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Last minute addition to the line-up: JBX's "thanks for waiting" mix over at DJ Love on the Run's blog
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As he prepares for a presidential run, the governor's labor legacy deserves inspection. Are his state's "hardworking taxpayers" any better off?
This past February, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, D.C., Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker rolled up his sleeves, clipped on a lavalier microphone, and without the aid of a teleprompter gave the speech of his life. He emerged from that early GOP cattle call as a front-runner for his party's nomination for president. Numerous polls this spring placed him several points ahead of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the preferred candidate of the Republican establishment, in Iowa and New Hampshire. Those same polls showed him with an even more substantial lead over movement conservative favorites such as Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Huckabee. In late April, the Koch brothers hinted that Walker would be the likely recipient of the nearly $900 million they plan to spend on the 2016 election cycle.
People labeled "smart" at a young age don't deal well with being wrong. Life grows stagnant.
At whatever age smart people develop the idea that they are smart, they also tend to develop vulnerability around relinquishing that label. So the difference between telling a kid "You did a great job" and "You are smart" isn't subtle. That is, at least, according to one growing movement in education and parenting that advocates for retirement of "the S word."
The idea is that when we praise kids for being smart, those kids think: Oh good, I'm smart. And then later, when those kids mess up, which they will, they think: Oh no, I'm not smart after all. People will think I'm not smart after all. And that's the worst. That's a risk to avoid, they learn."Smart" kids stand to become especially averse to making mistakes, which are critical to learning and succeeding.
I spent a year in Tromsø, Norway, where the "Polar Night" lasts all winter—and where rates of seasonal depression are remarkably low. Here's what I learned about happiness and the wintertime blues.
Located over 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Tromsø, Norway, is home to extreme light variation between seasons. During the Polar Night, which lasts from November to January, the sun doesn't rise at all. Then the days get progressively longer until the Midnight Sun period, from May to July, when it never sets. After the midnight sun, the days get shorter and shorter again until the Polar Night, and the yearly cycle repeats.
So, perhaps understandably, many people had a hard time relating when I told them I was moving there.
"I could never live there," was the most common response I heard. "That winter would make me so depressed," many added, or "I just get so tired when it's dark out."
But the Polar Night was what drew me to Tromsø in the first place.
Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz are suggesting there might be ways for states and cities to nullify the justices' ruling. They're wrong.
The Supreme Court's decision last week did make gay marriage legal around the nation. Unfortunately for social conservatives, it did not, however, make nullification legal around the nation.
Nullification is the historical idea that states can ignore federal laws, or pass laws that supercede them. This concept has a long but not especially honorable pedigree in U.S. history. Its origins date back to antebellum America, where Southern states tried to nullify tariffs and Northern states tried to nullify fugitive-slave laws. In the 1950s, after Brown v. Board of Education, some Southern states tried to pass laws to avoid integrating schools. It didn't work, because nullification is not constitutional.
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here's what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State's appeal. "We have not defeated the idea," he said. "We do not even understand the idea." In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would make workers obsolete. That moment may finally be arriving. Could that be a good thing?
1. Youngstown, U.S.A.
The end of work is still just a futuristic concept for most of the United States, but it is something like a moment in history for Youngstown, Ohio, one its residents can cite with precision: September 19, 1977.
For much of the 20th century, Youngstown's steel mills delivered such great prosperity that the city was a model of the American dream, boasting a median income and a homeownership rate that were among the nation's highest. But as manufacturing shifted abroad after World War II, Youngstown steel suffered, and on that gray September afternoon in 1977, Youngstown Sheet and Tube announced the shuttering of its Campbell Works mill. Within five years, the city lost 50,000 jobs and $1.3 billion in manufacturing wages. The effect was so severe that a term was coined to describe the fallout: regional depression.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges will shift the debate over gay-marriage debate from a legal fight to a cultural and religious conflict.
God appears exactly twice in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that gay marriage is a constitutional right in America. Both mentions come in Clarence Thomas's dissent to the majority opinion: Once, he cites the 1754 writings of the English churchman Thomas Rutherforth, who argued that the only restraints on liberty are "the law of nature, and the law of God." Toward the end, he also quotes the Declaration of Independence, noting that the Framers established their vision of rights based on the dignity bestowed upon them by their Creator.
God probably deserved a little more credit than he received in the footnotes of the case's four dissents, also authored by Samuel Alito, John Roberts, and Antonin Scalia. In their own ways, each of the justices defended the "traditional" definition of marriage—or, in less veiled language, a certain Judeo-Christian understanding of marriage as an institution created and commanded by God.
The social network learns more about its users than they might realize.
Facebook, you may have noticed, turned into a rainbow-drenched spectacle following the Supreme Court's decision Friday that same-sex marriage is a Constitutional right.
By overlaying their profile photos with a rainbow filter, Facebook users began celebrating in a way we haven't seen since March 2013, when 3 million people changed their profile images to a red equals sign—the logo of the Human Rights Campaign—as a way to support marriage equality. This time, Facebook provided a simple way to turn profile photos rainbow-colored. More than 1 million people changed their profile in the first few hours, according to the Facebook spokesperson William Nevius, and the number continues to grow.
"This is probably a Facebook experiment!" joked the MIT network scientist Cesar Hidalgo on Facebook yesterday. "This is one Facebook study I want to be included in!" wrote Stacy Blasiola, a communications Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois, when she changed her profile.
Many authors have been tempted into writing revisionist histories of the 37th U.S. president, but these counterintuitive takes often do not hold up under closer scrutiny.
Every once in a while someone writes a book arguing that Richard Nixon has been misunderstood. These authors tend to focus on some particular aspect of his presidency that, the argument goes, is more important than that Watergate business. They've focused on his domestic policy or his foreign policy as achievements that override his flaws and his presidency's denouement. Nixon's highly complex persona also has led to books that probe his psyche—a hazardous and widely debunked practice, though that hasn't discouraged further attempts.
And, as with other major figures, but all the more so given the drama of his time on the national stage, Nixon's complexity and essentially low repute tempts some authors to offer revisionist approaches to his place in history. Such approaches have to be assessed on their own merits, not accepted merely because they're counterintuitive or receive a lot of attention, as new assessments of the controversial and fascinating Nixon tend to do. Two major revisionist books about Nixon argued that his domestic policy was so expansive, humane, and innovative that it overrides his unfortunate behavior; their accounts relegate Watergate to a far less important role. The problem with these books is that they don't stand up to close scrutiny.
Was the Concorde a triumph of modern engineering, a metaphor for misplaced 20th-century values, or both?
The box sat untouched in his bottom desk drawer. For weeks we discussed opening it, and one January morning he was ready. I set the box on his white bedsheets and removed the stack of passports, which could have belonged to a family with dual citizenship. But all nine—from 1956 to a valid update issued in 2014—belong to my 89-year-old grandfather.
Lying in bed, he unfolded a stamp-covered page like an accordion and held it open above his chest. "Oh my," he kept repeating. He paused, and pointed.
London. March 22, 1976. My then-50-year-old grandfather, Raymond Pearlson, the inventor of Syncrolift, was traveling the world selling his shiplift system. Concorde had launched commercially that January. He knew exactly what this stamp represented: Washington Dulles to London Heathrow in 3.5 hours—the first of at least 150 supersonic flights he took on the legendary aircraft.
It's quite possible to live and date in New York without a smartphone.
Ryan Carson, the CEO of Treehouse, discusses the benefits of a four-day workweek and why more companies can, and should, do it.
Every Saturday, Goad Gatsby loads up his tricycle and Kanye West tunes for a one-man protest against the Confederate flag.

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This is the reject letter I got back last week, which was actually quite helpful -
EW agency wrote:Thank you for writing to us. I do apologise for the standard email; we have been so inundated with submissions recently that we are unable to give each one an individual reply. We have considered your proposal
carefully, but I am sorry to say that we feel that it is not going to be one for us.
If you feel you might benefit from more tailored editorial advice, you should consider discussing your work with a literary consultant.
Details can be found on our website on the 'Submissions' page. Additionally, if you would like an assessment report on your manuscript, we recommend Daniel Goldsmith Associates,they give an honest, comprehensive and constructive review on manuscripts...
I am sorry not to be writing with better news and I wish you every luck with finding an agent elsewhere.
At least it was v. polite! The Goldsmith link is to a page on submission letters which are a bloody minefield as they ask for all sorts of things like a CV (resume) or synopsis of such and such a word count so you have to revise each submission doc heavily for every mailing.
The thing I find most frustrating for this specific novel is the 'first three chapters' criteria, as I have the start of the book almost as 'stand alone' stories that only start to join up later on. Although chapters 1 & 3 are quite strong, my 'best' ones are actually further into the book and arguably the best is also stand alone as it introduces the full background story of a central character who's actually deceased for the entire main storyline
The established 'traditional' route is actually moribund now I think - with 50 Shades, whatever your personal opinion of the writing is, being the supreme example of 'If you self-publish they will buy it anyway' even with dubious editorial input. For what was originally a not terribly great but racey piece of Twilight fanfic, it just shows that anyone can do it even with dodgy editorial standards (and I'm talking hard grammar not soft porn here) I've certainly read (and written) far better stories on other fan sites
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There is an actual kit that includes a variety of parts for enhancing your Mindstorms kit including track etc. it's only $59 and includes all sorts of useful stuff for retail or education: http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?by=6&pt=4&pl=10&ID=1277
- Jan 24, 2007, 7:03:00 AM
out of stock at the moment
- Jan 24, 2007, 7:08:00 AM
- David Levy said...
Yes that's a nice kit. It's the one that is included when you purchase with an FLL registration.
( Probably why they are out of stock )
What about replacement parts for the retail kit? I suppose many of them can be purchased through lego education.
- Jan 24, 2007, 7:46:00 AM
- Andy said...
Not individual (is that even the right word??), but you get'em all (well almost) in the Recsource set (yes, the one you guys were talking about). I have one and it has alot of VERY good perts in it, it took a littlt bit under a month from I made the order until it got to it's destonation.
- Jan 24, 2007, 11:41:00 PM
- Andy said...
BTW it stood out of stock when I ordered it and it took three weeks from the order to it left the warehouse somewhere in Texas to it got to Chicago (nat all the way but a place near Vienna, Illinois).
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009
A Christmas Gift Challenge End of Wk 3
I an trying to do more this week, & have some quilting gifts done apart from needed to do them I am trying to keep more busy this week, as I approach the date of my mum's passing I must say I am getting a little weepy as I think back to this week a year ago as I spent each day with her in the care home & knowing her life was drawing to a close but at least she not suffering anymore which towards the end she was but I am also remembering some happy moments along the way of that week one was how happy she was seeing the sock I done.
Sorry if I am getting a bit soppy but we all love our mums & miss them when they are not longer with us, don't forget to check out the Give-Away in her Memory that I am doing it the earlier post & the lucky name will be drawn out on Monday 5th so entries close on Sunday.
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- luv2quilt2 said...
Remember the good times with your mother. They'll make this difficult time easier to get through. God bless you.
- 29 September 2009 at 13:08
- andsewon said...
Love your socks!!!
Sending a big hug to you from VA.
- 29 September 2009 at 14:50
- Cathy said...
Bless your heart......I understand that you are hurting and rightfully so. We are always our Mom's little girl regardless the age. Big hugs coming to you.
Take care,
- 29 September 2009 at 16:42
- Tonya's Sewing Room said...
oh my, I sooo need those socks here this morning, it's 40 degrees and I have the flu. sending big hugs to you, I can't imagine the day I loose my mom...
- 1 October 2009 at 13:40
- Melinda Cornish said...
the socks look wonderful! losing a mom is always hard! It does get easier though...especially when you realize that she is always with you.....
- 2 October 2009 at 17:19
as always your socks are wonderful. It amazing to think that your mum has been with the angels now for a year, remember she is not hurting and would dearly love to be with you. Remember with love and not sadness. I don't think she would want that.
Love ya!!!
Diana Yard
- 4 October 2009 at 00:20


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Many other inventions marked Bell's later life including groundbreaking work in hydrofoils and aeronautics. In 1888, Alexander Graham Bell became one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society.
His family was long associated with the teaching of elocution: his grandfather, Alexander Bell, in London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, in Edinburgh, were all elocutionists. His father published a variety of works on the subject, several of which are still well known, especially his The Standard Elocutionist (1860) and treatise on Visible Speech, which appeared in Edinburgh in 1868. The Standard Elocutionist appeared in 168 British editions and sold over a quarter of a million copies in the United States alone. In this treatise, his father explains his methods of how to instruct deaf-mutes (as they were then known) to articulate words and read other people's lip movements to decipher meaning. Aleck's father taught him and his brothers not only to write Visible Speech but also to identify any symbol and its accompanying sound. Aleck became so proficient that he became a part of his father's public demonstrations and astounded audiences with his abilities in deciphering Latin, Gaelic and even Sanskrit symbols.
Intrigued by the results of the automaton, Bell continued to experiment with a live subject, the family's Skye terrier, "Trouve". After he taught it to growl continuously, Aleck would reach into its mouth and manipulate the dog's lips and vocal cords to produce a crude-sounding "Ow ah oo ga ma ma." With little convincing, visitors believed his dog could articulate "How are you grandma?" More indicative of his playful nature, his experiments convinced onlookers that they saw a "talking dog." However, these initial forays into experimentation with sound led Bell to undertake his first serious work on the transmission of sound, using tuning forks to explore resonance. At the age of 19, he wrote a report on his work and sent it to Alexander Ellis, a colleague of his father. Ellis immediately wrote back indicating that the experiments were similar to existing work in Germany. Dismayed to find that groundbreaking work had already been undertaken by Hermann von Helmholtz who had conveyed vowel sounds by means of a similar tuning fork "contraption", he pored over the German scientist's book, Sensations of Tone. From his translation of the original German edition, Aleck then made a deduction that would be the underpinning of all his future work on transmitting sound, "Without knowing much about the subject, it seemed to me that if vowel sounds could be produced by electrical means so could consonants, so could articulate speech.
Helping his father in Visible Speech demonstrations and lectures brought Bell to Susanna E. Hull's private school for the deaf in South Kensington, London. His first two pupils were "deaf mute" girls who made remarkable progress under his tutelage. While his older brother seemed to achieve success on many fronts including opening his own elocution school, applying for a patent on an invention, and starting a family, Bell continued as a teacher. However, in May 1870, Melville died from complications due to tuberculosis, causing a family crisis. His father had also suffered a debilitating illness earlier in life and had been restored to health by a convalescence in Newfoundland. Bell's parents embarked upon a long-planned move when they realized that their remaining son was also sickly. Acting decisively, Alexander Melville Bell asked Bell to arrange for the sale of all the family property, conclude all of his brother's affairs (Bell took over his last student, curing a pronounced lisp), and join his father and mother in setting out for the "New World. Reluctantly, Bell also had to conclude a relationship with Marie Eccleston, who, he had surmised, was not prepared to leave England with him.
At the homestead, Bell set up his own workshop in the converted carriage house near to what he called his "dreaming place", a large hollow nestled in trees at the back of the property above the river. Despite his frail condition upon arriving in Canada, Bell found the climate and environs to his liking, and rapidly improved. He continued his interest in the study of the human voice and when he discovered the Six Nations Reserve across the river at Onondaga, he learned the Mohawk language and translated its unwritten vocabulary into Visible Speech symbols. For his work, Bell was awarded the title of Honorary Chief and participated in a ceremony where he donned a Mohawk headdress and danced traditional dances.
After setting up his workshop, Bell continued experiments based on Helmholtz's work with electricity and sound. He designed a piano, which, by means of electricity, could transmit its music at a distance. Once the family was settled in, both Bell and his father made plans to establish a teaching practice and in 1871, he accompanied his father to Montreal, where Melville was offered a position to teach his System of Visible Speech.
Returning home to Brantford after six months abroad, Bell continued his experiments with his "harmonic telegraph".The basic concept behind his device was that messages could be sent through a single wire if each message was transmitted at a different pitch, but work on both the transmitter and receiver as needed. Unsure of his future, he first contemplated returning to London to complete his studies, but decided to return to Boston as a teacher. His father helped him set up his private practise by contacting Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the president of the Clarke School for the Deaf for a recommendation. Teaching his father's system, in October 1872 Alexander Bell opened a school in Boston named the "Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech" which attracted a large number of deaf pupils. His first class numbered 30 students. Working as a private tutor, one of his most famous pupils was Helen Keller, who came to him as a young child, unable to see, hear or speak. She later was to say that Bell dedicated his life to the penetration of that "inhuman silence which separates and estranges.
Deciding to give up his lucrative private Boston practice, Bell only retained two students, six-year old "Georgie" Sanders, deaf from birth and 15-year old Mabel Hubbard. Each pupil would serve to play an important role in the next developments. George's father, Thomas Sanders, a wealthy businessman, offered Bell a place to stay at nearby Salem with Georgie's grandmother, complete with a room to "experiment". Although the offer was made by George's mother and followed the year-long arrangement in 1872 where her son and his nurse had moved to quarters next to Bell's boarding house, it was clear that Mr. Sanders was backing the proposal. The arrangement was for teacher and student to continue their work together with free room and board thrown in. Mabel was a bright, attractive girl who was ten years his junior but became the object of Bell's affection. Losing her hearing after a bout of scarlet fever at age five, she had learned to read lips but her father, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Bell's benefactor and personal friend, wanted her to work directly with her teacher.
In 1874, telegraph message traffic was rapidly expanding and in the words of Western Union President William Orton, had become "the nervous system of commerce". Orton had contracted with inventors Thomas Edison and Elisha Gray to find a way to send multiple telegraph messages on each telegraph line to avoid the great cost of constructing new lines. When Bell mentioned to Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders that he was working on a method of sending multiple tones on a telegraph wire using a multi-reed device, the two wealthy patrons began to financially support Bell's experiments. Patent matters would be handled by Hubbard's patent attorney, Anthony Pollok.
In March 1875, Bell and Pollok visited the famous scientist Joseph Henry, who was then director of the Smithsonian Institution, and asked Henry's advice on the electrical multi-reed apparatus that Bell hoped would transmit the human voice by telegraph. Henry replied that Bell had "the germ of a great invention". When Bell said that he did not have the necessary knowledge, Henry replied, "Get it!" That declaration greatly encouraged Bell to keep trying, even though he did not have the equipment needed to continue his experiments, nor the ability to create a working model of his ideas. However, a chance meeting in 1874 between Bell and Thomas A. Watson, an experienced electrical designer and mechanic at the electrical machine shop of Charles Williams, changed all that.
With financial support from Sanders and Hubbard, Bell was able to hire Thomas Watson as his assistant and the two of them experimented with acoustic telegraphy. On 2 June 1875, Watson accidentally plucked one of the reeds and Bell, at the receiving end of the wire, heard the overtones of the reed; overtones that would be necessary for transmitting speech. That demonstrated to Bell that only one reed or armature was necessary, not multiple reeds. This led to the "gallows" sound-powered telephone, which was able to transmit indistinct, voice-like sounds, but not clear speech.
On 14 February 1876, Bell was in Boston. Hubbard, who was paying the costs of Bell's patents, told his patent lawyer, Anthony Pollok, to file Bell's application in the U.S. Patent Office. This was done without Bell's knowledge. Patent Number 174,465 was issued to Bell on 7 March 1876 by the U.S. Patent Office which covered "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically… by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sound.
Three days after his patent was issued, Bell experimented with a water transmitter, using an acid-water mixture. Vibration of the diaphragm caused a needle to vibrate in the water which varied the electrical resistance in the circuit. When Bell spoke the famous sentence "Mr Watson — Come here — I want to see you" into the liquid transmitter, Watson, listening at the receiving end in an adjoining room, heard the words clearly.
Bell's successful test of Gray's water transmitter design provided a proof of concept experiment that proved to Bell's satisfaction that clear human voice sounds could be electrically transmitted. After that, Bell focused on improving the electromagnetic telephone and did not use a water transmitter in public demonstrations or in commercial applications.
Bell and his partners, Hubbard and Sanders, offered to sell the patent outright to Western Union for $100,000. The president of Western Union balked, countering that the telephone was nothing but a toy. Two years later, he told colleagues that if he could get the patent for $25 million he would consider it a bargain. By then, the Bell company no longer wanted to sell the patent. Bell's investors would become millionaires while he fared well from residuals and he, at one point, had assets nearly reaching one million dollars.
Bell began a series of public demonstrations and lectures in order to introduce the new invention to the scientific community as well as the general public. Only one day after his demonstration of an early telephone prototype at the 1876 Centenary Exhibition in Philadelphia made the telephone the featured headline worldwide. Influential visitors to the exhibition included Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, and later Bell had the opportunity to personally demonstrate the invention to William Thomson, a renowned Scottish scientist and even Queen Victoria who had requested a private audience at Osborne House, her Isle of Wight home; she called the demonstration "most extraordinary". The enthusiasm that surrounded Bell's public displays laid the groundwork for universal acceptance of the revolutionary device.
The Bell Telephone Company was created in 1877, and by 1886, over 150,000 people in the U.S. owned telephones. Bell company engineers made numerous other improvements to the telephone, which emerged as one of the most successful products ever. In 1879, the Bell company acquired Edison's patents for the carbon microphone from Western Union. This made the telephone practical for long distances, unlike Bell's voice-powered transmitter that required users to shout into it to be heard at the receiving telephone, even at short distances. On 25 January 1915, Alexander Graham Bell sent the first transcontinental telephone call, at 15 Day Street in New York City, which was received by Thomas Watson at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco. The New York Times reported: "On October 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson talked by telephone to each other over a two-mile (3 km) wire stretched between Cambridge and Boston. It was the first wire conversation ever held. Yesterday afternoon [on January 25, 1915] the same two men talked by telephone to each other over a wire between New York and San Francisco. Dr. Bell, the veteran inventor of the telephone, was in New York, and Mr. Watson, his former associate, was on the other side of the continent. They heard each other much more distinctly than they did in their first talk thirty-eight years ago.
On 13 January 1887, the United States Government moved to annul the patent issued to Bell on the grounds of fraud and misrepresentation. After a series of decisions and reversals, the Bell company won a decision in the Supreme Court, though a couple of the original claims from the lower court cases were left undecided. By the time that the trial wound its way through nine years of legal battles, the U.S. prosecuting attorney had died and the two Bell patents (No. 174,46 and dated 7 March 1876 and No. 186,787 dated 30 January 1877) were no longer in effect, although the presiding judges agreed to continue the proceedings due to the case's importance as a "precedent." With a change in administration and charges of conflict of interest (on both sides) arising from the original trial, the U.S. Attorney General dropped the law suit on 30 November 1897 leaving several issues undecided on the merits.
During a deposition filed for the 1887 trial, Italian inventor Antonio Meucci also claimed to have created the first working model of a telephone in Italy in 1834. In 1886, in the first of three cases in which he was involved, Meucci took the stand as a witness in the hopes of establishing his invention's priority. Meucci's evidence in this case was disputed due to lack of material evidence of his inventions as his working models were reportedly lost at the Western Union laboratory. Meucci's work, like many other inventors of the period, was based on earlier acoustic principles and despite evidence of earlier experiments, the final case involving Meucci was eventually dropped upon Meucci's death. However, due to the efforts of Congressman Vito Fossella, the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 June 2002 stated that Meucci's "work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged," even though this did not put an end to a still contentious issue. Most modern scholars do not recognize the claims that Bell's work on the telephone was influenced by Meucci's inventions.
The value of the Bell patent was acknowledged throughout the world with patent applications made in most major countries, but when Bell had delayed the German patent application, the electrical firm of Siemens & Halske (S&H) managed to set up a rival manufacturer of Bell telephones under their own patent. The Siemens company produced near-identical copies of the Bell telephone without having to pay royalties. A series of agreements in other countries eventually consolidated a global telephone operation. The strain on Bell by his constant appearances in court, necessitated by the legal battles, eventually resulted in his resignation from the company.
In 1882, Bell became a naturalized citizen of the United States. The Bell family maintained a residence in Washington, DC, where Alec set up a laboratory. In 1915, he characterized his status as: "I am not one of those hyphenated Americans who claim allegiance to two countries." Despite this declaration, Bell has been claimed as a "native son" by Canada, Scotland and the United States. By 1885, a new summer retreat was contemplated. That summer, the Bells had a vacation on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, spending time at the small village of Baddeck. Returning in 1886, Bell started building an estate on a point across from Baddeck, overlooking Bras d'Or Lake. By 1889, a large house, christened "The Lodge" was completed and two years later, a larger complex of buildings were begun that the Bells would name Beinn Bhreagh(Gaelic: beautiful mountain) after Alec's ancestral Scottish highlands. Bell would spend his final, and some of his most productive, years in residence in both Washington, D.C. and Beinn Bhreagh.
Until the end of his life, Bell and his family would alternate between the two homes, but Beinn Bhreagh would, over the next 30 years, become more than a summer home as Bell became so absorbed in his experiments that annual stays lengthened. Both Mabel and Alec became immersed in the Baddeck community and were accepted by the villagers as "their own". The Bells were still in residence at Beinn Bhreagh when the Halifax Explosion occurred on 6 December 1917. Mabel and Alec mobilized the community to help victims in Halifax.
Bell worked extensively in medical research and invented techniques for teaching speech to the deaf. During his Volta Laboratory period, Bell and his associates considered impressing a magnetic field on a record as a means of reproducing sound. Although the trio briefly experimented with the concept, they were unable to develop a workable prototype. They abandoned the idea, never realizing they had glimpsed a basic principle which would one day find its application in the tape recorder, the hard disc and floppy disc drive and other magnetic media.
Bell's own home used a primitive form of air conditioning, in which fans blew currents of air across great blocks of ice. He also anticipated modern concerns with fuel shortages and industrial pollution. Methane gas, he reasoned, could be produced from the waste of farms and factories. At his Canadian estate in Nova Scotia, he experimented with composting toilets and devices to capture water from the atmosphere. In a magazine interview published shortly before his death, he reflected on the possibility of using solar panels to heat houses.
The March 1906 Scientific American article by American hydrofoil pioneer William E. Meacham explained the basic principle of hydrofoils and hydroplanes. Bell considered the invention of the hydroplane as a very significant achievement. Based on information gained from that article he began to sketch concepts of what is now called a hydrofoil boat. Bell and assistant Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin began hydrofoil experimentation in the summer of 1908 as a possible aid to airplane takeoff from water. Baldwin studied the work of the Italian inventor Enrico Forlanini and began testing models. This led him and Bell to the development of practical hydrofoil watercraft.
During his world tour of 1910–1911, Bell and Baldwin met with Forlanini in France. They had rides in the Forlanini hydrofoil boat over Lake Maggiore. Baldwin described it as being as smooth as flying. On returning to Baddeck, a number of initial concepts were built as experimental models, including the Dhonnas Beag, the first self-propelled Bell-Baldwin hydrofoil. The experimental boats were essentially proof-of-concept prototypes that culminated in the more substantial HD-4, powered by Renault engines. A top speed of 54 miles per hour (87 km/h) was achieved, with the hydrofoil exhibiting rapid acceleration, good stability and steering along with the ability to take waves without difficulty. In 1913, Dr. Bell hired Walter Pinaud, a Sydney yacht designer and builder as well as the proprietor of Pinaud's Yacht Yard in Westmount, Nova Scotia to work on the pontoons of the HD-4. Pinaud soon took over the boatyard at Bell Laboratories on Beinn Bhreagh, Bell's estate near Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Pinaud's experience in boat-building enabled him to make useful design changes to the HD-4. After the First World War, work began again on the HD-4. Bell's report to the U.S. Navy permitted him to obtain two 350 horsepower (260 kW) engines in July 1919. On 9 September 1919, the HD-4 set a world's marine speed record of 70.86 miles per hour (114.04 km/h). This record stood for ten years.
In 1891, Bell had begun experiments to develop motor-powered heavier-than-air aircraft. The AEA was first formed as Bell shared the vision to fly with his wife, who advised him to seek "young" help as Alexander was at the graceful age of 60.
In 1898, Bell experimented with tetrahedral box kites and wings constructed of multiple compound tetrahedral kites covered in silk. The tetrahedral wings were named Cygnet I, II and III, and were flown both unmanned and manned (Cygnet I crashed during a flight carrying Selfridge) in the period from 1907–1912. Some of Bell's kites are on display at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site.
Bell was a supporter of aerospace engineering research through the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), officially formed at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in October 1907 at the suggestion of Mrs. Mabel Bell and with her financial support. The AEA was headed by Bell and the founding members were four young men: American Glenn H. Curtiss, a motorcycle manufacturer at the time termed the "world's fastest man" having had rode his self-constructed motor bicycle around in the shortest time, later was awarded the Scientific American Trophy for the first official one-kilometre flight in the Western hemisphere and became a world-renowned airplane manufacturer; Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, an official observer from the U.S. government and the ONLY person in the army who believed aviation was the future, Frederick W. Baldwin, the first Canadian and first British subject to pilot a public flight in Hammondsport, New York; and J.A.D. McCurdy; both engineering students at University of Toronto.
The AEA's work progressed to heavier-than-air machines, applying their knowledge of kites to gliders. Moving to Hammondsport, the group then designed and built the Red Wing, framed in bamboo and covered in red silk and powered by a small air-cooled engine. On 12 March 1908, over Keuka Lake, the biplane lifted off on the first public flight in North America. The innovations that were incorporated into this design included a cockpit enclosure and tail rudder (later variations on the original design would add ailerons as a means of control). One of the AEA project's inventions, the aileron, is a standard component of aircraft today. (The aileron was also invented independently by Robert Esnault-Pelterie.) The White Wing and June Bug were to follow and by the end of 1908, over 150 flights without mishap had been accomplished. However, the AEA had depleted its initial reserves and only a $10,000 grant from Mrs. Bell allowed it to continue with experiments.
Their final aircraft design, the Silver Dart embodied all of the advancements found in the earlier machines. On 23 February 1909, Bell was present as the Silver Dart flown by J.A.D. McCurdy from the frozen ice of Bras d'Or, made the first aircraft flight in Canada. Bell had worried that the flight was too dangerous and had arranged for a doctor to be on hand. With the successful flight, the AEA disbanded and the Silver Dart would revert to Baldwin and McCurdy who began the Canadian Aerodrome Company and would later demonstrate the aircraft to the Canadian Army.
In 1880, Bell received the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs ($10,000) for the invention of the telephone from L'Académie française, representing the French government, in Paris. Among the luminaries who judged were Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, père. The Volta Prize was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803 to honor Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist noted for developing the battery. (The modern usage of the word "volt" is derived from his name.) Since he was reaching affluent circumstances himself, Bell used the money from the Prize to create a number of social structures in and around Washington, D.C. using the symbolic "Volta": the "Volta Fund," "Volta Laboratories" and "Volta Bureau."
In partnership with Gardiner Hubbard, Bell established the publication Science in 1883. In 1888, Bell was one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society and became its second president (1897–1904) and Regent of the Smithsonian Institution (1898–1922). He was the recipient of many honours. The French government conferred on him the decoration of the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour); the Royal Society of Arts in London awarded him the Albert Medal in 1902; and the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, granted him a Ph.D. He was awarded the AIEE's Edison Medal in 1914 "For meritorious achievement in the invention of the telephone."
The bel (B) is a unit of measurement invented by Bell Labs and named after Bell. The bel was too large for everyday use, so the decibel (dB), equal to 0.1 B, became more commonly used as a unit for measuring sound intensity.
The IEEE's Alexander Graham Bell Medal has been presented since 1976 to an individual or team, honoring outstanding contributions in the field of telecommunications.
A number of historic sites and other marks commemorate Alexander Graham Bell, as well as the world's first telephone company:
A large number of Bell's writings, notebooks, papers and other documents rest at the United States Library of Congress Manuscript Devision, as the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers; the collection is available for online viewing. Another large collection of Bell's documents resides at the Alexander Graham Bell Institute
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell was buried atop Beinn Bhreagh mountain overlooking Bras d'Or Lake. He was survived by his wife and his two daughters, Elisa May and Marion.
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Doctoral track in Conflict Analysis and Management created in Political Science PhD
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Sangre de Cristo Mountains > West Spanish Peak > Climber's Log
West Spanish Peak Climber's Log
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|First summit
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2010
|I'm thinking now that this was a bad mountain to try a first summit of. Oh well, I made it with determination of my friends. Plesant drive and hike through the trees up to the mountain, then the real assent begins. It is a very peaceful area.
|Posted Oct 23, 2010 3:12 pm
|Great day
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2010
|Camped and paid to sleep on the hard gravel sites(gross). Left at 7am got to the top by 11ish. I made it to the top but my girlfriend stopped at 13,000. Beautiful weather, but very windy. Could have stayed up there all day. Only one other person made it that day. I think this one was just as hard as ESP but, I started ESP from the saddle. The views of the dikes are great from the top.
|Posted Oct 22, 2010 4:09 pm
|Alex Wood
|Stormed Off
Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2010
|Tried this the day after doing Lindsey. Started before 10:00am and reached tree line about an hour later. Some thick dark clouds started rolling in and I called off that summit bid due to my experience on Mt. Lindsey the day before. So I went back to the parking area only to see that it cleared up. So I just hiked around the area for a few and did Peak 11563 and went up to Vista PT. West Spanish is still on the to do list.
|Posted Jun 15, 2010 10:30 pm
|From Cordova TH
Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2010
|Great bluebird day, clouds came in and covered up my view shortly after summit but still good conditions overall. Left TH at 6a.m. summit at 9.
|Posted Jun 14, 2010 11:06 am
|From Cordova
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2005
|This mountain is very special to me as I used to live in Cuchara and La Veta. It was more than just an itch I had to scratch. It beckoned for years. Spectacular.
|Posted Dec 19, 2009 4:22 pm
|Overnight at Cordova Pass
Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2009
|Slept under the stars and a brilliant moon at Cordova Pass. Awoke early to tackle the rocky terrain. My first Colorado peak, first 13er, first experience with altitude and volcanic shale. A little tougher than I thought, but a good way to aclimate for the week ahead. Beautiful summit!
Climbed with Eleutheros.
|Posted Aug 22, 2009 9:43 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2009
|Slept under a blazing moon and stars at Cordova Pass. Awoke the next morning for a steep but swift ascent with hazy views of Blanca, Trinchera, Greenhorn, Culebra, Little Bear, East Spanish Peak, Hamilton and the great plains far, far below. Pikas and other furry rodents scurried furtively between the rockpiles. Crows soared overhead.
|Posted Aug 12, 2009 11:13 am
|Climb from Cordova
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2009
|First time doing either of the Spanish peaks. Left the trailhead at 8:10 and was on the summit at 10:20. I got a little off trail when a fellow climber who was on the trail told me there wasn't a true trail and just to hug the ridge. It was windy so I tucked over on the back side as much as I could until close to the summit. I did a lot of scrambling until I finally stuck to the ridge higher up.
Downclimb was tricky but manageable. I usually take my time on the descents so thats why it actually took longer from summit back to the car then the climb up. Overall a good climb for half a day's work.
|Posted Aug 8, 2009 4:47 pm
|from Cordova pass
|Climbed twice, from the pass. I like the rock on east spanish peak much better.
|Posted Jul 30, 2009 3:04 pm
|Nice Axe!
Date Climbed: Jun 14, 2009
|This is a moderate hike with an easy to follow trail. It looks like it is going to be a scree slog, but the trail is set pretty well. This area, especially the drive in through La Veta is very beautiful and the dikes are an interesting geological feature, characteristic of this area.
|Posted Jun 14, 2009 7:20 pm
|From Cordova Pass
Date Climbed: Apr 30, 2006
|A nice hike in a unique area. My partner gave up about half way and slept in the car while I battled with the wind. The snow covered talus was a bit treacherous, but the views were worth it.
|Posted Sep 10, 2008 4:04 pm
|Midlife Mountaineer
|Looked a little ominous at first
Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2008
|A short easy approach leading to nice challenging climb. Camped at the trailhead, too!
|Posted Jul 2, 2008 9:34 pm
|Great Rocks
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 1989
|Fun climb from Cordova Pass. Classic geologic location. Great way to spend my 30th birthday.
|Posted May 9, 2008 7:16 pm
|Done it 6 times
Date Climbed: Sep 19, 1989
|My other hiking dates for West Spanish Peak: September 19, 1978, three times in 1979--June 20, July 26, October 7. In 1982 on June 26 and then the 1989 date. I have pics from all trips except June '79. I want to do it again while I still can.
|Posted Sep 26, 2007 2:07 pm
|Looked scary, but very easy
Date Climbed: May 31, 2002
|The straight-shot up the talus looks inimidating from below, but proved to be solid and safe the whole way up. Had excellent late-spring dry weather and very little snow for this time of year. One I would do again.
|Posted Aug 28, 2007 3:35 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 19, 2007
|Left Cordova Pass trailhead at 6a.m. On top about 10a.m. My fourth ascent of the summit that got me started. The braided trail remnants that abound on the lower half of the section above timber seem to be getting more numerous and looser, probably because many people go a short distance above timber and turn around. I encountered quite a bit of snow up on the ridge as well as strong winds, but with plenty of sun. Especially loose going back down. Snow bank back down in timber sure felt good to bare feet....
|Posted Jul 20, 2007 10:34 pm
|Cordova Pass Route
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2007
|Stunning view at the summit of the Dakota Wall and the dikes radiating from the Spanish Peaks. Make sure and bring plenty of water, as it is scarce along the trail. Trail to summit can be hard to pick up as you break out of the treeline. Stay on the ridge above the large cairn at treeline until the trail becomes apparent.
|Posted Jul 19, 2007 2:17 pm
|Larry V
|West Peak Trail
Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2007
|Climbed East SP in the morning and West SP in the afternoon, from separate trailheads. Under 2 hours from Cordova Pass to summit. Worst part was the gnats/fleas on the summit! Millions of flea eggs incubating in the snowbanks. Gag. Climbed with Alan and Eric.
|Posted Jul 8, 2007 8:59 pm
|Fun day
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2007
|This is a great hike! The mellow portion through the forest followed by a steep climb above treeline. A great way to spend the morning.
|Posted Jun 28, 2007 7:21 pm
|Sarah Simon
|Except for the gnats...
Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2001
|...this was a fantastic outing. Only one other party on mountain. I love looking south from home and seeing this peak and it's eastern partner on a clear day.
|Posted Apr 19, 2007 7:40 pm


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This 2 storey apartment is located just opposite the Layan Beach and only a few minutes drive from Bangtao Beach, one of the longest beaches in Phuket. It is only 3 minutes away from several restaurants and Laguna Golf Club. For family who is looking for the International school, Phuket International Academy and British Internation School are recommened as they are only a short 15-20 minutes drive away from the villa. The complex has a goof size swimming pool and Thai salas in green gardens. This modern, two-level home is spacious with living areas totaling 336 sq.m. and the internal air-conditioned areas measuring 197 sq.m.
The apartment is fully equipped with modern tropical-style furniture, a plasma TV and private wireless Internet. The living space flows between the indoor and outdoor areas and consists of three bedrooms, an open-plan kitchen, large dining and living areas which it is a good place for family.
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Saturday, September 30, 2006
The Peach Queen and an Artist Back from the Dead
Sadly some big internet news providers had announced that Jerry Lee Lewis was no longer with us. But you can clearly see that he is definitely alive and kicking and rocking! The backstage was filled with people all trying to get a glimpse of him on stage.
Willie has been making the rounds as well. When Willie comes throught the back lot and stage, people part like the red sea. Charlton Heston, move over baby. Here comes Willie.
Also I was able to interview Shelby Lynne, Allison Moorer's sister. I felt like an idiot because I didn't know that. I felt like Joan Rivers on the red carpet, the only difference is that I care when I mess up and associate someone incorrectly.
On the top of everything, I find out that during the Webcast I kept saying we were cutting to a Danielle Evin clip when production cut to Pauline Reese. Please know, I would have never mixed up these divas — they are so different. But there is a lot going on back here…and we are human at Farm Aid…if your prick us do we not bleed….red….white and blue.
I also had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Mikey Azzara. His mission is to change the school lunch program and its education around food. He is amazing. And he definitely is a young farmer to watch out for. He and the other young farmers we have met are the faces of farming, now and the future.
Dave is on stage now. The crowd is on their feet. People are shoving to get a side stage view. I have been actually pushed over….the computer is ok, but my ego is not. These are some serious fans.
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I'm loving the webcast! Also loving the fact that my old friend Joel is wearing the pink toolbelt. Tell him that JC says hi. Rock on, El Cid!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:22 PM
Fantastic concert, and I love hearing from the folks out there who farm, and who educate. I feel so lucky to be able to view this concert. Thanks so much for putting it online. Bless Willie, and all the artists. They have been amazing. I donated what I could. Rock on, farmers. Rock on, America. Rock on and bless your dear heart, Willie Nelson. You are an American patriot, and hero.ReplyDelete
- tracy jo9:40 PM
Congratulations on another great Farm Aid. I grew up on a family farm in Nova Scotia, Canada, and I'm watching from home now. I moved to the cityReplyDelete
for a better education as the farm life is a dwindling occupation. We struggle with mother nature and with lack of funding from our governments. Keep up the good work in your country, we should follow your example. There's nothing better than going to the Farmers market on Saturday mornings. I would also like to thank Dave Mathews for drawing me to the show tonight (he's my heart)


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When Okaloosa County's NAACP chapter was founded, members were scared to admit publicly that they belonged to the organization.
Next weekend they celebrate 65 years of giving a voice to the voiceless.
"This anniversary means a lot of hard work over a long period of time, endurance and staying the course," said Sabu Williams, president of the Okaloosa County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "A lot has changed over 65 years. When we started in the 40s, even to be registered to vote, much less have an NAACP card in your pocket, was dangerous.
"Now, we're one of the oldest branches in the state of Florida and still going strong. That bodes well for our organization and the community that we would still be here."
Members say the NAACP exists for justice, freedom and to help those who can't help themselves.
"Dr. Martin Luther King has a quote that 'Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed," said Lewis Jennings, the NAACP's area director. "I joined in 1984 when I became of age so that I could help those people who are still oppressed."
History of the branch
The local chapter was formed in 1948, and within 10 years had found a cause worth fighting for.
First Lt. Robert L. Williams was accused of breaking Florida law by refusing to sit at the back of a bus while traveling through Crestview on his way to serve in Korea. A court found him guilty and fined him in absentia.
The NAACP filed a lawsuit, but the case was never resolved because Williams died fighting for his country.
In the 1960s, the group worked adamantly to attract younger, more aggressive members, but public promotion was kept low key for fear of segregationists' threats.
Then in the 1970s, the group filed a class action lawsuit against Eglin Air Force Base, alleging unlawful employment practices and discrimination. A $2.4 million settlement was awarded in the early 1980s for blacks employed at the base while the discrimination was going on.
In the 1990s, the group changed its name from the Fort Walton Beach branch to the Okaloosa County branch to recognize the members who lived across the area. In 1996, the chapter attracted national attention with its Switch to Fight campaign, which saw more than 1,500 Democrats register as Republicans to have a greater voice in local elections.
In 2000, the organization held its first Black Leadership Summit and opened an office on Hollywood Boulevard.
Today, members continue to fight against discrimination and wrongdoing locally and nationally.
"The NAACP is relevant today just as it was in 1909," when the national organization was founded, Jennings said. "Even though 65 years have passed locally and 100-plus nationally, there are still issues of disparity among minorities. The strategy and process may be different, we may negotiate more than actually protest in the street, but the business of advocacy on behalf of NAACP is still there. We're fighting issues like the economic environment, justice, politics, criminal justice, education disparity.
"The NAACP is different today, but we still have issues we're dealing with."
Celebrating 65 years
The branch will celebrate its anniversary next weekend.
The first event will be a birthday celebration dinner Friday at Northwest Florida State College.
On Saturday, the Legacy Walk of Fame will be unveiled at Chester Pruitt Park to honor the county's past movers and shakers.
The celebration will conclude Sunday with an original play about King at 5:30 p.m. at the Crestview Community Center on Commerce Drive. The $5 admission will help a local leader with medical bills.
"We have been working and planning for years to honor those people who worked in this community for years before we even got here," Williams said. "I'm wise enough to know that from 1948 to now a lot of people who did some work and suffered for a cause paved a way for us.
"This is for everyone, from the civil rights leader to the grandmother who made sure a child had lunch every day."
"We have some great things planned all over the county," Williams added. "For us, 40 years ago we were marching and now we're sitting at the same table with community leaders.
"We don't win everything we ask for, but we do fight."
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MISSION MATTERS: Xavier in Advent
By Fr. Paul Stark, S.J.
Vice President for Mission and Ministry
With the beginning of Advent this past weekend, we enter a joyful but often stressful time for many people. Deadlines, expectations and any number of other external demands seem to bombard our interior lives, with the foreboding sense that there is not enough time--so much to do, so little time to do it.
For many of us, these are dueling, sometimes conflicting, messages: What we are told needs to be done, and what we tell ourselves needs to be done, and what really needs to be done, lead us often to miss the joy and peace at the very center of this time.
The should, could and would are like store lights. They often blind us and stop us from seeing the real illumination of this time, the love of God, Who demonstrates that love for each of us by becoming one of us. We put our own expectations--blinded by our own lights--on these times, rather than doing what these times call us to do: to let God be God.
The Advent Twilight Retreat, Dec. 1, gives faculty and staff one opportunity to do just that. This evening can help us reflect and enter into--peacefully, calmly--the richness of this time, using the traditional music of the season to rekindle our expectations for the greatest gift in our lives.
On Saturday, Dec. 3, we will celebrate the feast of Francis Xavier, the patron of our College Church, the best friend and close companion of St. Ignatius, one of the first Jesuits, and one of the first Jesuit missionaries. We celebrate this enthusiastic Jesuit who was asked to take a job which would lead him far from his friends and companions in this new Society of Jesus to faraway lands, and the real knowledge that he would probably never return to any of what he had known as his life. We will recall his enthusiastic efforts, and his staggering achievements, in India and Japan. We will remember his desire and his attempt to enter China, which, similar to Moses and the Promised Land, Xavier saw only from his deathbed.
Above all, we will be able to see that Xavier learned to change his expectations--for himself, for his future and for his work--to allow him to see the wonders of God's work in all places and people, wherever and with whomever he found himself. Maybe, we can use his example to approach our lives and this hopeful, busy, consoling, perhaps even stressful, season, and keep our eyes on the real prize of the times.
Today, in anticipation, hope and expectation let us look at and learn from the example of Xavier and examine our own expectations of ourselves, others and this time. Frankly, sometimes we just need to take a hopeful, deep breath, let our stress go, live and look forward in hope, and put our frenetic activity on pause. We need to take some time to rework our expectations and to re-discover the light at the heart of this season, the real light in our lives.
With the temporary lights of our contemporary time, we may be blinding ourselves from the real and eternal light of Christmas which frees us from many of the burdens which others, and we ourselves, put on our shoulders.
Have a blessed Advent.
Happy Feast, St. Francis Xavier!
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Sushil Kumar earned Olympic medals in freestyle wrestling at 66kg in Beijing and London, but his greatest sporting accomplishment came in 2010 when he won a freestyle world championship in Moscow. Now, on the eve of the 2013 FILA World Championships of Wrestling, Kumar tells a story of attempted rigging which took place before his 2010 finals match. The Times of India provides Kumar's account of Russians trying to buy a favorable result:
"I was approached through a coach to throw the final bout. I was offered about Rs 3 crore.Wrestling is huge in Russia, and I suppose they didn't expect an Indian to enter the final,"
A crore is worth approximately 150,000 American dollars, and Kumar refused the bribe. Kumar went on to win his finals match against Russia's Alan Gogaev, 2 periods to 0. The match can be seen here. Additionally, Kumar claims he reported the attempt at match buying to FILA, international wrestling's governing body, but to no avail.
"I had told even in 2010 about this incident, but nobody responded. I'm not in FILA (wrestling's world governing body) or any other federation, so I can't say if the Russian's medal should be taken away,"
Kumar is one of the most accomplished non-cricket playing athletes in Indian history, mere changes in his training environment received the attention of mainstream Indian media. He reportedly makes around $160,000 a year endorsing several products in India, including Mountain Dew, though he turned down a chance to increase that revenue by half when he refused an offer to appear in advertisements related to alcoholic beverages.
Though he may have spurned Russian bribe money in 2010, his world championship did not go without financial rewards. Three different Indian organizations gave him awards together worth almost $50,000. Along with a cash gift, the Indian Railway Ministry, Kumar's employer and patron to a number of world-class Indian wrestlers, gave Kumar a promotion to a higher paying position within the Ministry. After Kumar's silver medal in London, the total amount of monetary rewards he has received through his career, if Wikipedia is to believed, exceeds $900,000 in value.
Sadly, whispers and rumors of match fixing and attempted fixing, usually on the part of Russians, pervade international wrestling. If these rumors are to be believed, in many instances, athletes from more impoverished countries, like Cuba, become the target of bribe attempts. The 2011 Greco-Roman heavyweight world finals match, featuring Cuba's two time Olympic champion Mijain Lopez and Turkey's Riza Kayaalp, is widely believed to be fixed to the Turk's benefit (similar suspicions persist over another of Lopez's world finals matches).


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|A Kosher Wine Chat with Daniel Rogov - Part 2
Wine Connoisseur, Critic, Author
KosherEye had the pleasure of speaking with Israel's noted wine expert Daniel Rogov, the food and wine critic for the Israel newspaper Haaretz and the author of numerous books on Israeli restaurants and wine, including the acclaimed Rogov's Guide to Kosher Wines 2010. He resides in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Our chat with Daniel Rogov was fascinating, informative and extensive. He shared so much with us so that we could share it with our KosherEye readers. We are presenting part two of our two part series.
Kosher Wine/Israel:
I will give you a little historical background: I remember the first wine that arrived for tasting – a Sauvignon Blanc from the 1984 vineyard. I tasted the wine (I didn't know where it came from) and when someone uncovered the wine and showed that it was an unknown Israel winery, I actually got angry. I thought to myself – this is not possible, it's too good. Israel cannot make kosher wine this good.
So being a critic, this is what I did... I drove to the Golan Heights Winery, didn't tell them I was coming and just showed up. Now I will find out what they did; my guess was they brought in bulk wine from Italy and rebottled it. I was in luck,; both the senior wine maker and the CEO were there. They took me to the vineyards, showed me the equipment, I tasted from the barrels, and all of a sudden it dawned on me...Israel is capable of making world class wine and that hasn't changed since then."
There are good kosher wines from around the world – what are some areas that produce good kosher wine?
What is required (to produce good wine) is not a specific soil or location but a French term called terroir – it relates to the soil, micro/macro climate and the intervention of the winemaker. If grapes are planted in an area that is natural for them, you have no problem but if not, you have to know how to work with them.
The two countries currently producing the best kosher wines are the U.S.–California, including Napa and Sonoma, and Israel – wines from the Golan Heights, Upper Galilee and Judean Hills.
One of the ways to know wines is to read the critics, as you will get some input as to what you like, the quality, etc., etc. I taste 9,000 kosher wines a year and that includes re-tastings of course".
What is your personal scale for scoring wine?
Please share some of your favorite table wines based on value:
The above wines are ones that you would drink now and enjoy – they are not meant to be keep for long periods of time – drink within a year.
When you buy wine, look at the vintage year. If the wine is mevushal, for white wine, it should not be purchase after one year from that date; for red wine, do not purchase after 1 1/2 years maximum from that date."
What are your favorite luxury wines?
We told him "NO"; it can be troubling to spend a lot of money on a bottle of wine and discover it is not good. Rogov sent us some excellent luxury wine suggestions for those special occasions that warrant a special wine.
• Cabernet Sauvignon, Special Reserve, Warnecke Vineyard, Chalk Hill, 2007: Dark garnet toward royal purple in color, full-bodied with soft tannins and spicy wood in fine balance with fruits. $75
• Red C, Napa Valley, 2007: Made entirely from Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, dark ruby toward royal purple in color, full-bodied and well extracted, showing gently gripping tannins and opening beautifully in the glass. $45
Domaine du Castel, Grand Vin, 2007: The by-now traditional Grand Vin blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, that flushed out with Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec. Full-bodied, dark. $65
Segal, Cabernet Sauvignon, Unfiltered, 2007: Perhaps the best of Segal's unfiltered Cabernet Sauvignon releases to date. Dark garnet, full-bodied, with a black fruit and spicy nose, $70
Should wine be served chilled or at room temperature?
How long can you keep leftover wine?
You are also a food critic – will you please share a favorite recipe and wine suggestion?
We have created a printable Rogov Kosher Wine Suggestion List – keep it handy and refer to it when shopping for wine. It lists his wine suggestions and the countries producing the best kosher wine. For some of us, buying wine can be confusing, so take Rogov along with you to the wine store.
Follow Daniel Rogov on the Wine Lovers Discussion Page. His books, Rogov's Guide to Kosher Wines 2010 and Rogov's Guides to Israeli & Kosher Wines 2011 are available on Amazon.com.
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