shelsher believes she contracted an ear infection from swimming in the sea at Hove.
She said tests done by her doctor showed the infection came from human faeces.
"Last year, the last time I went in, it had been raining and it was quite choppy," she said.
"Friends who I swim with all had burning throats and felt physically sick.
"That's when I knew there was raw sewage in there."
Hove Lawns and West Street beaches in Brighton are among those which lost their Blue Flags this year.
Brighton has two unmonitored CSOs.
Southern Water director Geoff Loader said £150m had been spent on improving CSOs in the last three years.
He said it was estimated that about 5% of material discharged from CSOs was untreated human sewage.
But he admitted CSOs would probably have had an effect on the drop in water quality on beaches last year.
"They have to, yes definitely there's going to be an effect," he said.
The Marine Conservation Society believes CSOs are a major contributing factor to water quality.
"We need to know where all these CSOs are, we need them mapped, we need them monitored and then we need to work out what the environmental impact of them is," said spokesman Dr Robert Keirle.
Southern Water said it had been running a trial with Surfers Against Sewage to give sewage alerts at 10 beaches in its area. |
Ninewells support centre aids blind and partially sighted people
A new centre to help blind and partially sighted people in Tayside officially opens later.
The centre at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee aims to helps people come to terms with their sight loss.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) Scotland has established The Vision Support Service, which is funded by the Scottish Government.
The centre offers information and advice on a range of aids and services to help people maintain independence.
Almost 188,000 people in Scotland already live with a sight loss that seriously affects their daily lives, and this figure is projected to double by 2031, according to RNIB Scotland.
Service-user Betty Harris, from Dundee, said: "I've found the service very friendly and reassuring.
"Nothing seems to be too much trouble for them."
Alex McGurk, 77, from Blackness, said: "It's a tremendous service and the people running it are absolutely first rate.
End Quote Betty Harris Service-user
Nothing seems to be too much trouble for them”
"I heard from other people who had more experience of sight loss and I was able to ask a lot of questions about what help was available."
The service has been established in partnership with NHS Tayside, which has provided refurbished space within the ophthalmology department of Ninewells Hospital.
John Legg, director of RNIB Scotland, said: "Every day in Scotland, 10 people begin to lose their sight.
"But only a tiny percentage are offered support and counselling, despite the devastating impact sight loss can have on people's lives."
He added: "That's why RNIB Scotland is working to establish a network of Vision Support Services in each health board area where none exist at present.
"These will offer newly diagnosed people the support they need to coming terms with sight loss and can also refer them on to other services available to them." |
The [Monday] Papers
"The debate was as difficult for Clinton as Romney," Robert Novak writes in his nationally syndicated Sun-Times column today.
"Following her script that Obama could not be trusted, Clinton quoted an alleged Associated Press crack that Obama 'could have had a pretty good debate with himself' (when in fact it was the AP quoting a Clinton supporter)."
Just patently not true. The article was real, not merely "alleged," and the description came from the AP's Springfield reporter, not a Clinton supporter. In fact, it was the lead. Use the Google, Bob. It's free.
OBAMA: Well, you know, I think the Associated Press was quoting some of your folks, Hillary,
ASSOCIATED PRESS: If he wanted, the Barack Obama of today could have a pretty good debate with the Barack Obama of yesterday. They could argue about whether the death penalty is ever appropriate. Whether it makes sense to ban handguns. They might explore their differences on the Patriot Act or parental notification of abortion.
OBAMA: I have been entirely consistent in my position on health care.
BOSTON GLOBE: When Barack Obama and fellow state lawmakers in Illinois tried to expand healthcare coverage in 2003 with the "Health Care Justice Act," they drew fierce opposition from the insurance industry, which saw it as a back-handed attempt to impose a government-run system. ("Obama's Lobbyist Relationships Questioned.")
Over the next 15 months, insurers and their lobbyists found a sympathetic ear in Obama, who amended the bill more to their liking partly because of concerns they raised with him and his aides, according to lobbyists, Senate staff, and Obama's remarks on the Senate floor.
The wrangling over the healthcare measure, which narrowly passed and became law in 2004, illustrates how Obama, during his eight years in the Illinois Senate, was able to shepherd major legislation by negotiating competing interests in Springfield, the state capital. But it also shows how Obama's own experience in lawmaking involved dealings with the kinds of lobbyists and special interests he now demonizes on the campaign trail.
Most significant, universal healthcare became merely a policy goal instead of state policy - the proposed commission, renamed the Adequate Health Care Task Force, was charged only with studying how to expand healthcare access. In the same amendment, Obama also sought to give insurers a voice in how the task force developed its plan.
Lobbyists praised Obama for taking the insurance industry's concerns into consideration.
"Barack is a very reasonable person who clearly recognized the various roles involved in the healthcare system," said Phil Lackman, a lobbyist for insurance agents and brokers. Obama "understood our concern that we didn't want a predetermined outcome."
In one attempt at a deal, Obama approached the Campaign for Better Health Care with insurers' concerns, asking if the group would consider a less stringent mandate than requiring the state to come up with a universal healthcare plan. The coalition decided not to bend, said Jim Duffett, the group's executive director.
"In this situation, Obama was being a conduit from the insurance industry to us," Duffett said.
During debate on the bill on May 19, 2004, Obama portrayed himself as a conciliatory figure. He acknowledged that he had "worked diligently with the insurance industry," as well as Republicans, to limit the legislation's reach and noted that the bill had undergone a "complete restructuring" after industry representatives "legitimately" raised fears that it would result in a single-payer system.
"The original presentation of the bill was the House version that we radically changed - we radically changed - and we changed in response to concerns that were raised by the insurance industry," Obama said, according to the session transcript.
It's not a report about his record in Springfield.
Get a dose of reality in our latest episodes of Mystery Debate Theater 2008 from New Hampshire on Saturday night - two for the price of one!
"Any slogan shared by Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is going to be pretty meaningless. Not only can voters give it any meaning they wish, it can have different meanings for different voters.
"Best of all, being the candidate of change in some vague and meaningless way gives you cover to come out for statis in most of the particulars."
The Beachwood Tip Line: Real change.
Posted on January 7, 2008
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A senior Centaur in Arcadia, who entertained Herakles. They are often shown feasting together. The smell of the opened wine jar reached other Centaurs who return to attack Herakles (Centauromachy) in a scene often shown in art, sometimes with Pholos present.
Above: Symposium, Pholos et.al. reclining. Detail from Arthenian red-figure clay vase, about 500-450 BC. Basel. Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig BS 489. Photo. Mus. (D.Widmer) © Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig. Basel. |
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