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The World of 2050Posted by Greg at 13:25, 19 Jun 2012
Sci-fi novelist David Brin has a new book out titled Existence (Amazon US and UK) which touches on a number of topics we enjoy discussing here, perhaps most prominently the possibility of alien contact. Here's the trailer and short summary for those interested, following which I have a question for you all, and would love to hear your answers:
Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there's something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn't on the decades' old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth's infomesh about an "alien artifact."
Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.
This io9 write-up mentions some of the setting of Brin's future world of the 2050s, including "the mesh, a virtual reality that exists on top of the real world and is viewable through glasses, contacts and eye implants collectively". Reading about such ideas, and agreeing completely with things such as 'the mesh', prompted me to wonder what you all think we will be seeing in four decades (if we're still alive)? Where will we be at technologically, spiritually, and politically? Tell me how *your* Earth of 2050 looks.
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Even though I consider myself an optimist when it comes to our future I can't help but be cynical. I see a world where earth is ever more polluted - take Frakking for natural gas as an example that poisons water supplies and air and defaces the landscape (see Gasland docu),where mega corporations own the politicians and buy legislation favoring their interest over that of the environment and civilians.
The income gap between the new royalty: celebrities and megawealthy entrepeneurs and corporations will grow ever wider with the middle class shrinking and growing ever more dependent on diminishing social services as the system are over-burdened.
Social chaos, riots and disorder reign between private and public sectors over sky high tax rates to subisdize public workers income and benefits, with ever diminishing private sector jobs and expanding population.
I see a police state as the Constitution and Bill of Rights in America was incrementally dismantled with little more than a whimper. Similar to life in China - make waves and you are hauled in and interrogated, incarcerated or disappear...
Technology will have exponentially evolved to the point where people escape the drudgery of existence by escaping into virtual reality - the new drug so to speak, helping to quell any mass upsrisings, but of course should there be any...
The police will be armed with numerous immobilization weapons including heat, sound and even projecting noises and commands into peoples heads, incapacitating them at a neurological level
Manned space exploration will not have progressed as far as anyone hopes, simply because the will is not there to do so. Putting our collective efforts into tech to colonize space is in reality a selflees endeavor that requires sacrifice for the long-term benefit of the civilization, and it seems most every decision and action made by governments and corporations are exactly the opposite - they are for the short term and personal benefit of the political parties and their financial interests. So we'll be further than we are now, but barely beyond the moon, and doubtfully beyond Mars.
Populations will have grown to such a degree that forced populaton control will be mandatory, further justification for the police state. Natural disastors will come and go of varying degrees. At least one if not more pandemics will occur - possibly of man-made origin with the intent of reducing the population.
The entire food supply will be owned by Monsanto and their ilk due to cross polination of GMO crops having infecting every organic crop so that their patented genes are found everywhere and so are their consequences: low birth rates, still births, infertility, auto immune disorders, allergies, etc... These will help in the depopulation plans of the ruling elite as was planned.
I see a bleak future for the working class with ever expanding luxuries and privilige for the wealthy. The private sector workers will be relegated to the peasant status struggling to meet the high taxation and cost of even minimal goods and services, while the public sector workers will be the remaining middle class yet always subservient psyohpants to their ruling elite.
Cynical and bleak I know...I hope I'm wrong.
Greg H.
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Manned space exploration will not have progressed as far as anyone hopes, simply because the will is not there to do so. Putting our collective efforts into tech to colonize space is in reality a selflees endeavor that requires sacrifice for the long-term benefit of the civilization, and it seems most every decision and action made by governments and corporations are exactly the opposite - they are for the short term and personal benefit of the political parties and their financial interests. So we'll be further than we are now, but barely beyond the moon, and doubtfully beyond Mars.
I beg to differ. With Space-X's astounding success, and the buzz caused by James Cameron's wish to mine asteroids, once people notice there could be a lot of money to be made in space, we might witness a huge explosion of the private industry in the next 50 years.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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RRJ wrote: we might witness a huge explosion of the private industry in the next 50 years.
Yes but will it be manned space exploration. And will it have the purpose of moving man beyond Earth for the long term survival of the civilation, or will it be purely profit motivated: i.e. mining asteroids. I'm a free market guy so that is fine. I just don't see the committment to a manned space program on a national level.
I heard a commentator suggesting Space X could go to Mars in a fraction of the time and cost as Nasa - hopefully they will. But I remain doubtful of any united effort. People - the masses would rather have their services increased then invest in a long-term and costly manned space program. So no real push on governments to move in that direction. Can private industry be the leaders to help us colonize space and get off Earth? They would certainly be more efficient at it, but where is the profit to do so? I think it would have to be a government incentivized program and I don't see the political will nor the will of the masses to make the sacrifices neccessary to do so...
Greg H.
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Elon Musk has said he would like to die on Mars, so there's definitely an incentive.
Currently it takes 6 months to reach the Red Planet, but with a two-burn maneuver from the lunar orbit you could get there in half the time.
We say things like 'where's the profit' or 'where's the payoff', but we might be suffering from the same short-sightedness which regarded airplanes as nothing but a quaint entertainment, or electricity as a salon distraction :)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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that looks like choccy pudding
All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
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But those ain't floating marshmallows :-/
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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i'm already investing in beach front property.......whenever it rains :P
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
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In 2050
wireless internet will be ubiquitous
smartphones will be ubiquitous
connecting to the internet will be ubiquitous
AR will become (as if it already isn't) ubiquitous -- with apps like Languages, Themes (want to see everything a la Noir, Lovecraft, Republican?)
shopping malls will have changed, everyone has their own Maker/3-D printer, to speciality shops for certain blueprints
we will all me modified intelligences of rpj
America will have been invaded at least once and become more gentle, losing a bit of that innocence
Islamism will have burnt itself out
a global ethics will have been more or less hammered out and for a soverign country to be franchised, they have to agree to sign on it
the UN will actually have teeth, made of entities ("Devas") who owe their allegance to humanity. these entities will be either functional AIs or Buddhist-like warrior monks
Meditation will be part of the school curriculum
there will be a yearly global art olympics, where people will compete in various art forms...
everyone at birth will be reversibly infertile; to get fertile, they will have to take a course
there will be several moonbases; some of them will secede and become their own nation
there will be several competing currencies
there will be several competing internets
open spirituality will spread to the marketplace, so that people will have shops like "Thanes of Odin", "The Golden Apple Lounge" and "Xenu's Retreat"
starving, poverty & disabilities will be an art form
the # of Marxists will be reduced to a small Villa in Las Vegas
there will be biomod lounges where people can collect and share their biology hacks (will Apple come out with an iHack app?)
Virgin Megagalactic will have sent unhumaned probes to places like Alpha Centauri and have special parks
Via telepresence, the first person to dance on the surface of the sun will be broadcast live
sex change, species mods will be available as cosmetic modifications; bless you, stem cells
the new sport of asteroid surfing will be a hit
towels will become a vital and necessary space travel item
dolphins and chimps will be recognized as sentients and given human rights
Australia & NZ will become one nation to deal with the increasing droughts; Peter Jackson will become PM
there will be an increase of 'People of the World', people with no fixed country
the world's first photon-human conversation will happen
tours of the Astral, Etheral and Dream worlds will be given by trained professionals
Ideaspace will become a cultural thing, people being taught how to explore it
all of the Holy Books of the world will be translated into graphic novel form
a form of radioactive waste eating bacteria will have been discovered
Japan will adopt GMing and will move to somewhere safer; in orbit
Ray Bradbury will be found on Mars during the first human expedition
thedailygrail will become a not-for-profit organization
the DSM will have been gone for years now
some countries will have adopted GNH
they will finally find Jimmy Hoffa's body
it will turn out that JFK was just a future projection of that wavefunction collapsing entity, Jesus
the perfect cup of coffee will be served by Rancid Phlegm and Co-ordinated Presence, a couple living on an L3.14 colony
Putin's cynicism will crack, resulting in him breaking down on live telenet...he will then devote his life to living as a hermit, discovering his inner space and the resulting Ideaspace show will be very popular
Virtual places of worship and denominations will be commonplace
All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
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Except for one, these are all wonderful prospects :)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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Yeah, I know...Hoffa should stay a mystery :3
I'm eagerly awaiting your multimedia 2050 list :3
All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
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Man, I just hope I'm still around by 2050! I would be 77...
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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I want to live long enough to be able to see the Earth from orbit or space...to be able to be overcome by it and shaken to my core...
And I definitely don't want to die in a hospital and/or with a long period of incompetence (I've heard the world average is 6 months)...
Right now, intellectually I like the idea of personal teleportation, but emotionally I would feel like it would be like killing myself...
Just some thoughts
All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
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I'll be gone by then -- not my problem.
There will be many 2050s (as will be taught in physics classes in those versions in which Scientism reigns and in which there are still classes, period) -- this is a "Garden of the Forking Paths", "Multiverse", "Many Worlds", or "probable reality" situation; there is no single future (verify this for yourself by doing Exercise 2. here: http://www.realitytest.com/doors.htm).
In some versions, those multi-billion-device forecasts for 2020 by giant tech companies and associations (Cisco, GSMA), advocates of "The Internet of Things", will have become multi-trillion-device realities -- everything will be connected.
In other versions, there will be no Internet. In some of these, the Internet (and most of civilization) "went away" when electrical grids went down during a series of massive solar flares, putting an end to modern industrial activities too swiftly and completely for the grids to be rebuilt; soon, humanity forgot how to manufacture all kinds of things. In other versions, the Internet was killed by viruses.
In a few versions of 2050, European countries will be announcing yet another plan to resolve debt problems in Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, and a few other countries.
In some versions, billions haven't starved to death after Monsanto's pest-proof copyrighted corn enabled the rise of disease-resistant bacteria -- instead, people came to their senses and eliminated Monsanto.
Those versions in which U.S. "backpack" drones developed for and used in the Afghanistan conflict back in the early part of the century became common everywhere aren't so pleasant...
There will be apocalyptic versions and relatively peaceful versions.
You can project present trends, but anyone who tries to make tech forecasts in 2012 knows that all kinds of disruptive developments are much more prevalent now than even a few short years ago -- the same applies to quite a few other trends, although demographic trends _can_ be relatively stable. (The boomer generation will have almost completely died out by 2050, with all kinds of consequences, including the great casket, funeral home, cemetery stone, and grave site bubble that finally collapsed, causing global financial systems to seize up in some probable realities even though it was all very, very predictable.)
Then there are those versions of 2050 in which the increasing electronic connection of just about everything is mirrored by a growing conscious awareness of what could be called an inner connectivity; in fact, after this began it was clearly seen that this was actually the other way around -- the electronic connectivity was simply an outer manifestation of an inner development.
I've visited more distant futures, as though versions of me exist in them -- "future" selves. In one, there is no longer a U.S. Interstate Highway System and no one even remembers one -- or cars, for that matter.
In another, some very interesting research is going in a lab outside of NYC, which is flooded, but the U.S. is not what it was -- it's old and tired, you might say.
Then there's that future world of 2075 in which methods devised by an incarnation of Saul of Tarsus (more than making up for screwing up so badly in his previous appearance) spread rapidly, leading to the undermining of all remaining religious organizations and heralding a new expansive everyday consciousness in which intellect and intuition are united, a kind of "New Age."
The choices of where and when to incarnate (if choosing to incarnate at all) -- are more or less endless.
Hopefully I'll be in no particular hurry to decide, in 2050. (Sometimes peer pressure is part of this -- if all of your friends have decided to jump in again, it can be difficult to sit things out and not share, once again, the incredible but temporary experience of life on earth, with its taxes, food, sex, politics and all of the other stuff, including death.)
Bill I.
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Given the sorry track record of prediction in the near past I am confident what whatever happens it will surprise us all.
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Claims flood in after quake
More than 600 claims of damage have been reported to the Earthquake Commission following yesterday's severe 6.2 quake.
Aftershocks continue to jangle nerves in the lower North island after the shock that damaged homes, cracked roads, toppled cliffs and left thousands without power.
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The Wellington Anniversary Day quake, which struck shortly before 4pm yesterday, was centred about 15m east of the rural Tararua town of Eketahuna at a depth of about 33km.
An Earthquake Commission spokeswoman said today they'd received more than 600 claims from throughout the lower North Island, including Manawatu, greater Wellintgon and Wairarapa.
Claims tended to spike and fall and they would be waiting to see how many came in before they made any decisions.
People had three months to make their claims, so there was no panic, she said.
Meanwhile, a magnitude 4.5 aftershock which struck at 1.24pm today, 20 kilometres west of Eketahuna at a depth of 39km, was strongly felt.
Yesterday's quake comes almost six months to the day after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, centred near the Marlborough town of Seddon, set off a swarm of tremors that rocked the middle of the country for months.
The shaking from yesterday's quake was felt from Invercargill to Auckland but those in Manawatu, Wairarapa and Wellington bore the brunt of it.
Power has been returned to all customers. Both commuter rail and freight rail services around the capital had returned to normal this morning after they were suspended yesterday. All state highways are open this morning but police advise drivers to take care.
GNS duty seismologist Caroline Little said the quake was caused by the Pacific tectonic plate ''subducting'' under the Australian plate.
The quake could not be pinned on an individual faultline and was quite different from two historic quakes in the area that caused serious damage.
It was expected the next seven days would see another quake – or up to five – of between magnitude 5 - 5.9.
A much larger quake could not be ruled out but was "unlikely", Little said.
There were no reports of death or serious injury to people, but numerous reports of damage to property.
A massive chunk of 162-metre-high Castle Rock, at Castlepoint, was shaken loose.
It was believed the boulder weighed about 20 tonnes and was the size of a small car. It sheared off a limestone face, south of The Gap beach, and bounced down a steep slope towards the beach.
A large slip near Mangaweka also turned the Rangitikei River milky-grey.
There were further reports of slips along the Pohangina River and at Anzac Cliffs on the Manawatu River.
Electricity was cut to about 5600 homes in Tararua, Manawatu and Taranaki but but lines company Powerco confirmed all were back on this morning.
Wairarapa Civil Defence emergency management controller Kevin Tunnell said there had been numerous reports of minor damage at homes across Masterton and the wider Wairarapa.
The quake was felt so strongly that Masterton Deputy Mayor Graham McClymont, who was playing golf in Eketahuna when it struck, feared Masterton would be "lying in a pile of rubble".
Near Masterton, Mauriceville residents John Hart and Karen Monks said their restored villa would need a second restoration to undo quake damage.
"The house is pretty much trashed. There's crockery everywhere, the fridge has emptied itself, we've got appliances on the floor, bookcases down, and there's quite a few cracks around the house."
The Insurance Council of New Zealand said it did not know the estimated cost of quake damage from yesterday's shake.
The value of damages was not usually known until a "few weeks" after an event like an earthquake, a spokesperson said, and no information had been received yet about any claims.
Large cracks also forced the closure of the main road to the tiny Tararua town of Pongaroa.
A structural engineer would carry out a further examination on the three-storey residential Daniels Building in Masterton after a dangerous building declaration was issued yesterday, Tunnell said.
In Manawatu, there were reports of chimneys collapsing, cracks appearing in walls, and television sets falling over. A Palmerston North resident said concrete had sunk around their home.
Leeds St resident Maria Dalziel said her brick fence toppled "like a house of cards" when the shaking started. Inside, her collection of 100 antique glass bottles had all smashed.
Melanie Iosefa was in the central Palmerston North NZI insurance building when plaster fell on to a desk. The 15 to 20 workers in the building were forced to duck for cover on the floor but one woman sitting underneath received a blow to the head as she took cover under a table.
Milk was being diverted from Fonterra's Pahiatua distribution storage centre after it was damaged in the quake.
Milk was being sent to other plants until it was considered safe to resume operations there.
This was a normal procedure and would not affect the wider supply chain, the company said.
The quake-prone Farmers building in Wellington's Cuba Mall was evacuated while inspectors checked for damage.
In Lower Hutt's Queensgate Mall, shoppers were left screaming and ducking for cover as items fell off shelves. Some stores closed afterwards.
Supermarkets in the Wellington region sustained only minor damage.
KiwiRail spokeswoman Sophie Lee said there were no reports of any damage to the rail network or Wellington Railway Station.
Prime Minister John Key said people should be prepared for aftershocks.
"There have been minor aftershocks and that's to be expected. I guess one of the big lessons that came out of Christchurch for those who don't spend our lives studying these things, is that when you get a big jolt you are going to get a series of aftershocks that go on for a long period of time," he said.
"This was a very large earthquake in terms of the Richter scale, consistent with what we saw in Christchurch, it's just that it was in a deeper area.
"Certainly a big jolt, and unnerving for the people of the Wairarapa area and the wider Wellington area.
"Mainly what we can see is surface damage, stuff off shelves, some minor damage to chimneys and lights but people will be keeping a watching eye on it over the next few days and weeks."
Late last year, GNS Science released a report showing a tsunami up to 35 metres high could cause as much devastation over Wellington and Napier as the 2011 waves caused in Japan.
GNS duty seismologist Caroline Little confirmed the ''worst case scenario'' would be triggered by the same two plates that caused yesterday's quake. However, unlike yesterday, when the epicentre was deep inside the Pacific plate, for a tsunami to be triggered the plates would have to clash at the ''interface'' of the two and be centred out to sea.
A larger quake would also be needed to trigger a tsunami, she said. The report, by natural hazard scientist Graham Leonard, said waves could reach 15 metres above normal sea level in Wairarapa, Northland, Great Barrier Island, and parts of East Cape. But Wellington's steep valleys could amplify tsunami waves up to 35m, he said.
''No part of the New Zealand coastline is free from tsunami hazard,'' it warns.
Little said yesterday's quake was different from two historic quakes in the area that caused serious damage.
A magnitude 8.2 quake on the Wairarapa Fault in 1855 remains the most violent in New Zealand since European settlement.
A 10-metre tsunami struck Palliser Bay on the south Wairarapa coast. The tsunami also flooded Porirua Harbour, and hit Titahi Bay and the Kapiti Coast. In Wellington, a four to five metre tsunami swept over the isthmus between Lyall Bay and Evans Bay.
In June, 1942, a 7.2 quake centred near Masterton shifted houses on their foundations and caused some roofs to collapse.
In Masterton, damage was widespread and only few buildings survived unscathed.
In Wellington, 100 city buildings were found to be seriously damaged, about 10,000 chimneys toppled and 5000 homes were in need of extensive repairs.
Little said yesterday's quake was more similar to a 6.4 quake centred near Weber, Tararua in May, 1990. That one caused no major damage.
Correction: This story earlier incorrectly reported that seals were killed in a rock collapse at Castlepoint.
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What is deaf art? I define it as art created by a deaf/hoh person that expresses some aspect of deafness and hearing loss (e.g., sign language, communication issues). Some in the deaf community refer to deaf-themed art as De'Via (deaf view/image art). I hope to someday decorate my home with deaf art.

Web Exhibits of Deaf Art

There are some exhibits of deaf art online. These exhibits combine non-deaf themed artworks with deaf-themed artworks.

The International Archive of Deaf Artists

The International Archive of Deaf Artists showcases the work of selected deaf artists in both thumbnail and large size versions. One of the artists is Betty Miller, who is also mentioned in the book Deaf Heritage. (Deaf Heritage has examples of Miller's artwork. She is a "methodology" artist whose work is anti-oralism. One of the best drawings is of handcuffed hands with the fingers chopped off.)

DeafArt.org

The outdated site DeafArt.org has some thumbnail examples of deaf art. Some are quite interesting, such as Susan Dupor's "Family Dog" which depicts the feelings of a deaf person unable to keep up with family members who do not sign. Unfortunately, the site is limited to thumbnails only.

Deaf Art/Deaf Artists

Deaf Art/Deaf Artists is the best deaf art site, in my opinion, and it does not appear to be outdated. It has a timeline of De 'Via history, spanning 1972 through 2002. The timeline includes an old Deaf Mosaic video clip about the Deaf Artists of America organization. An articles section contains an excellent illustrated article, "Visions by Deaf Artists," originally published in Visual Anthropology Review, Vol. 15, No.2. p.20-36. There is also a PDF of a British dissertation, "Deaf Art? What for?" Plus, there are selected articles on deaf art from the Tactile Mind Weekly. Yet another treasure on this site is the videos section, which has video clips from Deaf Mosaic on Chuck Baird and Ann Silver.

Books on Deaf Art

Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary is a book about art by deaf people, with more than 300 art reproductions (not all deaf-themed).

In addition, chapter 4 of Deaf Heritage is on artists. Besides Miller, this chapter includes Morris Broderson and Frederick LaMonto. Broderson and LaMonto are the only artists in the chapter whose work included deaf themes. The chapter can be read or downloaded online from the Deaf Art/Deaf Artists website, in the articles section.

"Chuck Baird: 35 Plates," is a book reproducing 35 of Chuck Baird's works.

Deaf Artists' Web Sites

Some contemporary deaf artists have personal websites to showcase their experience and/or work:

Chuck Baird's "Chuck's Brushes" (http://www.chuckbaird.com) site lists all of his artistic accomplishments, from the 1960s to the present.

Helene Oppenheimer is a sculptor (http://pages.sbcglobal.net/aslclay/) who has done works such as a "signing Charlie Brown."

Betty Miller's site is at http://bettigee.purple-swirl.com/index.html. Online galleries showcase some of her more recent works, such as one spoofing hearing tests.

Susan Dupor's site is at http://www.geocities.com/duporart/gallery/index.html. She sells prints directly.

Deaf Art Galleries

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf is home to the Joseph F. and Helen C. Dyer Art Center. The Dyer center has a permanent collection and special exhibits. Some of the artists are RIT/NTID alumni.

Buying Deaf Art

Some deaf artists may sell their artwork via their personal websites. It is also possible to buy note card reproductions of the works of Chuck Baird, through DawnSignPress (www.dawnsign.com), in the Educational category.


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For the Love of Chocolate: 7-10 p.m. Fri., Lions Eye Institute for Transplant and Research, 1410 N 21st St., Ybor City. Culinary students compete to make the best chocolate creations, with pastry chefs, celebrity judges and guests to sample and vote. Includes wine, music and benefits Lions Eye Institute. $35, $50 per couple. (813) 289-1200, ext. 247.
Taste-Fashion-Fun II: 6-8 p.m. Fri., Taste, 500 Main St., Safety Harbor. Fashions from area boutiques, gourmet tapas, beer and wine tastings. Benefits Safety Harbor Museum of Regional History. $20 advance, $25 at the door. (727) 726-1668.
Chocolate Eating Contest: 3 p.m. Sat., Florida Orange Groves Inc. and Winery, 1500 Pasadena Ave. S, St. Petersburg. Win a bottle of wine at chocolate-eating contest. Adults only. Free, registration required for contest. (727) 347-4025. floridawine.com.
San Gennaro Festa: 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Sun., Safety Harbor Marina, 110 Veterans Memorial Lane. Festival of Italian culture and cuisine, with car show, cannoli and meatball eating contests, children's games, grape stomping, more. Benefits St. Joseph's Children's Cancer Research Center, Paul B. Stevens for Autism and Special Needs, LIADO Scholarship fund and Alzheimer's research. $4, 11 and younger free. (727) 724-4045. sangennarofesta.com.
Become Willy Wonka: 2-4 p.m. Sat., Palm Harbor Library, 2330 Nebraska Ave. Library transforms into a "chocolate factory" with chocolate crafts and chocolate-related activities. Free, registration required. (727) 784-3332.
Club Chocolat: 7-10 p.m. Sun., Tampa Garden Club, 2629 Bayshore Blvd. Chocolate martinis, desserts and other foods in For Love of a Garden benefit. Proceeds benefit Tampa Garden Club. $50. (813) 251-5059 or (813) 251-2899.
Mardi Gras Party: 5 p.m.-1 a.m. Tue., the Living Room, 680 Main St., Dunedin. Party with Creole and Cajun cuisine, craft beers, Cajun-inspired cocktails, live music. Reservations suggested. Free before 7 p.m., $5 from 7:01 p.m. to closing. (727) 736-5202. thelivingroomonmain.com.
Tampa Bay Culinary Club: Noon Feb. 20, the Living Room, 680 Main St., Dunedin. Chef Tony Bruno demonstrates menu favorites for sampling. Reserve by Feb. 17. $10. (727) 789-2605.
Einstein on Wine: 7-10 p.m. Feb. 20 (VIP admission at 6 p.m.), Museum of Science and Industry, 4801 E Fowler Ave., Tampa. Wines to pair with culinary samplings, plus entertainment, silent auctions. Benefits MOSI education programs. $70, $60 members, $80 day of event, $125 VIP. (813) 987-6000. mosi.org.
Stogie and Stout: 7-11 p.m. Feb. 20, Dunedin Brewery, 937 Douglas Ave. Robust stouts, port and ales paired with cigars, plus snacks. Benefits Dunedin Doggie Rescue and Adopt a Platoon. $25 advance, $30 day of, $10 designated drivers. (727) 736-0606. dunedinbrewery.com.
Hot Chili, Cool Wildlife: 1-4 p.m. Feb. 21, Elmira's Wildlife Sanctuary, 13910 Seminole Trail, Wimauma. Chili cookoff to benefit the sanctuary's tigers, leopards, bears and other animals. Sample competition entries, plus food and beer vendors on site. $15 donation, $5 for kids under 12. (941) 776-8975. ElmirasWildlife.org.
Dine Like a Diplomat for Kids: 2-5 p.m. Feb. 21, Capital Grille, Bay Street at International Plaza, 2223 N West Shore Blvd., Tampa. Etiquette class for kids ages 5-15; topics include Dining Do's and Don'ts, Avoiding Gossip, more. $129, includes four-course meal. (813) 830-9433. patriciarossi.com or mannersclass.com.
Cooking classes
Mardi Gras Dinner: 6:30 p.m. Thur., Rolling Pin Kitchen Emporium, 2080 Badlands Drive, Brandon. Celebrate New Orleans flavors with shrimp etouffee, bourbon pecan pound cake. $45. (813) 653-2418. rollingpinonline.com.
Baja Bash: 6:30 p.m. Fri., Foodies, 2312 Fourth St. N, St. Petersburg. California-Mexican cuisine class ends with caramel bananas en papillote. $45. (727) 209-1418. www.foodies.net.
''Yum-O" Recipes for Tweens: 11 a.m. Sat., Rolling Pin Kitchen Emporium, 2080 Badlands Drive, Brandon. Class for ages 10-14 makes Rachael Ray's easy favorites, including Parmesan chicken tenders. $30. (813) 653-2418. rollingpinonline.com.
Cuisine with Romance: Noon Sat., BergHOFF Culinary Center, 11063 State Road 54, Odessa. Complete valentine dinner, from strawberry salad to chocolate pots de creme. $45. (727) 853-3359.
Cooking What You Grow: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat., 3212 W Paxton Ave., Tampa. Use produce, root crops and fresh eggs to make omelets, fried African yams and salad dressing, plus learn to combine herbs and spices. $20, plus bring one onion; preregistration required. (813) 839-0881.
Resolution Solution: Pork Chops: 6:30 p.m. Tue., Foodies, 2312 Fourth St. N, St. Petersburg. Class makes healthy menu of 600 calories or less. This week: grilled pork chops with shallot butter, fresh berries with ginger cream. $40. (727) 209-1418.
Mardi Gras Mambo: 6:30 p.m. Tue., Apron's Cooking School at Publix Supermarket, 7835 Gunn Highway, Tampa. Muffuletta, chicken and Andouille jambalaya, beignet bananas Foster, more. $45. (813) 926-4465.
Conversational Italian: 6-7 p.m. Feb. 17, Castellano and Pizzo Italian Foods, 4200 S Henderson Blvd., Tampa. Four-week series (also on 6-7 p.m. Thursdays beginning Feb. 18) teaches beginner's Italian, plus dinner at each class. Also 6:30-8 p.m. Feb. 17, at Positano's Ristorante Italiano, 3309 Tampa Road, Palm Harbor. $135 per person, $250 per couple, per series. (727) 866-6892. Learnalanguage.us.
Girls Night in the Kitchen: 6:30-9:30 p.m. Feb. 17, Chefs on the Loose, 3401 Bay to Bay Blvd., Tampa. Learn new dishes in hands-on casual class. $45. (813) 835-7300. chefsontheloose.net.
True Blues: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Feb. 17, Whole Foods Market, 1548 N Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa. Sample a variety of blue cheeses and learn how to use them in dishes. Free, preregistration required. (813) 874-9435. email@example.com.
Tart Pastry Secrets: 6:30 p.m. Feb. 18, Foodies, 2312 Fourth St. N, St. Petersburg. Learn tips for making tart doughs and fillings. $45. (727) 209-1418.
Kids Bake Bread: 3-6 p.m. Feb. 19, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 20, Let Them Eat Cake, 3805 S West Shore Blvd., Tampa. Kids bake up a variety of fresh breads. $40 per class. (813) 480-5466. chocolate ismycrayon.com.
Chicken Korma: 6:30 p.m. Feb. 19, 4063 Daventry Lane, Palm Harbor. Indian cuisine class makes complete menu, including saffron nut pulao with peaches. $39. (727) 667-8369. fineindiancuisine.net.
Compiled by Peggy Anders. Send news of coming events at least two weeks in advance to Food File, St. Petersburg Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731; e-mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com; or fax: (727) 892-2327.


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Trial begins over value of property where United Flight 93 crashed on 9/11October 8, 2013 8:15 AM
History and tragedy dropped out of the sky onto Michael Svonavec's property, and he is in federal court today to argue that he was paid a mere fraction of what his land was worth.
Mr. Svonavec's company, Svonavec Inc., owned a 275-acre parcel in Stonycreek, the same place United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. The property remained a crime scene, off limits to him, until 2005, and was also the scene of National Park Service improvements.
It remained in his name until the Department of the Interior condemned it under its eminent domain rights in 2009.
In the meantime, Mr. Svonavec testified this morning, he put together detailed plans for a museum and visitor's center, with parking and roads and other infrastructure improvements which would be run in part by a nonprofit organization.
"This was a very simple project," he told a panel of three commissioners appointed by U.S. District Judge Donetta W. Ambrose.
It posed "much less risk than many projects that I've put capital into," he said, adding that he had led complex housing and coal mining ventures before.
He estimated that for costs approaching $1 million, he could have created a building, road, parking lot and infrastructure that would have attracted 200,000 to 300,000 people per year. It would have cost just under $1 million a year to operate and would have had revenue of $2 million to $3 million a year.
He said the resulting value of the property was around $25 million.
According to court filings in the case, the government put the value of the property at $611,000 and paid that amount to Mr. Svonavec's company.
The Families of Flight 93 paid him an additional $750,000 for expenses he incurred.
Mr. Svonavec's appraiser put the property's value at $23.3 million.
Judge Ambrose is overseeing the trial and the commissioners will decide the value.breaking - region - businessnews
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A fireworks vendor in Grand Junction reported the theft of more than $1,000 worth of fireworks early Saturday.
The fireworks were taken from a tent at 2839 North Ave. after the business had closed Friday night.
The business had hired overnight security for the tent, according to a police report. The security officer saw at least one person leave the tent with fireworks after 1 a.m. and phoned police, according to Grand Junction police officer Shawn Hasty. The security officer was not able to catch the suspect.
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The first day of school means the return of homework, early mornings and fresh starts.
It comes with sharpened pencils, new classmates, first day jitters and an expectation of achievement.
For two Murphey Middle School teachers, the first day of this school year is the dawn of a new career. Jessica McCarthy, a recent college graduate, and Janell Paschal, a career changer, begin their first day of teaching as Richmond County schools go back in to session today.
"I'm expecting it to be a challenge, but I'm expecting it to be success as well," Paschal said.
Both women are scholars in the Georgia Teaching Fellows, which leads prospective teachers into the field through training and support.
They both wanted to teach math in schools with low-income students at the middle school level, where McCarthy said influencing a child's passion for learning is most crucial.
McCarthy, 22, was raised in Tampa, Fla., and graduated with a degree in family youth and community sciences from the University of Florida this year. Most in her degree field go into social work or nonprofit organizations, but McCarthy wanted to make a bigger impact. As a math junkie, she remembered a piece of advice one of her high school teachers gave her years ago: "Never become a math teacher."
That didn't sit well with McCarthy. She hated the sight of young people struggling with math and knew she could help make a
"I think she just didn't like teaching students who hated something she was really passionate about," McCarthy said of her former instructor. "At the time I was like, 'Wow, you're so right,' but as I've experienced more, I just want to change that perspective for students. Just don't give them something to hate."
Paschal, 31, got a taste of the classroom when she taught life skills classes for Miracle Making Ministries in Augusta. Raised in Texas, Paschal earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in counseling from Abilene Christian University in her home state and later moved to Augusta.
She liked touching young people's lives, giving them confidence through education. Her goal for her first year of teaching is to inspire an interest in math in as many students as possible.
As Georgia Teaching Fellows, both women have completed an extensive screening process and
six-week training curriculum.
This year's cohort of new teachers is the GTF's second, and about 60 people have been inducted since the program began in Richmond County last year.
Eric Bland, GTF Augusta's program operations manager, said the fellowship recruits teachers to high-need schools and helps retain them at a time when keeping effective instructors is a problem across the state.
Teachers receive six weeks of training by working at Richmond County's summer school with veteran teachers and administrators.
The fellows who make it through the hiring process are placed in the school system as full-time teachers.
Once they secure positions, teachers receive five three-hour seminars and undergo evaluations and observations during their first year of work. Those identified as highly effective after their first year are eligible for certification, Bland said.
"We provide them with that first-year support traditional teachers don't get," Bland said.
Paschal and McCarthy spent last week getting their classrooms ready and preparing what they'd say to students on the first day.
McCarthy, a young spirit with a huge smile, said she wants her students to see her cheerfulness but not take advantage.
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Emma is back, and still eager to start a family. After trying every fertility treatment in the book, as well as following a slew of advice from her friends, family, and women's magazines, she and her husband have given up on conceiving naturally. They're now trying international adoption, which should, in theory, be more pleasant than the fertility shots and postcoital headstands of their baby-making days. However, with the rigorous screening process -- including a Russian class where they learn about their potential baby's culture alongside competitive adoptive-parents-to-be and über-critical case managers -- Emma finds herself once again in over her head. The pressure to prove that she and her husband are the perfect couple, and thus the perfect parents, drives him and all her friends crazy along the way. Hilarious and heartwarming, Emma's outrageous adventures are sure to charm mothers, mothers-to-be, and nearly everyone in between.
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Push to give Haya a third term as FEI president
Moves are afoot to engineer a third term for Princess Haya as president of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI).
Under current rules, the president must stand stand down after two four-year terms.
Haya is currently serving her second term.
Britain's Horse and Hound magazine has reported on its website that there are calls for a rule change to allow a third term.
It quotes an FEI spokesman as saying that regional group chairs had submitted "a formal unanimous request that the FEI statutes be modified so that the term of the president may include one additional four-year term".
Equestrian Sports New Zealand (ESNZ) chief executive Jim Ellis confirmed to Horsetalk that the issue of a third term had been aired.
"ESNZ is aware of the discussion held at the recent FEI Bureau meeting in Lausanne, which considered the potential of amending the statutes to allow for a third consecutive presidential term," he said.
"ESNZ will consider its position and that of the Oceania Equestrian Federation when more formal documentation is received prior to the FEI General Assembly in November."
Any proposed change allowing a third term would need to go to a vote before the General Assembly in Montreaux, Switzerland, in November. This would allow Haya to stand for re-election the following year.
Princess Haya, who is married to the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, became president in 2006.
Her first term was not without controversy, particularly over a highly contentious move to relax rules around the residues of certain drugs in horses. Many federations saw the push as a bid to abandon the zero-tolerance policy that had long been in place.
A somewhat embarrassed FEI ultimately abandoned the push and the FEI has since firmly entrenched its Clean Sport policy.
Haya saw off two European challengers to win a second term as president in November 2010.
The very fact she faced challengers to her re-election showed a significant depth of opposition, most of it centered on the key equestrian nations of Europe.
The princess held several trump cards, among them her standing in the Olympic movement.
Her membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is a not an automatic right that falls upon the FEI president. She is one of 15 presidents among 27 international Olympic sport federations elected to IOC membership by that group.
She has proved to be an effective advocate for equestrian sport at Olympic level.
Her connections extend well beyond the sporting sphere. Her international profile outshines those of pretty much any president of any international sporting body. Many nations value that profile.
She has been instrumental in obtaining high-value sponsorship deals for the FEI, including multimillion-dollar backing from the Saudi Equestrian Fund for the Nations Cup.
Sources suggests many nations have been impressed by Haya's performance this term, with improvements in the operation of the FEI and her strong advocacy at Olympic level.
Nations, in pondering whether to support a third term for the president in November, may also be wondering who would be a fitting successor for Haya should she stand down in 2014, as required under current rules.
All factors would suggest the tide may be flowing strongly in favour of a third presidential term.


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In the name of God. Amen. I Walter John Dyke Leading Seaman, R.N.R. of his Majesty's Ship "Cormorant" leut 1218 from H.M.S. President III being of sound mind, do hereby make this my last will and Testament: I give and bequeath unto my sister Adelaide Olford widow at present living at Salvage Bishops harbor Bonavista Bay Newfoundland all such wages, Prize Money, allowances, and other Sum or Sums of Money, as now are, or hereafter may be due to me for my service on board the said Ship, or any other Ship or Vessel, of the Royal Navy, together with all other my Estate and Effects. And I do hereby appoint the aforesaid Adelaide Oldford Executrix of this my last will and Testament; and hereby revoking all former wills by me made, I declare this to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have at Gibraltar on board H.M.S. Cormorant hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of October in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Nine Hundred and sixteen. Walter John Dyke. Signed by the said Testator, as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time, who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses. Witnesses, Jno C. Ratcliff Fleet Paymaster Basil Sanier Chief lisiter(?)
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San Mateo Creek, which runs through the Cleveland National Forest in Riverside County and Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, used to teem with steelhead trout and other native fish. But now one is more likely to spot a nonnative mosquito fish, largemouth bass or catfish in its waters.
Conservationists and biologists are trying to figure out where the exotic fish are coming from, and they have some suspects in mind: The man-made ponds on the growing number of estate home lots in the hills west of Murrieta.
Beth Principe, water quality coordinator and biologist for the Mission Resource Conservation District, a nonregulatory, grant-funded government agency based in Fallbrook, said the ponds on the 2,000-foot-high Santa Rosa Plateau tend to overflow and spill into drainages that eventually feed into San Mateo Creek during major rainstorms.
"They like to stock their ponds with nonnative fish species, like largemouth bass, green sunfish and bluegills," Principe said, in an interview Tuesday. "They love their catfish, too. Ponds also provide excellent habitat for other nonnative species such as bullfrogs and crayfish."
Principe said biologists and conservationists believe those nonnative fishes invade the stream after being swept into it from the ponds above. Once in the creek, they tend to take over, she said, eating eggs and tadpoles of native species.
As for the bullfrogs, they eat just about anything.
"They're just like moving garbage disposals," Principe said. "They'll feed on fish, frogs, turtles and birds. If they can catch it, they'll eat it."
Principe said the voracious appetite of the bullfrog and others is of grave concern because it could severely deplete or wipe out populations of three native species of fish, including the steelhead, the three-spine stickleback and the tidewater goby, which makes its home in the lagoon at the mouth of San Mateo Creek. Also of concern is the plight of the southwestern pond turtle, she said.
Because of that concern, officials have scheduled a workshop this weekend to emphasize the need for Santa Rosa Plateau landowners to take measures to prevent largemouth bass and mosquito fish from spilling into the creek from their private ponds. The workshop is set for 10 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday on the five-acre property of Gene Kakowski, a retired tool business owner.
Kakowski said he purchased the property seven years ago and put a three-quarter-acre pond on it five years back. He stocks it with largemouth bass, bluegill and catfish, and with mosquito fish to keep the mosquitoes down.
"I like to fish for largemouth bass," he said.
Kakowski said his pond overflowed once, during the record-setting winter of two years ago. He said he is more than willing to help the cause and plans to install a wire mesh on the pond's outflow pipe to prevent fish from spilling out the next time that happens.
"If we can save some of those steelhead for our future generations, that would be quite advantageous," he said.
Besides putting up wire mesh, Principe said the workshop will stress the importance of stocking with sterile fish "so that if they do get into the waterways they won't multiply like crazy, they'll just die off."
Principe said workshop organizers also will suggest keeping ponds out of natural drainage areas -- like Kakowski did -- and building berms around them to corral rain runoff.
George Sutherland, Southern Steelhead Project coordinator for the South Coast Chapter of Trout Unlimited, a national conservation organization, said conservationists and biologists plan to conduct surveys over the next several weeks to find out how many ponds are on the Santa Rosa Plateau and who owns them.
The workshop and survey is being funded through an $800,000 grant Trout Unlimited received several years ago to boost the steelhead's presence along the California coast. The steelhead is a rainbow trout that lives both in fresh and salt water, migrating upstream several times during their lifetimes to spawn.
In 2003, a chunk of the money was spent on a project that removed 32,000 nonnative fish, bullfrogs and crayfish from a two-mile stretch of the creek between Tenaja Falls and Fisherman's Camp in Southwest Riverside County, Sutherland said.
As recently as the 1940s, several hundred to 1,000 steelhead trout used to flourish in the San Mateo Creek, he said. But the fish's numbers have dwindled dramatically since the 1960s. Forty-three were found in 1999 and one in 2002. None have been found since, he said.
"At this point the population (in Southern California) is so low that it is almost considered extinct," Sutherland said.
Eventually, conservationists hope to rebuild the population through captive breeding and reintroduction in suitable streams, particularly San Mateo Creek. It is the only stream in Southern California that is entirely on public land and has no man-made barriers to fish movement, Sutherland said.
"That's what's unique about San Mateo," he said. "It's worth restoring."
For information about the workshop, contact Beth Principe at (760) 728-1332.
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Property mogul Roux Shabangu is negotiating for electricity to be reconnected to the Middestad building in Pretoria, which he owns, his spokesman said on Thursday.
"Roux Property Fund (RPF) has been working on getting the electricity reconnected since Monday," Percy Shabangu said in a statement.
He said they had offered to pay the municipality R500 000 every month towards the electricity bill, but the municipality rejected the offer.
The building had been without power since Monday as the owners owed the municipality more than R10 million. Water supply to the building was cut off on Tuesday afternoon.
"We have been negotiating on this offer, and it seems the municipality is not willing to assist in this regard. We are hoping they will reconsider our offer, hear our plea and acknowledge the frustration that this is causing not only to RPF, but to our tenants and their customers in turn."
The city of Tshwane disconnected the electricity due to non-payment of municipal rates, the Pretoria News reported on Thursday.
"Shabangu said they understood the frustration and financial implication caused to their tenants. We understand the frustration and the financial implications this situation has caused and assure them that we have their best interest at heart and therefore will not stop trying to rectify this matter."
The newspaper reported the building was at the centre of a legal battle between the department of public works and Shabangu. The city's high court was still expected to rule on whether the R500 million lease, which the SAPS signed for the building, should be declared null and void.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela declared the lease, signed between former police commissioner Bheki Cele and Shabangu, unlawful because proper tender procedures had not been followed.
Due to this disputed lease agreement the owners had apparently not been able to keep up with payments for municipal services.
Shabangu was said to have borrowed R248 million from Nedbank to purchase the Middestad building when the lease with Cele was agreed on. - Sapa


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While it's unsettling to think that unavoidable life events can cause emotional trauma and put you at risk for serious brain function loss, it's not a package deal. "Distress seems to be one of several risk factors," says study author Lena Johansson, PhD, of the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology at Gothenberg University. "Not everyone who had distress developed Alzheimer's disease."
Researchers suspect the link is a result of stress's effects on body processes known to cause cognitive damage, like degraded hippocampal function, boosted levels of inflammation-causing cytokines, and increased deposits of beta-amyloid and tau proteins, which make up the tangled plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.
While you can't control what goes on around you, you can make it a priority to care for yourself amid the chaos of the event. "It's how you process the trauma that matters," says Robert London, MD, a psychiatrist based in New York City.
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Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
(Random House)
US: Jun 2009
The method of Colum McCann's exciting, maddening new novel Let the Great World Spin is cinematic, like a great deal of modern fiction. The setting is New York, circa 1974, right in the midst of its slide into near-complete dysfunction. The language has a sharp-focus clarity and tendency toward the edit-montage, blocking scenes and downloading them into neatly snapped-off bits.
Here is the book's first of several narrators, Dublin-born Ciaran, laying out the landscape as he's being driven through the South Bronx by his younger brother Corrigan, who's come to the city on the latest stage of his saint-like progression toward self-abnegation and sacrifice:
Gangs of kids hung out on the street corners. Traffic lights were stuck on permanent red. At fire hydrants there were huge puddles of stagnant water. A building on Willis had half collapsed into the street. A couple of wild dogs picked their way through the ruin. A burned neon sign stood upright. Fire trucks went by, and a couple of cop cars trailed each other for comfort. Every now and then a figure emerged from the shadows, homeless men pushing shopping trolleys piled high with copper wire. They looked like men a westward-ho, shoving their wagons across the nightlands of America.
McCann's language has a screenplay-ready verve to it, though still sliding in the type of novelistic inflection that would be lost on a multiplex screen ("a couple of cop cars trailed each other for comfort"). This is the end days, the nightmare vision of fetid American chaos as perceived by an Irishman who had come across the pond only after being near-killed in an IRA bombing, a differently-rendered version of the same post-hippie and pre-millennial anarchy scratching at the fabric of New York.
Ciaran drops uncomfortably into his brother's life, baffled by Corrigan's atavistic determination to live as a monk-like figure of refuge and comfort amid a gaggle of Bronx prostitutes (he has a loose affiliation with a monastic order, but seems clearly intent on a more personal, and darker journey). Ciaran doesn't know much about what he himself wants to do, except that he doesn't want to follow his countrymen's well-trod pathways: "There were ads in the circulars for bartenders and waiters, but I didn't want to go that way, all flat hats and micks in shirtsleeves." He ends up tending bar in Queens, "one of the shamrock bars I hated", his resorting to cliché highlighted all the more by the stranger route that Corrigan follows.
In the brash and shouting working girls who come and go from Corrigan's unlocked apartment (he insists to Ciaran that they simply need a place of refuge, no matter how much their pimps abuse him for interfering), McCann finds his gallery of characters that will link readers to the rest of the novel to follow. But while these women (particularly a wounded mother-daughter team) provide much of the dramatic muscle for the tragedy and happenstance that is to come (a traffic death, court proceedings, orphans, and loss), McCann isn't able to find as strong a voice for them. At least a partial reason for that seems to be that McCann simply couldn't locate as gut-level a connection with them as he did with his Irish characters, or Claire Soderberg, the wealthy judge's wife who dominates the book's later chapters. But the reason could also be that they simply got lost amidst the book's continual shifting of perspective and setting.
In contrast to McCann's bright and occasionally showoffy language ("It was the type of hospital that looked like it needed a hospital") the story is a vaguer and more amorphous thing, brought together really only by its characters' need to connect to something, anything, in this big dirty angry gorgeous city. That, and the novel's central linking device, that of Philippe Petit famously walking his playfully suicidal tightrope between the World Trade Center towers. Everybody either sees Petit walking, or hears about it, or is connected to somebody who hears about it—at a couple points we even hear from Petit himself. As devices go, it's not the strongest, but that matters less and less by the time one is done with it.
Just like those films of happenstance and six-degrees linkages which have periodically been the rage, Let the Great World Spin is really a grouping of individually powerful stories looking for any excuse to fit themselves together. Unlike those films, however, McCann doesn't force together the joints and linkages of his interlinked pieces with undue force, letting them knock into each other with a less-visible guiding hand.
That said, the first transition is a jarring one, taking us from the first 70-odd pages of Corrigan and Ciaran's fraternal and spiritual battling (by far the best rendered segment of the novel) to Claire's Park Avenue apartment, where she anxiously awaits the arrival of the rest of her support group for mothers who lost sons in Vietnam. The downshift into Claire's cloistered and reticent manner is a tonally brutal one, and one that the novel never quite recovers from, regardless of all the melodrama that is to follow.
For all McCann's novel's hard talk and traveling in the deepest, grungiest circles of falling-down modern American urbanity, a vividly pulsating streak of sentimentality runs all the way through the novel, ultimately keeping it from true greatness. The representations of his women tend particularly toward cliché, being mostly wounded sufferers, good girls and whores alike.
There is heart to spare in this finely written book, and energy to burn, even though by the end McCann's construction seems as delicately balanced as Petit himself, hanging in a stiff wind 110 stories up, knowing it all looks quite impressive from the ground but maybe not entirely sure how it's going to pan out.
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Supercars seized by police in crackdown on millionaire boy racers
Police seized several supercars in a major crackdown on millionaire boy racers who have turned London's poshest district into a "race track".
The rare vehicles were stopped by the Metropolitan Police in Knightsbridge, where a number of Middle Eastern playboys have descended with their customised cars.
A £225,000 Bentley Mulsanne was towed away by police with the driver fined for having no insurance.
Police arrested the driver of a black Ferrari F430 on UK plates for allegedly driving while disqualified, releasing him on police bail until the end of the month.
A further four fixed penalty notices were handed out during the operation on Monday night for incorrect number plates and for wrong entry up a one way street.
One driver was warned about the illegal tints on his windows which he later removed.
Among the cars stopped by police was an outrageous pink Bentley, which had incorrect plates.
The car was recently ridiculed by pop star George Michael who described it as "a revolting thing driven by a man that's not me".
A number of the wealthy motorists, who are using London as their base for the summer, have now left the capital and were today spotted driving around Paris before heading to Cannes.
The whole police operation episode was witnessed by Londoner Chris Darch.
He said: "It's sad to see that wealthy people can afford these cars but don't all seem to abide by the laws of the road.
"It's great to see cars like the pink Bentley in London though – they helped brighten up what was otherwise a rather miserable evening.
"It was quite funny watching the police officer try to drive the Ferrari onto the low-loader – he didn't look like he was an experienced supercar driver."
Sector Inspector Sean Flynn of Kensington and Chelsea police said: "This is the second operation we have run this year to tackle the communities concerns and the results speak for themselves.
"People driving high powered cars around the borough without current drivers licences, registration or insurance need to understand this is not acceptable and our visible presence at these stop checks serve as a reminder that this is the case."
Residents in Knightsbridge praised the Police for their crackdown on the playboys.
Business consultant Panda Morgan Thomas, who lives in Sloane Street, said: "We welcome visitors from all over the world but we ask that they respect our culture.
"Being kept awake by supercars racing at 3am in the morning is no fun – nor are music-blaring pedicabs which are unlicensed and not insured.
"We are grateful to the local police who are making a tremendous effort to deal with these problems."
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Big cars small DXCKS what losers ! spending daddys money !
Crush the cars by driving a tank over them.
Then charge the owners for the fuel the tank has to use.
Fair play to these young men if they have the money and means to own such nice cars. But come on Chaps, just spend a few minutes and get your paperwork in Order. You should know by now the UK is a social run state fired with hatred that envy s anyone with money or success and by doing this you are asking for trouble!
Some stunning Cars, I will try and work harder to maybe own one some day 🙂


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Maroussi, an Athens suburb about half an hour by car northeast of the capital, could be on a different planet than the city proper. Protesters and strikers in the thousands have laid siege to central Athens since late May. The area around Syntagma Square, facing the Parliament building, has become round-the-clock chaos as the anti-austerity demonstrations turn unruly and the tear gas canisters fly.
Maroussi is quiet, even though it's prone to the same relentless traffic as Athens. It has pretty residential streets and gleaming offices that house Greece's financial services players and the subsidiaries of multinational corporations. It is where business gets done, taxes get paid and windows don't get smashed.
It is also the home of Greece's vibrant little tech industry, an industry that holds out great potential for the country if it can make it through the debt crisis without economic collapse. On Wednesday, the government won a crucial vote to approve a €28-billion ($40-billion) austerity program, the minimum requirement for fresh bailout loans from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. But Greece could still default. If it does, the tech industry could vanish with it.
One modest Maroussi building is devoted to the Hellenic Technology Clusters Initiative, known as Corallia. Vassilios Makios, an electrical engineer and former Carleton University professor who is Corallia's general director, calls his organization "a small, Greek Silicon Valley."
Corallia is a technology cluster that brings together concepts and companies of all shapes and sizes, academia, research labs, sponsors, venture capitalists and funding from the Greek state and the European Commission. All these elements are blended together and thrown into the creativity oven.
The goal is to launch "Made in Greece" technologies that will nudge the uncompetitive country away from its traditional role as a cheap labour service society devoted to sun worshippers. "I believe in the brainpower of young people," Mr. Makios says. "They can be the tools to change Greece."
The Corallia cluster has about 80 companies at various stages of development. Many are devoted to mobile technologies and applications - Greece was a telecommunications pioneer in the 1970s. Others focus on agricultural biotechnology, space technology for European Space Agency projects and construction materials designed to save energy.
One company, Brite Solar, makes transparent photovoltaic panels that can take the shape of windows, turning a house or an office tower into an electricity generator in disguise. ByteMobile is already a global leader in the delivery of wireless data to mobile handsets. Epos designs surveillance and jamming systems for military communications. Micrel Medical makes advanced infusion pumps for pain control. Tropical makes portable fuel cell generators.
Of course, many, perhaps most, of the companies in the Corallia cluster won't make it. They will collapse as funding runs dry, they get bought out or simply muddle along. But a few will find international commercial success. The same could be said about technology clusters anywhere on the planet. What's different about Corallia is that its innovators and companies have to take on country risk as well as all the other usual risks.
Tensions are high in Maroussi and the other bits of Greece that remain productive. In spite of the approval of the austerity budget, which will pave the way for fresh bailout loans, they are under no illusion that Greece can avoid eventual default as its debt load rises relentlessly to a forecast 160 per cent of gross domestic product.
You would think that Greek businesses everywhere, from technology companies to ferry operators, would want to ditch the euro, embrace the old drachma and devalue their way to prosperity instead of facing a decade of punishing austerity programs and high unemployment.
Some do; a devalued currency could boost exports. Most do not, for they fear that abandoning the euro would propel Greece from recession to outright depression. The drachma probably would lose 50 to 80 per cent of its value against the euro, with an attendant rise in the value of the country's euro-denominated debt. Inflation rates would soar and Greek banks would go bust. No one would extend loans to the Greek government or businesses.
The euro may be a faulty institution, but it is the one institution that has the potential to spare Greece from economic oblivion. Keeping the euro would force industries to become competitive; devaluation is the lazy way out. Greece has defaulted at least five times since independence in 1829 and endlessly devalued its currency. Still, the country has been in a state of near-perpetual economic hardship since then.
In Maroussi, the spectre of default and economic collapse is taken seriously. So is the view that Greece needs a new start and that the crisis brings the potential for desperately needed reforms. "We have to redevelop this country and end the explosion of nonsense. Innovation is the tool," Mr. Makios says.


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Any hope the Senators have at making the playoffs will likely rest on the shoulders of Craig Anderson.
And those shoulders, like the team's post-season chances, are currently in pretty rough shape.
Anderson was shaken up after being hit by hard shots on each of them in Saturday's win over Winnipeg. Two nights later, in the first period of a game against Nashville, he lay flat on the ice after taking a Shea Weber blast on his left shoulder. Enough was enough in the third, when he skated to the dressing room after being bumped by teammate Milan Michalek.
While many observers thought he had suffered a head injury, coach Paul MacLean later said no, it was a "stinger," on his shoulder.
Of course.
After a team practice Tuesday that did not include Anderson, MacLean expressed belief that his No. 1 goalie will be good to go when the Senators visit the Habs Saturday. Perhaps part of it was wishful thinking. MacLean knows that Anderson, when hot, can win games for his team.
And the Senators are presently in need of the hottest goaltending they've had this season.
Should Anderson miss time with his sore shoulders, all is not lost, however. Robin Lehner has proven in the past he can shine with a season on the line.
Three springs ago, Lehner had a 14-4-3 record with a .939 save percentage and 2.10 goals against average to lead the Binghamton Senators to a Calder Cup championship.
In a number of those games, he was the sole reason the team won.
"I don't have a problem with pressure," Lehner said earlier this week. "That's fine. I'm just trying to learn more and more about this league every day, and try and get more and more comfortable. That's all I can do."
In this, his first full season as Anderson's backup, Lehner has had his ups and downs. He started strongly and won the NHL's player of the week award with three wins (during which he allowed four goals) in November. But after allowing five goals in each of his last two December starts, he's been used only six times since the 2014 calendars came out.
Lack of playing time seems to have affected his consistency.
"As I've said before, I'm working every day constantly on my game with the goalie coach," said Lehner. "It's a new situation for me. The last few years I've been used to playing "¦ it's a new setup for me and I'm trying to work my way in.
"Lately, my own belief, I haven't been consistent enough. I was disappointed with myself coming back from the break, against Detroit (a 6-1 loss). You just go back and try to work on it "¦ we're working as a team. It starts with our team "¦ then our jobs as goalies is to make up for mistakes."
Lehner played well when he came on in relief of Anderson Monday. In just under 20 minutes of action that included overtime, he stopped 12 of 13 shots. The only one to beat him was the game winner, and a split second before that he stoned Ryan Ellis on a breakaway. He just didn't know where the rebound went.
"It was a huge point, and we'll see if we can make that point count," Lehner said of the fact the Senators scored three unanswered goals after he entered the game to force the extra session. "We know every game right now is do or die. I just think the way we played the third, we've got to understand that's how we've got to play the full games from now on.
"We've got to have the urgency like we're down 3-0 from the start of the game."
Therein lays the Senators problem - putting together a strong effort from start to finish, from game to game. Some nights they look like they have what it takes to go on a run that will get them into the playoffs. Other nights, they resemble a squad that could go 0-for-17 the rest of the way. Even with great goaltending.
"It's frustrating, we show at times we're a really, really good team, and we show at times we're lacking a lot in a few things," said Lehner. "That's the frustrating part, because we know we can do it. But that's part of the process too I think.
"We've got to have a good run here to try to make something of the season. Now it's a race. We kind of fell a little bit behind, but it's still not impossible. We've got to keep the faith up and work really hard to try and stay with it."
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