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FOR THE 1.4 MILLION MEMBERS AND ONLINE ACTIVISTS OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL Winter 2014 in this issue Bearded seal © Steven J. Kazlowski • Shell Targets Prime Polar Bear Habitat • NRDC Turns up the Heat on Pebble Mine • Fracking Threatens Parks, Forests, Water • Silence Will Settle on Yellowstone in the news EU Takes Aim at Airguns In a landmark development for whales, the European Parliament has voted in favor of a law that would require environ mental impact assessments before companies begin hazardous offshore oil and gas exploration. These surveys often make use of high-powered under water airguns, firing blasts every 12 seconds for months on end. Just one of the blasts can harm whales and other marine mammals for miles around, and at close range they can be deadly. If passed by the European Council, the law would set a regional mandate for finding less harmful alternatives. NRDC Turns up Heat on Mega-Mine Wolves, Death and Taxes The Obama Administration has announced it will proceed with an investigation of the Wildlife Services agency, which kills some 100,000 native carnivores — including wolves, bobcats, bears and foxes — every year. Wildlife Services, part of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), has wiped out more than 2 million of these animals — 50,000 of them accidentally — since 2000 at the behest of big ranchers and agribusiness. Victims include endangered species and pets. The agency regularly refuses to use nonlethal methods, instead spending millions of taxpayer dollars every year for poison, traps and aerial gunning. Our Members and online activists sent 87,000 messages to the USDA, demanding a full investigation and an end to the sanctioned slaughter. his month, we're launching a new campaign to focus public pressure on Northern Dynasty Minerals — the last company committed to building the Pebble Mine, which threatens to destroy the untamed wilderness and worldclass salmon runs above Alaska's Bristol Bay. In December, just three months after the Anglo American corporation quit the project, mining giant Rio Tinto stunned investors by announcing that it was considering divestment from the Pebble Mine. Both companies have faced relentless public opposition, including one million messages generated by NRDC Members and online activists. "Rio Tinto's announce ment is a big step toward aban doning this reckless project, and we applaud the company for taking it," says Joel Reynolds, who heads up NRDC's campaign, "but we'll keep watchdogging Rio Tinto until it finishes what it started and actually exits the project." In the meantime, NRDC Trustee Robert Redford will spearhead our campaign targeting Canada's Northern Dynasty Minerals, which is now leading the charge to build the Pebble Mine. Despite the departure of its major partner, Anglo American, Northern Dynasty has said it will still proceed with the $6 billion mega-mine — seeking permits on its own, if need be, and finding another multinational corporate backer. It has also made clear it could apply for those permits in the first quarter of this year. "Apparently, Northern Dynasty hasn't gotten the message that we don't want an American natural treasure turned into an industrial wasteland," says Redford. The gargantuan, open-pit gold and copper mine would produce some 10 billion tons of contaminated waste, and it directly threatens one of the continent's most spectacular ecosystems and a $1.5 billion economy built on wild sockeye salmon. It is opposed by a united front of local residents, Native groups and fishermen. T Nushagak River, near site of proposed mine. No Sale, No Problem Good news came this month for our natural heritage in Utah when the Bureau of Land Management announced it was canceling a proposal — tenaciously opposed by NRDC and our allies — to auction off oil and gas rights to thousands of acres in the stunning San Rafael Swell wilderness. Known for its rock art sites and rugged landscapes that resemble the surface of Mars, the Swell is a magnet for outdoor enthusiasts. The cancellation will protect this national treasure against industrialization by the oil and gas industry as well as support Utah's important outdoor recreation economy. 2 Take action at: stoppebble.org Nushagak River © Patrick Clayton/fisheyeguyphotography.com announced new plans to drill in Alaska's Chukchi Sea — home to more than half the nation's polar bears — and the company is teaming up on the project with one of the key culprits behind 2010's catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Scientists say a major oil spill in the Arctic Ocean could be an unprecedented environmental A Shell Targets Prime Polar Bear Habitat fter being spared in 2013, America's premier polar bear habitat is again facing imminent danger: Oil giant Shell has "Shell's oil-spill response plans for the Arctic have always read like a fairy tale; they utterly fail to take into account the extreme conditions," says Lawrence. "The nearest Coast Guard base to Shell's Arctic operations is 1,000 miles away. Fundamentally nothing has changed: The Arctic remains just as unsafe for drilling now as it was in 2012, and it's not going to get any safer." Also unchanged: NRDC's resolve to keep Shell out of the Polar Bear Seas — the Chukchi as well The Chukchi is home to more than half of America's polar bears. as the Beaufort, which borders the disaster, one made that much worse by the harsh weather, heavy seas and massive ice floes of the Arctic. "You'd think Shell would have learned its lesson by now," says Niel Lawrence, legal director of NRDC's Arctic protection campaign. Indeed, the oil giant's last foray into the area, in 2012, was an unmitigated failure, a series of embar rassing blunders and harrowing close calls that included the malfunction of critical safety equipment, pollution resulting in $1.1 million in fines, a near miss with a 30-milelong iceberg, and the grounding of a 260-foot drill rig. Yet the company appears unbowed, determined to return to the Chukchi and drill as early as this summer. Alarmingly, Shell plans to lease its drill rig from Transocean, the company whose Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank in 2010, spewing millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We continue to fight in federal court against the lease sales that opened the door to potential drilling in the region, and we're fully prepared to challenge the oil giant and the Obama Administration on new legal fronts if their plans violate our laws and endanger our environment. Shell will need permits to pollute the Arctic air, discharge wastewater into the Arctic Ocean and harass and harm marine mammals during drilling. So far, the administration seems all too willing to accommodate the company's Arctic ambitions. "The American public needs to understand that there is up a major oil spill in Arctic waters," says Lawrence. "And it's not just one company we have to worry about. If Shell proceeds with drilling in the Chukchi, you can bet that the rest of Big Oil will want to follow." Take action at: stopshell.org Polar bears © Steven J. Kazlowski/lefteyepro.com no proven method — none whatsoever — for cleaning 3 Campaign Update Fracking Unleashed: New Drilling Boom Imperils America's Glacier National Park © Tim Fitzharris; gas well © Linda F. Baker/Upper Green River Alliance; bobcat © Konrad Wothe/Minden Pictures; White River National Forest © Laurence Parent; fracking flare © Robert Donnan; George Washington National Forest © Charles Gurche I NRDC Calls for Fracking Moratorium to Protect Public Lands and Drinking Water for Millions Forest in Colorado — it's the largest source of freshwater for the upper Colorado River, which provides drinking water to 30 million people downstream. Ohio's Wayne National Forest — drinking water for four entire counties. Los Padres National Forest in California. The list goes on and on." Not even our national parks are immune to the ravages of nearby fracking. Newly drilled wells in Montana are already visible from Glacier National Park, and the "front door" to Glacier has been proposed for major industrialization, according to the National Parks Conservation Association. In Wyoming, oil and gas development near Grand Teton National Park is fragmenting the habitat that pronghorn and other species need outside the park for migration. Meanwhile, the fracking boom in North Dakota has been linked to spikes in air pollution in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and flares from gas rigs are despoiling what was once one of the darkest night skies in the national park system. "We must hold President Obama accountable here," says NRDC President Frances Beinecke. "He made a promise last year in his State of the Union address to develop America's natural gas resources 'without putting the health drilling rights. Those rules not only t's a shocking figure: Some 15.3 million Americans — more than allow fracking next to national parks the population of Ohio, Pennsylvania and inside national forests, but also or Illinois — now live within a single permit it alongside drinking water mile of a fracking well. That's according supplies for tens of millions of Americans. "With each successive round of revisions, to a recent analysis by The Wall Street the BLM rules have gotten weaker Journal, which charted the explosive and weaker," says Amy Mall, a senior growth of this dangerous form of energy extraction over the past decade. policy analyst at NRDC. "You can see This surprisingly large number reflects the fingerprints of the oil and gas industry all over this process." Indeed, the enormous extent of the fracking the latest rules fail to address even boom unleashed on Americans by the oil and gas industry — but it tells only some of the most dangerous industry practices. They do not, for example, part of the story. From coast to coast, set a minimum distance between fracking fracking is taking a devastating toll on local residents, with once-idyllic commu operations and homes or schools, nor nities turned into industrial zones where 10-story drill rigs operate day and night and seemingly endless convoys of diesel trucks thunder down local roads. Yet even amid mounting reports of contaminated water supplies Colorado's White River National Forest — and and rising air pollution, wildlife like bobcats — would suffer from the Obama Administration proposed fracking. has failed to curb the environ mental and health threats posed do they bar oil and gas companies by fracking, in which massive amounts from storing millions of gallons of of water and sand mixed with hazardous contaminated wastewater in open-air chemicals are pumped into the earth pits prone to overflow or rupture. to break apart rock and release oil and "The administration is basically rolling gas deposits. out the welcome mat to the oil and gas A flagrant example of the administration's industry," says Sharon Buccino, director laissez-faire approach: The Bureau of of NRDC's Land and Wildlife Program. Land Management (BLM) recently "No region of the country will escape. proposed new rules to regulate fracking The George Washington National on our public lands and millions of Forest in Virginia — that's the source acres of private property for which of drinking water for all of Washington, D.C. The White River National the federal government controls the 4 Last Wild Places is basically rolling out the "The administration welcome mat to the oil and gas industry. " Above: The front door to Glacier National Park has been proposed for industrialization. Inset left: The California condor's habitat could face fracking. Right: Natural gas well against the Wind River Range, Wyoming. and safety of our citizens at risk.' Instead, his administration has caved to the oil and gas lobby. That's why we are now calling on the president to impose an immediate fracking mora torium on all federal lands — one that will last until he keeps his promise to protect us from the excesses of the oil and gas industry. With one stroke of his pen, he can safe guard our natural heritage, protect our drinking water and shield commu nities from California to Virginia that sit near oil and gas reserves." BLM's oversight extends to lands across the country that most Americans think of as private: some 57 million acres — an area the size of Georgia — of so-called splitestate property, where residents may own the ground on which their house sits but the federal government owns the drilling rights to the oil and gas below. For these homeowners, the government has the right to greenlight fracking operations literally in their own backyards. NRDC has been at the forefront of the fight to protect communities from the ravages of fracking and to turn the tide on the oil and gas industry's relentless "frack attack." We fought for — and won — a moratorium on fracking in New York State, advocated Fracking Defense Project, which is empowering local residents in five states with the legal know-how they need to ban or restrict fracking in their cities and towns if they so choose. Meanwhile, nearly 100,000 NRDC Members and online activists have already joined us in calling on President Obama to close our treasured public lands to fracking and to move America as rapidly as possible beyond all fossil fuels, toward a future powered by 100 percent clean energy. Beinecke notes that a fracking mora torium would echo beyond our public lands. "It would send a message that if energy companies can't drill without endan gering the water in our tap, the air we breathe, the health of our families and the wild places we love, then they shouldn't be fracking. Period." Tell the president to impose a moratorium at: www.frackalarm.org 5 George Washington National Forest, a source of drinking water for all of Washington, D.C. Inset: Fracking flare. for moratoriums in California and Illinois, and championed strict controls on fracking where it's already happening. We've also launched a Community A At Long Last, Silence Will Settle on Yellowstone fter nearly two decades of intense legal battles and numerous setbacks, our fight growing snowmobile traffic and weakened regulations posed a serious environmental threat to the park's habitat and wildlife. Hundreds of the vehicles were lining up at entrance stations and polluting the air with exhaust, making it unhealthy for visitors to breathe the air and even forcing park rangers to start wearing respirators. A ban on snow Snowmobiles will be quieter, less polluting. to reduce the impact of snowmobiles on Yellowstone National Park has reached a heartening conclusion. In October, the National Park Service announced it is setting strong standards for snow mobiles and snowcoaches that will cut their noise and slash their air pollution by upwards of 70 percent. "Silence is golden," says Chuck Clusen, director of NRDC's National Parks Project. "One of the best places to experience the quiet symphony of nature is Yellowstone in deep winter. The National Park Service decision will go a long way mobiles in the form of a three-year phase-out — advocated by NRDC and by hundreds of thou sands of messages from our Members — was instituted in 2001 but was soon reversed by the Bush Administration. Undeterred, we continued the fight against a rise in snowmobile use and in favor of stringent controls. In the wake of this latest victory NRDC will continue to push for a safer and more serene Yellowstone both for human visitors and for the park's storied wildlife. Bison © Tom & Pat Leeson toward quieting the distracting roar of snow machines." The practice of allowing snowmobiles on unplowed roads in Yellowstone started in the 1960s, and by the early 1990s U.S. Inaction Imperils Whales 650,000 animals are killed or critically injured each year after becoming tangled or trapped in enormous nets and other industrial fishing gear, according to scientific estimates. Such horrendous casualties prompted Congress to include a provision in the landmark Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 requiring all imported seafood to be accompanied by proof that it was caught in accordance with U.S. standards for protecting marine mammal species. The only problem? That provision has never been enforced. "I think most Americans would be shocked to know that Whale and diver © Alberto Dario Romeo A round the world, the global fishing industry is taking a disastrous toll on whales, dolphins and other marine mammal species: More than As part of a broader campaign to raise public awareness and pressure the Obama Admini stration to take action, NRDC is releasing an Diver frees a sperm whale from a drift net. in-depth report that details how enforcement of U.S. laws could help shield a range of imperiled species worldwide, from whales in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean to sea lions in New Zealand to dolphins in the Indian Ocean. "It's unacceptable that this law is on the books but has been left to gather dust," says Smith. "We're calling on the National Marine Fisheries Service to enforce the seafood import law and save the lives of countless marine mammals around the world." Make your voice heard at: www.nrdc.org/deadlycatch the majority of imported seafood — whether it's sea bass in a five-star restaurant or lowly fish sticks — violates federal law, and that the government has been doing nothing to stop it," says Zak Smith, an attorney with NRDC's Marine Mammal Protection Project. 6 petcoke — a coal-like waste product from oil and tar sands refining — at a storage terminal owned by the Koch brothers on the banks of the Calumet River. With BP planning to ramp up the processing of tar sands at its nearby refinery in Whiting, Indiana, a staggering 6,000 tons of petcoke will soon be headed toward Chicago's Southeast Side every single day. Already, nearby neighborhoods are being coated by airborne coke dust from the uncovered terminal. Families only a few hundred yards away are being forced to shut their windows and stay indoors to protect their homes and lungs from the powdery black dust, which is laden with heavy metals. NRDC has been mobilizing our Members and online activists in Illinois, calling on Governor Pat Quinn to intervene by A Out of Canada, Tar Sands Waste Is Now Chicago's Problem new front in the battle against tar sands oil has opened up in southeast Chicago. Oil giant BP has been dumping moun tains of petroleum coke, or enforcing the state's pollution laws and putting a moratorium on bringing still more petcoke into Chicago. "We must not allow Big Oil and the Koch brothers to treat Chicago's Southeast A mountain of petcoke in southeast Chicago. Side as their private dumping ground," says Henry Henderson, NRDC's Midwest director. "And unless we want to see more cities in America blighted like this, we also need to stop tar sands projects like the Keystone XL pipeline. These toxic mounds are just another reminder that we have to get America off of oil. This is what happens when you scrape the bottom of the barrel." Petcoke © Associated Press SWiTCHBOARD Bees Can't Wait Posted by: Jennifer Sass, senior scientist The following entry first appeared online at: www.switchboard.nrdc.org In an ad running in The New York Times and six other major news outlets, NRDC has joined with a coalition of partners to call on the U.S. Environ mental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose a moratorium on a handful of harmful pesticides that are contrib uting to the severe decline of bees in our country. On December 1 the European Union adopted such a ban for two years, based on the over whelming evidence that several neonicotinoid pesticides — "neonics" — are either directly or indirectly harming bees. But the EPA is stalling, saying it will instead review these pesticides in a process that will take five years or more. Our nation's bees are in a tailspin, and victims include commercial honeybees, wild bumblebees, and other native species. This isn't just a bee problem All of the environmental projects and victories described in Nature's Voice are made possible through the generous support of Members like you. If you like what you read, you are invited to make a special contribution at www.nrdc.org/joingive — it's our problem too because we rely on the pollination services of our buzzing invertebrate friends to grow food and make flowers bloom. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Honey Report, honey production is down, as it has been almost every year since the neonicotinoid pesticides were approved. The decline of bee colonies almost certainly has numerous causes. But science is bringing pesticides and bee deaths closer together. It is now evident that even low field-realistic levels of neonics — a class of pesticide purposely designed to soak into the whole plant and make it poisonous to insects — are compromising the immunity of bees, leaving them unable to fend off viruses and other deadly pathogens that stress and eventually kill colonies. It is a deadly one-two punch. The bees are immune-compromised from the pesticides and then fall prey to mites and viruses that kill them. Editor: Stephen Mills Writers: Jason Best, Sky Reid-Mills Managing Editor: Liz Linke Designer: Dalton Design Director of Membership: Linda Lopez Our ad ran in seven national newspapers. Research has shown that even low levels of these dangerous pesticides impair bees' ability to learn, to find their way back to the hive, to collect food and to produce new queens. Such abnormal behavior can hinder the ability of the colony to survive winter. The evidence is clear: It's time for a moratorium on the pervasive use of these pesticides. Bees can't wait five more years. They are dying now. The EPA has the power and responsibility to protect our pollinators. They should do so immediately. Natural Resources Defense Council 40 W. 20th St., New York, NY 10011 www.nrdc.org/naturesvoice • 212-727-4500 email: email@example.com 7 Your support of NRDC made a world of difference to our environment in 2013 Here are a few of the environmental victories your Membership support made possible: We went to court and made sure that polar bears will keep their protection under the Endangered Species Act. We came to the legal defense of local citizens in New York, whose voices were squelched after they opposed the spread of fracking in their community. We devised an innovative approach to cutting global warming pollution that became the model for President Obama's bold plan to tackle the climate crisis. Bison © Art Wolfe; belugas © Suzi Eszterhas/Minden Pictures; musk oxen © Steven J. 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Global variables in C are by default static or extern?? If global variables are by default static then it means that we would be able to access them in a single file... But we can use global variables in different files as well.. So does this means that they have extern storage class by default... Thanx...
If you do not specify a storage class (that is, the
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Global variables in C are by default extern.. (i.e) they have external linkage..
To restrict the external linkage, 'static' storage class specifier can be used for the global variable.. if static specifier is used, then the variable has file scope.. You cannot link it in an other file using the 'extern' keyword..
Specifying 'static' depends on your usage of the program..
In C, a global variable which doesn't have an initializer or any storage class specifiers is a tentative definition of a variable with static storage duration and external linkage.
In a translation unit all tentative definitions and up to one non-tentative definition (e.g. from a declaration with an initializer) are collapsed into a single definition for a variable. Although it's not allowed to have a definition of the same variable in multiple translation units it is a common extension to allow "common" variables, i.e. tentative definitions of the same variable in multiple translation units.


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Poverty, corruption and violence are hobbling development efforts in Afghanistan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says in a report. Though the country received an estimated $35 billion in economic aid between 2002 and 2009, a third of the population is destitute while and international armed forces ignore blatant corruption in favor of security concerns, the report charges.
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A 56-year-old woman killed a leopard when it attacked her in an agricultural field in Jakholi area here, while she was irrigating her crops, forest officials said.
The incident took place yesterday when Kamla Negi was giving water to the crops in her field, Forest officer Sohan Lal said, adding, the animal who was hiding in the bushes suddenly attacked her from behind, leaving her seriously injured.
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Fabric or Not
I am planting some shrubs and flowers in front of my house. I just tilled it up and I am having more top soil brought in. Should I use landscape fabric then put the new top soil on top of it and then mulch? Some say the fabric is a waste of time... and money.
fabric no input from anyone?
should I use fabric or not?
I use the fabric on top of the soil and then mulch and it does help keep the weeds down but not totaly.
A heavy duty black garabage bag will do the trick as well.
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Sharry Friel, 50, of Santa Clarita, was killed in a motorcycle collision on Monday when her motorcycle collided with another vehicle on the northbound I-405 and she was struck by a third vehicle.Read More »
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During the weekend of August 17 to 18, crews will demolish the old southbound I-405 / eastbound SR-22 connector bridge, requiring a 20-hour full closure of the I-405 freeway. In preparation of the bridge demolition, the WCC team along with our partners at Caltrans have been busy promoting the upcoming closure. Don't miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts ...Read More »
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Not sure I agree with your pessimism here Aronchis. The Cards' bullpen isn't a whole lot better than the Reds, and the Cards' pitching isn't all that and a bag of chips. Their phenomenal offense and a good bullpen carried a lot of those guys to good years last year (Suppan and Marquis don't really strike fear in my heart). Carpenter is legit, of course, but, and this is the realization that many pessimistic Reds fans will need to understand...so is Harang.Originally Posted by Aronchis
Given the fall-off to the Cardinals offense (really, after Edmonds last night, there was a whole succession of easy outs---heck, even counting Edmonds, there was a whole succession of easy outs---he off the juice, finally?), I wouldn't be so quick to sing their praises.
Now, I am NOT saying it's the Reds who will jump up to replace the Cards (I predicted the Brewers would to start the season), but I am still pretty certain that St. Louis is not what they were.
AND, it's just plain stupid to try and be snarky and say Reds were lucky to win because they had their best pitcher on the mound and just barely won when the Cards were in the exact same position with the reigning Cy Young winner and lost.
No need to minimize last night's achievement, that was a helluva win, and a very heartening sign for those of us still holding out hope for a .500 or so season (or even better).


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The active pharmaceutical ingredient in FDA-approved Makena®, hydroxyprogesterone caproate, is sourced exclusively from the same FDA-registered and FDA-inspected manufacturer that supplied the API used in the NICHD study that served as part of the basis for FDA approval of Makena®. To the Company's knowledge, this is the only manufacturer of hydroxyprogesterone caproate known to have an active Drug Master File with the FDA.
Research commissioned by Ther-Rx shows that the API used in compounded 17P formulations originates primarily from facilities in China that are neither registered with nor inspected by the FDA. This research also found that the vast majority of entities claiming to be original manufacturers of hydroxyprogesterone caproate are actually re-packagers, re-sellers, brokers or distributors of hydroxyprogesterone caproate that is actually manufactured in China.
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More change for Tiger Woods: a new caddie
The other professional caddie he has used was Billy Foster at the 2005 Presidents Cup when Williams stayed home for the birth of his son. Joe LaCava, the longtime looper for Fred Couples, was supposed to work for Woods at that Presidents Cup until Couples was a captain's pick.
LaCava left Couples two months ago and now works for Dustin Johnson.
There was a time that most caddies would drop everything for a chance to work for Woods, who has had 11 seasons making at least $5 million on the PGA Tour, and has twice topped $10 million in one season. The demands are far greater these days, and there is more secrecy than ever in Woods' camp. On the course, Woods occasionally has shown signs of turning his game around - he shot 30 on the front nine at the Masters - but still has gone nearly two years without a PGA Tour win.
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Preview followed by live coverage of Monday's Championship play-off final between Middlesbrough and Norwich City.BBC Sport » 1h
Striker Patrick Bamford is facing a race against time to be fit for Middlesbrough's Sky Bet Championship play-off final clash with Norwich.EatSleepSport » 2h
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In a talk to patients in London on 3rd September, Dr. W. Ian Lipkin described the extraordinary lengths he and his team are prepared to go to in order to track down the source of an illness, with examples ranging from autism to the strange case of Kawasaki disease.
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Dembe's previous work and other studies have demonstrated that employees working nonstandard shifts are already at higher risk for suffering an occupational injury or illness the most common injuries are musculoskeletal conditions and cuts, bruises and fractures making rehabilitative efforts associated with their return to work even more important, Dembe said.
Currently, occupational rehabilitation specialists tend to focus on getting workers back to productive employment by evaluating their ability to perform functional tasks according to a standardized assessment tool that simulates workplace activities. And occupational health case managers coordinate return-to-work planning, including rehabilitative care, for injured employees. Neither specialty emphasizes what the occupational health industry calls work organization, which encompasses employment schedules, supervisory training and other practices that influence how jobs and human resources policies are structured.
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Just to throw my bit into this.
At 66 I knew nothing about sailing, had never hauled a halyard (didn't know what one was). Only experience was steering a friend's boat for a short while a few years earlier.
But I was keen, so bought a 34ft sloop, cruiser-racer, and taught myself with a bit of advice (I didn't want assistance) from friends, reading, and forums such as this.
I love it and am getting more adept all the time. Have Sandra as crew but she knows even less than I knew. Longest single expedition so far has been 240miles, but have plans for much more.
In my view it's a matter of enthusiasm, time, mental outlook and (if you're lucky - I am) physical condition (as we all know some money can help too) and not much at all to do with age as such.
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The initiative comes from the KTDC and the KSINC
Visitors to the Fort Kochi and Mattancherry heritage tourism zones can now check them out by embarking on a sight-seeing cruise from the city.
The initiative comes from the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) and the Kerala Shipping and Inland Navigation Corporation (KSINC). The cruise begins and ends at the Ernakulam Boat Jetty. In Mattancherry, guests will be taken to the Jewish synagogue, the oldest synagogue in the Commonwealth countries, and the Dutch Palace, which has a portrait gallery of the erstwhile kings of Kochi, and also some of the best mythological murals in India.
Once the boat calls at Fort Kochi, they will be taken to the St. Francis Church that was built in 1503, the first church to be built in India by Europeans. Vasco da Gama was buried here and a few years later his mortal remains were taken to Portugal. The Chinese fishing nets is another attraction. The cruise fare is Rs. 200 per person.
First cruise
The first cruise was flagged off from the Ernakulam Boat Jetty on Saturday by KSINC's managing director Tom Jose. A KTDC official said that the KSINC's double-deck boat Lake Palace will have regular daily trips to the locales, between 9.30 a.m. and 1 p.m. and between 2.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. "The agency has agreed to spare another vessel - Lake Queen, which would begin service during the tourist season that begins later this year. Here, guests would be taken in a boat on a tour of Cheranalloor and other picturesque locales located off the city."
The initiative is being seen as an apt example of how the two government agencies are utilising each other's expertise for common benefit. The KTDC's strength is its marketing network, while the KSINC has the expertise in operating boats and maintaining them. The KTDC's regular sight-seeing cruises in the city were popular for around 30 years, till a boat that it operated was withdrawn from service over two years ago.
Sagara Rani
Further enhancing the ties for mutual benefit, the KTDC has agreed to market the popular sunset cruise and exclusive bookings of KSINC's flagship vessels - Sagara Rani I and II. The cruises are a big hit, since they are the only vessels that can venture into the sea off Fort Kochi. The KSINC also offers exclusive dinner packages, where singers render gazal songs. Exclusive package trips operate all through the day. Henceforth, people will be able to book the tours from any KTDC office.
The others who were present at the flag-off function were the KTDC's regional manager Manoj Kumar P.N., its central reservations manager I.G. Chandra Babu, manager of the Kochi reservation centre Manoj Kumar K. and the KSINC's commercial officer Abdul Gafoor.
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Treasury Futures Decline as Recovery Signs Offset Debt Concern
June 15 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury futures fell for a second day amid speculation the global economy will weather Europe's sovereign-debt crisis, curbing demand for the safest assets.
Benchmark 10-year yields approached a one-week high yesterday after a report showed Europe's industrial production increased in April by more than economists had forecast. Data this week are forecast to show manufacturing in the New York region grew and U.S. industrial production rose. Asian stocks rose and the cost of protecting Japanese and Australian bonds from non-payment declined even as Moody's Investors Service downgraded Greece to below investment grade yesterday.
"Investors are gradually shifting attention back to economic fundamentals, which are signaling continued improvement," said Tsuyoshi Segawa, a strategist in Tokyo at Mizuho Securities Co., a unit of Japan's second-largest banking group. "Capital flight into safer assets such as bonds is also beginning to weaken."
The September futures contract for Treasuries fell 3/32, or $0.94 per $1,000 face amount, to 120 7/32 as of 6:30 a.m. in London, according to the Chicago Board of Trade.
The yield on the 10-year note rose one basis point to 3.27 percent, according to BGCantor Market Data. The price of the 3.5 percent security due May 2020 fell 2/32 to 101 30/32. Yields reached 3.32 percent yesterday, the highest since June 4.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's general economic index rose to 20.0 in June from 19.11 in the previous month, according to a Bloomberg News survey of economists ahead of the data's release today. Production at factories, mines and utilities increased 0.9 percent in May, according to a separate survey before the Fed releases the figures on June 16.
European Output
A leading indicator for the Chinese economy, the world's third biggest, rose "sharply" in April on a jump in new construction work, the Conference Board said. The measure gained 1.7 percent to 147.1, compared with a revised 1.2 percent increase in March, the New York-based research organization said on its website today.
Output in the euro-region economy rose 0.8 percent from March, the European Union's statistics office in Luxembourg said yesterday. Economists had projected a gain of 0.5 percent.
The German 10-year bund yield, the euro-area's benchmark security, climbed seven basis points to 2.64 percent yesterday.
Asian stocks reversed earlier declines and futures on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose, weakening the refuge appeal of U.S. government securities.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index of regional share gained 0.2 percent after earlier losing as much as 0.3 percent and futures on the S&P 500 Index rose 0.3 percent.
The Markit iTraxx Australia index decreased four basis points to 137 basis points, Westpac Banking Corp. prices show. The Markit iTraxx Japan index fell one basis point to 143, Morgan Stanley prices show.
Credit-default swap indexes are benchmarks for protecting debt against default and traders use them to speculate on credit quality. An increase suggests deteriorating perceptions of creditworthiness and a drop shows improvement.
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Moody's cut Greece's rating to Ba1, or junk, from A3, citing "substantial" risks to economic growth from the austerity measures tied to a 110 billion-euro ($134.5 billion) aid package from the EU and the International Monetary Fund.
"Investors have already priced in the likelihood of a default on Greek bonds by sending the euro to a four-year low," said Hideyuki Suzuki, Tokyo-based general manager of investment market research department at SBI Securities Co., a unit of financier SBI Holdings Inc. "That's why investors showed a rather muted reaction to the latest rating action."
Greece, which already was rated junk by Standard & Poor's, said the Moody's downgrade "does not reflect in any way Greece's progress over the past months," according to a statement from the Finance Ministry in Athens.
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The EU announced last month a rescue package of almost $1 trillion, with support from the IMF, to shore up the finances of the region's weakest economies amid concern that governments will struggle to narrow their budget deficits.
Treasuries have returned 4.2 percent since the start of this year, according to indexes from Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch unit. German bunds have returned 6.5 percent, according to indexes compiled by Bloomberg and the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies.
The euro has fallen 9.3 percent this year versus its developed-world counterparts, Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes show.
Europe's sovereign-debt crisis shouldn't postpone the Fed from raising interest rates, Fed Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard told reporters in Tokyo yesterday. His comments contrast with Chicago Fed President Charles Evans and Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart, who have in recent weeks said European turmoil may slow any U.S. boost in borrowing costs.
The Fed will probably take "significant" time to shift toward tighter monetary policy as long as the economy takes years to reach full employment and inflation is low, said the Fed's regional bank in San Francisco.
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Taking into account the effects of the Fed's asset purchases, "the recommended period of a near-zero funds rate would end at the beginning of 2012," Glenn Rudebusch, the bank's associate director of research, wrote in a paper released yesterday.
The Reserve Bank of Australia said in minutes from this month's policy meeting that Europe's debt crisis would "inevitably weigh" on global growth prospects and that previous rate increases gave them "flexibility" to examine the impact of European events.
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lot. It's good practice to check here - I try to
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Here's my finals week office hour schedule:
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My office is now in 31 South Court Street, Room 149. It's across from CVS, in the building that once held the Woolworth store. My phone number is still 740-593-4907.
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Our location guide for Mineo provides some basic essentials for the more adventurous visitor. A simple location map is provided but also a detailed topography map that shows the location of the nearest places where you can surf, ski or mountain climb (if they are close by). Of course some of these will be at long distances from Mineo and those far flung spots are provided on the 'nearest' tables. If you are traveling to other cities or towns near Mineo you will also find weather forecasts for those locations below.
|Other places close to Mineo:
|Place Name
|1–3 Day Summary
|4–6 Day Summary
|7–9 Day Summary
16 km
|Moderate rain (total 12mm), heaviest on Tue night
|Light rain (total 9mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
|Mostly dry
29 km
|Light rain (total 5mm), mostly falling on Tue night
|Light rain (total 5mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
|Mostly dry
36 km
|Light rain (total 2mm), mostly falling on Tue afternoon
|Light rain (total 5mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
|Mostly dry
37 km
|Light rain (total 2mm), mostly falling on Tue afternoon
|Light rain (total 5mm), mostly falling on Wed afternoon
|Mostly dry
38 km
|Light rain (total 5mm), mostly falling on Tue night
|Moderate rain (total 13mm), heaviest on Wed afternoon
|Mostly dry
Outdoor Activities near Mineo
If you are in Mineo and would like to go mountain climbing, hiking, skiing or surfing, click below for detailed forecasts.
Tide times close to Mineo:
|Closest tide times1
|Priolo Gargallo (Italy)
|45 km ESE
|Second closest tide times2
|Gela (Italy)
|46 km SW
|Third closest tide times3
|Sant'Agata li Battiati (Italy)
|47 km NE
|Fourth closest tide times4
|Catania (Italy)
|48 km NE
|Fifth closest tide times5
|San Gregorio di Catania (Italy)
|50 km NE
Ski Resorts close to Mineo:
|Closest ski resort1
|Mount Etna Nicolosi (Italy)
|49 km NE
|Second closest ski resort2
|Mount Etna Linguaglossa (Italy)
|74 km NNE
|Third closest ski resort3
|Gambarie in Aspromonte (Italy)
|147 km NE
|Fourth closest ski resort4
|Lorica (Italy)
|272 km NE
|Fifth closest ski resort5
|Camigliatello Silano (Italy)
|277 km NNE
Mountains close to Mineo:
|Closest mountain peak1
|Monte Lauro (Italy)
|20 km SE
|Second closest mountain peak2
|Monte Arcibessi (Italy)
|26 km S
|Third closest mountain peak3
|Monte Raci (Italy)
|26 km S
|Fourth closest mountain peak4
|Monte Etna (Italy)
|59 km NNE
|Fifth closest mountain peak5
|Pizzo Carbonara (Italy)
|91 km WNW
Surf Beaches close to Mineo:
|Closest surf break1
|Playa di Catania (Italy)
|42 km ENE
|Second closest surf break2
|Morghella (Italy)
|74 km SSE
|Third closest surf break3
|Ponente (Sicily) (Italy)
|95 km WSW
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DECATUR, Ala. ? Eleven-year-old D.J. Graffree didn't realize he was a child.
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GMAC Bowl Preview
Richard Cirminiello
GMAC Bowl Player
LB Gerald McRath, Southern Miss – For the
first two years of McRath's
career in Hattiesburg, Golden
Eagle coaches could only wonder
how good the linebacker was
going to be. Sure, they loved
his size, fundamentals and
intensity, but, oh, those
injuries left his future clouded
in mystery. In 2004, his
freshman year, McRath was set to
be a key contributor before a
shoulder injury prematurely
ended his season. In 2005, he
broke his fibula shortly after
breaking into the starting
lineup. This past fall,
however, McRath was finally
healthy for an entire year,
confirming the staff's notion
that it had an emerging star on
the defensive side of the ball.
He led Southern Miss with 91
tackles, adding eight tackles
for loss, but it was his
second-half performance that
really has those close to the
program excited about the
future. Over the last six games
of the season, he was a force,
racking up an average of 10
tackles per game, while
routinely making stops for
negative yards. Bright,
outgoing and well-respected by
his peers, McRath is the kind of
young leader defensive
coordinator Jay Hopson hopes to
build his unit around for the
next two seasons. At a school
that's produced tackling
machines, such as Rod Davis,
Michael Boley, Antoine Cash and
T.J. Slaughter this decade
alone, appears to have located
its next really productive
linebacker … provided he can
continue avoiding the trainer's
Best Bobcat Bowl Moment –
In the long history of Ohio
football, the program has been
to just two bowl games, losing
to West Texas A&M in the 1962
Sun Bowl and Richmond in the
1968 Tangerine Bowl. In that
Tangerine Bowl, the unbeaten MAC
champions lit up the scoreboard
one last time in 1968, getting a
school-record four touchdown
passes from Cleve Bryant in a
thrilling 45-42 loss to the
Best Golden Eagle Bowl Moment
– TCU entered the 2000 Mobile
Alabama Bowl with the nation's
No. 1 defense, top rusher in
LaDainian Tomlinson, and a nifty
10-1 record. The Horned Frogs
left the Heart of Dixie with
their second blemish. Southern
Miss rallied in the fourth
quarter to stun the TCU 28-21
when Jeff Kelly found Kenneth
Johnson for the game-winning
touchdown with eight ticks left
in the game.
Southern MIss's best win ...
Southern Miss 31 ... Houston 27
Southern Miss pulled away from Houston in the fourth quarter
thanks to a one-yard Jeremy Young touchdown run and a 16-yard scoring pass to
Shawn Nelson, but Kevin Kolb made it interesting with fourth quarter strikes
from 74 and 13 yards out to Jeron Henry with the final score coming on the last
play of the game. USM allowed two short Jackie Battle scoring runs, but held the
Cougars to 85 rushing yards. Bobby Weakley started off the scoring for the
Golden Eagles with a one-yard run.
Southern Miss's worst
performance ...
Tulsa 20 ... Southern Miss 6
Cauvey Jackson tore off a 59-yard scoring run early in the
first quarter for all the points Tulsa would need thanks to a brilliant
performance from the defense. Southern Miss gained 243 yards and turned it over
twice while only managing two second-quarter Darren McCaleb field goals. Tulsa
was able to put it away for good in the fourth quarter on a seven-yard Paul
Smith touchdown run and a two-yard Courtney Tennial dash. Linebackers Nelson
Coleman and Nick Bunting combined for 27 tackles for the Golden
Ohio's best win ...
Ohio 35 ... Northern Illinois 23
Ohio cranked out 509 yards of total offense and overcame a
17-7 deficit to go on a 28-6 run over the final 31 minutes of the game
for the stunning win. Austen Everson threw three touchdown passes and
Kalvin McRae score three times in the second half including a 58-yard
scoring play in the third for the game-winner. NIU pulled within five in
the fourth on a 14-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Perez, but McRae put it
away on a 24-yard dash with 2:31 to play.
Ohio's worst performance ...
Bowling Green 21 ... Ohio 9
Freddie Barnes scored two touchdowns on a four-yard run in the
first quarter and a one-yard run in the second, but it was the Bowling
Green defense that dominated keeping Ohio to only 54 rushing yards and
forcing three takeaways. Ohio got a 32-yard Matt Lasher field goal and a
23-yard Rudy Sylvan touchdown catch but Bowling Green was always able to
stay one step ahead offensively, and couldn't handle the Falcon pass
GMAC Bowl
Toledo 45 ... UTEP 13
Bruce Gradkowski threw five touchdown passes to five different
receivers, and David Thomas picked off a UTEP screen pass for a 37 yard
score in the stunning rout. UTEP stayed alive in the first half on two
Regan Schneider field goals and an 18-yard touchdown pass to Johnnie Lee
Higgins, but failed to score in the second half. The Rocket outrushed
UTEP 164 yards to 63, and Steve Odom returned three kickoffs for 112
Player of the game: Toledo QB Bruce Gradkowski
completed 18 of 30 passes for 298 yards and five touchdowns with two
Stat Leaders: UTEP - Passing:
Jordan Palmer, 14-33, 163 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT
Rushing: Marcus Thomas, 18-71. Receiving:
Joe West, 6-88
Toledo - Passing: Bruce Gradkowski,
18-30, 298 yds, 5 TD, 2 INT
Rushing: Trinity Dawson, 24-124. Receiving:
Steve Odom, 5-97, 1 TD


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I would just like to take a minute to remind all of you that this is a benchmark.
Some of you have suggested that they may in fact be valid optimizations to improve performance on the NV3X. There is one problem with that...this is a benchmark where each card is supposed to take the same path and do the same amount of work. Any time you leave that path (i.e. application specific optimizations) you are making it easier for your card and ruining the benchmarks purpose which is to compare two or more cards running the same path.
And for those of you that say that 3DMark isn't representative of DX9 performance...I think it is...and it has been shown time and time again that the NV3X blows at DX9. The same people who suggest this also suggest using real games to benchmark. It has been shown that not only will NV lower quality globally (as in the case of AF) to thwart people that don't use default benchmark paths, but those that do use the default paths are benching something that is completely inaccurate with regards to in game performance (*cough* UT2003 *cough*). So using a very popular game is only useful when they haven't made negative global optimizations or if you aren't using a set benchmark path.
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A Devil Theory of Islam
Judith Miller is a New York Times reporter much in evidence on talk shows and seminars on the Middle East. She trades in "the Islamic threat" -- her particular mission has been to advance the millennial thesis that militant Islam is a danger to the West. The search for a post-Soviet foreign devil has come to rest, as it did beginning in the eighth century for European Christendom, on Islam, a religion whose physical proximity and unstilled challenge to the West seem as diabolical and violent now as they did then. Never mind that most Islamic countries today are too poverty-stricken, tyrannical and hopelessly inept militarily as well as scientifically to be much of a threat to anyone except their own citizens; and never mind that the most powerful of them -- like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Pa kistan -- are totally within the U.S. orbit. What matters to "experts" like Miller, Samuel Huntington, Martin Kramer, Bernard Lewis, Daniel Pipes, Steven Emerson and Barry Rubin, plus a whole battery of Israeli academics, is to make sure that the "threat" is kept before our eyes, the better to excoriate Islam for terror, despotism and violence, while assuring themselves profitable consultancies, frequent TV appearances and book contracts. The Islamic threat is made to seem disproportionately fearsome, lending support to the thesis (which is an interesting parallel to anti-Semitic paranoia) that there is a worldwide conspiracy behind every explosion.
Political Islam has generally been a failure wherever it has tried to take state power. Iran is a possible exception, but neither Sudan, already an Islamic state, nor Algeria, riven by the contest between Islamic groups and a brutal soldiery, has done anything but make itself poorer and more marginal on the world stage. Lurking beneath the discourse of Islamic peril in the West is, however, some measure of truth, which is that appeals to Islam among Muslims have fueled resistance (in the style of what Eric Hobsbawm has called primitive, pre-industrial rebellion) to the Pax Americana-Israelica throughout the Middle East. Yet neither Hezbollah nor Hamas has presented a serious obstacle to the ongoing steamroller of the anything-but-peace process. Most Arab Muslims today are too discouraged and humiliated, and also too anesthetized by uncertainty and their incompetent and crude dictatorships, to support anything like a vast Islamic campaign against the West. Besides, the elites are for the most part in cahoots with the regimes, supporting martial law and other extralegal measures against "extremists." So why, then, the accents of alarm and fear in most discussions of Islam? Of course there have been suicide bombings and outrageous acts of terrorism, but have they accomplished anything except to strengthen the hand of Israel and the United States and their client regimes in the Muslim world?
The answer, I think, is that books like Miller's are symptomatic because they are weapons in the contest to subordinate, beat down, compel and defeat any Arab or Muslim resistance to U.S.-Israeli dominance. Moreover, by surreptitiously justifying a policy of single-minded obduracy that links Islamism to a strategically important, oil-rich part of the world, the anti-Islam campaign virtually eliminates the possibility of equal dialogue between Islam and the Arabs, and the West or Israel. To demonize and dehumanize a whole culture on the ground that it is (in Lewis's sneering phrase) enraged at modernity is to turn Muslims into the objects of a therapeutic, punitive attention. I do not want to be misunderstood here: The manipulation of Islam, or for that matter Christianity or Judaism, for retrograde political purposes is catastrophically bad and must be opposed, not just in Saudi Arabia, the West Bank and Gaza, Pakistan, Sudan, Algeria and Tunisia but also in Israel, among the right-wing Christians in Lebanon (for whom Miller shows an unseemly sympathy) and wherever theocratic tendencies appear. And I do not at all believe that all the ills of Muslim countries are due to Zionism and imperialism. But this is very far from saying that Israel and the United States, and their intellectual flacks, have not played a combative, even incendiary role in stigmatizing and heaping invidious abuse on an abstraction called "Islam," deliberately in order to stir up feelings of anger and fear about Islam among Americans and Europeans, who are also enjoined to see in Israel a secular, liberal alternative. Miller says unctuously at the beginning of her book that right-wing Judaism in Israel is "the subject of another book." It is actually very much part of the book that she has written, except that she has willfully suppressed it in order to go after "Islam."
Writing about any other part of the world, Miller would be considered woefully unqualified. She tells us that she has been involved with the Middle East for twenty-five years, yet she has little knowledge of either Arabic or Persian. It would be impossible to be taken seriously as a reporter or expert on Russia, France, Germany or Latin America, perhaps even China or Japan, without knowing the requisite languages, but for "Islam," linguistic knowledge is unnecessary since what one is dealing with is considered to be a psychological deformation, not a "real" culture or religion.
What of her political and historical information? Each of the ten country chapters (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) begins with an anecdote and moves immediately to a potted history that reflects not much more than the work of a name-dropping college sophomore. Cobbled up out of various, not always reliable authorities (her pages of footnotes are tainted by her ignorance, whether because she can only cite the sources she already knows she wants in English, or because she quotes only authorities whose views correspond to hers, thereby closing out an entire library by Muslims, Arabs and non-Orientalist scholars), these histories are meant principally to display her command of the material, but actually expose her lamentable prejudices and failures of comprehension. In the Saudi Arabia chapter, for instance, she informs us in a note that her "favorite" source on the Prophet Mohammed is the French Orientalist Maxime Rodinson, a redoubtable Marxist scholar whose biography of the Prophet is written with a bracing combination of anti-clerical irony and enormous erudition. What Miller gets from this in her short summary of Mohammed's life and ideas is that there is something inherently risible, if not contemptible, about the man whom Rodinson says was a combination of Charlemagne and Jesus Christ; for whereas Rodinson understands what that means, Miller tells us (irrelevantly) that she is not convinced. For her, Mohammed is the begetter of an anti-Jewish religion, one laced with violence and paranoia. She does not directly quote one Muslim source on Mohammed; just imagine a book published in the United States on Jesus or Moses that makes no use of a single Christian or Judaic authority.
Most of Miller's book is made up not of argument and ideas but of endless interviews with what seems to be a slew of pathetic, unconvincing, self-serving scoundrels and their occasional critics. Once past her little histories we are adrift in boring, unstructured meanderings. Here's a typical sentence of insubstantial generalization: "And Syrians, mindful of their country's chaotic history" (of what country on earth is this not also true?) "found the prospect of a return to anarchy or yet another prolonged, bloody power struggle -- " (is this uniquely true of Syria as a postcolonial state, or is it true of a hundred others in Asia, Africa, Latin America?) "and perhaps even the triumph of militant Islam in the most secular" (with what thermometer did she get that reading?) "of all Arab states -- alarming." Leave aside the abominable diction and jaw-shattering jargon of the writing. What you have is not an idea at all but a series of clichés mixed with unverifiable assertions that reflect the "thought" of "Syrians" much less than they do Miller's.
Miller gilds her paper-thin descriptions with the phrase "my friend," which she uses to convince her reader that she really knows the people and consequently what she is talking about. I counted 247 uses of the phrase before I stopped about halfway through the book. This technique produces extraordinary distortions in the form of long digressions that testify to an Islamic mindset, even as they obscure or ignore more or at least equally relevant material like local politics, the functioning of secular institutions and the active intellectual contest taking place between Islamists and nationalist opponents. She seems never to have heard of Arkoun, or Jabri, or Tarabishi, or Adonis, or Hanafi or Djeit, whose theses are hotly debated all over the Islamic world.