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War has once again erupted between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces, with the Gaza-based militant group launching hundreds of rockets and missiles at Israeli towns. But many of these projectiles never make it to their targets, thanks to the new Iron Dome missile defense system that's arguably become this conflict's most important technological difference-maker. This article, first published in April, tracks the story of Iron Dome's most prolific "gunner." While his record for shooting down missiles and rockets has by now undoubtedly fallen, the tale still gives insight into the battle now gripping Israel and Gaza.
KFAR GVIROL, Israel – While many of the boys in Idan Yahya's high school class were buffing up and preparing themselves for selection into elite combat units, this gawky teenager was spending "a lot of time" playing Warcraft – the real-time strategy computer game where opposing players command virtual armies in a battle to dominate the fictional world of Azeroth.
Four years later, the high school jocks who sweated it out in pre-military academies so they could make the cut into the Israel Defense Force's Special Operations units are now crawling through the sand dunes on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip and watching while Idan knocks rockets out of the sky hundreds of meters above their heads. Idan Yahya, 22, an Iron Dome "gunner" in the Active Air Defense Wing 167, currently holds the record for the number of rockets intercepted: eight.
People in the army describe him variously as a geek and an ace. But the geek who grew up playing Warcraft is now a highly prized soldier on the cutting edge of real war craft. He's the Israeli army's top rocket interceptor.
The Iron Dome is a mobile anti-rocket interception system that Israel moves around the country to shoot down the rockets fired at its civilian population centers by armed groups in Gaza and southern Lebanon. Its radar picks up launches and fires interceptor missiles at them if they're calculated to be heading towards populated centers. The system has become increasingly important as Hamas, Hezbollah and other groups amass surface-to-surface missiles to hit the Israeli home front with, thus bypassing the Israel Defense Force's overwhelming advantage of concentrated firepower and fighter aircraft. Should Israel attack Iran's nuclear installations, the expected rocket reprisals from the armed groups on its borders will keep Iron Dome very, very busy.
As the war between Israelis and Arabs enters its sixth decade (or its 500th depending on who you ask), it is increasingly becoming a hi-tech rocket war. The IDF's Director of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi in February said there were 200,000 rockets aimed at Israel from the south, north and east. And in this increasingly technological battlefield of rockets, anti-rocket interceptors, radars, control rooms, drones and drone hacking, it is soldiers like Idan Yahya (and whoever his counterparts on the Arab side are) who are making the most impact.
Computer geek, keyboard combatant, soldier, call him what you will, Idan and others like him man the controls of the latest rock star in advanced military technology. "There are a lot of flashing blips, signs, symbols, colors and pictures on the screen. You look at your tactical map; see where the threat is coming from. You have to make sure you're locked onto the right target. There's a lot of information and there is very little time. It definitely reminds me of Warcraft and other online strategy games," Idan says.
The young soldier has at his console a machine of vast computing power and aerial TNT. Each Iron Dome battery is manned by a crew of 100 soldiers, including perimeter guards, working in shifts, and the entire system is connected to the larger Israeli multi-tiered air defense order of battle. The unit is a mobile battlefield installation that meshes radar information from a mini multi-mission and fire control radar, powerful networks and processors, launchers, GPS-guided rockets, and human operators pushing the buttons and making the decisions. It is the first system of its kind that is designed specifically to detect the launch and trajectory of short-range rockets, and intercept them in flight if they're deemed to be headed for a populated area.
Based on information from the Iron Dome's radar about the incoming rocket's current and projected trajectory, the processors at the BMC (Better Management Command) calculate its Ground Impact Point whether it's going to fall into an open field or an apartment building – and based on that decides whether to shoot it down or leave it alone. The incoming missile is not a static object that's being fired at, so the interceptor missile is constantly provided with updated trajectory information.
The Iron Dome's 'brain' then, and what makes it such a successful system is its powerful 'trajectory prediction mechanism,' which assesses where along the trajectory the intercept point is going to be. "When I shoot one down, I feel happy, satisfied. I try disconnect from my feelings when I'm at the controls though," Idan says.
The Iron Dome is different from the anti-ballistic systems out there for the simple reason that it's specifically designed for rockets between the 5km to 40km range, and for the other simple reason that is battle-proven and very, very successful. For short-range mortar interception there is the Phalanx [a rapid-fire cannon for close-in protection], and for the longer-range missiles there are the Patriot and Arrow interceptor systems. But there has been nothing for the shorter-range rockets in the arsenals of a variety of terror groups, militias and even some states. And nothing that has shot them out of the sky with such success.
Following the barrage of over 4,000 Grad Katyusha rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel in the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006, Israel harried through the Iron Dome from development to deployment in five years. The system's developers had to provide a solution to a challenging problem: design a rocket system that can identify a rocket launch, classify its type, calculate its trajectory, decide the level of the threat it poses, launch an interceptor missile at it, keep the interceptor locked onto the incoming rocket, and blow it out of the sky – and all within a minimum of 15 seconds and a maximum time of 40 seconds, depending on the distance from the launch source.
A long-range rocket launched from Iran, for instance, takes around 11 minutes to reach Israel; plenty of time for a Patriot or Arrow interceptor to lock onto it and shoot it down. A rocket launched from Gaza takes 15 seconds to hit Ashkelon, a city in southern Israel with a population of about 120,000 people. So the issue of speed to decision-to-interception was critical.
The Iron Dome fits snugly into the IDF's multi-tiered missile defense system and may even soon provide cover fire to some of the bigger systems that tackle rockets of the100km – 200km range, like the ones in the arsenals of Hezbollah and Syria. In an interview at the Hatzor air force base near Ashdod, Colonel Zvika Haimovich, commander of the Israel Air Force's Active Defense Wing, tells Danger Room that all of the air defense systems in Israel's arsenal "talk to each other" through a network in order to provide the best possible answer to incoming rocket fire. The systems share data on the ballistic picture, about which targets are in the line of fire, and about which system is to be set into motion. "Our battles are going to be more multi-arena and multi-dimensional. In the past, if you wanted to protect Tel-Aviv from rocket attack, you only had to look east. Now you need to look to Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza also," Haimovich says.
The Iron Dome has been so successful in its last round of deployment – interceptors shot down over 60 rockets headed for populated areas, at a success rate of 80 percent – that the Israeli government has asked the U.S. administration for money to fund additional batteries. According to reports here, the Israelis are asking for 700 million shekels (about $ 206 million), in addition to the $200 million the Obama administration has already provided for Iron Dome development. It costs $45 million to produce an Iron Dome battery and every Tamir interceptor missile fired at a Grad or Kassam rocket costs 40,000 dollars. There are 20 Tamir interceptors per battery (the Grads and Kassams they shoot down cost about $ 1,000 each; you do the math). There are currently four operational Iron Dome batteries deployed in Israel, with the last one coming online on Thursday, April 5, in the presence of U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro, whose boss provided much of the funding for the Iron Dome project as a whole.
Shapiro, making a visit to the newly operational battery on Thursday, tells Danger Room that the Pentagon and the Israeli Ministry of Defense were in talks about finding the money to help Israel build more of the machines. Israeli officials say they'll need about 14 Iron Domes to provide countrywide security against short-range rockets - that's another 10 systems. The Obama administration is keen to secure the funds, for several reasons, chiefly because, as Shapiro says, "the U.S. is committed to Israel's security," but also, as some analysts in Israel put it, because Obama wants to use funding for the Iron Dome as a carrot to entice Israel not to attack Iran's nuclear installations.
Shapiro also did not rule out that funding the Iron Dome for the Israelis would be less of a donation and more of an investment in the possible future use of the system "in other theaters." But funding another 10 more Iron Dome batteries, at a base cost of some $450 million might be beyond even a President who swears he's "got Israel's back." In lieu of finding that kind of money, the Israelis are now working on increasing the Iron Dome's range from its current 70km maximum to 250km – that way it can cover more of the small country without having to necessarily buy and build a lot more of the interceptor batteries. Officers involved in the project say increasing Iron Dome's range is possible, but it remains to be seen how quickly and effectively this can be done.
"The Iron Dome saves lives, pure and simple," says the U.S. ambassador, adding that he believes there will be "very strong support in Congress" for Israel's funding request. "We're very proud to support this technology, which is an Israeli-developed technology, because of the acute threat of missiles fired by terrorist organizations against civilian populations here in Israel. It's proven itself as an effective technology that's reached 80 percent success rate in its most recent round. There is certainly the possibility that this technology could have other uses in other theaters, but I think that's something for military professionals in Israel, the United States and many other countries who may have an interest to discuss. Our focus right now is on supporting the acceleration of the deployment of this system because it's part of our commitment to Israel's security," Shapiro says.
While the Israeli government deals with the Pentagon and Congress, the Iron Dome operators in the field are concerned with sharpening their swords ahead of the expected next round of fighting. And for the Air Force's Haimovich, that's less about technology, and more about soldiering.
"You need fighters; people who know how to use the technology, and even take decisions that go against the system's recommendations. My Iron Dome operators are all fighters, and sure, many of them probably played PlayStation and computer games in their teens before they got to my unit. But now we train them to look at a very complex ballistic picture, with a lot of information about targets and threats, a lot in the air, to decide which target is more threatened and which is less, to know how to communicate with other systems online, and to take decisions in a matter of seconds under conditions of extreme stress and with a lot of unknowns. Being a techie is no longer something to be ashamed of, no longer a dirty word, in the IDF. These teenagers who get drafted into the army need to be able to thrive in a technological environment," says Haimovich.
And this is specifically what Idan Yahya, the IDF's ace rocket interceptor, is so very good at.
With four months to of his mandatory service left, Idan says he's going to sign up for the permanent force and become an air defense instructor at the army Command and Staff College's air defense simulator. He's going to train the next generation of interceptors on a big simulator. Or in other words, he's going back to play Warcraft.


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ATLANTA (AP) — Tiffany Hayes believes the Atlanta Dream now understand what coach Michael Cooper expects of them defensively.
"We always take it upon ourselves to have a good defensive game because we know that's what creates our offense," Hayes said. "We definitely wanted to work hard on the defensive end tonight."
Angel McCoughtry scored 12 of her 22 points in the third quarter, Hayes added 17 points and the Atlanta Dream beat the Connecticut Sun 83-71 on Tuesday night.
The Dream (13-5) have won two straight and four of five, retaining their 4 1/2-game lead over Indiana in the Eastern Conference. The Fever beat Tulsa 78-76.
Atlanta's defense held Connecticut to 39 percent from the field, dropping the Sun to 1-7 this year when they finish under 40 percent.
"We did a good job defensively on certain players, limiting their shots," Cooper said. "Each game is important for us because it's leading us on the path to where we want to end up, and that's a championship."
Sun rookie Chiney Ogwumike, the WNBA's No. 1 overall draft pick, finished with 19 points and 12 rebounds and Alex Bentley added 19 points. Connecticut (9-11) has lost five of six and dropped into a tie for third place in the East with Chicago, 5 games behind Atlanta.
"I made a personal goal to play harder in the second half and had the support of my teammates," Ogwumike said. "But I think (the Dream) controlled the tempo because they played like a team, they celebrated together, and that's one thing that we're trying to do consistently. They did it for 40 minutes. We did it for about 25 minutes."
The Sun's Katie Douglas, who began the game with 27 3-pointers in her last 10 games, hit her third 3 to cut lead to 51-43 midway through the third, but Connecticut never got any closer.
Atlanta went on a 16-6 run that included seven points and two rebounds by McCoughtry and Shoni Schimmel's 3-pointer.
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The late, great Tommy Cooper was one of the most recognisable comedians in the world, his frantic act a perfectly delivered mixture of jokes and calamitous magic tricks that rarely failed to raise a laugh. I remember watching him as a kid, mesmerised, fully convinced that he was never out of character, that actually there was no character — in my mind, Tommy Cooper always wore a fez, even at home; the grin, the props, the one-liners a constant. Which is why this joke-filled letter, written by Tommy to his mum at some point in the 1970s, on fez stationery, fills me with joy.
Transcript follows (with mistakes, as the second line of Tommy's letter seems a little mangled. Not important, though). From the wonderful book, Tommy Cooper 'Jus' Like That!': A Life in Jokes and Pictures.
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Dear Mum,
How nice to hear you are getting on so well! Looking forward very much to seeing you and have a nice long rest with us Jan. All day yesterday, I heard a ringing in my ears — Then I picked up the phone and it stopped. I was going to see my doctor, but he isn't a very good doctor. All his patients are sick. Dove & myself are on a new diet. We eat our breakfast in the raw. Then we eat our lunch raw. For dinner we put on clothes.
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"I don't know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this is a gigantic case of it," presidential spokesman Tony Snow said.
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has scheduled hearings on Bush's commutation of Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence.
"Well, fine, knock himself out," Snow said of Conyers. "I mean, perfectly happy. And while he's at it, why doesn't he look at January 20th, 2001?"
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In the closing hours of his presidency, Clinton pardoned 140 people, including fugitive financier Marc Rich.
The former president tried to draw a distinction between the pardons he granted, and Bush's decision to commute Libby's 30-month sentence in the CIA leak case.
"I think there are guidelines for what happens when somebody is convicted," Clinton told a radio interviewer Tuesday. "You've got to understand, this is consistent with their philosophy; they believe that they should be able to do what they want to do, and that the law is a minor obstacle."
Sen. Clinton, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said the Libby decision "was clearly an effort to protect the White House. ... There isn't any doubt now, what we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the vice president, or maybe the president as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent."
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Former Vice President Al Gore said he found the Bush decision "disappointing" and said he did not think it was comparable to Clinton's pardons. Video: Al Gore on son, future and concerts
"It's different because in this case the person involved is charged with activities that involved knowledge of what his superiors in the White House did," Gore said on NBC's "Today" show Thursday.
Snow also tried to clear up confusion about Libby's probation. While commuting Libby's sentence in terms of prison time, Bush left in place his two years of supervised release. But supervised release - a form of probation - is only available to people who have served prison time. Without prison, it's unclear what happens next.
Snow said the White House view was this: "You treat it as if he has already served the 30 months, and probation kicks in. Obviously, the sentencing judge will figure out precisely how that works."
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, earlier this week, said the law "does not appear to contemplate a situation in which a defendant may be placed under supervised release without first completing a term of incarceration."
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- 1¼kg lean beef mince
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Tip the mince into a large bowl with the onion, breadcrumbs, cheese, parsley, Worcestershire sauce, egg, chilli powder, ½ tsp salt and some pepper. Mix together well with your hands, then divide the mixture into 10 and shape into burgers.
Bring 2 large saucepans of water to the boil (or prepare the chips in batches if you don't have enough big pans). Add the chips, bring the water back to the boil and set your timer for 3 mins. After 3 mins, drain the potatoes well and tip onto one or two large kitchen-papercovered trays. Scatter with the flour and some seasoning and gently toss to coat.
Freeze the burgers and chips (see freezing tips, below) or, to cook straight away, heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. In a baking tray, toss the chips in a little oil, then roast for 35-40 mins until crisp and golden. Meanwhile, heat a griddle pan, grill or barbecue until hot, then cook the burgers for about 5-8 mins on each side, or until cooked to your liking. Sandwich the burgers in toasted buns with salad and sauces, then serve with the chips.
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Cooking from frozenFor best results, defrost the burgers overnight in the fridge, then cook as per the recipe. But if you forget, you can just cook everything from frozen. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and spread the burgers and chips out on separate oven trays. Cook the chips as before until golden and crisp, shaking halfway, and the burgers for 40 mins, turning halfway, until the centre is hot.
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How to freezeTip portions of the floured chips straight into freezer bags, then seal to freeze. Stack burgers between squares of baking parchment in a container or on a tray wrapped in cling film – the parchment will stop the burgers sticking together (but don't use greaseproof). Then simply remove as many burgers as you need at one time and re-cover the rest.


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Mount Yale Climber's Log
shansen - Aug 8, 2005 11:18 pmRoute Climbed: East Ridge / Descent East Flanke Date Climbed: July 29, 2005
On a beautiful summer day with no afternoon thunderstorms, conditions are perfect for a fun ridge run. No snow on the route, and we descended the curving east flank (which drops towards the kroenke lake route saddle and then bends due east) and then dropped down the aspen filled gully to the lake to regain the standard route.
HeatherF - Jul 25, 2005 6:02 pmRoute Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: August 1, 2004
Nice ridge to the top.
alpine master - Jul 24, 2005 5:21 pmRoute Climbed: SW Slopes Date Climbed: Oct. 10th 2003
steep hike to a cool summit.
jnoffsinger - Jul 17, 2005 11:06 pmRoute Climbed: North Cottonwood Trailhead Date Climbed: June 22, 2005
Left at 4:00 AM. Reached Kroenke Lake at sunrise. Beautiful view. Overshot the trail up to ridge. Renamed Point 13,605 to Ball Point in honor of my alma mater, Ball State University. Our acedemic standards were much lower than Yale! Made the mistake of traversing the south slope to summit. Stay on the ridge to avoid very loose scree. Met Meagan Emmons mother on top. Her daughter holds the record for the youngest to summit all 54 peaks at age 7. Descending the East ridge, which was much safer than western approach. Completed the loop to Silver Creek Trailhead. Long day...11 hours of hiking, but well worth it at the end of the day.
skiitswitch - Jul 14, 2005 7:43 pmRoute Climbed: from Denny Gulch TH, southwest slopes Date Climbed: July 10, 2005
gorgeous day... trip report to come. Wow, I liked the super-steep straight up section on this mountain. I made summit in about 3 hrs, some others I talked to in about 4.
doumall - Jul 13, 2005 2:50 pmRoute Climbed: Southwest Slopes Date Climbed: June, 4 2004
13th 14er!
CWFry - Jul 11, 2005 5:06 pmRoute Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: 7/1/05
Nice climb, good trainer for some of the harder stuff. Great views. All around good day.
F Bomb - Jun 27, 2005 9:03 amRoute Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: June 25, 2005
Great climb, one of my favorite 14ers thus far. Great views from the summit, fun scrambling from the saddle to the summit. What looked to be a rainy day cleared up and was beautiful. 6.5 hours total time.
ktiffany22 - Jun 20, 2005 7:18 pmRoute Climbed: Southwest Slopes Date Climbed: June 18, 2005
WOW! What an amazing day to climb! There was not a cloud in the sky! It was a WARM hike, and we spent 2 hours on the summit! There's nothing like a beautiful kick back day on the summit of a mountain with good company:-) The glassade down was incredible! Very smooth, good speed, and had fun belly-flopping and going backwards!
Brian Kalet - Apr 14, 2005 3:10 pmRoute Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: August 29, 2004
Sweet Climb!
James C - Apr 4, 2005 7:17 pmRoute Climbed: Denny Creek Date Climbed: July 6, 2004
Fun Climb. Did more on the legs than I expected. Best part is from the saddle to the summit, the rock hopping is great. Sweet view from summit
Old Ickabod - Mar 30, 2005 6:38 pmRoute Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: August 2003
Solo Trip - Steeper than I expected, but a great hike. Reached the summit by 11am and still got caught in rain, thunder, and lightning above and below treeline. Wow, that thunder rocked me! Good times!
altitude14er - Mar 20, 2005 7:56 pmRoute Climbed: Denny Creek Trailhead Date Climbed: 10/2004
Little snow existed this early October and the hike was steep and short
edlins - Mar 20, 2005 12:51 pmRoute Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: March 19, 2005
Beautiful winter day (technically), felt like spring, nice long hike, fun!!
bigwilly - Mar 10, 2005 9:36 pmRoute Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: September 26, 2004
My sixth Fourteener. It was the most spectacular view I've ever seen from the summit of a fourteener. It was a beautiful day for the aspens to. A great climb that's well worth the more than 4,000 ft. of climbing.
Asphazell - Mar 1, 2005 12:31 pmRoute Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: November 2003
Nice trail but becomes very steep up to the summit ridge! Some fun scrambling on the ridge heading east to the summit. Many opt to simply go around the scrambling section just below and south of the ridge.
Ratballs - Feb 22, 2005 4:48 pmRoute Climbed: from Avalanche Gulch trailhead via East Ridge Date Climbed: May, 2002
Climbed this as an overnight, with my roomie. We camped on the nub atop the east ridge, at about 12,000 feet. Pitched a tent but didn't use it. We should have, as I was woken in the middle of the night by a pika gnawing on the side of my Thermarest. Bloody rodents: not only did it ruin that night's sleep, but it took me a month to find and patch all the holes.
ColoradoScott - Feb 3, 2005 12:38 pmRoute Climbed: South Slopes from Denny Gulch Date Climbed: June 28, 1986
As I remember, it was a beautiful early summer day and once we left the timberline the trail faded out, but we continued up the steep tundra to the saddle south of the summit and then made our way to the top. On the descent we didn't locate the start of the trail at timberline, but found it thru the trees down near the brook where we had left it.
wwells - Feb 2, 2005 1:17 amRoute Climbed: Southwest Slopes Date Climbed: August 3, 2004
Weather conditions deteriorated rapidly once I got onto Yale's steep southwest shoulder. The wind and sleet were challenging, as was the short scramble to the summit. Great views of Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton from the top once the clouds cleared.


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Sometimes being a superhero is hard work though. There are snakes to catch, things to cut. Coyote poop to walk through (inside story)......see those boots?
And sometimes, after all that hard work, the only course of action is a quick nap.
It's not easy being a super hero, you know.
Moxie Mona is on the East Coast today before heading back here to California. I wonder if the leaves have changed yet. Let's go see!
Maryland: Twofer the Price of One
New York: Yaya Stuff
New Jersey: Project Mommyhood
Connecticut: Always Home and Uncool
Rhode Island: Loving Mom Two Boys and A Wrinkle in Time New Hampshire: One Dream, Two Hearts Massachusetts: Jiggety Jigg
And, returning to California: The Scattered Mind of a Tattooed Minivan Mom, Ummmm, and Under the Sheets-shhh
This has been so much fun. I hope you enjoyed getting around the blogosphere as much as I have. Thank you so much for all of your participation. It truly was appreciated. And enjoyed.
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Installation instructions
sudo wget -O /etc/zypp/repos.d/openproject-ce.repo \ https://dl.packager.io/srv/opf/openproject-ce/stable/7/installer/sles/12.repo sudo zypper install openproject
OpenProject Community Edition Build repository for versions 6.x to 8.3.2.
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This is the OpenProject community archive that existed to build bundled OpenProject core and plugins for packaged installations. All new releases will be available at our main OpenProject GitHub project.
What is the difference between opf/openproject-ce and opf/openproject ?
The split between historic reasons. opf/openproject was only the core without community plugins such as costs, backlogs, etc. They were developed in separate Git repositories and then merged into opf/openproject-ce to build the full edition.
With 9.0., we're going to remove openproject-ce so it will only remain for legacy and previous installations. From 9.0. on, all packages will be released at our main OpenProject GitHub project.
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Love the crust? Eat up! It's a solid source of heart-smart folate.
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings
- Dough
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose enriched flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Vegetable oil cooking spray
- Topping
- 1 pound red and yellow cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/2 pound turkey sausage, cooked and thinly sliced
- 1 cup grated part-skim mozzarella
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- Mix flour, yeast and salt in a bowl. Gradually add 1/2 cup warm (110°F) water until a soft dough forms. Divide dough into 4 portions. Using hands, roll dough into balls. Coat with cooking spray, cover with plastic wrap and set aside to rise, 30 to 45 minutes. When ready to cook, place each ball of dough on a piece of wax paper and flatten into a 4-inch circle. Coat grill with cooking spray and heat on high. Gently place dough onto grill and cook until dough puffs and underside stiffens (about 30 seconds); flip and reduce heat to low. Mix topping ingredients, then divide among crusts. Cover grill. Cook until cheese melts, 5 to 6 minutes more. Slice and serve.
Nutritional analysis per serving: 391 calories, 15 g fat (5.4 g saturated), 36 g carbs, 2.8 g fiber, 26 g protein


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Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures
Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures
World Languages: LOTE - 2019/2020 HonoreesJuly 10, 2020
Office Closure NoticeMarch 19, 2020
COVID-19 Resources
Welcome to the Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures. We teach the languages, literatures, and cultures of French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian-speaking people to undergraduate and graduate students at California State University, Long Beach. The department also offers courses in Arabic as part of its commitment to language education. Our mission is to deliver the highest quality instruction in the various disciplines we teach. Our professors have expertise in a wide range of geographical, temporal, and methodological arenas, which allows us to have broad-based curricula in our minor, major, and Master's programs.
We are proud to include among our student body many future and current teachers, as well as future and current translators, editors, journalists, business people, geographers, anthropologists, linguists, professional writers, non-profit administrators, and numerous other professionals.
We have four B.A. programs in our department: French, German, Italian Studies, and Spanish. We offer minors in all of those areas, as well as in Russian. Our commitment to educating teachers for the state of California is seen in our Single Subject Credential in Languages Other than English (LOTE), which includes credentials in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Our courses also support related programs such as: Latin American Studies, International Business, International Studies, and History.
Our commitment to scholarly and instructional excellence is seen in the training the Department provides for prospective foreign language teachers and instructors K-16; future PhD students in French, Spanish, German, Romance Languages, Linguistics, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies; language professionals in translation, interpretation, travel-related disciplines, and technical writing.
Our faculty members represent some of the best teacher-scholars in the profession. High standards are maintained through excellence in teaching, scholarly contributions, and active service to the university, profession, and community. The Department considers teaching and scholarship to be of primary and equal importance. We place a high value on activities that integrate teaching and scholarship, and promote research activities that combine these two important components of the department's commitment to excellence in higher education.
We invite you to explore our website to learn more about the educational and professional opportunities that studying language, literature, and culture can bring you. We also invite you to click here to learn more about the student learning outcomes for all of our programs.
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McNicol Middle School Named Finalist in National Middle School Kindness Challenge
Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) congratulates McNicol Middle School for being named one of 10 national finalists in the Middle School Kindness Challenge. McNicol Middle was selected as a finalist from 600 schools across the country that participated. For being named a finalist, McNicol Middle receives $1,000 to support activities promoting kindness at the school.
"We are honored to be named a national finalist in the Middle School Kindness Challenge," said McNicol Middle School Principal Melissa Gurreonero. "We believe, we have the responsibility to not only educate our students with regards to academics, but to also support our students social and emotional needs to help them grow into positive members of our community. By fostering and teaching students about kindness, and its lasting impact on others, we are creating well-rounded citizens."
The goal of the Middle School Kindness Challenge is to improve school climates by providing a no-cost, user-friendly platform for teachers to access high-quality, easy-to-implement lessons that help students strengthen peer relationships, build empathy and develop a positive mindset.
As part of McNicol Middle's Kindness Challenge, students collected personal care items such as soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo and conditioner for Broward County Outreach Center, which provides resources and support to the homeless and those in need. In addition, students participated in weekly classroom activities, such as One Word, in which students wrote down a positive word about another student – and then shared the note with the student. "Students enjoyed reading positive words about themselves and were happy to see their peers say positive things about them," said Melissa Goulet, McNicol Middle's Kindness Captain.
To learn more about the Middle School Kindness Challenge, visit kindnesschallenge.com
Pictured above: McNicol Middle School Students Participating in the Middle School Kindness Challenge
"Committed to educating all students to reach their highest potential."
Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) is the sixth-largest school district in the nation and the second-largest in the state of Florida. BCPS is Florida's first fully accredited school system since 1962. BCPS has more than 271,500 students and approximately 175,000 adult students in 234 schools, centers and technical colleges, and 88 charter schools. BCPS serves a diverse student population, with students representing 204 different countries and 191 different languages. Connect with BCPS: visit the website at browardschools.com, follow BCPS on Twitter @browardschools and Facebook atfacebook.com/browardschools, and download the free BCPS mobile app.


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A new national survey shows that 62% of adults who are currently employed use the internet or email at work and they have mixed views about the impact of technology on their work lives.
On the one hand, they cite the benefits of increased connectivity and flexibility that the internet and all of their various gadgets afford them at work. On the other hand, many workers say these tools have added stress and new demands to their lives.
This survey also finds that 96% of those who work use the internet, email or have a cell phone for some purpose in their lives, even if those things are not specifically tied to work. We call this larger group "Wired and Ready Workers." When they are asked about the impact of these technologies on their work lives:
* 80% say these technologies have improved their ability to do their job.
* 73% say these technologies have improved their ability to share ideas with co-workers.
* 58% say these tools have allowed them more flexibility in the hours they work.
For the full report please visit:
About the Pew Internet & American Life Project: The Pew Internet Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Internet explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. Support for the project is provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The project's Web site: http://www.pewinternet.org/
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Pew Internet Research Releases Network Worker Report
A new national survey shows that 62% of adults who are currently employed use the internet or email at work and they have mixed views about the impact of technology on their work lives.
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Call for Nominations for 2008 AIIP Technology Award
The Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP - http://www.aiip.org/) is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for our ninth annual AIIP Technology Award.
Members and non-members alike are welcome to nominate any company or individual that produces information products (databases, web organizers, Internet sites) as an entry in the competition via a short and simple nominations form found online.
There will be two categories; one for web based services and another for desktop software. Successful entries in each category will be new or revamped products or technologies that help information professionals with their day-to-day operations in locating, analyzing and organizing information. The product must be related to the information field; AIIP does not consider accounting, word-processing, database or spreadsheet, or other programs not directly related to locating, analyzing, or organizing data appropriate for this award.
The deadline for nominations is October 10, 2008.
You will find more information about the AIIP Tech Award and access to the simple nomination form at: http://www.aiip.org/TechAwardNominations
Please consider nominating your favorite information products. You can send the completed nomination forms or your questions to: Ed Vawter, AIIP Technology Awards Committee Co-Chair, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com &/or Mark Goldstein, Co-Chair, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Electronic submittal of the entry form via e-mail is preferred.
Previous winners of the AIIP Technology Award include:
2007: XLineSoft ASPRunner Professional, with honorable mention for IBM Visual Communication Lab's Many Eyes
2005: Copernic Desktop with honorable mention for Devon Technologies DEVONagent and Wolff Worldwide
2004: Net Snippets Professional Edition, with honorable mentions for Dialog Corporation's DialogLink 4.0 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
2003: Google Toolbar
2002: askSam 5
2001: eGems Collector Pro
2000: IPO Express
1999: Webforia Organizer
The AIIP Technology Award will be presented to the winners at Internet Librarian Conference (http://www.infotoday.com/il2008/) on Monday, October 20, 2008 in Monterey CA. Thanks to our friends at Information Today for their continued support of AIIP and its initiatives. Please consider what information products are most useful to you in your endeavors and help them and us as we select the best of breed for our annual AIIP Technology Award.
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Higher Education in Second Life - call for papers
(Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, North Carolina)
Editors, Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New
York; and Jan Kingsley, Kingsley International,
Final date for initial submissions: November 1, 2008
Date of publication: September 2009
There are many virtual worlds currently available or under development, but Second Life (SL) is the one that is best known and most widely used by the educational and academic community. Many educators have adopted SL as the platform of choice for developing educational activities in many disciplines. The concept of the book is be create a forum for sharing by administrators and educators of experiences and assessments of current and projected uses of the platform. Chapter proposals are solicited on that.
Topics might include the implications of VWs for the education industry in general, and the adult education industry in particular? How do companies, universities and colleges use VWs? What are the specific advantages of SL for higher education over other VWs? What are the challenges facing educators in the use of SL? What resources are required to ensure effective use of the platform? What legal issues exist and how should organizations deal with these? What are the ethical guidelines required for educators and their students? How does the use of VWs influence relationships within an educational setting? How can students best be engaged? How will VW technology develop, and what are the implications for educators?
Your chapter proposal ideally should be at approximately 600 words. Additionally, you should include a brief bio for each of the coauthors of your chapter, with an emphasis on related publications and/or presentations.
Please email all submissions to both Charles Wankel firstname.lastname@example.com and Jan Kingsley firstname.lastname@example.com
Charles Wankel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management
St. John's University, New York
Jan Kingsley, MA MBA
Kingsley International
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Android: Google enters the cellphone business
The first cell phone running Google's mobile software looks something like Apple's iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard.
Watch this Associated Press news video for more information on Google's Android phone:
Here's 2 BBC News videos with an in-depth look at the Google phone and the mobile market:
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And here is what Google says on their Official Blog:
Software developers are key to driving innovation on the web, and also for mobile. That's why, over the past year, we've released several early versions of the Software Developer Kit (SDK) and worked with developers from around the world to make it better and more complete. This has culminated in today's release of the Android 1.0 SDK R1. Through the SDK, developers have unprecedented access to the hardware and software capabilities of the device, enabling them to innovate freely. More than 1,700 applications were developed as part of the Android Developer Challenge. Google engineers have also been busy developing Android applications. Many of our products (Search, Gmail, and Maps, among others) are available on a wide range of phones such as the iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile devices, and many more. Today, they're also available on Android, and you can check out the Google Mobile blog for more details.
But there's more to the Android story. Not only does it allow all applications open access to the phone's functionality; the platform itself will also be open. The Open Handset Alliance has announced its intention to open source the entire Android platform by the end of the year. Along with the other members of the Alliance, we hope that Android can provide a meaningful contribution to all players in the mobile ecosystem: the developers, the wireless carriers, the handset manufacturers, etc. Everyone will be free to adopt and adapt the technology as they see fit. By doing so, we hope that users will get better, more capable phones with powerful web browsers and access to a rich catalogue of innovative mobile applications.
Developers will soon be able to distribute their applications to real handsets through the beta version of Android Market. Handset manufacturers and wireless carriers will be able to incorporate Android innovations into their own new handsets and service offerings. And users will get better handsets and more choice. We think it's another step towards realizing the full potential of the mobile phone.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The Good, the Bad and the Challenging - The user and the future of information and communication technologies
"The Good, the Bad and the Challenging. The user and the future of information and communication technologies"
Last Call for Papers for the Conference in Copenhagen, May 13th through 15th, 2009
organised by the COST Action 298 "Participation in the Broadband Society" is still open! Contributions on a broad variety of social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are welcome. Abstracts may be submitted until 15 October 2008, and should be posted via the conference website, where you will also find more informations on the the programme, the different strands and other details of the conference:
The important dates for contributors are, at a glance:
- Deadline for abstract submission: 15th October 2008
- Notification of the acceptance of abstracts: 1st December 2008
- Deadline for authors´ delivery of paper in order to be included in the printed programme and the proceedings: 1st February 2009
- Conference: 13th-15th May 2009
The abstracts can cover a range of contributions such as empirical studies, literature reviews, theoretical discussions, etc. But in all cases authors should provide background information relating to the topic, the actual question being addressed, methodology if appropriate and indicate main findings, arguments or conclusions. All abstracts should be prepared in electronic form. Abstracts must be written in English and typed with single line spacing. No formulas, symbols, mathematical notation or sub/superscripts are allowed. Abstracts should be 300-600 words. No abstract fee is required. Authors are required indicate in which strand the paper would most appropriately fit and make use of the template for the abstract that will be available online.
Both academics and practitioners are invited to submit presentations. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, abstracts will be reviewed by a combination of members of the Steering Committee, the International Programme Committee and others with relevant expertise. Notification of acceptance will be given by 1st December 2009. All withdrawals should be sent to the Conference Chair.
About COST 298:
COST 298 is an Action in the domain `Information and Communication Technologies´ of COST, an intergovernmental framework for European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research. In COST 298 European scientists from telecommunication research departments, universities and operators together with independent consultants collaborate in cross-disciplinary groups to analyse the social dimensions of people´s relationships to information and communication technologies. The Actions have produced a range of articles reports such as Communications on the Move: The Experience of mobile Telephony in the 1990s (1997) and the books Everyday Innovators, Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs
(2005) and The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology (2008) based on previous conferences. More information is available on our website at
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Affective Audiences - Analysing Media Users, Consumers, and Fans
Affective Audiences: Analysing Media Users, Consumers and Fans
Call for Papers
Preconference sponsored by the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association
Date: 20th – 21st May 2009
Venue: Marriott Downtown Chicago, Magnificent Mile Hotel
The study of audiences constitutes a central concern of contemporary (popular) communication research. As Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama fills football stadia addressing enthusiastic supporters and political commentators frequently refer to "Obama fans" and "Palin fans", evidence of the centrality of notions of affect and participation in contemporary mediated communication within and beyond the realm of traditional popular culture is abundant. This preconference aims to explore the social, cultural, textual and psychological conditions through which readers engage with, and attach meaning and emotional significance to the texts they privilege in their everyday life media consumption.
Corresponding with the theme of the 58th International Communication Association's conference Keywords in Communication (21st-25th May 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) the field of audience studies constitutes a key conceptual battleground that has witnessed a number of paradigm changes over the past half century which have both reflected and contributed to the wider discourses of Social and Cultural Theory.
"Affective Audiences" explores these recent paradigm changes by offering a dedicated space within the ICA conference programme that combines empirical audience research with a thorough examination of the field's canon and a discussion of its conceptual challenges vis-à-vis convergence and globalization. The preconference will therefore include, but not be limited to, the following themes at the heart of contemporary audience studies:
• The impact of cultural globalization and the formation of transnational audiences on (fan) communities
• Affective media consumption and identity (including race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality)
• Affective engagements of readers beyond the realm of popular culture
• Convergence and audience participation
• Fan Democracy and the role of affective media consumption in the public sphere
• Aesthetics and politics of transformative audience responses
• Teen and childhood media consumption
We would like to invite contributions in form of 10-15 minute paper presentations and discussion papers. The organisers in particular encourage submissions focusing on new empirical fields of audience studies as well as those that critically examine its conceptual and methodological canon.
The following submission formats are permissible: full papers and extended abstracts (approx. 1000 words).
Please send papers or paper proposals to Cornel Sandvoss, (firstname.lastname@example.com) by 20th October 2008 including the following information:
1. Title
2. If submitting a full paper, a 200-word abstract
3. Author(s)' name and contact information
For full details of the 2009 ICA conference please visit
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Call for Presentations: Transgressive Cinema Panel
Call for Presentations: Transgressive Cinema Panel
Deadline for submission: November 15, 2008
Online: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html
The 30th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations
February 24–28, 2009
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The area chairs are seeking submissions for presentations on any aspect of Exploitation/ Horror/ Experimental film, although papers that explicitly engage with the concept of "transgression" are strongly encouraged. This is the third year for this area, and we are hoping to expand on the success of the previous two years in order to make SW/TX PCA/ACA an
important forum for scholarly discussion of these kinds of films.
This year, we will also be continuing our well-received film screening/discussion panel series. Last year, our focus was on James Landis' 1963 film, The Sadist, starring Arch Hall, Jr. This year, we will be screening Ruggero Deodato's notorious 1980 film, Cannibal Holocaust.
If you are interested in participating in this roundtable discussion, please contact the area co-chairs.
If societies are defined by the limits they place on personal behavior, then acts of transgression are necessary to identify just where those limits lie. Significantly, films that exist outside of the multiplex mainstream often traffic in representations of such taboo breaking. In other words, this panel is seeking presentations that look at films that "push the envelope to the point of tearing it."
The types of films and filmmaking that we are looking for are not limited to traditional horror films, or even the many subgenres that can be described as "exploitation." Transgressive themes are frequently explored in experimental and arthouse cinema as well. Nevertheless, as a general rule these films all share a penchant for content that disturbs more than it placates. We encourage submissions to utilize a wide variety of methodological approaches, from psychoanalysis to reception studies.
Some filmmakers to consider:
Nick Zedd/Richard Kern/Genesis P. O and Psychic TV/Matthew Barney/Herman Nitsch/ Dwain Esper/H.G. Lewis/ Ruggero Deodato/Lucio Fulci/Dario Argento/Andy Milligan/Kenneth Anger/George Kuchar/Curt McDowell/ Ken Jacobs/Craig Baldwin/Georges Franju/ Bunuel/ Fellini/ Jörg Buttgereit/ Jan Svankmajer/Takashi Miike/ Abel Ferrara/ Tony Tenser/Pete Walker/ Monika Treut/Jane Campion/Alfred Hitchcock/David Cronenberg/Rob Zombie/Peter Greenaway
These are only a FEW of the filmmakers one could look at; we strongly encourage papers that examine others as well.
Rob Weiner
Box 53841
Lubbock, TX 79453
John Cline
2200 S. Pleasant Valley Rd. Apt 808
Austin, TX 78741
Conference Rates: Professionals, $140; Graduate students $120; Spouse, partner $50
Information about our areas of study, conference travel, lodging, and the organization can be found on our regularly updated website: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html
We look forward to seeing you this winter in sunny Albuquerque where we invite you to explore Route 66, local pueblos, hiking trails, museums, the Sandia and Isleta casinos, area ski resorts, and nearby Santa Fe.
SW/TX PCA/ACA 2009 Conference
February 24-28, 2009
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras Albuquerque, NM 87102
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Films, Farms, Factories: Landscaping an Empire
Call for Papers
Films, Farms, Factories: Landscaping an Empire
The Green Nineteenth Century
30th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 26-28, 2009
Deadline: November 30, 2008
During the nineteenth century, America was launching its empire just as the British empire had reached its pinnacle. The transition British to American hegemony is often located, reductively, in the years following World War I, when world economies, along with artistic and literary cultures, tilted massively westward. But, even if such is the case, the nineteenth century is the fulcrum, when basic definitions of artistic, economic, domestic, and political success were supplanted by new responses to monumental feats of civil and industrial engineering, to
astounding technological revolutions, to the march of empiricism, to the rise of new literary and artistic forms, and, most of all, to the acquisition, distribution, and management—especially in America—of land.
"Success" has meant different things in different civilizations. Asia and Africa, for example, have not shared Western notions of success because, historically, their societies have had radically different epistemic and moral structures. In Europe and America, however, success is most often measured by the territory a person or a corporation or a government controls. It is a notion that seems to spring naturally from our contact with virgin soil. As soon as James Fennimore Cooper charted the literary landscape of the frontier, America understood, narratively, the terms of
its success. Cooper's novels, despite their artistic inferiority, initiated central questions about what western civilization really was, what it looked like in transition, at its leading edge, when it shaped and controlled land: physically, industrially, ecologically, economically, racially, artistically. Who belongs where, who goes where, who consumes or relinquishes which resources, what geographical features qualify as artistic, when and how do economies emerge or wither from the politics of land management—these are the concerns of nineteenth-century America at the frontier of its civilization.
This area of panels invites papers that examine how film has used depictions or narratives of land management to define nineteenth-century civilization, to examine the identity of a nation, or to describe its evolution from decisive events in the nineteenth century.
Send your proposal, approximately 200 words, to the session chair by postal or electronic mail:
Dr. Loren PQ Baybrook
Editor, Film & History
800 Algoma Blvd.
Oshkosh, WI 54901
This area of multiple panels is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Film and History.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk
CALL FOR PAPERS: Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk
An International, Interdisciplinary Conference
Cardiff University, UK
Thursday 2–Friday 3 July 2009
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Imre Szemán (McMaster University, Canada)
Dr Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK)
What are the cultural implications of living under conditions of global, manufactured risk?
In the twentieth century, the possibility arose for the first time that a crisis of planetary proportions might result from human activities. By the early decades of the century, global economic and financial interdependence was such that a crisis unfolding in one location could radiate outwards to destabilize the entire socio-economic world-system. Through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, the risk of pandemic upheaval has been heightened by an array of phenomena: the expansion and acceleration of media and telecommunications networks; the integration of financial markets and the instantaneous ramification of market fluctuations via programme trading; nuclear proliferation; international terrorism; rapid population growth; unsustainable consumption of natural resources; overload of electricity grids, leading to cascading power failures; pollution of the ecosphere and resulting climate change; computer viruses and "cyber-warfare"; genetic engineering; cloning; nanotechnology; artificial intelligence; bioweaponry; the emergence and rapid spread of new strains of infectious disease; and the development of antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
Scholars speak of "systemic risk" (Anthony Giddens), "simultaneous crisis formation" (David Harvey), a "general disaster" (Brian Massumi), "worst imaginable accidents" (Ulrich Beck), "total risk of catastrophe" (François Ewald), "global" or "integral" accidents (Paul Virilio), "global catastrophic risks" (Nick Bostrom and Milan Ćirković), and "modernist events" – "events which not only could not possibly have occurred before the twentieth century but the nature, scope, and implications of which no prior age could even have imagined" (Hayden White).
Such occurrences hover indeterminably somewhere between the possible, the probable, and the inevitable. This conference will explore how writers, artists, filmmakers, dramatists, philosophers, and critical and cultural theorists have responded to the prospect and reality of global crisis. Moreover, it will ask how the methodologies of textual and cultural criticism might offer new insights into our age of global risk.
Topics might include, but are by no means limited to:
-Notions of futurity, messianism, and the à venir ("to come")
-Modernism and the first era of globalization
-Figurations of the contemporary, postmodern, or technological sublime
-The alteration and/or realization of textual meanings in the wake of catastrophic events
-Connections between conditions of global risk and the aesthetic or intellectual 'risks' taken by experimental artists and thinkers
-Disaster films
-Ecocriticism and climate change
-Future ruins
-The fate of the archive
-"Nuclear Criticism" and its possible revival post-9/11
-(Post-)apocalyptic visions
-Cyberculture and utopian/dystopian futures
-The cultural implications of Kondratiev waves and world-systems theory
Please send 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers to the organizer, Dr Paul Crosthwaite, at globalrisk_at_cardiff.ac.uk by Monday 22 December 2008. Proposals for three-person panels are also welcome; please send a brief description of the panel along with abstracts for the individual papers.
Updates will appear on the conference web site:
Dr Paul Crosthwaite
Lecturer in English Literature
School of English, Communication, and Philosophy
Cardiff University
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Health and Disease in Culture
PCA/ACA AREA: Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture
New Orleans Marriott
New Orleans, Louisiana
April 8-April 11, 2009
The "Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture" PCA/ACA area examines a wide variety of topics related to the experiences of human beings pursuing health and living with illness and how these experiences are portrayed in cultural discourse.
Interdisciplinary proposals representing humanities and the arts (e.g., literature, history, film, visual arts) or social sciences (e.g., anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, print or electronic journalism) perspectives through historical or contemporary contexts are welcome. This area emphasizes the pursuit of humane health care and the exploration of the social and cultural contexts in which health care is delivered for individuals or specific groups.
Subject areas might include:
--the portrayal of health care and public policy issues in the mass media. Health care stories of patients' experience of disease; stories of health professionals conducting research or working with patients.
--how stories of chronic and infectious diseases (including global perspectives) are told in popular media and in literature.
--narratives of illness presented in literature (novels, short stores, memoirs) written by patients or health professionals that explore the personal experience of illness.
--how pharmaceuticals, alcohol, or tobacco are presented in the mass media and literature.
--historical or recent depictions of infectious diseases and epidemics, disasters or calamities, in the context of public health consequences for popular audiences. Especially welcome are proposals addressing health problems that New Orleans confronts in the context of Hurricane Katrina.
--representations of health institutions (e.g. HMO's, hospitals, neighborhood drugstores or clinics, government agencies) in the mass media).
--technological innovations and their relation to popular audiences (e.g., x-rays, robotics in medicine).
--healing in non-western societies; alternative care in the United States.
--the promotion of health through diets, exercise, domestic or public health sanitation campaigns.
Contributions from interdisciplinary and single disciplines are welcome. Individual or full panel proposals are considered.
DEADLINE: November 30, 2008. Please send abstracts of 250 words to
Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman
Professor of Political Science and American Studies School of Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Boston
179 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Email: jennifer.tebbe_at_mcphs.edu
Fax: 617-732-2801
Phone: 617-732-2904
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Web Video Show Adds to Its Storyline
The fictional web video show, Lonelygirl15, has expanded from its early YouTube videoblog beginnings to a series of web shows and even a social website. As WSJ's Marshall Crook reports Lg15 is now set to debut, "The Resistance."
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Critics of California's pension system for public workers rightly point out that the future retirement promises are based on guarantees of high returns. They're right: The pension funds essentially promise between 7.5 and 8 percent returns, the sort of guarantees offered by Bernie Madoff and other Ponzi schemers. No one should expect a particular return because no one knows the future.
But some of these pension critics are making the same mistake as the pension funds: They are guaranteeing fiscal Armageddon, even though they don't know the future.
Just this week, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed co-authored by investment firm president Alexander Rubalcava (subscription required to read the entire story), predicted bankruptcy for his city by 2014.
Riordan based this prediction on estimates that "the city's annual pension and post-retirement health-care costs will increase by about $2.5 billion if no action is taken by the government."
That may be true, but Riordan embraces the logic of the pension funds when he makes the leap to bankruptcy. To know that bankruptcy is coming, one must know two unknowable things: that the city won't take actions to reduce these liabilities, and that the pension fund investments won't improve enough to cushion some of the blow.
Memo to Mayor Riordan: If I'm wrong about this, and you really know for sure what the stock market is going to do between now and 2014, please call me (and no one else) immediately.
Riordan isn't wrong to be concerned about pension costs. Every dollar cities and the state spend to cover these liabilities is a dollar we don't have to spend on education and other public services. But Riordan's method of argument is likely to undermine his credibility. Let's say there's a stock market surge between now and 2014, which pushes up pension fund returns. This would be the worst of both worlds: making his prediction of bankruptcy look silly while only masking (but not eliminating) the long-term risks to the government of pension promises.
Better to say it straight: California governments have made billions and billions of dollars in promises of pensions and post-retirement health benefits to their employees -- without anyone knowing for sure whether those promises can be paid back. That ought to be scary enough.


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Sources say Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson and her family want a raise if they're going to stick around for a second season of TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo."
"Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" -- again. Seven-year-old pageant contestant Alana Thompson and her self-proclaimed "redneck" family are in talks to return to TLC for a second season of the hit reality series.
STORY: 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo': 8 things the show has taught us
The show -- which follows the daily life of the Georgia-based clan, which includes bobbing for pig feet, flatulence jokes and extreme couponing -- has become a ratings sensation for the network, with more than 2.1 million viewers tuning into its Sept. 13 episode. The show even topped all individual cable and network broadcasts of the Republican National Convention on Aug. 19 with a 1.3 rating with adults 18-49.
According to a source, the Shannon-Thompson family is currently in negotiations with the network and producers to film a second season of the controversial show, which was spun off from TLC's popular series "Toddlers & Tiaras" after Thompson's interview clips earned more than 5 million viewers on YouTube.
STORY: What producers are paying the stars of TLC's 'Honey Boo Boo'
A source says the cast -- including Alana's 17-year-old sister, who recently gave birth to her first child -- is now asking for a $10,000-an-episode payday; however, another insider suggests the family will most likely land closer to an $8,000-an-episode salary after negotiations with the network conclude (that would double their season one salary of $4,000 an episode and a possible built-in location fee, as The Hollywood Reporter first reported). The show's six-episode first season ends with a one-hour season finale Sept. 26.
A TLC rep declined to comment on a possible second season or salaries. Discovery Communications president Eileen O'Neill tells THR that a second season of the series is likely, but no final decision has been made.
Related content:
- Bingo! 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' mom shows off game face
- Joy Behar: Honey Boo Boo will 'grow up to be a big fat woman'
- How much money are the stars of TLC's 'Honey Boo Boo' making?
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The Miami Heat are the most obvious villains in sports right now, and quite possibly ever. Fans have wanted to see the Heat lose since before this season even started. It's possible that someone outside Miami was rooting for them to win last night, but if so, he probably kept it to himself. EVERYONE wanted to see Dallas win that series. I barely care about the NBA, and I was thrilled that the Mavericks won. So far in 2011, my Facebook and Twitter feeds have demonstrated complete and utter unity only twice: Last night when the Heat lost, and last month when Osama bin Laden was killed.
The Miami Heat are the Osama bin Laden of sports.
And yet the Heat are not good sports villains. It is fun to root against them, but not as much fun as it should be. Continue reading


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This was published 7 years ago
Royals not amused: Sydney radio hosts 'sorry' for Kate hospital hoax
Two Sydney radio hosts have apologised for making a hoax call to the London private hospital where Prince William's pregnant wife Catherine is being treated for acute morning sickness.
Mel Greig and Michael Christian from 2Day FM posed as the Queen and Prince Charles during the phone call to King Edward VII Hospital on Tuesday evening (AEDT) and were put through to a nurse who gave an update on the Duchess's condition.
"We were very surprised that our call was put through. We thought we'd be hung up on as soon as they heard our terrible accents," the broadcasters said in a statement.
"We're very sorry if we've caused any issues and we're glad to hear that Kate is doing well."
The prank call was pre-recorded and vetted by lawyers before being broadcast to listeners in Sydney.
"2Day FM sincerely apologises for any inconvenience caused by the inquiries to Kate's hospital," a station spokeswoman said.
"The radio segment was done with lighthearted intentions. We wish Kate and her family all the best and we're glad to hear she's doing well."
The pair adopted toffy accents for the call, during which the nurse refers to Greig as "ma'am", while a third member of 2Day FM staff can be heard pretending to bark in an attempt to impersonate one of the Queen's corgis.
Greig asks the nurse when she can visit her "granddaughter Kate" and how her "little tummy bug is going".
"When is a good time to come and visit her coz I'm the Queen and I need a lift down there ..."
She is then heard to ask Charles (Christian) when he can take her to the hospital.
The nurse, who refers to Greig as "ma'am" tells the pranksters: "She's quite stable. She hasn't had any retching and she's been sleeping on and off."
We're very sorry if we've caused any issues and we're glad to hear that Kate is doing well.
A hospital statement released on Wednesday said the incident has sparked a review of telephone protocol.
"King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes can confirm that an Australian radio station made a hoax call to the hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning," the statement read.
"This call was transferred through to a ward and a short conversation was held with one of the nursing staff. King Edward VII's Hospital deeply regrets this incident."
John Lofthouse, chief executive at King Edward VII's Hospital, said: "This was a foolish prank call that we all deplore. We take patient confidentiality extremely seriously and we are now reviewing our telephone protocols."
The Australian Communications and Media Authority said it had received complaints about the prank on Wednesday night.
ACMA has not launched an investigation into the call.
Under its live hosted entertainment code of practice, for shows which have a live host and competitions, stunts or pranks, the content must not be exploitative.
ACMA defines exploitative as: "Clearly appearing to purposefully debase or abuse the participant for the enjoyment of others, and lacking moral, artistic or other values."
The prank has made headlines around the world.
London's Daily Telegraph reported the prank will reopen debate on the Leveson report, and also questioned whether the pair had broken Australia's broadcasting rules.
The Guardian also reported on the prank, along with the Washington Post, New York Daily News, The Los Angeles Times and countless entertainment blogs.
Catherine was admitted to the facility, favoured by the royal family, on Monday as the world learnt she was in the early stages of pregnancy.
She is being treated for acute morning sickness and is expected to be in hospital for several days, the palace said.
Representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have not commented on the prank.


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Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Real Absinthe comes to Asia - 2
What is this piece of paper? And why is it so highly prized among bar tenders in Japan? Read on ....
I wrote recently about the launch of La Clandestine in Malaysia; since then my Malaysian partners have visited the birthplace of absinthe (Couvet, Switzerland), and their visit has been documented on Facebook and ... again on Facebook!
Having lived and worked in Malaysia, I have some understanding of the issues promoting absinthe in a country and culture that is far removed from Europe or the USA. Not to mention the fact that the religion of Malaysia is Islam, so it's not perhaps the easiest Asian market in which to launch absinthe.
But the basics are similar in Malaysia and in the West: define a strategy that is appropriate for the market, and then implement tactics that meet the strategic needs (have I lost you yet?).
La Clandestine and Angélique were the first absinthes launched in Malaysia, so required a certain strategy and activities: promotions, PR, blogger communication, and bar staff presentations. The Malaysian team has succeeded through implementing all of these.
Japan is different! While Kuala Lumpur is a small Asian city with a few hundred good bars, Tokyo is huge.
There are already many absinthes in the market (as I knew from my visits to Japan in 2006 and 2007). And the basics of getting around from bar to bar (a tough life, but it has to be done) seem impossible.
However once you have worked out which station you need to go and which platform it goes from, everything goes ... quite literally ... like clockwork. The trains are so punctual you can set your watch by them (although Swiss watches rarely need outside intervention!).
Doing business in Asia generally (and even more so in Japan) is subject to its own set of rules. Passport Vietnam, for example, stated in 1997 "It's not unusual for a host to ask a male visitor if he'd like a "companion" ..... Unmarried men who decline are generally assumed to be homosexual and will sometimes be offered a male companion as an option."
Leaving nothing to chance, therefore, Claude-Alain Bugnon wisely took his wife, Karine, and their son, Maxime , on his recent trip to Japan to present his absinthes to bar tenders, sommeliers and consumers from Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka.
The entire visit program was set up by David Zoppetti, who has been running the La Clandestine business in Japan for several years.
David, shown here working behind the bar, is Swiss, and left Switzerland for Japan after his studies 25 years ago. He is now so fluent in Japanese that he has even written a novel in it, subsequently made into a film. He also worked for several years for a Japanese television station.
In 2005, David visited the La Clandestine distillery almost by chance, since he was in the area researching Swiss watches. He found genuine absinthe very exciting, and he and Claude-Alain decided to work together to sell absinthe in Japan.
David soon found an importer willing to work on this venture, Seijo Hishii, and he then began negotiations with the authorities. For those who do not know Japan, it is much more complicated than other markets with regard to product registration and government permissions, so imagine how difficult it was for absinthe! In hindsight, there may be one market that is more difficult ....
Despite this, David continued the process and having gained all the authorizations for absinthe, he did the same for glasses, spoons, the ceramic fountains and even sugar! The authorities asked interesting questions, such as "What material is used for the 4 mm seal on the fountain taps? How is sugar made and with what?"
After almost 2 years work on getting permissions, David was able to start on gaining distribution. David participated in numerous seminars, and got listings in very famous bars. And after another two years, David and Claude-Alain decided to do a promotional tour to help train and educate. "La Clandestine Banzai," as some of their Japanese customers now say!
Photos of Claude-Alain's trip to Japan can be found on Facebook.
What is clear from these photos is the high level of interest the Japanese have in absinthe. Even clearer is their dedication to understanding every last detail.
Of course, once the work has been done, then the Japanese know how to party as well as anyone. But however hard they tried, they still couldn't get Claude-Alain to take off his famous blue lab coat!
And that "piece of paper" at the start of the article? It's a certificate of attendance at one of Claude-Alain's Absinthe training sessions in Japan. Absinthe has been a much misunderstood product for much of its 215 or so years. So training and education is crucial. As crucial in Japan and elsewhere in Asia as it is in the West.
And part of the training sessions run by Claude-Alain was this excellent video. Japanese sub-titles included but for those of my readers in the West, the pictures tell a million words.
Posted by Alan at 15:32
Labels: Asia, Japan, La Clandestine, Switzerland, video
2 comments:
Beautiful! :-)
- 14 August 2009 at 03:18
- The Absinthe Review Network said...
Congratulations! The video was nice too, I feel strangely relaxed with the mellow soundtrack...
Passport Vietnam sounds like an adventure, btw.
- 25 August 2009 at 02:18
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