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VULCAN Fires Up Research Across a Range of User Problems
Research Contact: Ke An
July 2011, Written by Agatha Bardoel
Ke An, lead instrument scientist, Alexandru Stoica, instrument scientist, Xun-Li Wang, Materials Science & Engineering Thrust leader, Harley Skorpenske, scientific associate.
The engineering diffractometer VULCAN at SNS only recently completed commissioning, although it has been grazing across a significant range of user research in the past few months. The instrument was primarily conceived for large-scale deformation in industrial components and residual stress–related studies in welding. But the user applications have taken it across a varied field, from components for the ITER Project to the spatial mapping of the very small in chemistry and microstructure.
ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, had been experiencing problems with a superconducting cable and brought it to VULCAN for study, says new lead instrument scientist Ke An.
The work done on the ITER cable shows how well positioned VULCAN is to tackle independent problems. The instrument has an open structure that can serve any sized sample. "You can put anything you want on there," An says, "a lab sample, full-size sample, or a full, 3-meter test length of superconducting cable for ITER that is two inches in diameter."
VULCAN also did the tests at speed. Many industrial projects have a critical turnaround time, and ITER was no exception. The VULCAN team managed to get samples of the defective cable on the instrument in less than two weeks. Results would typically follow in the third or fourth week, An says.
In another experiment, the first time such a study has been done in real time at a neutron facility by taking the advantage of neutron source power at SNS, the VULCAN team helped researchers to see the stages of lithium carbide during the real-time charge/discharge of a large format lithium battery for a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). They wanted to understand how the lithium ion is being absorbed into the carbide structure in batteries at work.
"We used high-intensity neutron diffraction to observe real-time charge/discharge of a battery," An explains. "Not a slow discharge of hours but less than a one-hour, real-time discharge, in real conditions. The large format battery for PHEV is rated up to 40 Ah with a thickness of 8 mm, so it is difficult for conventional x-ray diffraction measurement." To do this the researchers developed an advanced approach that enables neutron measurement at the fast charge/discharge rate. They were able to successfully resolve the discharge on a minute scale, with remarkable histograms emerging of the changes to the battery's internal structure―the cathode and the anode―during charge/discharge.
The work showed the actual structural chemistry of what happens when lithium is transferred from one side of the electrode to the other. "Now we can use neutrons to see it. Once you understand this process, you can tune it. We used a pump-probe technique. Then we cycle the data. Then we sum them all together. We will push to do this at the microsecond level (millionths of a second) for fast transient phenomena in materials."
VULCAN has a full user program this cycle, including industrial participants such as General Motors for batteries and fuel cell storage for cars.
The design philosophy called for a diffractometer with the highest desirable d-resolution, over a large angular range. How accurately you measure the value of d-spacing is its "resolution"; i.e., how close can 2 values of lattice plane be such that your experiment can still distinguish them.
For experiments that do not require such high resolution, the incident beam divergence can be relaxed to gain intensity at the sample position up to a factor of 3. Furnace, load frame, and other auxiliary equipment for in situ and time-resolved measurements are all integrated into the instrument.
An sees two features at VULCAN that make it the first of its kind in the world. One is the "one-of-a-kind" VULCAN multiaxial load frame. The other is the unique pulse data collection method that they have inserted directly into the beam line.
The $1.2 million VULCAN load frame was funded by the National Science Foundation through the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Designed by the MTS Systems Corporation and the VULCAN team, it took five years to build.
The state-of-the-art load frame has four axes moving simultaneously as it applies tension and torsion to a sample. Normally such massive structures at neutron diffraction beam lines are uniaxial. The torsion capability allows researchers to do tests in multiple dimensions, as well as multiaxial cyclic fatigue up to 30 Hz—a rare condition. Load under heat by induction heater adds another capability to the unique load frame. A laser extensometer could measure length changes while the load and heat are being applied.
The loading features will be expanded over time. A microscope and infrared camera could look at specific points to enable multiprobe analysis of plane changes in a lattice, while observing local heating caused by local damage in the sample. Such features will give VULCAN powerful new capabilities.
A second unique VULCAN feature, and again the first of its kind in the world, is asynchronous neutron measurement of fast transient phenomena in materials. The method uses a special probing technique to take data from the sample under dynamic conditions, for example, under AC electrical field or cyclic mechanical load. The method has been integrated into the beam line to collect the neutron scattering data on a time scale of microseconds (millionths of a second).
"These are very fast processes. If they're happening too fast, and repeating multiple times, then we can improve the statistics, ultimately to gather the data at microsecond intervals," An says. "In previous cycles, we did it easily at millisecond (thousandths of a second) timescales with the existing neutron event-data collection. By developing a new meta (sample environment) event data along with the neutron event data, we measured transient phenomena in microseconds timescales. We can simply apply the special meta data structure into the beam line and turn it on. The data synchronization reduction can be performed by the high temporal resolution (100 ns) timestamp recorded in both the meta and neutron event data. Therefore, the sample environment and the neutron pulse do not need be synchronized at the time of measurement, like conventional pump-probe measurement, which reduces great amount of effort on system hardware and software integration. We have successfully used this method on our new load frame as well as AC electrical sample environment. Nobody has done this before at any pulsed neutron source."
The novel data collection system and high neutron flux at SNS will open up new opportunities at VULCAN to study time-resolved phenomena occurring at high speed. The probe technique will be able to push resolution to the microsecond level. "The only limitation will be pulse width. This is something no one has done before," An says.
SNS is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences.


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Massive abuse scandal shatters Dutch Catholic Church
The free and easy veneer of Dutch society
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EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY of the little Dutch boy who supposedly stuck his finger in a leaky dike, thus preventing an entire region from being flooded by the North Sea. The Catholic Church of the Netherlands is currently experiencing a comparably disastrous flood, and this time it can no longer count on its little boys to shut up and do their duty.
While Catholics form only a minority of 27% in the largely secular Netherlands, it appears that their institutions are responsible for a high proportion of the country's sexual abuse. A new report released today shows an appalling history of sodomy and rape at the hands of priests and Church employees since the Second World War.
Should this surprise anyone? Catholic sex scandals have been sweeping the world like a wildfire for years (I have written extensively about the issue in Germany in my blog), and it was inevitable that they would catch up with Holland. Back in February 2010 a Dutch radio station called Wereldomroep and the newspaper NRC Handelsblad broke the news of the alleged abuse of three children by Salesian priests at a boarding school in 's-Heerenberg back in the 1960s. This was the trickle that led to today's flood. As thousands of Dutch men and women began telling their own tales of fondling and buggery, the Church committee Hulp & Recht (Assistance & Justice) began handling the cases.
Former Dutch education minister and
current mayor of The Hague, Wim Deetman
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In March of 2010 the Dutch Conference of Bishops appointed a former education minister, Wim Deetman, the mayor of The Hague, to head up a new commission to explore the issue. Its report, released today, is utterly devastating. Deetman estimates that between ten and twenty thousand Catholic children have been sexually abused in Catholic institutions since 1945. Moreover, "[t]he total number of persons that have reported sexual abuse by perpetrators working in the Roman Catholic Church in the period 1945 to 1981 comes to several tens of thousands. It can be assumed that several thousands of these victims suffered serious abuse." So far, the Church has identified 800 perpetrators by name, of whom 105 are still alive.
What does the report mean by "abuse"? Deetman is very specific on this:
Sexual abuse is defined as: any sexual contact by representatives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese – priests, religious, pastoral workers employed by the church, lay persons and volunteers working for the church – with a child or youth under the age of 18, entrusted to the responsibility of those representatives, where those persons feel (felt) unable to refuse the sexual contact as a result of physical dominance, abuse of a position of authority, emotional pressure, compulsion or force.
A position of authority is defined as: an unequal power relationship (adult-minor, teacher-student, leader-youth member, etc.).
Sexual contact is defined as: any actual sexual contact, from touching or causing the touching of breasts or genitals and kissing with sexual intent up to and including sexual intercourse (vaginal, oral or rectal) or the penetration of the vagina or rectum with objects or fingers.
The report determined that "of the Dutch nationals aged 40 years or older, between one in a 100 (0.9%) and one in 300 (0.3%) have experienced unwanted sexual advances before the age of 18 from a perpetrator working in the Roman Catholic Church."
In many cases, the abuse was systematic and the Church knew about it. Take for instance the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco in the 1950s and 1960s:
This congregation had strict standards and rules for dealing with cases of abuse, but they were applied with considerable leniency. There is evidence that sexually inappropriate behaviour towards members of the order may perhaps have been part of the internal monastic culture. When the responsible superiors became aware that cases of abuse were probably or certainly occurring, one of the most common measures taken was to transfer the individual concerned, sometimes abroad. Penance, transfer and possibly treatment were apparently more appealing than expulsion from the order with a view to avoiding the loss of members or preventing a scandal.
"A culture of silence":
Dormitory room at Don Rua boarding
school in 's-Heerenberg, Netherlands.
(Source: nrc.nl)
Sexual abuse frequently went hand-in-hand with ordinary physical abuse, which was endemic in Catholic institutions.
For example, the Brothers of Charity's prohibition of physical punishment did not prevent these brothers from treating the children in boarding schools, including Eikenburg and Jonkerbosch, harshly. Former pupils have reported being beaten, not being given food or being forced to stand out in the cold for long periods. The violence also had a sexual connotation. Pupils who were afraid of the unpredictable and violent behaviour of brothers took care to become friends with them, as a result of which it was easier for them to become victims of sexual abuse.
The report blames a "culture of silence" within the Dutch Catholic Church and also places some of the blame on the practice of celibacy. But just what is it about celibacy that seems to drive some priests to abuse children? Thomas Patrick Doyle, an American priest and canon lawyer who has been campaigning on behalf of abuse victims since the mid-1980s, explained to the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant earlier this year that
[c]elibacy in itself doesn't have to lead to rape. But it can give priests and bishops the idea that they are somehow on a higher spiritual plane. That narcissistic spirituality is the dark side of the church, the idea that you are better than others.
They set themselves up to be a-sexual beings and that is how they are perceived, by their victims as well. That is what made it such a terrible and lonely experience for them: how could a priest sin? It was inconceivable so nobody believed them. The damage these people suffered at the hands of people who were supposed to be paragons of virtue is incalculable.
The legend of the Little Dutch Boy
is getting a relaunch.
The scandal has already cost the Catholic Church its influence in Dutch society. According to a report released yesterday, 86% of the population in the heavily Catholic province of Brabant have lost virtually all their faith in the institution.
Some Catholics will take heart from the finding that, while the risk of sexual abuse inside institutions such as boarding schools and orphanages is roughly double the risk in society as a whole, there were no significant differences in the abuse rate between Catholic institutions and those of other denominations. In Holland, just like everywhere else, most child abuse occurs at the hands of family members. Even so, the Deetman Report calls for a public accounting of abuse within the Church and major changes to the ways in which the institution deals with the issue. After all, the report explains, "the Roman Catholic Church portrays itself publicly as a guardian of moral standards and values. For many people inside and outside the Church, it is precisely the violation of those standards and values by persons working in the Church that causes a sense of dismay."
Amen to that.
unfortunately, the people who control education are not interested in exposing the corruption in which they have have come to position and power.
we are no more than half way between apes and angels, and i am perhaps overly generous.
There was only one case for certain that I knew of a priest who took advantage sexually of a child. It was in high school, and the priest , James Beatty, CSV, was extremely violent as well as predatory. It's funny when you're young, you don't know anything about sex, what should be reported and to whom. The only thing I knew was the priest always had a male student who was his "special friend," who would go back with the priest to his "office" in the back of the library stacks. We all knew it was totally weird, but just joked about it.
I think the problem is not celibacy, but the exalted state that is given to the priesthood, as if they are "God's" vicars on earth, the possessors of truth and authority.
I might add that whatever the advanced state of Jeshua, known to us in the Roman name of "Jesus," the entire liturgy and hierarchy of the Catholic Church is man-made. It is all made up, add-ons that evolved over centuries. There is nothing about the priesthood that derives from whatever greatness there was in the man we know as "Jesus." In other words, it's all bullshit.
I agree, this needs to be brought out in the day light. Only those who fear just punishment or those who would protect the abusers rather than the abused would resist that.


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My name is Shaylanna Brittney Luvme AKA "Queen City Shay." I'm an incarcerated transgender woman in the state of New York. I am 25 years of age. I am currently serving a 20-plus year sentence. I was accused of robbery and assault. However, I only defended me and my boyfriend. There's no self-defense in New York State.
Unfortunately, my family chose to neglect me when I came out. My mother is coming around after almost nine years, my father does not like the fact that I'm trans and he refuses to talk to me.
Writing with Reed from Black & Pink as a friend has been a very big part of my progression. Having a pen-pal from Black & Pink gives LGBT prisoners someone to confide in and it also lessens our chances of harassment by staff because they will notice that we have a non-department civilian to hear our complaints. My experience of queerness and being in the prison industrial complex is horrifying. I've been groped, threatened with sexual abuse, targeted, and more.
I look at the pen-pal connection as a source of comfort and also an open door to share knowledge and facts between two people.
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The criminal legal system, or prison industrial complex (PIC), disproportionately impacts lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people, particularly poor/low-income LGBTQ people of color. Black & Pink is an open family of LGBTQ prisoners and free-world allies who support each other. We are outraged by the specific violence—harassment, assault, and many forms of abuse—of the PIC against LGBTQ people. As Anastasia, a transwoman prisoner in Arkansas, wrote, "You struggle daily…and no matter what, you are at the mercy of the administration, so therefore cannot escape the feelings of anger, hopelessness, isolation, and abuse."
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This is a great approach. Taking the time to write shows that you care. It allows expression where thoughts and feelings would otherwise become left and lost to what could be growth personally and in relationship.


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Every Wednesday at 6pm we invite people to call in an get educated about their rights and not become a victim of injustice. The host Mr. Sonny B. Southerland has fought child protective services all the way to the U>S> Supreme Court and won, proving that a CPS caseworker can be sued for causing the wrongful removal of six children back in June of 1997 by giving false statements to a family court judge to obtain a warrant to remove his children that were placed in the foster care system.
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Child Protective Services: Friend or Foe?"
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You Say Compôte, I Say Stewed
What's in a name, eh?
There have been several occasions of late where I have happened upon blog posts describing fruit compôtes and, each time, I have experienced precisely the same sequence of reactions, to wit:
- compôte – oooh, sounds fancy, quickly followed by…
- ah, you just mean stewed fruit
Now, don't get me wrong, the compôtes described were lovely and more than worthy of gracing my web browser with their presence. It's just that, in my head at least, the word compôte generated a mental image of something more ooh la la than an everyday bowl of stewed fruit.
The fact of the matter is, however, that there is really no difference between the two. A compôte (almost literally) boils down to some pieces of fruit stewed in syrup. What that means is that, apart from the fruit itself, there was some water and sugar involved. There may or may not have been some additional flavourings in on the act. Oh, and a saucepan and some gentle heat if you want to be really particular about it. But that's it. It's just fruit (as much as you want to eat) chopped up and stewed in a little water (the amount of which is invariably less than you think you'll need) over a gentle heat with sugar added to taste. To be honest, I had to go and look it up, just to make sure that I hadn't missed something. Other than the fact that some (but not all) definitions specify that the fruit pieces should stay intact for it to be a compôte, that is indeed pretty much it.
The point, I guess, is that how we describe food can predispose us to think of it in certain contexts and make it more or less accessible, without changing the material fact of what the food is or how it is made. The orangey stewed rhubarb I describe below is no more or less lovely or tasty than if I had described it as an orange rhubarb compôte. Purists could quibble over the fact that this particular dish did not a compôte make, the rhubarb having completely disintegrated in the stewing process, but let's just leave them in the quibbling corner. What I'm getting at is that people's perceptions of a dish can have a lot to do with how they relate (or not) to it and while simple food does not have to mean plain food, it is sometimes nice to let the food speak plainly.
Stewed Rhubarb With Orange Juice and Cinnamon
This all came about as a result of having gotten my paws on the first rhubarb of the season from my mothers garden and I simply thought, well, stew that! I have to thank Christie from Fig and Cherry for suggesting this particular combination. I was about to stew the rhubarb with my usual pinch of dried ginger when she mentioned (or should I say tweeted) that she loved it stewed with orange juice and a cinnamon stick. So I went with that and it was very fine indeed.
You'll need:
- About 250g rhubarb
- Juice of one orange, about 6 tblsps or so
- 1 cinnamon stick, approx 3cm long
- Sugar to taste
The Steps:
- Wipe the rhubarb sticks clean and slice into small pieces, say about 1 cm wide, and remove any stringy bits of the skin.
- Add the rhubarb to a saucepan with the orange juice and the cinnamon stick. The rhubarb will release a lot of liquid as it cooks, so you don't need any additional liquid here.
- Place the saucepan, covered, over a medium heat, until it just starts to bubble, then reduce the heat to low and simmer gently until the rhubarb pieces are very soft and disintegrate easily, around 20 to 25 minutes.
- You can remove the cinnamon stick now and stir in sugar to taste. I used about 25g of demerara sugar in this, which meant that the rhubarb still retained a fair amount of tartness, but it really all depends on the particular rhubarb and orange juice you use and on your own personal sweet tooth.
- You can eat this warm, cold or at room temperature. Eat on its own or as a dessert with yoghurt, cream or ice cream. Spoon it on your breakfast cereal or spread it onto some crusty white buttered bread. The possibilities are endless.
The Variations:
- Replace the orange juice with an equal amount of water and add a pinch of dried ginger in place of the cinnamon stick.
The Results:
- This much rhubarb probably amounts to around 2 dessert portions, if that's how you plan on eating it.
The rhubarb in the first shot looks so vibrant and fresh! What a joy to get your hands on such wonderful produce to cook with (hooray for your Mum!).
So glad you gave the orange/cinnamon combination and a try ;)
As long as the outcome is the same, names don't matter much with me. Although, compote does have a fancy ring to it. =)
The stewed rhubard on bread looks delish. Perfect for breakfast or an afternoon snack.
Rhubarb sounds awesome with orange juice and cinnamon! There's certainly no difference between stewed rhubarb and compote. Actually, I found a very similar recipe in Jean Georges cookbook and he calls it a rhubarb "soup" :)
I have never eaten rhubarb. I thought I had an intellectual understanding of what it is, but have never actually eaten it. So I feel at a loss in understanding it completely. But from what I gather from reading here it is in fact not a fruit! Which is news to me…GREG
MMMMM…LOOks great, something for me!! Did you use forced rhubarb or normal rhubarb? Because the forced rhubarb we can't buy in Belgium!
Looks delicious!
Lovely on some home made bread with slightly salted butter,….
Strangely enough, I've never tried rhubarb, but have been tempted to buy the lovely stalks at the local market recently. I think that I'll pick some up next time and try this!
Do you think that fresh ginger would work in place of dried?
Christie: yes, it was fantastic rhubarb I must say and thanks again for the orange/cinnamon idea, I loved it!
jenn: yep – the most important thing is that it tastes good, right?
Natasha: rhubarb soup? brilliant :) and the orange/cinnamon variation is definitely worth a try
Greg: yes, you are quite right, it is, in fact a vegetable, it just gets treated like an honorary fruit; if you ever coming visiting I will cook you some
Sophie: the rhubarb in the picture was forced and it was just beautiful; I have rhubarb in my own garden which has not been forced and so it's not anywhere near that big yet, but will get there evetually
Mindy: I think you could certainly try a little fresh ginger with the rhubarb in place of the dried (and thanks for dropping in btw!)
Looks great and would be a welcome addition to my breakfast table. Think I'll give it a try w/ some fresh ginger!
Aaahhh! A discourse after my own heart – food as status signifier! By using descriptors that have particular connotations (French=haute cuisine), an 'aura' of inaccessibility is created around even the most simple preparation that may effect our approach to or consumption of it. Whereas I might happily munch away on veggies and dip, perhaps I'll be a little more genteel in partaking of 'les crudités et vinaigrette'. And what is coq au vin but a stringy old rooster stewed in wine? There is an element of signaling in using such descriptors to convey or imply cultural sophistication, wordliness, and education.
Then again, it may also be the only recognized name of the dish with no English or other language counterpart, and was not intended to differentiate. But I love overanalyzing . . . !
Thank your for this recipe – our rhubarb is just sprouting but I have a freezer full from last year's harvest. I usually stew them down with just a bit of water and sugar but I much prefer the promise of orange juice and cinnamon (and ginger, from the suggestions here!)
I love this recipe and will definitely try it when I next get my hands on some rhubarb. As a child I used to eat it raw out of a patch that grew in a field near my house. One day a friend and I went there for a sour treat and accidentally stepped on a yellow jacket hive…I was stung over 30 times. After I recovered, I went right back for more. I love the stuff so much I'm willing to suffer for my rhubarb!
You go, DS! Well said! I knew TN would love this post, too!
And as far as I'm concerned, crème pâtissière is just vanilla puddin'.
I tried to make stewed fruit/compote without a pan once. Very messy; I don't recommend it. ;) I do think that I would love this compote/stewed fruit. Strawberries and rhubarb are lovely together as well.
This really sounds more my speed. I love stewed fruit. I used rubarb for the first time the other day in a pie, with strawberries. Failure! I didn't have enough rubarb so I added more strawberries. BIG mistake! It tastes more like slightly tart strawberry jam and was so runny you couldn't cut the pie. I knew strawberries juiced out alot with sugar, but didn't know that about rubarb. So..I drained the filling into a jar (crisped the crust and we ate it like a jammy cookie) and will now add your orange juice, some more sugar and cook it into a compote! Thanks for this!
The picture did indeed jump off the screen and like you I love the combination of rhubarb and ginger, or rhubarb and ginger plus strawberries to such an extent that I never think to branch out. Until now – that picture is speaking to me and I look forward to trying this new combination.
Oh that sounds delish. And yeah it's stewed but I love stewed anything. Love the cinnamon addition too.
Chef Asata: do try it!
Tangled Noodle: ah, I know you'd be interested in this one! It did occur to me that there was perhaps no other single noun descriptor for the dish in English but I kind of like to (over) analyse the other reasons too :)
Barnaby: now that is what I call suffering for your rhubarb!
Reeni: ah, never had rhubarb, poor you…
Heather: oh yes, on the bread – we used to eat it that way a lot as kids
Jenni: oh yeah, vanilla puddin' all the way :) and when I get as far as strawberry season, they'll go into the mix too
Susan: oh dear, yes, rhubarb exudes a lot of juice, but good for you that you have a backup plan for the saved juices!
OysterCulture: I was the same about rhubarb & ginger – I do love the combination and hadn't branched out much before this myself, but happy I did…
noble pig: yep, it's good, whether it's stewed or a compote :)
potato. patato. tomato. tamato. compote. stewed.
whatever its called it looks yummy spread on that bread. I was introduced to rhubarb quite late in life, and love it more and more each season.
I'm not allowed to use rhubarb any more……there was an incident…..people were hurt and no one got dessert…..it was all very depressing……this was at home btw…..
I have never tried orange with rhubarb, but now that I've seen it, I've got to have it! The color is gorgeous, and I can only imagine that the flavor matches. Awesome!
gastroanthropologist: indeed, I've grown up with it and look forward to it every year myself
manuel: oh dear, I hesitate to enquire further…
Haley: oh it's good alright :)
love reading u as always…and oh I love rhubarbs…and sadly I have had them just once in my life..(yet!)….
and I loved ur Elvis bread (above) too…thought it would be flamboyant like Sir Priesley too…;p
Lovely. Rhubarb at the end of the garden is looking like it's time to start using to make it grow a bit more. Since I'm the only rhubarb-eater in the house (philistines!) I'm going to enjoy this on my own.
BTW – my captcha test has the words "Pelvic Prints".
Oisin, lmao. I am abdicating all responsibility for the phrases that my captcha produces (but still waiting for the day it comes up with "rhubarb, rhubarb" :) )
I tried rhubarb for the first time after seeing the Rhubarb Compote recipe on 5 Star Foodie's blog and now I'm a big fan!Will have to try this now:)
growing up always enjoyed rhubarb and it is still a favorite, stewed, compote or straight up in the sugar bowl its all terrific to me. an ultimate favorite my mom used to make for me were rhubarb perogies(dumpling) , any suggestions and recipes would be welcomed.
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well, I am Taiwanese. This article says a lot for the outrages of ordinary people. Ma is a real bumbler and we have to suffer for another 3 more years. thanks for the insight.
As a Taiwanese, I know Ma is a liar and evil since he was a major of Taipei 13 years ago. He never paid any sympathy to peoples who has suffered from economic or nature disasters. Remember the last tragedy in 2009 when hundreds of peoples were buried during a landslide in southern Taiwan. He said THEY (he refereed to those victims) now got the lesson. So cold-blood and cruel Ma is! and also, try to figure out this: How can you save 480000 NT a month with his salary at 470000 NT a month? Ma can!
So, he is not incompetent, he is greedy and cruel. No mercy, no humane!
You do support democracy and you know how it works, don't you?
If Ma is a bumbler, then the writef of this artcile is a super-bumbler. What is your ideas for improving this shaky economy and higher unemployement in the USA and for multi-national general strike against "austerity" in 23 European countries? President Ma is a problem-solver. Ma is the most generous and kindest people I have ever met and also one of the hardest working. The writer is a troublemaker. His article is nothing - shows off his ability.
If President Ma is a problem solver, I believe he could have listened to the will of the people and reform the bureaucratic public service compensation structure, cut the 18% interest for pension-savers, and privatize some of the state-subsided corporations that are ineffectively managed. This, along with other spending cuts, will help Taiwan avoid repeating the same path of Greece and Spain, as well as the soaring unemployment you mentioned about the US. The question is, when Ma's KMT controls the majority of the seats in the Yuan, he couldn't reach a conclusion with his own party, how could he be a problem solver in this regard?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/business/global/the-trade-off-that-cre... This article of Trade-Off That Created Germany's Job Miracle for your reference. Why Germany can have this micracle? By the way, there is no defenssive to an individual but solve problems in a peaceful and keep a human dignity. Do not fight on a paper.
What is your point sir?
OMG problem-solver????
I give you my most sincere LOL's
"...Ma is the most generous and kindest people I have ever met and also one of the hardest working..."? R U kidding me? Do u really think he is more generous and kinder than ur friends and parents? Why do somebody just like enjoying himself to be in a slave-like mind? What's that culture?? Ma is just our servant-official, that's all, isn't it?
I live in Taiwan
and I think the article understated the foolish Mr. Ma .
The most dying concern with President Ma is that he's painfully out of touch. Growing up in a privileged childhood, Ma appears to be sheltering himself away from ordinary families in favoring of the wealthy. Someone earlier pointed out that media are overwhelmingly controlled by the KMT; I believe Ma is indulged in a fantasy as if he is still the popular president when he was inaugurated for his first term, something that conservative media outlets and likes of TVBS should take partial blame.
Reducing subsidies on electricity and reforming the pension scheme are awfully unpopular actions. President Ma chooses to face them, not simply shirking them to his poor successor.
The Economist advocates the recent subsidy-reduction in India and Indonesia, but why not an advocacy for Taiwan? Regarding the pension reform, nobody wants to have a president who borrows to buy votes but leaves behind him a country like Greece today.
At crisis times, presidents are at best 'masters of a beggar's clan.' In this sense, President Ma's presidency resembles President Obama's. They had hard times and did decent jobs, did not they?
By the way...for you those of you thinking Chen's been treated unfair or...worst...innocent, here are things for you to think about!
1. HE IS A CRIMINAL...ok? No criminal in the history of Taiwan can still enjoy the things and privileges in jail like he does. So...STOP whining anymore (and have him stop too!!!)!!!
2. There is no way...I repeat...NO F'ING WAY he is innocent on those corruption charges! Why?...simple...you don't become a f'ing millionaire after 8yrs of presidency!!! Your WIFE don't become a f'ing millionaire after 8yrs of YOURS presidency!!! Your SON don't become a f'ing millionaire after 8yrs of YOURS presidency!!! Your DAUGHTER don't become a f'ing millionaire after 8yrs of YOURS presidency!!! Your GRANDSONS don't become a f'ing millionaire after 8yrs of YOURS presidency!!! Your FAMILY won't have SO MANY f'ing millionaires after 8yrs of YOURS presidency!!!
3. Amnesty is granted to criminals that ADMIT their crime AND have remorse about the damage they have done by their action. If Chen is still not admit his wrongdoings, crimes and has no remorse, HE IS NOT ENTITLED amnesty just because he was a president (not to mention a corrupted one!).
I think you should relax a bit. Most people in Taiwan shares your views with Mr. Chen and his family. However, the same is true that most Taiwanese do not care about Chen and want to move on; when President Ma repeatedly shifts his administering incompetence on the faults of Chen and when conservative media continues to blame Chen for Ma's inability to govern the country, that's when it backfires on himself.
I'm just going to refute your first point without having to read more of your latter arguments:
1. HE IS A CRIMINAL...ok? No criminal in the history of Taiwan can still enjoy the things and privileges in jail like he does. So...STOP whining anymore (and have him stop too!!!)!!!
Um, remember 228? Remember all the political assassinations? Remember the 38 years of martial law and atrocities?
Wait, then it sounds like there are PLENTY OF CRIMINALS IN THE HISTORY OF TAIWAN can still enjoy things and privileges above the top echelon of our society.
Also, it's fairly common to pardon a president (although not in TW since we've only had less than 20 years of democracy) to unify a country. Just imagine if Ma had taken the initiative to do that, how would he be viewed by the opposition now?
Learn some history brother.
A criminal denying his crime should not acquire a shorter sentence, not mentioning a pardon.
As a Taiwanese, i couldnt agree with this articles more. President Ma is so incompetent particularly in the economic policies that the future of taiwan makes me deeply worried
Well...if you don't like President Ma and KMT, if you have so many problems with them, if you have complaints for EVERY things that conducted by Ma and KMT, THEN FIND A WAY TO CHANGE IT!!!
Have DPP come up with a competent candidate instead of some "son of Taiwan" that end up in jail after 8yrs. Have DPP come up with someone that can out-shine and out-perform Ma or any KMT promoted candidate instead of someone that can't even speaking a word in English!!!
DPP has no competent {old) people in the party! Even DPP has some really talented young blood, they won't allow them to shine on political stage just because they are too young!!!
When you vote, you vote for lesser evil. That's why DPP lost the election. Just like how GOP lost to Obama!!!
Couldn't have agreed more!
I live in Taiwan. I favor this article. Face the reality.
I also live in Taiwan, nd i enjoy such partisanship that had been upon our society since the term of President Ma... and also i'm so glad to have a article to the economist, though being biased, politically referenced, about Taiwan...
it feels like a youtuber broadcasting to the world how torn apart we Taiwanese have been.. and still feeling being conscious..
and the reality i felt to the article: childish.. because the article is pretty much like a comment.. pretty much what i'm doing.. with selected fact and an evident attempt to blackmouth KMT
you're not news. you're political propaganda:
and here's my reason:
1. You call this childish, who are you to call this childish? That's your own view and you're trying to push your own personal opinion on others. Propaganda.
2. What new and true information have you provided us with your retort and arguments? Nothing. Not news.
You're not news, you're political propaganda.
I am just commenting.
surely, i agree with your first point. i'm trying to overwrite the opinion from the article. ex:
"Mr Ma is an ineffectual bumbler." p.2
"It suggests indecisiveness." p.4
without providing persuasive reasons.
and the author do have provide statement. ex: Sean Lien's part..
i'm just having problems differentiating commonly believed fact, and proclamation. ex:retired civil servants, teachers and ex-servicemen part.
"The trouble was, veterans are among the KMT's most fervent backers. Now some threaten to take to the streets in protest and deprive the KMT of their votes until the plan is scrapped."
firstly not to discuss about whether deprive KMT off incumbency has anything to do with scrapping the plan, the author's mentioning it as simply a problem on the rank of political party.. instead he provide nothing with what this has to do with the society.
It's a ethical group to be defamed as greedy and blablabla. The voice of society has formed and is leaded this way.
The reform, if president will perform, should not simply downsized to KMT's problem.
and finally you are only comment on my last two quotes. "true and new" is a strong statement. i would like to know which part of my comment before hand is not true and which part is retort and which part is not new??
hope that you could help me elevate..
i did take a too strong stand at my previous comment your sarcasm falls upon. and i do make mistake.. i should read the article more thoroughly.(i totally mised 連勝文.. since i have no idea about that news) and not catching author's original idea many times be neutral enough.
lastly,, i clicked "recommended" for your reply,, preying that you will reply again.. thnx
Uzuism, I use sarcasm but I really don't mean no animosity. I will admit that it is a bit hard to understand the things you say (a tad incoherent, but I have the same problem with English being my second language as well).
I argued against you prove a point that you see this article portraying Ma in a negative light, and thus you assumed it was not news and is a propaganda.
No matter how many facts you put up there, our argument did not stem from a lack of accurate facts or not, but simply your assumption that this is no good.
If you read the economist enough, you would, like me, give it the benefit of the doubt that they really don't endorse either parties in Taiwan. Just calling it as they see it (13% approval rating is calling it as they see it).
Also, KMT's ranking hierarchy within their party has a lot to do with the society as that is how Ma was nominated. I think we can both agree that KMT is a pretty traditional institution that still has a lot of Old-Guards. It's hierarchy prevents serious reform within the party, which implies that there has been little if any reforms since Lee Deng Hui was kicked out of KMT. KMT now runs the Presidential Office, the government. The party system is inevitably tied to our government institution as they were synonymous before 2000 (KMT = Government)
The author of this article stated a point: Ma is a bumbler. He aims to tell the reader why that is by supporting his points with facts. Facts have to be selective, he cannot include everything due to word limit. That is natural and it is not intentionally biased. He aims at telling the world what's happening in TW (again I have to bring up that 13% approval rate).
When he calls a President with 13% approval rate a bumbler, it's usually not trying to be biased. If he called a 50% approval rating president a bumbler, then there's something fishy.
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an edification, certainly, and make me realize my ignorance(不知道would be a better word)
hope i can learn more from you!!
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I'm still trying to figure out if his recent move injecting Taiwan in to the Diaoyu islands dispute is an act of clever politics or bumbling ineptitude.
At first glance, it seemed like a craven attempt at gaining popular support (especially from Taiwan's fishing industry). In addition, it resulted in an unnecessary disruption of normally calm diplomatic relations with Japan, and likely irritated the US.
However, upon realizing Taiwan's historical relationship to the islands (and to other similar disputed territories), both China and Japan seems to be courting Taiwan's support more strongly than ever. So cunning gambit, or Fool's luck?
Hey The Economist!!! It's "President" Ma for you. NOT "Mr." Ma!!! Unless you want us start addressing your Queen as "Mrs. Philip"; otherwise, SHOW SOME RESPECT!!!
whenever Ma is in front of Chinese delegations or politicians, he always addresses himself as Mr., and the counterpart won't even address him with "President" or "Mr."
If Ma really want respect from The Economist, Ma should respect himself first, also respect the people who trusted him and voted for him.
Ma the bumbler! I liked it! and Ma truly deserve this title!!!
PRC has always referred to Ma simply as "Mr. Ma," not as "President." Does Ma ever get angry? NO! Does Ma really think himself as the president of the ROC? Ask him. Respect yourself and others will respect you.
The Commies don't know the word ""President" OK? Because, they don't have one!!! When you talk to people like them, you have to speak the language that they can understand!
Like the respect that Mr. Ma shows the Taiwanese people....by selling them all down the river for his own personal glorification? "inoswim", provide one reason (just one), why Ma Ying-jeou deserves one ounce of respect.
Queen is figurehead not head
You can call their PM Mr Cameron, no one will think you are disrepectful.
Funny, Bumbler Ma has no respect for his people why should anyone pay him any respect? See how I address him here; just "Bumbler Ma", I think it couldnt be more appropriate.
And please, do not insult The Queen Of England by placing Ma on the same level as her.
You must be vaguely familiar with the English language. There is nothing wrong with calling someone Mr.XXX. The Economist calls everyone, including Obama and Xi Jinping, like that. He is president to you, not to me.
Only if he insists he is the President when he faces people from China, I do not think he cares about his title. He does not deserve to have such respect from the world.
Ma spoke of leaving a legacy shortly after his reelection victory, I guess this is it?
If Greek's politicians were as bumbler as President Ma and if Greek's politicians have stopped state-owned companies to lose so much money, today, Greek will be in a different story.
Greek pay their price today. We, as a citizen of Taiwan, don't want to pay price in Greek's way. Although Ma's popular satisfaction is so low, he is right. In this era, to do something right is always a bumbler thing.
蛤? I think it's a big mistake to take outcome as its reason. Who cares Ma's doing if he let people rich?
Ma is a bumbler is a know fact since he got elected first time in 2008. We should ask is "why Taiwanese people re-elected him". He will be around for a long time to destroy everything achieved by Taiwanese people in the last 50 years. What are you going to do?
Ma is certainly no bumbler. He is either an ultra clever mastermind who is plotting Taiwan's doom for his own ulterior motives, or he's suffering from extreme case of mental retardation.
As a Taiwanese, I am not a big fan of president Ma. However, I do find this article to be self-contradictory:
Whereas it says nothing suggests Mr Ma's main policies will change in the end, it also portrayed Ma as indecisive and frequently tweaking policies in response to opposition or media criticism (ex. postpone electricity price rises). Then, when Ma decided to implement a bonus cut on retired veterans, the articles described this as a move that cause troubles for the KMT.
Every policy will inevitably result in positive and negative outcomes. When the economy is bad, it is easy for people to pick the bad ones to complain about. From the limited perspective of this article, whatever Ma does would seem wrong. This may not be fair--- most of the world leaders now could be consider bumbling using the same standard. I expect something more objective, the Economist.
It seems to me that you are self-contradictory too. A self-claimed "not a big fan of president Ma," who refuses to see his absolute incompetence. I think this article does a fair job reviewing the reasons for Ma's popularity downfall. I'd say good job, the Economist!
Well I did not even vote for Ma in 2012...
However, I do think it is biased to judge a president simply by picking out and reviewing all the negative impacts of his policies.
so, can you show the "positive" effects as you address? no one can find one. even Presidnt Ma once introduced a policy for good but controverisal, he always changed his mind after being minor attack. just admit it, he has no guts. what Presidnt Ma said are all justifications and rhetoric for his incompentence
"Ma is bumbler" that is the top secret of Taiwan's national security. The Econmist disclose the secret to China that damage all Taiwanse's benefit.
the comment of this essay is quite moderate.
one very important point but missing in this article is how the judicial system has been abused against Ma's enemies such as the former president, Chen Shui-Bian.
I am not saying Chen is innocent, but his trial is undoubtedly unfair. The laws has become the most convenient weapon against the opposition. The reputation of the law courts is seriously damaged under Ma's government.
Don't use Chen to cover Ma's performance again.
Don't use Chen to cover Ma's performance again.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha Chen's trial is unfair... God I haven't laughed so hard in a lo-ng time
Poor guy!
I have nothing else but pity on you.
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