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In another story the Western media apparently refuses to cover, any Palestinian who dares to criticize Hamas or the Palestinian Authority risks being arrested or summoned for interrogation.
Palestinian journalists are now hoping to bring this to the attention of President Barack Obama when he meets with President Mahmoud Abbas next month.
The journalists say they want United States and the rest of the world to know that the crackdown on freedom of expression in both West Bank [Judea and Samaria] and Gaza Strip is designed to hide the fact that Palestinians are governed by two repressive regimes that have no respect for human rights and democracy.
Over the past few weeks, several Palestinian journalists have been arrested in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for reportedly criticizing the policies and leaders of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
But this most recent assault on freedom of expression does not seem to bother the Western countries that fund the Palestinian Authority or Hamas supporters from all around the world.
As far as many Western governments and journalists are concerned, physical assaults on Palestinian reporters in the Gaza Strip are fine as long as they are not perpetrated by Israel.
The Palestinian Authority crackdown on Palestinian journalists in the West Bank is also fine as long as Israel is not involved.
Most of the assaults against journalists took place in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas continues to display zero tolerance towards critics or anyone who dares to say something "controversial."
In the past few weeks, at least 16 journalists from the Gaza Strip were arrested or summoned for interrogation by Hamas authorities in the context of a campaign aimed at intimidating the local media.
Some of the journalists were released only after Hamas forced them to sign a document stating that they would refrain from attending press conferences or covering various activities unless they obtained permission in advance.
The Hamas authorities have also raided the homes of several journalists, confiscating their computers and notebooks.
In some instances, Hamas's security forces have forced journalists to provide them with their passwords and usernames in order to check their emails.
Following is a list of the names of journalists from the Gaza Strip who have been arrested or interrogated by Hamas in recent weeks: Ashraf Abu Khwaisan, Ala Dawaheed, Amru Dawaheed, Munir al-Munairawi, Mustafa Migdad, Majdi Islim, Juma'ah Abu Shomar, Hisham al-Ju'ub, Muayad Assali, Shadi Shaheen, Muhanad al-Kahlout, Esam Madi, Hussein Abdel Jawwad, Abdel Karim Hijji and Yusef Hammad.
Three other journalists, Khaled Thabet, Mohamed Za'anin and Muthana al-Najjar, were beaten by Hamas policemen and thugs while covering various activities in the Gaza Strip.
In the West Bank, the situation has not been any better for Palestinian journalists and political activists.
Just last week, a Palestinian Authority court sentenced 26-year-old Anas Said Awwad to one year in prison for "insulting" President Mahmoud Abbas on Facebook.
Awwad was found guilty of depicting Abbas as a member of the Real Madrid soccer team.
The man was convicted on the basis of a 50-year-old Jordanian law that bans "extending one's tongue" against the Jordanian monarch.
The Palestinian Authority often uses this law to punish anyone who posts comments against Abbas or other leaders in Ramallah.
This was not the first time that the Palestinian Authority goes after Palestinians who use Facebook to express their views.
At least three other Palestinians, Nizar Banat, Mamdouh Hamamreh and Jihad Harb have been targeted by Abbas's security forces for posting critical comments on Facebook.
Over the past week, Palestinian Authority security forces also arrested two journalists, Ala al-Titi and Mohamed Awad.
Safad Nazzal, a Palestinian female activist who criticized the Palestinian Authority for failing to pay more attention to the case of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, has also been arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank.
It now remains to be seen whether Obama and other Western leaders and government officials, as well as human rights groups, will pay attention to the ongoing attempt to silence Palestinian journalists and political activists. Failure to do so will only encourage Hamas and the Palestinian Authority to continue their assaults on freedom of expression.
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I can only take credit for #10, but thought you'd get a kick out of this.
10. I'll vote Democrat because I can't wait for college football season to be delayed or cancelled because the student athletes are union employees.
9. I'll vote Democrat because I believe oil company's profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.
8. I'll vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
7. I'll vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
6. I'll vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that get police to your home in order to identify your body after a home invasion.
5. I'll vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.
4. I'll vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away the Social Security from those who paid into it.
3. I'll vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should NOT be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit.
2. I'll vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.
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Travel Postcard: 48 Hours in Benin's voodoo heartland
OUIDAH, Benin - The small club-shaped West African country of Benin is not on most tourists' radar but its palm-fringed white sand beaches in the south and surprisingly good wildlife parks in the dusty north will reward more intrepid travelers.
It has some of the best and cheapest food in the region, blending French and African influences. But the biggest reason to visit is the country's rich and intriguing history; for hundreds of years it was at the mercy of the slave trade and it remains famous for being the birthplace of voodoo.
Voodoo is the official religion for 17 percent of Beninese, although almost everyone incorporates it into their lives. Originally is was called "vodun" meaning: 'the hidden'. Voodoo centers around several vodun spirits and deities.
Traditional priests are consulted for their power to harness the spirits through rituals that often involve the sacrifice of a chicken or goat. It is seen as essential to call upon the spirits for protection or prosperity and they can be used for malicious ends. Commonly seen are fetishes; an object, sometimes a doll, which is blessed with a spirit's power.
If you can, visit Benin on January 10, the official Voodoo Day with celebrations all over the country.
The small town of Ouidah on the Atlantic coast is the cradle of voodoo, a culture far from the image projected in Hollywood in films featuring Indiana Jones and James Bond.
A Reuters correspondent with local knowledge helps you get the most out of a weekend trip to this magical spot.
4:30 p.m. - You've probably just spent two hours on a bumpy car journey from the dusty capital Cotonou and are need of refreshment but its worth making a stop at the Point of No Return. A giant gate memorial right on the beach, marking the launching point where 12 million slaves were deported between the 16th and 19th centuries. For a small fee a guide will talk you through its thought provoking history.
6 p.m. - Stop at the shack Coast Bar just down from the memorial for a well earned rest. Pull up a wooden stool on the sand and enjoy the sunset over a cold La Beninoise beer and perhaps a boiled egg with spicy pepper - only 10 cents a throw.
7:30 p.m. - Check-in at the relative luxury of Casa del Papa and be sure to get a bungalow on the beach. Ask reception to book you a driver/guide for your voodoo-packed day tomorrow. Your best bet is to stay here for the evening as Ouidah is no party town. There is bound to be some fresh fish on the menu and you can wash it down with very decent and affordable wine. http://www.casadelpapa.com/
10 p.m. - Take a stroll along the deserted beach and sit on your balcony listening to the crashing waves before bed.
7 a.m. - Time for a swim. You can have a few lengths in the pool overlooking the beach or take on the sea. The waves are rough but it's a good morning workout. Don't go much beyond the break of the waves as the West African currents are legendary.
8 a.m. - Enjoy croissant, eggs, coffee and delicious fresh fruit for breakfast. Watch the lines of fishermen pulling in the morning catch, looking much like a one-sided tug-of-war.
9 a.m. - Start your cultural experience at the small Musee D'Histoire De Ouidah, where you'll get a grounding in Benin's slave and voodoo history.
10:30 a.m. - Visit the Voodoo Python Temple. It's a bit of a tourist trap but the sight of a room filled with dozens of pythons is sure to stick in the memory and if not you can get a picture with one draped around your neck.
12 p.m. - Just around the corner is the peaceful Sacred Forest, which contains a 400-year-old Iroko tree that allegedly King Kpasse, the town's founder, turned himself into to evade his enemies. There are several bizarre sculptures depicting voodoo deities, including the well-illustrated God of virility!
1 p.m. - Stop at the artistic guest house Le Jardin Secret for lunch. A small but perfectly formed menu is likely to feature fresh fish, prawns and maybe some goat, all served with either rice, chips or sautéed potatoes. Delicious meals will cost around $10 each. Allow plenty of time because, like everything else in Benin, service is at a relaxed pace. http://www.lejardinsecretouidah.net/
3:30 p.m. - You're now ready to visit the Voodoo King - if he grants you an audience. The Voodoo Palace, which he describes as the Vatican of voodoo, has a myriad of totems, fetishes and deity sculptures adorning several outbuildings. If the King agrees then you'll be led into his decorative chamber, where he says he often hosts the President of Benin for private consultations. When he enters you must kneel on the floor and bow at his feet. Bring along your most pressing problems and the King may see fit to solve them, from psychological demons to physical ailments, he claims nothing is beyond his powers.
5:30 p.m. - Hit the coastal road and head for the town of Grand Popo, a short drive towards the border with Togo.
7 p.m. - Head straight for Auberge de Grand Popo, a colonial-style guesthouse on an empty golden beach, peppered with palm trees. Have dinner in the thatched-roof terrace overlooking the sea, where you'll enjoy some of the best food in Benin. All the fish, steaks and chicken come with rich sauces and cooked vegetables with wines to match. Finish the evening playing the French game Petanque, or boules, on the sand by the restaurant and then take a stroll down the beach before settling into a comfortable sea-view room. http://www.benin-direct.com/grand-popo/auberge-de-grand-popo">http://www.benin-direct.com/grand-popo/auberge-de-grand-popo
8:30 p.m. - After breakfast ask the hotel to organize a Pirogue boat trip to the Bouche du Roy, a large expanse of water where the Mono River empties into the ocean. You'll spot many scenic island villages on a great two hour trip. http://www.naturetropicale.org/
12 p.m. - On your drive back to Ouidah ask the driver to take you to a traditional voodoo temple. If you're lucky you'll see vodun worship at its most atmospheric, if slightly grisly. You might witness a ceremony aimed at spurring love, where two voodoo dolls are bound together before sacred gin is poured over them and a chicken is sacrificed. It's fascinating stuff but if you're not keen on watching a decapitated chicken spraying blood around a dark room full of skulls and fetishes then it might be best to avoid it.
3 p.m. - Talk about your experiences over a beer and perhaps a strangely delicious spaghetti sandwich in one of the bars down the alleyways of central Ouidah. Grab a plastic chair and a beer, listen to hypnotic West African music and ask the locals about their thoughts on voodoo.


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"Fatal Attraction" :
We all saw the 1987 "bunny boiler"film ...and loved it.
Why it had to be revived in 2014 by Trevor Nunn and brought to a London West End stage...is beyond me.
What is also beyond me was the price of the tickets....well,it is starring Kristin Davies aka: Charlotte from the much beloved "Sex and the City", Natascha McElhone from...well loads of stuff and Mark"never heard of him" Bazeley...the play is a stinker.
We would have walked out as soon as it started....it started LOUD!!! I mean really LOUD!...A clanging sound that is supposed to represent a prison door closing...a metaphor to Dan's life and his 2 night fling with Alex (Natascha's character which was played by Glenn Close in the film)...and a group of people doing some robotic,moronic side steps towards the front of the stage from whence Mark Bazeley appears and starts "enunciating" far too much for my taste and far too ...here it comes again....LOUDLY.
Kristin Davies appears and is her sweet "Charlotte" self:
"Hiiiii! Honeyyyyy"....in a pair of Superga tennis shoes and navy jeans. She looks....out of place and frankly....her element.
The dialogue is awful....when Dan first meets Alex and takes her out for dinner, he tells her some convoluted tale about when he worked in a bar...
"You're shitting me!" is her contribution to this inane string of sentences .
This scene was so bloody boring I was about to slide off my seat, my brother in law's face was contorted in utter horror and my sister was staring ahead in disbelief.
The couple to my left,whom I kept looking at to distract myself from this train wreck had blessedly fallen asleep.....Yes! I shit you not!!
The sex scene is hilarious as they writhe on a so called New York dance floor.....and we are treated to a Mark Bazeley running out in his Calvins to wash his hands in the kitchen sink of Alex's flat ,before wiping them dry on his....Calvins.
Half time was our saviour as we ran...nay! Bolted out of the starting gate into the warm and loving arms of the Wolseley.
The reviews aren't great...apparently the ending drops a bombshell as it is NOT the same one as the film when Alex (G. Close/ N. McElhone) is shot....frankly it wasn't incentive enough(had we know before hand...) to keep us glued to our seat. We simply didn't give a damn.....
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Recovering from concussion, Avila takes BP
DETROIT -- Alex Avila was in for his toughest tests yet on Tuesday after suffering a concussion more than a week ago and passing a battery of tests in accordance with Major League Baseball protocol over the weekend.
Before Tuesday's game against the Twins, Avila took batting practice, did catching drills and threw to bases.
"Alex had a very good day," manager Jim Leyland said. "I talked to [head athletic trainer] Kevin [Rand] about it. We're going to see how he comes in tomorrow. There's a lot of different possibilities. If he is OK, you have to decide are you going to send him out to play a game or so, how you're going to handle that situation. But we haven't come to that point yet."
Leyland has said multiple times that Avila has been hit by more foul tips than any other catcher he's ever seen, and players around the league have noticed the same thing.
"Well, that pitching staff is hard to hit. But yeah, for whatever reason, there's some guys that get more beat up than others," Twins catcher Joe Mauer said. "It's a position where you get beat up anyway, but I know playing against Alex for a few years, he tends to take a pretty good beating back there."
Avila tried to switch to a hockey mask in the past, but found it uncomfortable. Mauer switched the shell of his helmet to a prototype made by Rawlings, which is supposed to limit concussions.
"Like any hitter will tell you when they switch to the new batting helmets, they're heavier, a little more bulky and they kind of slimmed them down," Mauer said. "But it's definitely heavier, I can tell you that. We're still trying to get the safest scenario possible."
Whether the key to preventing concussions is in the shell or mask, catchers are happy to see more options are available.
"That position, catcher, they're a lot more in the line of danger than a hitter," Mauer said. "I would even like to see the umpires get in on that, too. They're back there taking shots and stuff like that. Hopefully, the research they're doing keeps getting better."


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To the dismay of civil liberties activists, Oakland, Calif.'s Domain Awareness Center could unite many disparate security resources from around the city.
Public safety officials in Oakland, Calif., say a new facility they're building could help make the city safer, but the project is facing strong opposition from privacy groups. The Domain Awareness Center (DAC) is expected to be operational early next year, paid for with an estimated $10.9 million in Department of Homeland Security grants.
Originally conceived as a hub for analyzing video and sensor feeds to keep the Port of Oakland area safe, city officials may now include city fire and police operations as part of the center's functionality.
There are many security assets around the city that may become part of the DAC: CCTV cameras, live video surveillance feeds, police shot spotter systems, police and fire record management systems, automated license plate readers, automatic vehicle location systems, port perimeter detection cameras, port thermal intrusion detection cameras, the port truck management system, external cameras, highway and chemical explosive sensors and many more. Exactly which of these systems will be included, how the various departments will interact, and how data will be managed has not yet been decided. These options will be discussed by city officials during phase two of the project, which is now under way.
While police and city officials assure the public that the DAC's intent is to target criminals and not to intrude on public privacy, groups like the ACLU have taken exception to the idea that the project was embarked upon without public discussion or firm privacy policies in place.
Whatever the ultimate scope of the DAC, the value of the project, officials say, is in shifting the city's stance on crime from reactive to proactive. A PowerPoint slide created by project leaders lists one mission of the DAC as creating a system that allows for real-time and statistical incident monitoring and improved interoperability within the city's public safety departments.
Interim Oakland CIO Ahsan Baig said that public safety and helping reduce crime in Oakland is a large portion of his job. For the past 10 years, Baig has managed public safety systems in Oakland, and he is now one of the key figures overseeing the development of the DAC.
In phase one of the project, which can be traced back to 2008, developers laid out the hardware and software, security, and network connections for the system. In the current phase, officials will establish how the Port of Oakland, Oakland Fire Department and Oakland Police Department cooperate, he said.
"It's all about efficiency and automation into the response when it comes to public safety and emergency response," Baig said. "The whole idea of this Domain Awareness Center is to build a common operating picture."
Many police and fire operations will now be more automated, and many time-consuming tasks like calling around to find information and querying various databases will be eliminated by the DAC, he added.
The city is tentatively planning to have two or three workers at the DAC while it is operational. Originally planned for 24-hour surveillance, Baig said they are still discussing options for hours of operation. The DAC may end up being operational only at night or during heavy crime periods like the weekend.
What they would like to see, Baig said, is a system where all the siloed information can be tied together in a central mapping system. Ideally, employees of the DAC would have a central view of the city that they could pass onto operating commanders and 911 operators as needed. The DAC, he said, will create a more collaborative response environment that will serve as a model for more inter-agency information sharing in the future.
Oakland Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Breshears, who became more heavily involved in the development of the DAC in the past three months, said the DAC could provide Oakland Police a valuable tool that aligns with several of their existing goals and missions. Before the DAC entered their thoughts, Breshears said, Oakland Police were looking for ways to make better use of video in solving and preventing crime.
In 2012, there were 131 murders in Oakland, and the city has a population of about 400,000. By comparison, New York City, which has a population of about 8.3 million, saw 419 murders the same year.
However, the DAC is not a response to crime, Breshears said. Originally built for port security, the city identified that the center will have capabilities that would be immensely useful to public safety, although they don't yet know if police will be allowed to use it. Breshears explained approximately how it might work if public safety officials can leverage the DAC.
If one of the city's shot-spotter systems picked up gunfire, DAC workers would receive an alert on a map, and be able to pull video footage from that area, whether from a privately owned CCTV camera whose owner had an agreement with the city, or some other camera included in the system. The DAC would be able to identify vehicles that were in the area when the shots were fired, allowing officers to run the vehicles and license plates to see if those vehicles were owned by known criminals or wanted people. All of this would happen quickly, he said, whereas in the past, the same information was available, but it took a lot of legwork to acquire.
The city is now looking at the privacy concerns around the DAC, Breshears said. "Our goal is to not use this unnecessarily," he said. "Our goal is to use it legally and our goal is to utilize the video to capture crimes and stop crimes and improve safety for the community."
But for Linda Lye, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the city's position is unacceptable. "For the police to say, 'Oh, we don't know whether we'll do it or whether we'll not,' how do we have a meaningful debate about whether this thing should be approved and what privacy safeguards need to be in place if we don't even know what it is at the outset?" Lye said.
The ACLU objected to the approval of the project when it was discovered that privacy policies and a complete scope of the project would not be established until midway through development. In a letter to the Oakland City Council written on behalf of the ACLU, Lye outlined the privacy concerns posed by the DAC and urged the city not to approve a project that has not been completely mapped from the start.
"The Oakland City Council would never approve a giant construction project without fully understanding the financial implications but they have the equivalent of that here without fully understanding the privacy implications," she said.
Lye and the ACLU claim that by building the DAC, the city is setting out to conduct mass surveillance and stockpile information about the public. The city and the police dispute this claim, stating that privacy policies are not yet in place, but policies will ensure that data collection and retention policies will be in accord with the law.
Lye said the city is effectively keeping the public on a need-to-know basis where the DAC project is concerned. Lye called for the DAC to adhere to Fair Information Practice Principles, a set of guidelines established by the Federal Trade Commission that safeguard the public's privacy. The most fundamental principle is giving notice to any person whose information is collected. The collector must also share how the information is being used along with several other guidelines that protect the public's right to privacy.
Since the ACLU first objected to city council approval of the DAC, the city has removed school cameras from the proposed systems to be integrated, but that's not enough, Lye said. The ACLU, she said, wants a clear description of what the DAC is, so people can decide if they want such a thing in their community in the first place.
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The NHL and NHL Players' Association are pulling out all the stops to try to save the season.
With talks on a collective bargaining agreement going nowhere, the league and union both confirmed Monday they will meet with the Federal Mediation and Concillation Service (FMCS) in an effort to get a deal in place.
The two sides are expected to sit down Wednesday with three representatives of the Washington-based organization to see if they can bridge the gap and get hockey back on the ice. The labour dispute will hit Day 73 Tuesday.
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told QMI Agency in an email Monday both sides were contacted by the FMCS and have agreed to meet with them. He isn't sure one way or another if mediation is going to be helpful.
"There is no way to know until we actually engage in the process (as to whether it will work)," said Daly. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."
The FMCS asked to get involved in the talks after speaking with both parties. Before you get excited, the National Labour Relations Board conducted three sessions with the NHL and the union before the season was cancelled in 2004-05.
In a statement on the FMCS website, director George Cohen confirmed he had spoken with both sides. He assigned three staff to the case: deputy director Scot Beckenbaugh, John Sweeney and commissioner Guy Serota.
"I have had separate, informal discussions with the key representatives of the (NHL and NHLPA) during the course of their negotiations. At the invitation of the FMCS, and with the agreement of both parties, the ongoing negotiations will now be conducted under our auspices," said Cohen.
It should be noted Cohen was involved in the NFL's labour talks for 17 days last spring before they broke off. The process is also non-binding, which means the league and the union don't have to live with what the FMCS offers up.
If talks are to get anywhere, then somebody is going to have to blink -- again -- after discussions broke down when the league turned down union executive director Donald Fehr's recent proposal last Wednesday in New York.
"We look forward to the (FMCS( involvement as we continue working to reach an equitable agreement for both the players and the owners," said Fehr.
A story making the rounds Monday said Fehr suggested mediation during talks last month and was asked by commissioner Gary Bettman if the union was looking to "save face" by using a third party.
Sources say if the two sides just sat down for a "give-and-take" negotiation session, they aren't far apart. But they have to get two major issues cleared up if they're going to be able to get the basis of a deal in place.
Apparently, neither side is willing to budge, which is why the federal mediator is involved. The FMCS claims an 85% success rate in the last four years, but that number is meaningless with these two parties.
The NHL and NHLPA have moved closer on contracting issues: contract-term limits; entry-level deals; arbitration and free agency. They are within striking distance and could get something done.
The league and union still can't agree on two major issues that have held up the talks: the 'Make Whole' provision to ensure players receive all the money they are owed, and a clear 50-50 split of revenues.
Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby would support a return to the table.
"I think a lot of guys are frustrated with ... the not talking," Crosby told Pittsburgh reporters Monday. "We understand the business side, that there are negotiations and proposals going back and forth, that kind of thing.
"But I think the whole process is frustrating. If we really want to get something done, I feel like we have to be there every single day, no matter what. Whether or not that's going to happen, I don't know, but the process is probably more frustrating than anything."
With the NHL's board of governors set to meet Dec. 5 in New York to get an update on talks, the NHL will want to see where this goes.
"We welcome a new approach in trying to reach a resolution of the ongoing labour dispute at the earliest possible date," Daly said in a statement.
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The latest in my Volcano Profiles Series, we turn to Europe and Vesuvius. You could fill many, many volumes with the works produced on Vesuvius since Roman times. This profile will barely scratch the surface when it comes to the vast geologic and human history surrounding the volcano, but it is a start. If you want to learn more about the archaeology surrounding Vesuvius, try visiting Blogging Pompeii.
Mt. Vesuvius in Italy. Image courtesy of Dario Leone.
- Location: Italy
- Height: 1,281 m / 4,203 ft
- Geophysical location: The tectonics in the Mediterranean are very complex, with a multitude of microplates and collisionsal zones, but overall the existence of volcanism in Italy is due to the African plate suducting underneath the European plate. The subducting African plate is a small sliver that is the floor of the Adriatic Sea to the east of Italy and the volcanism in Italy likely stems from this subduction, producing an arc of volcanoes that includes Etna, Stromboli, Vulcano, Campei Phlegrei amongst other smaller features. Vesuvius is part of Calabrian arc that is divided into 5 zones: Tuscany, Latium, Campania, the Aeolian Islands and Sicily. Volcanism along these zones date back to at least 5 million years ago and Vesuvius is part of the Campania zone, which has produced significant eruptions from Vesuvius and the Campei Phlegrei in the last 25,000 years.
- Type: Composite volcano
- Hazards: Dominantly pyroclastic flows (nuee ardentes) and ash fall, combined with lahars and lava flows.
- Monitoring: Vesuvius Observatory run by the'Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), the first volcano observatory in the world (founded in 1841). There is both a basic english site and a more indepth italian site. A healthy seismic network exists on the volcano as part of the Observatory. There is also this fellow.
- Summary: Mt. Vesuvius, overlooking modern Naples in Italy, might be the most famous volcano in the world. It is also considered the one of the most dangerous as well. More than three million people live near the active volcano that last erupted in 1944. The volcano could also be considered the birthplace of volcanology, with the famous letters (pdf link) of Pliny the Younger (the source of the term "plinian" for eruptive columns) that described many of the volcanic events during the famous 79 A.D. eruption of the volcano. That eruption was highly explosive - believed to be VEI ~5 - and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, entombing the citizens of the city for thousands of years. This disaster killed many, but has also opened a unparalleled window into Roman culture and life.
- Current status: According to the Vesuvious Observatory, the volcano is at Green/Base level of alert, indicating no signs of activity.
Paintng of Vesuvius (1774) by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Notable Recent Eruptions and History: The modern Vesuvius edifice has grown within the caldera of ancestral Monte Somma. This caldera has acted to channelize flows from Vesuvius towards the south and west from the modern volcano. In the last 17,000 years, Vesuvius has produced a multitude of eruptions, eight of which were large explosive eruptions. This includes the famous 79 A.D. eruption, along with large eruptions in 472, 685, 968, 1631, 1779, 1794, 1906 and 1944 amongst many others. The most recent activity at Vesuvius was in 1944, during a period of volcanism that latest almost 40 years from 1906. The largest eruption during this period was VEI th~3 and produced lava flows, pyroclastic flows, ash falls and deaths. It is most famously remembered as it was erupting as U.S. Forces arrived in Italy towards the end of World War II. The volcano likely destroyed more of the aircraft from the 340th Bombardment Group than any German air raid. There have been no eruptions at Vesuvius since 1944, one of the longer periods of quiet at the volcano in the last two thousand years - with some suggestion that the system may be entering a new phase of its life.
Mt. Vesuvius erupting in 1944. It has now been 65 years since the last eruption of the volcano.
Since 1944, there have been a number of seismic events at Vesuvius, suggesting the magma system is still active under the volcano, which is definitely not surprising. The most recent of these was in 1999, when seismicity was the highest it had been in 50 years. These earthquakes were at 6-km depth under the volcano and likely reflect magma moving into the lower reaches of the system. An interesting study in 1998 suggested a connection between large earthquakes in the Appennines, ~55 km to the north of the volcano. They found that earthquakes in these mountains tended to accompany eruptions of Vesuvius, with an eruption occuring within ten years after seismicity. They conclude that there is "two-way coupling zone, within which normal-faulting events promote eruptions and eruptions promote earthquakes", which is a fascinating localized interconnectedness of tectonics and volcanism.
Projected areas effected by ash fall and pyroclastic flows from a future eruption of Vesuvius.
The Italian government plans to evacuate 600,000 people from the area around Vesuvius if the volcano were to show signs of major activity again. An explosive eruption at Vesuvius could claim 16,000-20,000 lives without proper monitoring and mitigation. This, in itself, is an amazing number and shows the real danger posed by the volcano. The volcano was named one of the "Decade Volcanoes" as well. A commission appointed by Ministry of Defense in 1991 defined two hazard zones - a red zone where most everything would be destroyed by pyroclastic flows and a yellow zone that would be dominantly affected by ash fall (see above), lapilli and lahars. Since then, there have been many studies (pdf link) that have examined the challenge of volcanic hazard mitigation in such a densely populated area. The mitigation plan includes banning new construction in hazards, monetary bonuses for people to live outside the hazard zone, moving public offices outside the hazard zone, changes to the the transportation system to improve evacuation and an information campaign.
Selected resources of Vesuvius:
- Scarth, A. and Tanguy, J.,-C., 2001, Volcanoes of Europe, Oxford University Press, 243 pp.
- Jashemski, W. and Meyer, F., 2002, The Natural History of Pompeii, Cambridge University Press, 502 pp.
- Nostro, C., R. S. Stein, M. Cocco, M. E. Belardinelli, and W. Marzocchi (1998), Two-way coupling between Vesuvius eruptions and southern Apennine earthquakes, Italy, by elastic stress transfer, J. Geophys. Res., 103(B10), 24,487-24,504.
Vesuvius as the sun rises. Image courtesy of Dario Leone, taken by Dionigi Caputo.


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Swonke joined the TxDOT Automation Division in 1987 after earning a bachelor's degree in geology from Sul Ross State University in 1984 and doing graduate work at Texas State University in the Applied Geography Program. He soon moved to the Environmental Section of the Design Division and in 1993 took a Water Resources Branch manager position in the then newly created Environmental Affairs Division.
While at TxDOT, Swonke was instrumental in TxDOT's first wetland banking efforts, led the compliance program for the new EPA construction storm water rules and municipal storm sewer system permitting program, and co-authored TxDOT's first storm water guidance manual. Additionally, he was the TxDOT liaison for the development of the state's coastal management program and served on several state- and national-level research advisory committees.
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Arts at MIT "Being Material" symposium (April 2017)
The past Friday and Saturday (April 21st & 22nd) I had the unique experience of attending the Arts at MIT "BeingMaterial" symposium held in Boston.
The venue was stellar, and given that the venue was catering towards academics, it was very informative and there was a lot of knowledge sharing happening.
The topics included a broad range of fields that tied back to the notion of being in the age of Digital Materials: Programmable (Matter), Livable, Invisible, Wearable, Audible. Here is a description:
BEING MATERIAL A symposium hosted by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) April 21-22, 2017 MIT Samberg Conference Center, 6th & 7th floors, Building E52 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 In 1995, MIT's Nicholas Negroponte predicted that "being digital" would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world. Two decades later, our everyday lives are indeed ever more suffused by computation and calculation. But unwieldy materiality persists and even reasserts itself. Programmable matter, self-assembling structures, 3D/4D printing, wearable technologies and bio-inspired design today capture the attention of engineers, scientists, and artists. "BEING MATERIAL" will showcase recent developments in materials systems and design, placing this work in dialogue with kindred and contrasting philosophy, art practice and critique. Panels on the PROGRAMMABLE, WEARABLE, LIVABLE and INVISIBLE—along with a concert, AUDIBLE—will explore new and unexpected meetings of the digital and material worlds.
For those that missed it, the event was live streamed, so it may soon be available through Arts at MIT website at a future date and time, so stay tuned. You can also see some of the commentary that was posted to twitter by searching on the hashtag #BeingMaterial or @ArtsAtMIT.
I would like to thank both Arts at MIT as well as the speakers for giving their time and energy to arrange such a unique and vibrant gathering of Artists, Engineers, Scientists, and others in one place and time.


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(AP) House votes to avoid shutdown, delay Obamacare
The Republican-run House has voted to avoid a partial government shutdown next week but also delay President Barack Obama's health care law.
Because of that condition, the White House has promised the overall legislation will be vetoed. That means the two sides are edging closer to a shutdown of many federal services Tuesday morning, with no obvious solution in sight.
The House sent the legislation to the Democratic-run Senate early Sunday by 231-192.
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It's worried that the thing could catch fire. A washer within the cigarette lighter power adaptor could short out, it said today, causing smoke and, possibly, flames too.
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How People Just Like You Planned Their Way to a Rich Retirement
The world is full of secrets. We may envy our neighbors next door, with their fancy new cars and in-ground pool, but we might simply be unaware that they're drowning in debt. (The average household with credit card debt owes roughly $16,000, and that's just the average!)
And then there is the neighbor on the other side of our house -- attracting very little attention, driving her 10-year-old car and walking her 8-year-old dog. What we don't know is that she's sitting on a retirement war chest of more than a million dollars, accumulated while she toiled at an ordinary job.
It's easy to assume that really fat bank or brokerage accounts are only for the wealthy and that the most we can hope for is to just get by. If you're earning, say, $45,000 per year and can't hope for much more than annual raises of 3%, it can be hard to imagine a comfy retirement.
Stop selling yourself short.
Meet the everyday millionairesThere are lots of examples of ordinary people who managed to accumulate great sums -- and you can do as well as them, or even better. Consider these four.
The determined washerwoman: First, there's Oseola McCarty. She's perhaps the most impressive example of how much someone can do with very little. She worked doing other people's laundry and never earned more than $9,000 in a year. Yet she managed to save more than a quarter of a million dollars. (Had she invested in stocks, she might have ended up with even more.)
The dropout dry cleaner: Another financial hero is Genesio Morlacci. A dry cleaner who became a part-time janitor in retirement, he died at age 102, leaving $2.3 million to a local university. He had only a third-grade education, but was good with numbers. He invested in real estate, bonds, and some stocks. (Interestingly, since stocks have tended to significantly outperform bonds and real estate over the long haul, Mr. Morlacci might have accumulated even more if he'd invested differently.)
The everyday entrepreneurs: Then there's Golda and Gilmore Reynolds, an unassuming couple in Indiana who surprised their town of Osgood by bequeathing $23 million. She had been a schoolteacher, and over the years they owned several small businesses, such as a car dealership and a tobacco shop. One trait of theirs was a love of stocks and investing, which enabled them to multiply their small fortune into a mammoth one.
The studious stock-picking teacher: Thomas Drey Jr., was a schoolteacher, too, until he retired. He spent a fair chunk of time at the Boston Public Library, studying stocks. The fact that he was able to leave $6.8 million to the library when he died suggests that he got very good at selecting smart investments. He wrote a book on the subject, as well -- America's 100 Best Growth Stocks.
Those are just a handful of many people who come from walks of life not so different from you and me.
You Can Do Better, Too
Clearly, these people amassed their money because they put their minds to it -- something any of us can do. The trick is to save aggressively and invest effectively.
Saving 10% of your income may not be enough, especially if you're starting a bit late. If you need to, you can employ some tricks to boost your saving and investing. For example, take on a second job for a while. Or simply work a few more years than you planned to before retiring. Taking in a boarder for a while can generate a lot of extra income. Or, if more extreme measures are warranted, consider moving into a smaller home -- or to a region with a lower cost of living.
The next step is deploying that extra savings and maximizing its future growth. Parking your long-term money in low-interest bonds isn't going to build wealth very quickly. The most successful builders of long-term wealth look to the stock market to make their fortunes blossom.
Yes, the stock market can be volatile, but if you take the time to learn more about stocks, you can invest somewhat conservatively in stocks and still make good money.
And finally, don't totally deprive yourself, or you'll have very little chance of sticking with your plan. Genesio Morlacci took occasional trips to Italy. The Reynolds had a winter home in Florida. Enjoy your life, but do so with your eyes on the prize -- a cushy retirement.
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The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes
|Gounod: FAUST [Includes RealAudio Selections]
|Band 9
Act V: Trio: "Anges purs" (verse 1)...to conclusion of Trio; encore: "Anges purs" (verse 3)..."ŕ toi, pardonne!"
Nellie Melba (s), Marguerite (?)
Albert Saléza (t), Faust (?)
Pol Plançon (bs), Méphistophélčs (?)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra--Luigi Mancinelli(?)
March 28, 1901 (?)
[Our identification of this undocumented cylinder is conjectural. In the opinion of John Stratton and Philip L. Miller, the Marguerite is Melba (an assumption supported by the findings of Voiceprint Laboratories of Somerville, New Jersey, to whom we sent samples of an identical phrase from this cylinder and from Band 8, firmly ascribed to Melba). The following dates are possible:
|Melba, J. & E. De Reszke/Mancinelli
|Melba, Saléza, E. De Reszke/Mancinelli
|Melba, Saléza, Plançon/Mancinelli
A cylinder from the New York Public Library group, this was transferred to a lacquer disc at the Library of Congress in February 1941. When John Stratton and David Hall examined the cylinders in early 1967, they found this one badly cracked, but not beyond re-assemblage. The first part of Band 9 is the result, comprising the complete trio. The encore is taken from the Library of Congress lacquer; despite the change in sound quality, we have maintained time continuity during the applause between the trio and the encore. The original cylinder, as far as it goes, is much superior in definition and tonal body to the lacquer transfer.]


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So how do you get a fossil named after you? The easiest way is to make friends with a Palaeontologist who is good at discovering things and is looking for names to call their new finds. A slightly harder way is to find a new fossil species and give it to a Palaeontologist who names it after you. (In case you were wondering, it is against the rules to call new discoveries after yourself ). Just before ChristmasI had a visit from my old friend Stuart Sutherland from Canada who named a fossil after me back in 1994. I have four fossils named after me and have named some after others too. Here are the stories behind each of them.
On graduation day in 1993; Professor David Siveter, Andrew Swift, Stuart Sutherland and a young looking Giles Miller.
Stuart and I were studying for our PhDs at the University of Leicester in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We both had similar field areas in the Welsh Borderland around Ludlow and often scheduled fieldwork for the same time, occasionally helping each other to collect study samples. One summer evening I was helping Stuart to collect samples deep in the Mortimer Forest outside Ludlow. Foolishly I managed to hammer my thumb drawing blood and we had to return to our accomodation early.
Angochitina milleri Sutherland, 1994. This chitinozoan is less than half a millimetre in length.
I didn't realise but Stuart made a note of the sample number and once he dissolved it back in the lab, he found a new species of chitinozoan that he named Angochitina milleri Sutherland, 1994 in my honor. Chitinozoans are tiny organic jug shaped organisms. To this day is it still unclear what they are but they are very useful age diagnostic constituents of marine rocks in the middle Palaeozoic era (very roughly 360-480 Million years ago). Some think that they are some sort of egg case as they sometimes appear linked in chains.
The ostracod Progonocythere milleri Wakefield, 1994 from the Jurassic of Scotland. It is just less than a millimetre long.
While Stuart and I were living in Leicester we shared a house with our good friend Matthew Wakefield who was studying ostracods from the Jurassic of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. He had discovered several new species that he kindly named after his housemates. New species number 2 is therefore Progonocythere milleri Wakefield, 1994. You will notice that after each milleri is the name of the author and the date of publication. I am honoured to have both of these two species named after me and published in Monographs of the Palaeontological Society, a very prestigious journal that has also published Darwin's work. The holotype of P. milleri also resides in the collections currently in my care.
The third milleri is more tenuous as the author, Jonathan Adrain (now University of Iowa) discovered lots of new species of trilobite from the Canadian Arctic while he was working at the Museum. He discovered so many that he decided to use the phone list of the Department of Palaeontology at the time to name his various new species. Hence Gerastos milleri Adrain, 1997. In fact there were not enough names on the list to completely cover all his new discoveries so he decided to name some of them after his favourite pop group, The Beatles. His publications therefore include a macartneyi a harrisoni and a petebesti!
Kannathalepis milleri Marss & Gagnier, 2001, scales from an ancient fish from the Canadian Arctic.
At the time I asked Jonathan if he could provide some spare rock from his trilobite studies so that I could attempt to extract microfossils. Some of these samples contained some fish scales that I passed on to my good friend Dr Tiiu Märss of Tallinn Technical University, Estonia with whom I was working at the time. One of these samples contained some fragments of a new fish hence the fourth new species named after me Kanathalepis milleri Märss and Gagnier, 2001.
Pictures taken on fieldwork with Tiiu in 1995; with Peter Tarrant at Man Brook and taking a sample from under a tree half way up Caer Caradoc, Shropshire.
Tiiu also passed me some samples from the Canadian Arctic from which I discovered some new species of ostracod that I named Beyrichia marssae Miller, Siveter and Williams, 2010 and Platybolbina adraini Miller, Siveter and Williams, 2010 in honour of Tiiu and Jonathan. However, you will notice from the date after these names that it took me a much longer time to publish my new species!
Beyrichia marssae and Platybolbina adraini.
As you can see from the stories above, the naming of species new to science sometimes provides historical information about the lives of scientists, their collections and collaborations. Working at the Museum and being involved in science has meant that I have met a lot of people from all around the world, some of whom have decided to honour me by naming new species after me for various reasons.
Sometimes names become superceded when later research shows that they were not really new. Someone may have already described them or they could be a smaller part of something already described. As far as I know all the milleris are still as valid as the friendships gained through working in science. It was lovely to speak to my Estonian colleague Tiiu while working on this post. I see Matt Wakefield regularly at scientific meetings about ostracods. It has also been great to see my old friend Stuart again.