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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice branded Yangon an
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American folk music legend Odetta dies at 77
NEW YORK Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77.
Odetta died Tuesday of heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager. She was admitted to the hospital with kidney failure about three weeks ago, he said.
In spite of failing health that caused her to use a wheelchair, Odetta performed 60 concerts in the last two years, singing for 90 minutes at a time. Her singing ability never diminished, Yeager said.
"The power would just come out of her like people wouldn't believe," he said.
With her booming, classically trained voice and spare guitar, Odetta gave life to the songs by workingmen and slaves, farmers and miners, housewives and washerwomen, blacks and whites.
First coming to prominence in the 1950s, she influenced Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and other singers who had roots in the folk music boom.
An Odetta record on the turntable, listeners could close their eyes and imagine themselves hearing the sounds of spirituals and blues as they rang out from a weathered back porch or around a long-vanished campfire a century before.
"What distinguished her from the start was the meticulous care with which she tried to re-create the feeling of her folk songs; to understand the emotions of a convict in a convict ditty, she once tried breaking up rocks with a sledge hammer," Time magazine wrote in 1960.
"She is a keening Irishwoman in `Foggy Dew,' a chain-gang convict in `Take This Hammer,' a deserted lover in `Lass from the Low Country,'" Time wrote.
Odetta called on her fellow blacks to "take pride in the history of the American Negro" and was active in the civil rights movement. When she sang at the March on Washington in August 1963, "Odetta's great, full-throated voice carried almost to Capitol Hill," The New York Times wrote.
She was nominated for a 1963 Grammy awards for best folk recording for "Odetta Sings Folk Songs." Two more Grammy nominations came in recent years, for her 1999 "Blues Everywhere I Go" and her 2005 album "Gonna Let It Shine."
In 1999, she was honored with a National Medal of the Arts. Then-President Bill Clinton said her career showed "us all that songs have the power to change the heart and change the world."
"I'm not a real folksinger," she told The Washington Post in 1983. "I don't mind people calling me that, but I'm a musical historian. I'm a city kid who has admired an area and who got into it. I've been fortunate. With folk music, I can do my teaching and preaching, my propagandizing."
Among her notable early works were her 1956 album "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues," which included such songs as "Muleskinner Blues" and "Jack O' Diamonds"; and her 1957 "At the Gate of Horn," which featured the popular spiritual "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands."
Her 1965 album "Odetta Sings Dylan" included such standards as "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "Masters of War" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'."


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San Diego The lights are returning to parts of Southern California and Mexico after an electrical outage that affected millions of people.
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However, the utility says some customers may not be back online until Saturday.
The blackout also caused a 3.2-million sewage spill that has closed some San Diego-area beaches. All public schools in the city also are closed Friday as well as local state universities and community colleges.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
The lights were back on Friday morning in Arizona and steadily returning to parts of Southern California and Mexico after a power outage accidentally triggered by a utility worker cut electricity to millions of people, leaving southwestern residents sweltering without air conditioners and paralyzing some San Diego freeway and airport traffic.
The San Diego area was hit especially hard with power severed about 4 p.m. Thursday to all of San Diego Gas & Electric Co.'s 1.4 million household and business customers, the company said.
The outage extended into southern Orange County, across California's inland deserts, as far east as Yuma, Ariz., and into Mexico, where officials said power was out in northern Baja California's two biggest cities, home to roughly 2.5 million people. The entire region is home to some 6 million people, though it was impossible to say exactly how many had lost power.
San Diego residents poured into the few bars that remained open downtown after dark, some donning reading lights on their heads like miners. A pair of men carried flaming tiki torches - usually planted in backyards - to see their way down the pitch black street.
"It's surreal," said Myrna Contreras, 35, sitting in the patio of a candlelit bar. "It's upbeat. It's friendly."
The outage occurred after an electrical worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a power substation in southwest Arizona, officials at Phoenix-based Arizona Public Service Co. said. It was unclear why that mishap, which normally would have been isolated locally, sparked such a widespread outage. The company said that would be the focus of a probe.
By early Friday, energy had been restored to more than some 930,000 users in the region, according to combined tallies provided by officials in Arizona, California and Mexico. Yuma and its surroundings in Arizona's southwestern corner was fully back after seeing power knocked out for 56,000 customers.
"We have a ways to go but were starting to see a bit of progress right now," said Mike Niggli, chief operating officer of San Diego Gas & Electric Co.
Niggli said he expected a "very steady advance" in restoring power from early in the day through the middle of the afternoon. He urged people to turn off their air conditioners and wait a bit once the electricity comes back on to avoid a surge and another outage.


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New York, NY —The angry words between Rick Lazio and Hillary Rodham Clinton have all but drowned out the voice of the person they are competing to replace. 77 year old Daniel Patrick Moynihan will soon retire, following four terms in the U.S. Senate.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The first American to meet North Korea's new leader says Kim Jong Un (kim jawng oon) doesn't want war with the United States. He just wants President Barack Obama to call him.
Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman says Obama and Kim share a love of basketball, so "let's start there."
Rodman is just back from a visit to North Korea with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team and spent two days with Kim.
The State Department on Friday distanced itself from Rodman's visit.
The trip took place amid strained ties between the U.S. and North Korea over the North's recent underground nuclear test.
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IN support of the Government's effort to boost the quality of English in schools, Teleflex is sponsoring RM10,000 worth of The Star Newspaper-in-Education (NiE) pullouts for 13 schools in Taiping.
Teleflex president (Europe, Middle-East, Africa) Liam Kelly said their goal was to reinforce students' learning of English with creative and relevant activities that would inspire a desire for improvement in the subject.
"The programme is designed to meet the proficiency needs of students at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels," he said after presenting a RM10,000 mock cheque to The Star regional editor (north) Choi Tuck Wo and regional operations manager (north) Chung Chok Yin in Penang yesterday.
Also present were Teleflex vice-president operations (EMEA and Asia) Tony Kennedy, Teleflex (EMEA) associate HR director Colin Curran, Teleflex Medical Sdn Bhd HR director Khrishan Kumar Chint and The Star circulation manager (north) Oun Sui Leng.
A leading global medical device player from the US, Teleflex's plant in Taiping employs some 2,300 workers and manufactures invasive and disposable medical devices for the export market.
The 13 schools which will receive NiE pullouts every Wednesday for one year are; SK Pengkalan Aur, SK Kampung Jambu, SMK Bukit Jana, SMK Darul Ridwan, SK Convent Kota, SK (P) Treacher Methodist, SMK Convent, SMK (P) Treacher Methodist, SJK (T) St Teresa's Convent, SJK (T) YMHA, SJK (C) Pokok Assam, SJK (C) Hua Lian and SMK Hua Lian.
Kelly added that Teleflex started its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme in Taiping since 1994 when it sponsored 30 stone benches in Taiping Lake Gardens.
"We will be providing more benches next month," he said, adding that they also sponsored food stalls since 2000 during the annual charity week organised by Sekolah Semangat Maju, a special children school.
In 2005, the company donated wheelchairs to Taiping Hospital while a health care fair is organised at Teleflex Medical in Taiping every year where panel doctors provide health screenings and dental check-ups for employees.
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This is the only program so far that's failed to work with me on Win 7. Anyone got it working?
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John Philip Sousa, known affectionately as "The March King", personified turn-of-the-century America, the comparative innocence and brash energy of a still new nation. His ever-touring band represented America across the globe and brought music to hundreds of American towns. This Naxos series of recordings aims to record Sousa's complete works for wind band, including the 136 marches and numerous other scores. This seventh disc in the series features the grand Presidential Polonaise, the Intaglio Waltzes (modelled on Johann Strauss's famous examples), and the triumphant Golden Jubilee March in which Sousa imagined "the world passing in review".
By David Denton
Around the turn-of-the-century John Philip Sousa placed America's military band music on the world map, though it was a career that he never intended. Born in Washington DC in 1854, his father, a trombonist with the United States Marine Band, realised his son's musical potential, and mapped out his future as a classically trained violinist and composer. But things were to change at the age of 25 when, rather surprisingly for his young years, he received the appointment of Director of the United States Marine Band. It was to engender the composition of a series of marches and other music for wind band that is now recorded for the first time in its entirety. The present disc containing the charming Intaglio Waltzes, inspired by Sousa's affection for Johann Strauss, being one example of his wide use of the wind band idiom, though elsewhere Sousa did often fall into the well-tried march formula without any strong thematic material, The Rifle Regiment March and Congress Hall March being typical examples. But when inspired, as in the El Capitanand Golden Jubilee marches, he was unequalled in this genre. There is also some entertaining scene painting in Sheridan's Ride, a extended concert work that relates the story of General Philip Sheridan and his famous ride to lead his troops to battle in the American Civil War. The disc opens with America First from the 1916 Broadway show, Hip, Hip Hooray, and also includes The Presidential Polonaise, together with a score probably intended for Offenbach's orchestra, Sounds from the Revivals. Under the direction of the Sousa specialist, Keith Brion, The Royal Artillery Band from the UK is in fine form, their experience as a symphonic wind orchestra giving the ideal background for this diverse programme. Sound quality is a little dry, but it adds clarity.
John Philip Sousa (1854–1932)
Music for Wind Band, Volume 7
John Philip Sousa personified turn-of-the-century America, the comparative innocence and brash energy of a still new nation. His ever touring band represented America across the globe and brought music to hundreds of American towns. John Philip Sousa, born 6 November 1854, reached this exalted position with startling quickness. In 1880, at the age of 26, he became conductor of the U. S. Marine Band. In twelve years the vastly improved ensemble won high renown and Sousa's compositions earned him the title of "The March King". Sousa went one better with the formation of his own band in 1892, bringing world acclaim. In its first seven years the band gave 3500 concerts; in an era of train and ship travel it logged over a million miles in nearly four decades. There were European tours in 1900, 1901, 1903, and 1905, and a world tour in 1910–11, the zenith of the band era.
The unprecedented popularity of the Sousa Band came at a time when few American orchestras existed. From the Civil War to about 1920, band concerts were the most important aspect of American musical life. No finer band than Sousa's was ever heard. Sousa modified the brass band by decreasing the brass and percussion instruments, increasing its woodwinds, and adding a harp. His conducting genius attracted the finest musicians, enabling him to build an ensemble capable of executing programmes almost as varied as those of a symphony orchestra. The Sousa Band became the standard by which American bands were measured, causing a dramatic upgrading in quality nationally.
Sousa's compositions also spread his fame. Such marches as The Stars and Stripes Forever, El Capitan, Washington Post, and Semper Fidelis are universally acknowledged as the best of the genre. Sousa said a march "should make a man with a wooden leg step out", and his surely did. Although he standardised the march form as it is known today, he was no mere maker of marches, but an exceptionally inventive composer of over 200 works, including symphonic poems, suites, operas and operettas. His principles of instrumentation and tonal colour influenced many classical composers. His robust, patriotic operettas of the 1890s helped introduce a truly native musical attitude in American theatre.
The library of Sousa's Band contained over 10,000 titles. Among them are the numerous band works of Sousa including his 136 marches and many concert compositions. This new series, "Sousa: Works for Wind Band" seeks to record them for the world to hear.
[1] America First (March of the States) (1916)
America First was composed for a 1916 Broadway show Hip Hip Hooray. The title was inspired by a 1915 Woodrow Wilson speech: "Our whole duty for the present is summed up in the motto "America First". The march and its subtitle are taken from an extensive ballet score for the Hip Hip Hooray show called The Sisterhood of the States. Included in the march are four state themes: Dixie, Maryland, My Maryland, We're Off to Philadelphia in the Morning, and Yankee Doodle.
[2] The Presidential Polonaise (1886)
While Sousa was director of the Marine Band, The Presidential Polonaise was composed in 1886 at the request of President Chester Arthur, who wanted to have something more suitable than "Hail to the Chief" for ceremonial affairs at the White House. While the piece never came to be regularly used by future presidents, Sousa used the opportunity to create a very grand composition.
[3] The Rifle Regiment March (1886)
One of Sousa's great and "solid" early marches from his Marine Band period, The Rifle Regiment March of 1886, is dedicated "To the officers and men of the 3rd U.S. Infantry".
[4] Congress Hall March (1882)
Congress Hall is the name of a historic hotel in Cape May, New Jersey, a popular summer resort area. The Congress Hall March was composed in 1882 for the occasion of one of the Marine Band's earliest concert trips away from Washington under Sousa's direction.
[5] El Capitan March (1896)
One of Sousa's most enduring and popular compositions, his El Capitan March is in fact a setting of a number of popular songs from his most successful Broadway show of the same name. An examination of the piano vocal score to the 1896 musical will reveal both the words and music for each section of the march, ending with the show's powerful choral finale.
[6] Intaglio Waltzes (1884)
One of Sousa's many wonderful and romantic waltz selections structured in the style of Johann Strauss's famous waltzes, the Intaglio Waltzes of 1884 were dedicated to the daughter of a California senator friend of Sousa's.
[7] Golden Jubilee March (1928)
Composed to commemorate his fiftieth year as a conductor, the première of Sousa's Golden Jubilee March was given in July 1928 at Atlantic City's Steel Pier. The march was then featured throughout the Sousa Band's 1928 Golden Jubilee tour. Sousa drew his inspiration from the thought that after fifty years of traveling concerts he "seemed to see the world passing in review".
[8] The Bride-Elect March (1897)
The popular Bride-Elect March of 1897 has themes extracted from the successful vocal solos and choruses in the show of that name. Typically, as in many of Sousa's other treatments of his operetta marches, it changes meter from triple to double rhythm at the midpoint.
[9] Sounds from the Revivals (1896)
During the summer of 1896 Sousa played in the first violin section of Jacques Offenbach's orchestra at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. He also became one of Offenbach's orchestral arrangers. This medley of religious songs from the Revivals may have been initially created for Offenbach's orchestra and then was subsequently transcribed for a local Philadelphia band. The hymns include Jesus Lover of My Soul, Nearer My God to Thee, Come Holy Spirit, Hold the Fort, and Sweet Bye and Bye. The solo cornetist for this recording is Martin Hinton.
[10] The Charlatan March (1898)
The Charlatan March of 1898 is another of Sousa's "operetta marches" comprising tunes drawn from the last two acts of one of Sousa's most musically rich theater scores.
[11] Sheridan's Ride (1891)
Describing Sheridan's Ride of 1891 as a "Scenes Historical", Sousa musically characterizes a famous moment in the Civil War when General Philip Sheridan furiously rode his black stallion at breakneck speed for twenty miles to rejoin his troops, rallying them and ultimately leading them to victory in the Battle of Cedar Creek in Virginia. This decisive victory helped assure Abraham Lincoln's re-election as president and insured the safety of Washington DC from the Confederate Army. The composition has six sections: Waiting for the Bugle, The Attack, The Death of Thoburn, The Coming of Sheridan, and The Apotheosis.
[12] The Black Horse Troop March (1924)
Dedicated to Troop A (Cavalry) of the Cleveland National Guard, Sousa's love of horses and for the military combine in The Black Horse Troop March of 1924, one of his greatest and most elegant marches.
[13] The Naval Reserve March (1917)
The 1917 Naval Reserve March was composed for the 300-piece naval band Sousa led at Great Lakes Navy Training Center during World War I. It was dedicated "To the Officers and Men of the U.S. Naval Reserve". The trio incorporates a popular Sousa song of the time: Blue Ridge I'm Coming Back to You.
Keith Brion
Program notes are freely based on material taken from "The Works of John Philip Sousa" Integrity Press with the express permission of the author, Paul E. Bierley. The introduction is extracted from Roger Ruggeri's program notes for the Milwaukee Symphony.
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Interview with Dr. E. R. Mustel
E. R. Mustel; August 30, 1976
ABSTRACT: Deals mainly with the organization and responsibilities of the Astronomical Council; funding of major projects and large instruments, allocation of telescope time; theory vs. observation; the postwar increase in number of astronomies, Sputnik and popular interest. Comments on Mustel's teaching and travels to observatories; Fesenkov and his co-organization work.
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Weart:This is an interview with Professor E. R. Mustel on August the 30th, 1976, at Grenoble. Let me ask you, how did you first become interested in astronomy?
Mustel:It was in 1927, so that next year it will be 50 years; a long time.
Weart:Let's see, when were you born?
Mustel:I was born in 1911.
Weart:Ah, so you were still quite young in 1927.
Mustel:Oh yes, yes. I was 16 at the time, I lived in the countryside, and I was a radio amateur.
Weart:Ah, a ham, as they call it.
Mustel:Yes. But not with the battery, I used a —
Weart:— a crystal set?
Mustel:A crystal set. Yes. It was the day of a partial solar eclipse, 29th of June, and I listened to a lecture given by Professor Mikhaylov, Director of the Pulkova Observatory[1] (but earlier he lived in Moscow) about this solar eclipse. He told that there is a society of amateurs of astronomy in Moscow, and whoever wishes to work in this society, please —
Weart:— may join?
Mustel:— enter the society. And I did this. I was very happy in this society. It was a very interesting society.
Weart:There was a little publication that they sent around?
Mustel:Yes, some publications. I published some publications. I carried out many observations of variable stars.
Weart:Was it primarily an association of variable star observers?
Mustel:There was a small section of observers of variable stars within the society. And I observed shooting stars and so on, several. In 1931 I entered Moscow University, and finished it in 1935.
Weart:When you entered, did you already think that you might become an astronomer?
Mustel:Yes, yes, yes. In fact, I may tell you a very interesting thing, till 1935 — Professor Severny, director then of the [Crimean] Observatory and I were very good friends — there was no astrophysical specialty in Moscow University, only the general astronomy. And we urgently asked to organize a group on astrophysics. It was the first time for us and for everyone else three people — we first listened to a lecture on theoretical physics and astrophysics and so on; so that we were the first astrophysicists in Moscow University.
Weart:I see. So Severny was a classmate of yours then? He was in the same class at the university?
Mustel:Yes, the same. We entered Moscow University simultaneously. And we were interested in astrophysics also simultaneously. And after this, we had our doctorate simultaneously, together.
Weart:Together. I see. Who gave these lectures that you listened to?
Mustel:Who gave lessons? Theoretical physics, oh, in physics, its from Moscow University, now he's on the physical faculty of Moscow.
Weart:No one made a great impression on you? Im curious because you know; often people will enter a particular field because of one professor who makes an impression on them. But this does not seem to be the case, in your case?
Mustel:No, no, because our principal teacher was an Academician, Fesenkov. He died a few years ago. He was a specialist on zodiacal light some planets, and in particular he organized the observatory in Kazakhstan, in Alman, Alta. He was the founder of the Physical institute there.
Weart:I see. Now, how did you know that such a thing as astrophysics — you were taking a straight astronomical course without much physics?
Mustel:No, at first we heard general subjects, mathematics, general physics, mechanics, astrometry, celestial mechanics, and so on. But beginning from the third course, we asked to —
Weart:How did you know that such a thing as astrophysics existed?
Mustel:You know that there was some self-education, and the theoretical astrophysics existed in Leningrad. Professor Ambartsumian and so on, were working there, and they constituted a very strong group of astrophysicists.
Weart:I see.
Mustel:In particular, they were our opponents during our dissertations.
Weart:— I see, so you knew of their work.
Mustel:But I can only say about Moscow.
Weart:I see. Let me backtrack one minute, to pick up something that I forgot to ask. You say you were living in the country and you were sort of a radio amateur and so forth. What were your family circumstances? What did your family do, your father, your mother?
Mustel:My father was born in Sebastopol. My father was Estonian. He came to Russia, and he married, and I was born in Sebastopol. But when I was two years old I came to Moscow, and lived there practically all my life, except for some period when I was working simultaneously in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory for ten years or so.
Weart:I see. And what did he do? What was your father's profession?
Mustel:Profession? Both my parents were telegraphists.
Weart:I see, telegraph operators. Now, to return, you got your doctorate, and you said earlier that about that time, you went into solar physics?
Mustel:No, no, it was much more complex. When I finished Moscow University I was interested in stellar atmospheres, and I published an article about the radiative equilibrium of stellar atmospheres from the absorption co-efficiency dependence on the frequency. It was my dissertation. When I finished this candidate dissertation with Severny, I became docturanturo. Now this possibility is not used, but earlier we had it, docturanturate it was called.
Weart:Docturantor, like the Germans.
Mustel:Like the Germans, yes.
Weart:I see, and you had a stipend from the university was it; or from the Academy or from where?
Mustel:The Academy. Oh yes, it was the Academy.
Weart:I see. How does it happen that you got picked for this? Was it your professor who picked you for this or — you sent in an application form? Does the professor recommend you for it? Or how do you get it?
Mustel:No, at the time there were so few astronomers that it was very easy. Yes, there were two or three vacancies and we made application, there was some examination, and so on.
Weart:I see. Tell me, at that time, what did you imagine an astronomer to be? Did you have an accurate picture, do you think, did you have some picture of what an astronomer would do? If you can go back to around the time of your doctorate, how did you picture an astronomer? Is he someone who sits behind a telescope? Is he someone who writes papers? What was your picture of the life of an astronomer?
Mustel:Same as now.
Weart:Ah, so it was not a romantic view, it was fairly realistic.
Mustel:Yes, because in particular I went to Simeis Observatory and I studied some spectrographs of one novae.
Mustel:Yes, because the Simeis Observatory had a very good telescope.
Weart:Where is that?
Mustel:Oh, it's in the Crimea. It was broken by German troops.
Weart:I see, right.
Mustel:Almost completely. And just after the candidate dissertation I decided to work on novae. As I told you, I studied the spectroscopic materials which were published; especially very important results were published by McCoughlin in the United States. He made many generalizations of spectra, and I used these too, and had correspondence with him. I met him in Berkeley.
Weart:You have still some of that correspondence? Do you save these old letters?
Weart:I see. That's the sort of thing that would be interesting.
Mustel:No. We had some correspondence, and I sent him my articles, and he sent me his articles.
Weart:There were no difficulties at that time in correspondence?
Mustel:No, not correspondence, no — correspondence we received practically all the time. No interruptions. Not a bit. We received articles, if the address was correct.
Weart:So you were completely in touch with what was happening everywhere?
Mustel:Yes. But when I was in the process of preparation of my dissertation, the Second War began.
Weart:Just as you were preparing your dissertation, which was to be on the novae?
Mustel:The novae, and working on some problems of predicting ionospheric and magnetic disturbances. Simultaneously I was working on novae at the time. And when the war was finished, Professor Severny and I, we were working at the time in Moscow University. We were working simultaneously in the group of the Academy on the problem, where we must build new big observatories. In this connection, in '44, already we have chosen the place, more or less in general the place: Crimea. Because Simeis is the place of the old observatory, was good enough, because near this place there are many resorts, and it is not possible.
Weart:Because of the light?
Mustel:Right. And generally, it was a beach here, and here mountains with sometimes very strong wind.
Weart:Right, it disturbs the seeing. What were you doing after the war disrupted your doctoral research; what did you do between then and '44?
Mustel:No, I was finishing my doctoral dissertation, and simultaneously we spent some time to find the best place in Crimea for the astrophysical observatory. And beginning from '47, we became also on the staff of the Crimea Astrophysical Observatory.
Weart:I see.
Mustel:Because we found the place, not far from Sevastopol — 30 kilometers from there and now there is an observatory that we, the first people who initiated this problem, put there Professor Ambartsumian who was the Chairman of the so-called Astrophysical Committee.
Weart:I see. How did you get chosen to be a member of that? How does it happen that you were a member of that? You were a young doctoral student. Why were you chosen to be a member of this committee to find the site?
Mustel:Oh, because I'd finished my doctorate. I was a doctorate and working in the Academy of Sciences, and we felt the necessity to have observatory, because astronomers needed to observe and so on.
Weart:Right and you knew that after the war, there would be funds available.
Weart:Had there been a great deal of destruction of observatories during the war?
Mustel:The Simeis Observatory was completely destroyed, yes. The telescope was brought to Germany, and it was found as ruins of metal. The glass mirror was spoiled by a bullet. It was necessary to build a new telescope. Therefore our industry did this, and in — I don't remember exactly now, 1955, 1958, this observatory begins.
Weart:We can find the date from one of these brochures, Im sure.
Mustel:— you know the date, because so many years already I was working simultaneously in Moscow University; I was professor at Moscow University. I was working there in the winter period of time and in the summer I was working in the Crimean Observatory. I became a solar physicist twenty years ago.
Weart:During the 1950s.
Mustel:Yes, the 1950s.
Weart:What attracted you to solar physics? The Crimea is well known of course — is it because the circumstances were favorable there for observation?
Mustel:No. Simply when the war was finished it was quite evident that we must have some new big observatories, therefore this observatory must have stellar and solar equipment. It was decided that Severny would be responsible for solar research. I was interested in stellar work, but nevertheless, during the war, I predicted the conditions of radio propagation, the geomagnetic conditions and so on, so that I became already a solar astronomer, on very primitive equipment.
Weart:I see, through ionosphere observations, that sort of thing?
Mustel:No, simply, we were observing solar disc, and we note the passage of active regions.
Weart:In order to predict when there would be radio disturbances.
Mustel:Radio disturbances, yes. Not radio astronomy; I have never been a radio astronomer.
Weart:No, I said radio disturbances.
Mustel:Radio disturbances and ionospheric and geomagnetic disturbances too and so on.
Weart:And of course, once you started watching the sun, it becomes quite fascinating.
Weart:There is something about it.
Mustel:Yes. I was continuing with the Crimean Observatory for several years.
Weart:So you switched with Severny? You said originally Severny was to have been the solar man?
Mustel:Still now he is solar. He is interested in stellar astronomy, but mostly he is solar.
Weart:I see, so you joined.
Mustel:Joined. But in — already 20 years - 57, I left the Crimea Observatory because it was difficult for my wife. She has not a good heart.
Weart:You mean, because of the altitude?
Mustel:Because of the altitude, yes, and so on. We moved to Moscow, and now I am the Chairman of the Astronomical Council. It's more or less big, 160 persons, and the Astronomical Council is responsible for coordination of all astronomical studies and we organize different meetings. We have several commissions on different problems. We help the observatory by ordering the photographic plates, and photo-electric equipment, photo electronic and so — And simultaneously the work is done on satellite tracking for purposes of cosmic geodesy. We have many observatories distributed over the world, in Africa, in Asia and some other places. We have two observatories 70 kilometers from Moscow, not very big observatories, with satellite tracking. And in Simeis at this old place —
Weart:— on the site —
Mustel:We are using modern equipment there for satellite tracking, laser equipment and so forth.
Weart:You started to tell me earlier why you decided to leave solar physics. You were mentioning how it seems to be a tremendous amount — which I agree — of description and not much theory so far, not much explanation. Is this the reason you left solar physics, the main reason?
Mustel:No. Simply because I predicted atmospheric and geomagnetic disturbances, I received the spectrohelioscope, and decided with Professor Severny to study chromospheric flares and so on. Simply, I was interested simultaneously in solar physics and in stellar physics.
Weart:I see. Did you continue to do work in stellar physics during those years?
Mustel:Yes, yes - Im always doing something on stars, on different stars.
Weart:So you maintained the two interests simultaneously.
Weart:I see.
Mustel:I explained to you, that one of my principal results on novae was that I came to the conclusion that they were strong magnetic fields, and this was confirmed recently. It was a principal result. But — excuse me?
Weart:— you were mentioning that you went to one of these conferences with Alfven in —
Mustel:1956, yes. I presented the results to [???] which compelled me to believe that there are some forces which are diverted towards the center of the star. This idea is confirmed from two points of view, quite recently. American Astronomers found that relatively many white dwarfs possess relatively strong magnetic fields.
Weart:Very high magnetic fields.
Mustel:Very high, yes. On the other hand Kraft came to the following model of a nova: that a nova is a very close binary. One component of this binary is a white dwarf, and another a red dwarf. Maybe normal but I think a red dwarf. And the white dwarf doesn't have hydrogen, but due to interaction, the accretion begins from —
Weart:The white dwarf begins to accrete hydrogen.
Mustel:Hydrogen, yes. And in some time, the white dwarf is covered by a thick shell enriched in hydrogen. And when the mass becomes sufficiently large, at the bottom of this hydrogen-rich layer, on the boundary of the white dwarf, thermonuclear reaction, runaway, begins. And the result —
Weart:— the outer shell of it blows up.
Mustel:Yes, yes. And due to this, I realize that its already confirmation, since many white dwarfs possess strong magnetic fields, therefore, already this fact justified my results.
Weart:I see.
Mustel:But I just presented my results, not about magnetic fields, but about these ideas —
Weart:— About the idea that there must be a strong force to keep it in.
Mustel:Yes, and I presented this result two years ago in Moscow in the Third International Symposium on Non-Stationary Stars. And in two months, I read in Astronomical Journal the results of [???] in which he found very strong confirmation, for one more. You know, it's very interesting, (Walker?), an American astronomer, found very rapid oscillation of the brightness, of [???] Hercules, after it burst.
Weart:After the nova, it oscillated.
Mustel:Yes, yes, oscillation. And also, this is the type of pulsation that somebody, I don't know who, suggested it may be similar to a neutron star, which rotates. We observed bundles of, bundles of synchrotron radiation. Kemp studied these by means of circular and linear polarization and confirmed completely these ideas —
Weart:— 20 years after you first proposed it.
Mustel:Yes, yes, yes.
Weart:And for 20 years no one particularly believed it?
Weart:Or they perhaps simply didnt pay attention to it?
Mustel:Yes, yes, nobody paid attention, yes. And another of my interests because its also very interesting; I am interested in supernovae now. Novae, not because I have no time, I have some administrative roles and so on. Only now, in connection with novae, I begin to work on novae too. But another quite different thing is a very controversial problem, but now many, many meteorologists came to believe the influence of solar activity upon the —
Weart:— upon the lower atmosphere.
Mustel:Upon the lower atmosphere, yes. We published. I didnt believe in this for many, many years.
Weart:This was around, when? Not long after the war?
Mustel:No, no, I began to study this ten year ago, because the chief of the Haas Meteorological Service, Academia Fedorov, suggested to me to organize in the hydro-meteorological center in Moscow a special group on solar conditions. I was head of this group. We began to study this problem, and to produce many convincing results. Quite recently, an American scientist, John Wilcox, my very good friend from Stanford University became interested in this problem, in connection with the magnetic superstructure of the sun. Yes. And now, we have in a special committee on solar physics. It is similar to IAU and so on. I was just in the United States where I spent three weeks this June, and we had a symposium, on this special committee dedicated to the problems of solar-terrestrial 1 physics. So many people became convinced in the reality of this that a special planning group was created; this special committee and which is called the Planning Group on Solar Terrestrial physics and Meteorology. I am the chairman of this group, and John Wilcox is my assistant at the moment.
Weart:So there is almost a continuity between what you were doing in '44. And —
Mustel:Yes, yes, and I think next year in Seattle, we shall have a very big conference on this subject.
Weart:Ok, let me turn this now because I see the tape is almost at an end What I wanted to ask you this time, Dr. Mustel, was general questions about the development of astronomy in the Soviet Union, and maybe we might talk about the history of the journals. I think you must know about that. You were mentioning earlier about how most of the observational results of course are published in the journals of the observatories.
Weart:Whereas the theoretical results are being published now by the Astronomical Journal.[2] Was this the case already during your student days?
Mustel:When I was a student, already this magazine was published. Academician Fesenkov was the first editor, and he organized it. He did very much for astronomy. He was founder of the Astrophysical Institute of Kazakhstan.
Weart:Do you know the background of the foundation of the Astronomical Journal?
Weart:It was before your time.
Mustel:Yes. You know that when this magazine — 50 years it was, two years ago — so that I think there was an article, special article dedicated to the history of this magazine, yes. It's the oldest astronomical magazine, not committed to any observatory.
Weart:This is the one of which you are an editor now.
Mustel:Now, yes.
Weart:When did you become editor?
Mustel:That was 20 years ago, maybe.
Weart:Do you think the characters of the journal, or maybe I should say, of the papers published in it has changed much over the past twenty years?
Mustel:Oh, we have referees. We send our articles to referees. A certain percentage of articles are sent back, if they are not correct, and so on. We have every two months a general meeting of the editorial board to discuss papers, because our secretary should refer preliminary opinion after looking through the results of the referees' works. Theres been a very good secretary during the last many years, was Professor (Bigel?). He died. We have a new secretary.
Weart:What about the character of the papers themselves? For example, there's much more theory, as you mentioned, in astronomy these days, and some people feel that theres much more physics in astronomy than there used to be. Do you have any feeling about that?
Mustel:Yes. We are trying to publish more papers with observations, but because directors sometimes prefer to publish these studies in their own publications. But nevertheless, we are trying, every time.
Weart:— you try to encourage people to —
Mustel:— yes, encourage people to send us observational papers and so on. Now, I think that because the number of telescopes is increased — the six meter telescope begins to work, preliminary, of course, but I think maybe in January it will begin already, more or less officially —
Weart:On a regular basis?
Mustel:On a regular basis, yes. Now, we shall have the dedication of the second 2.6 meter telescope in [???] Observatory. We shall have a scientific meeting and I shall go there at the beginning of this October.
Weart:And is each of these to have its own publication?
Mustel:Yes, each observatory has its own publication. And in addition they have the Astrofisika.
Weart:How did that come about, that this separate Astrophysica was stated?
Mustel:I think that, since the time of publication in our Astronomicheskil Zhudnal was too long, people felt that some new magazine is needed, and therefore we felt — now Ambartsumian decided to organize its own, not its own, but simply, more or less parallel magazine. It was a very good idea. And we have not officially but more or less, we formed a rule that galaxies and stars and so on — all those things are published in Astrofisika and in Astronomicheskil Zhudnal. We publish celestial mechanics and astrometry. Of course, stellar work and the galaxies are not forbidden, but nevertheless celestial mechanics and astrometry is not published in Astrofisika. And in addition, we have one more addition and that is the letters to Astronomicheskil Zhudnal — "Astronomical Letters" —
Weart:— which is quite new.
Mustel:This is quite new, yes. And in addition, there's some small magazine, in which we try to publish — The Bulletin —
Weart:The Bulletin.[3]
Mustel:Yes, The Bulletin, in which we are trying to publish all studies on planets, and this Bulletin In, is also translated.
Weart:Yes. Of course, I suppose part of the problem simply came from the increase in the number of papers to be published?
Mustel:Yes, yes because the number of telescopes is increasing —
Weart:— and astronomers.
Mustel:And astronomers. But the number of astronomers is not increasing now, more or less. But the efficiency of the astronomers was increased, because we have more modem equipment, more telescopes. Of course, for example, radio astronomy increased, because we have the 86-meter telescope, a very big radio telescope; so that the number of articles increased, and in fact the quality too.
Weart:You think that the quality has been increasing? You know, in the United States, there have been complaints that the younger astronomers have been under great pressure to publish frequently and rapidly and so forth, and some people feel that the quality in some cases has decreased. Have you had any experience like that?
Mustel:Until now we are trying. In many cases, in Astrophysical Letters — in the Letters to the Astronomicheskil Zhudnal — we accept all papers which are approved by referees. And it takes five months, approximately, or it depends on the speed with which the referees give back their opinion.
Weart:Do you think that there is more competition now among younger astronomers? For example, when you were a student there was apparently no competition because the field was so small. Do you feel that now there has been a change in the characteristics of the younger astronomers that they're different from the time when you went to school?
Mustel:Oh, of course. Now scientists are more qualified because now there are many books on astrophysics and astronomy, and the professors are more qualified.
Weart:Much easier to study.
Mustel:Easier to study. Then, what is very important, that they have access to the big telescopes during their training as students and postgraduate students and so on and so forth. The situation is improved during the recent times because earlier, they had no telescopes, after the war.
Weart:Thats right.
Mustel:Or only very small ones.
Weart:That was one of the questions I was going to ask you, about changes in the conditions of education. Of course, now they're graduating quite large classes and so forth. The numbers of astronomers coming out each year is so much greater than when you were a student. Another thing that some people have told me is that they feel that the astronomy community has grown so large that now it is organized on a different basis. It is less a matter of personal contact, than it was at one time. Have you noticed anything like that?
Mustel:No, our Astronomical Council tries to organize different meetings for academicians and so on every year, in different cities and towns, and we are trying to organize discussions on many topics and so on. We have several international symposia. For example, in April we had in Crimea a symposium, organized by the Astronomical division of the European Physical Society and our Astronomical Council on cosmic magnetic fields; very interesting. Many many people from the Soviet Union came and so on.
Weart:One more thing and that is the question, what shall we now do with this interview? Our usual procedure is to transcribe it, to type it out so it's on paper, and then we would normally send a copy to you so that you can make corrections and changes. Then we would bring it back, and we would leave it on deposit, so that future scholars may see it — subject to any conditions or restrictions that you might want to put on it. Is this acceptable to you? Would you rather that I handled it in some different way?
Mustel:I don't understand. What do you wish to do with this tape?
Weart:Eventually I would like to have it available for anyone who might be interested in the history of astronomy.
Mustel:Yes, yes, so then you will keep this in your file.
Weart:In our files.
Mustel:Yes, yes. So then there would be no publication?
Weart:No, it would not be published.
Mustel:Not published, yes.
Weart:If you would give permission, we would publish the information that was available.
Mustel:Yes, yes, yes. There is no secret in my information.
Weart:Another thing I would like to do is to send you the text, so that you may make corrections. You know, sometimes when it gets typed out, we may have the wrong name, you know, or —
Mustel:Oh yes. Please. Please.
Weart:We can do that? All right, fine. And then, do you have any restrictions on who may see it?
Mustel:What kind of restriction?
Weart:Well, normally we make them available to all scholars. Some people want us to write for permission before we show them to any scholar. Do you care for that or shall we just show it to any scholar who wishes to see it?
Mustel:I think that everything is known.
Ok, fine.
[1] From 1947 to 1964
[2] Astronomicheskii Zhurnal
[3] Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Institut Theoreticheskoi Astronomii Bulletin


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It is a massive punishment that they have to live with themselves after this but I still think they should be punished by law.Originally Posted by Wendy, post: 251941
It is a massive punishment that they have to live with themselves after this but I still think they should be punished by law.Originally Posted by Wendy, post: 251941
Yeah, I could never understand why no charges were brought against themOriginally Posted by josh.p., post: 251943
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i dont think much of them at all. would you go for a meal and leave 3 tiny kids alone? i know i wouldnt. esp when there is a baby sitting service at the resort
in the US you can get charged with a misdemeanor or felony if you leave a small child napping if you pop to the shops
Yes they have just published a book about Madeline and what happened. I downloaded it yesterday and read the first couple of chapters. I am bit unsure of what to make of it yet as the first two chapters area About Kate growing up and Kate meeting and marrying Gerry. I am glad the sales are going to towards the efforts to help find the dear little mite though.Originally Posted by Slowhand, post: 252036
I dont think they are to blame or should be blamed for what happened to there daughter , at the end of the day they have lost there child which no parent should ever have to go thru. its totally irrelevant that they had left the kids in the room asleep thousands of parents worldwide do that on holiday (they hadnt neglected the kids in anyway they where asleep and the parents where only having a drink in sight of the front door) I cant understand how anyone can blame the parents or say such wicked things about them ,if anything we should all be vigilant and keep the search alive.
well many of us dont think it's irrelevant and think its important not to let other parents think its acceptable to leave kids alone especially in places new to them like whilst on holiday. cards on the table, I think it is neglect yes.
anyway that aside, no one can argue that we should all be vigilant and hope that she comes back safe and sound


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Can't wait to play with these two.
Things are looking way up for the bonsai!
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Posted 18 February 2014 - 11:20 AM
Can't wait to play with these two.
Things are looking way up for the bonsai!
Posted 19 February 2014 - 05:41 AM
The trap still has the problem that it isn't advance able. Unless the Runner is derping why would they think it is an asset they want to destroy when you haven't rezzed it, or an agenda when you haven't advanced it?
That agenda is interesting with lots of small point agendas...
Edited by borithan, 19 February 2014 - 05:42 AM.
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Posted 19 February 2014 - 01:02 PM
Not necessarily. Sometimes you want to Install/Advance/Advance, which presents the runner with difficult decisions:
It could be an 4-damage Junebug.
It could be an Agenda--such as a Fetal AI or a Nisei.
It could be a Cerebral Overwriter.
It could be a Ronin that will be charged and ready by next turn.
Borithan's objection matters even less nowadays, since you can lay down a non-advanceable trap with Mushin No Shin, or advance any card using the Tennin ID. Or an advanceable trap. Or a Plan B. For extra lulz, play Mushin No Shin and then shuffle up a Plan B, a Junebug, and a Fetal AI from your hand and lay it down unseen with 3 counters on it. You don't know, they don't know.
Jinteki is all about presenting the Runner with unacceptable risks. You can't run on it, because if it's a trap it will open up a window in which they could score or flatline. The game changes the more points the corp has, because now you *have* to run on any card that's been advanced, because it could be the game winning agenda. More than once I have forced a run even when the runner has said "I know that's a Snare, but I don't have a choice."
Posted 19 February 2014 - 04:26 PM
I used to play very much the way you describe, Grim. My experience was that, in the case of a double-advanced card, the Runner would run it early, take some net damage and then draw back up. A Junebug with two advancements wasn't lethal in such a case, just annoying. Ronin would get blown away (one reason I no longer play with it).
The scariest cards in Jinteki's arsenal have been from out-of-faction, at least until now. I'm looking at you, Cerebral and Aggressive Secretary.
Jinteki has always been the faction that's relied most on the Runner making mistakes to win. If Honor and Profit changes anything, I'd like to see it change that.
Posted 20 February 2014 - 04:23 AM
Ok, I hadn't understood the new ID as allowing you to place advancement tokens on cards that couldn't normally be advanced (and I wasn't aware of Mushin-no-Shin, or that it would allow you to do similar things). This will start to make non-advanceable traps a bit more useful (aside from being good to have in hand or R&D to get inquisitive runners). However, like most of the traps it will still only matter if you have actually got the runner under pressure.
Playing a thing on the third click, it possibly being a 3/1 only works if the runner is under pressure. If you haven't scored yet, or have only got a few points, they can afford to allow you to try and score it. If you don't it is fairly obviously a trap. Ok, it could be a double bluff, but that is a risky play unless you have got a good way to prevent them stealing it, or really punish them for doing it. Both of those usually require time, which gives the runner more time to build up their own stuff in order to make your traps increasingly irrelevant ("Oh, 4 net damage... I have everything I need in play, so who cares which of these cards I throw away?"), and give them more opportunity to scope it out. Same goes for a play/advance/advance. Only works if the runner has to run, as they can wait to see if you advance it further if they are not. And if it is a trap you need extra cash around in order to set the trap off... if you have no money the Runner cares little what your traps are. This means having an economy, which Jinteki have problems with.
Ronin only works if you either have 2, or the runner cares what they have in their hand. By the time you can play Ronin and not expect to see it just blown up before you use it, I have usually found the latter is not true, so you have to build towards 2 in order to get the kill... which just gives the runner time to find and blow up the first one.
Basically, Jinteki only work if the runner is under pressure, and frankly I have found it very hard for anyone playing Jinteki to put the Runner under pressure. In fact, usually I find it the other way round. Jinteki take too long to set up, and so runners are nicking stuff from them before they have a chance to do anything, and so they find themselves in the unenviable position of "if I let the runner steal this they will win", while the runner is still going "Well, that is 3 points at most, so either I can run head first into a blender wall, possibly killing myself in the process, or I can see if he advances it any further while I save up enough in terms of money and cards to make sure I can survive whatever it does to me." Jinteki only tend to win if the corp is lucky (eg. a run bad card draw for the runner), or the runner makes silly mistakes.
Now, I will admit I am not the best player (and shouldn't really play Jinteki, but I really want to get them to work, as I think they are the most interesting of the factions), but the general consensus among the group I have played with is that Jinteki really struggle, and are by far the weakest corp. Even with the upcoming expansion there weren't any minds changing on that.
Edited by borithan, 20 February 2014 - 04:29 AM.
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Posted 20 February 2014 - 04:25 PM
Is reveal the same thing as expose? I know that the out come is the same, but whether they are different rules-wise will make a difference on that new ambush psi asset
Expose is when an already installed card (for example, a piece of ICE or a card installed to the server the ice is protecting) is revealed to the runner.
Reveal is used when a player searches their deck for a particular card through another card's effect(known as a tutor) and places it into their hand after showing it to their opponent. For example, Archived Memories you have to reveal the face up discarded card you are placing into your hand (though it does not say it on the card itself, all face up cards in the discard pile are public information at all times).
It's a way of balancing the effect of a tutor. Sure, you get the card you want, but your opponent gets a heads up to the strategy you are planning as a result.
Edited by Internutt, 20 February 2014 - 04:25 PM.
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Posted 20 February 2014 - 05:00 PM
Right, expose is a very specific form of revealing something that is clearly referenced on a card by using the word "expose". I assume if the action being used does not say "Expose blah blah..." then that action would not trigger an installed Psychic Field.
Posted 20 February 2014 - 05:11 PM
Satellite Uplink exposes installed, but unrezzed cards. So, if they expose Psychic field, then it's effect is triggered. Netrunner is all about balance, every strategy has a counter strategy and Exposing cards is a fantastic way of forcing Corporations to rez ice (through the new Criminal Console) or avoiding traps laid down by the Corporation. So, Psychic field exists to punish Criminals who expose cards before running.
Edited by Internutt, 20 February 2014 - 05:13 PM.
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