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As some of you may know, I have recently made the move from optics, lasers, and fun, to... um... surface science, chemistry and, well other kinds of fun. As far as I am concerned, the difficult thing about surfaces is figuring out what is going on. Everything that you are interested in is happening within one layer of atoms, and that presents some challenges. One technique that we worked with very early is called ellipsometry. Ellipsometry has a very simple recipe: take light with a very well defined polarization, reflect that light off the surface, and measure the polarization of the reflected light. You can use the change in polarization to determine what is on the surface.
In practice, however, ellipsometry suffers from a significant challenge: getting polarized light anywhere near the surfaces we want to understand. In complete ignorance and with the confidence that entails, my response was "bugger this, just run the light through an optical fiber." The ellipsometry people I suggested this to stared at me as if I had grown a nipple on my forehead.
Ellipsometry is very simple, very effective, and, almost totally useless most of the time. The biggest problem is that the data—the change in polarization—is not easy to correlate with surface chemistry. Essentially, you need to have a good idea what is going on before you measure. As it happens, that is not so bad, because usually we use it to study systems where we know something about the chemistry.
The second problem is the one mentioned above: you need to shine a light directly on the sample and then collect the light directly after reflection. In the most interesting cases—think of catalytic surfaces inside reaction vessels or industrial scale production, where you need to look at many different surfaces in different locations—you don't have line-of-sight access to the sample.
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There is a good reason why everyone thinks optical fibers are death to ellipsometry. To understand why, we need to take a look at how a bit of glass can alter the polarization of light. Imagine that I have a block of perfect glass. The refractive index of the glass is the same everywhere. If I shine light through the glass, then nothing should happen (there are some assumptions to that statement, but they are not central to the story here).
If I bend the block slightly, however, some internal stress is introduced. Light polarized along the axis of the bend will observe a different refractive index to that experienced by light polarized at right angles to the axis of the bend. As a result, it's possible to describe any light in the glass as two light fields: one polarized along the axis of the bend, and one polarized at right angles to the bend.
These two light fields experience two different refractive indices, which means that one field sees the glass as slightly thicker than the other. As a result, when the two light fields exit the glass, they have a different phase relationship than when they entered.
For example, if the light was polarized at 45 degrees to the axis of the bend, then we could say that there were two light fields of equal intensity with their phases such that the peaks of both fields always coincided in time and space. That's before they go through the glass, though. When they exit, the two light fields might be exactly out of phase. In this case, the peaks line up with troughs—when we measure this light, we will see a circularly polarized light field. In other words, phase and orientation matter when it comes to polarization.
Now imagine putting light down an optical fiber. Every bend and change in temperature introduces a change in refractive index. So, in our glass example, we had a single axis of stress and two well-defined refractive indices. In a fiber, the internal stresses change the orientation and magnitude all the time, so we cannot define two light fields and give each a single refractive index. The consequence is that the fiber randomizes the polarization of the light.
As it happens, you can describe the polarization of light by mapping it to points on a sphere (as in the picture above). So, in this case, we put light in with a fixed polarization, which maps to a single location on the sphere. But we can't predict where the light exiting the fiber will fall on the sphere, and its location will change every time the fiber moves or the temperature changes. Over time, that single point on the sphere will get mapped to every other point on the sphere.
Ellipsometry depends on having a well defined point on that sphere before the sample and another, well defined point on the sphere after reflection. Putting a fiber in the middle seems like a really stupid idea.
But they do make assumptions about what's practical
But there are optical fibers called polarization maintaining fibers—surely these would do the job, right? Well, a bit of thought tells you that the marketing genius who came up with that name didn't understand polarization. PMFs have a large internal stress, so the refractive index along the stress axis is very different to the refractive index at right angles to the stress axis.
A light field that is polarized along the stress axis will stay polarized along that axis. Out of the infinite possible polarization states of light, PMFs preserve exactly two states: one aligned to the stress axis and one aligned at right angles to the stress axis. Would this help? At this point, I put a student on the problem and quietly crept from the room before he noticed my ignorance (I hope).
He discovered that the large internal stress does help. In a normal fiber, the orientation and magnitude of the internal stress change as a function of time and location. But, in a PPF, only the magnitude changes. What this means is that the input light can still be described by two light fields, one polarized along the axis of the stress and the other polarized at right angles to it. However, the effective length of fiber that both light fields travel through are completely unpredictable. So, the relative phases of these two light fields are still changed in an unpredictable way.
Consequently, the polarization of the light exiting the fiber is still unpredictable but, because of the fixed orientation of the stress axis, the input polarization can only be mapped to a limited number of points on the sphere. Indeed, taking our previous example of light polarized at 45 degrees to the stress axis, the possible polarization states fall on a circle that runs through the input polarization point and the point of circular polarization. And, for a fixed input polarization state, this circle never changes, even though the temperature and internal stress of the fiber might change considerably.
At first glance, this doesn't seem that helpful, since you can't predict where the polarization of the light exiting the fiber will fall on the circle. But, in ellipsometry, we are measuring a change in polarization due to a sample—we don't really care about the absolute polarization.
To illustrate what I mean, at some instant in time, we have a fixed polarization exiting the fiber—this polarization is a point on the sphere. After reflection from the sample, the polarization is a different point on the same sphere. To get from one point to the other, we simply travel along a line of latitude by a fixed amount and then a line of longitude by a fixed amount. Those two distances are the polarization changes induced by the sample, and they are constant for any polarization of light.
So, when the polarization of the light exiting the fiber changes, its location on the sphere changes, but the reflection from the sample adds a constant change in latitude and longitude to that point as well.
Since we know that the output polarization of the fiber is restricted to a circle on the sphere, after reflection from the sample, the polarization states still fall on a circle, but the orientation of the circle on the sphere is different. If we calibrate the fiber once, and then measure the orientation of the circle after reflection from the sample, you can obtain, after a bit of data processing, exactly the same information as you would from a conventional ellipsometry.
The difference being that you don't know or care about the polarization of the light you are illuminating the sample with. Even in our rather crude lab setup, our fiber ellipsometer was nearly as accurate as commercial hardware. In the picture above, you can see that we can clearly see the changes in polarization due to less than a complete monolayer of carbon on a surface.
Now, I should point out that much of what is in this paper is known elsewhere—we just happened to be the people who put it all together in a single useful block. The possibilities, however, are quite exciting. A trivial example illustrates the opportunities here. Ellipsometers are expensive bits of kit—expensive enough that you don't want more than one. Well, now, you only need one, and a bunch of fiber to link it up to different locations.
Optics Express, 2012, DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000870


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The mythos of the American West serves as inspiration for a new exhibit at the Tucson Museum of Art entitled "100 Years 100 Ranchers: Photographs by Scott Baxter."
The exhibit reveals in rich detail the faces and landscapes that are part of the ranching tradition in Arizona.
"It really is changing drastically," says Baxter.
Baxter was a commercial photographer before he took on the ten-year project of photographing 100 hundred Arizona ranchers. The project is meant to coincide with the culmination of the centennial celebration of Arizona's statehood.
"It's obviously a photographic project, but I was more interested in honoring these families and getting some sort of photographic documentation of some of these families," says Baxter.
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Christine Brindza, TMA's curator of art of the American West, says Baxter's portraits present a unique opportunity to see photographs that are rooted in works of previous western artists.
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Heather M. Young honored with mentorship award by Western Institute of Nursing
Posted April 25, 2012
UC Davis Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing and Founding Dean Heather M. Young was awarded the Anna M. Shannon Mentorship Award at the 45th Annual Western Institute of Nursing Communicating Nursing Research Conference on April 19 in Portland.
The award was established in 1992 in honor of Anna M. Shannon, a former dean and professor at the Montana State University College of Nursing, in recognition of Shannon's unselfish efforts to support and promote the professional growth of nurses throughout the west.
Young was nominated for the award by three nurse researchers, including one faculty member from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, Elena O. Siegel.
"Dr. Young's career reflects extraordinary contributions to nursing, with steadfast commitment to the development of our next generation of nurse leaders in practice, education and research," Siegel said. "I have greatly benefited from her mentorship and am committed to carrying forward the benefits of her mentoring through my service as a mentor and role model for others."
"I have greatly benefited from her mentorship and am committed to carrying forward the benefits of her mentoring through my service as a mentor and role model for others."
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Siegel said Young's mentorship roles vary across settings, including practice, academics and research.
About the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis
Established in March 2009, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is UC Davis' first major initiative to address society's most pressing health-care problems in its second century of service. The school was launched through a $100 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the nation's largest grant for nursing education. The vision of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is to transform health care through nursing education and research. Through nursing leadership, the school discovers knowledge to advance health, improve quality of care and health outcomes, and inform health policy. The school's first academic programs, a doctoral and a master's degree program, opened in fall 2010. Additional programs will be phased in over the next decade. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is part of UC Davis Health System, an integrated, academic health system encompassing UC Davis School of Medicine, the 645-bed-acute-care hospital and clinical services of UC Davis Medical Center and the 800-member physician group known as the UC Davis Medical Group. For more information, visit nursing.ucdavis.edu.
"Dr. Young has served as a formal mentor to 56 emerging nurse leaders, including 13 junior faculty and postdoctoral scholars, and 19 doctoral and 24 master's-degree students," Siegel said. "In addition, she has served as a mentor for recipients of awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar program, John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity program, and deTornyay Center for Healthy Aging."
Another nominator said Young's mentoring style is inclusive and focuses on collaboration and engagement.
"I commend the way Dr. Young fosters relationships with professionals across disciplines and institutions to bring a more well-rounded perspective to nursing," wrote Colleen Casey, an assistant professor at OHSU.
Young was presented with the award at the annual awards luncheon today. The Western Institute of Nursing includes more than 25 nursing schools from across 15 western states. Nearly 800 nurses convened for the 2012 conference, the largest gathering ever. The annual Communicating Nursing Research conference is the oldest conference of its kind in the United States. It was first conducted in 1968.
"To be recognized by my peers is an incredible honor," Young said. "I am forever grateful for those who mentored me. I believe mentorship is essential to the development of new nurse leaders. My hope is all nurses seek roles where they can be mentored and mentor other nurses."
More than 28 Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing faculty, postdoctoral scholars and students participated in the poster sessions and symposiums at the Western Institute of Nursing conference.


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(This is a quick and dirty translation of my article in Ingeniøren, ing.dk )
ArXiv.org is an online database for quick publishing of fresh research news within the fields of physics and astronomy. The database contains a great number of science articles of high standard, freely accessible to anyone. However, once in a while articles pop up which are on the borderline of normal scientific standards.
In a recently published paper of the latter type, three authors - Dimitra Atri from University of Kansas, and Julia DeMarines and Jacob Haqq-Misra from Penn State - discuss the possibility of communicating with intelligent beings from Outer Space.
Of course, this is not the first time the SETI movement (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) published in ArXiv.org. The tendency is in fact on the rise, and as a science writer, one must consider where to draw a line between fascinating, mind-opening scientific problems and pop science, which may be fun, but suspiciously close to theories about UFOs and crop circles. Such articles (to say it mildly) do little more than reproduce an ancient mythological world view.
Please allow me to explain what I mean. The new paper published to arXiv.org discusses how to send messages into Space that can be understood by intelligent aliens. Besides the highly unlikely assumption that there is life out there listening to radio signals from Space, the paper revives a long standing criticism of the SETI-research: it is by no means certain that it is possible to interpret a signal which relies on totally alien linguistic, cognitive and cultural premises.
Dolphins and foreigners
We can't understand the dolphins and we even struggle to understand foreign human cultures. How then, should we be able to understand an intragalactic bottlemail? Even worse: How should we tell a meaningful message apart from an unknown natural phenomenon?
The paper suggests to remove such anthropomorphisms - that is, such projection of human properties onto non-human things - by following certain 'neutralising' guidelines and then test the result on different groups of people.
Specifically, the authors suggest to create an interactive website where people from all over the world can test various types of messages, and then select the messages that are best suited for intercultural communication. The authors call the result a METI-protocol, where METI stands for 'Messaging to Extra Terrestrial Intelligence'. The best message can then be sent to Alfa Centauri or Gliese 581, and we can hope for a reply in 42 years.
The authors indicate in their conclusion that their intention isn't really to 'talk to E.T.'. Rather, their aim is to influence people to acknowledge their fragile position in cosmos and shape up their behaviour. Precisely this is what many religious movements demand from their members, too.
Double standards
So many methodological, philosophical and logical problems surround the SETI idea that it is hard to decide where to set in the critique. At the end of the day it may not even matter if intelligent aliens do exist somewhere in the galaxy. It is, and will continue to be, a matter of faith.
The phenomenon vastly extends beyond that one article from ArXiv.org. A rising number of serious astronomers have started to work on CETI- and SETI- projects (CETI stands for 'Communication with Extra Terrestrial Intelligence' and refers to both transmitting and receiving signals, while SETI refers only to a passive listening strategy) - not because they believe in it, but because it motivates the audience.
One of the most well known attempts to make Space research sexy is the screen saver project SETI@home. It allows anyone with a computer to download a program which systematically chews through massive loads of binary representations of cosmic radio frequency emissions, hoping to discover a message from an alien world.
'E.T. phone home' was made into a serious business model for space research. Although people with insight into the matter knew that its scientific contribution is infinitesimal small, the project has nevertheless been a great success for the idea of crowdsourcing, where lay people are encouraged to contribute voluntarily to science by making their home computers freely available to scientific work.
Messages to Space
Other well known CETI projects include the Pioneer Plaques that were sent in 1972, and the Voyager Golden Record onboard Voyager in 1977.
In 1974 the so called Arecibo message was broadcast into Space from a radio telescope in Puerto Rico. The signal was directed towards the star cluster M13, 25,000 light years away. It was of course known that it would take at least 50,000 years before an answer could be expected, and that the message would in fact never reach its target, because M13 would have moved meanwhile. But who cares! The exercise was repeated in 1999 and 2003, this time directing the broadcast towards nearer stars.
NASA is happy to sponsor cosmic bottlemail projects, but restrains from taking responsibility for their scientific merits. Once in a while, however, NASA's own news stories cross the line and turn wild. As in 1996, when a group of NASA-researchers discovered the ALH84001 meteorite in Antarctica and announced that its carbonates stemmed from bacteria on Mars. No one (beyond themselves) believes that theory today. More recently, NASA announced that they had found a previously unknown life form on Earth that was based on arsenic rather than phosphorous. The discovery's hyperbolic media announcements have since then been thoroughly dissected.
A proto-religion
Thore Bjørnvig from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen has studied the SETI-movement for several years. Parts of the SETI research is, according to him, best understood as a religious movement - or rather, a scientistic religion.
"There are in SETI tendencies and structures which closely resemble the structures we find in certain religions. Of course, many persons within the SETI movement try to remain neutral; but there are also those who go over the top'', Bjørnvig says.
Frank Drake belonges to that category. He was the man behind the Drake-equation - which supposedly calculates how many observable intelligent civilisations a galaxy can contain. He was also co-author of the Voyager Golden Record and the Arecibo-message together with Carl Sagen.
"Drake felt that if we managed to communicate with aliens, then we would obtain the key to immortality", Bjørnvig says.
"The logic is strange, to say it mildly: we have only used radio communication for about 100 years, and therefore, most other intelligent civilisations must be much older, and therefore much more clever than us. Their technology must be exponentially ahead of ours, he says... because SETI-people have the strange idea that technological progress is an evolutionary determined regularity."
The battle for eternal life
"Thus sooner or later the advanced civilisations will find the key to immortality. Once a species becomes immortal it will, according to Drake, be very afraid to die because its life has increased tremendously in value, being eternal. A civilisation that has achieved eternal life will need to ensure that all other civilisations obtain immortality too, so that they value their life the same, and therefore won't go to war", Bjørnvig explains.
Branches of the SETI movement also encompass visions about a 'galactic encyclopaedia' where all knowledge is collected and circulates between civilisations. Like a cosmopolitical bible, the universal encyclopaedia will finally tell us a lot of nice things about how we can avoid to get into fights, how to obtain eternal life, and all the other lovely humanistic values.
"These apocalyptic and millenarianistic tendencies are also found in the Judeo-Christian tradition, particularly in the Book of Revelation", says Bjørnvig.
"Herein lies the idea of a Millennial Age where everything turns good, and death disappears together with grief, sorrow and other bad things. What these movements have in common is to offer a 'Road to Heaven' based on a dualistic hypothesis stating that we humans are imperfect and need to overcome all the bad things we surround ourselves with. All we need to do is to follow the road that is pointed out to us", he says.
Others warn against contact. The science-fiction author David Brin and physicist Stephen Hawking both think that E.T. doesn't necessarily have good intentions. Just look at what we do to our fellow humans here on Earth, they say. What, then, would E.T. be capable of doing to us?
A mirror for self-reflection
One of the best books about why it is so hard, if not impossible, to communicate with alien life, is 'His Master's Voice' by Stanislav Lem, written in 1968. It depicts a research teams which tries to decode a foreign signal without luck.
The reason they don't succeed is that any interpretation requires a methodological choice, which must necessarily be based on assumptions. A foreign message can never rid itself of cultural ballast; it will always seem like a message written in bad ink.
Any communication in the form of images or symbols contains a conceptualisation of the world which presumes a biology, a culture and a history; thus a mutual understanding will be impossible without those common denominators.
The problem does not only apply to language, but to any representation. Even universal truths like the Pythagorean theorem (in Euclidean geometry) and the first law of thermodynamics about the preservation of energy contain anthromorphisms in their mathematical formulations. The relation between the signifier and the signified will always be arbitrary, and therefore never be deduced from self-evidence.
What do these abstractions lead to? That a truly foreign signal with no common denominators can serve as little more than a mirror. A mirror that reflects our own thoughts. The interpreter becomes victim of a projection and begins to read his own worries and hopes into the decoding of the signal.
The military will probably hope for new weapons, the scientist for new insight, and the esthete will hope for eternal life. However, at the end of the day, we humans won't be able to realise or understand signals from alien worlds, even if they are written with flaming letters in the sky.
Our desire to contact E.T. is really a matter of faith. Intelligent aliens constitute a highly viral myth, constantly expanded and supported by some scientists and research institutions, and popularised in fantastic and fun science-fiction stories. It would be a shame to spoil the sport completely. On the other hand, some restraint is needed.


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Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox, right, embraces his partner, Marcus LaFond, after a vote to pass a gay marriage bill at the State House in Providence, R.I., Thursday, May 2, 2013.
Rhode Island became the final state in New England and the 10th in the country to legalize gay marriage after independent Gov. Lincoln Chafee on Thursday signed a bill that will allow same-sex marriage.
"I know that you have been waiting for this day to come," Chafee said to the state's gay and lesbian community at a bill-signing ceremony in front of hundreds. "I know you have loved ones that dreamed this would happen but did not live to see it. But I am proud to say that now at long last, you are free to marry the person you love."
In a New York Times op-ed Wednesday, Chafee outlined his support for gay marriage not only on moral grounds, but also economic.
"The talented workers who are driving the new economy — young, educated and forward-looking — want to live in a place that reflects their values. They want diversity, not simply out of a sense of justice, but because diversity makes life more fun," he wrote. "Why would any state turn away the people who are most likely to create the economies of the 21st century?"
As a Republican U.S. senator in 2004, Chafee voiced his support for gay marriage when most members of his party were staunchly opposed to it. He was ousted from his Senate seat in 2006 but won the governor's race in the Ocean State in 2010 as an independent.
Chafee is now calling on fellow governors to push for similar legislation to what passed in Rhode Island on Thursday, and calling for the Supreme Court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. Though public opinion continues to turn in favor of same-sex marriage, legalizing it is still a heavy lift for many states.
Even in Rhode Island, which sits in the country's friendliest territory for gay-marriage supporters, opposition from the state's heavy Catholic population put the prospects of passage in jeopardy for years. The legislation has been introduced in the House every session since 1997.
But last fall, more gay-marriage supporters were elected to the state legislature, and the bill's passage was the result of a highly energized and coordinated campaigning from those equal rights groups, business leaders, community organizers and politicians.
The bill overcame its biggest hurdle last week when it passed the Senate by a comfortable 26-12 vote after Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Newport, allowed a vote despite her opposition to gay marriage. The House easily passed the legislation in January but needed to approve the final language in a procedural vote Thursday that passed 56-15. The session was largely a celebration in which legislators reflected on the significance of the bill and thanked those who fought for its passage.
"We are truly social creatures, and that is the essence of this legislation," House Speaker Gordon Fox, D-Providence, said before the bill was signed. "You are free to love and commit to the person of your choice no matter what your gender may be.... And the foundation of that is a very simple, yet probably the most powerful word in the English language: Love," said Fox, who is gay.
Along with the five other New England states, Rhode Island joins Iowa, Maryland, Washington, New York and Washington, D.C., in recognizing same-sex marriage. Minnesota, Illinois and Delaware are also expected to come to decisions about the issue soon.
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Lise Iwon, right, and Julie Smith celebrate after a gay marriage bill passed in the Rhode Island House at the State House in Providence, R.I., Thursday, May 2, 2013.
Opponents to gay marriage argued passing the legislation would lessen religious liberty for churches and certain faith-based organizations
A day before the bill passed, the National Organization for Marriage called on the House to reject the legislation, which they say contains "a shocking lack of religious liberty protections, potentially ghettoizing people of faith unless they compromise and remain silent in the public square."
"When marriage is redefined into a genderless institution, it presents a range of legal conflicts for people of faith and the small businesses and charitable organizations they operate to serve the public," Christopher Plante, regional director for the organization, said in a statement.
The first same-sex marriages could take place Aug. 1, when the new law takes effect. Civil unions, which the state approved two years ago, will no longer be available to gay couples, though existing civil unions will still be recognized.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Leading European Statesmen Call for Steps to Improve Relations Between Europe and Ukraine
Nov 13, 2012, 08:14 ET
PARIS, November 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
The recent parliamentary elections in Ukraine were "not perfect but represented huge progress for a country that has only enjoyed independence for the past 20 years," and should not be judged in terms of black and white. This was the conclusion of leading European statesmen, including the former President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski, speaking at a post-election conference in Paris on Monday.
Going forward, the signing of an Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union would represent a positive step, but could only come after compromises are reached and steps taken to improve relations and resolve issues concerning legal cases such as the appeal by Yulia Tymoshenko to the European Court of Human Rights.
This was the consensus emerging from a roundtable entitled "Ukraine: A Strategic Crossroads in Europe" which took place Monday at the Ecole Militaire in Paris in front of an audience of foreign policy experts, academics, diplomats, economists and businessmen.
The European Union cannot be passive in the wake of the Ukrainian parliamentary elections said former President Kwasniewski. "If Europe wants to share its values and standards, it should engage more actively with Ukraine," he said, adding that Ukraine is still waiting for a clear sign from Europe.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, reminded the audience that an ambitious EU-style reform agenda is underway in Ukraine, ranging from pension and labor reforms to new fiscal and criminal procedure codes. He also highlighted the modernisation of the country's infrastructure for the Euro 2012 football tournament.
"Ukraine is now firmly set on a strategic pathway to become a prosperous European country and deserves the Association Agreement," he said. "All our political parties support the perspective of deeper integration with Europe. We want to achieve this for the benefit of the people."
Although the new electoral system - which was drafted following recommendations of the Council of Europe and approved by government and opposition parties - showed some shortfalls, Gryshchenko noted that the vote reflected the "will of the people" and was widely deemed free, calm and legitimate by international observers.
Former Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer noted that thanks to its geographical location, shale gas deposits, energy transit infrastructure and vast agricultural resources, Ukraine represents a broader economic and strategic opportunity for Europe. "It would be wrong if we view the situation in the Ukraine only through the prism of the Tymoshenko case," he said.
Kwasniewski, who is currently serving as co-head of the European Parliament's Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, explained that, in his opinion, there is a legal, political and psychological aspect to the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, who was convicted last year for abuse of office for illegally signing a controversial $10 billion gas deal with Russia in 2009 without Cabinet approval.
He pointed out that the case is now with the European Court of Human Rights and credited Kiev for declaring that Ukraine would accept its decision. Gryshchenko reiterated this: "We have clearly stated that whatever will be the decision by the ECHR, we will comply by it."
In conclusion, Hervé Maurey, French senator and a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Association with Ukraine said that in France many politicians want the Association Agreement to be signed. "We look forward to when Ukraine will be deeply rooted in the EU, rather than moving into the other direction," he said.
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The legislature in Miss is just talking now. What they ultimately end up doing? Idk. I don't envy them though. Any "solution" will cause new "problems".
I didn't hear about that. Its possible, I guess. The news made is seem like they were pardoned and released. People seemed more angry about the pardoned's ability to have a future (meaning no criminal record) rather than anything else. The gov did what he did as gov. I'm not sure they can do that. If so, what's the point of having a gov at all. Freezing a legal pardon would trouble me though. You can't just ignore the law because you don't like what happens. Even though, of course history tells us you can.


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Phillip Lopate is the author of the essay collections Against Joie de Vivre, Bachelorhood, and Portrait of My Body. He has also written the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of a Summer. Lopate is the editor of The Art of the Personal Essay and the Library of America's Writing New York, as well as the series editor of The Art of the Essay. His film criticism appears regularly in The New York Times and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.


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Business Insider: There's A Reason Bill Gates And Jeff Bezos Both Call Washington State Homemedia mention
Megan Durisin | Jan. 31, 2013, 3:43 PM
Why does the wealthiest man in America live in Washington?
The answer is in a report released this week by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
Washington's tax system is the most disjointed in the nation, leaving rich residents — including Bill Gates, the country's richest — with more money in their pockets, and the poor with even less to scrape by on.
The wealthiest 1 percent in the state of Washington — who bring in an average income of $1.1 million — pay only 2.8 percent of their income toward state taxes. By comparison, that state's poorest 20 percent — earning an average income of $11,500 — shell out nearly 17 percent of their income to the government, according to the report.
In fact, Washington is one of nine states in the country without a personal income tax. Instead, it relies heavily on sales taxes, which often hit lower- and middle-income families the hardest, and property taxes.
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Sales & Excise taxes: The report shows the state's wealthiest 1 percent annually pay 1.9 percent of their income in sales and excise taxes, while the poorest 20 percent pay 13 percent of their income toward the taxes. Middle class residents spend 8 percent of their income on sales and excise taxes on average.
Property Taxes: Property taxes make up the majority of the remaining tax tabs. The wealthiest 1 percent dish out about 1.4 percent of their income toward property tax bills, and the poorest pay close to 4 percent of theirs. Falling in between, the middle class spends about 2 percent of their income on property taxes.
Good for business
In addition to being the perfect place for the wealthy to call home, Washington is also great for big business. The state was also ranked No. 6 as the best state for its business tax climate this year by The Tax Foundation.
Amazon and Microsoft headquarters are both on Washington soil. Amazon's Jeff Bezos –– and his estimated $23.2 billion fortune –– also lives there, along with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
The housing in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area –– the state's largest metropolis –– is also far less segregated by income than the housing in many Southwestern and Northeastern cities, according to a Pew Research Center report.
Following behind Washington in the report's "Terrible Ten" states with the largest gaps in taxes between the rich and poor were Florida, South Dakota, Illinois, Texas, Tennessee, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Alabama.


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The IPSO Alliance is announcing the Internet of Things 2013 Innovation Contest that invites people and companies from around the world to submit new Internet Protocol enabled Smart Objects that demonstrate the power of the Internet of Things. The goal of this contest is to bring forth exciting new concepts and devices that use the Internet Protocol in interconnecting embedded sensor and control solutions in areas of home control, smart building, healthcare, lighting control, smart energy, or consumer entertainment.
"The IPSO Alliance is committed to showing the benefits of using the Internet Protocol in the design and development of M2M and IoT projects and solutions. This contest will help demonstrate just how powerful IP Smart Objects can be and how, by shedding proprietary protocols, we can advance the developments that let us connect the Internet with our physical world", said Geoff Mulligan, IPSO Chairman.
The entries will be judged by a panel of experts and the top designs will be brought to and demonstrated at Sensors Expo June 4-6 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. The finalists will receive the opportunity to meet with the judges and present their device to the attendees of the show. The winning submission will receive a $10,000 prize.
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SAN FRANCISCO—Chief Justice of California Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye will deliver her first "State of the Judiciary" Address before a joint session of the California Legislature at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 19, 2012. The Address will be given in the Assembly Chamber of the State Capitol Building, Sacramento.
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This fall the Hilltowns became home to another community co-operative grocery store in Western MA: The Old Creamery Co-Op in Cummington, MA!
To celebrate this new beginning, Hilltown Families and the Old Creamery Co-op have partnered up to offer one of our readers a gift basket (valued at $150), abundant with a collection that is representative of what you will find when you visit this Hilltown gem! Details on how you can enter for a chance to win are below!
The Old Creamery is a small country store cultivating a big vision: "…to make the world a more just, loving, and environmentally sustainable place, starting in our own neighborhood, through the vehicle of a vibrant, community-oriented retail store." Alice Cozzolino and Amy Pulley purchased the Old Creamery in 2000 and have since helped transform it into a vibrant community hub in the heart of the Hilltowns, transitioning to a community owned co-op last month!
Alice and Karen Doherty, the co-op's new general manager, have put together a list of great gifts you can find at the Old Creamery Co-op, gifts that reflect the co-op's values & vision, some of which will be found in our Gift Basket Giveaway:
List of 20 Gifts You Can Find at the Old Creamery Co-op
- Two mugs from our crafts gallery and a bag of locally roasted Indigo coffee.
- Vermont-made wooden toys from sustainably harvested timber.
- Tessier's maple syrup, in a variety of sizes. The quintessential New England gift!
- The book World Enough and Time by local author Christian McEwen.
- Les Costes Extra Virgin Olive Oil, the richest-flavored, most delicate, buttery olive oil I have ever tasted. For an extraordinary gift, pair it with Eiswein Vinegar with Quince from Germany, unique among the vinegars I've tasted.
- Nitty Gritty Grain Co. of Vermont bags of regionally grown cornmeal, grains, and flour.
- Lotus Foods heirloom rices, supporting farmers from many countries in their efforts to grow delicious and nutritious heirloom varieties using environmentally sustainable growing methods.
- Sap House Meadery's assorted flavors of meads in exquisitely beautiful bottles. I enjoy the aroma as much as the flavor.
- Bug Hill Farm Black Currant Cordial to drizzle on ice cream, to mix into seltzer, or flavoring in a cooking sauce.
- Faber Castell environmentally sustainable beeswax crayons and colored pencils.
- One of many really cool, well-engineered kitchen tools.
- Assorted chocolates from all over the world; many are organic and fair trade. Put a selection together in a small basket.
- A colorful African Market Basket from Ghana.
- Beautiful bamboo kitchen towels and sustainably produced bamboo wooden kitchen spoons and spatulas.
- A book about canning, canning jars, labels, and a canning funnel.
- Wise Ways locally made herbal medicines, and skin-care and personal-care products with a book on medicinal herbs.
- Locally made Ooma Tesoro's marinara sauce, and other Mediterranean condiments.
- Maggie's socks, from a regionally owned company.
- A member-owner share in The Old Creamery Co-op.
- And the very last of the old-style Old Creamery T-shirts, sweatshirts, or baby jumpers.
Alice also suggests that folks think about giving nontraditionally this holiday season too! "Give the precious gift of your time," she suggests. "Offer to accompany your friend/family member on walks in the woods, cook a meal for someone you love, or offer to teach something you know, like knitting, cooking, bicycle maintenance, or furniture repair. Take the time to write a card (make your own or buy one of our many cards by local artists). Invite your gift-recipient to accompany you to one of our many local arts venues (theater, music, dance) or to your favorite restaurant."
The Old Creamery Co-Op is located on Route 9 in Cummington (445 Berkshire Trail Road). As you approach the Old Creamery's white turn-of-the-twentieth-century building the first thing you notice is the sizable statue of a cow on the front roof overlooking Route 9. The cow connects us with our roots. In 1886 this building housed the Cummington Cooperative Creamery, the co-op of local dairy farmers. These co-op members brought fresh cream from their farms to be churned into butter here. At its most active, 145 dairies produced 20,000 pounds of butter per month. Find out more at www.oldcreamery.coop.
We're putting together a BUCKET LIST of things to do and places to see in Western MA with the family this winter, post-holidays (January-March). Recommend your favorite attraction, must see or must do family winter activity in Western MA, and be entered to win a gift basket from the Old Creamery Co-Op (valued at $150), filled with gift quality items and artisanal & local foods you can find at the co-op, including several from the list above. To enter to win simply:
- POST YOUR RECOMMENDATION AS OUTLINED ABOVE IN THE FIELDS BELOW (one entry per household) and be sure to tell us your
- FULL NAME (first/last) and where you
- LIVE (TOWN/STATE) must include your town to be eligible.
- ACCURATE EMAIL (we never share your email address).
- CONSIDER SHARING ON FACEBOOK by selecting the Facebook icon below.
- We'll randomly draw a winner and will share the results below.
IT'S THAT SIMPLE! — Deadline is Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 at 12noon (EST).