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Earth's poles are the wheeling grounds for two polar rovers: solar-powered Cool Robot and its younger cousin Yeti.
The pair, designed by a team led by engineer Laura Ray at Dartmouth, are among the first autonomous polar robots to go to work. Now, knee-high Yeti is on an expedition to Antarctica, peering beneath the ice and snow on Mt. Erebus, in search of steam-carved caves hiding in the volcano's ice cap.
"The idea was that we should have terrestrial robots — rovers that can do science missions much like planetary rovers," said team member James Lever, an engineer at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. "They can be less expensive. It's not quite as harsh as a planetary mission. But it's still pretty demanding."...
...In December 2011, Yeti helped researchers study the buried remains of the original South Pole station, a collection of buildings built in 1956. Abandoned in the 1970s, "Old Pole" now lies under roughly 30 feet of snow. Yeti's job was to find out if any of the buildings were still intact, creating voids that are hazardous to people on the surface above. "If the structures are collapsed under the weight of the snow, they're OK as is," Lever said. If not, it could be crushed by machinery trundling along above it. Yeti's studies show that despite demolition by explosives in 2010, some of the buried buildings appear to be intact.
Now, Yeti has returned to Antarctica, where it will be joining an 11-person team studying Mt. Erebus, Earth's most southern active volcano. Until January, the robot will be looking for hidden ice caves formed by fumaroles, vents that send hot vapors and gases into the surrounding ice. Using a machine-learning approach, Dartmouth graduate student Rebecca Williams is also teaching Yeti how to analyze the crevasse-finding radar images, rather than sending the data to a human for processing.
In the future, scientists hope autonomous polar robots will be able to substantially contribute to research projects at the poles, perhaps by deploying and maintaining a network of space weather sensors – which need continual repositioning in response to shifting solar storms – or by studying glaciers and icy terrains.


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Before The Lexington Cemetery
1848 Charter
At the request of a group of Lexington's most prominent citizens, Kentucky General Assembly approved an act on February 5, 1848 that incorporated the Lexington Cemetery Company and authorized it to establish a rural, or garden, cemetery. The act required the cemetery to provide perpetual care of its grounds and graves. Almost a year passed before any effective action was taken to implement the charter. On January 23, 1849, four men, M.T. Scott, Benjamin Gratz, Madison C. Johnson, and Richard Higgins, decided to raise by subscription the sum of $12,000 to buy land and get the cemetery started. In only a few days, twenty-four men each pledged $500. On February 12, 1849, the General Assembly amended the charter to name most of these subscribers.
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Laying out the grounds
Prior to the chartering of the cemetery, a prominent British landscape architect, John C. Louden, published a small book, On the Laying Out, Planting and Managing of Cemeteries. The first general manager of The Lexington Cemetery, Charles S. Bell, was familiar with the information contained in Louden's book.
Bell came to the United States from Scotland in the summer of 1842, and was hired on April 1, 1849. His dream was to create a park-like, landscaped cemetery. Inspired by his training in Scotland as a horticulturist, Bell brought to Lexington a new "rural" concept that originated in Europe and practiced in Boston, Massachusetts.
By May 1849, Bell and one of the cemetery founders, John Lutz began to lay out the grounds including the roads, sections and lots. It was the responsibility of Bell to complete the landscaping and horticultural work. Bell's keen interest in horticulture was apparent by his initiative to erect the cemetery greenhouse in 1854.
It is said that Bell was a methodical man and a perfectionist. Consequently, Bell and the trustees maintained their position not to open the cemetery until the grounds were sufficiently prepared.
By mid-July, after Bell and the trustees felt that they had made adequate progress, an advertisement was placed in the Lexington Observer & Reporter on July 13, 1849 informing the community that there were lots for sale in of The Lexington Cemetery.
The First burials
The cemetery corporation sold its first lot on August 18, 1849 to
Eighty-six burials had been conducted by the end of 1850, including reinterment of remains from several other community graveyards. The sections then opened were those presently designated as A, B, C, D, F, H, and K.
Gateway to "The City of the Dead"
On May 9, 1849, A. T. Skillman solicited bids for the erection of the Gateway and Buildings connected. The plan and specifications had already been drawn by John McMurtry. By October, 1850, McMurtry completed his part of the construction of the gateway at a cost of $2,735.23. The next month, H. Moore received $14 for "cutting stone sills for the gateway," and in December W. H. Newberry, a blacksmith, was paid $254.15 for making the three iron gates.
The structure was more than a mere gateway. The central entrance was flanked by narrow pedestrian gates, and on either side of these were reception and office rooms. Above the east gate was inscribed "Lexington Cemetery, Founded A.D. 1849." Over the west gate were the words "The City of the Dead."
The death of Henry Clay
Henry Clay
Prior to his death, Clay received a letter from John Lutz, who offered him a 44 x 44 foot block in Section I. Lutz received these four lots for his work in laying out the grounds of The Lexington Cemetery. Clay graciously accepted the space in letter from his Ashland home on May 26, 1851. In the letter Clay commented, "...by your generous gift, you have provided a beautiful spot for the repose of my mortal remains."
Ten days elapsed from the date of Clay's death and the day he was buried. Many admirers and even former political foes wished to pay tribute to the Great Pacificator. Several services were conducted during those ten days of mourning. The first memorial service occurred in the Senate chamber in Washington. He was then taken by steam boat and train to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Trenton, New York, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville and Frankfort. Finally on July 9, 1852, Clay reached Lexington by train.
Clay's procession began at his Ashland home where his casket was placed on a bier in front of his residence. A service was conducted there, and then began the slow solemn procession of national, state and local dignitaries, military units and family west on Main Street to the cemetery. Buildings along the route were draped and an estimated 30,000 people from Lexington and afar were assembled for the rites. The cemetery found it necessary to take down part of the fence along Leestown Pike as a result of the mass of people. Upon arrival at The Lexington Cemetery, Clay was placed in a receiving vault until a few days later when he was interred in the lot provided by John Lutz.
Newspapers and pictorial journals throughout the country reported the funeral that attracted national, regional and local dignitaries.
On June 30, 1852, just one day after the death of Henry Clay, a group of his friends met at the Fayette County courthouse to adopt a resolution to build a "NATIONAL MONUMENT OF COLOSSAL PROPORTIONS" in The Lexington Cemetery, to "commemorate the virtuous deeds of his long and glorious life." A committee was organized to raise money for the creation of the memorial.
By 1857, the committee raised enough money to advertise for designs for the monument. More than 100 plans were submitted. The successful bidder was John Haly of Frankfort who agreed to build the Clay monument, furnish all materials and hoisting apparatus at a cost of $43,920.
The cornerstone was laid on the Fourth of July, 1857 with a public ceremony, followed by programs at the Agricultural & Mechanical Association grounds (now the University of Kentucky campus). The monument was completed in 1861, but because of the onset of the Civil War, Clay's body was not placed into the monument until April 8, 1864 at which time, the bodies of both Henry Clay and his wife were placed in the vault side-by-side upon her death.
The monument stands on an small hill, the only structure in Section M of the cemetery, with the statue facing eastward toward Clay's home, Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate.
Nature took its toll on the Henry Clay Monument during the early decades of the twentieth century. In 1903, a terrific storm knocked the head off the statue and sent it hurtling 130 feet to the ground. In 1908, the General Assembly appropriated $10,000 for a new statue. It was carved by Charles S. Mulligan of Chicago. Another storm damaged the new structure in 1910, when lightning struck it, breaking off the right hand, shattering the right leg, and causing some damage to the body. The legislature paid $10,000 for repairs once again.
For the next half of the century thereafter, the monument deteriorated from weather and other corrosive elements. Since the Clay Monument Association no longer existed and The Lexington Cemetery Company had deeded the land to the association, no one had an obligation to care for the monument. Finally in the early 1970s, after numerous outcries from civic leaders, the Fayette Circuit Court vested ownership of the "orphan" monument to the city. Through the government's initiative, the Henry Clay Monument was completely renovated in 1976.
The Lexington Cemetery rededicated the monument on July 29, 1976, and tribute was paid to those who had worked so long and hard to restore it. Today, visitors from throughout the United States admire the beautiful and magnificent structure that memorializes one of the most notable citizens of Lexington and the United States.
In 1999, Lexington-Fayette County Urban Government transferred ownership of the Henry Clay Monument to The Lexington Cemetery.

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The situation in Libya is the International Criminal Court's (ICC) sixth investigation. To date, three arrests warrants have been issued in this investigation: against Muammar Gaddafi, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah Al-Senussi.
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The formal investigation into the situation in Libya was opened by the ICC Prosecutor on 3 March 2011, following a preliminary examination of available information. The prosecutor's announcement came after the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 1970 (2011) on 26 February 2011, which referred the situation in Libya, a state not party to the Rome Statute, to the ICC. It was the second time that a situation was referred to the Court by the UNSC under its Chapter VII authority and the first time such a resolution was passed unanimously.
The ICC Presidency assigned the situation to Pre-Trial Chamber (PTC) I. The Chamber is currently composed of Judge Christine Van den Wyngaert (Belgium), Judge Hans-Peter Kaul (Germany), and Judge Silvia Fernandez Gurmendi (Argentina).
Arrest warrants issued
On 27 June 2011, following an application by the prosecutor, PTC I issued warrants of arrest for Libyan leader Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi, his son Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan government spokesman, and Abdullah Al-Senussi, Director of Military Intelligence, for alleged crimes against humanity (murder and persecution) committed in Libya from 15 February until at least 28 February 2011.
On 22 November 2011, PTC I decided to terminate the case against Muammar Gaddafi following his death.
On 19 November 2011, Saif Gaddafi was arrested by Libyan authorities. On 17 March 2012, Al-Senussi was arrested in Mauritania. He was.extradicted to Libya on 5 September 2012.
ICC staff detained
On 7 June 2012 four ICC staff members were detained in Zintan, Libya, while undertaking a mission authorized by ICC judges and approved by the interim Libyan government to visit with Saif Qaddafi. The four were released on 2 July 2012.
Libya challenges ICC jurisdiction over cases
On 23 January 2012, Libya submitted confidential observations on the arrest and detention of Safi Gaddafi following a request from PTC I on 6 December 2011. On 4 April 2012, PTC I reiterated its order that Libya must immediately surrender Saif Gaddafi to the Court. An appeal by Libya against this order was dismissed by the Appeals Chamber on 25 April 2012.
On 2 February 2012, PTC I rejected applications for leave to submit amicus curiae observations by Mishana Hosseinioun and Aisha Gaddafi, as well as their subsequent requests for leave to appeal. The applicants also appealed directly to the Appeals Chamber on issues of jurisdiction and admissibility.
On 1 May 2012, Libya challenged the admissibility of the cases before the Court and on 1 June 2012, PTC I postponed the obligation to arrest Saif Gaddafi pending the outcome of the admissibility challenge.
On 8-9 October 2012, PTC I held a public hearing to discuss Libyas challenge to the admissibility of the cases.
On 6 February 2013, PTC I decided that Libya was still under an obligation to surrender Al-Senussi to the Court. However, the Chamber postponed the obligation to surrender Saif Gaddafi until it had decided on Libyas May 2012 challenge to ICC jurisdiction in the case.
On 17 April 2013, PTC I granted a request by the Office of the Public Counsel for Defence (OPCD), that it be relinquished from its court-appointed representation of Saif Gaddafi citing an imminent depletion in staffing. John Jones QC was appointed in place of the OPCD.
On 2 April 2013, Libya filed an admissibility challenge to the ICC case against Al-Senussi, citing ongoing domestic investigations into alleged crimes by him in Libya.
Saif Gaddafi case ruled admissible before ICC
On 31 May 2013, PTC I rejected Libyas challenge to the admissibility of the case against Saif Gaddafi before the ICC and ordered his surrender. PTC I concluded that Libyas domestic investigation did not sufficiently cover the alleged crimes included in the ICC case. Judges recognized Libyas efforts to restore the rule of law, but stressed that it continues to face difficulties in exercising its judicial powers, including the ability to secure Gaddafi into state custody. Libya has since appealed the decision; however the obligation to surrender Gaddafi remains in place during the appeal of the admissibility decision.
On 18 July 2013, the Appeals Chamber rejected Libyas request to suspend the surrender of Saif Gaddafi to the Court while a final decision is pending on its challenge to the admissibility of case. In May, PTC I had decided Gaddafi must be transferred and tried at the ICC. On 23 July 2013, Gaddafis defense requested PTC I to find that Libya has failed to cooperate by deliberately refusing to surrender him to the Court and to refer the matter to the UN Security Council.
Al-Senussi case ruled inadmissible before ICC
On 11 October 2013, PTC I ruled that the case against Al-Senussi was inadmissible before the ICC on the basis that Libyan authorities are both willing and able to effectively prosecute him. This was the first time that judges have found in favor of a government challenge to ICC jurisdiction over a case. On 24 July 2014, the Appeals Chamber unanimously confirmed Pre-Trial Chamber I's decision, ending proceedings against Al-Senussi before the Court hence came to an end.
Prosecutor calls on Libya to give Al-Senussi a fair trial
On 14 November 2013, the ICC prosecutor delivered the OTPs sixth report on the situation in Libya to the UN Security Council. In her statement, Bensouda said that her office found no legal basis to appeal the decision finding the ICC case against Al-Senussi inadmissible, and called upon Libya to demonstrate that he would receive a fair trial. The prosecutor also informed the Council that the OTP and Libya signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate collaborate efforts to investigate grave crimes allegedly committed in Libya.
Appeals Chamber rejects request to suspend domestic proceedings against Al-Senussi
On 22 November, judges of the Appeals Chamber rejected a request made by Al-Senussi's defense to suspend Libya's domestic proceedings against Al-Senussi pending the resolution of an appeal against the 11 October 2013 decision finding the ICC's case against Al-Senussi inadmissible.
Saif Gaddafi defense asks for finding of Libyan non-compliance with transfer order
On 25 November 2013, defense counsel representing Saif Gaddafi before the ICC issued a press release which condemned the Libyan government for failing to comply with its obligation to transfer Gaddafi to the ICC and asked the ASP to "affirm their commitment to the founding principles of the Rome Statute, and to deprecate any attempt to subvert the ability of the ICC to make a lasting contribution to peace and justice through the promulgation of independent and impartial decisions. The defense also requested that the president of the ASP put Libyan non-compliance with the Court on the agenda for its 12th session.
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Libya denies domestic trial have begun
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Appeals Chamber confirms admissibility of Gaddafi case before ICC
On 21 May 2014 the Appeals Chamber confirmed the admissibility of the Gaddafi case before the ICC. The Chamber concluded that PTC I judges had not erred in finding that Libya had not sufficiently proven that its national investigation covers the same case as the one before the ICC.
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|These communion dishes and chaplain's robe are a few of the artifacts housed in the National Civil War Chaplains Museum on the Liberty University campus.
The grand opening of the National Civil War Chaplain's Museum on the Liberty University campus will take place on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 11 a.m.
The museum, originally housed in DeMoss Hall — Liberty's main academic building — relocated to its new location next to Doc's Diner on Campus East last fall. The museum exists to educate the public on the role of chaplains, priests, rabbis and religious organizations in the Civil War, as well as to provide a research facility for those studying Civil War chaplaincy. Artifacts include items from both Confederate and Union chaplains.
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Wildfire: Issue 3 (December 2015)
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[Download Issue #3] (Prints 8.5×11) It seems fitting that we are releasing this issue now, in December. Following the letter from imprisoned anarchists in Greece and the call for international activity, Black December rages on, writing the memory of our … Continue reading →
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Wildfire: Issue 2 (August 2015)
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HALINDINTWALI, S. et al. Synthesis of nanocrystalline silicon thin films using the increase of the deposition pressure in the hot-wire chemical vapour deposition technique. S. Afr. j. sci. [online]. 2009, vol.105, n.7-8, pp.290-293. ISSN 1996-7489.
Nanostructured thin silicon-based films have been deposited using the hot-wire chemical vapour deposition (HWCVD) technique at the University of the Western Cape. A variety of techniques including optical and infrared spectroscopy, Raman scattering spectroscopy, X-rays diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) have been used for characterisation of the films. The electrical measurements show that the films have good values of photoresponse, and the photocurrent remains stable after several hours of light soaking. This contribution will discuss the characteristics of the hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon thin films deposited using increased process chamber pressure at a fixed hydrogen dilution ratio in monosilane gas.
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The Higgs boson eluded scientists for more than 40 years. But on July 4, 2012, two independent teams of scientists jointly announced the discovery of a previously unseen boson hiding in the collision data of CERN's Large Hadron Collider. After several months of careful analysis, the scientists identified this new particle as the Higgs boson.
The Higgs particle is a byproduct of the Higgs field—an expanse that permeates the entire universe and imparts mass to other fundamental particles. Predicted independently by several theorists in the 1960s, the Higgs rounds out the Standard Model, a time-tested theory that explains how particles and forces behave at the subatomic scale.
The discovery of the Higgs boson is major triumph for physicists all over the world—including scientists in the United States, whose scientists play a key role in both its prediction and discovery. But the discovery of the Higgs boson is only the beginning. Further analysis will allow physicists to place the Higgs boson in the greater context of the Standard Model and continue to probe for new particles and fundamental laws of nature.
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As a hunter and gun owner, I believe that we should protect the Second Amendment right of law-abiding individuals to own firearms. As a dad and grandfather, I also believe that we have a responsibility to make our schools, streets and communities safe. We can do both if Congress steps up. Many of the president's executive actions will help reduce gun violence, but the policies that would have the greatest impact require congressional action.
After being named chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Gun Violence Prevention Task Force last month, I held town-hall meetings in my Northern California district. Hundreds attended, and I heard from law-enforcement officials, mental-health experts, school officials, National Rifle Association members and gun-control advocates.
Many feared that their Second Amendment rights would come under attack when my task force makes its recommendations to Congress next month. Others wanted to cast those rights aside. I think both views are extreme.
I will never give up my guns and I will never ask law-abiding individuals without a history of dangerous mental illness to give up theirs. Not only am I personally against this, but the Constitution wouldn't allow it. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court affirmed once and for all that Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms.
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However, just as the First Amendment protects free speech but doesn't allow Americans to incite violence, the Second Amendment has limitations, too. As conservative Justice Antonin Scalia outlined in Heller, there is no constitutional problem with laws forbidding firearms in places such as schools or with laws prohibiting felons and the mentally ill from carrying guns.
This ruling provides people on both sides with an opportunity to work between the extremes and within the confines of the Second Amendment to pass legislation that will reduce gun violence.
There is wide agreement that we must close the holes in our mental-health system and make sure that care is available for those who need it by improving early intervention and addressing the shortage of mental-health professionals.
Many people on both sides also agree that everyone who buys a firearm should go through a comprehensive background check. No one wants convicted criminals or people with a history of dangerous mental illness to have access to guns. Yet our laws allow people to buy firearms privately or at some gun shows without going through a background check, and many states remain deficient in transferring important records to the federal database used to conduct background checks on gun buyers. This needs to change.
Voters also want Congress to crack down on "straw-purchasing," the process by which someone legally purchases a firearm for the purpose of transferring it to a friend who is barred from gun ownership (someone with a history of domestic abuse, for example). There should be stricter federal consequences for such unlawful transfers.
The same goes for illegal gun trafficking. Many law-enforcement officials say that illegal gun-traffickers are most often charged with mere paperwork violations. To successfully cut down on their illicit conduct, we need more agents to conduct more frequent inspections of gun stores, and we need stiffer federal penalties for those who purchase and traffic these guns.
Federal authorities also give undue attention to prosecuting prohibited buyers who attempt to purchase firearms. Federal law bars nine categories of people""including felons and those who have been judged seriously mentally ill""from buying guns. But when ex-convicts attempt to buy guns, they are hardly ever prosecuted. Although the FBI referred more than 76,000 such cases to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in 2010, Justice Department attorneys prosecuted just 44 of them. Prosecuting these criminals should be a priority and Congress needs to stiffen the penalties.
There is also strong popular support for a national program modeled on California's Armed Prohibited Persons System, which requires that those convicted of certain crimes or found to have serious mental illness turn in any firearms they own. Expanding California's system nationwide would help make sure guns are kept out of the hands of those we all agree shouldn't have them.
A majority of Americans also agree (according to a Pew poll released this month) that assault magazines have no place in our society. These magazines hold more than 10 rounds and allow a shooter to inflict mass damage in a short period of time without reloading. Banning them will save lives.
On the issue of reducing gun violence, there is a path between extremes. This debate isn't a choice between protecting the Second Amendment or reducing gun violence. It is about the willingness of a responsible majority to do both.
A version of this article appeared January 23, 2013, on page A15 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: A Middle Path to Reducing Gun Violence.


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2004 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru, 2007 Saint-Joseph Blanc, Burgundy Grand Cru, Burgundy wine, Chateau de la Tour, Clos de Vougeot, fine wine, J. Confuron-Contetidot, Meo-Camuzet, Mongeard-Mugneret, Rhone Valley Blanc, Saint-Joseph Blanc, Wine, wine tasting, Yves Cuilleron
2007 Yves Cuilleron St-Joseph Blanc & 2004 Clos de Vougeot Tasting
Tasting date – Aug., 15, 2009
2007 Yves Cuilleron Saint-Joseph "Saint-Pierre"
Grape variety: 100% Roussanne
Vanilla, peach in the nose. In the mouth, peach, apricot, a bit candy, mineral were found. Round and rich.
2007 Yves Cuilleron Saint-Joseph "Le Lombard"
Grape variety: 100% Marsanne
A bit biscuit, a bit oaky, spice, and little white flower in the nose. A bit oily texture, probably because of the level of glycerol which is usually can be found in Rhone white?! Floral and spices in the mouth. After it breathed for a while, peach smell came out. I would prefer tasting this wine with food.
2004 Domaine J. Confuron-Contetidot Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
Alcoholic at beginning, not open yet. After a while, red berry appeared in the nose and came up with more oaky hint. In the mouth, it's intense, a bit tannic and alcoholic. With licorice and dark berry aromas. However, some harsh feeling and bitterness touch rose in the end. Although the taste was concentrate, it somehow lacked the balance.
2004 Domaine Meo-Camuzet Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
Red berry and licorice in the nose, then a bit meaty smell joined. In the mouth, charming smoky berry combined with flowers. The texture is round and soft. After a while, some caramel appeared with some highlight of saffron and licorice. It's been very ready to drink.
2004 Chateau de la Tour Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
It's a bit wet earthy in the nose, and quite closed. However, in the mouth, it's very intense, powerful and with a smooth tannin structure. Long finish. Perhaps it's better to wait for another 3~5 years in order to fully enjoy this wine.
2004 Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
Some creamy butter, caramel and red berry in the nose. The taste was smooth, round, and with cute fruity and berry notes. Then, some spices emerged. It's been very ready to drink.
It was in a blind-tasting format. Most people preferred 2004 Chateau de la Tour Clos de Vougeot. For myself, it's difficult to choose a favorite one between Meo-Camuzet & Ch. de la Tour. For enjoying now, I would go for Meo though. My conclusion – Clos de Vougeot is probably my less preferable Grand Cru from Cote de Nuits.


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This package will include a main bar in which we narrate a collection of local voices speaking to their allegiance in the race. We also will include pie charts showing how local contributions were divided on each side of the race. Chambers & Zimmerman, RRS. / evening / Illinois and Illinois News --NEWS-- http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/news (Please note that this news list is not all-inclusive; other stories will move in Illinois News as well.) STATE BRIEFS: A collection of briefs from GateHouse newspapers across the state. By 5 p.m. / Illinois and Illinois News -NOTE: If your paper has a digest item you'd like to share, please email it to email@example.com. CAPITOL NOTEBOOK: State Capitol Bureau. / evening / Illinois and Illinois News STATEHOUSE INSIDER: Finke. / evening / Illinois and Illinois News SALERNO DIES: Chicago news anchor Randy Salerno killed in snowmobile accident. Previously worked in Rockford and Peoria. / Rockford and Chicago report: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/news/x254753788 ALCOHOLIC ENERGY DRINKS: A look at these beverages, which critics say are problematic in a lot of ways, including their packaging, which looks a lot like regular non-alcoholic drinks. Finke. / Illinois and Illinois News IHSA: Polling Central Illinois lawmakers about what they think of proposed legislation that aims to change the Illinois High School Association's policy on photographing sports events. By 8 p.m. Colindres. / Illinois and Illinois News 3-D STARS: (w/pic) We get a sneak peek at Lakeview Museum's new million-dollar full-dome video planetarium which opens Saturday. The planetarium has been closed for 6 weeks as it was installed. The museum got a $500,000 grant for the planetarium at the new museum from NASA, which then asked they not wait to buy it. This particular kind, however, is the first one sold in the Western hemisphere and will be the prototype for future customers. JENNIFER TOWERY. / Illinois and Illinois News CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Federal Election Commission campaign reports due today by midnight. We'll see what our candidates for the 18th District have raised in the past few months. Will check donors and expenses as well. (15-18 inches by 6 p.m.) KAREN MCDONALD. / Illinois and Illinois News HASTERT PICKS SCHOCK: (pic possible) Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert will be at the Peoria County Club tonight stumping for Aaron Schock. Hastert, who resigned as a long term Republican from Congress in November, will speak at the $1,000-per-person fundraiser at 6 p.m. In an earlier news release Hastert called Schock "one of the most exciting Republicans in the nation today" and that "Aaron is our future." 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Orange peel, sugar, alcohol, and water. These four simple ingredients have come to define a beverage, a brand, a 'cocktail culture.' With humble roots in a French family of boulangers, Cointreau has fulfilled the dreams of its creator, Eduard Cointreau, who created the recipe in 1875, writing:
« J'ai recherché passionnément cette liqueur dont j'ai voulu qu'elle ais la pureté du cristal et une grande subtilité du goût, grâce à l'harmonie parfaite d'esprit d'écorces d'oranges douces et amères. »
("I searched passionately for the essence of Cointreau. I wanted to combine the purity of a crystal-clear liquid with the refined flavours obtained from the perfect harmony of sweet and bitter oranges.")
But Cointreau has become more than simply the sum of its four simple parts. It has become a marketing behemoth, standing strong across the ages and across the world.
But what is it?
When Eduard created the recipe in 1875, he wanted to build off of the success of curaçao, but he placed his emphasis on obtaining a crystal clear product (all of the other triple secs* available at the time were colored).
(*To clarify – Cointreau is a type of triple sec. And why the name triple sec? This category of liqueur was three times more concentrated in orange essential oils and less sweet (ie more 'sec', or dry) than the standard orange liqueurs available at the time.)
But its simple. Two varieties of orange peel (imported from Spain, Brasil, and Northern Africa) – sweet and bitter – are macerated overnight in alcohol distilled from beet sugar. The following morning the mixture is distilled, and the vapor, enriched in the essential oils extracted from the orange peels, is condensed and collected.
(copper stills dating from the 1930s that are still used today to produce 15 million liters of Cointreau per year)
(modernized stills – built in 1972 – used in the distillation of other liqueurs)
The distillate, now 85% alcohol, is blended with water and sugar (again from sugar beets, as this neutral sugar ensures that no additional flavors are added, either via the alcohol or sugar), to obtain the finished Cointreau at 40% alcohol, or 80 proof. It is bottled on site (the most productive bottling line can whip through 10,000 bottles an hour), and ready for consumption!
(Pierrot, Cointreau's most recognizable mascot)
But let's not skip the marketing, where Cointreau has perhaps been most influential. Their most enduring mascot is the image of Pierrot, originally chosen by Eduard in 1898, and the following year he appeared in the first commercial ever recorded on film. The inverted image of a woman in the process of undressing was the beginning of a long history of sexually charged advertising campaigns, including the American campaign featuring Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, the last French campaign (before the advertising of alcohol was prohibited by law – le loi Evin – in 1991) which carried the tagline "Voulez-vous cointreau avec moi?", and the most recent US slogan, "Be Cointreauversial."
The marketing schemes seem to be particularly influential on Americans, as the US represents the number one export market for Cointreau, followed by duty free shops. These two markets comprise 95% of sales, and the third largest market is the domestic French market. Perhaps the high level of consumption in the US is due to the popularity of cocktails. This "cocktail culture" does not exist in France, where Cointreau was traditionally drunk pure as a digestif.
(Cointreau on the rocks becomes turbid as the essential oils come out of solution at the lower temperature. Chilling the liqueur also significantly cuts the aroma and taste of the alcohol, giving the impression of a much smoother, sweeter drink)
But, despite hailing from a country without this 'cocktail culture,' Cointreau has become well integrated into the mixology world. In addition to playing a key role in such classics as the Cosmopolitan, Margarita, Sidecar, and White Lady, Cointreau also has tried its hand at a bit of mixology of its own. Their most recent proposal? The Cointreaupolitan. While a bit on the sweet side for my own taste, this racy, hot pink cocktail represents everything that the Cointreau brand has become – sexy, flashy, and just a little retro.
(The Cointreaupolitan – Long version: Mix 5cl Cointreau, 7cl cranberry juice, and 2cl lemon juice over ice. Short version: Combine 5cl Cointreau, 3cl cranberry juice, and 2cl lemon juice in a shaker with ice. Shake and serve in a martini glass)


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Join artist Jim Hodges and musical collaborative Sisyphus (formerly S/S/S)—Chicago-based rapper Serengeti, LA-based composer/producer Son Lux, and Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter/composer Sufjan Stevens—for an exhibition opening-day discussion. Bill Arning, director of Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, will moderate a discussion with all four artists—absolute forces in contemporary art and music and each absolutely unique in their approach, focus, and medium.
Sisyphus offers listeners "an odd mix of personalities and musical styles [resulting in] something quite beautiful" (Consequence of Sound). Inspired by the work of visual artist Jim Hodges, the trio will release its sophomore EP in conjunction with the first US museum exhibition survey of Hodges's career, opening at the Walker on February 15.
This Composer Conversation program is copresented with the SPCO Liquid Music Series.
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Justin Bieber may not even be legal yet, but he's already got an itch to grow up in at least one way: He's got a deadline for getting hitched.
"By 25 or 26, I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family. I want to be a young dad," the 17-year-old pop star told Women's Wear Daily.
Bieber, who's been nursing a very public and very affectionate relationship with fellow teen pop singer Selena Gomez, was adamant that he's not looking to get married now — not that he easily could, anyway.
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"But if the time is right, I definitely want to be married by 25," he said.
Well, that leaves Bieber a good eight years — almost half his lifetime so far — to choose an eligible bachelorette and settle down to have some kids.
Once, that is, he's not a kid himself.
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In 2000, a group of Stanford University students founded the first chapter of Camp Kesem, dedicated to giving kids of cancer patients a chance to spend time, at no expense, with other children who also had a parent with cancer and who shared similar struggles and worries. Now, each year, for one week in the summer, a group of college students and young campers come together to have fun in the summer, while building the foundation for support and lasting friendships.
In 2006, working with two camp directors, 18 counselors and 13 campers, Rhodes Scholar Caroline Huang '10 and Vivian Tang '09 began the MIT chapter of Camp Kesem (CK-MIT). Now, nearly five years later, the CK-MIT family has grown to include more than 50 counselors and 75 campers.
Camp Kesem takes place annually toward the end of August, and preparation for the following year's camp session begins almost immediately after camp ends each summer. Throughout the year, students connect with families directly and through social workers, therapists and onoclogists in the New England area to recruit campers. Each year, several of the kids at camp are returning campers who spend the year looking forward to Camp Kesem. As one camper puts it, "Camp Kesem is by far the best camp I have ever been to. Everyone there had about the same reason for being there, and it was nice to know others had the same experiences." Campers' parents and relatives share their children's feelings, saying, "The impact [of Camp Kesem] will be a lifetime of good memories."
Together, kids at Camp Kesem engage in a variety of activities, including arts and crafts, sports, swimming, hiking and performances. Each night, the campers break into small groups and take part in Cabin Chat, where they share their thoughts about how the day went and what they are looking forward to the next day. These nightly chats give way to an all-Camp tradition called the Empowerment Ceremony, where campers and counselors alike come together to share their memories, their worries and their gratitude.
MIT students serving as Camp Kesem counselors and coordinators have also benefited from their camp experiences. As junior Vidya Eswaran, one of CK-MIT's co-chairs, writes, "I have never seen a group of people so passionate about anything before. We [are] all involved and invested in ensuring that each and every camper [has] the best experience possible." Other counselors agree, saying, "Of all the clubs and student groups I am involved in at MIT, Camp Kesem is definitely the one that makes me the happiest."
This seems to hold true for CK campuses all across the United States and is likely the reason why Camp Kesem recently became a LIVESTRONG Community Impact Project award recipient. As a result of this award, several new Camp Kesem chapters will be established next year, and even more families will be able to experience the magic of Camp Kesem.
To make Camp Kesem happen this year, MIT students have worked tirelessly to raise more than $60,000, most of which will go to ensuring that Camp Kesem is, as always, free for all campers who attend. In the past, CK-MIT has been supported by grants from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Genzyme, the MIT Community Service Fund and the Public Service Center. CK-MIT relies almost entirely on outside donations. As such, anyone who wishes to donate to CK-MIT can donate online at tinyurl.com/ck-mit11 or send a check to the following address: Camp Kesem MIT, P.O. Box 397219, Cambridge, MA 02139. Individuals can also donate to Camp Kesem through the MIT Giving Site.
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GOP Address: Obama Is Out To Kill Coal
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In this week's Republican address, Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., criticized President Obama's proposed national energy tax.
Enzi was Tuesday's KVML "Newsmaker of the Day". Here are his words:
"Hello, this is Senator Mike Enzi from Wyoming.
"President Obama and those who control the Senate have been doing a lot of polling and focus groups and have come up with a proposal to take money from those they define as rich and give it to a few college graduates within a group who have student loan debt.
"The left is masterful at buying votes with other people's money, but knocking a few dollars off the average monthly college loan payment does not make up for the policies they have enacted that make it harder for businesses to create jobs and Americans to make a living.
"There are better ways to help graduates and other Americans who want a better life. We need to rapidly expand the job market.
"Republicans know Americans deserve better from Washington. Republicans have proposals to help employers create more jobs and help students access a good education. We know when you give Americans new opportunities, they achieve far more than anyone could imagine.
"From what I've seen of the early versions of the Democratic student loan plan, it would not make college more affordable, it would not reduce the amount of money students will have to borrow, or do anything about the lack of jobs grads face in the Obama economy. The proposal would increase the federal debt (it's already $17 trillion) it would increase it by $400 billion more. The only way to claim it wouldn't is to use more phony accounting.
"The proposal would also set a dangerous precedent by making private debt into public debt, not to mention that it would enact a job-destroying tax that the Senate's already rejected.
"Republicans have introduced bills designed to enable more high school students to attend a college of their choice while creating jobs, while eliminating regulations that don't make a difference and forms required just for the sake of curiosity.
"The more involved the federal government becomes in something, the more it seems to cost. Health care is an example.
"In the early days of selling his health care plan, the President said it was going to bring health care prices down. I warned then that we would see massive increases in not only what patients pay, but also what the federal government has to pay.
"Now many people's premiums are up and continuing to climb. The IRS prepares to collect heavy health care taxes. This may be the most expensive free lunch in our nation's history.
"There are better ways to ensure more people have improved, affordable health care. GOP senators have introduced measures that would repair the damage. We would protect take-home pay by restoring the 40-hour work week. We would encourage businesses to hire more people without penalty.
"I want to repeal the 'Unaffordable' Health Care Act and replace it with common-sense, patient-centered reforms that let you keep your doctor, that let you choose your hospital, that reduces health care costs and increases access to affordable, high-quality care that you and your doctor agree on.
"We've introduced plans that would do that. The Administration and Senate majority favor costly government-centered mandates and regulations. They're building a system that, as one health insurance executive puts it, would 'break people away from the choice habit' and 'fixation on open access.'
"America was built on citizens having the freedom to make choices that best fit them as individuals. That's what Republican education, Republican health care, and other proposals do.
"Energy is another key area where we need policy changes.
"The Administration has set out to kill coal and its 800,000 jobs. If it succeeds in death by regulation, we'll all be paying a lot more money for electricity – if we can get it. Our pocketbook will be lighter, but our country will be darker.
"The Administration also slow walks approval of domestic oil and gas production. It's death by delay for the Keystone XL Pipeline. We all want clean air and clean water. We don't want costly regulations that make little or no difference, that are making things less affordable. Republicans want electricity and gas when you need it, at a price you can afford.
"Students, recent graduates and all of us don't have to let ourselves be ruled by executive orders without basis in law, for agency mandates that cost without benefit and policies where only the federal government is smart enough to make your decisions.
"America works best when Americans are making their own choices.
"Americans are inventive. Let's free our students with policies that provide opportunity. Don't handcuff them with 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' That kind of help will only hold them back.
"Quit holding Americans, particularly students, hostage to government gifts for which they will ultimately have to pay a high price.
"Thanks for listening and God bless America."
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Wind power could meet 20% of South Africa's electricity demand by 2025, providing that there is a favourable regulatory regime, says the South Africa Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) in a report submitted to help draw up the country's second integrated resource plan. This rolling, reviewable framework sets out the electricity generation mix for the next 20 years.
According to the association, the grid can accommodate 6GW of wind energy without significant upgrading - and that around 5GW could be operating by 2016. With grid upgrades, this could grow to 30GW by 2025.
While this is a huge leap from the negligible 10MW currently turning in South Africa, the country's wind resource is estimated at over 50GW. And, according to SAWEA, 28 local and international developers have applied to state utility Eskom for grid connections for more than 10.5GW power. The rush was sparked by the introduction last year of a generous feed-in tariff of ZAR 1.25/kWh (EUR0.134/kWh) for 20 years (Windpower Monthly, May 2009).
But before anyone can apply for the tariff, the industry wants clear rules setting out how projects will be selected, if some form of buying limit is introduced as seems likely, and who the buyer will be. At present, Eskom acts as both producer and buyer of electricity, raising concerns over conflict of interest, such as how it will allocate access to the grid. It now seems probable the government will establish an independent system and market operator to act as a single buyer. Initially, it will sit as an independent organisation within Eskom, eventually evolving into a separate body, the government says.
Some details of the procurement process are also becoming clearer. Davin Chown of Ireland-based Mainstream Renewable Power says that, in August, Eskom's single buyer's office (SBO) will launch a pre-qualification round for independent power producers. By early November, possibly, the SBO will invite successful candidates to submit bids, giving them the connection agreements, power purchase agreement (PPA) and a map of all substations and associated costs, he says.
The next question is how much the SBO will buy. Under the first integrated resource plan, the government must have 1.025GW of wind power up and running by 2013 and, while the end figure may be higher, says Chown, it will still fall far short of the 10.5GW of grid applications. Like all major developers with projects in late-stage development, Chown says Mainstream Renewables will be pushing hard to secure a place in the first round. The company already has planning consent for the first 16 turbines of a proposed 165MW facility at Jeffrey's Bay in Eastern Cape province, plus over 3GW under development.
Umoya Energy of Cape Town has progressed a 100MW project at Hopefield, Western Cape province and, once the PPA is signed, it could be operational within 12 months, the firm says. Before that, however, Electrawinds of Belgium will complete its 45MW Port Elizabeth facility at Eastern Cape. The company will not have to wait to sign a PPA under the feed-in tariff, but is negotiating to sell its output to a third party under what is called the "willing seller, willing buyer" system. The first Vestas 1.8MW unit was installed in time to power the town's football stadium during the World Cup.


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Ann Pettway faces at least 10 years in prison
Ann Pettway's 14-year-old son just wants his mother back.
Since she was arrested in January 2011 for kidnapping a baby girl from Harlem Hospital 23 years earlier, Pettway's son, Trevon, has been moved from his home in North Carolina to stay with relatives in Bridgeport, a place he disliked so much he begged his mother to move down south to get away. He has become a target of kids in his neighborhood and school, who pick on him because of his mother's actions. And family members now taking care of him say he is scared about being without his mother for so many years.
Pettway, 51, will be sentenced to at least 10 years in federal prison Monday and faces as many as 20 years to life behind bars after pleading guilty earlier this year to kidnapping three-week-old Carlina White and raising her in Bridgeport as Nejdra Nance.
Trevon grew up with Nejdra and said he still sees her as a sister, he said in a handwritten letter to U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel, who will sentence Pettway on Monday in New York. He keeps in touch with Nance by phone, Trevon said.
"I feel sad my mother is not her mother," Trevon said in the letter. "But I don't want anyone to take my mother away from me either."
Pettway, in a letter she wrote to Castel from prison, said her biggest concern now, is for her son.
"I feel so awful. ... Because of my conduct, his life was disrupted," Pettway wrote. "I took away some of his childhood. He struggles now and I can't really reach him or help, especially from here."
Trevon's father is disabled and cannot take care of Trevon alone.
Pettway's attorneys said their client, who has apologized and taken blame for the kidnapping, now knows some of the pain White's parents felt without their daughter.
In his letter, Trevon also disputed claims that Pettway was a bad mother to him and Nejdra. He said he never saw or heard any abuse, despite media reports that Nejdra grew up in a bad home.
"My mother was and still is a fantastic mother," Trevon said. "Ever since I can remember my mother and Nejdra never fought or argued."
Now 25, White has been reunited with her real parents, New York residents Carl Tyson and Joy White, but the relationship between them has strained since the January 2011 reunion, which drew headlines and television coverage across the world. She is living in Georgia, and has gone back to the name Pettway gave her, Nejdra, or Netty for short.
Cassandra Johnson, Nance's 45-year-old aunt, also lives in Georgia and sees her often, according to a letter Johnson wrote to Castel to support her sister. She said Nance's young daughter, Samani, talks to Pettway on the phone and exchanges letters with her.
According to Pettway's attorneys, Nance didn't cooperate with them or prosecutors and said she didn't want anything to do with the case. A Lifetime movie is in production about her story.
In a sentencing memorandum released Thursday, federal prosecutors called for a sentence of 20 years in prison, more than seven years longer than the recommended maximum sentence from the February plea agreement.
"For 23 years, the defendant constructed a web of lies that denied (Carlina White) the truth about her family," federal prosecutors Andrea Surratt and Jillian Berman wrote. "The defendant's actions also separated (her) from her parents -- and kept them apart for the daughter's entire childhood and young adulthood -- causing immeasurable pain to the parents."
Tyson said Pettway "took a piece of him," and has asked for the judge to sentence Pettway to 23 years in prison, one year for each year he was without his daughter. White said she suffered numerous mental breakdowns during the time she was without her daughter.
Pettway's public defenders asked for 10 years in prison in a court document filed Tuesday, saying Pettway's crime was because of "a unique set of circumstances," including "her young age, serial miscarriages, and mental breakdown," that they say will never happen again.
"While there is no excuse for her crime, the Court should consider that she was a caring mother to Nejdra. Ann Pettway will never re-offend," her attorneys Robert Baum, Sabrina Shorff and Colleen Cassidy wrote.
Pettway and her attorneys said she kidnapped the girl because she was depressed, was dealing with mental illness and thought she would never be able to have a child of her own following several miscarriages.
"I felt defective and unworthy," Pettway said in a handwritten letter to Castel. "I was a very sick and selfish person who felt the urge to fill that empty void inside of me."
Pettway expressed remorse for taking not allowing Nance to grow up with her real parents.
"Because of my actions so many lives were hurt," Pettway wrote. "I still love Nejdra. All I can do now is ask for forgiveness from her and her parents."
Prosecutors disputed the claim that Pettway was a caring mother, citing her five criminal convictions and admitted use of drugs.
"This suggests a home life more turbulent and far less supportive than the defendant suggests," prosecutors said.
Pettway's attorney said the convictions were for minor offenses, including attempted embezzlement in a case where she took jeans and a belt from her workplace for her son.
Sentencing is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Monday at the federal courthouse in Manhattan, near Foley Square.
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The University of California, Santa Barbara has a website for The American Presidency Project with a nifty search engine if you are looking for public presidential documents online. The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs has an ongoing multimedia project involving presidents. Its site contains several links to useful resources.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Public Presidential Documents Online
Posted by Robert L. Tsai at 5:00 AM
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2 comments:
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
Thanks for this. An especially valuable part of the website it that they have uploaded The Public Papers of the Presidents:
Hoover to Bush (1929-1993), and The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents:
Clinton - Obama (1993-2009). When you need an authoritative copy of the text of a speech for research or course use, the site is so much easier to access that the original print Public Papers of the Presidents.
- April 23, 2009 at 11:52:00 AM EDT
- Robert L. Tsai said...
Amen to that!
- April 24, 2009 at 3:19:00 PM EDT
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Lady Jane: Portrait of a peacenik
Jane Foster lives with her husband of 50 years in a white cottage with yellow trim, nestled in a woody grove. You'd expect her to be on the local neighborhood association to preserve this serene little hamlet. Well, she is. She's the secretary, as a matter of fact.
What you might not expect is to see this septuagenarian on the front page of the Daily Progress protesting the war with Iraq. But on January 19, that's where she was. Jane Foster has spent a lifetime speaking out about her political beliefs. Activism, so often associated with the young fast crowd, is a way of life for the 78-year-old former social worker.
"All the organizations that try to make the world better, we usually belong to them," Foster says. Nationally, that includes the League of Women Voters and the NAACP. Locally, Foster is a member of the board of directors for the Monticello Area Community Action Agency, or MACAA.
"It's an anti-poverty agency," Foster explains. One of MACAA's programs, Head Start, works with three- and four-year-old underprivileged children whose parents are often working too many hours (at less than living wage, another of Foster's pet issues) to prepare them for elementary school.
Although Head Start has struggled in the past few years, things are looking up. "In the last summer, we were completely approved in everything," Foster says. "Now they consider us an excellent example."
All these good works keep Foster and her husband, Eugene, busy. "There's so many meetings, my kids all tease us," she says. Eugene– who had his own moments of fame in the fall of 1998 when he put together the pieces of the Jefferson-Hemings DNA puzzle– spends some of his retirement leisure recording for the blind.
Protesting the war with Iraq has kept Foster especially busy. She's still staunchly against the war, even now as the fighting winds down. She doesn't buy the administration's story that Saddam Hussein was a threat to national security.
"Of course it was a trumped-up excuse," she says. "There was no justification for it. We can't stop Bush and his men from doing what they want to do. I think people of conscience have to speak up," she says.
One place you wouldn't find Foster was in the middle of the Ridge, Main, and South streets intersection on March 20, where anti-war protesters snarled traffic for nine minutes.
"Passive resistance has a lot of different forms," she says, adding, "I'm pretty bourgeois and older. I'm not trying to irritate." Foster includes her work with MACAA and other organizations as forms of resistance. For her, resistance is a way of life.


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Cock-A-Doodle-Doo: Dialects of the Rooster
filed in Animals, Language, Misc. on Oct.22, 2008
Did you know that roosters in other parts of the world speak a different language than roosters in America?
A few weeks ago, I made the mistake of using the word "cock-a-doodle-doo" with my European friends, and they had a good laugh at that ridiculous word. "Why?" I asked. "What do roosters say where you come from?"
I got a wide range of different answers.
"Kukeleku, of course" said Sietse my Dutch friend.
"Cocorico," said Diane my French friend.
"Kickeriki," said my Italian friend Hans who comes from the part of Italy where they speak German.
"Quiquiriquí," said Iñake, my friend from the Basque region of Spain.
"Wo-wo-wo!," said my Swedish-Chinese friend Tee, who speaks seven languages. (She was referring to the Mandarin word there.) She added: "In Swedish, we say Kuckeliku."
All of these words, of course, refer to the same exact rooster crow that we all know. Every language in the world creates different onomatopoeia for the same sound, thus all the different words. I had my friends write down how they spelled the rooster noise in my little notebook, and I laughed at all the different spellings.
But the thing that is most interesting to me is that the way that the word is written and pronounced changes the speaker's perceptions of the original sound.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has agreed to sell its stakes in an Australian liquefied natural gas project to the Kuwaiti Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company for $1.135 billion (840 million euros).
Shell announced Monday it is selling its eight percent stake in the Wheatstone-Iago joint venture and its 6.4 percent interest in the Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project.
Shell CEO Ben van Beurden says in a statement the company is "making hard choices in our world-wide portfolio to improve Shell's capital efficiency."
The state-run Kuwaiti company already is a partner in the Wheatstone joint venture.
Last Friday, Shell warned that its fourth-quarter profit will be worse than most analysts expected due to lower production higher costs and a worse performance by its refining division.


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Guest poem submitted by Stefan Bartels:
(Poem #1457) Spring Song, Meirionydd
A white combustion rules these fields, and testifies to men, and rams; the mind of winter thaws, and yields-- Great God, the world is drunk with lambs. The high grey stone is clean of snows, the streams come tumbling, far from dams; the wind is green, the day's eye grows-- Great God, the world is drunk with lambs. The heart, gone light as all the ewes, redounds with milk, and epigrams that make no sense; except their news-- Great God, the world is drunk with lambs. In gold October, grown to size, they'll know the hook, and hang with hams, but March is all their enterprise-- Great God, the world is drunk with lambs.
While staying at a school in North Wales on an exchange program, I stumbled upon this poem in an old school reader. I haven't been able to find any information about John Dressel -- the name doesn't sound Welsh, anyway -- but the poem still reminds me of the lambing on the Welsh hillsides in late February and early March. The world is really "drunk with lambs" then. Dressel maintains a fine balance between a nature poem and an ironic, sceptical poem. Nature is abundant, but man is always in the picture from the second line in the first to the second line in the fourth stanza. Seemingly a negligible detail, man is yet the most momentous influence on the life of lambs, which, I think, come across more as ignorant than innocent in this poem. The buoyant rhythm and indomitable metaphors keep this poem from being just another complaint about cruelty to animals. It is uplifting, not pessimistic. Stefan. [Minstrels Links] Wales: Poem #14, Prologue -- Dylan Thomas Poem #138, Fern Hill -- Dylan Thomas Poem #175, I am Taliesin -- Anon. (Welsh, 13th century) Poem #270, Under Milk Wood -- Dylan Thomas Poem #333, Gnomic Stanzas -- Anon. (Welsh, 12th century) Poem #374, Psalm Of the Valleys -- Alex Pascall Lambs, sheep and other Similar Characters: Poem #120, The Purple Cow -- Gelett Burgess Poem #424, The Moonsheep -- Christian Morgenstern Poem #507, The Sheep-Child -- James Dickey Poem #1080, The Lama -- Ogden Nash


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The San Antonio Symphony has announced that Saturday, May 25, 2013 will be the date for the third PRO-AM. The deadline for applying is April 22. Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing will lead the Pros and the Ams in selections from The Planets. The photo on the right is from last year's Pro-Am.
Here are the details from the Symphony's web site:
Dust off that instrument case, put some rosin on your bow, get a new box of reeds, and oil those valves! It's time to start practicing again for the 2013 Symphony PRO-AM. Submit your application now for an eye-opening opportunity to rehearse and perform with the Symphony and Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing on Saturday, May 25, 2013. The day's events will take place at Trinity University's Laurie Auditorium and will feature the following repertoire:
Gustav Holst selections from The Planets
Tentative schedule for Sat., May 25:
10:00 am Full-Orchestra Rehearsal
12:00 pm Lunch (to be provided)
1:00 pm Sectionals coached by Symphony musicians
2:00 pm Full-Orchestra Rehearsal
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm PRO-AM Performance (FREE admission)
1) Fill out the online application form. Space is limited, so register early!
2) Participants must be age 22 or older, able to read music and play a standard orchestral instrument.
3) The deadline for registration will be Monday, April 22, 2013 at 5:00 pm.
4) All applicants will be informed of their status on or before April 26, 2013 via email.
5) Confirmed participants will be required to pay a non-refundable registration fee to the San Antonio Symphony in the amount of $35 and due at the time confirmation.
6) Further details will be sent to selected participants in the confirmation message.
Click here for the online application.
Please direct all inquiries to:
Jeremy Brimhall
Director of Education and Community Engagement
(210) 554-1006
This coming weekend, the San Antonio Symphony will perform Vivaldi's The Four Seasons on March 22 & 23 at the Majestic Theatre. For tickets call 210-554-1010.


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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Luis Suarez's appeal of his FIFA ban for biting an opponent at the World Cup will be decided next week.
The Uruguay and Barcelona forward attended a six-hour hearing Friday before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and gave a statement to the court. He is trying to persuade a three-person panel to reduce his ban of four months from all soccer activity,
along with nine Uruguay matches in official competitions.
The panel "informed the parties that it will issue its decision as soon as possible, probably before the end of next week."
Barcelona, which signed Suarez from Liverpool after the World Cup ended, begins the Spanish league season in two weeks.
Suarez has admitted biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini's shoulder during Uruguay's 1-0 win in Natal, Brazil. FIFA's sanction, which runs through Oct. 25, bars Suarez from training with his new teammates.
Lawyers for soccer's world governing body declined to comment on the case.
Daniel Cravo, a lawyer for the Uruguay federation, didn't attempt to predict an outcome.
"We know that it's a hard case, so it's impossible to make a prognosis on it," Cravo said after the hearing.
Because Suarez acknowledged the bite, his legal team representing his club and national federation were unlikely to challenge FIFA on the facts of the case.
"I deeply regret what occurred," Suarez wrote on Twitter on June 30, days after FIFA announced the sanctions. "(The) truth is that my colleague Giorgio Chiellini suffered the physical result of a bite in the collision he suffered with me."
Suarez's lawyers from the Uruguay soccer association and Barcelona were expected to focus on persuading the panel that the sanctions are too severe.
The international group of soccer player's unions, FIFPro, has criticized the four-month ban as an infringement of Suarez's right to work.
On Friday, FIFPro urged the court to ease the sanction by making parts of the bans conditional on future good behavior and rehabilitation.
"The educative nature of the sanction mentioned by FIFA in the (disciplinary) ruling can be much better achieved by making it partially conditional, including the obligation for Luis Suarez to receive treatment," the union said in a statement.
Suarez has trained alone with a private coach while he's barred by FIFA from Barcelona's stadium and practice grounds.
FIFA did allow Suarez to take a medical to complete his reported $126-million transfer from Liverpool last month on a five-year contract.
Suarez's ban of nine international matches is one more than FIFA imposed at the 1994 World Cup on Italy defender Mauro Tassotti for elbowing a Spanish opponent in a quarterfinal. That altercation also was missed by match officials.
Suarez's confession changed his original version of what happened. He had denied biting Chiellini in a June 25 letter to the FIFA disciplinary hearing.
"After the impact ... I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent," Suarez wrote then.
FIFA's disciplinary committee stated in its verdict that Suarez showed no remorse or awareness of having committed an offense. It rejected a proposal to impose a six-match international ban.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter later suggested the disciplinary panel took into account two previous cases of Suarez biting opponents, when playing for Ajax in 2010 and Liverpool last year.
FIFA disciplinary head Claudio Sulser insisted his panel did not made an example of Suarez.
"One thing I mentioned in my capacity as the chairman is we don't need to impose an exemplary sanction," Sulser said at a news conference in Rio de Janeiro, "we need to have justice."
CAS verdicts can be unpredictable, with each case panel composed of a different team of judges.
FIFA has sustained some defeats at the court, notably when CAS overturned former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam's life ban in 2012, and some sanctions have been reduced.
Last year, the court cut a one-year ban to six months for Morocco defender Abderrahim Achchakir for "misconduct against match officials" in a World Cup qualifying match.
In a rare ruling in March 2012, the Swiss Federal Tribunal threw out a "fundamentally unlawful" threat to ban Brazilian midfielder Matuzalem from any soccer activity, which was imposed by FIFA and had been upheld at CAS.
Suarez could later challenge the CAS verdict at the Swiss federal court, which is a much longer process.
Currently, Suarez's ban expires Oct. 25 -- the same weekend that Barcelona will visit Real Madrid in the first "clasico" of the Spanish league season. He's also set to miss three of Barcelona's six Champions League group matches.
After being sent home from the World Cup before Uruguay's second-round loss to Colombia, there's eight matches of his competitive internationals ban still to serve. That includes Uruguay's defense of the Copa America, kicking off next June in Chile,
and the start of 2018 World Cup qualifying matches next year.
"Maybe Suarez could be prevented to play until 2016," lawyer Cravo said, "which is a long journey for a player who is already 27 years old."


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August 23, 1918
Dear Mother and Father:
I may not get a chance to write to you again for a few days so I will use a little time that I have now. I wrote you a week ago and since then we have moved. It is a big job to pack up a big hospital like ours. The material had to be loaded onto trucks and carried to the depot, unloaded there and again loaded on the train. After we arrived here it had all that to go through again unloading. We are back near our first camp in France after we left the port where we landed. We will be here only a couple of days as we are awaiting orders and transportation to go on to wherever it is that we are headed for. We are not setting up the hospital here at all. It has taken a day or two since we got here to get the material straightened out.
It surely has been hot these last couple of days. We never had it so hot where we came from and I hope our final destination will not be any worse. We are not near any town. There are just a few houses gathered on one or two streets. In most of the houses I guess the people and the cows and chickens all live together. The country is hilly and beautiful, the fotthills of the [Censored] I suppose. Last night several of us took a hike up the river a little way. We found an interesting cave and some ruins. The country around here is almost no good for farming. There are no farms, just a few plum trees and pasture for the cows.
We haven't been getting any mail for a while and I suppose that it will be some time after we get settled before our mail finds us. I haven't had any for two weeks or more so I should have quite a lot coming when I do get it.
There is a large town about three miles from here but we are not permitted to go there, probably because we are expecting word to go any minute. Now that I have the time there is no place that I can go to practice. We have a phonograph which belongs to the YMCA. That is all the music we have. Some of the records are pretty fair, but altogether there are only a few.
We are all encouraged over the reports of the progress of the war these days and also over the promise of the future. Perhaps it won't be so long as I feared it might be before we are all together again. I am anxious to hear how the new business is going.
Give my regards to all.
Love from
© Copyright 2014 by Alice Kitchin Enichen, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.


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Bagel Chips From 'The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home'
Homemade bagel chips are a great way to use up stale bagels. These make for a unique substitute for croutons in Nick Zukin and Michael C. Zusman's "Diet" Salad from their new cookbook, The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home.
Reprinted with permission from The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home by Nick Zukin and Michael Zusman. Copyright 2013. Published by Andrews McMeel. All rights reserved. Available wherever books are sold.
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- Yield:Makes 40 to 50 chips
- Active time: 10 minutes
- Total time:20-25 minutes
- 2 bagels
- Vegetable oil cooking spray
- Kosher salt
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with silicone baking mats or parchment paper.
Place a bagel flat on a cutting board. Use a serrated bread knife or sharp chef's knife to slice the bagel as thinly as possible from top to bottom. Repeat with the other bagel.
Arrange the slices in a single layer on the prepared baking sheets. Evenly coat the bagel slices with the cooking spray, then turn them over and coat the other side. Lightly sprinkle the bagel slices with salt. Place in the oven and bake until lightly golden brown and beginning to crisp, 8 to 12 minutes. The bagel chips will crisp up more as they cool. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
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