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Green Philosophy. Roger Scruton. A Critical Left Review 07.07.12
"Enforced destruction. Old industries have to be harshly eliminated. New markets have to be forcibly claimed. Old markets have to be re-exploited. Destroy the past, make the future." Cosmopolis. Don DeLillo. 2003. Andrew Coates reviews Roger Scruton's Green Philosophy. Roger Scruton. How to Think Seriously about the Planet.
The Big Society is "waffle". Dr Rowan Williams, a specialist in what Roger Scruton has called a branch of learning "surrounded with fictitious scholarship", and "secured against disproof", speaks with authority. (Page 170 The Uses of Pessimism. 2010)
Should we dismiss the Conservative thinker's latest book in the same vein? To the casual reader Green Philosophy bears the hallmarks of David Cameron's Big Idea. Scruton extols the virtues of "oikophilia"(love of home) as a way of thinking about ecology. "I defend local initiatives, against global schemes, civil association against political activism, and small-scale institutions of friendship against large-scale and purpose-driven campaigns."(Page 3) He is rooted in "conservative ideas about the 'respect for the dead, the little platoons' and the voice of tradition" (Page 215).
Those "subdivisions", by which "we proceed towards a love of our country", as Edmund Burke put it, were summoned by David Cameron to help out with reduced public services. Their success has not been widely noted. Could they deal better with global ecological crises, with climate change, with the degradation of environment, population growth, species extinction, with over-exploitation or natural resources? Lacking Scruton's sense of "piety, humility, morality" (Debate with Dawkins and Hitchens 2009) we might be inclined to describe the conservative philosopher's writing as, following the Archbishop, more flannel.
But that said, Green Philosophy goes to the root of many issues. As Jonathan Reé says, "if you think Scruton can be dismissed as a churlish little-Englander you're in for a big surprise." "Read his books without prejudice (against Scruton's own view that such pre-judging can contain the sediment of good sense – A.C) and you will find him lucid and informative, companionable, learned and urbane." (Guardian 28.12.11).
The owner of a Wiltshire farm may always tend to divide the sheep from the goats. The long war against the left, those who "'struggle' with the hierarchies and structures", is not over. Yet he expands his camp by the observation that "environmental problems are problems of morality not economics"(Page 85). That they are grounded in universal human desires, "the existential condition and self-identity of the subject"(Page 185) And that, "love of the oikos, which means not only the home by the people contained in it, and the surrounding settlements that endow that home with lasting contours and an enduring smile. The oikos is the place that is not just mine and yours but ours."(Page 227) The former Professor of Aesthetics talks, rightly in our view, of the "Centrality of beauty to home-building and therefore to establishing a shared environment. "(Page 263) He offers a hand of companionship from the right to the left "The real evil against which both sides should be united is the habit of treating the earth as a thing to be used but not revered. Instead they are fighting over competing claims to use it."(Page 81)
Green Philosophy is published in a very particular environment. Green politics are in a set of multiple dilemmas. The values of decentralisation, community, diversity, promoting the "health of the biosphere" and "human well-being" have not been easy to translate into practice. A critique of "productivism, consumerism and statism" sits ill with a major economic downturn. Capitalist creative destruction looks anything but a welcoming home. A past is being destroyed with no secure future in sight. With Europe in turmoil, public services slashed to pieces, mass unemployment, and rising poverty, attacks on over-consumption have limited attraction. But if anybody doubts the reality of continuing ecological degradation then they only have to look at the dying marine life of the North Sea, planetary deforestation, or the building over of the South of England.
A Right Left Alliance?
Roger Scruton has often, very often, told the story of how he came to dislike the left. His life was marked by Paris 1968. When his "contemporaries were manning barricades, smashing care and shops, assaulting policemen, and dressing in the obligatory denim uniforms of the new proletariat on the march" (Page 55 The Uses of Pessimism). The young Scruton, Wikipedia cites, was "was disgusted by it, and thought there must be a way back to the defence of western civilization against these things. That's when I became a conservative. I knew I wanted to conserve things rather than pull them down." Ever since he has tried to explain the left's "failure of reason", in terms of a "deep mental aberration" "the utopian fallacy." As Editor of the Salisbury Review, he opposed "the peace movement, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, egalitarianism, feminism, foreign aid, multiculturalism, and modernism."
Yet now Scruton calls for a common front of left and right against consumerism. This would be an "alliance on behalf of the environment that would also heal the rift in our civilisation" (Page 247). If that appears a bold move, there are, he argues, deeper alignments. Scruton has time not just for left-wing 'patriots', such as George Orwell, or Richard Jeffries, who could perhaps be enrolled into with Burke's squads but for Anarchists like Kropotkin and Colin Ward. He praises this tradition's "small-scale initiatives, outside the purview of the state, in which 'mutual aid' takes the place of legislative edicts, to bring about goals that are both environmentally friendly and in conformity with social justice. "(Pages 79 – 80) These no doubt can be "situated constrained by place, time and community, by custom, faith and law."(Page 18. The Uses of Pessimism).
Markets and the Environment.
Roger Scruton is best known for his jeremiads. We now inhabit a world in which people find themselves "in the midst of a culture of widespread desecration, in which human relations are voided of the old religious virtues…"(Page 135. A Political Philosophy 2006). He has continually gnawed at the predictions of Enoch Powell that immigration has brought into Europe people whose loyalties are to their religious identity and not to the country of settlement. In the West meanwhile a society based on membership of a faith, has been replaced by territorial allegiance. And, "Democracies owe their existence to national loyalties – the loyalties that are supposedly shared by government and opposition, by all political parties and by the electorate." (Page 1 A Political Philosophy) Green Philosophy is deals with this, the "love of the English people for the place that is theirs, for the landscape, the way of life and the institutions that hallowed it, has been the greatest single cause of environmental stewardship whereby an overcrowded island has been maintained as a viable habitat for its population."(Page 249) We might ask how those who retain their primary bonds to a transcendental doctrine can transfer their support to a nation. But it is surely easier to imagine everybody as a potential lover of the countryside.
Patriotism is not enough. Scruton has vigorously defended market economies. He is not an absolutist believer in individualism, the strand of thought associated with Ayn Rand, but in "an easygoing belief in choice as the precondition of a free society."(Page 13) "Markets are homeostatic systems; so too are traditions, customs and the common law; so too are families, and the 'civil associations that make up the stuff of a free society."(Page 11) With some bravado he asserts that there is no "tension between a defence of the free market and a traditionalist vision of social order. For they have put their faith in the spontaneous limits placed on the market by the moral consensus of the community"(Page 127). This of course flies in the face of all known evidence, as shelves of books bewailing the harmful effects of the free circulation of people (Scruton passim) and the universal access to pornography (Scruton passim) and the manufacture of kitsch (Scruton passim) illustrate.
The major causes of pollution and over-exploitation of resources lie in the "tragedy of the commons", where nobody has ownership, or overweening bureaucrats dictating the slightest detail of the economy and society according to a 'plan'. The Soviet utopia outlined in Red Plenty (2010) of state provided abundance for all, failed at the expense of catastrophic natural destruction and depletion of resources. Any modern green policy of social ownership, however participative and decentralised, will not work. As Scruton has laid down as a golden rule, "Abolish the market economy, however, and the normal result is enterprises that are just as large and just as destructive but which, because they are in the hands of the State, are usually answerable to no sovereign power that can limit their predations."(Page 33. A Political Philosophy 2006)
But private ownership has its problems. In reality, Scruton remarks, market equilibrium and ecological equilibrium are not automatically in balance. Companies can externalise costs and make the state and the public pay. As a remedy he talks of how we need to make "homeostatic systems" by restoring order, law of tort for example, which are severed by the state. Put simply this would mean polluters paying. Clean energy needs government funding, though he accepts nuclear energy, a "temporary solution" within this bundle of resources. Above all we need to be "stewards" of our common home.
Caroline Lucas, Britain's leading Green Party politician has observed that Scruton is unable to say, "how much state action is too much" (Indpendent 13.1.12.). If companies have to pay for ecological damage, and we are "stewards" of our the environment, then other aspects of the way they affect the environment can also be decided by the public power, as he advocates in his campaign to ban plastic.
But in other respects he abhors using the law to regulate conflict. Better to let a gamekeeper, intimately linked to the fields and woods, take charge of managing an estate and its wildlife than left a state agency decide on what he should do. But this cannot be extended too far. It is unlikely that Scruton considers that corporations and smaller businesses will automatically "internalise" environmental costs and adopt his style of oikophilia. His relentless Europhobia casts doubt on European Union regulation, which would appear to most people to be the most rational place to begin within our geographical context. But there is plenty of space for 'interference' with the natural liberty of the market.
La Terre, les Morts et la Beauté.
Green Philosophy cites Edmund Burke's description of society as, "an association of the dead, the living and the unborn.."(Page 215) The "attachment to home and country as presupposed by any free political order" is built on the contracts between generations, as an "entailed inheritance" (Burke). This sentiment of being rooted of Heimatlichkeit gives a sense to who "'we' are, why 'we' are acting in this way or that, why; we have behaved rightly in one respect, wrongly in another…"(Page 239) There is no state in which we are 'born free' of this primal sticky material that seeps into our inner being. Patriotic support for a territorial nation state weaves together Self and a larger creation. This is not only sumptuous reality; it is shapes a "we' that can show care for others without submerging the individual into the collective. Nationality "is the only form of membership that has shown itself able to sustain a democratic process and a liberal rule of law."(Page 240) This is, he asserts, the only desirable glue that keeps together a "society of strangers"
What are the alternatives? Scruton may well be justified in his hostility to a political culture based on an exclusive form of religious 'law' which tires to force society onto the Procrustean bed of, for example, the Sharia, based on the (unknowable) mind of god. The Islamist "advocacy of brotherhood (Ikhwan) as the true alternative to nationality and the nation-state" looks decidedly threadbare in the light of inter-Moslem fighting Page 213) Equally a reversion to an (imagined) primitive undifferentiated 'tribal' 'hunter-gatherer' state of stifling collectivity, where the 'I' of the leaders rules is not appealing either – though the 'history' supporting this in The Uses of Pessimism is uncertain.
Both observations appear to echo the words of Boris Pasternak in Doctor Zhivago, (1958). His character Sima says that the modern world, (he dates this to the advent of Christianity) is about "personality and freedom". What, then, is the place for the "duty, imposed by armed force, to live unanimously as people, as a whole nation.."? That, "If all this rhetoric about leaders and peoples had the power to reverse history, it would set us back thousands of years to the Biblical times of Shepherd tribes and patriarchs." But out of what building blocks is the modern nation made? This suggests an anti-communal basis for modernity, that something at the heart of its religious inheritance saps way at the communitarian ethics that Scruton believes faith provides substance for. Could the development of individuality and liberty, and the global circulation of peoples and cultures, not also undermine the fundamental cohesion of the Nation?
The City a "community of neighbours" working by "consensus", if it is a condition of nation states is not identical with it. Urban life, both its first forms in Ancient Mesopotamia and in the tiny republics that sprang up at the end of late Antiquity, precedes them. These places of strangers can function, has historically functioned, without profound sense of belonging to a larger Home. Its population may not even have the time to contemplate the, no doubt warm, feelings of care and affection for the Land that Scruton acquaints us with. References to Hölderlin's poetry (Die Heimat) and Heidegger's reflections on the unfolding of the "constellation of Being" in the modern world may well be moving. But they also remind us rather that most people have little inkling of how their communion with their ancestors and the future unborn. Growing up in North London I had little idea that I was walking in the steps of my forefathers, and not even because most of my Borough was built in the early 20th century. The turmoil of the City has proved hostile to the worship of graves and sacred sites, except as artificial grafts promoted by romantics, nationalists or metropolitan nature enthusiasts. This kind of 'attachment' if fragile at best, even if stridently affirmed. Indeed Scruton would no doubt be one of the first to point to the fragile connection between the ideology and politics of the urban 'Bobos' (bourgeois-bohemians) who make up a good part of the Green electorate and the 'real' land.
Nations, adept as they are in manufacturing an identity, do not then monopolise it. They exist alongside other divisions. National and internationally aligned clashes between classes, or between masses and states, based on a different and opposing set of loyalties to the heritage of the particular clan of the Dead that Scruton evokes. We might talk of another tale, of those E.P.Thompson spoke of, "the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the 'obsolete hand-loom weaver, the 'utopian artisan. And even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcoot" (The Making of the English Working Class 1968) Would they have been 'at home' in the "Classical and Gothic building (which) speak of another age, in which faith, honour and authority stood proudly and without self-mockery in the street"? (Page 147. The Uses of Pessimism)
A large and growing percentage of the world's population are migrants, "nomads" in Toni Negri and Michael Hardt's term (Empire 2000) This might be, to Burke, the "swinish multitude", but to these authors they form a radical new political agent, a "real productive force" made up of diverse exploited and oppressed people, resistant to the "caging of capital and states." They write of, "The multitude's resistance to bondage the struggle against the slavery of belonging to a nation, an identity, and a people and thus the desertion from sovereignty, and the limits it places on subjectivity – as entirely positive. Nomadism and miscegenation appear here as figures of virtue, as the first ethical practices on the terrain of Empire." (Page 362 Empire) If this figure has any 'home' it is a constructed, not inherited, one. If it has any ecological interest it is universal, in the common human conditions of the planet.
Migration is unlikely to be reversed. But that does not stop people trying. Europe has experienced a terrific wave of xenophobia, with far right parties becoming major political players in countries like France, Holland, Austria, Denmark, Hungary, and elsewhere. Global culture is an incoming tide bringing in its wake further diversity and fragmentation. People have been able to insulate themselves inside their identities, and physically separate themselves through new patterns of urban dwelling on ethic lines. Both multicultural and republican-egalitarian nation states have indeed faced enormous problems with both this intolerance and the rise of anti-democratic forces amongst a minority of migrants, the movements collectively known as Islamism. These are unlikely, however, to be solved by hauling up the drawbridge and praying to the shrines of noble ancestors.
Here Scruton makes a hard to sustain distinction between "cosmopolitanism" and "internationalism". In a lengthy passage he states that "Cosmopolitans are at home in any city; they appreciate human life in all its peaceful forms, and are emotionally ain touch with the customs, languages and cultures of many different people. They are patriots of one country, but nationalists of many. Internationalists, by contrast, wish to break down the distinctions between people; they do not feel at home in a city since they are aliens in all. (Page 321 – 2) Those breaking down distinctions for commercial ends are clearly guilty of using people as "things". But are cosmopolitans, on this account, any better? Scruton talks as if, in the approximate words of D.H. Lawrence (The Plumed Serpent), only the cultured people at the "tops of the trees" can mix as equals, while the branches and roots remain national.
It could also be the language of a member of UKIP. A typical member of that party proclaims love of the peoples, cultures and languages of Europe, while spouting visceral hostility to the only actually existing cosmopolitan political institution on the continent, the European Union.
And so it proves. The EU has been taken over by "internationalists", "who have no affection whatsoever for the identities on which it had been built."(Page 322) "Eurocrats" are the enemy of the peoples. They are the source of "regulations that cannot be corrected."(Page 316) Griping about Brussels has always been a sign of political impotence. UKIP is the British wing of the xenophobia already described. It faces the simple fact that. as with global culture, global governance is unlikely to melt way.
Perhaps something stronger than nationality, or this simulacrum of 'cosmopolitanism', can hold us together, in the first instance in a common stand towards the environment. In the most interesting of all Scruton's works he discussed Beauty, a common feeling that can be rationally discussed and evaluated. "Since the Enlightenment, aesthetic taste and natural piety have stood vigil over our surroundings, and held back the hand that was raised to destroy them. In recent times the beautiful has been exalted above the sacred. But we should bear in mind, that for thinkers like Burke, Kant, Rousseau, Schiller amend Wordsworth, the beautiful and the sacred were connected, to be rescued together from the human urge to exploit and destroy."(Page 253 Beauty. 2009) Green Philosophy glows when it comes to this. Scruton is a keen admirer of the 'transcendental' and makes no secret of his deep religious belief. A few years go and he defined religious observance as a pillar of a moral community. But he is prepared to say that adherence to these values may lead to an attempt to "reconsecrate the earth without the help of any god,"(Page 290) Moreover, "The mastery over nature, its conversion into a safe and common home for our species, and the desire to protect the dwindling wilderness, all fed into the impulse to see the natural world as an object of contemplation, rather than as a means to our goals."(Page 61) This is an ideal that can be truly shared.
Conclusion: Green Politics and the Common Future
Roger Scruton defines conservatism as the maintenance of the social ecology. This claim is doubly contestable on the grounds of inherited experience. No Conservative government (or the present Coalition) has protected intact the social organism from the ravages of capitalist destruction, and no Tory politician has ever embraced green causes without ending up making compromises with anti-environment forces. Zak Goldsmith, MP for Richmond, claimed to embody both strands. His record speaks for itself.
But what of the pure Green parties? In Germany, the country where a formal Green party has enjoyed influence and – coalition tempered – power, Die Grünen, appears to have become a socially liberal centrist party based on the "eco-middle class". The country has not become the ecological wonder of Europe. In coalition with the Social Democrats they backed a draconian reduction in unemployment benefits and the introduction of Workfare. At present they are havering over new collation partners, including the Christian Democrats, with whom they have worked in local government (Hamburg). The French Greens, the EELV, who in Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault's Government, owe their electoral success entirely to an agreement with the President Hollande's Parti Socialiste. They risk being sidelined as standard-bearers for causes such as opposition to Nuclear power, and opponents high-speed train links. Whatever effect they have had and whatever electoral support they have gained in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the direction of Green parties is now in question. Exactly what constituency do they intend to represent? Perhaps it is not surprising that "Post-materialist" politics (free-ranging protests) have recently made headway in another direction, with the rise of free speech "Pirate parties".v
By contrast politics based on the "overarching vision" of "liberty, equality and fraternity", infused with either moderate democratic socialism or its more radical variety, has reappeared on the European scene. In France the 'hard' left of Jean-Luc Mélenchon gained 11% of the vote in the Presidential elections, and in Greece, the non-dogmatic Marxist Syriza came close to winning the last elections. Both these political forces have tried to meld socialism and ecology. Both appeal to the 'internationalist' principles of…liberty, equality and fraternity. In the conditions we have outlined, they appear better placed to capture universal aspirations and give them a home, one more welcoming than a nationalist one. Illuminated perhaps, by the appreciation of beauty, they would not just 'reflect' class interests, but 'express' a passion for change. The care of the environment that Green Philosophy places within the term "oikophilia" could be extended outwards not inwards. We suspect that, faced with a rewed threat from this kind of left, Scruton will turn again, and move inwards not outwards.
This article first appeared on Andrew Coates blog, Tendance Coatesy and is reprublished with his kind agreement
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Painted Canadian maple syrup buckets have become so popular that manufacturers are producing new ones in a similar style. Whether you have rusted and worn vintage buckets or newer reproductions, consider displaying them on the wall like three-dimensional art.
- If you want the bucket to hug the wall, simply slip the hole in the rim over a nail. To let the buckets hang forward slightly, thread picture-hanging wire through the hole and twist it into a loop, then hang the loop over a picture hanger.
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Hopped On The High Seas - Kohatu - Cigar City Brewing
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4.5/5 rDev +17.5%
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6 pack of cans from Proof. Pours a orangey amber with decent off white head, good lacing, and a medium collar with wisps of head remaining until the end. Aroma is a great blend of the citrusy hops and caramely malt sweetness. I also get some some sweet grass and faint spice in the nose. Spice comes out a bit more in the taste, but at the end. Up front I get some stone type fruit and citrus, with the malt just behind it. The sweet grass is also really noticeable in the taste. I like the spice linger on the tongue, the hop bitterness is also nice. Body is on the thin side of medium, and the carbonation is fairly low.
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Poured into fluted snifter; mostly clear golden orange with a rocky white head that fades quickly into a dense puck of foam with tapered edges, spotty lacing on the glass as the foam pulls away.
Smells great; passionfruit, floral, other tropical, pine, fresh grass, citrus rind.
Taste is an interesting take on the usual tropical IPA. It's very citrus forward, with fresh lime coming to mind amid fresh cut grass and earth, citrus rind and pine, and lighter tropical fruit.
Mouthfeel is smooth, well-carbonated and crisp. Dry bitter finish.
Overall, another entry in the Hopped on the High Seas series that I've enjoyed. I love these exotic hops, and look forward to finding the others. Think I'm only missing Ahtanum now...as long as you don't believe the various duplicate entries for these beers.
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Medium amber with a large, irregular, frothy white head.
Hopped up and moderately bitter but not harsh.
Complex fruity taste with citrus and other tropical fruits. This slowly reduces to bitter grapefruit peel in the aftertaste. Grassy, herbal, and floral notes.
Feel: Medium body and carbonation.
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Cigar City Brewing - Hopped on the High Seas dry-hooped with Kohatu
12 oz. can, dated "2/20/14" on the bottom
Appearance: Clear yellow-gold body. Fluffy two-finger head of bright-white. Excellent head retention and very good lacing.
Aroma: My first impression was that of a janitor's closet! It's minty and sweetish with a hint of lemony citrus. Some mild malt and some other fruity notes makes their way through if you look hard enough, but the minty hops really take over (for me at least).
Flavor: As in the aroma, the hops seem to be the point of this beer, and that's OK, it's a noble experiment. You get to really know what these hops are like (I've never even heard of them); and as such the malt is just a base for the experiment (straightforward, mildly grainy). I guess that's where the designation "Caribbean-style IPA" comes from. So, again, it's minty, and just subtly piney with background notes of lemon and perhaps other citrus, as well as some pear or melon. It's bitter as would be appropriate for an IPA, and it finishes dry and hoppy but it's not particularly lingering.
Mouthfeel: Crisp. Medium bodied.
Overall: An interesting beer. I enjoyed learning about the characteristics of the Kohatu hops, and it's well-made, and surprisingly balanced, but it's not a beer that I'd particularly return to. Still, I think I've got to rate it pretty well based on it's technical merits and not any hedonistic preferences of my own.
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12 oz. can poured into a snifter.
Appearance - Bright orange. Kinda hazy. Medium white head that settles to a thick collar and some surface wisps. Sticky lacing inside.
Smell - Floral and tropical. Kinda soapy, too. Bit of grassiness to it. Doughy malts.
Taste - Much soapier. Pine hops. More citrus than tropical fruit. Cracker malt and some strong bitterness, like the other versions.
Mouthfeel - Bitterness feels more intense on this one. Medium carbonation.
Overall - Definitely smells better than it tastes, but I'm still enjoying every version of this series.
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Bobby Womack and Little Jimmy Scott
Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) July 02, 2014
The Rhythm & Blues Foundation wishes to express its sorrow over the loss of two of its Pioneer Award winners, Bobby Womack and Little Jimmy Scott. Both artists represented the genre of Rhythm and Blues music at the highest level, and will forever be remembered for their outstanding vocal recordings which were truly one of a kind.
Damon Williams, Chairman of the R&B Foundation stated: "Bobby Womack and Little Jimmy Scott represent what's great about the Rhythm and Blues Foundation Pioneer Award. These were two incredibly talented men who worked their tails off and paid their dues so that contemporary artists after them could learn and benefit from their works. We are saddened by the loss of two of our Pioneer Award winners, but encouraged that their memory and legacy will live on forever."
Bobby Womack was a recipient of the R&B Foundation's Pioneer Award in 1996, rounding out a class that included such notables as Bo Diddley, The Cadillac's, Johnny Taylor, and The Isley Brothers. An absolute pioneering artist, musician, songwriter, and producer, Bobby Womack has influenced generations of artists and musicians worldwide. From signature songs like, "If You Think Your Lonely Now," to the iconic soul classic, "Across 110th Street," Bobby's soulful vocals are legendary.
Little Jimmy was a recipient of the R&B Foundation's Pioneer Award at the first ceremony in 1989, along with Lavern Baker, Charles Brown, Ruth Brown, The Clovers, Etta James, Percy Sledge, and Mary Wells. In 1990, Little Jimmy performed at the Kennedy Center to honor the R&B Foundation at an event hosted by the Congressional Arts Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus. Little Jimmy was beloved by his many fans and admired by music royalty such as B.B. King, Marvin Gaye, Bonnie Raitt, Quincy Jones and many others.
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Richard D. James
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Office: 119A Akerman Hall
Phone: 612-625-0706
E-mail: james (at) umn.edu
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List of research topics
Current research projects
Richard James' main area of research is phase transformations in materials - especially shape memory and multiferrroic materials - at large and small scales. This involves the development of mathematical methods for the analysis of materials at atomic and continuum scales, especially the development of multiscale methods for understanding the relation between the behavior of materials on different scales. It also involves advanced methods of bulk synthesis and characterization of new materials in his laboratory, guided by theory. He is currently applying these ideas to the search for interesting materials in several areas:
- The search for new materials that combine two of the three properties - ferromagnetism, ferroelectricity, shape-memory - particularly by using a highly reversible phase transformation, or, in short, multiferroic materials by phase transformation.
- The search for new transforming materials with exceptionally low hysteresis and a high degree of reversibility.
- The use of these multiferroic, phase-change materials in new kinds of energy conversion devices. In particular, members of his group recently discovered a new way to use these materials to convert heat to electricity.
- The prediction of properties of transforming materials and structures at very small scales. Part of this research involves the study of a remarkable phase transformation that occurs in the tail sheath of bacteriophage T4, a virus that attacks bacteria.
- The search for new nanostructures based on the concept of "objective structures". These are molecular structures composed of identical molecules such that corresponding molecules "see" the same environment up to orthogonal transformation. These structures have an intriguing relation to the common structures, whether crystalline of not, of most elements in the periodic table, and they are occur often also in biology, especially in viruses. They are also the natural structures to exhibit unusual properties like ferromagnetism, ferroelectricity, and other collective properties, and are especially amenable to methods of synthesis by the process of self-assembly. We are investigating all these aspects of objective structures.
- Sc.B., Engineering, Brown University, 1974
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1979
- 1998 - Present: Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota
- 1991 - Present: Professor, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota
- 2001 - 2011: Russell J. Penrose Professor, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota
- 1985 - 1991: Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota
- 1981 - 1985: Assistant Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University
- 1979-1980: Research Fellow in Mechanics and Thermodynamics, University of Minnesota
Five Recent Publications
- Y. Hakobyan, E. B. Tadmor, and R. D. James , 2012, Objective quasicontinuum approach for rod problems, PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 86, 245435, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
- J. Buschbeck, J. K. Kawasaki, A. Kozanov, R. D. James and C. J. Palmstrom, 2011, Martensite transformation of epitaxial Ni–Ti films, Applied Physics Letters, 98, 191901, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
- Remi Delville, Hui Shi, Richard D. James and Dominique Schryvers, 2011, Special Microstructures and twin features in Ti50Ni50-x(Pd,Au)x at small hysteresis, Solid State Phenomena, Vols. 172-174, 105-110, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
- Vijay Srivastava, Yintao Song, Kanwal Bhatti and R. D. James, 2011, The direct conversion of heat to electricity using multiferroic alloys, Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 1, 97-104, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
- Xian Chen, Wim Tirry, Teruyuki Ikeda, Vijay Srivastava, G. Jerey Snyder, Dominique Schryvers and Richard D. James, 2011, A weak compatibility condition for precipitation with application to the microstructure of PbTe-Sb2Te3 thermoelectrics, Acta Materialia, vol. 59, 6124-6132, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
Honors and Fellowships
- Brown Engineering Alumni Medal, Brown University, 2009
- Background
- William Prager Medal, Society of Engineering Science, 2008
- Background
- Warner T. Koiter Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008
- Background;
- Co-advisor (with P. H. Leo) to Liping Liu, winner of the Best Dissertation Award in the Physical Sciences and Engineering (2008) at the University of Minnesota, 2008
- Honorary Consultant Professorship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 2007
- Background
- Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award, 2006
- Background;
- John von Neumann Professorship, TU Munich
- Background
- Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Chair, Cornell University
College of Engineering, 2002
Rothschild Visiting Professor, 1999
- Background
- Cambridge University Best Paper award, ASME/SPIE Smart Materials
- Distinguished McKnight University Professor, 1998
- Background
- Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics, 1997
- Background
- Featured Review (in Mathematical Reviews)
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Term I, 1993
- Background
- George Taylor Distinguished Research Award, Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, 1991
- Background
- IBM Fellow, the Johns Hopkins University, 1976 - 1978
- Background
Editorial Positions
- 1999 - Present: Chief Editor with J.M. Ball,
- Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
- 1998 - Present: Editorial board,
- Interfaces and Free Boundaries
- 1997 - Present: Editorial Advisor,
- Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
- 1996 - Present: Editorial Board,
- Journal of Elasticity
- 1991 - 1998: Editorial Board,
- Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
- 1989 - Present: Editorial board,
- Journal of Intelligent Materials and Structures,
- Technomic Publishing (begun January 1989, relaunched January 1993)
- 1988 - Present: Editorial Board,
- Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics,Springer-Verlag
Subjects and Courses Taught
- Undergraduate
- AEM 2021 -- Statics and Dynamics
- AEM 4581 -- Mechanics of Solids
- AEM 4602W -- Aeromechanics Laboratory
- Graduate
- AEM 5503 -- Theory of Elasticity
- AEM 8500 -- Research Seminar in Mechanics of Materials
- AEM 8541 -- Mechanics of Crystalline Solids
- AEM 8551 -- Multiscale Methods for Bridging Length and Time Scales
- AEM 8595 -- Selected Topics in Mechanics and Materials
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|Brief Biographical Sketch
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Europe is generally agreed to be the birthplace of western culture, including such legendary innovations as the democratic nation-state, football and tomato sauce.
The word Europe comes from the Greek goddess Europa, who was kidnapped by Zeus and plunked down on the island of Crete. Europa gradually changed from referring to mainland Greece until it extended finally to include Norway and Russia.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (September 5, 2013) – Panther Racing and driver Ryan Briscoe wrapped up a test session Wednesday afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after spending the day running on multiple configurations of the track's road course. Briscoe and Panther joined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing and driver Graham Rahal for the test organized by IMS and IndyCar officials. The two drivers also ran different Firestone tire compounds during the test in order to gauge how the cars reacted to the different racing surfaces as they transitioned from the oval track to the infield.
"It's really strange coming the wrong way on the front stretch. It's a pretty good track actually; it's got a lot of high-speed corners," Briscoe explained. "It's just great to be back in the Panther car; I didn't I'd be back in an IndyCar again for quite a while, so it's a good little bonus mid-week fun for me."
Briscoe and Rahal ran multiple different configurations of the IMS infield road course throughout the day, reporting back to IMS and IndyCar officials their thoughts on the course. The two drivers were also able to run some different Firestone tire compounds during the test in order to gauge how the cars reacted to the different racing surfaces as the cars transitioned from the oval to the infield.
"It's pretty smooth, really," Briscoe continued. "Certainly the oval portion of the track has more grip, but the only thing we're doing there is flat out in the oval section and then heavy breaking for the corner. And having lots of grip under breaking could be good for giving guys confidence in late breaking moves."
While other series have utilized the infield road course at IMS, IndyCar has never held a race or official test session on its road course previously. That could change and as the track looks to invest nearly $100 million into their facility, and officials at IMS and IndyCar aren't ruling out using the infield road course for IndyCar Series testing or a possible 2014 race.
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The Seattle Seahawks have signed Chukwurah after placing Chris Clemons on injured reserve.||||||| Chukwurah has not played in an NFL game since 2007 with Tampa Bay. He spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons in the UFL with the Florida Tuskers, where he led the league in sacks.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed veteran defensive end Patrick Chukwurah on Thursday.||||||| Chukwurah originally signed with the Bucs as a free agent in March 2007. He appeared in nine games last season, finishing with 16 tackles and one sack. He was released on June 20. Chukwurah has also played for Minnesota and Denver since being a fifth-round pick by the Vikings out of Wyoming in 2001.
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After 365….Archive 14
Apologies for not posting for a little while, but it's been for a good reason, as I am currently busy setting up my photography company…, registering my business, creating a business plan, buying a new Apple computer, designing a logo and many more things! It's really happening! :-)
I hope to have my website ready to go live soon…stay tuned.
On another positive note, I am intending on starting my 2nd 365 project next Wednesday 25th March. I will be going away for a few days then, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to start it, plus I've had a little break from taking photographs, so I will be recharged and ready as ever.
This shot was taken towards the end of last year, on the mid North Coast of NSW Australia.
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Drama Looming
Taken at Seal Rocks, NSW, Australia. I really liked the light in this one and the dramatic sky.
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This shot was taken on Sydney Harbour, at a beach called Clontarf. I love starfish, for some reason, they make me smile.
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Waiting for the Right Moment
I watched this surfer for about 10 minutes as he stood waiting….waiting for the right moment.
This was taken up on the North Coast of NSW, Australia, back in December.
After 365….Archive 10
Wild Kangaroo
Came across this beauty, back in December. :-)
After 365….Archive 8
This is yet another shot that I took over Christmas, whilst we were at Seal Rocks. It's heaven for me, as far as photography goes.
After 365….Archive 7
One of My Favourite Places/strong>
Seal Rocks, it's a place I love and feel so peaceful and at ease with the world whenever I am there.
This shot, was another taken over Christmas. I just sighed out loud as I wrote, because I so wish tht I was there right now.
After 365….Archive 6
Bondi Beach
Bondi Beach is somewhere, even though I lived in Sydney, I didn't visit all that often….I guess mainly because I lived on the Northern Beaches in Sydney, so didn't really need to go there, but when ever I did go….it was always a nice change. This shot was taken, when I went to see USA against Australia in a friendly waterpolo match.
After 365…. Archive 5
Wild Goanna
This is a photo that I took whilst we were camping over Christmas, of a wild goanna, that came very close to our tent. I think it's really beautiful!
After 365….Archive 4
Beautiful Manly
This was one of the beautiful sunrises I was fortunate to see in Manly, Sydney, Australia.
Happy days!
After 365…Archive 3
When The Fog Rolls In…
This was taken in Avoca, early one morning, as the sun was rising, but it was so foggy. Rather atmospheric.
After 365… Archive 1
Little Yellow Bird
As promised, here's the photo of the little yellow bird that I took last weekend, but I chose another photo that I took on the same day to represent my day, in the 365 project.
Today was the first day in a year that I haven't taken a photo and I must say, it feels really strange!
Over the next week, I will share some photos, like this one, of shots that I took during my 365 project, but didn't make it in to the project itself. They will be put on here in no particular order… After or maybe during Easter, I will start my 365 project part 2, so stay posted. :-)
Day 366 Thursday 29th March 2012
Let the Fanfare Commence Play- My Last Sunrise (and day of this 365/366 project)
Let the fanfare commence play….for today is a monumental day for me, for I have made it to the end of my 365 days project (366 with it being a leap year).
I had a quiet word with Mother Nature this morning, requesting a decent sunrise for my last day…she didn't let me down.
I think I can say now, with my head held high that I did it! Not one day did I miss, no cheating for me, I actually did it! I am so incredibly proud of this project and I am overwhelmed by the support I have had from people all around the world, people that I didn't know before I started this project.
This project has had a profound effect on me and on my life, which is why I am going to be doing a second one, starting in a few days time.
Thank you again, to my followers and to all of your comments. I apologise if I didn't get round to replying to you, but thank you, they mean a lot to me.
Well, I hope you like my final post on this 365. I just took it enroute to work. I am in fact writing this in the car, so this really is hot off the press :-)
Kangaroo Point Wharf, NSW, Australia
Day 364 Tuesday 27th March 2012
Just took this photo, I am in the car as I write this enroute to work. My partner kindly stopped for a while, so that I could photograph the sunrise and the reflections on the water.
I feel so alive seeing beauty like this, first thing in the morning, What a nice start to my day! :-)
Day 363 Monday 26th March 2012
Curved Ending
I only have 3 days left (3 days….as I am doing 366 days, due to leap year). Can't believe that I am almost at the end of this huge journey I have been on. The fact that I have an entire year of my life documented in photographs, is to me, mind boggling and I have to say, that this will be a year of my life that I will never forget! I am not going to get all sentimental now, now is to the time, just that I guess, this photo that I took this evening, reminded me just how close I am to the end, as I thought….on Sunday, the clocks change here in Australia and I won't get to see the beach late afternoon and that I would need to make the most of it, whilst I still can…..but I won't need to next week as the project will have come to an end! Which actually feels wrong to me.
This project has become part of me and with saying that, I think I will give myself a few days off at the end and will start again and that is mainly due to all the support and amazing people I have met through my humble little blog…..I will dedicate my last day to you all, but I am not quite there…..just yet! Bu I hope you will support me on 365 part 2?!
Day 362, Sunday 25th March 2012
Grey Skies Looming……Again…
Had a relatively quiet day today. went for a very short ride on my scooter to the local beach, where I took this photo. As you can see, rain was threatening, but as I write this, the sun has come out and so far, there has been no actual sign of rain….perhaps this afternoon, it will brighten up.
Avoca Beach, Central Coast, NSW, Australia
Day 361 Saturday 24th March 2012
A Day of Tranquility
Today has been such a lovely day, as went to a place called The Forest of Tranquility, which is located on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia, where we went for a 5km walk and then had a picnic.
Afterwards, we drove back along the coast and stopped off at a lake which is where I took this photo. Both the water and sky were so blue.
If I hadn't taken this shot, my other choice for today,would have been a photo that I took of a yellow bird…it was really beautiful. Perhaps I will share with you, after my 365 project comes to an end.
This photo, of the pelicans ties in really with me and my passion of water, of peace and well….tranquility.
Day 360 Friday 23rd March 2012
I am rather glad to see the back of this week as it has been such an incredibly long one and I feel mentally exhausted. Looking forward to kayaking at some point during the weekend, especially as the weather is forecast to be as nice as it was today..blue blue blue sky!
I took this shot on my way home, after my daily commute. The days are closing in and soon the clocks will be changing, which will mean even shorter days. I need to make the most of the daylight, even if it is just for a short while, whilst stepping out of the car to take a photograph like this. It's the best I can do I am afraid! I hope I can take some nice/better photographs over the weekend.
Day 358 Wednesday 2012
Out Came the Landing Gear…
It only took me 2 hours to get home today, so I made the most of my time and went to the local beach, hoping to photograph another sunset.
There I was, sitting on a rock, watching and listening to the waves and also looking up at the sky every now and again….monitoring how much longer I'd need to wait before the sky would start to change colour.
I had taken quite a few shots, of the cloud formation and was all poised, ready to take another shot, when right in my view came this rather haphazard pelican, who landed rather clumsily but then composed itself and went about its business….of floating and doing, well nothing really!
I am really pleased with this shot and as I uploaded it onto here, I couldn't help but smile….I hope it has the same effect on you. :-)
You can also see that the clouds were just starting to change colour too….btw it was a nice sunset!
Day 357 Tuesday 20th March 2012
The Things I do for Photography….
After a very long day at work, I saw the most amazing sunset…which really lifted my spirits. I waded in to the middle of a lagoon, with my skirt tucked into my undies, so that I could take this shot….I hope you like it! :-)
Avoca Beach Lagoon, NSW, Australia
Day 356 Monday 19th March 2012
As I write this, the evening, I feel absolutely exhausted and it's only Monday.
I took this photo, on my way home from physio.
I am in need of sleep and wish it was Friday tomorrow. I can but dream!
Day 354 Saturday 17th March 2012
End of the Season
Today, we went to Sydney so that my partner could play in the last game of the Summer waterpolo season. Unfortunately, his team lost today, but in my eyes he's a winner and I am always very proud of him.
Day 353 Friday 16th March 2012
2 Skies
It was a beautiful day today. It felt more like Summer than Autumn.
As my day was spent in an office, without having an opportunity to see natural light, when I finally did get an opportunity, I grabbed it with both hands and feet, and boy did the sky have some impressive light to show me, once I had finished my train commute.
This was taken in a place called Gosford, NSW, Australia. Apparently, they are predicting storms tonight and I think they may be right.
Anyway, I hope you like the reflections.
Day 352 Thursday 15th March 2012
Sunrise on My Train Ride
This morning, I took the train to work. I am actually writing this on the train. This photo was taken as the train made its way to Sydney.
Looks like it's going to be a nice day weather wise. Wish I didn't have to go to work today, so that I could go for a ride on my scooter. Oh well, I guess I have that to look forward to at the end of the day.
Enjoy your day and may you have some sunshine in your life today too!
Day 350 Tuesday 13th March 2012
a Never Ending Journey
After another long day in the office, I had to wait for a while at the train station for my train and it was so hot! I was looking forward to sitting in a nice cool carriage, but that didn't happen, instead the train was roasting hot as there was no air conditioning.After about an hour of being stuck on a train going nowhere, they announced that the train had major problems, to the point where they announced on the speaker for everyone in the last 4 carriages to get off and board the front 4 carriages, which were already full. I was already in one of the front 4 and over 100 people tried to get in. It was awful. Eventually the train started, minue the 4 rear carriages and we carried on to next stop, which was thankfully mine, because they then announced that the train was going nowhere else, I felt so sorry for everyone else.
Because my train was so late, I missed my connecting bus and so decided to hop on any one, I didn't care to be honest! I ended up going on a really lovely journey with a very nice driver and he dropped me off st the far end of my beach and I walked home and it was bliss to paddle in the water.
What made my walk even better, was from out of a nowhere an absolutely beautiful dog appeared with a great big stick, wanting me to throw it for her, and that's exactly what i did, for the entire length of the beach. I actually said to the dog (as if she could understand me) "where's your owner?" and with that, with perfect timing, she turned around and ran the entire length of the beach back to wherever she came from.
I felt as though she was meant to find me, as she cheered me up no end.


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There will be no visitation.
Graveside services will be today, Feb. 7, 2014, at 3 p.m. at New Canaan Cemetery.
Survivors include his daughter, Amanda Justice Hughes of Columbiana; granddaughter, Madison Hughes of Columbiana; sisters, Diana Ennis of Empire and Betty Jean Lee of Empire; nieces, Cassandra Ennis Cordell of Empire (also his caretaker) and Regina Ennis Crapps of Empire; great-nieces and nephews, Brandon, Micah, Jenny, Seth and Julee; and a host of other relatives and friends.
You may sign an online register or express private condolences to the family at www.BellSumiton.com.
Bell Funeral Home, Sumiton; 205-648-6611


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Maldon: Fears over children's services move (From Maldon and Burnham Standard)
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Maldon: Fears over children's services move
3:00pm Thursday 7th February 2013 in Local News
Parents are concerned they may struggle to reach children's health services following the relocation of staff.
Health experts moved out of the Maldon Centre in Wantz Chase last Wednesday after many years in the same location.
The move has come as a blow to local parents and Maldon Community Pre School, which is based opposite.
Pre-school manager Vikki Mitchell, who is a mum of two, said: "It's a shame it will be moving because the health visitors could just pop over from across the road."
NHS Mid Essex assistant director of estates John Henry said: "In our efforts to locate similar services in nearby locations, the main health provider, Central Essex Community Services (CECS) has agreed to relocate its staff and clinical sessions to nearby St Peter's Hospital.
"Some of the mental health services that are currently based at St Peter's Hospital will then move to the Maldon Clinic, after refurbishment has taken place."
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A lot of us still remember the day a beautiful mountain lion came down from the hills and went for a walk on the streets of Santa Monica.
And while that is a rare occurrence, we are seeing it happen more and more and that's why State Senator Jerry Hill wants to enact a new law to help protect mountain lions.
It was May of 2012 when this majestic cat was first spotted in Santa Monica. And while everyone wondered how the cat got there, everyone was also hoping it would be captured safely and returned to the wild where it belonged.
But the story didn't have a happy ending. Officials say that when tranquilizers didn't work and the lion became aggressive, they had to shoot the animal dead.
And just last month, up north in Half Moon Bay, it happened again. Two young mountain lion cubs, weighing only about 30 pounds each and spotted hiding under the porch of a home, were shot and killed by game wardens.
And just like with the Santa Monica lion, many were outraged and angered by what appeared to some as a last resort measure that was taken too quickly. That's why Senator Jerry Hill wants to change the law.
He will introduce legislation that would require the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to utilize non-lethal options in these cases -- unless it's clear that the lion could cause immediate death or physical harm to humans.
Sounds like a no brainer right? But apparently current state regulations don't give wardens much flexibility when mountain lions venture into areas populated by humans.
The mayor of Half Moon Bay says last month's killing of the cubs was a wake up call.
Meanwhile, Hill's legislation will also allow the CDFW to partner with wildlife groups and non-profits who are experienced in dealing with these wild animals can hopefully assist wardens in tranquilizing and trapping them.
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E nvironmental Health & Medicine
Spring 2010
|Susan Allen-Gil
|253 Center for Natural Sciences
|Office hours:
|Monday, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 or by appointment
This course discusses a variety of environmental vectors of disease (air, food, drinking water and liquid and solid wastes), routes of exposure (occupational, residential and environmental), physiological effects and techniques to diagnose, treat and regulate environmentally-induced diseases. Additional topics include recent advances in epidemiology, biological monitoring, and risk assessment. The course adopts a highly interdisciplinary and applied approach. Information from several scientific disciplines (molecular biology, physiology, pharmacology, toxicology, organic and inorganic chemistry) will be integrated with social and political considerations through analysis of risk assessment as a public policy tool. The applied nature of the course will take the form of a risk assessment evaluation, mock physician clinics using real case studies in environmental medicine, and guest lectures.
Textbook and readings assignments:
Unfortunately, there is not a complete, concise textbook on the subject of environmental health and medicine. The selected required text contains the majority of the information that we will cover, but it can be difficult to read. Two other excellent reference texts, designed (and priced) more for practicing physicians, cover a wider range of topics in more detail. These books are in the reference section of the library.
Goals and Rules
The goals of this course are:
Attendance Policy: Class attendance is expected. Class participation, as evaluated by attendance and contribution to in-class exercises, constitutes 10% of your grade. If you miss class, you are still responsible for any assignments announced and for all material presented during class. Although some of the lecture material is available through a course web page, it will be very difficult to get a grade better than a C in the course without attending class consistently.
Missing a test during an unexcused absence will result in a zero grade for that test. For an unexpected absence, you must notify me before the test if at all possible. If you are not physically capable to do so, then notify me within 24 hr. of the start of a test, You can phone my number or the Biology Department (274-3161) to leave a message. Notification does not guarantee my acceptance of your reason for absence, but failing to notify me does guarantee that you will not be excused.
Accommodations: In compliance with Section 504 of
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act,
accommodation will be provided to students with documented disabilities
on a
case-by-case basis. Students must register with the Office of Academic
Services and provide appropriate documentation to the College before
academic adjustment will be provided.
Learning Outcomes and AssessmentIn taking this course, I expect you to gain the following:
Testing of material will be accomplished by a combination of quizzes, exams, homework, and essay assignments. There will be a quiz every week covering the previous 2 weeks of course material. Each quiz will be worth 10 points, and the lowest quiz grade will be dropped before averaging the remaining quiz grades. The midterm will be an essay exam. The final will be a one-on-one discussion with me, based on your notes. Other elements of the evaluation include a research paper discussing a specific environmental health incident (or issue) (see Blackboard), a risk assessment project, a synopsis document for contaminants discussed in class, and several homework assignments.
Quizzes (~7, drop lowest one): fill-in, short answer
Midterm Exam: essay
Research paper (10-15 pages): focused on an environmental exposure, also presented in class
Class participation: attendance, clinical sessions, and presentations
Homework assignments (~2): cluster busters, dose-response curves
Final Exam: (50% on notes, 50% on how well you know them)
Web Resource Links
Links for Homework
Project Greenskate:
Project Greenskate: This homework assignment will give you an overview of environmental health and risk assessment. You must turn in your answers to the questions under the risk assessment section, as well as your article for the newspaper summarizing the issue. The class code is sallengil#0. Be sure to start on this assignment early as it takes a while to figure it out! You can save your work from one log-on to the next.
Data Analysis-Cigarette Smoke and Lung Development:
Cigarette Smoke and Lung Development This activity will require you to collect and analyze data on-line.
Risk Assessment:
In addition to using the Rish Assistant software on the computers in the Biology Computer Facility, you will need to consult the following site to answer the questions related to the scientific background behind the reference doses.
EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) - IRIS is a database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment. The IRIS home page is brought to you by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
Other useful links
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - this is the home page for the federal Center for Disease Control's division responsible for toxic substances. It contains new stories, health advisories, public health assessments and access to databases of hazardous substances.
ATSDR Public Risk Assessments - this will take you directly to the list of assessments from which the Risk Assessment Group Projects should be selected.
Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia - Compiled by the National Park Service, this web page provides access to detailed reports on fate, behavior, effects and levels of concern for 120 environmental contaminants.
Risk Assessment as a Career - personal essay by an EPA Risk Assessor
Society of Toxicology This site provides excellent information about toxicology.
University of Arizona: The Biology Project: Chemicals & Human Health In addition to alot of useful information, this site provides tutorial exercises related to environmental health.
Some excellent sources for environmental updates:
Environmental News Network
Envirolink News Service
PlanetArk Environmental News
|Visit the Biology Department home page.
|Visit the IC home page.
This page maintained by Susan Allen-Gil and Nancy Pierce
Last updated on 1/22/10


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Sales Wrap: Jay-Z & Kanye West Watch Atop The Competition, Ace Hood Hustles Into No. 8, Royce Da 5'9, Gucci Mane & Waka Flocka Speed Onto The Chart
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011 12:35PM
In this week's Sales Wrap, The Throne holds down their competition, Ace Hood hustles hard for a No. 8 position, plus Royce Da 5'9, Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka invade the chart.
Grammy-winning rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne debuted atop the chart this week at No. 1. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the duo's new LP has sold 436,100 copies in seven days. [Check out The Throne's Score]
R&B diva Beyonce's 4 received a one-slot boost to No. 7 with 26,800. After seven weeks, her new LP has sold 653,800 records.
Florida rapper Ace Hood's Blood, Sweat & Tears debuted on the chart at No. 8. Heading into his second week, Ace's new LP has shelled out 26,300 copies.
Grammy-winning rapper Eminem and Royce Da 5'9's Hell: The Sequel moved up three notches to No. 11 with 23,300. With nine weeks knocked out, Bad Meets Evil's new EP has sold 443,500 copies.
Atlanta rappers Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame's Ferrari Boyz debuted on the chart at No. 21. With a week in the books, the duo's new LP has pushed out 16,800 units. [Check out Gucci Mane's Buy My Record]
R&B singer Kelly Rowland's Here I Am moved down 11 slots to No. 24 with 16,100. Headed into her first full month, her new LP has sold 118,500 units.
Slaughterhouse spitter Royce Da 5'9's Success Is Certain debuted on the chart at No. 25. After seven days in stores, the new LP has moved 15,900 records. [Check out Royce's Score]
Late UK singer Amy Winehouse's 2007 album Back to Black moved 16 slots to No. 32 with 12,700. Since its release four years ago, the LP has sold 2,403,800 units.
G.O.O.D. Music artist Big Sean's Finally Famous received a one-slot boost to No. 40 with 10,900. Headed into his second month in stores, the LP has sold 181,600 records.
Young Money star Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday fell ten slots to No. 42 with 10,700. With 38 weeks in the books, her debut album has sold 1,533,500 pieces.
Pop star Bruno Mars' Doo-Wops & Hooligans fell five positions to No. 43 with 10,600. After 45 weeks, his latest offering has moved 1,217,100 records.
Soul singer Jill Scott's Light of the Sun dropped five spots to No. 44 with 10,300. With a full two months under her belt, Scott's new LP has sold 294,800 units.
Grammy-winning rapper Eminem's Recovery slipped three slots to No. 46 with 10,100. Headed into his 61st week, his new LP has pushed 3,991,600 records.
Miami rapper Pitbull's Planet Pit dropped 13 notches to No. 47 with 9,900. After two months, his new LP has sold 165,200 copies.
Fellow Miami artist DJ Khaled's We The Best Forever fell 17 slots to No. 48 with 9,800. With a month under his belt, Khaled's new compilation project has sold 97,200 units.
Rounding out things in Top 50 is singer Rihanna's Loud which dropped four slots to No. 50 with 9,000. After 39 weeks, her album has sold 1,408,500 records.
Be sure to check back next week to see what new releases impact Sales Wrap!


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With the end of the session in sight, lawmakers in both houses pushed forward on more than 70 bills.
Changes to election law and the state budget received most of the attention on the chamber floor. But other bills of note also passed through each chamber. Here are a few of the others pushed through:
Jordan Lake cleanup
The House gave preliminary approval to a bill that would delay some of the rules on pollution control meant to clean up Jordan Lake, the drinking water source for parts of Wake, Durham and Chatham counties and other communities.
The vote was 66-44. A final House vote is scheduled for Thursday.
Supporters said the bill delays for three years agreed-upon strategies that have not yet been implemented in the broad cleanup plan. With the delay, the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources would try an experiment to see if mechanical devises could help improve the water.
The cleanup rules are expensive to upstream communities and stifle development, said Rep. Steve Ross, a Burlington Republican.
Opponents said the cleanup strategies, which have been delayed twice since they were agreed to in 2009, should be given the chance to work.
I dont think its a good idea to abandon methods that have been proven effective over time, said Rep Grier Martin, a Raleigh Democrat. We dont need to delay that further.
Welfare testing
Welfare recipients could be tested for drugs or fingerprinted under a bill that passed the House 92-21 on Wednesday. The Senate is scheduled to vote on it Thursday.
House Bill 392 requires drug testing of reasonably suspected illegal substance users applying for the Work First program, which gives cash benefits and job training to families. It also beefs up background checks to ensure people applying for food stamps or Work First arent parole or probation violators, and dont have outstanding felony warrants.
Opponents say the measure is part of a larger plan to erode the states safety net for the less fortunate.
My big concern is how we balance the criminal justice issue of getting the bad guy here without catching everybody and fingerprinting everybody, said Rep. Rick Glazier of Fayetteville, a Democrat.
Rep. Dean Arp, a Republican from Monroe who sponsored the bill, says he wants to make sure only people who deserve aid not drug users or fleeing felons get it. The fingerprinting option was added to prevent out-of-state fleeing felons from getting aid in the state.
Legal notices
The House upended a bill that supporters had wanted to use to allow governments in Guilford County to stop running legal notices in newspapers.
Instead, House lawmakers gave preliminary approval, in a 99-12 vote, to a bill that strengthens newspapers role in publishing government legal notices. In addition to requiring ads appear in print, the bill requires notices be placed on the newspapers website at no charge something most papers already do with a link on the sites front pages.
Local governments in Guilford and other counties wanted to make print publication of legal notices optional. They want to be allowed to post the notices on government websites instead. The N.C. Association of County Commissioners, which wanted the original version, consider Guilford County a test project that could one day spread to other counties.
The original bill had the backing of House Speaker Thom Tillis of Cornelius, who said local governments should be free to pursue more cost effective ways to tell people about official actions.
But Rep. Marilyn Avila, a Wake County Republican, said publication of legal notices in newspapers promotes transparency and introduced the amendment that ended up changing the law.


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Prawn curry in a hurry
Cooking timePrep: 5 mins Cook: 10 mins Ready in 15 minutes if using fresh prawns
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 2
Minimum shopping, maximum taste, and if Indian's not your thing make this Thai prawn curry with a simple switch
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Healthy
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 166
- protein
- 22g
- carbs
- 11g
- fat
- 4g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 3g
- sugar
- 8g
- salt
- 1.08g
- 2 tbsp curry paste (we used Patak's Origional Balti curry paste)
- 1 onion, finely sliced
- 200g large raw or cooked prawns, defrosted if frozen
- 400g can chopped tomatoes with garlic
- large bunch coriander, leaves and stalks chopped
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Fragrant coconut curry
Sizzle a couple of tbsp Thai green curry paste in a wok or frying pan for a few moments, then add the prawns and a 400g can reduced-fat coconut milk instead of the tomatoes. Bring to a simmer, then cook until the prawns are cooked through. Add the coriander just before serving.
Buying prawns
Look out for prawns labelled 'North Atlantic', as they've undergone a much shorter journey than farmed prawns from the tropics. North Atlantic prawns also have a delicious, sweet flavour.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2007
Comments, questions and tips
Fantastic low-fat, quick and easy mid week dinner. This is becoming a firm favourite in our house. I am currently following a slimming plan and this easy but tasty curry fits in nicely and I am still seeing the results I want on the scales. I use chicken instead of prawns and add in a tablespoon of dried chilli flakes for that extra kick and 2 cloves of garlic. Served with basmati rice and garlic naan bread. Very nice indeed.
This is a great recipe and so simple. My husband makes it often and he's no cook!
It's really easy to vary it . I often add sliced peppers if I've got some that need using up. Sometimes I do it with butternut squash instead of the prawns for a quick veggie curry. I've also done it with chunky white fish. Thw possibilities are endless!


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Big Fish Games, the Seattle-based casual game distributor, has named David Stephenson as chief financial officer. The veteran of Amazon.com and Procter & Gamble fills the role left vacant when Michael Vernon departed for fast-growing daily deal site Zulily in May. "(Stephenson's) demonstrated track record of leading operational finance teams focused on large and complex consumer… Read More