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Safeway, Albertsons To Merge
Posted: 03/07/2014 - Two major grocery store chains in Southern Colorado are about to merge.
Posted: 03/07/2014 - Two major grocery store chains in Southern Colorado are about to merge.
Updated: 02/17/2014 - Being a small business owner can be difficult, and women say it is even more of a struggle for them. The discussion was prompted by Colorado Senator Mark Udall and the Small Business Association.
Posted: 02/09/2014 - The average price of regular gasoline in the U.S. has fallen 2 cents a gallon during the past two weeks.
Posted: 02/07/2014 - U.S. employers added 113,000 jobs in January, while the jobless rate fell to 6.6 percent.
Posted: 01/26/2014 - In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in households that rely on food stamps.
Posted: 01/26/2014 - Colorado's tensions over oil and gas production have threatened to boil over this year.
Posted: 01/17/2014 - U.S. employers advertised more jobs in November and more Americans quit, positive signs for millions who are unemployed and looking for work.
Updated: 01/16/2014 - J.C. Penney will close its store at the Chapel Hills Mall in Colorado Springs as part of nationwide cutbacks.
Updated: 01/10/2014 - The Labor Department says the unemployment rate fell from 7 percent in November to 6.7 percent, the lowest level since October 2008. But the drop occurred partly because more Americans stopped looking for jobs.
Updated: 01/06/2014 - Congress returns back to work after a holiday vacation with a large "to do" list.
Posted: 12/31/2013 - Colorado's minimum wage will increase by 22 cents on New Year's Day to $8 an hour.
Posted: 12/28/2013 - More than a million Americans are losing their unemployment benefits as of Saturday.
Posted: 12/27/2013 - Target says that customers' encrypted PIN data was removed during the data breach that occurred earlier this month.
Posted: 12/26/2013 - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 42,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 338,000, the biggest drop since November 2012.
Posted: 12/26/2013 - UPS and FedEx are calling in extra drivers and even renting U-Haul trucks to hit the road Thursday to deliver packages that didn't make it to their destinations in time for Christmas.
Posted: 12/25/2013 - A UPS backlog left some Americans with gifts missing from under the Christmas tree Wednesday morning.
Posted: 12/22/2013 - The owners of a garment factory and 11 of their employees are being charged with culpable homicide for alleged negligence in a fire at the facility last year that killed 112 people.
Posted: 12/20/2013 - The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment says Colorado's unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest rate in five years.
Posted: 12/20/2013 - Colorado's minimum wage will increase by 22 cents on New Year's Day to $8 an hour.
Posted: 12/19/2013 - The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits rose 10,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 379,000, the highest since March. The increase may reflect volatility around the Thanksgiving holidays.
Updated: 12/19/2013 - A breach of credit and debit card data at discount retailer Target may have affected as many as 40 million shoppers who went to the store in the three weeks after Thanksgiving, the retailer said Thursday.
Posted: 12/17/2013 - U.S. consumer prices stayed flat in November, held down by falling gas prices.
Updated: 12/17/2013 - Colorado Springs got a huge boost Monday in its mission to improve the city economy, quality of life and tourism.
Updated: 12/14/2013 - Aspen Skiing Co. is ratcheting back the use of unpaid volunteers, a decision the company says is not related to labor complaints.
Updated: 12/12/2013 - King Soopers grocery stores will be closed Christmas day, so that employees can spend the holiday with their families.


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China earthquake: Three months on
Three months after the 12 May earthquake that shattered large areas of Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan, Oxfam Hong Kong announced that it has helped survivors in 105 townships and villages and supervised the delivery of HK$20,138,057 (USD$2.58m) worth of supplies into the hands of over 611,522 people, mainly women, the elderly, children, ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities. As of 11 August, Oxfam had received HK$136,998,787.15 ($17.5m) in donations.
Oxfam's response has entered the rehabilitation phase, and the agency's current focus is on planning medium- and long-term recovery. With the government's recommendations, we will be launching long-term integrated community development projects in particular sites. In designing and managing these projects, our work approach includes participation from communities and integrating disaster preparedness elements into these projects.
Oxfam's five-year plan for Sichuan and Gansu estimates a budget of HK$130 million ($16.65m), which includes:
- Over HK$3,600,000 for building temporary schools
- Over HK$42,000,000 for reconstructing roads and water supply systems
- HK$36,750,000 for assisting poor communities to restart their farming and other ways of earning a living
- Over HK$20,000,000 for emergency relief supplies and other humanitarian assistance
- Over HK$5,200,000 for long-term development projects with locally based partner organizations
- HK$10,000,000 for 16 permanent schools, with earthquake-resistant techniques developed by Lanzhou University
- HK$18,000,000 for livelihoods recovery, road reconstruction and water supply systems
Donate now
Oxfam Hong Kong's China Earthquake Relief Fund
Oxfam Great Britain's China Earthquake Appeal
With 21 years of experience in Mainland China, the Oxfam Hong Kong is among the first generation of international development organizations to work in the country. Please visit the Oxfam Hong Kong website for a full presentation of our work.

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October 1, 2009
The National Capital Planning Commission provided favorable comments on concept designs submitted by the National Park Service (NPS) to restore the District of Columbia World War I Memorial and rehabilitate its grounds. Favorable comments does not mean approval, and the applicant will have to return before NCPC for preliminary and final approval.
Located on the National Mall at Independence Avenue, SW, the memorial honors residents of the District who fought in the First World War. Authorized by Congress in 1924, the memorial was funded by District residents, organizations, and businesses. Construction began in 1931 and President Hoover dedicated the memorial on November 11, 1931.
The NPS plans to clean and repair the 47-foot tall memorial and return the surrounding landscape to the original plan. These efforts include adding new historic bluestone paving and elm trees, replacing non-historic paving with granite, and removing non-historic trees. In addition, NPS proposes widening the walkways from eight to ten feet. When completed, the memorial could once again be used as a bandstand, as it was years ago.
See the Commission Action and Staff Recommendation
The Commission commented favorably on a revised concept design for the Washington Canal Park. The District of Columbia's Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development submitted the project on behalf of the Canal Park Development Association. Located on a three-block site between I Street, SE and M Street, SE and between 2nd Street, SE and 2nd Place, SE, the park will span two acres of federal land under District jurisdiction.
Each park block will have a distinctive design. The southern block will feature a prominent water feature, a large two-story pavilion with cafe, and offer ice skating in the winter. The middle block will have a small pavilion located above a plane of cascading water, two lawn areas, and benches. The northern block will offer a large, open lawn area and a pavilion. The three blocks will be tied together by common features including a linear rain garden.
The site is located on a portion of the former Washington Canal that connected the Potomac River and Tiber Creek with the Anacostia River. NCPC reviewed the original concept design in November 2006. The park is now being designed by the OLIN Partnership, which designed the landscape plans for the Washington Monument grounds.
See the Commission Action and Staff Recommendation
The Commission voted to circulate the draft CapitalSpace plan for public comment. CapitalSpace is a joint initiative by NCPC, the National Park Service, and the District of Columbia to provide a unified vision for Washington's approximately 9,300 acres of parks and open space. The plan will be available for review and comment for a 60-day period beginning October 8.
The CapitalSpace partners aim to address these challenges and strengthen park assets by working together on six Big Ideas. These include better utilizing and integrating the numerous parks less than one acre in size, connecting the Fort Circle Parks, using recreational fields more effectively, enhancing downtown parks, improving public schoolyards, and preserving urban natural and ecological areas.
See the Commission Action and Staff Recommendation
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A Finger in the Eye of Hispanic Voters
House Republicans are going out of their way to antagonize a key part of the electorate.
Honestly, when I saw that House Republicans had passed an amendment today which would defund President Obama's limited, executive-order-driven Dream Act, my first thought was to wonder what the GOP is thinking. Does this party have a death wish?
This isn't the political equivalent of rocket science. Hispanics voted overwhelmingly to support Obama last year. And given demographic trends regarding the share of the electorate they're going to make up in coming years, neither party can afford to become noncompetitive with these voters. It's a matter of political survival. And many Republicans know this – see the Republican National Committee's 2012 post-mortem, for example, or the College Republicans' recent version.
Immigration is not the number one issue for Hispanic voters, but it is a gateway issue and one that gets to tone and outlook. If voters think a party is hostile to and/or distrustful of them, they're going to tune that party out. So rational Republicans (not to mention a whole lot of their corporate backers) want to get immigration reform done.
[See a collection of political cartoons on immigration.]
But today's GOP – especially its House denizens – aren't about rationality. So they cast the vote they did today. And it's not an isolated occurrence. The Atlantic's Garance Franke-Ruta looks at how the GOP is trying to blow its 2016 chances:
House Republicans walking away from comprehensive immigration reform. Tying a path to citizenship to continued second-class standing on access to health insurance. Voting to resume deporting undocumented immigrants brought here as children, a year after President Obama issued an executive order instructing the Department of Homeland Security to use discretion and make such deportations a low priority.
And this isn't simply bad policy or stumbling into bad politics. This is going out of their way to charge into bad politics. It's not like there's any chance this amendment becomes law. So why make a point of voting for it?
[See a collection of political cartoons on the Republican Party.]
I was at a press breakfast yesterday with Rep. Tom Price, the Georgia Republican who is vice chairman of the House Budget Committee, and he was asked about whether the GOP would suffer politically if it is blamed for killing immigration reform this year. Price, who favors the House GOP's official approach of going piecemeal on immigration reform rather than trying to tackle it comprehensively, made a couple of enlightening comments.
First, he said that "I think what the American people want is to see individuals working to solve challenges." I tend to think that what the American people actually want is to see their elected representatives actually solving challenges rather than simply trying – this isn't kindergarten: You don't get points for trying really hard; you get points for getting stuff done.
[See a collection of political cartoons on Congress.]
The second thing he said was that legislation with a path to citizenship or a path to legal status wouldn't pass the House with a majority of Republican votes because the GOP doesn't trust "the administration to enforce the current laws that are on the books as they relate to much of immigration." But he then went on to conflate the views of his party and its base with the broader electorate: "The American people don't trust Washington in this area because the promise that was made in 1986 has been broken," he said, referring to the deal President Ronald Reagan signed which provided amnesty for illegal immigrants back then in exchange for promises of border security. "There's no trust at all. The first step in regaining that trust is living up to the promise that was made to the nation back in 1986 and that is controlling and securing the border."
Two points. First, the border is far more secure than it has been. Second, if mistrust of Washington was as widespread as Price seems to suppose, polls would show deep opposition to both comprehensive immigration reform and a way for currently illegal immigrants to gain citizenship, but poll after poll shows otherwise. A recent poll conducted for Bloomberg showed that 74 percent of adults favor "Allowing immigrants living in the country illegally to become citizens, provided they don't have criminal records, they pay fines and back taxes, and they wait more than 10 years." That's hardly angry mistrust of Washington regarding immigration.
The problem is that House Republicans either confuse their base's wishes or simply don't want to cross them. Either way, they're voting themselves a path to oblivion.


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Around 1250 A.D., historical records show, ice packs began showing up farther south in the North Atlantic. Glaciers also began expanding on Greenland, soon to threaten Norse settlements on the island. From 1275 to 1300 A.D., glaciers began expanding more broadly, according to radiocarbon dating of plants killed by the glacier growth. The period known today as the Little Ice Age was just starting to poke through.
Summers began cooling in Northern Europe after 1300 A.D., negatively impacting growing seasons, as reflected in the Great Famine of 1315 to 1317. Expanding glaciers and ice cover spreading across Greenland began driving the Norse settlers out. The last, surviving, written records of the Norse Greenland settlements, which had persisted for centuries, concern a marriage in 1408 A.D. in the church of Hvalsey, today the best preserved Norse ruin.
Colder winters began regularly freezing rivers and canals in Great Britain, the Netherlands and Northern France, with both the Thames in London and the Seine in Paris frozen solid annually. The first River Thames Frost Fair was held in 1607. In 1607-1608, early European settlers in North America reported ice persisting on Lake Superior until June. In January, 1658, a Swedish army marched across the ice to invade Copenhagen. By the end of the 17th century, famines had spread from northern France, across Norway and Sweden, to Finland and Estonia.
Reflecting its global scope, evidence of the Little Ice Age appears in the Southern Hemisphere as well. Sediment cores from Lake Malawi in southern Africa show colder weather from 1570 to 1820. A 3,000 year temperature reconstruction based on varying rates of stalagmite growth in a cave in South Africa also indicates a colder period from 1500 to 1800. A 1997 study comparing West Antarctic ice cores with the results of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2) indicate a global Little Ice Age affecting the two ice sheets in tandem.
The Siple Dome, an ice dome roughly 100 km long and 100 km wide, about 100 km east of the Siple Coast of Antartica, also reflects effects of the Little Ice Age synchronously with the GISP2 record, as do sediment cores from the Bransfield Basin of the Antarctic Peninsula. Oxygen/isotope analysis from the Pacific Islands indicates a 1.5 degree Celsius temperature decline between 1270 and 1475 A.D.
The Franz Josef glacier on the west side of the Southern Alps of New Zealand advanced sharply during the period of the Little Ice Age, actually invading a rain forest at its maximum extent in the early 1700s. The Mueller glacier on the east side of New Zealand's Southern Alps expanded to its maximum extent at roughly the same time.
Ice cores from the Andeas mountains in South America show a colder period from 1600 to 1800. Tree ring data from Patagonia in South America show cold periods from 1270 to 1380 and from 1520 to 1670. Spanish explorers noted the expansion of the San Rafael Glacier in Chile from 1675 to 1766, which continued into the 19th century.
The height of the Little Ice Age is generally dated as 1650 to 1850 A.D. The American Revolutionary Army under General George Washington shivered at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78, and New York harbor was frozen in the winter of 1780. Historic snowstorms struck Lisbon, Portugal in 1665, 1744 and 1886. Glaciers in Glacier National Park in Montana advanced until the late 18th or early 19th centuries. The last River Thames Frost Fair was held in 1814. The Little Ice Age phased out during the middle to late 19th century.
The Little Ice Age, following the historically warm temperatures of the Medieval Warm Period, which lasted from about AD 950 to 1250, has been attributed to natural cycles in solar activity, particularly sunspots. A period of sharply lower sunspot activity known as the Wolf Minimum began in 1280 and persisted for 70 years until 1350. That was followed by a period of even lower sunspot activity that lasted 90 years from 1460 to 1550 known as the Sporer Minimum. During the period 1645 to 1715, the low point of the Little Ice Age, the number of sunspots declined to zero for the entire time. This is known as the Maunder Minimum, named after English astronomer Walter Maunder. That was followed by the Dalton Minimum from 1790 to 1830, another period of well below normal sunspot activity.
The increase in global temperatures since the late 19th century just reflects the end of the Little Ice Age. The global temperature trends since then have followed not rising CO2 trends but the ocean temperature cycles of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). Every 20 to 30 years, the much colder water near the bottom of the oceans cycles up to the top, where it has a slight cooling effect on global temperatures until the sun warms that water. That warmed water then contributes to slightly warmer global temperatures, until the next churning cycle.
Those ocean temperature cycles, and the continued recovery from the Little Ice Age, are primarily why global temperatures rose from 1915 until 1945, when CO2 emissions were much lower than in recent years. The change to a cold ocean temperature cycle, primarily the PDO, is the main reason that global temperatures declined from 1945 until the late 1970s, despite the soaring CO2 emissions during that time from the postwar industrialization spreading across the globe.
The 20 to 30 year ocean temperature cycles turned back to warm from the late 1970s until the late 1990s, which is the primary reason that global temperatures warmed during this period. But that warming ended 15 years ago, and global temperatures have stopped increasing since then, if not actually cooled, even though global CO2 emissions have soared over this period. As The Economist magazine reported in March, "The world added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO2 put there by humanity since 1750." Yet, still no warming during that time. That is because the CO2 greenhouse effect is weak and marginal compared to natural causes of global temperature changes.
At first the current stall out of global warming was due to the ocean cycles turning back to cold. But something much more ominous has developed over this period. Sunspots run in 11 year short term cycles, with longer cyclical trends of 90 and even 200 years. The number of sunspots declined substantially in the last 11 year cycle, after flattening out over the previous 20 years. But in the current cycle, sunspot activity has collapsed. NASA's Science News report for January 8, 2013 states,
"Indeed, the sun could be on the threshold of a mini-Maunder event right now. Ongoing Solar Cycle 24 [the current short term 11 year cycle] is the weakest in more than 50 years. Moreover, there is (controversial) evidence of a long-term weakening trend in the magnetic field strength of sunspots. Matt Penn and William Livingston of the National Solar Observatory predict that by the time Solar Cycle 25 arrives, magnetic fields on the sun will be so weak that few if any sunspots will be formed. Independent lines of research involving helioseismology and surface polar fields tend to support their conclusion."
That is even more significant because NASA's climate science has been controlled for years by global warming hysteric James Hansen, who recently announced his retirement.
But this same concern is increasingly being echoed worldwide. The Voice of Russia reported on April 22, 2013,
"Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may give way to global cooling. According to scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory in St.Petersburg, solar activity is waning, so the average yearly temperature will begin to decline as well. Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless."
That report quoted Yuri Nagovitsyn of the Pulkovo Observatory saying, "Evidently, solar activity is on the decrease. The 11-year cycle doesn't bring about considerable climate change – only 1-2%. The impact of the 200-year cycle is greater – up to 50%. In this respect, we could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years." In other words, another Little Ice Age.
Thanks for that link, Rob.
When one changes the data sources to 'HADCRUT3 unadjusted global mean' the trend is downward.
At one time, vast majorities of the scientific community thought that the earth was flat … and that slavery was OK.
Jack Wolf exposes the real agenda of the alarmists in his last sentence … it is all about the politics. You have to think that in their minds they are thinking … "even if we're wrong on the science, what we are wanting to do is still the right thing to do, so let's keep pushing it".
Ends-justify-the-means relativism, on display.
"Consensus", and even "mountains of evidence" is not conclusive proof, let alone enough justification to trample upon the unalienable rights of BILLIONS to jam the socio-economic morality of an elite few down their throats, with a fundamentalist zeal that makes Baptist preachers look like loose-topped libertines out for beads at Mardi Gras.
You were making a decent argument until you used the word "loose" (as in not tight) instead of "lose" (as in lost). That fact alone exposes your bystander intellect and basically disqualifies you from making any kind of scientific or intellectual arguments!
Pete -Besides your egregious misrepresentation of Drs. Hansen and Jones, you're lying about the data. How's the Arctic ice doing? http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
How about global temperatures? http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/05/uah-global-temperature-update-for-april-2013-0-10-deg-c/
When the global temperature for the past year has been well above the 1981-2010 average (the hottest decades on record) it's hard to make a case that the earth is cooling.
Why through out insults unless you are out of facts.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool". Richard P. Feynman
For decades, I understood the process of global warming was occuring. It was taught in the second year of college; it is one of the five factors in soil formation. But, I assumed that since the government knew about it, it must be under control. And so I happily proceeded in my soil and wetland science career.
Then, about 5 to 7 years ago, my outdoor patunias bloomed in the middle of January in New Wilmington, PA. LIGHT BULB! That spurred further research and I became increasingly alarmed as I read paper after paper affirming global warming.
I would hate to think that my Ivy League environmental science degree has been a waste, and I often feel that when I read commentaries such as yours. But I understand the absolute urgency of the situation, and so as a parent and an American, I must confront this talk.
Of the nine hottest years on record, eight have come since the year 2000, with 2005 and 2010 sharing the dubious title of hottest year on record. In addition, your initial point of 15 years ago was a year with an exceptionally strong El Nino. This skews the slope of your curve. Try looking since 1900 and you will see a more realistic graph.
So, rt's hot, and its going to get hotter. Much hotter.
You are being fooled, Peter. Turn off Fox News and try PBS. Try sources sucj as Nature, Science, and AGU Journals. Furthermore, there are no national or major scientific institutions anywhere in the world that dispute the theory of anthropogenic climate change. Not one.
The debate on the authenticity of global warming and the role played by human activity is largely nonexistent among those who understand the nuances and scientific basis of long-term climate processes". (Doran 2009). In other words, more than 95% of scientists working in the disciplines contributing to studies of our climate, accept that climate change is almost certainly being caused by human activities.
I don't think any of this is going to get through to you. But I must try. Yes, the government is lying to you. But it is opposite of what you believe. And, it is far, far worse then what they say. I am sorry for you, and your children.
This only holds if you pick a specific dataset (1997-2012) however this doesn't hold for any other dataset which contradicts this. So you've just cherrypicked anomalous results and ignored everything that contradicts it (i.e. that doesn't support your conclusion).
I enjoyed your article and its effect immensely … by effect I mean the expected production of little brown pebbles from Warming lemmings who still feed at the BS trough.
Peter, you must realize that you are replying to a member of a cult. They cannot entertain any notions that contradict their mindset. However, they are perfectly capable of entertaining self-contradictory ideas such as Global Warming, a position that advocates a proposition that increased man made carbon emmissions causes warming, and Climate Change which can mean that increased carbon emmissions can also cause global cooling, a flagrant violation of the Law of Non-Contradiction. They are to be pitied.
Please name some pro-AGW climate scientists who aren't being funded by governments to prove AGW… You know — someone without a financial stake in what they claim…
Jack Wolf. Stupidity annoys me. You don't seem to understand that science is not done by public opinion polls. As Einstein pointed out, one observation is all it takes to prove them wrong. There used to be a huge majority of scientists for phlogiston until one fine day it was proven that mechanical energy and heat were one and the same. Phlogiston ended up in the waste basket of history. Anthropogenic warming belongs in the same basket. They should enjoy each other.


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The Penguins have a plethora of talented defensemen in their organization. But one gifted blueliner that has flown under the radar is Nick DAgostino.
DAgostino, the Penguins seventh-round selection (210th overall) in the 2008 NHL Draft, finished his third collegiate season with Cornell in 2011-12. He was named All-Ivy Second-Team and All-ECAC Second-Team after leading the Big Red with six power-play goals and setting career highs in goals (8) and points (20).
Our coach really stresses defensemen getting up in the play. Any opportunity I have to jump up and contribute on offense and support my forwards Im there, the smooth-skating defenseman said. On the power play last year I scored a lot of goals in the first half. I was primarily a shooter. My teammates looked to me and found me in the right spots. I was lucky to put a few of them in the back of the net.
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James Conca, Contributor
I cover the underlying drivers of energy, technology and society.
Much of the discussion on fear of radiation misses the essential point of noise in the data. This is more important than it sounds. The best discussion of noise may come from an economist, probably because that field has so much noise in it – just look at the debt ceiling debate.
The famous economist Fischer Black considered noise to be the opposite of information. He did not just consider it to be inaccurate or corrupt data, or irrelevant background information, or data from random sources, he considered more nefarious human and societal sources like hype and intentional disinformation.
The recent astounding decision by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (Radiation Not A Big Deal) can only be interpreted if one understands noise. UNSCEAR's report confessed that low doses of radiation should not be used to predict cancers in future populations, contrary to what everyone's been doing for the last 60 years.
The report, along with many new findings (No DNA Damage at 400x Background), supports the observation that radiation doses less than about 10 rem (0.1 Sv) have no observable effects on human health and the environment. Less than 10 rem (0.1 Sv) is the region that encompasses annual background levels around the world.
Another way of saying this is "below 10 rem/yr (0.1 Sv/yr), the effects of radiation disappear in the noise."
It's like trying to hear Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon from across the room while operating a buzz saw without hearing protection. And then trying to say it's the music that caused some of your hearing loss.
The classic example of this problem is interpreting the increase in cancer rates of the Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors (see figure). This figure graphs the cancer occurrences in the survivors using data from the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP 1994). It is clear that high doses of radiation cause an increase in cancer. At low doses, there is no clear increase.
The straight-line portion of these types of curves above Earth background has been the basis for the Linear No-Threshold Dose hypothesis, or LNT. First put forward after WWII, LNT is a supposition that harmful radiation effects follow a linear relationship – increase the dose, increase the risk, increase the cancers, increase the deaths.
The part of this line above 10 rem (0.1 Sv) certainly supports this idea, although doubling the dose does not double the effect like is commonly thought. Doses between 50 and 100 rem (0.5 and 1 Sv) resulted in a 29% increase in cancers over doses between 0.5 and 10 rem (0.005 and 0.1 Sv) even though there was a 1000% increase in dose.
However, below 10 rem (0.1 Sv), the effects disappear completely in the noise – the noise of all the other environmental and genetic effects that cause death. In the 1950s, to be simplistic and conservative, the world governing bodies decided to just draw in that line anyway, all the way down to zero, dictating that there was no threshold.
That seemed easy at the time. Who could imagine what problems it would cause in the future? But notice, that extra tail of a line crosses the entire range of background radiation on Earth, what is considered normal, what humans and every other life form has lived with long before we split the atom.
What that extra tail of a line inadvertently established as policy, though, was that all radiation was dangerous, no matter what kind, for what purpose, or at what dose. Suddenly, just walking outside was dangerous, technically. But not really. No one paid much attention then because there wasn't much application of nuclear anyway in the '40s and '50s, except bombs.
However, as this idea slowly crept into regulations, laws, response plans, the medical industry and the Cold War, it grew into a multi-headed Hydra. Legally, we had to care about this. We had to spend billions protecting against what was once background levels. Now anyone can calculate the risk to everyone else, even those who won't be born for a thousand years. And we have to care about it.
It's right out of a Road Warrior movie. No wonder the fear of radiation took over the worldview. Science fiction is much more fun to study than real science.
Take Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for example. According to the Washington Post (WP Secretary Clinton), Secretary Clinton has spent over 2,000 hours on a plane above 25,000 ft during her tenure as Secretary of State. Because radiation dose increases with altitude, she received an additional 1,740 mrem of high-energy radiation, an astoundingly dangerous dose when viewed through the lens of LNT. Of course, it's trivial and no one cares about it at all. Indeed, the physical stress of that much travel is actually dangerous to your health, not the rad.
But the radiation risk is calculable in a science fiction sort of way. The same way we calculate the risk of an additional 50 mrem to virtual people in five hundred years from various nuclear waste disposal strategies (Environmental Impact Statement DOE/EIS-0391 as an example). We've decided that, in an overall 300 mrem background, reducing this risk by lowering the dose from 50 mrem to something like 10 mrem, is worth, say, spending an additional $100 billion.
Is the risk from 50 mrem worth this? The same risk as moving from Los Angeles to Colorado? Do we generally spend $1 billion to save a life in this country? Could it be better spent on real health care, now? Immunizations? Tackling epidemics? Addressing childhood obesity? Paying down the debt? Outlawing airplane trips? Are virtual people in the future facing a trivial risk more worthy of our help than U.S. citizens now?
This is a societal decision that society has been left out of. That needs to change.
Anon, you are the one being ridiculous. Coal burning is far more dangerous than nuclear accidents, even ignoring climate change. Yet I'm pretty sure you aren't very active on discussion forums where coal burning is being promoted!
Evidence against LNT is all around us. Two table spoons of salt will kill you. But two table spoons of salt in a cauldron of soup to feed 100 people will *not* kill 1 person. LNT is an assumption. Nothing more.
My guess is you work in the radiation protection business. Do you? ;)
anon: LNT does not represent " the long standing consensus." Perhaps you are the one who does not understand that there is no scientific consensus on something when it's only supported by a minority of scientists in the field:
" In a recent survey, over 80% of scientists polled think that below a certain threshold radiation does not harm the body thanks to innate defense mechanisms."
Not only is there no scientific consensus on LNT but LNT is inconsistent with radiation biologic and experimental data:
"There are potent defenses against the carcinogenic effects of ionizing radiation. Their efficacy is much higher for low doses and dose rates; this is incompatible with the LNT model but is consistent with current models of carcinogenesis (16). The data suggest that a combination of error-free DNA repair and elimination of preneoplastic cells furnishes practical thresholds.
For low linear energy transfer radiation, experimental animal data show the absence of carcinogenic effects for acute irradiation at doses less than 100 mSv and for chronic irradiation at doses less than 500 Sv (97,103,164).
Among humans, there is no evidence of a carcinogenic effect for acute irradiation at doses less than 100 mSv and for protracted irradiation at doses less than 500 mSv (10,103,147,163). Surveys of second primary malignancies in patients who have undergone radiation therapy should provide more information (103,154,157).
The fears associated with the concept of LNT and the idea that any dose, even the smallest, is carcinogenic lack scientific justification (10,16,78,163).
The LNT model (with or without the DDREF) is inconsistent with biologic and experimental data, which show the nature and the effectiveness of immediate and delayed defense systems to vary widely with dose and dose rate. No convincing epidemiologic data support the LNT relationship. It has been said that for low doses, epidemiology faces its limits (166).
LNT was a useful model half a century ago. But current radiation protection concepts should be based on facts and on concepts consistent with current scientific results and not on opinions. Preconceived concepts impede progress; in the case of the LNT model, they have resulted in substantial medical, economic, and other societal harm."
Let's start with the consensus part of your argument. It is a consensus based on deceit and subterfuge designed to limit the adoption of nuclear weapons.[1] I am not sure why you persist in asserting that LNT is based on sound science. I will agree that for levels of exposure above a threshold that the dose response is best modeled linearly. Research done in this area will only confirm this hypothesis. However the model is incomplete and fails at low levels. Each of the studies that you post on this site and all of the other times all seek to confirm the same bias and only examine the same area, the linear region.
Lauriston S. Taylor suggested that no one who adhered to the threshold limits established by the NCRP and ICRP were harmed in the 40-years of their adoption.[2] I will extend this further, the current basis of radiation protection standards for radiation workers[3] are based on the threshold model. Thus studies of the nuclear shipyard workers [4] are studies of a threshold dose response, so are studies like the Taiwanese apartments.[5]
By excluding this data and other sets of data you are committing scientific fraud. By limiting the data under consideration you restrict the set of possible outcomes. In fact, this is how you achieve "consensus" in studies like BEIR and BEAR.
The evidence of the genetic threshold was known in 1946 to the fathers of linearity, Curt Stern and Herman Muller.[1,6] They just never pursued it, covered it up and made it go away to achieve an ideological ends. Bob, I'm going to call you Bob because I think the name fits, what is your ideological purpose by vehemently maintaining a theory as sound that is based on fraud? Mine is simple, that reason and sound scientific understanding of the entire human experience serves as the best measure for enacting regulations that best serve humanity. Restricting information only acts to promote special interests: fossil fuel, greens, and radiation protection industries. Which interest do you represent? I know this guy, Bob Applebaum, who sounds a lot like you who built a massive business feeding on LNT, in fact it gave him justification to charge a price he wanted, because there was no safe level. He represents the third group of special interests.
[1] Calabrese, E. J. (2012). "US Risk Assessment Policy: A History of Deception." University of Chicago Law Review 79(985).
[2] Taylor, L. S. (1980). Some Non-Scientific Influences on Radiation Protection Standards and Practice. International Radiation Protection Association 5. Jerusalem, Israel, IRPA. 1: 307-319.
[3]NRC (2012). Standards for Protection Against Radiaiton. http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 10 CFR Part 20.
[4]Sponsler, R. and J. R. Cameron (2005). "Nuclear shipyard worker study (1980–1988): a large cohort exposed to low-dose-rate gamma radiation." International Journal of Low Radiation 1(4): 463-478.
[5]Chen, W. L., Y. C. Luan, et al. (2007). "Effects of Cobalt-60 Exposure on Health of Taiwan Residents Suggest New Approach Needed in Radiation Protection." Dose Response 5(1): 63-75.
[6]Caspari, E. and C. Stern (1947). The influence of chronic irradiation with gamma-rays at low dosages on the mutation rate in Drosophila melanogaster. MDDC-1200: 1-17.
No, that's the fallacy of straw man argument. I never compared the dangers of coal burning to nuclear accidents. I try to stay active where I see people saying things which are contrary to the science, so you shouldn't be "pretty sure" of anything you think I'm doing. It is also a fallacy to attempt to discredit someone based on the industry they may be in. It is irrelevant to the facts.
There is no evidence against LNT except in the collective imagination of health physics deniers.
The consensus bodies are UNSCEAR, the ICRP, the NCRP, the National Academies of Science, among others. There are lots of scientists who don't believe in evolution or global warming….they're wrong. But even if they don't "believe" in those things, they should understand they have the responsibility to uphold the consensus, unless they have evidence to overturn it. That's what having scientific integrity is about and is something Conca lacks.
What scientists "believe" is irrelevant. They only have expertise in the areas they have expertise. The experts who are elected by their peers to serve on consensus bodies have expertise in the discipline. They are elected to define the consensus science.
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A look at the three best, and three worst performances by the Arizona Wildcats in this weekend's Hi Corbett Classic
Arizona was unable to take advantage of early opportunities to score runs against Mississippi State in the Hi Corbett Classic finale
Tyler Crawford had a rough outing against the Gauchos, while UCSB kept the Arizona bats in check.
The Arizona Wildcats came into this weekend on a five-game losing streak, but have won the first two games of their four-game weekend at the Hi Corbett Classic. The pitching is still good, and the...
Arizona has now lost four games in a row after dropping Tuesday night's game to Long Beach St. 3-2.
The Seton Hall weekend turned into a disaster real quick for the Wildcats.
Arizona has dropped the first two games of the weekend series against Seton Hall thanks to lack of situational hitting
Doing it a little differently this week, since no one really had a bad weekend on the diamond for Arizona.
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RALEIGH — Lane closures are planned for U.S. 70/401/N.C. 50 in south Raleigh starting Monday, state transportation department workers replace the U.S. 70/N.C. 50 bridge over U.S. 401. The closures are set for 9 p.m.-6 a.m. the next morning:
* Monday: Two right lanes of N.C. 50/U.S. 401 South/U.S. 70 East closed just north of Chapanoke Road;
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* Wednesday and Thursday: U.S. 70 East will be closed just past Tryon Road. Motorists will have short detour onto U.S. 401 South, then left onto Mechanical Boulevard back to U.S. 70 East. This closure is needed to install a new overhead bridge structure and remove the old structure.


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The State Fair of Texas is an annual festival event held at Fair Park in Dallas. It's food, it's football, it's farm animals, it's fun for all ages. It begins near the end of September and continues into the middle of October. In 2013, the State Fair of Texas runs from September 27 through October 20.
An estimated 3 million people attend the fair each year, bringing nearly $350 million to the Dallas economy. The State Fair of Texas kicks off each year with a parade through downtown Dallas. The 2012 parade starts at noon.
Plan to spend money on the great food, rides or games but don't forget that there are a lot of fun things to do at the fair that are free. Concerts, livestock shows, the car show and more attractions don't cost any money. Pick up a visitor's guide when you enter the fair so you don't miss a thing.
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The State Fair of Texas
There really is something for everyone at the State Fair of Texas. The fair showcases unique foods (pk lots of fried treats), exciting carnival rides and games on the Midway, livestock shows, concerts, exciting football games including Texas vs. OU, shopping and so much more.
If you love to shop, this is the place. You can shop for almost anything at the fair. Spend hours shopping at The Embarcadero for arts and crafts, pet-related items, jewelry and more. Shop for a new car in the Truck Zone or Automobile Building.In 2009 Oprah and her BFF Gail made an appearance at the State Fair and taped a show to the delite of many fans.
Check out the photo gallery for the sights and scenes from the fair. It includes everything from the midway to hands-on attractions for the kids -- and every fried food I could sample over a 3-year span.
Hours: The Fair is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Exhibit buildings open at 10 a.m. daily and close at 9 p.m. Sunday - Thursdays. Buildings remain open until 10 p.m. each Friday and Saturday.
- General Admission: $16
- Kids under 48" tall: $12
- Seniors 60 and over: $12
- Children 2 and under: Free
- Seniors 60 and over: Free every Thursday (October 6, 13 and 20)
- Dallas Fall Garden Getaway: $19
- Parking $15 per space
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Discounts and Specials
There are many special discounts during the State Fair of Texas. There's even an opening day deal on September 27, 2013. Bring a full 20 oz. Dasani water bottle or any Coca-Cola product for donation to the North Texas Food Bank containers at Fair admission gates and enter the State Fair for $6 per donation per person. Check the updated list of discounts and specials here and for information on when you can catch most rides for only 6 coupons!
Parking / Directions
Self parking is available on official State Fair lots for $15 per space. Look for "Official State Fair Parking" signs. Valet parking offered at Grand Avenue (daily) and Haskell/Parry (Saturdays/Sundays only) for $30.
Spaces marked for the disabled are located in each lot. First come, first serve. If spaces are filled, an attendant will direct you to the next available spaces.
Directions to the State Fair of Texas.
The 9th Annual Big Tex Choice Awards
Eight finalists competed for Best Taste and Most Creative in the 2013 Big Tex Choice Awards. If you loved fried food, then be sure to make a trip to the Fair part of your fall festivities.
Big Tex Choice Awards
The food is one of the top reasons people love going to the State Fair of Texas.
2005 Most Creative: Viva Las Vegas Fried Ice Cream
2005 Best Taste: Fried PB, Jelly and Banana Sandwich
2006 Most Creative: Fried Coke
2006 Best Taste: Fried Praline Perfection
2007 Most Creative: Deep Fried Latte
2007 Best Taste: Texas Fried Cookie Dough
2008 Most Creative: Fried Banana Split
2008 Best Taste: Chicken Fried Bacon
2009 Most Creative: Deep Fried Butter
2009 Best Taste: Fernie's Deep Fried Peaches & Cream
2010 Most Creative: Fried Beer
2010 Best Taste: Texas Fried Frito Pie
2011 Most Creative: Fried Bubblegum
2011 Best Taste: Buffalo Chicken in a Flapjack
Get a bird's-eye view of Fair Park by riding the Texas Skyway. The aerial track stretches 1,800 feet between two stations and can accommodate strollers and wheelchairs.
The Texas Star is the tallest Ferris wheel in the Southwest.
The Midway is really known as the Kidway -- with many great rides for smaller children.
Texas Star
The Texas Star is the tallest Ferris wheel in the Western Hemisphere. Put it on your To Do List for the State Fair this year. Save yourself 14 coupons ($7) to enjoy the view from the top. I rode this monster a few years ago. OK, it was sometime back when 1980s hair bands were popular. I'm a big chicken now. They would have to pay me to ride it these days.
The Texas SkyWay
The Texas SkyWay provides State Fair visitors with some of the best views of the fair. Fairgoers can sit back and enjoy the magic of the Fair – soaring high above the sights and sounds of the colorful Midway.
The family-friendly attraction provides a smooth ride for its occupants, and the level loading system accommodates strollers and wheelchairs.
Even thought I'm a little nervous, I do ride this every year. I love to ride it during the day and the views at night are amazing. You can get some great photos of the Texas Star from the ride -- but you do have to shoot through glass -- so be prepared to battle a bit of a glare. Super fun and only 5 coupons on Tuesdays!


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By DAVID RAINER
A hardscrabble life growing up in the hills of Choctaw County pretty much determined how Gray Mosley goes about anything these days, including his fishing trips to the Tombigbee River.
Self sufficiency was the model Mosley learned and continues to follow, whether it's sawing and milling his own lumber to catching his own bait for a fishing trip. From his axe and chainsaw to his trusty boats – a 1972 Ouachita bomber-style boat with a 50-horsepower Mercury and a 1981 Polarkraft jon boat with a 40-horse Evinrude – Mosley's tools may not be the latest and greatest, but they suit him just fine.
When fishing is on his mind, the obvious goal is to catch enough fish to eat. But to allow the number of fish in the box to determine the quality of the fishing trip is a mistake, according to Mosley.
"You don't catch them every time you go," Mosley said. "It's just not going to happen. People get caught up in how many fish they catch. A mess of fish is really all you need. If your catch eight or 10 crappie big enough to get a good fillet, that's enough to feed several folks.
"What I do is just old-fashioned fishing – an old man and old boats. They have been used several times. But I take care of them. That's why they still run so well to be as old as they are. I don't have anything new but fishing tackle. Boats don't catch fish."
Bait does catch fish, though, and it's hard to find it any fresher than what Mosley takes to the river.
"This community we live in is called Red Springs," he said. "I guess whoever named it was because of the red sand and there's a spring in most every hollow around here. Of course, they feed down through the hollows and create bigger streams as they go along. These streams are filled with what I call branch minnows. Some people call them creek minnows, but some people call a creek what I call a branch, too. I just put a little barrel trap in there and catch enough bait to go fishing."
Mosley said he has made minnow traps, although the ones you can buy for $6-$7 each might be a more feasible alternative.
"It's just a wire mesh barrel trap about 6 inches in diameter with a funnel in each end," he said. "I put a piece of light bread in them and in about 20-30 minutes you've got enough minnows to go fishing. You'll end up with three or four dozen, depending on how many traps you put out. You walk up to one of the little holes in the branch and you'll see if there are any minnows in it. If you see minnows, put the trap in there and in 30 minutes, at the most, you'll be ready to go fishing. I can't tell you the name of the minnows, but some have gold stripes and some have a dark spot on their tail. We called them spot-tailed minnows. There's more of that species than any others.
"One reason I like a branch minnow is they are much livelier than what you get out of a minnow vat at the bait shop. That's just the way I came up. I've pretty much always caught my fish bait. I have bought bait over the years, but if it's convenient I catch my own. The ones I catch are much more durable than a minnow out of a tank."
When Mosley catches bait, he takes water out of the stream to fill his minnow buckets.
"It's a lot better to take water out of their environment," he said. "That water is much colder. They are accustomed to that. You obviously can't put tap water out of a commercial well on them because the chlorine will kill them. Water out of natural well is OK, but I always use the water out of the branch I catch the bait out of."
When Mosley launches his boat, he goes on a "milk run" to the spots that have produced for him over the decades.
"Probably 20 percent of the water holds 90 percent of the fish," he said. "You learn these places that are productive. That's what I concentrate on. I look for structure. If you're fishing in the river, you look for a good tree top – oak or hickory that's been there for some time. The leaves are all off and the branches are clean. Water depth, especially in the river, is important. If you can find treetops up on a shelf, which was the old river bank before they built the Coffeeville Lock and Dam, that's ideal.
"Fish feed out of the deep water into the shallow. They're coming out of 30 feet of water into 15. That's my favorite spot, especially in the fall of the year."
Current has a great deal to do with where Mosley fishes.
"When I'm fishing the river, you don't want much current," he said. "Otherwise you can't fish because you stay hung up. The current will wrap you up in the structure. Calmer water is best.
"I fish sloughs in the spring of the year when the water temperature rises. The fish come out of the river in the shallower water into the lakes to spawn. That's when you catch them in 2-4 feet of water."
Especially in the spring of the year, Mosley gives the fish the opportunity to hit artificial baits, as well.
"I fish the small tube jigs, and small Beetle Spins are productive in the spring of the year in shallow water," he said. "But I don't go without a bucket of minnows. I've been out there when they wouldn't hit anything but a minnow. That may be because I concentrate more on minnows. That's my mainstay."
And to maximize his efficiency on the water, there are always around a dozen ready-to-fish jugs in the bottom of the boat.
"I might throw out a dozen jugs and let them fish for catfish while I'm catching crappie," Mosley said. "Those small catfish are hard to beat when they're fried right."
Mosley said he doesn't really understand why some fishermen launch their fancy rigs and run miles and miles before they wet a hook.
"They're passing some of the best fishing there is," he said. "That's my opinion, but I don't think you need to run 15-20 miles to fish.
"The main thing is to find fish close by and concentrate on that. That's the way I operate. I don't know a lot, but I catch enough to feed my family and share with my neighbors."
PHOTO – Gray Mosley of Choctaw County unhooks a nice "slab" crappie that hit a Beetle Spin in a slough off the Tombigbee River.


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In what's considered one of the most spirited Assembly races in the June 5 election, the candidates vying for the newly created 50th Assembly District seat are remarkably similar. But that hasn't stopped them from emphasizing their differences, however slight.
Even the candidate with the best shot at standing out, the race's lone Republican, West Hollywood resident Brad Torgan, has tried to appeal to the heavily Democratic district by touting his lenient position on social issues and his background as an environmental advocate.
When asked for his take on a number of hot-button issues, his answers mirrored those of his Democratic opponents: He by Santa Monica College to offer a second tier of higher priced courses not subsidized by the state, wants to in the state's public infrastructure and promises to collaborate .
He is, however, the only candidate who said he would not vote for either of the likely to be on the November ballot.
Like Torgan, Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom is an attorney. Bloom practices family law, while Torgan specializes in environmental regulations. Under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration, Torgan was general counsel for the California Department of Parks. His most high-stakes case was representing the agency during a lengthy administrative trial to keep a 150-mile power line out of a stretch of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
Bloom—a member of the Santa Monica City Council since 1999—is the only candidate who has managed to distance himself from Assembly campaign trail frays, a deliberate decision on his part, he said. While Torgan has largely remained unscathed, his campaign jumped into the brush when he issued a press release in May criticizing Osborn because she had slammed opponent Betsy Butler's endorsement from the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles.
Osborn has arguably led the feistiest campaign, pitting herself against the race's biggest competitor, current 53rd Assemblywoman Betsy Butler. In late May, Osborn distributed mailers , which cut education funding. In April, her campaign to potential voters that championed banning BPA from plastic baby bottles and sippy cups.
After the California Citizens Redistricting Commission redrew the Assembly lines, Butler, who has lived in Marina del Rey for 20 years, announced she would move out of the South Bay district where she was elected two years ago to run in the 50th District, which stretches from Malibu to Hollywood and includes Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Agoura Hills.
A Santa Monica resident, Torie Osborn is a grassroots organizer. She is a past executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Washington, D.C., and she led the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center from 1988 to 1992.
"Good ideas come from the outside," she said. It's a saying Osborn said she learned working for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, for whom she established the Office of Strategic Partnership, a liaison between city staffers and area nonprofits.
Interactions between Osborn and Butler heated up this winter. In January, Butler and her supports accused Osborn of stacking endorsements by recruiting people to join local Democratic clubs so they could vote for her in the organizations' . Later, Osborn was the subject of , who has thrown his support behind Butler.
while Osborn has the backing of a handful of local democratic clubs, including those in Malibu, Santa Monica, Westwood-Beverly Hills and San Fernando Valley.
Bloom cited several fellow mayors among his list of endorsers, including colleagues in Oakland, Murrieta, Malibu and Laguna Beach. He has plugged his 13 years of political experience. The only candidate who could come close in terms of legislating experience is Butler, he said.
"Betsy has accomplishments, but she's been in office a little over a year," Bloom said.
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Inez Stowers, 100, of McAlester, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at a local nursing center.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Savanna with the Revs. David Hall and Kyle Cummings officiating. Burial will be at Savanna Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Brumley-Mills Funeral Home of McAlester.
Born Jan. 15, 1913, in Dustin, she was the daughter of Belmont Derene and Sarah Ellen (Mathews) Sullivan. She married O.C. Stowers on Aug. 3, 1937, in Atoka.
She loved raising her kids and grandkids and was a member of First Baptist Church in Savanna.
Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, Roy and Helen Stowers; daughters-in-law, Margaret Stowers and Rosella Garvin.
Also, seven grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; 15 great-great-grandchildren; one step-great-grandchild; 10 great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, O.C. Stowers; daughters, Barbara Britton and Janice Joy Stowers; sons, Jackie Garvin, Louis Stowers and Ray Stowers; granddaughter, Diane Odom, and brothers, Leonard and Buster Sullivan.
Pallbearers will be Mike Mize, Merle Hite, Gary Stowers, Michael Stowers, Travis Terrell and Tristen Terrell.
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The Deipnosophistae (deipnon, "dinner", and sophistai, "professors"; original Greek title Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistai, English Deipnosophists) may be translated as The Banquet of the Learned or Philosophers at Dinner or The Gastronomers. The Deipnosophists is a long work of literary and antiquarian research by the Hellenistic author Athenaeus of Naucratis in Egypt, written in Rome in the early 3rd century AD. The protagonist is Larensi(u)s, the host of a leisurely banquet whose main purpose is literary, historical and antiquarian conversation. Characters include grammarians, lexicographers, jurists, musicians and hangers-on.
The Deipnosophistae professes to be an account given by the author to his friend Timocrates of a series of banquets (apparently three) held at the house of Larensius, a scholar and wealthy patron of the arts. It is thus a dialogue within a dialogue, after the manner of Plato,[1] although each conversation is so long that, realistically, it would occupy several days. Among the numerous guests,[2] Masurius, Zoilus, Democritus, Galen, Ulpian and Plutarch are named, but most are probably to be taken as fictitious personages,[3] and the majority take little or no part in the conversation. If Ulpian is identical with the famous jurist, the Deipnosophistae must have been written after his death in 223; but the jurist was murdered by the Praetorian Guard, whereas Ulpian in Athenaeus dies a natural death. Prosopographical investigation, however, has shown the possibility of identifying several guests with real persons from other sources;[4] the Ulpian in the dialog has also been linked to the renowned jurist's father.[5]
The work is invaluable for providing fictionalized information about the Hellenistic literary world of the leisured class during the Roman Empire. To the majority of modern readers, even more useful is the wealth of information provided in the Deipnosophists about earlier Greek literature.[6] In the course of discussing classic authors, the participants make quotations, long and short, from the works of about 700 earlier Greek authors and 2,500 separate writings, many of them otherwise unrecorded. Food and wine, luxury, music, sexual mores, literary gossip and philology are among the major topics of discussion, and the stories behind many artworks such as the Venus Kallipygos are also transmitted in its pages.
Food and cookery[edit]
The Deipnosophists is an important source of cookery recipes in classical Greek. It quotes the original text of one recipe from the lost cookbook by Mithaecus, the oldest in Greek and the oldest recipe by a named author in any language. Other authors quoted for their recipes include Glaucus of Locri, Dionysius, Epaenetus, Hegesippus of Tarentum, Erasistratus, Diocles of Carystus, Timachidas of Rhodes, Philistion of Locri, Euthydemus of Athens, Chrysippus of Tyana, Paxamus and Harpocration of Mende.
In addition to its main focuses, the text offers an unusually clear portrait of homosexuality in late Hellenism. Books XII-XIII holds a wealth of information for studies of homosexuality in Roman Greece. It is subject to a big discussion that includes Alcibiades, Charmides, Autolycus, Pausanias and Sophocles. Furthermore, numerous books and now lost plays on the subject are mentioned, including the dramatists Diphilus, Cratinus, Aeschylus, and Sophocles and the philosopher Heraclides of Pontus.[citation needed]
Survival and reception[edit]
The Deipnosophistae was originally in fifteen books.[7] The work survives in one manuscript from which the whole of books 1 and 2, and some other pages too, disappeared long ago. An Epitome or abridgment (to about 60%) was made in medieval times, and survives complete: from this it is possible to read the missing sections, though in a disjointed form. The encyclopaedist Sir Thomas Browne wrote a Latin essay on Athenaeus which reflects a revived interest in the Banquet of the Learned amongst scholars following the publication of the Deipnosophistae in 1612 by the Classical scholar Isaac Casaubon. Browne wrote of it:
- Would that a little part survived of the writers from whom Athenaeus quotes, scattered here and there, notable, startling or amusing sayings, and whets the appetite of his eager reader..... Mimes, fools, parasites, lute-girls are bearable and not inappropriate amusement for a drinking party. There is a most amusing story in Athenaeus about the boys in the inn at Agrigentum. They are so mad with drink that they think they are sailing in a ship tossed about by a wild storm. To lighten the ship they throw out all the carpets and crockery, call the police 'mermen', offer rewards for their rescue to those who reproach them, and do not even return to their senses when the onlookers take their things.
Writing in 1867, poet James Russell Lowell characterized the Deipnosophists and its author thus:
- the somewhat greasy heap of a literary rag-and-bone-picker like Athenaeus is turned to gold by time.
Modern readers[who?] question whether the Deipnosophistae genuinely evokes a literary symposium of learned disquisitions on a range of subjects suitable for such an occasion, or whether it has a satirical edge, rehashing the cultural clichés of the urbane literati of its day.
- ^ Viz. his Symposium. The first words (1.1f-2a) mimic the beginning of Phaedo. See (e.g.) Wentzel(1896). "Athenaios (22)". Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Band II, Halbband 4. col. 2028.15ff.
- ^ Kaibel (1890, vol. 3) pp. 561-564 lists twenty-four by name, plus several anonymi.
- ^ Kaibel (1887, vol. 1) p. VI.
- ^ Baldwin, Barry (1977). "The Minor Characters in Athenaeus". Acta Classica 20: 37–48.
- ^ Baldwin, Barry (1976). "Athenaeus and his Work". Acta Classica 19: 21–42.
- ^ "…for us, one of the most important books from Antiquity". Wentzel(1896) col. 2028.34ff
- ^ Marginal indications in the manuscript may, but need not, reflect an earlier edition in 30 books. See Der neue Pauly Athenaios[3]. col. 198; Kaibel (1887, vol. 1) p. XXII.
- Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists ed. and tr. C. B. Gulick. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1927-41. 7 vols. (Loeb Classical Library)
- Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters ed. and tr. S. Douglas Olson. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2007-2012. 8 vols. (Loeb Classical Library)
- Georg Kaibel, Athenaei Naucratitae Dipnosophistarum Libri XV. Leipzig: Teubner, 1887-1890, 3 vols. (Bibliotheca Teubneriana)
- Athenaei Dipnosophistarum epitome ed. S. P. Peppink. Leiden, 1937-9.
- Athenaeus and his world: reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire ed. David Braund, John Wilkins. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000.
- Food in antiquity ed. John Wilkins, David Harvey, Mike Dobson. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1995.
- Andrew Dalby, Siren feasts: a history of food and gastronomy in Greece (London: Routledge, 1996) especially pp. 168–180.
- Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: a sourcebook of basic documents ed. Thomas K. Hubbard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003) pp. 76–82 (translation of a passage from book 13).
- Warren Johansson, 'Athenaeus' in Encyclopedia of Homosexuality ed. Wayne R. Dynes (Garland Publishing, 1990) p. 87.
- Peter Stoll: Dishing up Pictures from the Pantry: An Eighteenth-Century French Recipe for Illustrating Athenaeus's Deipnosophistae, Augsburg, University, 2010.
External links[edit]
|Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Athenaeus
- The original Ancient Greek text
- Parts of the English translation of C. D. Yonge (1854) in HTML-format, including line numbers
- Translation by C. D. Yonge presented online by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center
- Translation up to Book 9 with links to complete Greek original, at LacusCurtius
- various out of copyright translations of the work downloadable on archive.org
- From a reading of Athenaeus, British Museum Sloane MS no. 1827
- Extracts from book 13 of the Deipnosophists concerning homosexuality
- Extracts from book 13 of the Deipnosophists
- on-line version of the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality article referenced above
- full Greek text and French translation at L'antiquité grecque et latine du moyen âge de Philippe Remacle, Philippe Renault, François-Dominique Fournier, J. P. Murcia, Thierry Vebr, Caroline Carrat