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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) " Mali's president announced on Wednesday that he would bestow medals on the 19 people killed during an assault at a luxury hotel in the capital last week, as funerals were held for three of its employees.
LONDON (AP) " Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has slowed down plans to settle 25,000 Syrian refugees within weeks in order to allay citizens' security concerns after the Paris attacks.
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This 19th century Japanese carved ivory okimono measures approximately 9 inches tall by 2 1/2 inches in diameter at it's widest point.
It is intricately carved with fully delineated scales and teeth on the fish. The figure riding a fish is carved from one solid walrus tusk and it sits on a separate oval section as a base. The crystalline pattern that is so indicative of walrus ivory can be seen in many places on the carving, including Kinko's robe (interior front left) and the belly of the carp or koi.
It dates from the Meiji Period in Japan (circa 1870-1900).
It is in very good condition with some stabilized antique ivory fractures as are seen on many of these okimonos that are well over 100 years old.
Japan originally imported and adapted many Taoist and Buddhist teachings from China, which were then combined with native Shinto beliefs.
One Taoist figure incorporated into Japanese artwork was Kinko, a holy hermit. He is often depicted mounted on the enormous carp that carried him to the Undersea Kingdom. There, sea creatures taught him that all life is sacred.
In Japan the carp (koi) is also a symbol of persistence, longevity, and fertility. Land-locked farmers have kept carp in their ponds to provide food for centuries and also bred them for their beautiful colors.
This original carved "oosik" or penis bone measures about 11 inches long by 1 inch wide by 1 1/2 inches in depth at it's wide at the base.
Although it has the appearance of ivory, it is actually carved from heavily fossilized walrus penile bone. It is much harder than traditional ivory and as such has been used by native people for generations to producing knives and important implements.
This is likely a fertility totem in as much as it has a hooded woman riding a phallus with the raven and a stylized bear above her.
A work of this quality would have taken a great deal of time talent and effort to create.
The workmanship and details of the carving are outstanding and can honestly be described as museum quality.
This ORIGINAL CARVED IVORY FIGURE OF THREE MONKEYS measures about 2 inches (5 cm) tall by 2 inches in diameter.
It is an extraordinarily detailed carving which can only be truly appreciated with a magnifying glass. My poor photos only begin to show the extent of it's quality.
It IS UNSIGNED and dates to the late 19th or early 20th century.
The subject is the "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" motif that was popular back then.
This antique Japanese okimono is in outstanding condition, except for one missing fingertip, on one of the sixty fully carved and articulated fingers or toes that this museum quality carving has.
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This MUSEUM QUALITY NORTH WEST COAST FIGURAL TOTEM was carved from one solid walrus tusk.
It dates circa 1890-1910.
It measures 25 inches long by about 2 1/4 inches diameter at the base.
It is carved overall with an amazing assortment of carved figures, including many native animals and other tribal figural icons.
It is in outstanding condition, with a wonderful ivory patina and age cracks. Virtually all of the 17+ carved figures have abalone eyes and are beautifully detailed and polished.
The photo enlargements do not begin to do it justice. This is truly a one of a kind item and guaranteed to be antique and authentic.
This intricately carved ivory boat with over fifty figures carved in varous positons of repose measures about 12 inches long by 3 inches tall by 2 inches in depth.
The boat has many finely detailed areas of carved scrollwork throughout.
It dates from the late 19th Century to the early 20th Century.
It is in excellent condition except for a few small losses. A few of the fully functional latticework shutters are missing or incomplete. One of the intricate carved dragons below the boat is incomplete. One or two of the removeable flags or parasols are missing. Even so, this piece is an outstanding example of a lost art:ivory carving so fine it shows up better under a magnifying glass.
Although the color appears to be pure white in most of the photographs, it actually is a wonderfully patinated very pale caramel color. It was necessary to adjust the pictures to show off the details, hence the white color. In addition to a wonderful aged color, it also has obvious graining along the base. It is, of course, guaranteed to be a genuine antique ivory carving and NOT a copy of any kind (it is NOT bone, plastic ivory molded or any other method of reproduction).
This pair of original ivory carvings each measures approximately 6 inches tall by 3 1/2 to 4 inches wide by 2 to 2 1/2 inches in depth.
They both date from the middle of the 20th century. Each of them is signed on the underside of the base of the ivory carving (see photo).
They are both in excellent condition with no damage, losses or repairs to the ivory carvings themselves. One of the wooden stands appears to have been repaired at some point in time.
These two figures are guaranteed to be authentic ivory carvings, period. They are NOT any form of ivory reproduction, including bone, plastic ivory, or any other type of imitation ivory.
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Each one of this pair of original carved ivory Fu lions, kirin, or Fu dogs measures about 3 1/2 by 2/3/4 by 1 1/4 inches, not including the wooden stands they sit on.
The pair of ivory carvings date from the early to middle 20th century in China.
They are in good condition, except for a few old repairs and the loss of the tip of one ear. They are a well patinated honey color with variations in tone throughout.
They are guaranteed to be genuine ivory carvings and are NOT imitations of any kind. They have areas that include the traditional crosshatched lines that should be found on any genuine ivory carvings.
They also have small cabachon blue gemstones (possibly turquoise) inset for eyes.
This small, four panel folding table screen is inset with carved ivory & stone motifs and figural groups.
It measures about 22 inches wide (5.5 inches width each panel) by 20 inches tall.
It dates from the late 18th century to the very early 20th century.
It is has over 33 carved ivory, bone or carved stone groupings in addition the it's overall painted motif.
It is in very good condition, but with minor cracks or shrinkage of the mounted wooden panels as should be expected of something this old.


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After many years of providing outstanding contributions to in-depth research of this area of Poland, the Kielce-Radom Special Interest Group Journal ceased publication in 2004. During that time, the indices published in the Journal to many of the towns were transferred to Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and became available in the JRI-Poland online searchable database.
By virtue of the new agreement, the full extracts for tens of thousands of records from all towns, originally published in the K-R Journal, will be integrated into the JRI-Poland database and will be freely available and searchable online. In addition, searchable PDF copies are now available online. See "Contents of the K-R SIG Journal" below.
History of the Kielce-Radom Special Interest Group Journal
The Kielce-Radom Special Interest Group was formed in 1997 under the direction of an Advisory Group comprising Warren Blatt, Lauren Davis and Gene Starn. The goal of the founders was to promote cooperative research of the Jewish population of Kielce and Radom gubernias (regions in southern Russian Poland). Warren Blatt was the founding editor and Gene Starn founding Coordinator. Mark Froimowitz subsequently joined as Coordinator in 2000. The Advisory Group was composed of Warren Blatt (Editor), Debra Braverman (Membership) and Carol Isaak (Production) beginning in 2002.
The SIG produced a quarterly publication, the Kielce-Radom SIG Journal, from 1997 to 2004. The Journal published articles applicable to research throughout Russian Poland, as well as research projects such as index extractions/transliterations from LDS microfilms of vital records.
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Pacemakers Simba host relegation- haunted Moro United at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on Monday, the Tanzania Football federation's information officer Boniface Wambura announced yesterday.
The penultimate round match brings together teams that have contrasting projections as top placed Simba go for title haul as United seek points to avoid relegation.
The match was supposed to be played at the same venue on Wednesday but the TFF has pushed it back.
Wambura attributed the change as caused by Simba's urgent need to have ample time to prepare for their first leg tie of the CAF Confederation Cup against Sudanese side Al Ahly Shandy to be played at the National Stadium on Sunday after the next.
He kick off time has been set at 19:00 hours to allow more spectators to attend the game after office hours.
Another premiership match between
Azam and Mtibwa Sugar that was supposed to be played tomorrow at the Chamazi Stadium, has been pushed back for 24 hours at the same venue.
The change has been necessitated to give room for an international friendly match between Twiga Stars and Zimbabwe to be played at the National Stadium.
Another 24 hour postponement involves premiership tie between Coastal Union and Kagera Sugar that was supposed to be played on April 29 at the Mkwakwani Stadium in Tanga.
Title contenders Azam who were supposed to host Toto African at their Chamazi Stadium on April 26 has been pushed back to April 28.
The Mainland premiership is coming close to the end early next month with Simba and Azam separated by six points with the later having a game in hand.
Young Africans that used to be holders surrendered the title to either of the two teams. Azam and Simba after losing two back to back matches against Toto Africa and Kagera Sugar within a week.
Yanga are stuck at 43 points with three matches in hand but have a weak ceiling of 52 points which have already been surpassed by archrivals Simba by four more.
One of the three matches for Yanga include the final against Simba on May 5 at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam.
Meanwhile, fans have continued to shun the national Stadium as paltry 8,362 spectators bothered to turn up for the premiership match between Simba and JKT Ruvu played at the national Stadium in dare s Salaam on Wednesday.
The vast Stadium which can accommodate as high as 60,000 spectators was virtually empty as Simba won the match by 3-0 goals to underline their title quest for the season.


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BANGOR, Maine (AP) - A Hampden man who was on Maine sex offender registry for sex crimes involving a child has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on federal charges of possession child pornography.
Sixty-five-year-old Walter Mosher pleaded guilty in June and has been detained since his arrest last March. He was sentenced on Monday.
Federal prosecutors say Mosher's computer contained images of child pornography, specifically images and videos of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Court records say he used a peer-to-peer file sharing network to download images of child pornography.
Mosher is listed on the Maine Sex Offender Registry for a 1986 case that resulted in convictions in Aroostook County of gross sexual misconduct, unlawful sexual contact and sexual exploitation of a minor under the age of 14.
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Paul Nicklen uses his camera to reveal the nature of a world melting away under human-induced global warming.
"I call myself an interpreter and a translator," says Nicklen. "I translate what the scientists are telling me. If we lose ice, we stand to lose an entire ecosystem. I hope we can realize through my photography how interconnected these species are to ice. It just takes one image to get someone's attention."
Nicklen has indeed managed to get people's attention. Whether he is ice diving among leopard seals in Antarctica, covering hundreds of miles of terrain in minus 40°F temperatures, or mastering aerial shots from his ultralight plane, Paul Nicklen has specialized in photographing polar regions since 1995. A unique childhood among the Inuit in Canada's Arctic and a professional background as a biologist in the Northwest Territories enable him to take on the most inhospitable places on our planet. His images reflect a reverence for the creatures inhabiting these isolated and endangered environments, and he hopes to generate global awareness about wildlife issues through his work.
Nicklen has published eleven stories for National Geographic magazine, including 2011's August cover story on the elusive spirit bear. His latest book, Polar Obsession, was published by National Geographic in November 2009 and was in its third printing within months of publication. He has received more than 20 international awards, including five awards from World Press Photo (including Nature: First Prize Story 2010), three from Pictures of the Year International, two from Communication Arts, and ten in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. His TED2011 talk and appearances on television shows such as Jeopardy and in YouTube videos receiving millions of hits have recently thrust him into the popular culture spotlight.
Nicklen lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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Milankovitch, Milutin
Milutin Milankovitch (1879-1958), a Serbian astrophysicist and geophysicist best known for his theory of ice ages, relating variations of the Earth's orbit and long-term climate change, now known as Milankovitch cycles. These ideas were derived from improved methods of calculating variations in Earth's eccentricity, precession, and tilt through time and determining their combined effects on long term climate change. Although Milankovitch cycles do appear to explain some aspects of long-term climate change, shorter term changes, like the current global warming trend on Earth, are not due to Milankovitch cycles.
Milutin Milankovitch (1879-1958) is best known for Milankovitch cycles, long term changes in Earth's orbit and rotation that is the leading theory to explain the comings and goings of ice sheets over the past few million years. He is one of history's great theoretical climatologists.
Milankovitch (also spelled Milankovi?.) was born in 1879 in Dalj, a Serbian settlement on the banks of the Danube in what was then part of Austro-Hungary and is now in Croatia. Milutin and his twin sister were the oldest of seven children. Their father was a businessman and local politician who died when Milutin was eight and his mother, grandmother and an uncle then raised the children. Those three also ran the family businesses, including a general store and numerous farmland holdings.
The young Milutin was small for his age and had little interest in sports or any other physical activity but he did have a keen mind. He found school to be easy and he excelled at mathematics. At seventeen he moved to Vienna, Austria to study Civil Engineering at the Technical High School (more like a college today). Here, too, his schooling was easy for him and in his ample free time he attended the opera, theater, museums, and other cultural amenities of the great city.
After graduating and spending an obligatory year in military service, Milutin borrowed money from an uncle to pay for additional schooling at the Technical High School in engineering. He researched concrete and wrote a theoretical evaluation of it as a building material. At age twenty-five, he proudly became the first Serbian Doctor of Technical Sciences. He then worked for an engineering firm in Vienna, using his knowledge to design structures. He obtained several patents relating to methods of building with reinforced concrete.
But being a full time engineer was not to be Milutin's profession. Working on his dissertation convinced him that he loved scientific research and he saw that as his life's passion. On his own, he further developed his abilities in mathematics, physics and astronomy. In 1909, Milutin left Vienna because political events made it difficult for Serbs to live in Austria. Fortunately, he was offered a 'Chair of Applied Mathematics' at the University of Belgrade in Serbia. There he taught rational mechanics, celestial mechanics, and theoretical physics and began scientific research. Within a year he changed his citizenship from Austro-Hungarian to Serbian.
Milutin's research plan was to find a challenging problem in science and spend the rest of his life solving it. It also needed to use his mathematical abilities. He had limited library resources and was far removed from the scientific centers of Europe, so he knew that competing on cutting edge topics would be difficult. For this reason, Milutin sought a problem that others were not pursuing. He began to investigate meteorology, but most of the research at the time involved data analysis and not the interplay between math and physics that he found most rewarding. Two papers, however, sparked his interest. They were theoretical papers on the receipt of solar energy over Earth's surface. He found fatal flaws in both papers and decided to pursue the subject on his own. His early research on meteorology also introduced him to the topic of ice ages and he saw an opportunity to explain the climatic variations involved in the advances and retreats of the ice sheets.
He outlined a two part 'cosmic problem' to solve, with an astronomical and a physical component. The orbits of the planets around the Sun are highly predictable and vary over time. Each planet's axis of rotation also varies over time in both the angle of the tilt and the direction the axis points. Each cycle works on a different time scale and each affects the amount of solar energy received by the planets. Others had suggested that these cycles may have caused the ice ages, but Milankovitch sought to investigate the issue with enough detail to solve the problem.
The physical part of his cosmic problem was to describe how the Sun's rays determine the temperature on Earth's surface after passing through the atmosphere. His goal here was to develop a mathematical theory describing Earth's climate zones. If he could achieve this for the present climates, he could use his astronomical findings to determine climates of the past and future. He began publishing papers on various aspects of his research in 1912.
In 1914, when he was thirty five years old, Milutin married Christine Topuzovi?, the thirty year old daughter of an old merchant family who had studied to be an opera singer. After they married, though, she only sang for family and friends. Two weeks after they wed, a Serb assassinated Prince Ferdinand of Austria and the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia. Milutin became a prisoner of war and was sent to a camp in Hungary. Christine traveled to Vienna and asked Milutin's former mathematics professor to intervene on his behalf. After six months in the camp, he was allowed to live in Budapest if he reported to the police every week, agreed that his correspondence would be examined, and obtained permission for any travel. There, Christine and he lived for the duration of the First World War and their son Vasko, their only child, was born in 1915. During this time Milutin pursued his scientific interests with the help of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
After five years, the family returned to Belgrade, which became the capital of the newly created Yugoslavia. From his research in Budapest, Milutin wrote a book and soon found an opportunity to have it published. He wrote it in German but had to translate it into French for publication. Mathematical Theory of Heat Phenomena Produced by Solar Radiation appeared in 1920 and presented his theories on both the astronomical and physical parts of his cosmic problem. In the book he calculated, using physical principles, the average yearly temperature at various latitudes on Earth and his values were reasonably close to the empirical temperature record. Satisfied that he could calculate present temperature patterns, he predicted climates over the last 130,000 years, accounting for changes in the shape of Earth's orbit, the tilt of the axis of rotation and timing during the year of the equinoxes. He also calculated the temperatures of the other planets and the Moon.
For a short time after his book was completed, Milankovitch worked on stellar astronomy, checking Einstein's assertion that the speed of light is constant regardless of the speed of the light source. But in 1922, he received a letter from the German climatologist Wladimir Köppen. Köppen and his son-in-law Alfred Wegener were working on climates of the past and asked Milankovitch if he would join them in the endeavor. He had already calculated past climates for 130,000 years and Köppen felt that his results matched the geomorphological evidence of glaciations in Europe. But the glaciations extended back at least 600,000 years, so Milankovitch was asked to extend his work further back in time. They agreed that he would calculate solar radiation changes at the top of the atmosphere at 55°, 60° and 65° North Latitude. Summer temperatures, they felt, were particularly important with respect to the onset of glaciations, due to the melting of winter snowfall. After he determined the correct procedure to follow, he spent 100 days doing the calculations and prepared a graph of the variations in the receipt of solar radiation. Geomorphologists then used the graph to see if it agreed or disagreed with the field evidence of glaciations.
In 1923, Milutin found himself with a new line of research. The Eastern Orthodox Churches met to discuss reform of the Julian Calendar, which, due to the complication of leap years, was thirteen days behind the Gregorian Calendar used in the West. Milankovitch was asked to revise the calendar to make it more consistent astronomically, including a way to determine the date of Easter each year. His proposal was accepted but, for various bureaucratic reasons, never was implemented. Eventually, most of the Eastern Orthodox regions converted to the Gregorian Calendar.
Milankovitch first met Wegener in 1924 while attending a conference in Innsbruck, Austria and the two spent a late night at a beer garden discussing their work. Wegener gave an outline of his theories of continental drift and past climates the next day. His discussion of climatic changes during the Quaternary drew heavily on Milankovitch's work. The next year, Milutin and his family vacationed in a small town in Austria near Graz, where Wegener and Köppen lived. The three became close friends, both personally and professionally.
The next year, Milutin tried his hand at popular writing with a series of magazine articles on astronomy and astronomers. Each month for three years he wrote a letter to an imaginary friend about visiting something in the universe or journeying to the past to visit an astronomer. These were published in a Serbian magazine and later collected in a book, Through Distant Worlds and Times, published in Serbian and later in German. It was the best selling book of his career. He thoroughly enjoyed this literary deviation from his research work.
In 1926, Milutin was asked to supervise the construction of twelve large hangars for the Yugoslav Air Force, to be made of reinforced concrete. He worked again as a civil engineer, part time, for the next ten years. This improved his financial situation, at least somewhat. He felt that the engineering work gave him a break from science and re-invigorated his intellectual abilities. He also felt that he did some of his best science during this time.
Köppen asked Milankovitch to write the introductory portion of a multivolume Handbook of Climatology in 1927. Köppen felt that Milankovitch's theoretical approach to solar energy was the logical topic to begin the series. Milutin used this as an opportunity to expand his theory of the effects of the atmosphere on solar energy. He also considerably improved and expanded his work on the three astronomical cycles and their effects on climate. When he finished his section, the publisher decided that it was important enough to warrant its own book and published it in 1930, in German, as Mathematical Climatology and Astronomical Theory of Climate Change.
Conversations with Wegener got Milankovitch interested in the interior of the Earth and the movement of the Poles and he told his friend that he would investigate polar wandering. Unfortunately, Wegener died in 1930 during a research expedition to Greenland, but Milutin carried out his promise. He became convinced that the continents 'float' on a somewhat fluid subsurface and that the positions of the continents with respect to the axis of rotation affect the centrifugal force of the rotation and can throw the axis off balance and force it to move. He drew a map of the path of the North Pole over the past 300 million years, but carefully pointed out all of the simplifying assumptions he had to make in order to make his predictions. Unlike his climate studies, Milankovitch's polar wandering work is not particularly influential in modern geophysical research.
In the late 1930s, Milankovitch revised his theories and presented them in his most lasting work, Canon of Insolation and the Ice Age Problem. Its six parts dealt with the orbits of the planets and their mutual perturbations, Earth's rotation, the movements of the poles, changes in the receipt of solar radiation, the relationships between solar radiation and the atmosphere, and the Ice Ages. As the book was being printed in Belgrade, Germany declared war on Yugoslavia and the city was bombed, including the printing plant. Fortunately for science, only the last thirty two pages were destroyed. They were reprinted once paper could be obtained and the book was bound and published in 1941.
Soon the Nazis occupied Belgrade and its surroundings. Finding food for his family and others less fortunate became a daily undertaking for Milankovitch but he looked for something to do to occupy the rest of his time. Since his life's work in climatology was completed, he set out to write his memoirs and a popular history of science. His memoirs, in Serbian, were published in three volumes. Through the Realm of Science, the history, was written as a series of personal events in the lives of great scientists.
After the War, Yugoslavia became a communist country. Milankovitch's son Vasko and his wife escaped and eventually immigrated to Australia. Milutin and Christine, though, felt that they were too old to leave their home. Because of his international reputation, he had somewhat more independence than most of his fellow citizens.
Milutin suffered a stroke in 1957 and he died the next year. He is buried in his family cemetery in Dalj. Christine died a few years later.
Some comments from Vasko Milankovitch on his father:
Father was barely 5'7" tall (1.70 m) and of fine frame. He had a prominent forehead and bushy brows over brown eyes which are always alert and quietly smiling. …He was not the bespectacled-professor-type of scientist as he enjoyed nature and loved all things aesthetically harmonious and maintained a constant interest in history, literature, painting and sculpture. …His love for abstract pleasures did not preclude him from earthy enjoyment. He enjoyed a glass of fine wine with his meals and would later relax with a favourite cigar. He often shared a good joke, and not necessarily a clean one either. (xxvi-xxvii)
Mother was the master of our family. Father would call her the "Home Secretary," and always showed her great respect. He was the well-looked-after guest with no household duties.
He was popular with the ladies due to his excellent manners and because he was a good raconteur. His widely read book of popular astronomy, written in the form of letters to a lady friend, added to his popularity with women. What those ladies never knew was that he really did not have a very high opinion of the fairer sex. …He thought that they are less objective than men and with a nervous system more fragile. The real thread of larger problems would somehow escape them. …in other words, he was a real male chauvinist! (xxxi)
I often recall an event of my youth…. Father and I were vacationing in Austria [where Vasko fractured his collar bone and was treated at the local hospital].
Later that afternoon and throughout dinner, father was very absent-minded which was most unusual for him. [Vasko was put to bed around 10:00 and Milutin left the door open in case Vasko needed him.] Instead of going to bed, he went to his desk, pulled some large sheets of paper from the centre drawer, lit the desk lamp and sat down. Something unusual must have happened, I thought. He never worked after dinner….
Father began writing fast, as I had never seen him before. The effect of my injection had worn off and the splint was cutting painfully into my shoulders and I could not sleep. He got up, put his foot on the chair and his elbow on his knee, took his glasses off and looked at me. He was not seeing me—he looked through me. He put the paper away, took out a new sheet and started writing again.
The woolen strap was hurting me. I called out for him to lift me and put some cotton wool under the strap, but I could see that he did not hear me.
He kept on writing and then he stopped and looked at the paper in front of him. He seemed to be revising all that he had written down, talking to himself…. Then he stopped. He then took out another sheet of paper and started writing again, but slowly this time. The tension on his face gradually dispersed and his usual calm expression returned. Finally he slowed down and then stopped altogether.
He looked up and, recalling my presence, said, "Sorry, I forgot about you. Do you need anything?" He lifted me into a comfortable position on the pillows, put pads of cotton wool behind the strap and said, "I think I've got it." "You got what?" I asked. "The differential equation covering the movement of the Poles. This equation has eluded me for quite some time. I am right now." He patted me on my sound shoulder, went into his room and, a couple minutes later, I could hear him gently snoring. (xxxiii-xxxiv)
Milankovitch, V. 1982, p. xxiii-xxxiv.
Further Reading
- NASA Earth Observatory. On the Shoulder of Giants: Milutin Milankovitch (1879-1958).
- Milankovitch, M. 1941. Canon of Insolation and the Ice-Age Problem. Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Jerusalem (1969).
- Milankovitch, V. 1982. The Memory of My Father. In, Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J., Kukla, G. and Saltzman, B. Milankovitch and Climate: Understanding the Response to Astronomical Forcing, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, p. xxiii-xxxiv.
- Milankovi?, V. 1995. Milutin Milankovi? (1879-1958), From his autobiography with comments by his son, Vasko and a preface by André Berger, European Geophysical Society, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany.
- NOAA Paleoclimatology Program. Astronomical Theory of Climate Change.


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The college has several years experience in offering strong career preparation in the field. It first introduced a certificate in the field in 2009. and introduced the degree program in Fall 2014 based on employer feedback. "An associate degree shows an employer that an applicant has a well-rounded education and commitment to the field," said Professor SteveDulmes, program chair.
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According to the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), college programs in the field are expected to produce only enough graduates to meet one-third of the projected demand for new photonics technicians through 2017.
Local demand also is projected to be high."There are several employers in the area that want approximately 100 people per year and the next closest school offering a photonics program is in Iowa," Dulmes said.
About the Laser/Photonics/Optics Program at CLC.
Read the video transcript.
See also: Laser/Photonics/Optics program offered by the Lake County High Schools Technology Campus and CLC.
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"I became the first community college student accepted as an intern at a newsroom in Erie, Penn., thanks to my experiences on The CLC Chronicle and working with Professor Kupetz. That first internship opened many doors for me."
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"What I like especially about the mechatronics classes is the hands-on learning and the helpful instructors who want you to succeed. We also went on field trips to companies, where we got a chance to see practical, real-world examples of ideas such as building and maintaining assembly lines."
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"CLC is a melting pot; a microcosm of America. The students come from so many different backgrounds and contexts, that you learn almost as much from your classmates as you do from your courses."
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Pineforest Bed & Breakfast
Pineforest Bed & Breakfast is an Irish Tourist Board approved B&B with cosy bedrooms and an excellent breakfast surrounded by lovely gardens.
Pineforest Bed & Breakfast is an Irish Tourist Board approved B&B located on the R617 within walking distance of Blarney village.
The Pineforest Bed & Breakfast features 6 non-smoking ensuite bedrooms located on the ground floor of the B&B. All rooms feature central heating and are non-smoking.
Breakfast is served in the dining room overlooking the Pineforest Bed & Breakfasts large gardens daily. Breakfast is included in the rate and guests can choose from a range of dishes from the breakfast menu. Tea and coffee is served in the large conservatory also overlooking gardens, or weather permitting on the decking outside to guests upon arrival.
Attractions located close to the property include Cobh Heritage Centre, Cork City Jail, Fota Wildlife Park, Blarney Castle, Blarney Woollen Mills and Jameson Whiskey Distillery in Midleton. A range of over 10 golf courses are also located within a 30 minute drive of Pineforest Bed & Breakfast.
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Pineforest Bed & Breakfast is on the main Blarney - Killarney Road. Just mile /1Km from Blarney village.
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Located only 7 minutes walking away from Blarney village centre very close to Blarney Castle, only 6 miles from Cork City and 9 miles from Cork Airport.


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May 4, 2016
Derrell Scott is a sophomore running back making a lot of noise for the unbeaten Havelock Rams on and off the field.
Aside from averaging 126 yards per game rushing for more than 15 hundred yards this season, Scott manages to hold a 3.8 grade point average in the classroom.
His coach, Jim Bob Bryant, says he's regularly one of the first players on the practice field and one of the last to leave. His work ethic in the weight room is also an inspiration to his teammates.
Chris Obarski has more on WITN's Player Of The Week
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Jobs, jobs, jobs. That is what Republican House Speaker John Boehner said would be priority No. 1 for Republicans after sweeping the House of Representatives and many state legislatures in 2010. This, Republicans said, was why they were elected: People wanted to see changes in the economy fast.
But, apparently, there was one other priority.
Almost immediately after coming into office in 2011, Virginia Republicans set the national stage for vital women's health issues. House Bill 1 — the first bill Virginia Republicans chose to take on — was a personhood bill, a bill that define life beginning at conception. Not only would the bill have banned abortion, it would also have banned the birth control pill, which sometimes prevents birth by stopping the implantation of a fertilized egg.
An impartial observer might wonder why a personhood bill would be a top Republican priority. After all, the same election that put all these Republicans in power also had a personhood bill overwhelmingly rejected in Mississippi — a state so socially conservative that 46 percent of Mississippi Republicans want to make interracial marriage illegal, according to a recent poll from Public Policy Polling.
Nonetheless, this was the issue Virginia Republicans decided to give serious attention. In an economy with a 9 percent unemployment rate at the time, this was the most important issue to Virginia Republicans.
Ohio wasn't much luckier with its crop of Republicans. Five months after inauguration, the Ohio House passed its "heartbeat" bill, or H.B. 125. To this day, it's the most radical anti-abortion bill in the country. Not only would it ban abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, but the bill makes no exceptions for rape, incest or life-threatening circumstances.
Ohio and Virginia were not alone. Republicans were pushing anti-abortion, anti-contraception bills all around the nation. Pennsylvania, Kansas, Mississippi and Texas all made national headlines with their own bills. In more than 20 states, bills have been introduced to restrict insurance coverage of abortions, according to ABC News. At the federal level, Republicans have made funding for Planned Parenthood a top issue time and time again, and insurance companies covering contraception recently became such a big issue that the White House had to step in.
So much for keeping the government out of health care. The same political party that clamored for small government now couldn't wait to regulate women's health care. Apparently, the economy is too much for the government to handle, but every woman's uterus is fair game.
There has been some backlash. After Virginia tried to pass a bill that would force doctors to give patients seeking abortion a transvaginal ultrasound, women's health advocates in states across the nation organized protests, leading to governors and state legislatures beginning to back down in their rhetoric. Even Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican who originally supported the transvaginal ultrasound bill, has been downplaying his involvement in Virginia's anti-abortion, anti-contraception bills.
Now, Mitt Romney, the likely GOP nominee for president, is facing some of the backlash. In a recent Gallup poll, women came out severely against Romney. In the category of women under 50, Obama held 60 percent of voters, while Romney held only 30 percent. That's right, Obama now leads with women under 50 by a two-to-one margin.
But while that may stop some rhetoric, the bills and laws are still coming forward. The Ohio heartbeat bill is still being pushed by some Republicans in the Ohio Senate, and a personhood initiative could show up in Ohio's 2012 ballot after a stamp of approval from Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. Mississippi also plans to reintroduce its personhood initiative in the 2012 ballot, and other states are beginning to pass around petitions for their own initiatives as well.
In the end, one is left to wonder what could stop social conservatives. Public backlash and poor polling don't seem to be enough to stop the Republican war on women, and in some cases it might have actually emboldened them.
While the presidential candidates prepared for Wednesday's debate, Michelle Obama urged Cincinnatians on Tuesday to take advantage of the first day of early voting, before leading a group to the board of elections to cast their ballots.
"I've got news for you: Here in Ohio it's already Election Day. Early voting starts today," Obama told a crowd of 6,800 inside the Duke Energy Convention Center. She urged everyone to reach out and encourage their friends to vote after they had cast their own ballots.
"Twitter them. Tweet them. What do you do? It's tweeting, right? Tweet them," she joked to the crowd.
Earlier in the morning, the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney kicked off its "Commit to Mitt Early Vote Express" statewide bus tour in downtown Cincinnati.
The tour started in Hamilton County before moving through Butler County and is scheduled to end the day in Preble County.
The bus is scheduled to make its way through every region of Ohio during the early voting period and will serve as a mobile campaign headquarters, dispensing voter contact materials and featuring Romney campaign surrogates, according to a news release.
At the convention center, Michelle Obama avoided some of the direct attacks employed by her husband or the Romney campaign, but used her 30-minute speech to counter some of the criticisms from the GOP nominee, recapping some of her convention speech.
"Our families weren't asking for much," Michelle said of her own and Barack's families. "They didn't begrudge anyone else's success, you know, they didn't mind if others had much more than they did, in fact they admired it. That's why they pushed us to succeed."
Her comment seemed to come in response to an attack that the Romney campaign levied against Barack Obama after his infamous "you didn't build that" comment, where the GOP candidate argues that Obama and Democrats are fostering enmity among the middle class by stoking jealousy of rich, successful Americans like Mitt Romney.
"Our families believed also that when you work hard and have done well and finally walk through that doorway of opportunity, you don't slam it shut behind you," Michelle Obama continued.
"No, you reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. You see, that's how Barack and I and so many of you were raised. … We learned that the truth matters – you don't take shortcuts, you don't game the system, you don't play by your own set of rules."
She went on to say that Americans are part of something bigger than themselves and obligated to give back to others, counter to the Republicans' narrative of the individual pulled up by his or her own bootstraps.
Danielle Henderson, 40, a teacher's assistant from Cincinnati, said she was a fan of the first lady's and joked that she wanted to know if Michelle was running for president in 2016.
"Behind every good man is a good woman," Henderson said. "Honestly, a woman is a backbone of the family."
She said she thought the first family was a good model for the rest of the country.
Henderson's mother-in-law Barbara joked that she was excited to see what the first lady was going to wear.
"I see trends she sets trickle down to other politicians' wives," she joked.
The rollback saves property owners $70 in taxes for every $100,000 of valuation. For the next two years they will be paying an extra $35 per $100,000 of their home's value.
The money will be used to balance the stadium fund, which faces a $7 million deficit. The rollback reduction is expected to raise about $10 million. The board voted 2-1 for the proposal, with sole Democrat Todd Portune dissenting.
"The property tax rollback measure that has been advanced so far buys us only one year, and next year we will be doing the same thing we are doing today," Portune said.
Portune favored raising the sales tax by 0.25 cents — to 6.75 — per dollar, which would have raised more than $30 million over 10 years. His proposal, which failed to receive any support, would have expired after the 10 years and gone up for review annually after the first five.
Portune said his proposal was more equitable. He said reducing the property tax rollback was going to affect only Hamilton County residential property owners, whereas a sales tax increase would affect everyone who spends money in the county, including visitors from neighboring Kentucky and Indiana.
Portune billed the tax increase as a long-term solution that would raise more than was needed currently but would keep the fund stable in years to come.
Board President Greg Hartmann, who authored the rollback reduction proposal, called Portune's plan "a bridge too far." He said it was too large of a tax increase and not a targeted approach to solve the deficit problem. He said he didn't trust future commissions to allow the tax increase to expire.
Hartmann called the property tax rollback reduction flexible, scalable, clean, immediate and certain.
Commissioner Chris Monzel, who provided the deciding vote, said he didn't like either and had to go against his principles with either choice.
"No way I walk out of this without breaking a promise. No way I walk out of this winning," he said.
Monzel said he hopes that savings from the Affordable Care Act would allow the county to lower its property tax rates to make up for the rollback reduction.
Monzel also introduced a successful proposal that will include an annual review of the tax budget to make sure property taxes don't change, a provision requiring parking revenue from The Banks to be used to develop The Banks and a directive for the county administrator to work with Cincinnati's professional sports teams on concessions they can make to help out with the stadium funding burden.
A best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning TV producer will discuss humanity's common origins at an upcoming political meeting.
Jon Entine, author of Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People, will speak Jan. 17 at the Blue Ash Northeast Democratic Club. The topic of his speech will be "Our DNA – Why bigotry and prejudice should be a thing of the past."
Some critics have alleged Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) doesn't pay enough attention to the needs of his district, a charge he flatly denies. But come Election Night, Boehner won't be celebrating (or drowning his sorrows) in Southwest Ohio.
One week after the major Democratic victories of Election Day, Ohio's Republican legislators are pushing HB 298, a bill that will keep federal funds from Planned Parenthood. In a Health and Aging Committee hearing at today, Ohio Republicans voted to push the bill through committee and into the Ohio House of Representatives floor.
If the bill passes the Republican-controlled General Assembly and is signed by Gov. John Kasich, it will block $2 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood and prioritize other family services. In the past few years, Planned Parenthood has become a popular target for Republicans because the organization provides abortion services. But that's not all Planned Parenthood offers; a chart released by the organization in February demonstrated abortions only make up 3 percent of its services.
Another criticism leveled by Planned Parenthood supporters is the federal funding is legally barred from being used for abortions. Instead, the funding would go to other health services within Planned Parenthood, which provides general women's health services to poor and rural women.
Some Democratic lawmakers say the bill shows an out-of-touch Republican Party."For the life of me, I cannot understand why Republicans are so intent on taking away from women the right to make their own choices about their bodies," said Ohio Sen. Nina Turner in a statement. "Voters soundly rejected the foolishness of the radical right on Election Day in favor of the dignity of American women, but some lawmakers must not have heard."
She added, "While Republicans rail against women making their own choices, they are cutting funding for education and critical social services that children need after they are born. They want small government, all right — small enough to fit into a woman's womb."
The strong words showcase what was a loud, feisty exchange
between Planned Parenthood supporters and Republican lawmakers. At the
committee hearings, supporters and opponents of HB 298 testified. Some
opponents cited their personal experience, including an emotional account from one
woman regarding her own rape at age 13. She said she was glad young women like her can turn to
Planned Parenthood for help.
Ohio Rep. John Carney, a Columbus Democrat, pointed out that throughout the hearings, no health care provider testified in favor of HB 298. One doctor testified against the bill. Carney also pointed out that no tax dollars that go to Planned Parenthood pay for abortions.
The bill isn't the only action Republicans have recently taken against women's health rights. Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus told The Cincinnati Enquirer about the possibility of a renewed heartbeat bill on Nov. 8. In October, Kasich appointed two anti-abortion advocates to government positions. In this week's news commentary ("Ohio Republicans Continue Anti-Abortion Agenda," issue of Nov. 14), CityBeat covered the ensuing Republican campaign against abortion rights.
The weekly "State of the Nation" poll by Research 2000 found that President Obama is viewed favorably by 56 percent of respondents, compared to 39 percent who hold an unfavorable opinion about him. Five percent had no opinion.
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-West Chester) had a whopping 64 percent unfavorable rating, with just 17 percent viewing him favorably. Nineteen percent had no opinion.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) also had a 64 percent unfavorable rating, compared to 20 percent who view him favorably. Sixteen percent had no opinion.
The poll was conducted for The Daily Kos Web site.
A total of 1,200 registered voters nationwide were interviewed by telephone from March 22-25.
The margin of error is 2.8 percent, meaning there is a 95 percent probability that the "true" figure would fall within that range if the entire adult population were sampled.
Boehner and McConnell can take some solace: Democratic Congressional leaders fared poorly too.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had a 54 percent unfavorable rating, while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) had a 66 percent unfavorable rating, according to the poll.
Still, Congressional Democrats fare better overall than their Republican counterparts.
Congressional Democrats had a 56 percent unfavorable rating, compared to 40 percent who view them favorably. Four percent had no opinion.
By comparison, Congressional Republicans had a 71 percent unfavorable rating, with 21 percent viewing them favorably. Eight percent had no opinion.
That's an increase of 3 percent who view Democrats favorably from a week earlier, compared to a decrease of 7 percent for Republicans.
Also, the Democratic Party had a 40 percent favorable rating, compared to the Republican Party's 28 percent.
There's still seven months until the general election so anything could happen but, if those numbers persist, it might be time for GOP leaders to scale back their talk of a Republican landslide in Congressional races.
As it turns out, Tom Brinkman Jr. plans on running for statewide office. He just doesn't know which one yet.
That's the explanation being offered for Brinkman's recent claim on a mass e-mail invitation that the $50 cost to attend an anti-Obama event could be deducted from taxes as a campaign donation.


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It is unknown when or where Tobias encountered Latios although it can be speculated that he used Darkrai to catch him because of Darkrai's type advantage. However this is unconfirmed and it is possible that Tobias might have caught Latios before Darkrai.
Latios was Tobias' second Pokemon during his battle with Ash, after Ash's Sceptile defeated Darkrai. Latios easily defeated Sceptile with Giga Impact, overpowering Leaf Blade and then battled Swellow. Swellow was unable to land a single blow on Latios and was defeated by a single Luster Purge. Ash then sent out Pikachu to battle the legendary Pokemon. At first Pikachu wasn't able to do much damage to Latios with the Eon Pokemon overwhelming Volt Tackle, Quick Attack and Iron Tail using Giga Impact, which due to Latios' greater size and weight, was able to overpower all three attacks. Realising that raw power wasn't enough to defeat Latios, Ash changed tactic and had Pikachu jump onto the Eon Pokemon's back and hit it with several close range Thunderbolts. Latios used Light Screen and then threw Pikachu off and tried to finish it with its signature move Luster Purge. However Pikachu countered with a combination of Volt Tackle and Iron Tail which he used to charge straight into Latios' attack, resulted in a massive explosion which knocked out both Pokemon.
Known moves
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|The Semi-Final Frontier
|Giga Impact
|The Semi-Final Frontier
|Light Screen
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- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.
- Despite using Giga Impact several times during his battle with Ash's Pokemon, Latios never appeared to need to recharge after using the attack.


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BALLWIN, Mo. (KSDK) -David Freese and his teammates were honored Monday night at the Ballwin Athletic Association.
Ten years ago a group of mainly junior college players from Meramec, Forest Park, and Jefferson County became the first-ever St. Louis metro team to win the national championship. They went 36 and 5 and shocked a lot of people.
The team was coached by Rick Fiala and Freese, who knows something about winning.
"This was one of the best times of my life. It was a time shortly after I quit baseball and didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life. But going to Meramec and being a part of that and playing summer ball with guys that I love, and then ending up just pushing and winning the NABF World Series, it was cool," said Freese.


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Tempers flared today during a public hearing in Augusta, where a legislative policy committee reviewed a pair of so-called right-to-work bills that opponents claim are nothing more than a Republican union-busting tactic. The bills would eliminate provisions in some private and public employee union contracts that either force employees to join unions and pay dues, or not join and pay representation fees. Opponents say passing the legislation would weaken, and ultimately eliminate, a union's effectiveness, while supporters argue the legislation would improve Maine's job climate. A.J. Higgins has more.
Rep. Lawrence Lockman, R-Amherst, presents his right-to-work bills as Gov, Paul LePage's staffers John Butera, left and Michael Cianchette, right, keep an eye on the door to the hearing room.
Forced unionism. Fair Share. Freedom to choose. Right-to-work: There are a lot of catch phrases thrown around to describe the practice that Rep. Larry Lockman would like to change. No matter what it's called, Lockman - an Amherst Republican - says it's time to end public and private employee union policies that require workers to join a union or pay representation fees.
Lockman has come up with his own definition: "It's about ending a corporate monopoly - let me put it that way," Lockman says.
Lockman presented two bills to the Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee. One would eliminate the current practice of deducting fees from the paychecks of public employees who choose not to join a union. The other would affect workers in the private sector and would alow workers to refuse to join a union as a condition of employment.
The absence of those kind of closed-shop policies are often referred to by Republicans as right-to-work issues, and are in force in 24 states. Lockman told the committee that when unions force workers to join, demand payment from them, or even represent them without payment, it amounts to a kind of monopoly.
"Current labor law, federal and state, grants these private corporations called labor unions a monopoly - they are granted a monopoly to bargain on behalf of all state employees, whether they are members or not, whether they pay or not," he says. "And this is about breaking up the monopoly, and, frankly, it would force unions to actually compete in the marketplace to gain the allegiance of people, to see, 'Are you offering something of value that I want to pay for?'" Lockman said.
Gov. Paul LePage continues to list right-to-work legislation as a goal for his administration, something that he thinks will attract out-of-state corporations to Maine.
John Butera, the governor's senior economic advisor, told the legislators on the panel that Lockman's bills are designed to give individual workers choices. Butera said that from 1990 to 2010, the U.S. Department of Labor statistics show that private sector payrolls in right-to-work states soared by 32 percent - three times higher than in states with fair share provisions.
'We need to make Maine competitive," Butera said. "Becoming a right-to-work state is a step in the right direction. Becoming a right-to-work state will afford Maine the opportunity to share in some of the economic benefits that other right-to-work states experience."
But there were plenty of opinions to the contrary about what right-to-work is really about - including several offered by state Rep. Stanley Short, a Pittsfield Democrat.
"Due to the right-to-work legislation since 1986 being passed in southern states, our workers were entered into a race to the bottom," Short said.
Short blasted the bills anti-union legislation that wrongly assigns blame for the lackluster state and national economy on union workers. His position is supported by Matt Schlobohm, executive director of Maine's AFL-CIO. When Republican Rep. Amy Volk of Scarborough, asked the labor leader why right-to-work laws have been adopted by nearly half the states if the policies are unnecessary, Schlobohm said the arguments were driven by politics and that there was no hard data to link right-to-work laws with expanded employment opportunities in Maine.
"I think it fails to pass the straight-face test, that a company is going to base its decision on whether to come to the state of Maine upon whether it's legal or illegal for employers and employees to negotiate a clause in a contract that dictates whether someone needs to contribute a fee for representation," Schlobohm said.
At times, exchanges between lawmakers and those testifying were intense - particularly when Eric Brakey, of the Defense of Liberty Political Action Committee, said he opposed union influence in elections, including the election of committee member Rep. James Campbell.
Brakey said Campbell, a Newfield independent, received about 25 percent of his campaign contributions from unions. Campbell objected.
"I'm not going to sit here for one minute, buster, and have you accuse me of anything," Campbell said. "Do I support the unions? You bet your life I do."
Members of the committee may hold a work session on both bills later this week.
Photos by A.J. Higgins.


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The Power of Independent Thinking
Anthony Gregory at P.A.U.L. Festival 2012
Recorded: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Independent Institute Research Fellow and Student Programs Director Anthony Gregory addresses P.A.U.L. Festival 2012 on Government Power and the Road to Liberty.
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2012 Summer Seminar for College Students
Recorded: Friday, August 3, 2012
These Student Perspectives are from our 2012 Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar for college students, which was held from July 30 to August 3, 2012, at Notre Dame de Namurs University, Belmont, California.
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Type: Challenge of Liberty SeminarsIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Free Market Economics, Freedom, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Property Rights
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Recorded: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
Part 2: Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa
Part 3: History of The Independent Institute and Fund for the Future
Part 4: Tribute to Lech Walesa
Part 5: Special Tributes, Sponsors, and Credits
Experts: Leszek Balcerowicz, Price V. Fishback, Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jorge Quiroga, David J. Theroux, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, Yuri Yarim-AgaevType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Latin America, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privatization, Property Rights, Terrorism and National Crises