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For the past two years a primary goal for Mayor Belle Isle and the Alpharetta City Council has been economic development. And from the very beginning we understood that as our city works to attract new businesses it is crucial not to overlook the businesses that already make Alpharetta home.
So Director Peter Tokar and Samir Abdullahi in our Economic Development Department have made it a high priority to recognize and facilitate the growth of our current employers. As the elected representatives of the people of Alpharetta we appreciate these businesses choosing to do business here and we understand that their success is good for our community.
One of the ways Alpharetta now demonstrates our appreciation and commitment to these businesses is by recognizing them at Alpharetta's Annual Business Awards Breakfast. Below is the press release outlining the process for submitting nominations for this event.
This year's event will be held March 25th from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. at the Metropolitan Club on Windward Parkway in Alpharetta. I hope you will take the time to join us in celebrating the businesses that make Alpharetta home and if you know of any businesses who have received special recognition please let us know.
Alpharetta Seeks Top Businesses To Recognize At March Event
Businesses located within the City of Alpharetta that received a significant award, accolade or recognition in 2013 are encouraged to send information to the City for consideration as part of Alpharetta's 2nd Annual Business Awards Breakfast. All submissions must be received by no later than Tuesday, March 18.
Submissions should be sent to the City's Economic Development Manager, Samir Abdullahi, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
According to Abdullahi, the size of the business is not important; only the nature and quality of their achievement in 2013.
"The Business Awards Breakfast is about turning a spotlight onto those Alpharetta businesses that exemplify our drive for excellence; that seek to become the standard by which other companies in their field are measured,' said Abdullahi. "The event also provides opportunity for the leaders of Alpharetta's elite businesses to network, seek common opportunities, and learn about initiatives being undertaken by the City of Alpharetta that will impact the local business community."
According to Abdullahi, the City's selection committee will review all of the submissions received to identify the businesses that are most deserving of further recognition. To be considered, a business must submit the name of and information about the award or accolade that they received in 2013, the reason for which the award was received, a brief overview of their company (200 words or less), and a list of company representatives (limit 3) who they would like to attend the event if selected.
Only businesses located within the legal geographic boundaries of the City of Alpharetta are eligible for consideration.


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Back during the indie boom in the 90's, these guerilla filmmakers were coming out of the woodwork making chat-heavy flicks that shifted the movie making paradigm. Guys like Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith were being celebrated for their new ideas in low budget production thanks to their dialog. The party line on reviews held these scripts up on high for what was often cited as natural or rhythmic dialog that was rich and organic enough to float 90 minute pictures without an action beat every ten minutes. These movies were succeeding strictly on the charm of their talkiest components. As much as I love Reservoir Dogs and Clerks, I have to disagree about the dialog. There is nothing natural about the talkiest parts of those movies. Smith's actors frequently stumble on their lines and Tarantino's casts most often sound like white people desperately trying to sound authentic while reciting lines and beats lifted from blaxploitation movies. I still like Kevin Smith and Tarantino quite a bit, but the high fives those guys routinely receive for their writing is, in my opinion, entirely undeserved.
Enter Diablo Cody and it looks like it's happening all over again. Those indies from the 90's were quickly absorbed into the system and have experienced their respective successes and failures which has left a vacuum. Naturally, a new wave of prodigious and enterprising young writers and filmmakers have stepped in to fill it and they're receiving that same strange praise for not sounding like your run on the mill Hollywood hit machine. Cody wins an oscar for Juno and the world falls in love with her. To follow it up, she and Jason Reitman go halfsies on a horror film. However, whenever I hear her name, all I can think of is the movie Coyote Ugly.
Anita Lesnicki is a plain Jane high schooler in Devil's Kettle, Minnesota. Her best friend is the school's resident hot chick, Jennifer Check. Together, they share a quasi-lesbian codependent relationship wherein Jennifer is clearly the dominant personality.One fateful night, they head to the local watering hole to see your run of the mill indie band, but a fire breaks out and kills many people. The band manages to cart Jennifer off under the assumption that she's a virgin and sacrifice her to Satan in order to achieve fame. Jennifer, however, has a reputation around town and is most certainly not a virgin and the side effect of this ritual turns her into a flesh eating demon that has to eat boys in order to maintain her power. Anita finds this out the hard way and has to find a way to stop her.
I'll just say this up front because it seems like Jennifer's Body centerpiece, Megan Fox, tends to draw a lot of fire and influences the reviews depending on whether or not the writer is enchanted by her looks or is repelled by the fact that that seems to be floating her entire career at the moment. Fox does nothing for me. I am fully aware she is the latest flavor of the month and sells tickets. I also share the opinion that she has nothing approaching acting talent but Jennifer's Body isn't a piece of shit because she is in it. Far from it. Jennifer's Body is a heinous piece of shit strictly for Diablo Cody's script. Cody's scripts for Jennifer's Body and Juno share one tragic thing in common: She appears to write her scripts through text interface on her cellphone. It stands to reason that she lurks in chatrooms, archives Twitter and Facebook streams and studies the forum threads on any given popular band in order to wrap her mind around the contemporary tone of the American teenager. Every passage of dialog is saturated in invented slang and jargon, operating under the assumption that this is the language of young America and it's fucking nauseating. The people handing out awards receive these movies as though Cody is living on the edge of our evolving language and culture but listening to this mutated English is about as appealing as listening to your best friend vomit after two bottles of Colt 45 and a huge plate of spaghetti.
Hate to break it to you, everyone, but nobody talks like this. Not even the gothy kids. The generation gap is getting the best of you. Jennifer's Body simply comes off like the morbid teenage daughter of Valley Girl.
Maybe I'm just showing my age by bitching about the way people talk in this movie but I'll probably drive that point home when I complain about the wasted moments that could have saved some of this picture involving J.K. Simmons, who is a freakin' genius and Amy Sedaris, who seems to require only the slightest amount of makeup to look either very pretty or very old. A brief cameo by Lance Henriksen was about the only moment in the movie that made me smile and wonder if someone in the production was actually a horror movie fan or they just needed some genre mercenary to give the picture at least some kind of horror cred.
Ultimately, Jennifer's Body is supposed to be some kind of feminist twist on the horror formula, but it comes off as woefully misinformed. Cody attempts to warp the usual man terrorizes woman, woman turns the tables in the third act trope by populating the primary cast entirely with women and giving the men nothing to do but die. However, film scholars from within the genre as well as without, have dedicated hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of words by this point to the study of the feminist tilt of horror movies since the inception of the entire final girl concept. Jennifer's Body does nothing to move this idea forward. In fact, it does nothing but prove that the production crew had little idea of what makes a good horror movie. The positive side of this is that it gives some relief by not bombarding you, the viewer, with a buttload of horror references to convince you that it's savvy. Jennifer's Body really needs that space in the script to pack in as much OMGWTFBBQ that it can cram in there.


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Few organisms have a more detailed visual experience than humans. The reason for that is humans possess a specialized part of their retina, called the fovea, that constitutes an extraordinarily "high definition" pixel array. Macular degeneration is a leading cause of blindness that devastates vision by attacking the fovea. By investigating how the fovea works, we will help further the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of macular degeneration, while also gaining insight into how our power of sight outstrips that of most other creatures.
The goal of our project is to understand the process by which most visual experience is initiated in humans and other primates, thereby improving methods of diagnosing macular degeneration and related forms of blindness.
Our first aim concerns a population of highly specialized cells in the retina that originate high-acuity sight: the foveal cones. Like the pixels in a video camera, these cells convert light into electrical signals. These signals are processed by circuits in the retina and brain to generate our detailed and dynamic sense of the visual world. The foveal cones are so tiny, fragile, and rare that they have scarcely been studied before. We propose to decipher the inner workings of these enigmatic and important cells.
Our second aim is to lay the foundation for measuring the electrical activity of foveal cones using a method that is commonly available in the clinic, the electroretinogram. Foveal cones reside at the point where macular degeneration begins, and their death is what causes the loss of sight in this disease. We propose that the activity of foveal cones provides an early-warning system for macular degeneration. The challenge is to discern the electrical signature, or characteristic signaling, of foveal cones against the background of ongoing, unrelated activity in the remainder of the retina. We seek to define this electrical signature and develop a means of selectively analyzing it.
These experiments constitute the very first direct and systematic investigation of how foveal cones respond to light, and how their responses can be used to diagnose retinal health. Such investigation is unprecedented. The reason for that is that foveal tissue is scarce; it is also too delicate to study using standard research techniques. We have overcome these logistical and technical challenges. Thus, we are uniquely poised to undertake a series of groundbreaking experiments.
There are two immediate benefits to our research. First, we will gain new understanding of how sight is initiated by the fovea, a specialization of the retina that is found only in primates and endows them with a rarefied view of the world, one that is several-fold more detailed than that of any other mammal. Such understanding provides a platform for efforts to rebuild or replicate human sight. Second, we will use our knowledge of foveal cones to suggest ways of diagnosing macular degeneration earlier and more precisely, which will help in efforts to slow or even forestall this leading cause of blindness.
Michael Tri H. Do is an assistant professor of neurology in the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center of Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His formal scientific investigations began in college, where he worked with Susette Mueller, PhD (Georgetown University) to study the mechanisms used by cancer cells to invade tissue. Dr. Do's doctoral research was conducted with Bruce Bean, PhD (Harvard Medical School) and concerned the generation of spontaneous, electrical rhythms in neurons of the mammalian brain. Michael started investigating the visual system as a postdoctoral fellow with King-Wai Yau, PhD (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine).
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa- A rebirth in an older Cedar Rapids neighborhood took a symbolic first step Tuesday afternoon with a groundbreaking for a new home. But that's significant in the Wellington Heights neighborhood because in the 18-block "core" area it's considered the first new residential construction in 50 years.
The Affordable Housing Network, a part of Four Oaks, outlined development plans six weeks ago by introducing homeowners Josh and Alyssa Hulme. The Hulmes are the first to own one of the planned homes, but they won't be the last. The Affordable Housing Network has five vacant lots for new home construction in Wellington Heights. And with a contract signing set for Friday, three of the five lots have owners wanting to build. In addition to new construction, the housing network is rehabbing other homes in the area and 10 to 15 either new or rehabilitated single family homes should be available to buyers by the end of summer.
During the Tuesday groundbreaking event, the Hulmes said they didn't consider themselves pioneers in being first to sign up for a new home. They already rent a home in Wellington Heights about two blocks away and are very familiar with the area.
But speakers during the event said it was a significant and symbolic day nonetheless. That's because it may be a clear sign to other potential owners that a rebound in that neighborhood is beginning.
"There's been a lot of decay of homes in this neighborhood, so to have some new ones come up is kind of like a rebirth if you will," Josh Hulme said.
The new homes planned for the core area of Wellington Heights will have a value of about $150,000. But owners like the Hulmes will only have to pay between $85,000 and $90,000. Subsidies from lenders and city and state housing programs are providing instant equity for those who meet the income qualifications. While the groundbreaking took place on Tuesday, the actual work probably won't start for about two weeks. It's expected to take about three months to finish the first new home in the core part of Wellington Heights.
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I just got a new Windows Server 2003 and my admin software is Ensim.
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Imagine hosts The Fault in Our Stars June 11th 7 p.m. at the Rialto Theatre in Westfield. Discounted ticket price is $8.50. Doors open at 6:30. Tickets may be purchased in advance at Imagine or at the door that night. If you are purchasing from Imagine you must purchase by 5 PM on Monday June 9th otherwise they can be purchased at the door.
"Part of the mission of Imagine is to normalize grief in our society and to create resilient "Good Mourning" communities that know how to support children and adults when they are grieving any type of loss," said Mary Robinson, Founder and Executive Director of Imagine. "Our Imagine book club read this book and when it was released on film, we want to take the opportunity to have a broader conversation in the community and with our volunteers about grief, and dying and support groups and the realities of living with an illness for children and teens," said Imagine Program Director Mandi Zucker, MSW. "We already have three Good Mourning sites in Westfield and we'd love to see Westfield become one of the first Good Mourning Communities in the country. This is a great step in that direction."
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The Hollywood Reporter's excellent legal blog reports on a lawsuit filed by the Director of the Institute of Archaeology in Belize, demanding the return of "Belize's most notable Crystal Skull."
Not only is this crystal skull allegedly the most notable of that country's crystal skulls, it is said to have great cultural significance. The plaintiff alleges it was stolen from a temple and illegally taken out of the country decades ago. Worst of all, he says, this very same skull was featured in the 2008 film, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which grossed almost $800 million worldwide, of which Belize has received exactly zero dollars. The plaintiff is therefore suing not only the current possessor of the skull and the estate of those who stole it, but also LucasFilm, Walt Disney and Paramount, seeking not only the return of the skull but also an accounting of profits and so forth and so on.
The lawsuit may or may not be related to the fact that the Institute appears to be promoting trips to Belize (right) to celebrate the ending of the Mayan calendar cycle on December 21.
According to the complaint, while today "archaeologists, anthropologists and tourists alike are drawn to destinations such as Xunantunich in the name of discovery," with great package deals probably available now, 100 years ago it "was coveted for slightly different reasons." Specifically, people wanted to come steal Mayan artifacts. More specifically, F.A. Mitchell-Hedges and his daughter Anna wanted to steal them. In 1924, so the story goes, they found a crystal skull buried under an altar, "a fact [his daughter] would disclose in a documentary produced by NBC ... and aired on the 'SciFi' cable network in 2008." What she disclosed in this documentary—undoubtedly fully vetted by a team of experts at SciFi, the network that brought you "Mansquito"—was that they did indeed find and export the skull and that she had inherited it after her father's death. She died in 2007, according to the complaint, and the "Mitchell-Hedges Skull" now resides with her husband in Chesterton, Indiana.
So what's with the skull? Well, a crystal skull is a crystal that has been carved into the shape of a skull. Not impressed yet? "These artifacts are attributed to Maya origin." Still not impressed? "Associated in today's popular culture with having magical or other supernatural powers"—and that right there is where the bullshit starts to deepen—"each of the four known Crystal Skulls holds tremendous value not only for its rarity but also as a semi-precious stone. There are only three Crystal Skulls on public display worldwide," the complaint alleges, housed at the British Museum, the Smithsonian, and the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris. One of the defendants has the fourth.
I also have one on my shelf, but let's keep that between us for now.
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The Internationalist Communist Organisation (French: Organisation Communiste Internationaliste, OCI) was a Trotskyist political party in France. Its successor is the Internationalist Communist Current of the Workers Party.
In 1953, the Fourth International suffered a major split, and the Socialist Workers Party of the United States, the British group The Club and some smaller groups forming the International Committee of the Fourth International, with Lambert's PCI.
The PCI supported the FLN during the Algerian War of Independence. Disagreements over which faction to support led Lambert to expel Bleibtreu from the PCI in 1955.
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The recent gangrape of a 20-year-old woman in a village in Birbhum district of West Bengal on the orders of a tribal court for falling in love with a man outside her community may have shocked the country, leading to the Supreme Court ordering a probe. But for the people in this region, such rulings by the tribal courts, which have a strong presence here and are mostly seen as a means to speedy justice, are a way of life.
Previous rulings by such tribal courts or 'salishi sabhas' include making a person lick his own spit from the ground or making him rub his nose on the ground for several yards, villagers told The Indian Express. The luckier ones got away with fines of a few kilos of rice to make hooch or some money.
Local panchayat officials said these tribal courts have been existing for a long time in the region and the decision of the tribal chieftain or 'morol' in each locality is rarely challenged. A morol can mete out punishment or settle disputes, mostly domestic.
Among those who have been at the receiving end of such punishment is Sunil Hembram, a 20-year-old youth from Subalpur village, a part of which is Labhpur area. A couple of months ago, he got into a fight with his father Bhuju Hembram and was hauled up before the morol of his area after his father complained.
"We were summoned and after giving a hearing to both sides, the morol judged that I was at fault. As punishment, I was made to spit on the ground and asked to lick it," said Sunil.
Raju Soren, a farmer from an adjoining village, said his younger brother was also handed out similar punishment. "My younger brother misbehaved with me during an argument over some land issues and tried to attack me with a sickle. I complained to the morol and a salishi meeting was summoned at the Majhi Thhan (a place where the village courts are held). At the meeting, we explained the situation to the morol and he ruled that the person who had attacked me would have to rub his nose on the ground for about about two yards," Raju said.
Incidentally, the chieftain of his village, Mansa Hasda, is said to be "liberal and cordial" while deciding disputes. "He usually lets go the contending parties after counselling and without imposing fines. But he follows a zero-tolerance policy towards youths in tribal homes who misbehave with elders."
Fifty-year-old Madu Kisku said these tribal courts have their own utility as many people prefer not to go to police to save time and money. Madhu once had trouble with her husband and she approached the morol. …continued »


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1839 P50C Half Dollar, Judd-97 Restrike, Pollock-107, High R.7, PR64 NGC....
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1839 'Backward Head' Half Dollar Pattern1839 P50C Half Dollar, Judd-97 Restrike, Pollock-107, High R.7, PR64 NGC. The Backward Head design. The obverse is much like that found on the regular-issue 1839 gold eagles, with a rounded tip on the forward edge of the bust truncation and a pointed tip on the rear edge -- but the entire head faces backward from that on the eagle, right rather than left. Thirteen stars ring the rim, with the date 1839 below. The reverse is from the regular-issue Seated Liberty die, Large Letters, as used from 1842 through 1853. Struck in silver with a reeded edge.
Judd-97 Restrike, Deeply Toned PR64
Judd-97 Restrike, Deeply Toned PR64
In the 1976 ANA sale the cataloger described this coin as, "Brilliant Proof. Deep blue obverse, pink and russet iridescent toning on the reverse. An extremely rare coin, high Rarity 8, with no recent records." The 1989 cataloger quoted the above while adding, "In our opinion today the Rarity 8 rating stands intact. The only other specimen offered in two decades was the example in Rarcoa's session of Auction '81, lot 327. No specimen was included in the Olsen, Garrett, Malcolm Jackson, Crouch, or even Woodin collections. The only earlier record we have was the Farouk Sale, lot 1733."
It appears from the census below that today we should rate the piece as High R.7 rather than R.8, as perhaps five or six pieces might exist. This still puts the variety in the stratosphere of the super-rare, with--a little numismatic perspective here, please -- far fewer known survivors than the 1933 double eagle or the 1804 silver dollar.
USPatterns.com says, "Stewart Witham noted 146 reeds [the edge reeding] on these, which according to a reed count listing from Bill Bugert of the Liberty Seated Collectors Club, means they were likely struck some time between 1854 & 1860 although this reed count was also used in 1869 and 1870."
The splendid original toning present in the 1976 description above is still much in evidence, perhaps a bit more mellowed but just as stunning. This near-Gem boasts a sharp strike, particularly on the reverse, that is equally appealing.
Ex: ANA (Stack's, 8/1976), lot 3598; Rarities Group; James A. Stack, Sr. Collection (Stack's, 11/1989), lot 716; Lemus/Queller Collection (Heritage, 2/2010), lot 1338. (PCGS# 11416)
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Andre Villas-Boas insists he has no plans to sell Brad Friedel as he prepares to recall the American for tonight's Europa League decider against Panathinaikos.
Hugo Lloris has started Tottenham's last five games after ousting Friedel from the first team, but the 41-year-old will have a chance to win back his spot on a permanent basis tonight when he lines up against the Greek side.
Friedel's future at White Hart Lane has been in doubt since Tottenham rebuffed an enquiry from his former club Blackburn last month. "I don't know anything about (Blackburn's bid). We are trying to hold on to our best assets and Brad is certainly one of them," Tottenham manager Villas-Boas said.
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"personal outfit or attire," early 14c., also "ship's rigging," from Old French apareil "preparation," from apareillier (see apparel (v.)). Earlier in same sense was apparelment (early 14c.).
In Old Testament times the distinction between male and female attire was not very marked. The statute forbidding men to wear female apparel (Deut. 22:5) referred especially to ornaments and head-dresses. Both men and women wore (1) an under garment or tunic, which was bound by a girdle. One who had only this tunic on was spoken of as "naked" (1 Sam. 19:24; Job 24:10; Isa. 20:2). Those in high stations sometimes wore two tunics, the outer being called the "upper garment" (1 Sam. 15:27; 18:4; 24:5; Job 1:20). (2.) They wore in common an over-garment ("mantle," Isa. 3:22; 1 Kings 19:13; 2 Kings 2:13), a loose and flowing robe. The folds of this upper garment could be formed into a lap (Ruth 3:15; Ps. 79:12; Prov. 17:23; Luke 6:38). Generals of armies usually wore scarlet robes (Judg. 8:26; Nah. 2:3). A form of conspicuous raiment is mentioned in Luke 20:46; comp. Matt. 23:5. Priests alone wore trousers. Both men and women wore turbans. Kings and nobles usually had a store of costly garments for festive occasions (Isa. 3:22; Zech. 3:4) and for presents (Gen. 45:22; Esther 4:4; 6:8, 11; 1 Sam. 18:4; 2 Kings 5:5; 10:22). Prophets and ascetics wore coarse garments (Isa. 20:2; Zech. 13:4; Matt. 3:4).


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04-04-2011, 10:10 AM #1Junior Member
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I have an old Blue Ridge Spa from 1998.
The old controller box was a 63D box. circuit board model # 40400, ser # 60314 and item # 407.7592C
The Spa had been converted to use 230V.
It is the 2 pump system with the upright heater and the separate circulation pump.
The circulation pump is a Tiny Might 230V pump (TM-0061N22C3)
After the circuit board went bad I replaced the entire control box with a new 63T (63T-scb-120-01) box (including new spaside controls).
I followed the instructions to convert the new box to 230V.
Everything now works except the circulation pump. lights, heater and jets work fine.
I have FLO error on the control screen which seems to indicate a problem with the circulation pump
I checked the power being supplied to the circulation pump socket and it's giving 115V. It shuts off every couple of seconds with a clicking sound but I'm told this is expected if the pump isn't working or plugged in.
1) If I convert to 230V is it supposed to convert everything including the circ pump power or is this just for the heater?
2) How was the old 63D box giving 230V to the circulation pump and the new one is giving 115V? Did they give me the wrong box?
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Real-Time Direct Environmental Assessment
The last decade has seen a revolution in information technology and in the power of microprocessors. It has also seen a quantum leap in the use of physical, chemical and biological sensors, as ever more sensitive detection techniques have been married to these powerful data processing engines. The field of environmental assessment has only recently awakened to the potential that these new sensors offer. It has also become painfully obvious over the past decade that the dynamics and true understanding of functional biogeochemical processes in all types of environments cannot be fully understood without direct physical, chemical, and biological measurements. Indeed, what goes on in the sampling device and sample bottle after collection may have nothing to do with the functional dynamics of the original environment that the sample was taken from, thereby effecting our fundamental understanding of that environment and how to characterize, monitor and control it. Hence, real-time direct environmental assessment is an area that the Center for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB), with its engineering, molecular biology, chemistry facilities, access to the Advanced Light Source and the Center for Isotope Geochemistry, can demonstrate unique R&D capability in this area. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has long provided scientific leadership in the disciplines of experimental physics, physical chemistry, geology, hydrology, geochemistry, molecular biology, modeling, and more recently natural attenuation and bioremediation technologies. Hence, CEB is well situated to capitalize on the Laboratorys strengths while advancing the science in this emerging field.
Real-Time Field Sampling and Monitoring
Ongoing projects within CEB are utilizing off-the-shelf flow and water quality sensors deployed within monitoring networks to help improve water management practices in both agricultural and wetland areas in the western San Joaquin Valley. These networks of sensors are also allowing scientists to obtain a greater understanding of selenium fate and transport within these areas and to forecast the environmental risk of selenium loading to the fragile Bay-Delta ecosystem. Selenium environmental risk assessment and bioremediation is an area in which the Laboratory has played an important leadership role in the past 15 years. An initiative has begun to develop a real-time sensor for selenium using the unique chemical properties of the metalloid as it is reduced from the mobile selenate species to the stable elemental form with its characteristic red coloration. Should this be accomplished, the potential savings to the State in reduced need for selenium analytical services could be measured in the tens of millions of dollars. Another new field application of these technologies will use real-time flow and water quality sensors, rapid laboratory assessment techniques and mathematical models to develop an early warning system for dissolved oxygen concentrations in the Stockton Deep Water Ship Channel. Low dissolved oxygen in the ship channel during certain critical times of the year act as a barrier to fish migration putting at risk Californias important salmon fishery an industry that the CALFED Bay-Delta Program will invest close to half a billion dollars to restore over the next decade. Two commercial manufacturers of field instruments have indicated an interest in working with CEB in the further development of these technologies. A spin-off from this research will be the study of carbon fluxes from managed seasonal wetlands in the San Joaquin Basin, an area that has been little studied and one that might have implications for future management of wetlands to sequester carbon. Carbon sequestration on a global scale has implications for future management of global warming, which is thought to be a factor in determining future climate.
Field sampling technologies
Applications of real-time monitoring techniques to the field often rely on the collection of soil, water or gas samples to obtain information on background environmental conditions. The collection of representative field samples of physical, chemical and biological materials is an often-overlooked aspect of monitoring. Although a great number of environmental sampling devices exist that purport to take accurate samples, many of these devices are crude and information on their performance is not available. This area of environmental monitoring is still in its infancy. CEB has benefited from the considerable field expertise developed over the years in the Kesterson Remediation Program, the Yucca Mountain Project and the EPA- sponsored Environmental Measurements Laboratory in the development of innovative field sampling techniques. Field collection of sediment samples in streams and canals is difficult and few devices exist that allow accurate discrete depth sampling. Researchers in CEB developed a simple portable sampling device for precise bed sediment sampling, which has been used successfully by agencies such as the US Bureau of Reclamation and Fish and Wildlife Service as well as UCB limnologists. Ongoing work within CEB continues to devise rapid, inexpensive techniques for environmental sampling.
Environmental sensors
Although commercial electronic sensors have improved both in cost and in accuracy over the past decade, certain chemical species continue to defy attempts for continuous field measurement. Microbial sensors have also been developed although this technology is still in its infancy. LBNL has a long-standing tradition for the development of innovative sensors, especially in the area of high-energy physics and physical chemistry. The materials science division continues to experiment with new materials with electrochemical and electrophysical properties that might be harnessed in new sensor technologies. Researchers within CEB have investigated microbial sensors for rapid assessment of selenium remediation potential and have initiated a collaboration with a researcher at the University of Maryland to develop a real-time selenium sensor using templated polymer technology. Ongoing collaborations in this area may explore combinations of electrochemical and biological properties of materials in the quest for novel environmental sensors. Electrochemical sensors are ubiquitous (pH, redox, oxygen, selective ion, etc). EETD collaborators in CEB have the capability to provide polymer membrane platforms for bio-and chemical sensors that connect with electrodes or spectroscopic sensing devices. Other departments in EETD have keen interest in the application of such sensors for air quality.Environmental modeling and decision support systemsAn emerging research area within CEB is the development of environmental modeling and decision support systems, which provide tools for the processing of real-time environmental data in a manner that assists managers making decisions. This cutting-edge area blends environmental systems analysis with the computer science fields of user interface design, information processing and data management. CEB has collaborated with researchers at UCB and within the Department of Water Resources and the US Bureau of Reclamation to develop environmental software for uses in real-time salinity management in the San Joaquin River and real-time salinity management in wetlands. Other projects have involved building graphical user interfaces to improve the efficiency of models used to predict groundwater conjunctive use, water allocation decisions and habitat development for wildfowl. Integration of models for environmental assessment is the subject of a funded collaboration with UC Berkeley, UC Davis, the Department of Water Resources and the Fish and Wildlife Service directed at assessing impacts in the San Joaquin Basin due to future climate change. Developing systems that integrate real-time environmental data acquisition, data processing, visualization and real-time decision making is an important growth area within CEB that is unique in casting the widest net for cross-disciplinary cooperation and collaboration as well as providing a technology transfer opportunity to state and federal water and environmental agencies within California and beyond.
Biogeochemical Analysis
Direct biogeochemical analysis allows us to do structure and function studies of intrinsic microbial communities that take advantage of developments in the post-genomic era. These techniques have many applications to characterization, monitoring and control of biotreatment, bioremediation and natural attenuation processes. It also allows us to determine the microbial diversity in extreme environments that hold the genetic resources for novel traits and products of high economical value. The direct and real-time techniques that CEB is using also allow us to study biogeochemical mechanisms that have nanotechnology applications. Applications of synchrotron based spectromicroscopy enable us to understand the mechanisms of molecular and cellular processes for a wide variety of studies in environmental assessment including functional mechanisms in the environment and risk at the molecular level. At present, the Centers capabilities, expertise, and skills in the area of biogeochemical analysis include sample collection, microbial physiology, and molecular-level characterization. Our pioneering biochemical and biogeochemical imaging program using synchrotron-based x-ray and FT-IR spectromicroscopy techniques in conjunction with other molecular techniques has advanced in recent years to a cutting edge research capability. Chemical analysis and stable isotope investigation capabilities are available in the Environmental Measurement Laboratory (EML) and the Center for Isotope Geochemistry (CIG), respectively, that are closely associated with CEB.
Sample Collection. CEB researchers have considerable expertise in collecting environmental samples for biogeochemical analysis. They have collected pristine and contaminated field samples throughout North America, Europe and Asia. These samples have included gas, soil, sediment, and water from Caribbean coral reefs to sediments more than a mile deep in Siberian Lake Baikal. Indeed, CEB is extremely versatile in the types of field measurement it can take and the type of samples it is able to collect aseptically and preserve for direct measurements in the field or laboratory. Gaseous compounds or fluorescent polystyrene latex microspheres tracers are part of the sample collection protocols. For example, aseptically collected samples for biogeochemical analysis are split immediately: a subsample for isolation is kept at 4°C, while the rest of the sample is frozen and transported on ice, dry ice or in the vapor phase of liquid nitrogen for molecular-level characterization. Samples are kept at low or ultralow temperatures for long-term storage and a large variety of field controls, trip controls, internal standards, and experimental controls are used to produce defensible samples and analyses.Microbial Physiology. Molecular-level community characterization and an extensive isolation program go hand-in-hand. Our main objective with the isolation of microorganisms is to increase the number of cultured environmental strains and build a database with their physiological data and molecular-level traits to provide ground truth for our direct molecular measurements. A wide variety of isolation methods and low nutrient content media are employed. Incubation conditions (temperature, light, pH, Eh, etc.) simulate the eco-physiological conditions in the environment. Isolated environmental microorganisms, enriched cultures, genomic DNA samples, and clones are preserved and maintained in an ultralow temperature freezer at -86°C or in the vapor phase of liquid nitrogen.
Molecular-level Analyses. Since the majority of microorganisms that occur in the environment cannot be currently grown in the laboratory, alternative molecular-level techniques have been developed and applied widely in studying the structure and function of microbial communities in a given ecosystem. CEB has also developed a number of emerging physical/chemical techniques to directly assay biogeochemical changes in sediment and water at the molecular level. By combining these techniques, CEB intends to develop a better of understanding of dynamic and functional biogeochemical processes in the environment. CEB has the following expertise in this area:
DNA Sequencing and T-RFLP Analysis. The Center has a Model 377 ABI Prism automated DNA sequencer (Perkin Elmer). We perform dye terminator DNA sequencing using ABIs energy-transfer "Big Dyes" and cycle sequencing. There are four thermal cyclers available for running the cycle sequencing reaction. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) is a fairly recent fingerprinting technique. We use this pattern recognition technique to describe the microbial community structure based on sequence differences in the small subunit ribosomal RNA (rRNA) coding genes of the community members. Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME) Analysis. The Center has a MIDI system, a dual tower GC/MS dedicated to fatty acid methyl ester analysis. Sample preparation and fatty acid methyl ester separation protocols follow the manufacturers recommendations. The available databases allow the comparative identification of pure cultures. Communities are also compared based on their GC chromatograms. The MIDI software enables us to build our own database for environmental cultures and communities.Signature Lipid Biomarker Analysis. Signature lipid biomarker (SLB) analysis as a complementary technique to nucleic acid analysis was developed to provide phenotypic information. SLB analysis provides insight into the viable biomass, total biomass, community structure, and nutritional/physiological status of the communities. The solvent extraction step was recently speeded up radically by the purchase and installation of a Dionex ASE 200 accelerated solvent extractor. Methylated fatty acids are separated on the MIDI system using the MIDI software Sherlock or HPs ChemStation. The former allows for the automatic identification of fatty acids up to C-20.Synchrotron-Based X-Ray and FTIR and X-Ray Spectromicroscopy Techniques. The high brightness of Synchrotron radiation-based (SR) Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectromicroscopy at ALS allows our researchers to nondestructively map and track the progress of chemical reactions within a living biological system at a spatial resolution of 3-10 µm. This pioneering technique has been used successfully to probe and map the progress of attachment of microorganisms on mineral surfaces and the associated biochemical changes, the pathways of biogeochemical transformation of environmental contaminants on mineral surfaces, as well as the cellular responses to different doses of exogenous or endogenous stimuli. The nanoscale spatial resolution of x-ray microscope facilities (also at ALS) allow one to study the clustering and functions of biomolecules inside individual bacteria and cells.
Stable Isotopic Analysis. In collaboration with the Center for Isotope Geochemistry, CEB can examine a number of elements for their stable isotopic composition. This enables us to measure changes in environmental composition of contaminants, daughter products and a wide variety of electron donors and acceptors important in biogeochemical processes. Indeed, by combining these techniques with bio-molecular techniques like SLB we can even determine which functional part of a microbial community is using a particular substrate.
Environmental Risk Assessment. Direct analysis of real-time exposure and response of the same individual living human cells is the key to develop a better scientific basis for understanding exposures and risks to humans. Especially exposures from low dose radiation, known environmental pollutants, as well as newly synthesized chemicals. This can be achieved by the application of the synchrotron radiation-based (SR) Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectromicroscopy in conjunction with other cell molecular biology techniques. This is because SR FTIR spectromicroscopy is a novel and sensitive analytical tool for identifying and charting the time course of chemical changes in cellular nucleic acids and proteins of individual cells. At present, the Center's staffs are working with researchers from areas of biology, biomedicine, and physics to advance this approach to a cutting edge research capability. For example, we currently have found several spectral features that correlate extremely well with the expression of the CYP1A1 gene in response to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and organochlorine exposures, but we do not yet know which part of the gene expression sequence is responsible for the specific vibrational modes being measured. By identifying if these spectral markers occur in the cell nucleus or within the cytoplasm, a better understanding and the development of a rapid, efficient diagnostic tool will result. We plan to achieve these goals by developing a sub-wavelength resolution near-field IR tool. This would allow one to map at 1-micron spatial resolution. Localization of the biological processes within the cellular compartments will therefore be achieved enabling a more complete understanding of the response mechanisms.
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After a spate of mostly poor-to-middling reviews, Google TV products due out at the important Consumer Electronics Show in early January have been delayed, according to the New York Times. Although Samsung and Vizio apparently will show new Google TV products–in Vizio's case, privately–Toshiba, Sharp, and LG Electronics apparently have delayed plans to introduce Google TV products after the search giant asked them to hold off. To date, only Sony, with a line of Google TVs and Blu-ray player, and Logitech, with an add-on Google TV settop box, have had products with the software embedded in it. Google TV lets people reach Web sites on their TVs, even while regular TV is playing.
But while some reviews have praised Google TV's ambition, most have said it falls too far short of what TV viewers want in their living rooms. And they're mostly right today. The Logitech box, called the Revue, comes with a PC keyboard that some people may find awkward to use on the couch, and the user interface isn't as clean as it should be. Worse, TV broadcasters, fearful that too many people might prefer to watch episodes on demand on their Websites instead of on their TVs where they're exposed to much more lucrative advertising, have blocked Google TV users from viewing most of their Web videos. Add the relatively steep price for Google TV products, which starts at $300 for the Revue, and it's tough to see how these products would fly off the retail shelves.
For all that, it's way too early to count Google TV as another of Google's many failed product experiments. Here's why:
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Match Analysis: Darlington 7 Ossett Albion 0
11:05pm Wednesday 2nd October 2013
By Craig Stoddart
11:05pm Wednesday 2nd October 2013
By Craig Stoddart
Final Score: Darlington 7 Ossett Albion 0
DARLINGTON can't wait to return to their home town, but maybe Heritage Park isn't such a bad temporary home.
Twenty-four hours after announcing plans to return home next year, Quakers went top of the table with a magnificent performance at their temporary home that saw them ease to a 7-0 win over Ossett Albion.
The blistering start saw them go 2-0 up inside 70 seconds and it was 5-0 by half-time.
They needed to win by six clear goals to overhaul Curzon Ashton and were halfway there by the ninth minute as they made it three.
Manager Martin Gray admitted: "I've been in football a long time and I've never seen anything like it, scoring two goals so early.
"You always want your team to start well. It was a dream start and it set the tone for the game."
It was display every bit as convincing as the scoreline suggests with five different players getting on the scoresheet.
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Gray described it as the best display since taking charge in May 2012.
"It was the best performance we've had here by far," he said. "From start to finish we controlled the game and to put in a performance in like that, with the effort and the energy, made me very proud.
"Scoring the early goals was perfect, but having said that it's very easy to get complacent and sloppy in those situations.
"The message at half-time was to maintain the same standards and it could have been 5-0 in the second half too.
"I don't know if you can say the opposition was poor, but you can only beat what's in front of you."
The first two goals were timed at 17 seconds and 64 seconds.
Amar Purewal opened the scoring when he side-footed home after Stephen Thompson beat two men and pulled the ball back from the byline.
The man on the PA system had barely time to announce the goal when the scoreline was doubled.
This time it was Thompson who Ossett allowed to pass into the net with Chris Moore providing the first of four goals he was involved in before the break.
He raced down the right and crossed for Purewal who had ghosted into space to tap home.
Going 3-0 up and having effectively won the game so early meant there was no competitive edge, an occasional lull, and a sometimes quiet atmosphere with the crowd of 947 the lowest of the season.
Those who stayed away missed out on a goal glut.
There was the occasional brief respite for second-bottom Ossett, but when given a chance Adam Muller put a free header over.
A quick-fire David Dowson double made it 5-0 just after the half-hour mark.
With the visitors' defence AWOL, Dowson's first saw him tuck home following a spell of passes on the right ending in another Moore assist, before the right-winger delivered to Purewal whose back-heel was rifled into the net by Dowson.
Purewal wasted a one-on-one after chasing a ball over the top when keeper Adam Rhodes made his first save of the evening and he quickly followed it up with another, this time to stop a Thompson blast.
Midfielder Pat McGuire was sent on at half-time for what was a young Ossett side, who were probably given the instruction to 'win the second half'.
They made a go of it and, as is often the case when a team has built such a healthy lead, the game went flat for spell.
Thompson played a beautifully flighted pass for Purewal to run on to, but his touch was awful and the chance was gone.
However, he soon atoned when he got to the byline and crossed for Scott to lash home his first goal of the season.
Purewal is now Darlington's leading scorer with seven, but could have had five or six last night had his aim been better.
Although his final intervention of the night saw him beat the keeper, the shot rebounded off the inside of the post.
That was his last touch as he was soon substituted and replaced by Steven Johnson, who clearly desperately wanted a goal on his first Heritage Park appearance since last season.
He got it too, sliding home in the 88th minute at close-range following good work inside the penalty area by man-of-the-match Dowson to complete Darlington's magnificent seven – the club's biggest win since beating Halifax Town in the Football League Trophy in 1984-85.
Goals: Purewal (1, 1-0), Thompson (2, 2-0), Purewal (9, 3-0), Dowson (32, 4-0), Dowson (36, 5-0), Scott (57, 6-0), S Johnson (88, 7-0)
Bookings: White (20, foul), Moore (33, foul); O'Brien (35, foul); P Robinson (68, simulation)
Referee: Barry Gordon (Birtley)
Attendance: 947
Entertainment: *****
Darlington (4-4-2): Bell 7; Pilatos 8, White 8, Hunter 7, Galbraith 7; Moore 9, Scott 8, Edwards 7 (Davis 63, 6), Thompson 8 (P Robinson 67, 6); DOWSON 9, Purewal 8 (S Johnson 60, 7). Subs (not used): Jameson (gk), J Robinson
Ossett Albion (4-4-2): RHODES 5; Nicholson 4, Harrison 3, O'Neill 4, Parkinson 3; Tonkinson 3, Hayton 4 (Hiza 62), O'Brien 3 (McGuire 5), Muller 3; Jones 4 (Holt 72), Kelly 4. Subs (not used): Poole, Owen
Man of the match: DAVID Dowson – A menace. Scored twice and involved in other goals too
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An anti-xenophobia protest in Johannesburg yesterday. Photo: Christo Doherty.
Forty-two people have been killed since the outbreak of violent clashes between native South Africans and Zimbabwean refugees in Johannesburg.
The violence began at the beginning of last week when mobs of South African youths started attacking foreign migrants, many of whom are Zimbabweans who have fled their country because of a brutal crackdown following elections at the end of March. The aggression towards the refugees is thought to be a reaction to rising food prices and high unemployment rates among the poor working classes, who blame Zimbabweans for taking their jobs. Since the beginning of the chaos, 42 people have been killed, 400 arrested and 16,000 displaced. Yesterday, President Thabo Mbeki called on troops to halt the attacks.
Daniel Molokele is a Zimbabwean living in South Africa. He works as a human rights lawyer in Johannesburg.
2008 has been a bad year; more crime, increased trouble with the government, food prices... things are getting more uncertain. This was always coming; it was just a matter of time. It's about survival - these people are desperate. It's noticeable that there are more Zimbabweans on the street now. This stuff won't stop them coming over the border - it's still so bad in Zimbabwe. We need UN help. I'd be tempted to say send the army in but I think they'll be too harsh."
Ndumiso Ngcobo is a South African school teacher from Johannesburg.
This is not specific to South Africa. It's just like in Europe except that we're not used to it here. There is a lot of resentment against foreigners. This is a very closed society - since 1994 there hasn't been such an influx of people. But I don't understand how it's got as far as murder! These people cannot reach the ones they're really angry at - the government."
is a Zimbabwean living in Cape Town. We found this on his blog (http://zimstallion.blogspot.com/):
Q: Why have so many Zimbabweans desperately flooded into South Africa?
A: Because there is a sh**head President in Zimbabwe who beats the living daylights out of them for no good reason.
Q: Why is there a sh**head President in Zimbabwe?
A: Because there is also a sh**head President in South Africa, who stops the rest of the world from putting a bullet through his head.
Q: Why do sh**head South African citizens take it out on poor innocent Zimbabwean refugees?
A: Because sh**head South Africans are lazy, and are used to having things handed to them on a plate, whereas a Zimbabwean will actually work for something. This is the reason a Zimbabwean is chosen for a job over Joe South African.
Christ, South Africa, I'll explain this as simply as possible so that you get it into your thick skulls: Get your sh**head President to stop shielding the sh**head Zimbabwean President, and we will ALL f**k off back home in a split-second. Then you can have your shitty jobs and shitty country back. Because if we had a choice, we wouldn't be here."
Posted by ZimStallion May 19.
Photos: Christo Doherty on Flickr.
Staff and students at Witwatersrand University on Jan Smut Avenue, Johannesburg, demonstrated against the xenophobic attacks yesterday (21 May 08). Christo Doherty, a professor at the university, took part.
So do I keep complaining and lamenting and wondering what is happening in the minds of the people perpetrating this violence or maybe I should go and interview one of the attackers? Maybe I should hear in their words what could possibly cause so much hatred and anger that you can murder a man who yesterday was your neighbour, rape a woman you may have travelled to work with last week and make homeless thousands of innocent children who had no part in the decisions taken by their parents? To me it all seems inconceivable, but then I wake up every morning with food in the fridge, a little money in the bank, two cars in the garage, a job to go to and a school for my children. My father always said "Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes… that way by the time he realises you are judging him you will be two miles away and have his shoes!" My father is a wise man.
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His son, David Rieff, from his marriage to Susan Sontag in the 1950s, is a journalist and foreign policy analyst.
Rieff graduated from the University of Chicago, where he was the editor of the Chicago Maroon.
The course of Rieff's career as a semi-public intellectual led from the formal academic rigor of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, which made his reputation in 1959, to the ontological polemics of his 2006 work My Life Among the Deathworks. Rieff's works are written in a multilayered and allusive style characterized by frequent irony and paradox. His scholarly interests were wide-ranging, and his interpretations of cultural life intermix psychology, philosophy, theology, and literary criticism.
In his major works Rieff is concerned above all to understand and explain cultural change. His analyses of cultural change focus heavily on the workings of authority, and the modes – "interdictory", "remissive", and "transgressive", in his theoretical vocabulary – through which authority manifests itself in culture.
In Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959), Rieff argues that Sigmund Freud revolutionized the Western concept of morality by inverting the prevailing concepts of individual, mind, and society. Rieff identifies two central Freudian inversions: considering the body as symptomatic of the mind, and the individual as symptomatic of the social. What Freud thinks of as the "social" roots of individual thought and behavior are not, Rieff points out, John Dewey's "society." Instead of faulty social arrangements, Freud has the instincts. In Freud it is instinct and the unconscious that drive social conflict, not ineffective social structures which are tasked with the facilitation of human striving for pleasure and away from pain. For this reason, Rieff concludes, social science in the liberal tradition is "an assortment of technologies for the overcoming of history," whereas social science for Freud is "a therapeutic for institutional history, as Freud intended psychoanalysis to be for personal history."
Rieff continues the theme established in Freud in which he sees the therapeutic ethos – as exemplified by Freud's analytic attitude – become the dominant cultural attitude in its placing of the conflicted individual at the center of his own stage. In The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1965), Rieff traces the way in which therapy, which aims not at "the good life" but at "better living," has become the reigning mode of life in Western culture. The rise of "Psychological Man" marks for Rieff the death of a culture whose ideals had lost their power to sink deep into the character of its members. In modern culture, virtue gives way to value, and what is of value is whatever conduces to the well-being of the individual. Except as therapeutic devices, commitments (faiths) cease to be possible: "the psychologizers, now fully established as the pacesetters of cultural change, propose to help men avoid doing further damage to themselves by preventing live deceptions from succeeding the dead ones." The therapeutic mode of thinking and acting calls for a flight from the discomforts of fear, the responsibility inherent in identity, and authority itself. In the therapeutic, everything is a game, and all truths are contingent and negotiable. "Truth" is a means to the end of present therapy.
Rieff was interested in the question of whether a culture with such a foundation can long endure. In Triumph, he left open the possibility, both rhetorically and analytically, that it can.
In Fellow Teachers (1973), Rieff presents his argument that it cannot. Chief among the reasons for this is that the therapeutic mode leads in the absence of all other modes to an abyss of identity nihilism. Rieff observes that the deconstructive effort coming out of art and the academy itself is working tirelessly, and in cooperation with the technologists, to instruct fresh generations in the murder of their own culture's authoritative interdicts.
Rieff's theory of culture does not allow the simplistic possibility of never saying Yes and obeying all the Nos of culture. He includes in his analysis the remissive, which is the highly complex and ritualized doing of that which is not to be done yet sometimes done. In that grey area is the enactment of culture, the ongoing negotiation of the problem of human nature in human life within the tension of interdict and transgression.
Fellow Teachers embodies Rieff's dilemma: how does one react when one's fellow teachers are most actively engaged in de-teaching? Rieff's interest was in crafting a guide for those uncertain of the reason for their present cultural condition, and uncertain as to how to effectively face it in the absence of any compelling alternatives.
The Feeling Intellect, published in 1990, is a compilation of articles and fragments that shows the developmental arc of Rieff's scholarship. These are mostly minor works, though some major articles, particularly on the use of the aesthetic in politics and on Oscar Wilde as the modern prophet of "the impossible culture," are crucial to anticipating the direction of Rieff's later work.
Rieff's recent work My Life among the Deathworks can be read as a series of incursions against mounted attacks on culture (the titular "Deathworks"). Much more than his previous work, Deathworks devotes serious attention to the fleeting passions of culture. Those fleeting passions have now become, in Rieff's judgement, the battlefield upon which the fleetingness of culture itself is being determined.
Perhaps the central Deathwork in Rieff's analysis is Marcel Duchamp's "Being Given," which depicts a decayed nude female body lifting a lighted lamp. Rieff declares forcefully against the zombification of society: a culture of death as violent as it is erotic. Though Rieff takes aim at Picasso as well as Duchamp, Rieff is not anti-art or anti-artist. His overarching aim is, however, to place the second commandment in context – to justify it, in the sense of explaining why it might have been so high on the list. The necessity of God to Rieff emerges in that light – permanent authority that is fixed but not fossilized. For Rieff, culture begins with renunciation, and therapy with the renunciation of renunciation.
The contrast between Rieff and Leo Strauss is instructive in placing Rieff's work and its relevance in context. Both men were Jews, both academics, and the peculiar sacred form of literate teaching and learning was vital to the methodology and philosophy of both. Much of Rieff's work, like that of Strauss, comes in the form of erudite analyses of the writings of others. Authorial insight and theory emerges in hints, asides, and subtle commentaries from the critical text. But whereas Strauss was distrustful of the power of absolute truth revealed to the masses, Rieff's posture toward absolute truth is one that understands reverence – the proper fear of the limits of human power – as necessary to the placing of humans in the vertical in authority of interdicts that prevent people, especially masses, from transgressing into anticultural violence.
Rieff was in many ways subversively postmodern in his approach to an applied sociology. It is not until Deathworks that Rieff truly and unconditionally places himself in the service of a battle against anticulture, and much of his statements in the earlier texts on the significance of reticence and distance in academia remain key to understanding his approach to the exertion of powerful truths. Rieff was not afraid to admit that there is little point in writing when what is written are wordier and staler rehashes of essential expressions of authority. ("Desire not the night," he will quote, for example, from the Bible.)
Rieff's essential disappearance from the public eye from the 1980s confirmed that the establishment of a school (such as Strauss') has been unimportant and even antithetical to his object as a social philosopher. Still, he maintained a small but steady and solid base of interest among, now, largely conservative intellectuals. Rieff should not be understood, for all his insistence upon the necessity of cultural authority and contempt for those whose professional recreation is its destruction, as a reactionary or "cultural conservative" in the popular sense. He has repeated in print his conviction that the old forms of cultural authority – those church-faith based Nos of what he terms "the second world" – are largely failed and exhausted, and that to return to them would likewise fail to provide this, "third" world with the new articulations of eternal authorities requisite to a healthy culture.


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Prisoner Released By Accident Back in JailFebruary 26, 2010 - 1:51 PM | by: James Rosen
Escaped felon Raymond Taylor was picked up by authorities this morning at a friend's home in Martinsburg, West Virginia after a 19 hour manhunt. He was found hiding in an upstairs closet.
Taylor who is facing 3 life sentences for attempted murder, conned his way out of jail by impersonating a cell mate, William Johnson, who was scheduled to be released on Thursday. Johnson is now facing a conspiracy charge for his role in the escape plot, but police haven't been able to figure out a motive for him helping Taylor. If convicted, Johnson could remain in prison for another 10 years.
Correction officials admit mistakes were made and policies were broken. They are currently reviewing their protocols and say disciplinary action will occur.Gretchen Gailey contributed to this report.


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Let's Talk About DLC…
If you're anything like me, you're probably banned from every Waffle House in the county. If you're anything like me in an entirely different way, you're likely shaking with barely-contained excite-jitters over the fact that Mass Effect 3 is only a week and a half away at this point. Now, I've never been one to hide the fact that I'm an intense Bioware fanboy – from the first Neverwinter Nights to Dragon Age to The Old Republic, I truly feel they're one of the most inventive and inspiring companies in the market, constantly pushing the boundaries of what a 'video game' can be. And even though they've churned out massive hit after massive hit, it's arguable that Mass Effect is their magnum opus. The epic space adventure RPG first started in 2007, and introduced a vibrant new universe in which Humans were the new kids on the galactic block, striving to make a name for themselves. The player steps into the shoes of the heroic and ambiguously gendered Commander Shepard, as they go around to thwart evil armies of robots, and punch reporters.
From a stellar story, to deep RPG customization, to smooth shooter combat, Mass Effect has earned itself a place in video game history. Yet in the minds of some, all of that could come crashing down around Bioware's feet due to greedy business practices. Spurred by a video posted by gaming commentator TotalBiscuit, the gaming community has been up in arms the last few days over the notion that Mass Effect 3 will ship alongside a "Day 1 DLC" pack entitled "From Ashes." The DLC features one new character for your squad, one new mission, and one new outfit for everyone in your squad. It comes included with the Collector's Edition, and will cost $10 for everyone else. This isn't the first time Bioware has pulled something like this, either – their last single-player game to hit the shelves, Dragon Age II, also included a special Day 1 DLC character. Now, however, people are cancelling pre-orders, threatening to boycott Mass Effect 3, and claiming Bioware is dead to them unless they change this policy. So…what's going on?
What the gamers are saying:
Much like King Theoden being driven to madness by the incessant whispering of Wormtongue, so has Bioware fallen under the corrupting influence of EA. EA – the folks known for releasing games like The Sims one chunk at a time over the course of 10 years, while charging full price for each chunk – has started to convert the once great Bioware into just another soul-sucking corporation, pulling us in with shiny colours, then running off with our wallet while our guard is down. One common argument, true or not, is that Bioware had already finished Mass Effect 3 in it's entirety, including the section featured on the DLC, but EA told them to rip out a chunk of necessary gameplay and sell it separate for more money. This is the start of a slippery slope – if now, suddenly, games can cost $70 instead of the generally established $60, what's to stop games from releasing TWO day one DLC packs for $10 each? Three? What if we start getting sold incredibly bare-bones products that we can't particularly enjoy unless we shell out twice as much as the game itself cost to get all the content packs? Video games are still a relatively new industry – we, as the consumers of that industry, have a duty to stand up and say we demand to be treated fairly, or we won't buy your products.
What the developers are saying:
Mass Effect 3 has been finished for months. The process of game design happens in many subsequent steps, and when one team has finished their part, that team is usually then assigned to other things. While the QA team tests the game to make sure there are no major bugs or problems, the developer team can either be fired, or put to work doing other things. These 'other things' are frequently DLC – and if it's short enough to be finished and tested in time, there's no point holding onto it for an arbitrary amount of time. So, it's released alongside the game as an added bonus. Don't want to buy it? Hey, no problem! The game is already huge and complete without it – you won't ever be thinking, "hrm, some plot point seems to be missing from the middle of this game." If you do get the DLC, then it'll be a nice, extra bonus, especially for the more die-hard fans. Fans of Mass Effect, that is, not Die Hard.
So, what do YOU think? Do you believe Bioware has started paving the way for video game corporations to bleed us dry in order to play a game we want? Or do you think DLC is a nice added bonus for those who want it, and those who don't shouldn't worry so much?
Me? I've no intention of boycotting Mass Effect 3. I've invested far too many Potent Emotions into my canon Shepard. I need to know how the reapers can be defeated, how the Salarians and Krogan can come to a peaceful agreement, and how Ashley will react to meeting my new girlfriend, psychotic biotic Jack. $10 may be a bit too much for me to want to spend on one character and mission, though, so I'll probably pass on the DLC. And if people feel outraged enough to try and hurt EA where they'll feel it most – their pocketbooks – then more power to them.


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To celebrate 25 years, I've concocted a list of 25 reasons why Twin Peaks is a must-see:
These days, people typically go to be seen, which is why the atypical fashion shows that cause us to pause and think, and aren't solely revolved around street style photographers, are so appreciated.
To declare anything in entertainment to be "the new anything" is silly these days, especially when through instant streaming, it's possible to experience pop culture anew at literally any time.
If you're laughing while Peter Dinklage is crying, you can get the hell out of my living room.
5. Lizzie McGuire
DO reconsider the choice to record the whole show on your smart phone. As nice as it is to have something in which to remember it by, your real memory will be more vivid if you watch it through your eyes and not your screen.
4. The thought of putting pants on.
I could write a thesis on binge watching but that's boring and I'm not going to do that. What I am going to do is give you some of my absolute favorite shows – my top 5 – and you're going to take my word for it and go watch them if you haven't already because I said so.
Hopefully, this generation can connect with these shows and keep the laughter they have provided to previous generations alive.
Almost 24 million subscribers are currently using Netflix, one of the most successful providers of flat rate DVD-by-mail and streaming Internet media.


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Earlier this week, Apple started replacing iPhone 5s glass screens in Apple Stores for the first time. But the catch is that the service is only available in the United States and Canada. That will change, though, next week. Sources say that the program will expand across Apple's official retail locations in Europe as soon as Monday, August 11th. The pricing for the screen replacements will likely come in around the equivalent of $150. iPhone 5c screen replacements started across Apple's locations earlier this year.
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Hi, it looks like the pricing hasn't decreased from the $269 it has always been in the US. Do you have confirmation of the pricing change?


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