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www.atu2.com – U2 – Beautiful Day – Qwest Field, Seattle June 4, 2011. Song begins with video introduction in space by Commander Mark Kelly, husband of Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords. This is the first time this introduction was done for Beautiful Day during the U2360 tour.
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Seattle and Everett, WA in 24 hours
A whirlwind research trip to the Seattle area with one of my friends, who wanted to tag along. A massively successful trip, both for my research, and for the knowledge gained by experiencing Seattle – even just for a day. I can't wait to go back. Photos and video clips shot with a Canon Powershot S3 IS, edited with Roxio Creator 2009.
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Seattle, WA, USA, Tourism and leisure
from Wikipedia: Seattle is the northernmost major city in the contiguous United States, and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest and the state of Washington. It is a major seaport situated on a narrow isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 114 miles (183 km) south of the Canada — United States border, and it is named after Chief Sealth "Seattle", of the Duwamish and Suquamish native tribes. Seattle is the center of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan statistical area–the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States, and the largest in the northwestern United States. Seattle is the county seat of King County and is the major economic, cultural and educational center in the region. The 2010 census found that Seattle is home to 608660 residents within a metropolitan area of some 3.4 million inhabitants. The Port of Seattle, which also operates Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, is a major gateway for trade with Asia and cruises to Alaska, and is the 8th largest port in the United States in terms of container capacity.
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Elyts in Seattle
Filmed/Edited: Phillip Long When it comes to starting a new company, traveling is a must. Elyts took a trip to Seattle recently for Cooter Con 11. Not only did we hit up spots to scoot, but took some time out to look around and visit some interesting places. You can expect more tour edits to come. Edit features riders Zig Short, and Cory Vanlew. With a couple of guest clips from Tyler Bonner, Collin DaSilva, and Jake Pellegrini.
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"Spokane to Seattle, WA" Mrweinstein's photos around Seattle, United States
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Seattle, United States by TravelPod blogger Mrweinstein titled "Spokane to Seattle, WA" Mrweinstein's travel blog entry: "Seattle Day I So today's drive was a very nice one, albeit strange. Let me explain. You see, when the word desert is mentioned what areas of the country come to mind? Arizona? New Mexico? South Jersey? Sure! All of those are acceptable areas. What about Washington State? Ya know, the one where they grow all of the apples. Do you think of vast expanses of desert there? No of course not because you're a rational person. However, myself…Jen…and all of you have forgotten something very important: Geography. You see, the Cascade Range (mountains) divides Washington State into east and western parts. The eastern part on the Pacific Ocean receives vast amounts of moisture every year in the form of rain and snow. HOWEVER…as this weather moves west it collides with the mountains which essentially block most moisture from making it to the other side! Because of this, the western side of the mountains is a desert. Please check out the pictures if you don't believe me. It's complete with tumbleweeds, cactus, lots of taco restaurants, and yes…loads of sunburn. Almost immediately after hitting the top of the Cascade Range though..the desert turns into lush pine forests with rolling hills and beautiful lakes. This was the rest of the drive to Seattle. By the way…when did Seattle become so hilly? I think …
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A totally new kind of golf, dudeBy Mike DowneyUpdated 8:14 AM ET, Wed April 30, 2014FootGolf: The new kid on the block 7 photosPutting FootGolf on the map – FootGolf combines elements of football and golf, with players kicking a football around a golf course complete with bigger holes. Hide Caption 1 of 7FootGolf: The new kid on the block 7 photosFootGolf crazy – The first FootGolf competition was held in the Netherlands in 2008 and the sport has gone from strength to strength ever since.Hide Caption 2 of 7FootGolf: The new kid on the block 7 photosGlobal phenomenon – Three countries formed the Federation for International FootGolf in June 2012 for the first ever World Cup in Budapest, Hungary, which was won by Bela Lengyel (center). Today the world governing body boasts 22 different member nations.Hide Caption 3 of 7FootGolf: The new kid on the block 7 photosPass masters – FootGolf has proved to be hugely popular with footballers. Former Argentina international Juan Sebastian Veron is an ambassador for the Asociacion Argentina de FootGolf.Hide Caption 4 of 7FootGolf: The new kid on the block 7 photosFamous fans – Former France international Sylvain Wiltord is an ambassador for the Association Francaise de FootGolf.Hide Caption 5 of 7FootGolf: The new kid on the block 7 photosPar-ticipation on the rise – Seventy percent of people who have taken up the sport have been footballers, including former Netherlands international and current Ajax coach Frank de Boer (center).Hide Caption 6 of 7FootGolf: The new kid on the block 7 photosGreen shoots – Former English Premier League player Bryan Hughes is also a huge fan of the sport and will take on the role of academy director when the UK FootGolf Academy Scheme opens next month.Hide Caption 7 of 7Story highlightsGolf is looking for changes because it's losing players and fans on televisionMike Downey says new ideas such as bigger golf holes would speed playHe says purists are going to be offended, but other sports have changed to woo audiencesDowney: Why not let golf crowds make noise? And slap sponsor stickers on golf carts?George Plimpton, in the 1973 nonfiction book "Mad Ducks and Bears," describes a charity golf tournament. One of its organizers was Alex Karras, a pro football player with a sense of humor every bit as absurd as his big scene in the Mel Brooks cowboy spoof "Blazing Saddles," in which Karras' character, Mongo, punches a horse.The tournament -- proceeds went to cystic fibrosis -- was a one-day event in Flint, Michigan, at a golf club called Shady Acres. Its participants included many a Michigan celebrity, NFL players like Mel Farr and Wayne Walker from the Lions. But this would be unlike any round of golf that any of them had ever known.Karras and co-conspirators planted hidden tape recorders in the trees, blaring out jungle sounds. Detroit Lions in the woods, in the middle of a backswing, would hear the roar of a real lion. Bill Munson, a quarterback, about to hit a tee shot, jumped a foot because a cannon was shot off. A kicker, Errol Mann, was pranked with an exploding golf ball. A band of musicians stood by while guys tried to putt, playing Jarabe Tapatio -- "the Mexican hat dance" -- nonstop.A totally new kind of golf.Good idea?Mike DowneyAccording to a recent New York Times article, a totally new kind of golf is exactly what this sport desperately needs, even if that means a bizarre kind of golf unlike any you have ever known. "Golf holes the size of pizzas. Soccer balls on the back nine. A mulligan on every hole," the story by Bill Pennington of the Times tees it up, just for starters.Pennington points out that U.S. courses have actually fooled around with goofy golf innovations like these. A round was played in Greensboro, Georgia, last week -- a couple of PGA Tour pros took part -- that featured a 15-inch hole. A standard cup on a green is just 4.25 inches wide.Just WatchedAlister MacKenzie's road to AugustareplayMore Videos ...Alister MacKenzie's road to Augusta 05:24PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedSpecialist: Tiger facing 3 months recoveryreplayMore Videos ...Specialist: Tiger facing 3 months recovery 02:01PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedSee amazing trick golf shotreplayMore Videos ...See amazing trick golf shot 00:49PLAY VIDEOThat's right, a hole that looked like one Bugs Bunny would pop out of was used by the golfers at the Reynolds Plantation that day. It was like changing a basketball hoop to the size of a Hula Hoop.Why on Earth would a golf greenskeeper dig such a huge hole?Because a theory appears to be in play that golf desperately needs to something big, something dramatic, something drastic to keep the game's popularity from sinking like a dimpled Titleist into a pond."People under 35," Pennington writes, "have especially spurned the game, saying it takes too long to play, is too difficult to learn and has too many tiresome rules." Larger holes = fewer putts. Ergo, faster golf. No more three-putt greens (or more). No more waiting for the slowpokes (or old fogeys) in front of you to play through.A golf purist might be mortified. You don't redo the Mona Lisa with spray paint. You don't take Niagara Falls and stick a water slide in it. Golf shouldn't become a joke, like Ralph Kramden learning to play the game on "The Honeymooners," led to believe that to address a ball, the first thing you do is go, "Hello, ball."But would it be preposterous for golf to offer an alternative way to play? This is what some visionaries ask. If a younger generation could be attracted by a radical approach, would that be so bad?CNNMoney: Cycling is the new golfBoxing still exists, but as it began to fade, a new audience took to mixed martial arts. Track-and-field still exists, but as it began to fade, kids began doing jumps and sprints in extreme sports like the X-Games on boards or bikes. Volleyball evolved into beach volleyball. Skiing begat snowboarding. Pro football experimented (with less success) with indoor football. Pool turned to 9-ball. Stud poker turned to Texas Hold 'Em.Adapt or die.For those who pull another old adage from a bag -- that if something isn't broken, there is no need to fix it -- keep in mind that nobody's trying to eliminate golf as we know it. There will still be holes, still be clubs and balls, still be (depending where you play) a caddy or a cart.Golf courses have been going out of business, however. (In late 2013, for example, five Charlotte clubs faced foreclosure, as did three in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.) Public ones need new customers. Private ones need a way to entice new members. Women's professional golf is losing TV exposure and tournament sponsors. Men's pro golf seems super-popular, but at the Masters tournament, where Tiger Woods withdrew due to an injury and Phil Mickelson failed to qualify for the weekend's rounds, CBS reportedly had its lowest television ratings since 1993. Woods, 38, has undergone surgery -- a "microdisectomy," according to his website -- for a pinched nerve in his back. His return date is uncertain. Winner of 79 PGA Tour events, including four Masters championships, Woods has been able to take part in just three tournaments in 2014. He tied for 25th place in one, tied for 80th in another, withdrew from the third. Tiger is golf's go-to guy; without him, TV networks could lose many viewers who couldn't care less how many shots below par a Rory McIlroy or a Bubba Watson is.So, perhaps a surprisingly large percentage of today's audience is more interested in a certain golfer than in golf."Foot golf," according to the New York Times piece, is one new way to play, using a large hole, a soccer ball and no hands. Silly? Stupid? What have you got, you say, a hole in your HEAD? Hey, there was a time in America when night baseball seemed silly, as did a game of basketball played with a shot clock. A lush, landscaped country club would have seemed silly to men from St. Andrews, Scotland, who learned how to play the game on bumpy, lumpy links. Golf of the future?A few possibilities spring to mind:No more "Quiet, please"Let the spectators speak up. Cheer. Chant. Heckle. Do the kinds of things basketball or football fans do. Make some noise. Hold a tournament that -- not unlike that Karras concept -- invites the crowd to get involved. TV ratings could be big, too. Instead of some dude yelling "Get in the hole!" after a golfer's swing, he could yell "Watch out for that pond!" while the guy is in his stance. Baseball hitters don't require quiet.Winner take allWhichever golfer wins the tournament wins the $$$. No one else gets a cent. No $20,000 for placing 20th. No "appearance fee." Come one, come all to the Master tournament -- one Master, not plural -- in which the victor gets $5 million and the runner-up gets a bag of lovely parting gifts.Golf PoloYou play it in a golf cart. You never leave it. You drive it, and you drive your ball from it. You chip from it and putt from it. We categorize this game under "motor sports." Each golfer gets to slap sponsor stickers all over their carts, just like NASCAR.Strip GolfEach time you don't make a par, you need to remove a ... nahhh, it'll never work. (Except maybe at golf courses by the Jersey Shore.)3-in-One GolfWho decided golf has to have one hole per green? Today's greens are so large, you could put a cup on the left, a cup on the right and a cup smack in the middle. A golfer could decide which one to go for upon reaching the green. This also would triple the opportunities for a hole-in-one.Oh, and one more:The Golf X GamesBikes. Skateboards. Rollerblades. Fastest to finish 18 holes wins. A really steep ramp by the 18th green. Let's go play some golf, dude! Follow us on Twitter @CNNOpinion.Join us on Facebook.com/CNNOpinion. Opinion on the newsHow AirAsia flight compares to Air France 447 crashPilot Bill Palmer says the AirAsia flight had similarities to Air France 447, which also encountered bad weatherDon't turn your back on these childrenPoverty isn't the only reason why so many parents are paying to have their child smuggled into the United States, says Carole GeithnerIran's hypocrisy in condemning U.S. racism Michael Rubin says it's a farce that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei posted tweets criticizing U.S. policeThe smart thing that makes you stupidRon Friedman says your smartphone may be making you behave stupidly; resolve to resist distractions in 2015Is AI a threat to humanity?Artificial intelligence does not need to be malevolent to be catastrophically dangerous to humanity, writes Greg Scoblete.Welcome to the troll ageThe ability to manipulate media and technology has increasingly become a critical strategic resource, says Jeff Yang.More from opinionAre drugs stifling women?What will happen if the bees disappear?Thanks, Ben Carson, but prison doesn't make people 'come out' gayPowered by Livefyre
How AirAsia flight compares to Air France 447 crashPilot Bill Palmer says the AirAsia flight had similarities to Air France 447, which also encountered bad weather
Don't turn your back on these childrenPoverty isn't the only reason why so many parents are paying to have their child smuggled into the United States, says Carole Geithner
Iran's hypocrisy in condemning U.S. racism Michael Rubin says it's a farce that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei posted tweets criticizing U.S. police
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Video: Gunna Gotta – Rotorua Mountain Bike Club
In the 3rd installment of the Top 10 Trails in Rotorua, Morgan Wilson (Morgs) from Zippy Central catches up with Chris Southwood and Mick Ross from Flowmountainbike.com. to ride Gunna Gotta.
Gunna Gotta: Grade 4. – Length 2.3km.
Built in 2004 by Dave Hutchings, with almost constant fettling by Hutch ever since. The top section was rebuilt and remodeled in the 2011/12 after logging in the area, with input and help from the Rotorua Mountain Bike Club. Starts from the top of Katore Rd. Can also be accessed from Tokorangi Pa Rd.
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'Falling Skies' Scares Up 5.9 Million Viewers TNT's much-hyped premiere of sci-fi drama Falling Skies drew 5.9 million viewers in its June 19 premiere. The premiere also delivered more than 2.6 million Adults 18-49 and 3.2 million Adults 25-54. Falling Skies now ranks as cable's most-watched new series launch thus far in 2011 and is the biggest scripted series debut since last year's launch of TNT's Rizzoli & Isles. |
History 'Swamped' with Viewers History's hit series Swamp People set new series' marks for total viewers (4.6 million) and Adults 18-49 (2.3 million) with the premiere of its June 16 episode. Swamp People was the top show overall in cable among Adults 25-54 (2.4 million), Adults 18-49 and total viewers on June 16, according to History's analysis of Nielsen data. |
'Deadliest Catch' is Waves Above the Rest Tuesday night's Deadliest Catch premiere episode earned a 2.58 HH / 2.21 Persons 25-54 AA% delivering 3.65 million viewers, making it the #1 primetime (8P-11P) cable program for Persons and Men 25-54. Deadliest Catch has now been the #1 Tuesday non-sports primetime cable telecast among Persons and Men 25-54 ratings and delivery for 11 weeks in a row. |
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Hot Start for 'Cleveland' TV Land's Hot In Cleveland jumped out to a fast ratings start Wednesday night. The premiere episode for the second half of Hot In Cleveland's sophomore season drew 2.4 million viewers, according to network officials. The series, which stars Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White, drew an additional 1.9 million viewers for two encore airings. |
'The Killing' Finale Draws 2.3 Million Viewers The polarizing season finale of AMC's The Killing Sunday night delivered 2.3 million total viewers. The first-season ender drew a 1.8 household rating and about 1.1 million Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen data. The Killing premiered on April 3 to 2.7 million total viewers and had the second-highest rated first season of any AMC original drama. |
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TLC Wins Ratings Crown on Wednesday Night The finale of Extreme Couponing garnered 2.1 million total viewers, ranking #1 in all ad-supported cable among P/W25-54, W18-49 and W18-34. Since its series premiere, Extreme Couponing has averaged 1.9 million total viewers and has continued to rank in the top 3 in all ad-supported cable among W18-49 and W18-34. |


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Dr. Alka Acharya, AssociateProfessor in Chinese Studies, in her article in China Report analyses the Origins and Implications of the
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Mozilla is playing with the idea of a Firefox extension that would allow users to do things like insert links in e-mail messages with "a simple text command" rather than the series of mouse clicks or keyboard combinations that is normally required, according to LinuxWorld.com.
Mozilla Labs released the first version of Ubiquity earlier this week. Designed to enable users to create their own "mashups" for e-mail, Ubiquity grew out of software created at Chicago-based Humanized. The technology found its way to Mozilla when Humanized's CEO, Asa Raskin, became the user experience chief at Mozilla Labs. (Mozilla hired other Humanized executives as well, the story says.)
LinuxWorld.com describes example use cases as follows:
Someone inviting a friend to dinner could highlight the name of the restaurant, type "map," and instantly call up a Google Map showing the location of the restaurant. The user could then edit that map and place it in the body of the e-mail message. Similarly, typing "yelp" and the name of the restaurant would bring the text of reviews from Yelp.com right into the message.
Like all ideas that are born at Mozilla Labs, the extension may or may not be included in a future Firefox release.
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The parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton, right, and Tracy Martin watch a news conference in Washington, D.C. as special prosecutor Angela Corey in Sanford, Fla., announces charges against George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is in custody and will face a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon, Corey said.
Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton, in Washington, D.C., listens to a news conference televised from Florida about the arrest of George Zimmerman.
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Anivia could use a mana cost decrease, she already was a blue-buff champion, bit now even with blue-buff its hard to sustain a team fight with maxed items and 2 AA staffs, it just drains too much mana. Not even talking about early game, for those who take tear of goddess too early lose too much burst damage @ lvl ~7-9
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Actually Anivia is one of those champions that have very high base damage, just like Cassiopeia. That's why they could be played very tanky (wota revolver warmog spirit visage) and still dish out very strong damage.
Lé Vexalon
Anivia only needs a speed buff. And her wall needs to be fixed, far too many champions glitching through it. And far too many champions can dash through it with their built-in flashes without incurring any slow or damage. For a spell that costs alot of mana, high CD, and no damage it sure is easily countered, and its not a full def item either, because even if anivia blocks a chasing opponent, she is still too slow to outrun them. You arent playing anivia right if you are running out of mana on a regular basis. Blue buff solves the problem, if you have ult out ALL the time, then that explains why you are running out of mana with blue buff. She can farm perfectly with Q, and her ult can finish minions very quick, you might be too slow is switching your ult off. The mana costs are high, though they can be said to match the damage her spells are able to dish out. Possible double damage on two of her spells, + slows + AOE stun. Alot of value to her spells. Frostbite mixed with Q or R is very deadly, and only 90 mana cost at lv5. Very small CD on E too. I do believe the damage her ult dishes out per second should go up though, or perhaps mana cost reduced per second. Ive seen AP yi heal faster than he can be damaged while inside anivias ult. And that sucks coz anivia is constantly losing mana using an ult, and yi is using a regular spell. Also, because she runs out of mana, she has to go back, however she is too slow to get back into the fight. She is unable to remain in teamfights for too long, and neither can she get from A to B quickly. Hence i believe she needs a speed buff. Remember her Q spell speed trajectory is also very slow compared to other champions, which makes landing the double hit on hit much more difficult. Slow speed + slow spell speed means her Q spell is easily dodged, and the chances of landing the double hit is harder. Its a expensive spell if its not doing what its capable of. All the more reasons for her movement speed to go up.
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Anivia is a forgotten champ (No skins, no fixes on her wall, no nothing). You have to be ultra-skillful to play well with her. Her wall is a useless skill since everyone can go through it (Lots of bugs, dashes, flashes, etc). I dont want to talk about her movement speed... since I dont want to loose my time in something that lots of people have said before me. The only thing we can do is wait for Riot to hire someone interested in anivia, since the current staff dont care about this champ.
And skin spammed champs like kata and akali arent forgotten? or this isnt the day of the month u guys QQ over them? Anivia is ok, a champ that requires skill to play and not just faceroll like ryze, cassio, ziggs...then again after the vlad nerf its clear the lol comunity would just want more karthus ultimate style of gameplay.
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She needs a rework. I especially have problems with: 1. Her movement speed. 2. Her wall (Nice buff would be: she is the only champ that can fly over the wall...she is a bird, right?)
here's my anivia scores, although it's with guaranteed blue buff threw whole game and soraka in team. W/o soraka mana ends wayy too fast.
Them dislikers ! Just see Froggen's Anivia build, he actually goes for warmog.. You can't afford that on champions that need ap before they can deal good dmg. TBH I already find her annoying enough, I won't cry because she's underplayed. She can be such a pain in the right hands..
Yes Anivia really can be, very usefull on right hands. And in my view she is one of the most balanced champions the league has ever seen. I've played leauge of legend for one and a half years and can't remember about a single buff or nerf on her. Her mana costs are high, but there are ways to manege that. The only thing that hurt was the nerf on the blue buff. Now I want to give you my view about some things I read in that chat. Forgotten: Yes, like mentioned no changes at her and even no skins. You will rather see 3 new Teemo- or Yi skins being revealed than one new Anivia skin. I saw chats suggesting a fire- or even a galactic Anivia skin, seem to be pretty nice thought. Mana costs: Actually froze flash is the most annoying spell, if it is about mana costs. Until lvl 6 I really try to avoid using abilities and prefer last hitting which isn't easy with that char. Lowering q a bit only would be nice, the rest seems to be ok. I deal the mana issue with an chalice of harmony a tear of goddess and a catalyst at early game. building Athene's and Rod next.


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About.com (with Mary Bellis): Inventors, The History of the Microscope. Information from Newtom BBS, A Division of Educational Programs at Argonne National Laboratory and the National Institute of Health.
! Elizabeth B. Andrews (2009): Windows on a Lilliputian world: a personal perspective on the development of electron microscopy in the twentieth century. PDF file, Notes Rec. R. Soc. See also here.
! BiologyBrowser (produced by Thomson Scientific). This is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. Go to: Subject > Methods and Techniques > Paleontological techniques.
Biozentrum Uni Basel und REM-Labor Uni Basel: Blockkurs Mikroskopie (in German).
Alice Bergfeld (she is the English editor), Rolf Bergmann, University of Hamburg, and Peter v. Sengbusch, University of Bielefeld and Institut für Allgemeine Botanik, University of Hamburg: Microscopy. Part of BOTANY Online - The Internet Hypertextbook.
! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing: Paleobiology: A Synthesis (PDF files). Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world. Navigate from the content file. Excellent! Go to: Infrastructure of Palaeobiology.
Chris Jefferies, Bristol: Microscopes and Microscopy. An extensive index of microscopy sources on the web, listed by geographical locations, organisations, and subject. Very useful!
Bruce Bryson, wordwizz.com: From Quarks to Quasars. On the relative size of things and the question of scale. This is a visual journey consisting of 42 images, 42 powers of ten. At one end of the journey is the immensity of the known universe, some 15 000 000 000 years old and 10 to 20x109 light years across. At the other end of the journey is a depiction of the three quarks within a proton.
Angelo Capparella and Martha Cook, llinois State University: Biological Diversity. Navigate from here (PowerPoint Presentations). The subject matter of the course will provide an overview of biological diversity emphasizing major innovations in structure and function, including ecology and physiology, as well as the phylogeny (evolutionary history) and systematics (e.g., taxonomy) of living organisms. Go to: Microscopy (in ppt).
John W. Cross, Missouri Botanical Garden: Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM). See also here (without frames).
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge: Optical Microscopy and Specimen Preparation. This teaching and learning package provides an introduction to the use of optical microscopes. It introduces the different types of microscope used to examine specimens and how to set them up correctly. There is also an introduction to specimen preparation.
Michael W. Davidson and the Florida State University (in collaboration with Optical Microscopy at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory): Science, Optics and You: Powers of 10. Interactive java tutorial journeys in stages from 10 million light years beyond the Milky Way to a treetop to the nucleus at the heart of an atom, in order to visually describe orders of magnitude.
Michael W. Davidson, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Center for Materials Research and Technology (MARTECH), National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), Supercomputer Computations Research Institute (SCRI), Florida State University, Tallahassee, and Gary E. Lofgren, Planetary Materials Branch, Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas: Photomicrography in the Geological Sciences. In this article the authors describe the conversion of a standard biological brightfield microscope for examination of geological petrographic thin sections and characterize, in detail, the use of both black and white and color photomicrography in the geological sciences. Several illustrative examples on the use of transmitted and reflected polarized light microscopy to solve geological problems are presented.
Michael W. Davidson, Mortimer Abramowitz, Olympus America Inc., and The Florida State University: Molecular Expressions, Introduction to Optical Microscopy, Digital Imaging, and Photomicrography.
Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science (DoITPoMS), Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge: Optical Microscopy and Specimen Preparation. This teaching and learning package provides an introduction to the use of optical microscopes. It introduces the different types of microscope used to examine specimens and how to set them up correctly. There is also an introduction to specimen preparation.
dmoz open directory project: Top: Science: Methods and Techniques: Microscopy.
John Donovan, Micro Analytical Facility, CAMCOR Center for Advanced Materials Characterization in ORegon, University of Oregon, Eugene: Electron Microscopy Societies and On-line Journals, and EPMA & SEM facilities, World Wide.
! Susanne Feist-Burkhardt, Institute for Geology and Palaeontology Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany and Jörg Pross Institute and Museum for Geology and Palaeontology, University of Tübingen, Germany (website hosted by The Natural History Museum, London): Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) and its application to fossil dinoflagellate cysts.
A. Fels, Fels Werkstoffanalytik, Stuttgart: Grundlagen der Raster-Elektronenmikroskopie mit Schwerpunkt Sedimentpetrographie. A tutorial (in German). See also: Literatur zur Raster-Elektronenmikroskopie.
Electron Microscopy Core Laboratory (EMCL), Biotechnology Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL: Tips & Tricks. This information is gleaned from the Microscopy and Confocal list-servers as well as from independent contributions. Go to: Light Microscopy, and SEM.
! Alan Hadley, U.K.:
CombineZ5 (still available,
because it works with older versions of windows), and
CombineZ Movie (CZM).
The purpose of these free programs is to increase depth of focus by combining pictures, but
each picture should be in focus at a different depth into the scene. The programs are especially
useful to microscope users (fluid inclusions!) and macro photographers. Excellent!
CZM is the latest version, it can process movies, take pictures, and has more macro
commands but still has all of the functionality of CombineZ5.
See also
here (about Interactive Digital Photomontage),
and a review of Helicon Focus and CombineZ5 software
(by John Hollenberg, Digital Outback Photo).
J.T. Haug et al. (2011): Autofluorescence imaging, an excellent tool for comparative morphology. In PDF, Journal of Microscopy.
! Helicon Soft Ltd.,
Helicon Focus.
This is a shareware program that creates a completely focused image from several partially
focused images by combining the focused areas. You can download and use the program for evaluation purposes for 30 days.
Helicon Focus is designed for macrophotography, microphotography (fluid inclusions!) and hyperfocal landscape photography
to cope with the shallow depth-of-field problem. Excellent!
See also here, and
there (in German).
University of Idaho: Mickey´s Web Page. Research, teaching, and fun in optical mineralogy.
JEOL-USA, Inc., Peabody, MA:
JEOL is an innovator in developing instruments used in advanced scientific research and technology
(electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, e-beam lithography and defect analysis). Go to:
! A Guide to Scanning Microscope Observation
(HTML or PDF).
Heather Kroening, & Karen Hagen, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta: Instructional Multimedia, Multimedia Topics, Procedures. Go to: Parts of the Microscope, How to make a wet mount. Online and downloadable flash movies.
Lance Ladic, Dept. of Physiology, (Imager Computer Graphics Laboratory (IMAGER), Department of Computer Science), University of British Columbia, Vancouver: 3-D Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy (LSCM, also referred to as CSLM, Confocal Scanning Laser Microscopy).
Leica Microsystems. Go to: Leica Microsystems, Downloads: Editorial Articles.
Lightscapes Webring. Website dedicated to polarized light microscopy.
Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, London: Electron microscopy and mineral analysis. Techniques include electron probe microanalysis, inductively coupled plasma spectrometry, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, transmission electron microscopy, cathodoluminenscence etc.
! Jay Longson et al. (2010): Adapting Traditional Macro and Micro Photography for Scientific Gigapixel Imaging. PDF file, Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science.
Timo Mappes, Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany: Museum of Optical Instruments (in German). This website provides information about the history of scientific instrumentation, as well as information about their makers.
Erhard Mathias, Germany: Micro Contrasts. Methods for the optimization of light microscopy.
James Mayer, Arizona State University, Tempe, and Daniel Adams, University of the Western Cape, South Africa: Images of Nature. Microscopic images. This is an educational site created as a tool for science educators, including quizzes about the images (SEM, EDS, PIXE, and Optical) as well as spectral data (PIXE and EDS). Go to: The Basics of Image Analysis Techniques. Introductions to optical microscopy and X-ray analysis.
! Microscopy Information. This website contains articles on a range of microscopy related topics, e.g. the maintenance of microscope parts, microscope optics and theory, sample preparation and microscope techniques.
Mikroskopie-Treff.de (in German).
John F. Mansfield, University of Michigan, Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory & The Department of Materials Science & Engineering: Microscopy Web Sites Around the World, and Microscopy Societies.
Microscopy Online is a free hyper-journal published on the World Wide Web designed specifically for the microscopist. Registration required.
Microscopy Society of America. The Microscopy Society of America (MSA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and advancement of the knowledge of the science and practice of all microscopical imaging, analysis and diffraction techniques useful for elucidating the ultrastructure and function of materials in diverse areas of biological, materials, medical and physical sciences.
MicroWorld Resources and News, Guide to Microscopy and Microanalysis on the Internet: Image Analysis, Image Processing, and 3-D Reconstruction. Link page of FAQs, meta lists, online tutorials, and source code links.
MicroWorld, Guide to Online Microscopy and Microanalysis Resources. MicroWorld Resources, Electron Microscope Links. Including Introductory Information, Lecture Notes, Imaging, AEM, HRTEM, and TEM Techniques, 3-D Electron Microscopy, SEM Techniques, Electron Microscopy Courses and Training, Remote Microscopy, More Helpful Sites, and Manufacturers WWW sites.
MicroWorld: MicroWorld Resources and News. An annotated guide to online resources for microscopists and microanalysts.
MicroWorld: Microscopy Vendors and Suppliers. Analytical services, laboratories, education and training.
MicroWorld: Glossary of Microscopy and Microanalytical Terms. Index page about general microscopy glossaries, confocal and laser microscopy, electron beam techniques, light microscopy, imaging, mass spectrometric, nucear magnetic microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, spectrometry-accelerator and X-ray microscopy.
! Mikroskopie-Treff.de (website hosted by edv-marketing & mediadesign, Göttingen). Microscopy in a nutshell, a German forum.
Center For Interfacial Engineering, University of Minnesota: Standard Microscopy Terminology. This is a compilation of glossaries from "Glossary of Microscopical Terms and Definitions" (New York Microscopical Society), and "Video Microscopy" by Shinya Inoue, 1986, third printing, Plenum Press, New York.
University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri: Other Microscopy/Interesting Sites Around the World.
Molecular Expressions (in collaboration with Optical Microscopy at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University): Exploring the World of Optics and Microscopy, and Microscopy Primer, Introduction to Microscopy. This treatise on Microscopy is divided into several sections, e.g. specialized microscopy techniques, anatomy of the microscope, the 50 most commonly asked questions about microscopy and photomicrography, web resources etc. Visit the Interactive Java Tutorials. These virtual microscopes explore specimen focus, illumination intensity, magnification, and translation, operating essentially in a manner that is identical to real-life microscopes. Excellent!
Nuno Moreno et al. (2006): Imaging Plant Cells. PDF file, Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, third edition, edited by James B. Pawley.
Udo Neumann, Institut für Geowissenschaften der Universität Tübingen Auflichtmikroskopie und Erzpetrographie. Some hints and citations about reflected light and ore microscopy (in German).
Nikon: Coolscope. An all in one microscope, performed with simple mouseclicks (?)
! Nikon Microscopy.
Some optical microscopy tutorials. Go to:
Basic Concepts and Formulas in
Principles of Phase
Contrast Microscopy,
Concepts in Fluorescence Microscopy,
to Fluorescence Microscopy, and
Fundamental Concepts in Confocal
Microscopy. Superbly done!
! Nobel e-Museum, The Nobel Foundation, Sweden: Microscopes – Help Scientists Explore Hidden Worlds. Information about Phase Contrast-, Fluorescence-, Transmission Electron-, and Scanning Tunneling Microscopes, (including a microscopy time line), as well as interactive simulators.
Olympus Industrial America Micro-Imaging Division.
! Olympus America Inc.: Specialized Microscopy Techniques. These websites contain information on light microscopy, e.g. fluorescence microscopy, transmission electron microscopes, contrast in optical microscopy and other imaging techniques.
Susanne Pignolet Brandom, MicroWorld Resources and News: An Annotated Guide to On-line Resources for Microscopists and Other Scientists.
! Imogen Poole and Geoffrey E. Lloyd (2000): Alternative SEM techniques for observing pyritised fossil material. PDF file, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 112: 287-295.
! Philip D. Rack, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Tennessee:
Materials Laboratory Procedures. Go to:
Optical Microscopy, and
Sample Preparation (PDF files).
The nuts and bolds of microscopy, including hints about sample preparation.
! Philip D. Rack, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Tennessee:
Materials Laboratory Procedures. Go to:
Scanning Electron Microscopy (PDF file).
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands:
Virtual Classroom Biology.
This website is an educational site,
especially meant for secondary school students who like to have a first glance on teaching
items of the Bio-science programs. One can find custom-made teaching material for
courses from the biology training. Navigate from here.
See especially:
microscopy techniques.
microscopy (EM).
Melissa B. Riley, Department of Plant Pathology and Physiology, Clemson University (site is maintained by American Phytopathological Society): Basic Microscopy - An Important Skill for Plant Pathologists. A basic tutorial: Becoming familiar with the components of microscopes and the steps for proper focusing and how to determine the magnification of materials being observed using a microscope.
E. Romero et al. (2007): Virtual Microscopy in Medical Images: a Survey. In PDF.
Information Technology Department, the UCSD Libraries and Academic Computing Services. University of California, San Diego: Web Course Notes and References, Principles of the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM).
SCANNING. Scanning provides an international and interdisciplinary medium for the rapid exchange of information among all scientists interested in scanning electron, scanning probe, and scanning optical microscopies.
SciCentral. Go to: Microscopy.
Science Learning Network (SLN): Scanning Electron Microscope. SLN is an online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education.
! Andrew C. Scott and Margaret E. Collinson (2003): Non-destructive multiple approaches to interpret the preservation of plant fossils: implications for calcium-rich permineralisations. PDF file, Journal of the Geological Society, 160: 857-862. See also here.
Alan Shinn, Berkeley: To Make a Van Leeuwenhoek Microscope Replica. This web site provides full plans for developing a van Leeuwenhoek-like microscope. See also: Microscope use instructions.
! M. Speranza et al. (2010): Traditional and new microscopy techniques applied to the study of microscopic fungi included in amber. In PDF, In: A. Méndez-Vilas and J. Díaz (eds.): Microscopy: Science, Technology, Applications and Education. See also here.
B.A. Thomas et al. (2004): Palaeobotanical applications of incident-light darkfield microscopy. In PDF, Palaeontology 47: 1641-1645. See also here.
Wim van Egmond, Micscape Magazine, U.K.: An Introduction to Microscopy. In the following pages you will get information about the microscope and about the subjects you can study with. Further links direct you to many articles that appeared in the monthly web magazine Micscape.
Giuseppe Vicidomini et al. (2008): High Data Output and Automated 3D Correlative Light-Electron Microscopy Method. In PDF.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Bright field microscopy.
Confocal microscopy.
Category: Microscopy.
List of materials analysis methods.
The Wilson Group, University of California, San Diego: The World of Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopy. Go to Introduction to Spectroscopy and Polarization.
Stephen M. Wolniak, Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland: Principles of Microscopy.
! WWW-Virtual Library: Microscopy links. Aspects of light microscopy, electron microscopy and other forms of microscopy.
YAHOO: Science > Engineering > Optical Engineering Microscopy. Nestor J. Zaluzec, (page hosted by the AAEM and TPM Projects at Argonne National Laboratory): ANL Microscopy and Microanalysis WWW Server. A good list of links to other microscopy sites. Worth to visit: PDF Slides/Lecture Notes of short courses.
Dan Yeloff and Chris Hunt (2004): Fluorescence microscopy of pollen and spores: a tool for investigating environmental change. Abstract.
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH: Microscopy from the very beginning.
Zeiss Microscopy:
Software AxioVision LE
(AxioVision LE for Windows, available as 32-bit and 64-bit version).
Freeware imaging software for image analysis and digital microscopy.
See also:
Hans Dieter Zimmermann, Geologisk Institut, Aarhus Universitet, Århus, Denmark:
Polarisationsmikroskopi. In Danish.
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Georgia Aquarium and Georgia Sea Turtle Center Release Rescued Sea Turtles Back to Ocean
The threatened species tells a global climate story with near catastrophic results
Atlanta (July 13, 2010) –
The Georgia Aquarium and its Dolphin Conservation Field Station (DCFS), along with the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, will be releasing seven loggerhead sea turtles, along with a green sea turtle, off the beach of Jekyll Island on July 14, 2010. The animals were fitted with scientific satellite tracking devices so their migration, behavior and progress can be tracked to current locations and studied.
The organizations came to the rescue of the stranded sea turtles, a threatened species, off the coast of North Carolina in February. The stranding of these turtles, along with the stranding and beaching of thousands of other aquatic life, has unfolded to tell a global climate story, showing near-catastrophic results.
As ocean water temperatures dropped below 50 degrees this past winter, the lives of an estimated 5,000 sea turtles were threatened in the Southeast - 4,500 in Florida alone. The last comparable cold weather sea turtle stranding was in 2001, which affected only 400 turtles. Reports of sightings of motionless sea turtles poured in by the hundreds, prompting the attention of local rescue and rehabilitation centers, as well as state departments of natural resources.
"This is an unprecedented wildlife mortality and is borderline catastrophic," said Dr. Gregory Bossart, senior vice president and chief veterinary officer of the Georgia Aquarium. "With such extreme changes in our environment, there is growing evidence of global climate change, and unfortunately, wildlife is paying the price. As a steward for conservation and education, our mission is to make a difference in the aquatic community."
Turtle rehabilitation and rescue facilities all over Florida and the Carolinas rushed to aid the animals and to provide housing, but quickly reached capacity. The Georgia Aquarium and the Georgia Sea Turtle Center were contacted by overwhelmed facilities to help care for the stranded animals. Under guarded health status, the animals were transported to the Georgia Aquarium's quarantine facility and the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, where staff have been treating and monitoring the animals since February.
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Oooh, Ali is such a stunner!! Ali was my first shoot in my new boudoir studio and I had such a great time at our session. Hana from Mani Mela Beauty did a fantastic job with Ali's hair and makeup and transformed her (from gorgeous, au natural) to a complete vixen! Thank you so much to Ali, not only for a fabulous session, but for allowing me to share these on the blog!!
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(Colorado Springs, CO) -- Colorado Springs is among the top places in the country for job hunters. The latest wallethub.com rankings has the city at number 40 in the nation. The website considered such factors as the number of job openings and employment growth in rating the top 100 cities. Fort Worth, Texas was tops on the list, while Denver clocked in at number eight. Aurora was number 13.


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Yields: 4 sandwiches
Total Time: 2 hr 15 min
Prep Time: 35 min
Cook Time: 40 min
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- 4 frozen white or wheat texas- style rolls,thawed according to package directions
- 8 ounce(s) thinly slied cooked ham or turkey
- 4 slice(s) reduced- fat american cheese (3 to 4 oz.)
- 2 tablespoon(s) bottled reduced-fat ranch or creamy italian salad dressing
- lightly coat a baking sheet with cooking spray, set aside. Flatten thawed rolls into 4-inch rounds.using a 3 1/2 to 4 inch cookie cutter, cut rolls into star shapes. If desired, shape small scraps of dough into balls. Moisten star points with water and attach dough balls to the points of the stars.
- Place 2stars 2 inches apart on the baking sheet. Cover and let rise in a warm place until nearly double. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden. Transfer rolls to a wire rack. Cool completely.
- Split rolls in half. Layer ham and cheese on bottom halves of rolls. Using a sharp knife, trim meat and cheese even with the rolls edges. Spread with dressing and add top halves of rolls. Wrap each sandwich tightly with plastic wrap.
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There were contrasting fates for two perennial rivals at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday as Pakistan warmed up with a six-wicket victory against New Zealand and India's batting stumbled to suffer a five-run defeat against Sri Lanka in the second practice match of the day.
In the first match, hard-hitting New Zealand batsman Colin Munro perfectly executed a reverse-sweep over the cover boundary for a six, facing the first delivery against Pakistan left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar and then accurately practised a switch-hit over the cover fence against champion spinner Saeed Ajmal.
The shots were nice to watch, and a few well-measured innings had the final say as Pakistan overtook the Kiwis' total of 145 with one ball to spare, thanks to Kamran Akmal (52) and captain Mohammad Hafeez (55).
Earlier, New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum led front the front with an unbeaten 59 off 45 balls to give his team a decent total to defend.
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Targets of the tandem Gcn4 acidic activation domains in transcription preinitiation complexes were identified by site-specific cross-linking. The individual Gcn4 activation domains cross-link to three common targets, Gal11/Med15, Taf12, and Tra1, which are subunits of four conserved coactivator complexes, Mediator, SAGA, TFIID, and NuA4. The Gcn4 N-terminal activation domain also cross-links to the Mediator subunit Sin4/Med16. The contribution of the two Gcn4 activation domains to transcription was gene specific and varied from synergistic to less than additive. Gcn4-dependent genes had a requirement for Gal11 ranging from 10-fold dependence to complete Gal11 independence, while the Gcn4-Taf12 interaction did not significantly contribute to the expression of any gene studied. Complementary methods identified three conserved Gal11 activator-binding domains that bind each Gcn4 activation domain with micromolar affinity. These Gal11 activator-binding domains contribute additively to transcription activation and Mediator recruitment at Gcn4- and Gal11-dependent genes. Although we found that the conserved Gal11 KIX domain contributes to Gal11 function, we found no evidence of specific Gcn4-KIX interaction and conclude that the Gal11 KIX domain does not function by specific interaction with Gcn4. Our combined results show gene-specific coactivator requirements, a surprising redundancy in activator-target interactions, and an activator-coactivator interaction mediated by multiple low-affinity protein-protein interactions.
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Chinese manufacturing behemoth Foxconn Technology announced Sunday that it is raising wages up to 25 percent for its 1.2 million-member workforce. The world's largest manufacturing company also promised to reduce overtime for workers who are routinely compelled to work 14-hour days seven days a week. Why? The apparent answer is fourfold: workforce suicides followed by unrest at Foxconn, international agitation, a stellar New York Times exposé, and the unstoppable magnification of the web.
Of all those factors, I would rate the unstoppable magnification of the web as the primary factor. The articles in the Times, by David Barboza, Charles Duhigg, and Keith Bradsher, beginning with "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work," which appeared on January 21, and followed by "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad," which appeared on January 26, sparked massive U.S. scrutiny of the working conditions behind America's favorite toys. But the traction gained by the repetition of the themes and facts of the articles in every nook and cranny on the wired world so crucial to Apple is what really made the difference.
The Times series should be a contender for a Pulitzer Prize for its impact here and abroad. The coverage it inspired, from pipsqueak bloggers, to the L.A. Times series, and ABC's Nightline, seems to have done the trick. Apple announced that a nonprofit organization would monitor working conditions at Foxconn. Foxconn announced that wage boosts in the range of 16 to 25 percent would bring worker wages to the $400 a month mark.
Regardless of how this compares to wages in the West it's a big deal in China. It appears to be enough to spark a paradigm shift at Foxconn. That shift, crazy to say, seems to be a move away from human capital and toward robotics and automation. Yes, eschewing the sweet spot of wage growth and job security enjoyed by American factory workers in the 1950s and 1960s thanks to unions, Foxconn seems poised to go from medieval exploitation directly to worker redundancy. And I suppose this should be a lesson to all that Chinese business has become an ardent student of unreconstructed capitalism and, furthermore, that it can change course in a heartbeat.
According to an article published in the Times on Monday, reported by Barboza from China, entitled, "Pressure, Chinese and Foreign, Drives Changes at Foxconn," "Foxconn has announced plans to invest in millions of robots and automate aspects of production."
What effects this initiative will have on the numbers of workers employed at Foxconn plants remains to be seen. But it does portend that a new wave of automation may prevent any appreciable numbers of manufacturing jobs to be repatriated to the U.S. Certainly, some manufacturing technician positions will return, but the idea that large numbers of line workers will ever onshore remains highly unlikely, for this industry at least.
At any rate, kudos to Apple, for undoubtedly putting pressure on Foxconn to clean up its act. Yes, it's late, and it's too little, but it is change. Apple has far too much to lose if an Arab Spring ever comes to public perceptions of worker exploitation in China. And yes, the events of the last few weeks do represent the first sprigs of a movement that could lead to the perception that Apple's cash cows are dirty devices.
In a more perfect world, Apple would not be able to outrun a significant wave of rising awareness. But despite Apple's close controls over its retail brand, the purchasing public cannot resist driving prices to the iBottom using the Amazon button, or whatever mechanism is available to thwart reasonable wage-price relationships in the mean old macro world. It certainly isn't news that our consumer instincts overwhelm our instincts for job preservation, but that isn't going to change anytime soon. Nor will the sordid realities of Chinese manufacturing.
However, for a perhaps brief but shining moment, worldwide media pressure has opened a crack in the façade of China, Inc. Even if their workers hold jobs that used to be "ours," it is a good thing to see workers anywhere make a major stride towards a living wage, and for the economic system that virtually enslaved them to be corrected ever so slightly in a manner that will indirectly benefit workers around the globe, including presumably, here.
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If you'll excuse the shameless self-promotion, here's how I put it in my show The Life and Hard Times of the Blues:
"Industrialization came with the promise of a century of peace and prosperity for all. But instead of peace, the Machine Age gave us the horrors of mechanized warfare. Instead of prosperity for all, it gave obscene wealth to a few, whose rank speculation led to the Great Depression. Machines would free men from monotonous, laborious, dangerous work, but at a price. From now on, men would be slaves to machines -- when they weren't actually replaced by machines."
So...when this all dies down - and it will - Apple will go to Vietnam for better pricing. And after Vietnam, they will go to some even crappier economy (Bangladesh?) and have their iPads assembled.
And so on, until every one of the 5 billion workers are busting their chops to just live.
The truth of the matter is that the multinationals have figured out that there's a huge, worldwide, labor *oversupply* and taking down the barriers allows them to take advantage of it.
See, in this country 80 years ago, labor unions solved the problem, (along with FDR) by creating the closed shop.
Well, we all know how that play ended. People who work with their hands are valueless. Whether they're in China or Hanoi or St. Louis.
In the long run, impoverishing labor will leave too few customers to buy the products. It works the same everywhere as it's working here. Ultimately, it's one global, dysfunctional, stripping of wealth from the many to the few. At that point, the difference between communism and capitalism is the spelling.
My brother introduced me to one of my favorite quotes, tho I know not the source:
"Communism is the exploitation of man by man, while capitalism is the opposite."
"After Foxconn Technology Group announced it was going to close an assembly line for Microsoft's Xbox 360 video games and transfer 600 workers to a new production line, this week about 150 workers climbed to the top of a factory's six-story dormitory roof—and some threatened to jump. They remained there for two days."
External, worldwide pressure on Foxconn, by contrast, has been accelerated by web-based accounts as well as old-school journalism.
"To quote Bruce Hornsby, "That's just the way it is. Some things will never change." Until they do, that is. What does it take? Something to rip away the complacency, The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, one example. Upton Sinclair, laying waste to the appetite of America with the appalling details of "The Jungle". Steinbeck, turning "Oakies" into humans, Tom Joad into everyman. Prior to that, it's easy to turn a blind eye and worse yet, take easy advantage of corruption, befoulment and injustice."
As you point out, while the workers magnified their internal struggle and leveraged threats of sacrifice, it was through the web, that so many who don't read The Times, watch news documentaries or otherwise are informed, became aware of the issue and the mechanisms of social disapproval began to rattle Apple's bank vault.
It may not matter when only the workers who are considered expendable protest, but when the market begins to be disturbed by such knowledge, the combination will cause change. It wouldn't take too many people deciding to not purchase a product who otherwise would have, to completely obviate all the profits gained by such despicable practices.
Frankly, most consumers care about the slave labor that gives them cheap goods as much as many abolitionists cared about the blood, sweat and tears that were the source of their cotton finery or the tobacco they smoked.
"Kudos to Apple, for undoubtedly putting pressure on Foxconn to clean up its act"? With all due respect, please. Whatever Apple et. al. do is strictly public relations spin. "Think different"? They think the same. Remember Nike? Does anyone really think those working conditions have improved much since we learned that the African-American sports-hero descendants of slaves were exposed as profiting off virtual slave labor? Toss the peasants a bit of chump change, tighten security, plug up the leaks, and when the brouhaha is over it will be nefarious business in secret as usual. The Madison Avenue propagandists move on to stamp-put the next brush fire. All is forgotten - until the next worker manages a public way around the suicide nets.
Come on. This is Kabiki Theater. "Apple announced that a nonprofit organization would monitor working conditions at Foxconn"? So feel good about buying Apple? And no doubt Donald Trump has some under-water ocean-front property in Arizona he'd like to sell us too. The Apple rots from within its core.
How easy it is for Madison Avenue to manufacture consent and nullify the muckrakers at the NYT by issuing Upton Sinclair's infamous 'Brass Checks.' For the wizards of Madison Avenue pulling the wool over our eyes is as easy as taking candy from a baby. We can all rest assured there are plenty of sycophant 'journalists' one step away from the unemployment lines who are willing to shill for Apple et. al. and Madison Avenue.
Come on. If Apple was serious about workers' rights this story would never have to be told in the first place. Like Nike they got caught denying what they had a duty to know. "Think different"? No, this corporation thinks the same. If they were really serious
they'd be demanding unfettered, unannounced, random inspections with no notice just the way the INS and OSHA bust American employers. Transparency? This is no search for the truth. Last night's Nightline travesty (with an admitted conflict-of-interest) was as depressing as hell no matter how well they dared to white-washed it. One can only imagine what the unvarnished truth really is. It was in insult to anyone's intelligence to even think workers would speak candidly even if they were assured anonymity. Can anyone *actually* believe the workers could trust so-called anonymous input was a real projection? I hope few Americans are that stupid. Packed like sardines into company dorms, minimum 12 hour work days, and further extorted by the company store this is Pullman all over again. "This is how capitalism works."
I had a very dear friend and former client who was an investment banker selected by Nixon's State Department be part of the team to travel to China to open it to American manufacturers desperate to escape labor unions and environmental laws and, of course, get tax benefits to boot. The investment bankers were all foaming at the mouth. Imagine it. Talk about "Big Government"! What a perfect solution to pesky labor unions, environmental laws, OSHA, and all those government regulations. What capitalists got and needed was a slave-wage labor force that Big Government could keep under its boot and prevented from organizing. Crush labor, pollute the environment, while keeping political control beyond the reach of the People and, oh yes, keep as much of profits off-shore as they can. I'll not go on. It was an investment bankers wet dream. Turning a shill's work back at him "this is the way capitalism [really] works." Kudos to the NYT but when the shills who call themselves journalists are done it will all blow away.
Wonderful, thanks to taxpayer bail outs GM is back on top. Why? How? The lion's share of GM profits(assured by taxpayer dollars) were made by selling cars to *Chinese* that were made in China by workers paid slave wages and who have no right to organize. Nice. "This is the way capitalism [really] works."
Suffice to say that Lenin's proverbial rope by which the capitalists will hang themselves will be infamously stamped "Made in Red China" and, no doubt, sold to Americans on credit extended by Shylock Chin Yang.
I grew up in a timber town in Oregon. While people argued left and right that the death of the timber industry was due to environmental regulations, the inability to cut every last tree, and the spotted owl, the real culprit was automation. A modern sawmill doesn't need 300 or 400 people (or 3,000 or 4,000 people) to run it. The saws are computerized, there are robots, machines, and tools to do what people used to.
So my town shrunk, and has slowly been replaced by tourism. Not anything that anyone can build a life on. Hand-to-mouth restaurant and hotel jobs.
What will we all do to keep from starving? Taking in each other's washing won't get us there.
What, do you think we should all be out in the fields in the fall picking corn by hand, for 18 hours a day, rather than one guy with a huge combine? Automation frees up labor, wealth, capital and resources for other areas that are next in line on the "wish list" of society. Technology replacing human labor is not a bad thing.
As the great economist Murray Rothbard stated:
"Who was displaced by the steam shovel? How many millions of ditch diggers are now out of work because of it? Where are the billions of unemployed that are supposed to have been caused by the replacement of the human pack animal by the wagon and the truck? Where are they, if the doctrine of technological unemployment is correct? Where are the millions of unemployed resulting from the Industrial Revolution—when the truth is the other way around, that thousands of beggars had nothing to do until the Industrial Revolution rescued them!"
It is important to point out that Foxconn manufactures for Amazon, Sony, IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Asus, Samsung, Panasonic, Motorola, Nintendo, Microsoft, Vizio, Nokia and Intel. So where does that leave us? Are we to secede from the Republic of Technology? Most of the crap you buy of whatever description comes from tainted derivation in terms of how workers are treated. I know there is funny business built into the coming oversight at Foxconn. And Apple deserves to be the big target here, by virtue of its size, cachet, market share and hubristic world view. I get it. As to the whitewashing you find in the Nightline version of reality--and I am not arguing with you about that--I just don't weight it as you do, I recommend you check out monologuist Mike Daisey.
From Mashable: "In early January, the radio program This American Life aired an episode titled "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory." The episode took a closer look at the issue, based on an excerpt from Daisey's one-man show, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. In the show, Daisey, a lifelong Apple fan, describes traveling to China to see the conditions of the Foxconn factory for himself."
I should have credited Daisy in my piece, but 700 words is short.
Thanks for reading the piece.
You almost make my point for me for that was addressed in my own longer post on the same subject and from which my comment was taken.
Steve answered you charge as I would. My point is that industrialization created other problems -- dehumanization, dislocation, compartmentalization, etc, etc, etc. Read Robert Bly and plenty of others for details of the human cost of industrialization.
Having done my share of ditch-digging, I'm not fool enough to pine for a return to those "golden days". Unfortunately for all of us, we are too often led by politicians and informed by pundits who do imagine -- or at least claim -- to want to lead us back to some "golden age" that never existed. They espouse nonsense about rugged individualism and competition being the cure for every socioeconomic ill, when history clearly says otherwise.
Men, being a physically inferior species in many ways, has long understood the necessity for cooperation. Latter-day Luddites are in denial about that, and ignorance and greed have rendered them blind to history and reality.
So much for Communism being the Worker's party.
( That's what he gets for becoming a Buddhist. )