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8 Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!"— but no one turns back. | 8 Nineveh is like a pool, and its water is draining away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one turns back. |
9 "Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure! An abundance of every precious thing!" | 9 Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures! |
10 Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble, all loins quake, all faces grow pale! | 10 She is pillaged, plundered, stripped! Hearts melt, knees give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale. |
11 What became of the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion goes, and the lion's cubs, with no one to disturb them? | 11 Where now is the lions' den, the place where they fed their young, where the lion and lioness went, and the cubs, with nothing to fear? |
12 The lion has torn enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he has filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh. | 12 The lion killed enough for his cubs and strangled the prey for his mate, filling his lairs with the kill and his dens with the prey. |
13 See, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more. | 13 "I am against you," declares the LORD Almighty. "I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will leave you no prey on the earth. The voices of your messengers will no longer be heard." |
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Report: UN tribunal to link Iran's Supreme Leader with Hariri assassination
Newsmax report quoting sources as blaming Iranian Revolutionary Guards and
Hezbollah for the hit comes as Hezbollah ministers resign from Lebanon's unity
government in an attempt to pressure Beirut away from aiding UN probe.
By Avi Issacharoff and Haaretz Service Tags: Israel news Lebanon
Hezbollah Iran Syria
A United Nations tribunal is to indict Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei with ordering the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese
Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, U.S. news website Newsmax reported on
Saturday, adding that the hit itself was planned executed by Iran's
Revolutionary Guards in collaboration with Hezbollah.
The report comes just days into Lebanon's latest political crisis, as
minister affiliated with Hezbollah and its allies withdrew from the
unity cabinet led by Saad Hariri earlier this week, citing Hariri's
cooperation with the UN-led probe of his father's killing.
Saturday's Newsmax report, also cited by Lebanese news website Naharnet,
quotes source close to the UN investigation of the Hariri killing who
claimed that the order to assassinate the former Lebanon premier was
given by Khamenei.
The order was then reportedly passed on to Hezbollah military leader
Imad Mughniyeh by the head of the IRG's Quds foece, Qassem Suleymani.
Upon receiving the order, Mughniyeh and brother in law Mustapha Badr
al-Dine allegedly put together an assassination squad.
Mughniyeh himself was killed in a car bombing in Damascus on February
12, 2008. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the assassination, but Israel
has denied any involvement.
Speaking with Newsmax, a conservative news website, sources close to the
probe are quoted as saying that the "Iranians considered Hariri to be an
agent of Saudi Arabia, and felt that killing him would pave the way for
a Hezbollah takeover of Lebanon."
The report also alleges that both Syrian President Bashar Assad and the
head of Syrian intelligence and brother in law Assef Shawkat were also
involved in the operation.
Also on Satruday, the Lebanese daily Al Nahar reported that the UN
tribunal probing Hariri's murder intended to submit a draft indictment
later in the day.
According to Al Nahar's Saturday report, the tribunal is set to hand in
a draft indictment as soon as 15:00 P.M. local time on Saturday to
Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen.
Fransen would then have around six weeks before he decides whether or
not to proceed toward a trial.
The report of Iran's alleged involvement in the planning and execution
of the Hariri assassination comes in an already volatile period in
Lebanese politics, as many fear that indictments against Hezbollah
officials could spark a new round of factional violence, if not full-on
civil war.
Hezbollah, which is supported by Syria and Iran and maintains an arsenal
that far outweighs that of the national army, denounces the
Netherlands-based tribunal as a conspiracy by the U.S. and Israel. It
had been pressuring Hariri to reject any of its findings even before
they came out, but Hariri has refused to break cooperation with the
Now, the chasm between the two sides is deepening with Hezbollah
accusing Hariri's bloc of bowing to the West. Hezbollah's ministers
timed their resignations to coincide with Hariri's meeting with
President Barack Obama in Washington, forcing him to meet the American
president as a caretaker prime minister.
Lebanon suffered through a devastating civil war from 1975-1990, a 1982
Israeli invasion to drive out Palestinian fighters in the south, a 2006
war between Israel and Hezbollah, and deadly sectarian fighting between
Sunnis and Shiites in 2008.
An indication that some of those fears may have been founded came late
Thursday as unknown individuals hurled grenades at the headquarters of
Hezbollah ally Free Patriotic Movement's headquarters north of Beirut.
No injuries were reported.
Speaking of the need to regain control of the potentially volatile
Lebanese political scene, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said earlier
Thursday that he was sure there would be no civil conflict between
Shiites and Sunnis.
According to a Channel 10 reported citing the Al-Jazeera news network,
Nasrallah, who had been reportedly holding meetings with other Hezbollah
officials in recent days to discuss the political situation in Lebanon,
blamed Hariri for the current political crisis, urging the Lebanese
prime minister to remain on his overseas trip and not return to Lebanon.
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I swear this will be my last social media rant for a very long time.
If you're online as much as I am, you've probably heard about Ello, the NEW MUST-HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM IF YOU'RE NOT ON IT YOU'RE MISSING OUT ZOMG.
I swear this will be my last social media rant for a very long time.
If you're online as much as I am, you've probably heard about Ello, the NEW MUST-HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM IF YOU'RE NOT ON IT YOU'RE MISSING OUT ZOMG.
I'm a pretty active person and I'm not saying it in a braggy way. It's more of an I-need-to-be-active-or-I-will become-an-eating-potato-chips-while-on-the-couch World Champion.
By the way, that should totally be an event.
On an early Saturday morning this past August I found myself at the Brampton Farmer's Market watching a bicycle being put together.
My kids have always had bikes and cycling is something we enjoy doing together as a family. We are extremely lucky because my father-in-law is a handy man. He visits garage sales, buys old bikes, fixes them up, and gives them to my boys.
When my kids come to me and tell me they're bored, my response is nothing. Like, literally. I just stare at them. Usually with one eyebrow raised to convey my disbelief.
I used to try to come up with ideas.
"Make a fort. Go for a bike ride. Go to the park!" shouted out with unbridled enthusiasm.
My suggestions were inevitably met with, "Meh. Don't really feel like it. Nyah."
Followed again by..."Mom, I'm so bored. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO."
There are some pretty kick-ass people in my boot camp, and I always partner up with them even though I know it's going to hurt like hell and I might not be able to keep up. Why? Because surrounding yourself with people who are above your skill level makes you push yourself harder. You may not be able to achieve what they do, but it will make you better. And who knows? You may even surprise yourself in the process.
A few days ago my husband took my son to the skateboard park. When they got home, my youngest said to me, "When dad and I were coming back from the skate park some guy was texting and driving and almost ran into us."
Driver distraction is a factor in about 4 million motor vehicle crashes in North America each year.
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Now that my kids are older, I have the ability to look back and realize there are a few things I completely stressed out about when they were younger that, in retrospect, I probably shouldn't have. These are the things that pretty much every new parent stresses about. Things that you may be stressing about right this very second.
Make sure you yell at your kids to play/work harder. Like, really loud. Also, be sure to yell at them when they make a bad play or aren't doing something properly. They probably don't realize they've made a mistake, so it's up to you to point it out. Loudly.
Note: Sometimes your kids are working so hard they can't hear you, so it's important you yell louder.
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The Princeton Mathematics Community in the
Transcript Number 2 (PMC2)
©The Trustees of Princeton University, 1985
(with ALBERT TUCKER)
This is an interview of Valentine Bargmann at Princeton University on 12 April 1984. The interviewers are William Aspray and Albert Tucker.
Aspray: Could you tell me something about your earlier career and about how you came to Princeton?
Bargmann: I was born in Berlin of Russian Jewish parents. I went to school in Berlin and started studying at Berlin University. In 1933 Hitler came to power, and it was to clear to our family that we would have to emigrate as fast as possible. My parents went to Lithuania, where my father had his business, and I went to Switzerland and continued studying at the University of Zurich. In 1936 I got my Ph.D. degree. I could not stay in Switzerland; they didn't accept any immigrants. Instead I went to Lithuania to visit my parents. Luckily a close friend of my parents was a secretary at the American Consulate. By his intervention I got an American visa almost immediately. I hardly knew of any case where it went so easily.
I did not have any connection with American mathematicians or physicists, but before coming to America I asked my professors in Switzerland for letters of recommendation, in particular Wolfgang Pauli, who had been in Princeton in 1935. He also advised me to consult Rabi in New York, which I did. Rabi said, "I would suggest that you go to Ann Arbor. There is now a summer symposium, where you will meet many American physicists. I did this, and indeed I met many American physicists, among them [Gregory] Breit, who was then at Wisconsin. I had a letter to Breit, but he told me that he could not help me, he didn't have any funds. He suggested I try the Institute for Advanced Study. Well, after the symposium was over I traveled to Princeton. It was just the time of the summer vacation. Nevertheless it happened that John von Neumann was in town, and Miss Blake, his secretary, suggested I talk with him. This I did, and he accepted me, so to speak, on the spot. I had seen him in Berlin, but I was not acquainted with him.
Aspray: What did he arrange for you?
Bargmann: I became a member of the Institute. He didn't offer me a stipend, but I didn't want everything. It was marvelous. After I was accepted I began to get acquainted with the members of the Institute.
Tucker: Was this in the period when the Institute's School of Mathematics was still in the old Fine Hall?
Bargmann: Yes, it was the summer of '37.
Aspray: Weren't you at one time one of Einstein's assistants?
Bargmann: Yes. It was like this. When I came, his assistant was Peter Bergmann. During that academic year I got acquainted with Einstein, and Einstein suggested that I come to see them. "Them" is Peter Bergmann and the Polish physicist Leopold Infeld. I got acquainted with what they were doing, and I could participate in their discussions. Then Einstein asked me if I would like to do it on a regular basis. The Institute had already offered me a stipend for the coming year. Things were looking up. It is difficult to say whether there was any difference between the position of Peter Bergmann and my position. We were simply collaborators. After a yearI think Peter Bergmann had already been assistant for two years or sowe switched so that I was officially the assistant. It didn't mean anything substantial.
Tucker: What was Einstein and company doing at that time?
Bargmann: There were two projects. One was the problem of motion, the other was unified field theory. The first had been started with Leopold Infeld and Banesh Hoffmann, and it was a question in general relativity. The second was the construction of a unified field theory.
Tucker: That was Einstein's chief interest at that time.
Bargmann: It was a major interest, which would occupy Einstein to the end of his life. But the problem of motion had also occupied him for many years and had, in Einstein's view, not been adequately resolved.
Aspray: Were there other people, besides Einstein, Bergmann, Infeld, and you, in the Princeton community working on these problems?
Bargmann: No.
Aspray: Was there much interaction between these people and the other people at Fine Hall who might be considered physicists?
Tucker: Bob Robertson, Ed Condon.
Bargmann: Condon wasn't around then. Robertson, of course, knew about it, but I think he was more interested in the impact of Einstein's work on astrophysics. Occasionally we talked to Weyl to get advice about the solutions of partial differential equations.
Tucker: Von Neumann?
Bargmann: I don't think so.
Aspray: Wigner?
Bargmann: It was a period when Fine Hall and the Institute were still relatively small, and we talked to each other constantly. I told people what I was doing, they told me what they were doing, but they didn't try to produce new ideas for the solution of my problems.
Aspray: We ask these questions because neither of us has much knowledge of what the mathematical physicists were doing at that time, so we're interested in the whole range of mathematical physics at that time, besides in your own and Einstein's activities.
Bargmann: The wider picture is this. Wigner was still in Wisconsin. He produced a very important piece of work on the Lorentz group, and we discussed this in great detail. Later on, at the suggestion of Pauli, who in the meantime had arrived in Princeton, I started to work on the Lorentz group too. So we had some very strong common interests.
Tucker: John Wheeler?
Bargmann: Wheeler at that time was doing nuclear physics.
Tucker: He got into that, as I recall, by working with Niels Bohr.
Bargmann: Yes, he had been a visitor to Niels Bohr's Institute in Copenhagen, and was later called to Princeton. When I came to Princeton in '37, Wheeler was here as a visiting professor here. He gave an excellent course on nuclear physics.
From then on he stayed in Princeton. In 1939 Bohr visited the Institute. He and Wheeler wrote a famous paper on uranium (specifically, uranium fission).
Aspray: At the time that Fine Hall was opened, how close were the mathematical and physics communities?
Bargmann: The way I remember it, the focal point was the common room in Fine Hall.
Tucker: It was the focal point of most things.
Bargmann: Whenever I had a moment free, not teaching or not going to lectures or whatever it was, I went to the common room, sat down, and asked what was going on. Therefore one knew very well what people were doing. I found it extremely attractive.
Aspray: Did the physicists in Palmer Lab come over to the common room regularly?
Bargmann: Maybe not so regularly, but they did. There was formally tea for the mathematicians and coffee for the physicists in Fine Hall every afternoon. I knew quite a number of the physicists.
Aspray: I understand from talking to Al that some people object to the term 'mathematical physicist', that they would rather be considered a theoretical physicist.
Tucker: I mentioned this about Wigner; he would much p refer to be called a theoretical physicist than a mathematical physicist.
Bargmann: I see. It is true there are some people who will choose a problem, not because it is of particular interest within physics, but for its mathematical interest. This Wigner doesn't like, so he stresses the distinction.
Tucker: I can remember that he declined to take some students for theses because he felt they didn't have sufficient grounding in physics.
Bargmann: Yes, maybe.
Aspray: What's behind my question is the fact that the Jones Professorship was in mathematical physics, and a stipulation made when Fine Hall was built was that the mathematical physicist be over with the mathematicians.
Bargmann: Yes. Now I want to emphasize that in the past, maybe in the dim past, people talked about mathematical physics and even had professorships in mathematical physics. My teacher in Zurich, Gregor Wentzel, before he came to Zurich had a professorship in mathematical physics, I think in Leipzig. He knew mathematics very well, but his interest was physics, there was no doubt about it. In the same way, in England physics was called natural philosophy for quite some time.
Aspray: Did the way things were arranged at Princeton have a bearing on this? Did the physicists somehow resent this involvement with the math department?
Bargmann: I don't know how sensitive I am in that respect.
Aspray: To ask a positive question, did this arrangement bring about more interaction with mathematicians than might otherwise have been the case?
Bargmann: I don't think a title means much. What means very much is the living tradition.
Tucker: Before Fine Hall existed, the mathematics department, as far as it had a home, was in Palmer. When I arrived here in 1929, there was no Fine Hall; there were a couple of rooms in Palmer. The ones that you encounter on your right as you enter. The mathematics seminary, as it was called, was there. That was the library and a place for the mathematicians to hang out. The mathematics secretary shared an office with the physics secretary. Down at the end of the hall was Palmer 222, where all the mathematics graduate courses were taught. That's where Veblen had his seminar. Veblen had an office up on the next floor, and Alexander had an office there. I don't know whether any of the other mathematics professors had offices.
I don't know when all this started. I think it started when Palmer was built. I think that until that time the mathematics seminary had been in the University library, the old library. It was then moved because the physicists wanted to have their books down in Palmer. The mathematicians went along, so that it was a marriage that had existed for a long time. It was certainly one of the stipulations of the mathematicians, Veblen and Eisenhart, that when Fine Hall was built it should be immediately adjacent to Palmer. There were, of course, other reasons for mathematicians and physicists being good friends, but at Princeton this goes way back.
Bargmann: What you just said concerns what I wanted to say. There was a tradition, a living tradition, that mathematicians and physicists talk to each other, and it can't be done artificially. I think at ChicagoEckhart Halland at San Francisco, math and physics are in the same building, without any considerable effect.
In '39 the European war started., and more and more mathematicians were removed for World War II. I was approached in 1941, I think by H.P. Robertson, to give a course in methods of mathematical physics. It appealed to me very much, and the next year I was asked if I would give a course on electrodynamics. So I was a kind of unofficial lecturer for the physics department.
Tucker: Methods of mathematical physics was actually a joint course.
Bargmann: Yes, but the next one wasn't; it was a course in the physics department. Now this continued. But during this time I was no longer an alien. In '43 1 became an American citizen and could do war work.
Tucker: You also did some Army specialized training programs in teaching in '43-'44.
Bargmann: In '43, yes. But I started to do war work with von Neumann. When the war was over, he was already deeply interested in electronic computers, and he asked me whether I would like to continue. But I wanted to get back to physics, so I asked the physics department whether they could give me an appointment.
Aspray: What was the war work you did with von Neumann?
Bargmann: Gas dynamics. I was not sufficiently high up to know exactly what it was used for.
Tucker: Well, it was certainly used in connection with building the atom bomb.
Bargmann: Yes, but with the particular problem we worked on we weren't yet very far, so to what extent it was used, I can't say. But it's quite possible it was used.
I stayed in Princeton for a while. Then Elliot Montroll, who was a close friend of mine and who had gone to the University of Pittsburgh, recommended me for a position at the mathematics department of the University of Pittsburgh. So I went to Pittsburgh for one term. It was a tenured position, but after one term was over Princeton invited me back to a tenured position, and since then I've been at Princeton. This was 1948.
Tucker: This was the year that Robertson left?
Bargmann: Yes, essentially I got his position.
Aspray: I understand from Professor Tucker that you were responsible for most of the instruction in mathematical physics, at least in terms of course work, from then on.
Bargmann: Well, at the beginning. Then, of course, the younger generation came up, in particular Arthur Wightman.
Tucker: But you did this even after you retired.
Bargmann: That is correct.
Tucker: Do you remember particularly any of the graduate students working in mathematical physics? Feynman, for example.
Bargmann: Feynman I knew not so much as a student, but as a colleague. I mean he was then already doing his own work.
Tucker: We were talking yesterday with John Tukey, and he remembers Feynman well from the time Feynman was living at the Graduate College. At the Graduate College he mixed with the mathematicians, rather than with the physicists.
Bargmann: That's interesting, because he also wanted to make sure ...
Tucker: To be called a theoretical physicist, rather than a mathematical physicist.
Bargmann: I remember the graduate students, in particular the graduate students in the first year.
Aspray: Who were they?
Bargmann: In the first course I had Philip Stehle, who is now at Pittsburgh. He is almost retired; he has been chairman of the department. Then there was a mathematician whom I lost sight of, [Paul] Olum.
Tucker: He went to Cornell. I think that he is now at the University of Oregon; he is indeed president of the University of Oregon.
Aspray: Who else was there at the time?
Tucker: Did William Sharp work with you?
Bargmann: Not with me. He took courses of mine.
Tucker: He was with Wigner.
Aspray: Was John Bardeen here at that time?
Bargmann: No.
Tucker: That was earlier. Bardeen took his degree I think in '36. 1 have fun with people occasionally by telling them that someone who was a graduate student in mathematics at Princeton has won two Nobel Prizes. Of course I get the answer, "That's impossible; the Nobel Prize isn't given in mathematics." And I say, "But he got it in physics." When he was a graduate student at Princeton, he was in mathematics. He held a JSK Fellowship in his first year, and he took the general examination. I've talked to him about this. He is proud of the fact that he was a Princeton mathematician at that time.
Aspray: I was wondering if you could, considering all the people at the Institute and at the University in mathematical physics, compare that community in the late 1930s with the other centers of mathematical physics, both in the U.S. and in Europe.
Bargmann: This won't be easy, because I haven't traveled. Unless one lives in a community, one misses out on quite a bit.
Aspray: What were the other major centers of research?
Bargmann: I would say that after the war there were, of course, many more than just Princeton.
Aspray: But in 1937-1940 what were the other centers?
Bargmann: 1937-1940 is a different time, because the war started and the war-related work started.
Aspray: So it might be said that Princeton was one of the few really active groups, just because of all the disruption because of the war.
Bargmann: But Princeton wasn't active. Wigner wasn't there. Robertson wasn't there. Von Neumann wasn't there.
Tucker: You're not talking about the period after 1940, but the period f rom '37 to '40.
Bargmann: But Robertson was already traveling.
Aspray: Was von Neumann also traveling by that time?
Bargmann: I would think so.
Aspray: That I wasn't aware of. Can you tell me a bit about the differences in the personal styles of work between some of the major figures that were here during that period?
Bargmann: That is a hard question. You see, I wasn't working with von Neumann on his mathematical problems. What I was doing was work that had to be done. "Here is the problem; see what you can do with it. " It was not work as it arises in physics or mathematics.
Aspray: How much of a physicist was von Neumann as far as you could tell?
Bargmann: If one applies an appropriately broad view of physics one must say that von Neumann had a quite outstanding insight into the problems of physics. Because he has done first-rate work, and he was the man who succeeded in giving a correct mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, and this was the major theory in physics in the first half of the century.
Aspray: Did he think the same way as some of these other people?
Bargmann: No, probably not, I would say tentatively. But I think you cannot point to a specific physical problem which John von Neumann solved. But I may be wrong. I don't remember.
Aspray: It's my impression that that's right.
Bargmann: Because what he did in quantum mechanics was the general framework.
Aspray: That's seems characteristic of his work in other areas as well. In set theory to a certain degree, in theory of computers, in operator theory.
Bargmann: I would not agree with operator theory. I think there are many things which he solved. This is typical, because this is part physics and part mathematics. For a time there was the problem whether the p- and q-operators in quantum mechanics are uniquely definedup to equivalenceby the commutation rules. Von Neumann gave the first proof of their uniqueness. This is a specific mathematical problem. In those days many of the great theoretical physicists knew every atom like a friend, and knew exactly what happens in sodium and knew exactly what happens in potassium and so on. This, I think, Johnny did not.
Tucker: That would be the difference between him and Wigner.
Bargmann: About Einstein. This is a bit more difficult. I would consider Einstein to be in the class of Bohr and Wigner, but Einstein was also in a way only interested in problems which are general.
Tucker: Was there any interaction between von Neumann and Einstein?
Bargmann: I wasn't aware of any, but it's difficult to say. I mean I didn't know everything that went on in Fine Hall. I know that when Pauli was here, he talked to Einstein frequently.
Aspray: Did Pauli speak regularly with von Neumann?
Bargmann: I don't know. But it's possible, because I remember a few times when Pauli said, "Yesterday I talked to von Neumann, and he told me.. ."something about a mathematical problem.
Tucker: Was there ever any regular seminar in which Einstein participated?
Bargmann: No. That is, if you're asking about one in which Einstein regularly participated, the answer is no.
Tucker: But occasionally?
Bargmann: Yes. Occasionally he came to a physics colloquium.
Tucker: I don't ever remember seeing him in Fine Hall, except going to and from his office.
Bargmann: I remember Milton White. He came from California; he was the man who was to build the cyclotron. This was before I was here, but I know it from Milton. He gave a talk in a physics seminar or colloquium, I don't remember exactly. He had prepared it well. He came to the lecture room, and in the front row was Einstein. This he hadn't expected. So I know it happened occasionally, and Einstein was also strongly impressed when Rabi talked about his work on the moment of the neutron.
Tucker: But mainly Einstein worked with a few associates. That is my recollection.
Bargmann: Yes, correct.
Tucker: I remember that at that time I was helping with the Annals of Mathematics, particularly with papers that were being refereed up until the time that some decision was made with them. I remember taking one or two papers to Einstein at his office, and indeed I still have somewhere a referee's report that he wrote. He wrote it in German and addressed me as "my neighbor colleague". I don't remember ever hearing him speak in a lecture or seminar. I think that any time he did that it must have been kept under wraps so that the place wouldn't be mobbed.
Bargmann: By people who wouldn't understand anything.
Tucker: Out of sheer curiosity. I mentioned this to explain why I was never aware of occasions when he talked in a seminar.
Bargmann: It wasn't widely known, but I think I always knew, and not from him.
Tucker: No, but it would have been an inner circle.
Bargmann: Was it on the bulletin board?
Tucker: I don't think so. I don't ever remember such a thing being listed on the weekly-seminar bulletin.
Aspray: I believe you told me, Al, that at one time Einstein's office had to be moved from the first floor to the second floor. Is that correct?
Tucker: I think that when Einstein arrived the office he was given in Fine Hall was on the first floor. Then there were people who came and peeked in the windows, so that his office was moved to the office that Wigner subsequently had. I myself had an office at the time that Einstein first came. I was an instructor sharing an office with E.J. McShane. This was 108, on the first floor. It is my recollection that at that time Einstein had the adjoining office, 109.
Aspray: When you first came to Princeton was there still a problem about preserving Einstein's privacy?
Bargmann: Well yes, but I would say it wasn't as bad as one might have expected.
Tucker: Of course it was terrible in 1933. There were reporters and photographers in town for weeks trying to catch him in an unguarded moment.
Aspray: This effort to protect his privacy, did it mean that things had to be more formal for the inner circle to get to see him? Did you have to make appointments or do anything like that?
Bargmann: No.
Aspray: He was accessible to you.
Bargmann: I would say Einstein was utterly accessible. For example, in Fine Hall and at the Institute, to anybody who was genuinely interested in scienceI mean if you came as a colleague.
I arrived here today asking myself a question, 'What in Fine Hall or in Princeton impressed me most?' The answer is that the library was open 24 hours a day. This I hadn't seen anywhere. These were good times.
Aspray: And I assume that going in it at just about any hour you'd find somebody there?
Bargmann: Of course.
Tucker: The common room and the library were occupied constantly.
Bargmann: Yes, of course. I remember particularly well, because I came from Switzerland, where they made an awful fuss about the library. Zurich had two institutions, the University of Zurich and the Federal Institute of Technology (abbreviated 'ETH' from the German 'Eidenoessische Technische Hochschule'). On the door of the ETH library was the following notice: "if you knock at this door it will not be opened."
Tucker: Well, I had the experience in reverse, because I had experienced Fine Hall in the last year of my graduate study, and the following year I had a National Research Council Fellowship which I used in Cambridge, England, because I wanted to go to the international congress at Zurich in the fall of '32. By taking the first part of my fellowship at Cambridge, I was able to go to Zurich as part of my fellowship. But what I wanted to say is that at Cambridge I found it utterly impossible to use library facilities. I could go to the library, but I had to go to the catalog and order a book, and then read it in the reading room. I couldn't go to the stacks and browse, and that's the only way for a scholar to use a library.
I realize that the same thing is generally true thoughout Europe. That a library's main objective was to preserve books rather than to have books used, because if they're used, this leads to their not being preserved. After Cambridge I was at Harvard, and I found this almost as bad at Harvard. I could get into the stacks there, but it wasn't particularly agreeable. There wasn't any place there to work, which was the great advantage of the Fine Hall library. I had a chance to stay on at Harvard as an instructor, or to return to Princeton as an instructor. I had no doubt about my choice, because the conditions for working were immeasurably better here than they were at Harvard at that time.
Bargmann: Yes, Fine Hall was quite new.
Tucker: What you said about the common room and the tea and coffee, this was in some sense the heart of the life there. And this, you know, was due to Oswald Veblen. He was the one who introduced the afternoon tea to Princeton. He had it in his office at Palmer, using a Bunsen burner to prepare tea, but it was, really only for the small group of people who were working with him. And, of course, he was the one who more or less designed Fine Hall. I mean, that it should have a common room, that it should have a professors' room, that there should be a library, and all that. He worked with the architects on these things. It was his idea from the very start that the common room should have tea.
In the first year of Fine Hall I happened to be put in charge of the afternoon tea. On a voluntary basis, we served the tea and cleaned up and washed the dishes and so forth. But then the janitor, Mr. Hahr, whom you probably remember, objected to Dean Eisenhart and asked that he be paid two hours overtime to stay on and serve the tea and clean up. That's the way it was, of course, when you got here. It was rather chaotic the first year, but even to putting me in charge of tea, it was the work of Oswald Veblen.
Bargmann: Yes, I understand.
Tucker: So he should be given a lot of credit for the atmosphere that this created. As Dean [J.D.] Brown loved to say, "Men create institutions and institutions create men."


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Is there anyone else out there who works in a business that does not want employees bringing camera phones to work? I would think that this would be common - but apparently not. DH has a nice simple cell phone, and a Palm. When he looks for something to replace them both with, there is nothing out there that does not have a camera. He wants to be able to sync it to his laptop so his schedule can be updated.
I have no idea how the employer could possibly monitor the presence of cameras on employee cells, especially since tens of thousands enter and exit headquarters every day. But DH is a stickler for "the rules" and won't buck company policy. Any ideas? We're on Verizon now. |
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As a Palm user, I sympathize. He's not going to be happy with anything else, and all of Palm's phones have cameras. As do 99% of other phones. So if he doesn't want to buck policy, he will have to carry two devices, as I do. Verizon makes a basic phone, Coupe, with no camera, My wife has one and likes it. I'm sure there are a few others. What he really wants, I think is a Palm Centro phone. I'm not sure about Blackberries, maybe they don't have cameras, since the Govt and companies seem to be crazy about giving them to their employees. Maybe he should take an informal pole of the cell phones his fellow employees carry? Just a thought. |
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Blackberry is comming out with a new one for Verizon soon. I am not sure if it has a camera or not but it is aimed at business users. |
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The first GOOP of 2012 has arrived, and it is highlighting "the GOOP Cleanse." Oh brother. Now, in the spirit of full disclosure, I will admit that I am against ALL cleanses, not just the GOOP cleanse. If you enjoy cleanses, God bless you. And I do support, genuinely and sincerely, anyone's attempt, whatever that attempt may be and however misguided, to improve themselves and/or make themselves healthier, happier, what have you. But ever since I learned about cleanses, the same way everyone learns about them: in college from some girls with hippie tendencies–they have always seemed to me like they were more about having something to simultaneously brag and complain about than anything to seriously do with one's health or well-being. Like, you're going to show off that you're taking care of yourself (already a specious argument when it comes to cleanses, but that's the party line) while also complaining about how hungry you are? Cool. You're fun to hang out with, let's go to a nice restaurant together for sure. I'm also just skeptical of anyone who genuinely believes that drinking cayenne pepper smoothies or whatever is really clearing out the system. If you want to clear out your system, go to Duane Reade and buy an enema kit. Or, how about you just work on gradually making your entire lifestyle healthier and more considered rather than taking 10 days out of the year to dramatically disrupt your body's natural processes? You think the cayenne pepper is helping with the cigarettes you are always bumming off of people at parties? Oh man, OK, I am sorry, I just hate cleanses in a way that is almost certainly way more dramatic than necessary. Good luck to everyone and I can't wait to see how the world changes when we all live forever. First generation of immortals is always the trickiest.
But, so, considering my pre-existing hate of cleanses it is PERFECT that Gwyneth Paltrow has her own NAMEBRAND cleanse! Let's talk about it:
First, Gwyneth welcomes us to 2012:
Next week, when it's back to the grind with work and the daily school run, I'm starting off with Clean, my go-to cleanse from Dr. Alejandro Junger, with whom goop has partnered for the month of January. I've used Clean in the past with great results, losing a few pounds and kickstarting a healthier and more energetic New Year. This month, I'll be doing it along with members of the goop team and we hope you will too. And, it goes without saying, but be sure to check with your doctor before getting started!
Wait, "next week, when it's back to the grind"? Try this week, Gwyneth Paltrow. It's literally this week for EVERYONE that we are all back to the grind. And when most people say "back to the grind" they don't mean "playing Plants Vs. Zombies mini-games on my iPad 2 in my trailer while the crew is busy getting Iron Man's Malibu bachelor pad soundstage ready for my line about how he has a phone call in the walk-in humidor." But whatever. Back to the grind next week, yes. And now we are getting to the cleanse. After you talk to your doctor. Yikes! Which brings us to a note from the creator of the GOOP Cleanse, Doctor Alejandro Junger, which, Fun Fact, I am pretty sure is also the name of the doctor on The Simpsons!
"The basic premise of this cleanse is that by creating the right conditions, our bodies will begin to reset themselves naturally. How? By adding in nutritionally-beneficial foods and supplements, and removing the major toxins in our diet (inflammatory and processed foods)."
"Unlike most cleanses, the goop cleanse by Clean is designed to deliver results right now, while also inspiring long-term health changes. The cleanse will help give your digestive system a break and also improve energy levels by bringing in high-quality vitamins and nutrients. Best of all, because you'll be eating during this program, you won't be left feeling hungry or tired which is typical of most cleanses."
"To date more than 50,000 people have successfully completed this cleanse. In fact, in 2009 when this cleanse was featured on goop, we sold out, and thousands ended up on our waiting list. I see that as a testament to how eager people are to feel better, and how effectively this cleanse works. I hope that after this experience we can add your name to that list."
"I hope you are as enthusiastic about embarking on this journey as I am for you."
Uh, a bunch of problems with this.
1. I don't like proposed health treatments that are BASED ON A PREMISE.
2. The rest of that first paragraph is literally gibberish. I mean, it makes sense, but it's just words he put together. It sounds nice! And made up!
3. Dr. Alejandro Junger taking other cleanses TO THE MATS. I'm pretty sure his attempt to differentiate his cleanse from other cleanses mostly just describes all cleanses including his cleanse. They are ALL supposed to deliver immediate results with longterm improved whatever, and none of them do. This one also doesn't. And, oh, you're not going to be hungry and tired doing this cleanse? You are going to be SO hungry and SO tired doing this cleanse. Get real, tough guy!
4. Please show me the instructional manual that explains how much of a "break" your digestive system needs.
5. "To date more than 50,000 people have completed this cleanse." I do not like advertising techniques that simply rattle of how many people HAVEN'T DIED from using the product before you. And you know who else used to use this customer population technique, quite successfully? McDonald's.
6. This is the grossest part of the whole thing: the last time the GOOP Cleanse was featured in GOOP, they sold out and had to put people on the waiting list. So you better ORDER NOW. What a bunch of assholes, the people who put this together are. He sees that as a testament to people wanting to feel better, rather than as a testament to the marketing power of international film celebrities. Sure. Rose-colored Prada glasses.
Ugh! And look at what you would actually "get" with the GOOP Cleanse:
- Nourish: Protein powder
- Move: Fiber powder
- Clear 1: Probiotic anti-microbial
- Balance: Insulin regulator
- Ease: Digestive enzyme
- Encourage: Strong probiotic
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- Relief: Liver support
This kind of reminds me of the very first installment of GOOP when Gwyneth talked about how she loved "being in spaces that are clean and feel nice" as if this was some kind of unique trait and anyone who lived in spaces that were dirty or felt awful were doing so by choice. What a hero. But, like, yeah, everyone would like to feel "relief" and "ease" and "balance" and "encourage" (sic). But that doesn't even remotely explain what the hell is actually IN THESE JARS. It could literally be peanut shells and pencil shavings. Gwyneth!
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I like your approach. The funny thing is, I didn't even want a chicken fried steak. I just wanted to stick it to her for believing something so fucking stupid.
Not that your approach isn't also good – but you're really only hurting yourself. That stuff stays in your in colon forever.
"For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three"
Is it weird that I am a vegetarian who thinks cleanses and detoxes are a hot load of bullshit? Should I be pounding bottles of olive oil over here? WHY DO WE HAVE A LIVER AND KIDNEYS, GWYNETH?
No, it is not weird. Being a vegetarian is perfectly sensible. Having a piss-poor grasp of logic and rudimentary human biology is just sad.
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Has anyone made these cookies using the egg free recipe? They came out terrible. When cooked for 10 min at 350 they spread out, melt together and become flat. When they cool a bit you have to scrape them off the pan and they are NOT cookies. The next batch I lowered the temp to 325 and watched and they started to melt apart at 5 mins so I pulled them out. They were not baked but they still looked like cookies. When they cooled enough to move them they were very soft, not crispy like a sugar cookie. When totally cooled I ate one. Tasted like greasy, sugary dough, so I guess they melted in my mouth. Gross...don't make the egg free version or you will be mad that you tripled the recipe and wasted ingredients/money and had crappy cookies to serve to little kids the next day at a birthday party.
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Report citing ISNA headlined "Mashhad public prosecutor: Those with
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respect to the charges against them. He also said that women who do not
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forced to draw a plan on the withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan.
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2. Commentary by Farzaneh A'ini headlined "Cleansing government of
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Parhizkar and their friendship with Masha'i. (Front page, 1,300 words)
3. Interview with Iranian ambassador to Iraq headlined "America's
security-intelligence vacuum in Iraq": This piece is the second part of
an interview with Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hasan Dana'i-far on
regional developments, role of the Western countries and the US in Iraq,
the present Iraqi government and Iran-Iraq relations. (Politics, 1,750
4. Commentary by Siamak Karimi headlined "Afghanistan's satisfaction
with the withdrawal of US troops": The commentator says that after
Obama's announcement on the withdrawal of the 33,000 US troops from
Afghanistan by the end of 2012, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff
Michael Mullen stated that they have had better options in Afghanistan.
The commentator quotes different sources on the comments by other
top-ranking US and European officials in this regard. (International
page, 1,000 words)
Negative selection
1. Commentary by Mohammad Ali Musavi headlined "Judiciary; guarantee for
implementation of justice in the society": The commentator by pointing
at the principle of separation of power in a state, comments on the role
of judiciary as a guarantor to implement the rule of law in a society.
The commentator is of the view that there has been improvement in
Iranian judicial system since the Revolution but it still needs to go a
long way. (p 1; 975 words)
2. Unattributed report headlined "Bahmani's second ultimatum to banks":
According to the report, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Mahmud
Bahmani commented on the necessity for private banks to increase their
working capital to 400bn toman by the end of current Iranian month [22
July]. (p 1; 693 words)
1. Report headlined "If someone deviates from the path of the
leadership, it is deviant current": According to the report, Head of the
Majlis Cultural Committee Gholamali Haddad-Adel said that our yardstick
is Velayat-e Faqih (supreme jurisconsult) and the path that we follow is
the right path shown by the leadership, hence, anyone deviating from
this path belongs to the deviant current. (p 3; 146 words)
2. Report by political desk headlined "Issues related to the deviant
group should not lead to the neglect of 1388 [2009] sedition": According
to the report, Minister of Intelligence Heydar Moslehi said that the
issues raised about the deviant current should be carefully assessed to
see the connect between this current and 2009 sedition with a
commonality of creating divide in the society and the system. (p 2; 549
1. Editorial by Bizhan Moqaddam headlined "Majlis, ethics and
tolerance": The editor, who is also Jaam-e Jam newspaper's chief editor,
criticizes Majlis behaviour towards the president during the vote of
confidence session for the proposed sports and youth affairs minister on
Wednesday 22 June. He considers that the MPs behaviour was not ethical.
(Politics; 468 words)
2. Interview by Katyun Mafi headlined "Realistic encounter with Shanghai
[Cooperation] Organization": The interview is between Jaam-e Jam and
Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee member Mehdi
Sana'i about Iran and Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Sana'i said
that Iran could not become a permanent member of this organization
because of the sanctions imposed on it by the US and since China and
Russia have extensive trade relations with the US, they do not want to
endanger their interests. (Interview; 1,981 words)
1. Editorial by Ali Qasemi headlined "Let's learn from George Jordach
[writer of a book on Caliph Ali]": The editor comments on the failure of
Iran's external enemies and opposition current in their struggle with
the Islamic Republic. The editor continues that their anxieties are more
intensified after the upsurge of Islamic ideologies and its expansion
throughout the regional countries. Thus, he says, the enemies are not
only pursuing to contain this by all means using all existing tools and
spending vast sums of money but also they make use of the influential
tools of media. They are propagating and expanding the project of the
Zionists, he says. (Editorial; 900 words)
2. Editorial by Karim Dehkordi headlined: "The American dreams": The
editor comments on the domestic situation in Iran and the activities of
the deviant current. He comments on the likely relationship of the
deviant current with the West and the US and says that the US has
obtained information on internal issues of Iran, which has intensifies
their beliefs that they can carry out their dispute-sowing activities in
Iran and achieve their objectives. The editor continues that the deviant
current has not only polluted domestic political atmosphere in Iran and
tarnished reputations of some government figures but also has given
hopes to the enemies to reinstate their old demands from the officials
of the Islamic Republic of Iran. (p 2; 600 words)
3. Report under urgent column headlined "Khatami follows the same path
as Musavi and Karrubi": According to this report, one of the outlawed
Participation Front Party members has talked about the Khatami's
distinguished position at the Green sect management and said that the
actions of Khatami are similar to Mirhoseyn Musavi-Khameneh and Mehdi
Karrubi's actions. He added that since Musavi and Karrubi are under
house arrest, Khatami's role is much more important. (p 2; 250 words)
4. Report under urgent column headlined "BBC: Internet is creating
troubles for the Green sect": According to this report, due to the
political alleged inactivity of the Green movement, the BBC Persian
website has issues encouraging and challenging reports to inspire the
seditionist to take measures and revive the movement. (p 2, 320 words)
1. Unattributed editorial headlined "Supporters of deviant current": The
editor by pointing at statements by some people and terming them as
today's critics and yesterday's supporters of the deviant current,
comments on the necessity for them to be more careful about expressing
their views. The editor also demands that along with the main elements
of the deviant currents its supporters should also taken into account.
(Domestic; 1,049 words)
2. Report citing ISNA headlined "Intelligence minister: Authorities need
to seriously take care of their surroundings": According to the report,
Minister of Intelligence Heydar Moslehi on Thursday [23 June] commented
on the necessity for all authorities to be careful about people around
them. Moslehi also spoke about Intelligence Ministry's efforts in
dealing with conspiracies from abroad. (Domestic; 170 words)
3. Report citing E'tedal headlined "Exchange of Iranian-Azeri prisoners
in Astara border": The report comments on the exchange of 25 Iranian
prisoners in Azerbaijan with one Azeri prisoner in Iran on the Astara
custom post. The report also provides other details of prisoner exchange
between two countries. (Domestic; 181 words)
4. Report citing Fars headlined "Death of five Russian Bushehr nuclear
power plant experts in a plane crash": According to Associated Press,
Rosatom (Russian nuclear energy state corporation) announced five
Russian experts associated with the Bushehr nuclear power plant have
been killed in a plane crash in this week. (Domestic; 121 words)
5. Report citing Fars headlined "Secretary of the Supreme Council of
Iranians Expatriates has been arrested": According to the report, an
informed source in an interview commented on the arrest of Secretary of
the Supreme Council of Iranians Expatriates Mohammad Sharif Malekzadeh.
The report also mentions about the adverse comments made by the Ministry
of Intelligence on Malekzadeh's competence for the post of finance and
administration affairs head at the Foreign Ministry. (Domestic; 404
6. Report citing ISNA headlined "Mehmanparast: Global society to react
against double standard of superpowers regarding to terrorism":
According to the report, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ramin
Mehmanparast alleged that superpowers use terrorism as a tool. He urged
the international community to react against double standards of
superpowers with regard to terrorism. Mehmanparast also condemned all
kinds of terrorism. (Domestic; 223 words)
1. Editorial by Hesamudin Barumand headlined "Sound, image, action": The
editor praises the judiciary's performance in the previous year with
regard to controlling security in the country and expresses hope that
the judiciary will double it efforts in combating economic corruption in
the country. (p 2; 1,569 words)
2. Commentary by Hoseyn Shari'atmadari headlined "On what account?": The
commentator terms the recent move by some Majlis members, who as per the
new Majlis law do not qualify to compete in forthcoming Majlis
elections. The commentator says that the MPs themselves have ratified
this law and now seek to exempt themselves from this. He says this is
not legally correct. He also counters Guardian Council Spokesman
Abbasali Kadkhoda'i's explanations about exempting some MPs. (p 2; 1,005
3. Report headlined "British-style conspiracy against Press TV":
According to the report, the UK government is trying to limit Press TV's
coverage of its domestic politics by blocking its finances. The report
says that this move is not being done in accordance with British laws
because a court order has not been issued to the bank which is having
Press TV funds. (p 14; 639 words) (PROCESSING)
Editorial by Behruz Bihaqi headlined "Fortunate prelude to the
investigation of official's accusations": The editor comments on the
arrest of Mohammad Sharif Malekzadeh, former head of administrative and
financial affairs at the Foreign Ministry, and says that the dimensions
of his arrest highlighted in the political and media circles puts a
question to those individuals, who not only overlooked charges and
accusations against him but also prepared grounds for his appointment in
the ministry. (Editorial, 430 words)
1. Editorial by Mirzababa Mottaherinezhad headlined "Today, created by
yesterday's events": The editor criticizes Majlis behaviour towards
President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad during the confidence vote session on 22
June saying that the MPs got carried away by political events of the
last few months and forgot their national duty. He also expresses his
sympathies towards Hamid Sajjadi, the proposed sports and youth affairs
minister, who was given a vote of no confidence by Majlis, terming him a
victim of circumstances. (Editorial; 800 words)
2. Report in under the cover of news section headlined "Kohkiluyeh-Boyer
Ahmad Province IRGC commander warns controversy creating leaders":
According to the report, Islamic Revolution Guard Corps commander in
Kohkiluyeh-Boyer Ahmad Province warned the deviant current leaders in
the area against creating any controversy otherwise, the province's
Basij would deal them. (Politics; 206 words)
3. Report by Kuresh Sharfeshahi headlined "Why MPs did not welcome
Ahmadinezhad": The report contains interviews with some MPs about not
welcoming President Ahmadinezhad to Majlis on 22 June. Among the reasons
the MPs gave was Ahmadinezhad's alleged persistence in not complying
with Majlis resolutions and even changing them at his will. (Majlis;
1,412 words)
1. Report citing IRNA headlined "International conference begins in the
presence of word leaders, politicians and experts: Tehran against
terrorism": According to the report, Conference on Global Fight Against
Terrorism begins in Tehran today with the presence of five heads of
sates and many politicians and experts from across the world. The report
adds that Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will meet Iranian
President Ahmadinezhad and discuss international and bilateral issues
with him. The report further states that the presence of authorities
from the neighbouring countries shows their concern for terrorism
imposed on them. (Political; 384 words)
2. Report citing ISNA headlined "Officials should be seriously careful
about [people] around them: Minister of intelligence": According to the
report, Minister of Intelligence Heydar Moslehi said that it has been a
policy of the imperialists to create division and serve their interests
through this divide. He further said that the Intelligence Ministry is
currently in a very good position to counter enemy's designs.
(Political; 136 words)
1. Editorial by Mohammad Kazem Anbarlu'i headlined "Collapse of the
European Union": The editor comments on the economic conditions in
Europe. He considers "euro" as the rightful and legitimate result of
Europe's political and economic cooperation. However, today European
politicians and economic strategists are disturbed with regard to the
position of euro, says the editor. He opines that there is rift created
among members since the time when Greece, Portugal, Spain and some other
countries in the Euro zone started to hit the pockets of their
companions due to their budget deficits. Afterwards, the editor brings
two kinds of solution of the problems in Europe; returning to the point
zero, that is bring back the situation before the WW II or provide
financial help to the countries in need, otherwise, the situation in
Spain or in Greece can be observed in France or Germany as well, he
says. (Editorial, 760 words)
2. Commentary by Hoseyn Yari headlined "What Allawi is doing in London?"
The commentator writes about domestic situation in Iraq and former Prime
Minister Iyad Allawi's visit to London. He says that the continuance of
Allawi's "obstructionism" in the Iraqi political arena, continuation of
his friendship with the US and the UK has once again "tarnished" his
reputation. He says that the US embassy has pressurized some Iraqi MPs
in order to extend the presence of its forces in Iraq. (Diplomatic, 560
3. Unattributed commentary headlined "Escaping from Afghanistan in
Obama's style": This piece refers to the recent plan of the US to
pullout troops from Afghanistan. The report highlights the reactions of
Democrats and Republicans to Obama's statements, indicating that the
dispute among the US officials on the manner of the US troops withdrawal
is still continued. (International, 352 words)
4. Report under "heard and points" column headlined "Activation of
Khatami's media levers": This piece is about Khatami's activities and
his efforts to make way to the upcoming Majlis polls and return to the
political arena of the country. (Politics, 150 words)
1. Editorial by Dr. Sabah Zangeneh headlined "An opportunity for Turkey
to interfere in Syria": The editorial states that the changing political
scenario in Syria is seen to be conducive for Turkey to play a role in
the developments of this country. The editorial adds that Turkey is
trying to strengthen its relations with Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and
creating a base for Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, which had historical
connections with Islamic tendencies in Turkey. (Page 1, 6; 448 words)
2. Report by Sorush Farhadiyan headlined "Judiciary becomes active":
According to the report, arrest of Mohammad Sharif Malekzadeh, who was
forced to resign as deputy foreign minister in charge of financial and
administrative affairs and also the arrest of Ali Asghar Parhizkar, the
director-general of Arvand Free Zone, are indicative of certain trends
in the political developments in the country. The report adds that both
the arrested persons are close to the Head of President's Office
Esfandiyar Rahim-Masha'i. (p 2; 1,604 words)
3. Report headlined "We will not accept human rights special rapporteur:
Judiciary chief": According to the report, despite Foreign Minister Ali
Akbar Salehi had welcomed the presence of human rights special
rapporteur, Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli-Larijani has
categorically said that Iran will not accept the special rapporteur. The
report adds that the opposing stances taken by heads of Foreign Ministry
and the judiciary has increased the existing confusion over the matter.
(p 2; 762 words)
1. Editorial by Ali Totmaj headlined "World attention on Tehran": The
editorial refers to the anti-terrorism summit being held by Iran. It
states that the Western media and political circles are attempting to
downplay this conference through censorship and creation of negative
atmosphere against Iran. The editor says that the presence of
significant number of leaders in this meeting is indicative of
international confidence in Iran and the position of the Islamic
Republic in global equations. (Front page; 781 words)
2. Analytical commentary by Akram Sha'bani headlined "Regional
developments will reach a conclusion: An Islamic Middle East is the
final point for the West": The analysis states that the West is
extremely worried about the Iranian influence on regional developments
in the Middle East and because of this, it has been accusing Iran of
interfering with the internal affairs of other countries in this region.
The analysis adds that as the trends indicate, the Middle East will be
transformed into an Islamic region and opines that it would be a death
blow to the West's interests in this region. (Front page; 1,466 words)
3. Analytical commentary by Azin Bektash headlined "Uncertain ministry
of oil being plundered in joint [oil] fields": The analysis refers to
the alleged very slow progress in developing joint oilfields,
particularly the South Pars oilfields and states that part of this slow
speed has been due to uncertainties in the Oil Ministry. The analysis
quotes Head of Majlis Energy Committee Hamid-Reza Katuzian saying that
Iran is lagging behind in every joint oilfields and this is not specific
to South Pars oilfields only. (Front page; 995 words)
Sources: Iranian press highlights, in Persian, 25 June 11
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Hey everyone, I was listening to one of my favorite songs the other day and was enjoying how the song was able to take me to a different time and place. I started to wonder if I could relate that to beer. I started to think of beers that have a great memory associated with them and how when I drink one of those beers I seem to think about that moment, even if for an instance. I was wondering if any of you have a "beer memory". Mine is a wonderful night of great weather and baseball with my brother and PBR's, but I'd like to hear yours. You can find my story here and I encourage you to post your story here as well. I'd love to hear it!Beer Memories | Mike's Brew Review
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Although my palate has developed greatly since that first sip of coors light, I still drink a fair amount of BMC. Every once in a while when I pick up a warm can (important part) of BMC, it takes me back to my friends basement at 16, pulling cans out of a plastic 6-pack holder and wondering if I could finish all six or not...
Whenever I drink Bell's Oberon, it takes me back to college (Michigan State). It may not be my favorite beer anymore, but it was definitely the GO TO craft beer of my college days.
LOL. Love it guys! I remember in high school we used to get a party ball of Bud Light on a Friday night. If we finished it, 8 of us, it was impressive. It still is kind of a feat, but by our standards today we finish off kegs and still want more... As for Bell's Oberon, I've got a beer like that to. Linie's Honeyweiss...This was probably the first craft brew that I drank consistently. It was all I drank for a while and now the only time I ever get it is when I go and eat hot wings. So I suppose from here on out each time I drink Honeyweiss, of course if it isn't with wings, I'll be thinking about delicious fried chicken! Thanks for the responses. I love hearing people's stories.
Like most of you guys, one of my favorite memories involved a "starter beer". My friends and I all went down to St. Augustine for spring break. Despite a couple of us moving away for school, we were all able to meet up and drive down together. After walking around St. Augustine in the hot Florida sun all day, we decided to stop into a burger bar-style place with a covered patio overlooking the St. John's river. It was great to just take a break from walking around to enjoy a big (1 lb.), juicy cheeseburger with some cold Yuenglings on draft. Not the greatest beer in the world, but one of my greatest beer memories for sure.
The 70`s Nashua,NH -> kegs of Molson Golden ale placed in snowbanks to keep cold and snow filled bongs Fast forward to the early 80s and it was Mickey's Big Mouth Now the early 90s and it was O'Malley's Irish pub (daytona beach) and drinking every type of beer from around the world to get your name on a award plaques over the bar
I have a few... Coors light on tap in Colorado before I got into the craft brews was so delicious compared to what we got back east. My wife and I got hooked on those for a while. On a trip to Albuquerque I had my first Fat Tire. That really stood/stands out as one of the best tasting beers ever. Mojo IPA and Hazed and Infused, Boulder Beer Co. are recent beer experiences seared into the memory from annual trips to the area.
One summer night in 1983 my two friends and I were kicking around the neighborhood and saw a brown paper bag sitting by the curb, it looked full of something. That something was a six pack of COLD Michelob! Someone must've forgotten to bring it in after hopping, oh well, their loss was our gain. Two beers each and we were having a GREAT time! My buddy's older sister found us out but she was cool. Oh what a night.....
When I drink bud light from a keg with my friends from growing up it reminds me of my 21st birthday. At the end of the night we realized no one had done a keg stand and I was to blitzed to do much of anything. One of my firends tried to do one. We got him up, but there was next to nothing in the keg and it tipped over. He landed on his neck and miraculously got up and laughed it off. I thought we were going to the hospital for sure.
summer 1977 fresh out of high school living on long island . Sitting on the beach with a Moosehead and Marilyn making one of the best grilled cheese sandwiches I have ever had.....
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Australia Day 2015 will see Hyde Park come alive and transform into a Summer Playground for Aussie kids. Children will get the opportunity to see their favourite television characters and enjoy in the family friendly and free activities.
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Marathon info
Guides and Race Day Info
- Runners' Guide (PDF format)
- Packet Pickup info
- Spectator's Guide (PDF format)
- Medical Guide (PDF format)
- Find your Bib Number
- Shuttle and Parking Lot Information (PDF format)
- Online Interactive Detour Route Map - get around the race detours
- Spectator Information
- Start/Finish Village (PDF format)
- Weekend Guide (PDF format)
We doubled the number of runners for 2014! The race will be run entirely on streets to give you lots of room. This year's Naperville Marathon will be held entirely within Naperville. The marathon will wind through and showcase the city of Naperville.
The Marathon will start and end at Naperville Central High School with the post race party at Knoch Park.The race will wind through and showcase the city of Naperville, Illinois.
The 2014 Naperville Marathon will be a 2016 Boston Marathon qualifying race.
• See 2014 RUNNER INFO - FAQS.
Each registered runner will receive a drawstring backpack plus a gender specific long sleeve tec shirt when they pick up their bib at the EXPO.
Each finisher of the Edward Hospital Naperville Marathon will receive their marathon finisher's medal when they cross the finish line.
Race start/end Location
The Marathon will start and end on Hillside Road next to Naperville Central High School in downtown Naperville, Illinois. Post race festivities will be held in Knoch Park next to the high school.
Both races will start together at 7:00 AM. Runners can find their place in the start corral based on pace. Chip timing will help insure a congestion-free start. More pace group info.
Course & Aid Station Info
This year's Edward Hospital Naperville Marathon and Half Marathon course will feature 15 Aid Stations on the FULL course.
Every aid station will have:
- Water
- Gatorade Endurance Formula
- Medical Team – Edward Hospital medical staff
- Porta Potties
In Addition:
Full Marathoners will have 2 CLIF stations handing out GEL packets to the runners. We will have these flavors for you to choose from: Non-Caffeinated: Razz and Vanilla and Caffeinated: Citrus and Mocha.
Gatorade Endurance Formula is on course at this year's Edward Hospital Naperville Marathon and Half Marathon, fueling you throughout the entire race.
As part of a five-electrolyte blend which includes sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and chloride, Endurance Formula is a specialized sports drink designed to help maintain hydration during prolonged training and racing when fluid and electrolyte losses can be significant.
It contains nearly 2x the sodium and more than 3x the potassium of Gatorade Thirst Quencher to help maintain hydration and proper fluid balance and help replace the critical electrolytes lost in sweat during these occasions. Find Endurance Formula online at www.fuelbelt.com/GatoradeEndurance or at a Sport-Specialty retailer near you.
"Great community support, loved that the neighborhoods came out and cheered us on! Well run, well staffed, can't wait for next year!"
~ Beth P.
"Great route! Great weather! Great coordination! Great humor signs! Great volunteers! And amazing spectators!!! Thanks for such a great race- we had a blast!!!"
~ Mindy K.
Marathon Course Map
- 2014 Marathon Course Map (PDF format)
updated 10/15/2014 - 2014 Marathon Course Map (PNG format)
updated 10/15/2014
Click on the image below to see the course map:
(large PDF file may take time to load.)
Please check the elevation chart at the bottom of the map. The first half of the course is flat and fast while the second half of the course may be more challenging to runners.
Cool Weather ! Hot Fun !
November may just be the perfect month for running long distances - cooler temperatures usually mean faster finishes.
No need to worry about cool temperatures at the start, we'll have a warm building and heated tents for your use.
And to keep you warm after your race, every finisher will receive a FitFul™ Recovery Jacket when they cross the finish line.
Unlike the mylar/ foil blankets, the FitFul™ Recovery Jacket is a reusable, yet disposable, jacket made of a 100% polypropylene, spun bound, non-woven fabric with cotton cuffs, a zippered front and hood. Water resistant, yet breathable, it is ideally suited for maintaining the athlete's core body temperature and protecting them from the elements.
Once you finish, and have your finisher's medal around your neck, it is time to join the party in the Celebration Village in Knoch Park, adjacent to the finish line. There you will find hot and cold food, beer, live music and activities for all ages!
You will know why we are giving you a jacket and not a mylar blanket - you will need BOTH hands to hold the bounty of post-race food in the Runner Food tent.
Bananas, fruit and water will start you off. Then stop at the Whole Foods Market Bagel Bar with your choice of fresh bagels and various spreads and toppings.
Looking for gluten free? We have Annie's Homegrown gluten free snacks as well as regular Annie's snacks.
Grab a wrapped Buona Beef sandwich - warm, tender, lean, low in fat, and spiced just right with special seasonings and served in its own natural gravy on just-baked Italian bread.
Aurelio's cheese pizza
Marathon Course Video
Our friends at John Greene Realtor have put together a course video for the 2014 Naperville Marathon Course. Take a look:
Naperville Marathon Course 2014 from Thomas Hartmann on Vimeo.
"This was truly a first class event from registration through the runner reunite area. Every detail was well thought out and executed perfectly! The race directors listened to the runners and gave them a race to remember! Also, the town of Naperville welcomed and supported this race with open arms! This was my 10th marathon and was definitely one of the best! Well done race directors, volunteers, spectators, and runners! Two very enthusiastic thumbs up!"
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Devotees have flocked to a hotel manager's house in Erumeli, near where the apparition is rumored to have occurred. The hotelier claimed that statues of the Virgin Mary in his house had been crying honey and bleeding oils and perfume. The hotelier has since moved, but the house has been the object of attention for months.
Health authorities in the Kottayam district have tried to dispel rumors of a miraculous image in the sun. They warn of the dangers of looking into direct sunlight. Forty-eight cases of sight loss, possibly caused by photochemical burns on the retina, have been recorded at St. Joseph's ENT and Eye Hospital since Friday.
"All our patients have similar history and symptoms… They have developed photochemical, not thermal, burns after continuously gazing at the sun," Dr. Annamma James Isaac, the hospital's ophthalmologist said, according to the Telegraph.
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