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KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian government has strongly condemned the rape of an Indonesian maid in Seremban, the second case in two weeks following the rape of an Indonesian restaurant worker in Penang last Friday.
Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman, in expressing the condemnation, said the incident was a despicable and inhuman act.
He said in a statement that the ministry would follow up on the case with the police and extend the fullest cooperation to the Indonesian government.
He also said that the employer of the maid was being remanded from Nov 13 to 20. The rape allegedly took place on Sunday.
According to The Jakarta Post, police have arrested the employer of the Acehnese maid, said the Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
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Geiger photodiode array for compact, lightweight laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instrumentation
Applied Optics, Vol. 42, Issue 30, pp. 6072-6077 (2003)
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The development of a unique spectrometer based on an array of Geiger photodiodes has been shown to enhance the performance of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) instrumentation. These compact, silicon-based detectors eliminate the need for postamplification electronics, allow for the detection of single photons at room temperature, and do not require complex gating-timing circuitry. The detectors have dark-count rates of <500 Hz at room temperature and a good response from the UV to the near IR. Their high sensitivity makes them candidates for standoff analysis as part of a LIBS spectrum analyzer.
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(040.1240) Detectors : Arrays
(040.5160) Detectors : Photodetectors
(140.3440) Lasers and laser optics : Laser-induced breakdown
Original Manuscript: January 17, 2003
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Richard A. Myers, Arieh M. Karger, and David W. Hahn, "Geiger photodiode array for compact, lightweight laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instrumentation," Appl. Opt. 42, 6072-6077 (2003)
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I spent more than half of 1974 in Kitwanga. I returned briefly in 1988 and 2007.
I have a general Kitwanga page. Here I concentrate on the native art. Between the CNR tracks and the Skeena River one finds a row of totem poles. As is common along the Skeena, there is little or no signage for these wooden monuments. When I worked in the train station I became blasé about seeing them almost every day; but the very next year I visited the British Museum. I was surprised there to see an entire wall covered with a Kitwanga street scene photograph. I then realized just how very special this town is. |
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Cedar poles might collapse in the rain but copies are often made and raised in the same location. At the Canadian Museum of Civilization web site I found a photo of Kitwanga about 1899. About half of the totems seen there can still be identified in my recent photos. | |
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While the Chilean side of the border was relatively speedy, crossing the Argentinean side a few kilometers down the road, was excruciatingly slow – we spent just under two hours waiting for the Argentineans to clear our bus load of passengers. Mercifully we were finally clear of Argentinean immigration and back on our way to Ushuaia. For the record, the Argentinean side of Tierra del Fuego is infinitely more beautiful and interesting than the Chilean side- especially the hour or so just north of Ushuaia coming through the Fuegan Andes and passed many of the pretty lakes.
By the time we arrived in Ushuaia it was after 6pm. Fortunately this far south it's still daylight at 10.30pm, so we had plenty of time to find and check-in to our nice hotel, wander the main street in search of some Argentinean currency, examine the local culinary establishments, and grab a quick dinner.
With nearly four full days in Ushuaia before our Antarctic cruise departed, the first priority on Wednesday was to find somewhere to have dinner on New Year's Eve. With a few days still to go we weren't expecting this to be particularly difficult, but after our first few enquiries were all met with 'Sorry, we're closed New Year's Eve' we realised the bigger challenge might be finding somewhere that was open, rather than somewhere that had a table. Further investigation tracked down a few establishments that were actually going to be open on New Year's Eve, but all had menus starting from US$120/pp. Unfortunately for us, when we're travelling around the world for a year, we cannot splash out $240 on a single meal... even on New Year's Eve. With our options fast running out, and desperation just about to set in, we finally found a nice restaurant charging a somewhat more rational price for dinner – crisis averted thankfully!
With New Year's Eve dinner finally sorted, and bookings made to go to Tierra del Fuego National Park, just outside Ushuaia, the following day, we had time to enjoy the nice weather with a boat cruise out on the Beagle Canal. Kerry was initially keen to take the boat to see a colony of Magellanic penguins a couple of hours from Ushuaia, but with innumerable penguins available to play with in Antarctica, it seemed like a bit of a waste of time and money to me. Finally common sense prevailed and we did a shorter boat cruise around the inner harbour, taking in the vista of Ushuaia back dropped by the snow-capped Fuegan Andean mountains, visiting several seal and bird colonies that reside on some of the rocky outcrops in the Beagle Canal, and finishing with a sail-past of the lighthouse at the entrance to Ushuaia harbour.
Wednesday night we had a superb dinner at a restaurant called Bodegon Fueguino. Sorry, no photos as we left our camera at the hotel, but the popularity of the place was evident in that when we arrived 10 mins after it opened, the restaurant was already half full, and when we left there were groups queuing outside the front door waiting for tables to become available. It really was that good – great atmosphere and really good food, all at relatively reasonable prices by Argentinean standards.
We had decided that we wanted to go into Tierra del Fuego National Park, so on Thursday we went on a day-trip. Apart from hopefully seeing some beautiful scenery, as we had seen arriving into Ushuaia, part of the appeal for me was that our trip included a visit to Isla Redonda, just off the coast of the national park, home to the world's southernmost post office. After seeing it on TV a couple of years ago, and being in Ushuaia at the end of the earth, I thought it would be quite cool to send a postcard home from the world's southernmost post office – something unique that you can only do on Isla Redonda, and something that most people that visit Ushuaia don't even know about.
We enjoyed a nice hike in the national park along a coastal pathway, in very good weather – we were expecting Tierra del Fuego to be cold and windswept but the weather in the national park was warm and sunny, with only a gentle breeze. However, having been in Torres del Paine little more than a week ago, the scenery struggled to match up to Torres' beauty. After hiking for few hours we were able to enjoy a very civilized lunch of barbecued chicken and local wine, before continuing further into the national park for a zodiac ride along the coast enroute to Isla Redonda.
Isla Redonda is a small non-descript island, maybe only one sq km in size, and only a matter of a couple of hundred metres off the shore from Tierra del Fuego National Park. It isn't special for any other reason than it is home to the world's southernmost post office. It has one sheltered bay for access, houses three buildings – one of which is the post office; the second, a very small refugio; and the third, unknown – and boasts one giant Argentinean flag, so as to leave no one in doubt as to in whose territory the island lies – most of the island's south of Tierra del Fuego and in the Beagle Canal belong to Chile.
The post office itself was comprised of not much more than a wooden shack on a hill overlooking the bay, and two people charged with selling postcards and stamps, and collecting and franking postcards being mailed. I'm sure that it exists for no other reason than the novelty of it being the world's southern most post office. Being organized Kerry and I had written our postcards in advance, and also brought our passports with us to get stamped at the world's southernmost post office. However, we did not anticipate that we would both have to sacrifice a whole page in our passports!
With our Antarctica trip beginning Saturday afternoon, on Friday we had to move from our nice digs downtown to our tour's arrival hotel - which unfortunately turned out to be a fair walk from the centre of town, and nowhere near as nice. With a disrupted day of packing, checking-out and moving hotels we decided that we would have a quiet day to blog and take care of administrative things before heading out for our New Year's Eve dinner.
Given that the southern hemisphere summer is the height of the tourist season in Ushuaia, it was a surprise to us that there really wasn't anything happening on New Year's Eve – no parties, no firework displays, and most surprising, almost all restaurants and bars were closed! The town was remarkably quiet, with only the disorganized or newly arrived wandering through town trying to find somewhere to eat. You would have thought that in Ushuaia they would want to make hay while the sun shines, so to speak, but apparently not.
New Year's Eve dinner was nice, with a bottle of wine and a glass of champagne each included. By the time midnight rolled around though our travels were starting to take their toll on each of us, and we were both beginning to feel quite tired. We managed to get to midnight and enjoy our New Year's toast, but with nothing going on in town, once we finished our drinks we decided to call it a night and headed back to the hotel.
With our boat to Antarctica not boarding until 4pm, and most of Ushuaia still closed down for the New Year's holiday, Saturday was another quiet day spent lounging at the hotel, blogging and waiting in anticipation for 4pm to roll around.
Next stop for us is the white continent, Antarctica - one of the last untouched wildernesses on Earth.


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This Week's Hottest Events: Florence and the Machine, Janelle Monae, Death Cab for Cutie, and Picasso
FURY Factory Theater Fest
For all you theater buffs—three weeks of innovative performance (including Campo Santo and Killing My Lobster), panel discussions, and artistic training brought to you by SF-based FoolsFURY Theater.
When: Tues. 6/7 – Sun. 6/26
Where: Various venues, foolsfury.org
Jennifer Egan with Vendela Vida
City Arts & Lectures is hosting a Q&A between Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan and local literary sensation Vendela Vida (who just happens to be the gorgeous wife of Dave Eggers, in case you didn't know).
When: 8 p.m., Tues. 6/7
Where: Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness Ave., cityarts.net
Janelle Monae and Bruno Mars
Pop sensation meets Karl Lagerfeld muse.
When: 7:30 p.m., Wed. 6/8
Where: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, 99 Grove St., apeconcerts.com
Death Cab for Cutie
These indie rockers may not be new, but everyone is still obsessed. Their latest, Codes and Keys, just dropped last week, so get yourself a copy to preview before the show.
When: 9 p.m., Thurs. 6/9
Where: The Fillmore, 1805 Geary Blvd., livenation.com
Joe Goode's The Rambler
Described as "Clint Eastwood meets Siddartha," this performance is about the restless American spirit and speaks to the wanderer in us all.
When: Fri. 6/10 – Sat. 6/18
Where: YBCA Novellus Theater, 700 Howard St., ybca.org
B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls
This rumble in the park is a double header. SF Shevil Dead come head to head with the Oakland Outlaws, Berkeley Resistance, and Richmond Wrecking Belles at this roller derby bout.
When: 6 & 8 p.m.; Sat. 6/11
Where: Kezar Pavillion, Golden Gate Park, bayareaderbygirls.com
Dust off your art history notes and brush up on the father of Cubism. The de Young is hosting a Picasso exhibition with more than 100 masterpieces from Paris' Musée National Picasso, including pieces from his darker Blue Period.
When: Sat. 6/11 – Sun. 10/9
Where: de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., deyoung.famsf.org
Florence and the Machine
Fiery Brit rocker Florence Welch and her co-conspirators will have the Greek shaking. The show has been sold-out for ages, so keep your eyes on Craigslist.
When: 7 p.m., Sun. 6/12
Where: The Greek Theatre, Hearst Ave. and Gayley Rd., Berkeley, apeconcerts.com
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Target Board Defends Role Before and After Data Breach
Under fire for its handling of the data breach, Target's board is now defending itself to shareholders in advance of next week's annual meeting.
In a letter this morning, Roxanne Austin, the board's interim chairwoman, told shareholders that the board takes its oversight responsibilities seriously and asks for their support in re-electing all of the directors.
The letter, which was filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, comes days after proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recommended that investors oust seven of the retailer's 10 board members for failing to protect the company against the breach last year in which tens of millions of customers' personal and financial information was compromised.
"Cybercrime is a real and persistent threat as sophisticated criminals are constantly seeking to breach information networks and steal data," Austin wrote in the letter.
She added that such breaches are taking place across the board and affecting a "wide range of victims including the U.S. government, the technology and defense industries, and more traditional companies, like retailers."
Among the steps the company took before the breach, she said Target invested hundreds of millions of dollars in network security personnel, processes, technology and related resources; doubled the number of information security employees over five years to 300; required additional data security training for all Target employees; operated a security operations centers staffed around the clock to review suspicious network activity; and invested in network-monitoring technology to enhance Target's ability to detect potential cyberattacks.
Since the breach, the company has undertaken an end-to-end review of its network security and is conducting a broad examination of Target's risk oversight structure, she said.
Among the steps she outlines that Target has taken since the breach are: converting all of its REDCards to chip-enabled cards, equipping stores with chip-enabled card readers, hiring a new chief information officer, and conducting searches for a chief information security officer and chief compliance officer.
In its own report, ISS suggested that members of Target's audit and corporate responsibilities committees, including Austin, should not be re-elected since risk assessment and oversight of reputational risk were part of their duties.
Another proxy adviser, Glass, Lewis & Co., however, said there is not yet enough evidence that the breach resulted from board or management neglect. Still, it recommended shareholders reject two board members for other reasons.
Target will hold its shareholders meeting in Dallas on June 11.
Copyright 2014 - Star Tribune (Minneapolis)


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Faith and Life in the First Three Centuries
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These studies in early church history cover various aspects of the church life of early Christians. They focus on the second century.
What did the second century Christian leaders say about faith, baptism, infant baptism, worship services, the Lord's Supper, prayer, singing, church organization, mercy and the role of women? New Testament texts bearing on the topic are listed at the beginning of each chapter. We are talking about the same community of people, the same church, as existed in the New Testament. Such writings have an important bearing on the interpretation of the Scriptures.


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The 'Cluster of Excellence' - 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context - Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows' - supported by the German Research Council (DFG), is proud to host renowned scholars from around the world, and from within the cluster itself, for a two day conference on the theme of global flows. Podium discussions have been organised on two central themes that resonate across time and space. Conceptualising Religiosity and Governance will raise core questions about how concepts structure perception and social institutions, and whether one can differentiate at all between emic and etic concepts in a transcultural context. To showcase the research being conducted at the Cluster, panel sessions bring together senior scholars and young researchers on a diverse range of themes. Please let us know if you will attend the conference by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com until September 21, 2010 This year's annual conference has been conceptualised and organised by Subrata K. Mitra, Antje Fl³chter and Jivanta Schoettli.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Venue: Karl Jaspers Centre (KJC)
15.00 ¢ 17.30 Registration Venue: Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut (DAI)
17.40 ¢ 18.30 Registration
18.30 ¢ 20.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE I Quentin Skinner (London): ōEuropean visions of liberty: a genealogyö 20.00 ¢ 22.00 Reception / Light Snacks
Thursday, October 7, 2010 Venue: DAI 8.30 Registration
9.00 ¢ 10.30 PODIUM DISCUSSION I - CONCEPTUALISING GOVERNANCE Chair: Markus Pohlmann (Heidelberg) Bo Strath (Florence): ōConceptualising governance: what is wrong with government?" Antje Fl³chter (Heidelberg): ōConceptualising Indian governance between archetype and antipode: gute policey or oriental despotismö Discussant: Thomas Maissen (Heidelberg)
10.30 ¢ 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 ¢ 12.30 PODIUM DISCUSSION II - CONCEPTUALISING GOVERNANCE Chair: Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Heidelberg) Niraja Gopal Jayal (New Delhi): ōThe governance of the other: how religion frames alienage and citizenship.ö Rudolf Wagner (Heidelberg): ōMigrating metaphors of the state. Visual and textual evidence.ö Discussant: Subrata Mitra (Heidelberg)
Venue: KJC 12.30 ¢ 13.30 Lunch Break
13.30 ¢ 15.30 The politics of conceptual change: notions of government, polity, and religion in East Asia┤s confrontation with western modernity (Room: Library) Chair & Discussant: Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg) Ulrike B³chsel (Heidelberg): ōæNationÆ in Qing conservative political thought, 1901¢1911ö Hans Martin Krõmer (Bochum): ōConceptual change and the boundaries of historical action: policing æreligion(s)Æ in Japan, 1600-1900ö Michael Burtscher (Tokyo / Harvard): ōThe subject as sovereign: notes on the terminological conception of modernity in modern Japanö David Mervart (Heidelberg): ōTalking government without saying liberty: a case for counterfactual history of political theoryö
13.30 ¢ 15.00 Exhibitions ¢ mediating the transcultural flow of art concepts and museum practices (Room 212) Chair: Melanie Trede (Heidelberg) Discussant: Carla Meyer (Heidelberg) Patrizia Kern (Heidelberg): ōGlobal actors ¢ national museum? The makers and the making of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Artö Catherine Bublatzky (Heidelberg): ōThe display of Indian contemporary art in western museums and the question of æOtheringÆ.ö Franziska Koch (Heidelberg): ōThe virtualization of Chinese contemporary art: countering the modernist museum and educating a Chinese internet audience?ö
13.30 ¢ 15.30 `Governance┤ , a transcultural perspective. Insights from the field. (Room 112) Chair: Jivanta Schoettli (Heidelberg) Panelists: Roberta Tontini (Heidelberg): ōThe juridical language of Islam and its translation in imperial China.ö Matthias Liehr (Heidelberg): ōThe relationship between environmental governance and civil society in China ¢ A transcultural perspectiuve.ö Markus Pauli (Heidelberg): ōMicrofinance in India - assessing its impact with the capability approachö Mareike Ohlberg (Heidelberg): ōThe impact of Le Bon and Lippmann on the perception of mass-elite relations in 21st century China.ö Lion Koenig (Heidelberg): ōBreaking up the pseudo-community? æCultural citizenshipÆ and media empowerment in India: challenges and opportunities.ö
15.00 ¢ 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 ¢ 17.30 PANEL SESSION II Heidelberg Research Architecture ¢ developing tools for cluster research (Room 212) Chair: Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg) Panelists: Matthias Arnold, Christoph Bertolo, Eric Decker, Jennifer May, Anna M³ndelein, Jens Ostergaard Peterson, Dulip Withanage
17.30 ¢ 18.30 Reception and poster presentations of selected projects from the Cluster of Excellence
18.30 ¢ 20.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE II Sobhanlal Datta Gupta (Kolkata): ōMarxism, modernity and revolution: the Asian experience.ö
Friday, October 8, 2010 Venue: DAI
9.00 ¢ 10.30 PODIUM DISCUSSION III ¢ CONCEPTUALISING RELIGIOSITY Chair: Rudolf Wagner (Heidelberg) Volkhard Krech (Bochum): ōHow to conceptualise religion and religiosity in a comparative perspective. Some preliminary considerations.ö Joachim Friedrich Quack (Heidelberg): "Importing and exporting gods? On the flow of deities between Eygpt and its neighbouring countries.ö Discussant: Birgit Kellner (Heidelberg)
11.00 ¢ 12.30 PODIUM DISCUSSION IV ¢ ONCEPTUALISING RELIGIOSITY Chair: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg) Inken Prohl (Heidelberg): ōA devastating diagnosis: religion, transreligion, no religion at all? Some further considerationsö Mark Juergensmeyer (California): ōGlobal rebellions: religious challenges to the secular stateö Discussant: Ute Huesken (Oslo)
12.30 ¢ 14.00 Lunch Break Venue: KJC
13.30 ¢ 14.00 ōAsian Cultures of Learningö ¢ An Initiative of Oslo University: Mette Halskov Hansen & Ute Huesken & Mark Teeuwen (Room 112)
14.00 ¢ 15.30 PANEL SESSION III 14.00 ¢ 15.30 Secret intelligence (Room: Library) Chair: Isabelle Deflers (Freiburg) Discussant: Adam Shelley (Cambridge) Tobias Graf (Heidelberg): ōRenegades to the Ottoman empire and intelligence, 1580-1610ö Barend Noordam (Heidelberg): ōMilitary intelligence in early modern Eurasia: the case of the europeans in India and China, 1500-1700ö Peter I. Trummer (Heidelberg): ōEast meets West: Sun Tzu and Clausewitz on intelligenceö Rapporteur: Lina Weber (Heidelberg)
14.00 ¢ 15.30 The transfer of ideas. An archaeological perspective. (Room 212) Chair: Diamantis Panagiotopoulos (Heidelberg) Discussant: Margareta Pavaloi (Heidelberg) Sarah Cappel (Heidelberg): ōLasting impressions. The role of seals and sealings in the transfer of an administrative concept.ö Nicholas Zenzen (Heidelberg): ōHippodamos and Phoenicia. On the relationship between city planning and social order in a transcultural context.ö Svenja Nagel (Heidelberg): ōThe goddessÆ new clothes. Conceptualising an 'Eastern' goddess for a 'Western' audience.ö
14.00 ¢ 15.30 The Pre-modern reconsidered (Room 112) Chair: Sebastian Meurer (Heidelberg) Discussant: Gerrit J. Schenk (Darmstadt) Anna Andreeva (Heidelberg): ōEsoteric Kami rituals in premodern Japan: æcountry bumpkinsÆ and the quest for sudden enlightenment.ö Dominic Steavu: (Heidelberg): ōDivination and meditation in the context of East Asian curative rituals.ö
15.30 ¢ 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 ¢ 17.30 Film on the Afghan diaspora in Germany by Deepali Gaur Singh (Heidelberg), followed by discussion (Room 212)
16.00 ¢ 17.30 Governing health in South Asia with European institutions (Room 112) Chair: Udo Simon (Heidelberg) Discussant: William Sax (Heidelberg) Gabriele Alex: ōPrimary health centres in South India - transplanting Western ideas of health management and health education to South India.ö Sheela Saravanan (Heidelberg): ōCommercial surrogacy in India: objectification of gestational mothers and babies.ö Ananda Samir Chopra (Heidelberg): ōUpade£a to syllabus ¢ traditional Ayurveda and modern medicine in the 2009 syllabus for Ayurvedic undergraduate studies.ö
16.00 ¢ 17.30 The pen and the brush- negotiating concepts of alterity between images and text. (Room: Library) Chair: Melanie Trede (Heidelberg) Discussant: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg) Nicoletta Fazio (Heidelberg): ōA ætransculturalÆ community? The monastery, H. 2153 fol. 131b, Topkapı Sarayı Muzesi, Istanbul.ö Eva Zhang (Heidelberg): ōÆThe temple of devilsÆ - image transfers of religious alterity between early modern East Asia and Europe.ö Jule Nowoitnick (Heidelberg): ōÆThen will there arise a new Jenghiz KhanÆ¢ Michael PrawdinÆs æTschingis-Chan und sein ErbeÆ (1938) in the context of Nazi propaganda.ö
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Something, most likely the walking dead known as the Scourge, has agitated the creatures hereabouts.While escorting the sage here, we lost most of our hunting force to the riven widows -- huge and deadly spiders, which inhabit the Rivenwood to the north.
I must stay here to protect the small force we have left, but you... you could see if my longrunners are still alive, trapped within the riven widow's cocoons.
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Hollywood stars Natalie Portman and Zoe Saldana are using their celebrity pull to help a little-known charity, RadarOnline.com learned on Friday.
The Oscar winner and the Avatar star are featured in a new video public service announcement for FINCA's International online donation community (a charitable microfinance organization), Lend A Hand, which is a virtual community that invites people to sponsor life-changing, small loans for low-income entrepreneurs struggling to escape poverty.
PHOTOS: Natalie Portman's Style Evolution
"I'm so proud to serve with FINCA in helping impoverished women become self-sustaining," said Ambassador of Hope and mom-to-be Portman in a statement.
"There is no better gift than giving women living in poverty the ability to provide for themselves and their families. When people donate to FINCA's Lend A Hand campaign, they are allowing a mother to have peace of mind that her children are fed, safe, and being given a chance at a better life."
PHOTOS: Stars Hit The AFI Screening Of Black Swan
Star Trek star Saladana echoed Portman's support. "There are so many women in the world who are less fortunate, and struggling to provide for their families," said Saldana, who lived in the Dominican Republic for seven years when she was growing up.
"FINCA is working tirelessly to help give these women a hand up, so that they are able to take care of their families and break free of poverty. Through this campaign, we hope to educate people about Lend A Hand, and show how a small loan can change the lives of so many women living in poverty-and better the lives of their children," added Saldana.
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Portman has acted as an Ambassador of Hope for the past decade, and has been passionately committed to encouraging people her age to help fight against poverty.
"Her involvement has led her to visit multiple countries around the globe where she has witnessed, first hand, the positive effects of microfinance," said a charity spokesperson.
PHOTOS: See Natalie Portman In The Best, Worst And Wackiest Outfits Of The Week
Inspired by Portman, Zoe Saldana joined the Lend A Hand campaign after seeing the tragic destruction following the massive Haiti earthquake in 2010.
VIDEO: Natalie Portman Say 'My Fiancé Totally Wants To Sleep With Me'
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Identification of Peaks in Capillary Column Gas Chromatograms at the Nanogram Level by Dual-Beam Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry
Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 34, Issue 2, pp. 222-224 (1980)
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Most interfaces between a gas chromatograph (GC) and a Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer for the on-line measurement of the spectra of eluting peaks have been designed for use with 1/8 in. o.d. packed GC columns, and the light-pipes are too large for GC/ FT-IR measurements of peaks eluting from capillary columns without degrading the GC resolution. The volume of a light-pipe for GC/FT-IR should be large enough to ensure that as much of the sample as possible is present in the cell during the measurement of the spectrum, but small enough that the GC resolution is not seriously degraded. It has been shown that the optimum GC/FT-IR sensitivity is obtained when the volume of the light-pipe, Vcell, is equal to the volume of carrier gas containing a GC peak between its half-height points, V1/2. For peaks eluting from lightly loaded 1/8 in. o.d. packed columns, V1/2 is usually about 5 ml or greater, while for peaks eluting from capillary columns V1/2 is considerably smaller than this. If a support-coated open tubular (SCOT) column is used, a typical value for V1/2 is 0.5 ml, and if wall-coated open tubular (WCOT) columns are used, V1/2 may be 50 μl or even lower. Thus, if GC/FT-IR techniques are to be used for the identification of components of mixtures separated by capillary columns, light-pipes of smaller volumes than the 3 ml light-pipes used on commercial GC/FT-IR systems must be used.
Donald Kuehl, Gabor J. Kemeny, and Peter R. Griffiths, "Identification of Peaks in Capillary Column Gas Chromatograms at the Nanogram Level by Dual-Beam Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry," Appl. Spectrosc. 34, 222-224 (1980)
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The Manchurian Candidate, Paramount's remake of the 1962 paranoid thriller about brainwashed American soldiers and the sinister subversion of the democratic process, could be the latest political lightning rod to hit movie theaters since Fahrenheit 9/11. When Premiere reported that Paramount CEO and Kerry donor Sherry Lansing hoped the film's "riff on Enron-like corporate sleaze influences voters," ultra-right website NewsMax seized upon the story as ringing proof of Hollywood liberalism: "[Lansing] green-lighted the movie as a way of damaging President Bush."
But as Paramount plans for the release of the revamped Cold War classic on July 30, director Jonathan Demme and his stars remain resolutely nonpartisan, reserving their contempt for general corporate evils and political crookednesssure not to offend audiences from either side of the ideological divide. In anticipation of a conservative backlash, were they brainwashed by Paramount?
When questioned at a recent junket about the participation in the film of leftist activists such as Al Franken and Wyclef Jean, Demme, with a peace pin on his lapel, said, "We hope that this picture is as offensive to all the parties as it is to any in particular." Asked about the hawkish views of Eleanor Prentiss Shaw, the film's villain, who uses the fears of "another cataclysm, probably nuclear, on our soil" to get her military son on the presidential ticket, Meryl Streep responded, "That's strategizing. It's generic. Politicians talk that way." And as if reading from a political script, Denzel Washington, whose character is a shell-shocked Gulf War veteran, said, "[The film] reminds me to not lose sight of the fact that these kids are coming home and we all need to embrace them."
The film itself takes pains to avoid naming any political party. A corporation, the Parallax-like Manchurian Global, replaces the original's conjoined menaces of Communism and McCarthyism. But if you look past the watered-down politics and muddled coda, TV-news crawls and background radio broadcasts convey a more direct criticism of corporate influence in the current White House. As a senator played by Jon Voight warns, the country could be threatened with the "first privately owned and controlled vice president of the United States."
Producer Tina Sinatrathe youngest daughter of Frank Sinatra, star of John Frankenheimer's originalis more forthcoming about the film's prickly position in light of its release the week of the Democratic National Convention and an ongoing war. "I think this was the time it was supposed to be made," she says. "You've got this particular climate, which we knew would support the film, and then Fahrenheit 9/11 bumped it up another notch. I think it's stimulating and healthy and we're glad to be a part of it. But it would be sad if this film became so overly politicized that it actually became partisan and then we'd lose half the audience." In fact, she thought Paramount would push the film to next February to avoid an election-year release.
Still, as Michael Moore and Mel Gibson have proved, politicizing a film doesn't alienate audiences; it sells tickets. Websites have generated buzz surrounding rumors that Paramount asked the filmmakers to trim scenes in which Meryl Streep's charactera Machiavellian senatorappeared too Hillary Clinton-esque. The studio dismissed the story, and Streep has said that she drew inspiration from Bush adviser Karen Hughes and conservative columnist Peggy Noonan. Right-wing bloggers have jumped on both the rumor and Streep's explanation as further proof of Paramount brass sleeping with the leftist enemyminimizing the alleged demonization of Hillary and maximizing the vilification of conservatives like Hughes and Noonan. There's a third option, of coursethe whole rumor was orchestrated by Paramount's marketing department.
Sinatra, who started planning the project after United Artists re-released the original in 1988, never intended the remake to be such a hot potato. "I don't think we'd be having this conversation if it weren't for the Michael Moore film," she says. And though she acknowledges Manchurian Global's similarities to Halliburton or the Carlyle Group, Sinatra points out, "We're based on a novel written in 1959, we drew certain parallels before they even occurred. But if the shoe fits . . . "
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Chamber spokesman John Beattie told independent hearing commissioners Bob Batty and Stephen Chiles yesterday the airport should be the future principal regional airport at night-time, because district plan rules prevent Queenstown Airport from operating beyond 10pm.
The airport was "critical" to the well-being of the Upper Clutha district, which relied on tourism as its "lifeblood", Mr Beattie said.
Growth in tourism, particularly from Australia, and in the numbers of jet aircraft numbers in the Asia Pacific region would be such that Wanaka Airport would be a strategic international airport option, he said.
Air New Zealand's view is that Wanaka Airport growth projections are so unrealistic and unclear that new night-time noise boundaries and development restrictions should not be imposed on neighbours.
It does not believe Wanaka's tourism market is dependent on having its own airport and does not think the district's two airports should compete for jets.
The airline's infrastructure strategy manager Eric Morgan said yesterday he was not confident Wanaka Airport would expand as suggested in growth forecasts, without having some consequence on Queenstown.
"The chamber saw quite strongly their future being in night-time flights . . . [but] it shouldn't be concluded there would be no international flights into Queenstown at night," he said.
Mr Morgan said the airline had reduced its flights into Wanaka because growth had been "substantially less" than the cost of providing additional services.
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Mr Morgan declined to reveal the airline's present loads because the Otago Daily Times was present at the hearing but he undertook to provide the figure confidentially to the commissioners.
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The consequence of not investing in Wanaka would cost the community more, things were "pretty tough" and the chamber would not shy away from entering debate about the region's future, he said.
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Ronald Harwoods 1995 play, Taking Sides, is a troublesome thing: The story revolves around a historical figure, yet isnt a biography; its filled with postwar politics and the music of a vanishing Europe, although, strictly speaking, both politics and music exist here merely as undershadowing to a greater theme. Ultimately, Taking Sides, now running at the Odyssey Theater Ensemble, is a debate -- an argument about personal responsibility that speaks to us in the language of polemics rather than poetry.
Harwoods narrative is as straightforward as the conundrums it poses are unsolvable. In the rubble of the Third Reich, an obscure U.S. Army investigator, Major Steve Arnold (Sam Anderson), is obsessed with bringing to book the legendary conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler (Leland Crooke), whom he rather crassly delights in referring to as the bandleader. Arnold believes he can build a sufficiently strong case to land Toscaninis famous rival in hot water, based on Furtwanglers decision to sit the war out in the relative comfort of Berlin.
Furtwanglers alibi of noncooperation with the Nazis seems solid enough to convince the majors young adjutant, Lieutenant David Wills (Roy Abramsohn), a Jew who fled Germany when he was a youth, of the conductors innocence. Furtwangler, after all, promoted deserving Jews within the Berlin Opera and, later, proved just as capable of winning their exodus to the West. But in civilian life before the war, Arnold was an insurance man and, like the adjuster Keyes in Double Indemnity, says he just knows when theres something wrong about a claim.
Arnold spends most of the play searching for a smoking Luger, some documented evidence of Furtwanglers indiscreet allegiance to the party or a sworn accusation made by a disgruntled former colleague. Toward that end, the major makes some progress in wearing down Furtwanglers cool reserve, but, by doing so, Arnold becomes the storys main casualty, disintegrating before our eyes and alienating his small staff.
Taking Sides betrays an almost obligatory dose of British chauvinism in that the intimidating and belittling American Major Arnold sometimes comes perilously close to sounding like a precursor to Joseph McCarthy, while a never-seen English officer is reputed to be a paradigm of grace and efficiency. Worse, Harwood, who is best remembered for his The Dresser, is not always clear in establishing his characters motivations -- Major Arnolds obsession with convicting Furtwangler, for example. Arnold tells us he saw some pictures of death camps that made him crazed, but he must have seen a lot of horrific things (or, at least, pictures of them) throughout WWII. Why would this cause him to snap?
The play made its Broadway debut in 1996, with Ed Harris and the late Daniel Massey in the respective Arnold and Furtwangler roles. Although the voracious Harris devoured entire sets of scenery, Massey still emerged as a figure of tragic grandeur. At the Odyssey, under Ron Sossis direction, the acting by the two leads is as good as it gets, with Anderson pouring himself into a strenuous -- and not all that sympathetic -- role, bellowing some deeply buried rage, alternately drinking slugs of whiskey and splashing on after-shave to keep his sanity as much as to stay awake. Likewise Crooke, whose long, rather doleful face suggests a middle-aged Shimon Peres, may be too young to really invoke Furtwangler as Massey did in New York, but he brings a nervous charm to the job site that works in several key scenes.
The show always engages the viewers intellect, even though Sossi employs an unscripted coda that needlessly nudges us toward taking a position on Furtwanglers guilt, as though the thought of a little ambiguity was too much to bear.
This is quite unnecessary, for Taking Sides is a play of questions rather than declarations, and its importance is in no way diminished by having these questions remain unanswered at curtain. Does one flee ones country when it is about to be engulfed in tyranny? If not, should one leave soon after? If not soon, then when? Should one, if caught in the tyranny, have any doings with the new state? If so, at what point are those dealings considered collaboration? These are hardly the kind of questions we grappled with in a civics class, nor, certainly, are they the kind most people in the early 20th century thought theyd ever have to consider. Yet they would one day haunt Europeans from Jean Cocteau to Maurice Chevalier, from Leopold III to Pius XII, and poison the air of postwar conversation for years to come.
The immediate question we ask ourselves is, Why pick on Furtwangler when youve got the chance to play history onstage with genuine fellow travelers like Veit Harlan or Leni Riefenstahl? The answer comes long after weve left the theater, in those unguarded moments of self-interrogation when we wonder just what would we have done.
Harwood, we realize, chose Furtwangler because he was both famous and so clearly innocent of any overt crimes. When, toward the end, the conductor finally concedes that he would have done some things differently had he known what course Germany was to take, its a vindication of sorts for Major Arnold, yet not for us. Furtwangler ends as a figure reduced, but only as much as any person is reduced for admitting being human; he is guilty only so far as a friend, neighbor or relative who has admitted lying to us is guilty. Would we be anything more? Could we be anything less?
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