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The synthesis of all new compounds must be described in detail. Synthetic procedures must include the specific reagents, products and solvents and must give the amounts (g, mmol, for products: %) for all of them, as well as clearly stating how the percentage yields are calculated. They must also include all the characterisation data for the prepared compound or material. For a series of related compounds, at least one representative procedure which outlines a specific example that is described in the text or in a table and which is representative for the other cases, must be provided.
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In general, this should include elemental analyses that agree to within ±0.4% of the calculated values. In cases where elemental analyses cannot be obtained (for example, for thermally unstable compounds), justification for the omission of this data should be provided. Note that an X-ray crystal structure is not sufficient for the characterisation of a new material, since the crystal used in this analysis does not necessarily represent the bulk sample.
In rare cases, it may be possible to substitute elemental analyses with high-resolution mass spectrometric molecular weights. This is appropriate, for example, with trivial derivatives of thoroughly characterised substances or routine synthetic intermediates. In all cases, relevant spectroscopic data (NMR, IR, UV-vis, etc) should be provided in tabulated form or as reproduced spectra.
Again, these may be more appropriate for the supplementary information. However, it should be noted that in general mass spectrometric and spectroscopic data do not constitute proof of purity, and in the absence of elemental analyses additional evidence of purity should be provided (melting points, PXRD data, etc.).
Experimental data for new substances should also include synthetic yields, reported in terms of grams or moles, and as a percentage. Where the compound is an extended solid it is important to unequivocally establish the chemical structure and bulk composition. Single crystal diffraction does not determine the bulk structure. Referees will normally look to see evidence of bulk homogeneity.
A fully indexed powder diffraction pattern that agrees with single crystal data may be used as evidence of a bulk homogeneous structure and chemical analysis may be used to establish purity and homogeneous composition.
The synthesis of all new compounds must be described in detail. Synthetic procedures must include the specific reagents, products and solvents and must give the amounts (g, mmol, for products: %) for all of them, as well as clearly stating how the percentage yields are calculated. They must also include all the characterisation data for the prepared compound or material. For a series of related compounds at least one representative procedure that outlines a specific example that is described in the text or in a table and which is representative for the other cases must be provided.
Nano-sized materials (for example, quantum dots, nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanowires)
For nano-sized materials it is essential that the authors not only provide detailed characterisation on individual objects (see above) but also a comprehensive characterisation of the bulk composition. Characterisation of the bulk of the sample could require determination of the chemical composition and size distribution over large portions of the sample.
The synthesis of all new compounds must be described in detail. Synthetic procedures must include the specific reagents, products and solvents, and must give the amounts (g, mmol, for products: %) for all of them, as well as clearly stating how the percentage yields are calculated. They must also include all the characterisation data for the prepared compound or material. For a series of related compounds, at least one representative procedure that both outlines a specific example that is described in the text or in a table and is representative for the other cases must be provided.
All nanoparticulate materials must have be purified from synthesis by-products and residual parent compounds, ions etc. If they are to be applied in dispersed form (for example, as nanoparticulate drug carrier), sufficient data on the dispersion state must be provided (for example, by dynamic light scattering, centrifugal analysis, nanoparticle tracking analysis).
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Authors should provide rigorous evidence for the identity and purity of the biomolecules described. The techniques that may be employed to substantiate identity include mass spectrometry, LC-MS, sequencing data (for proteins and oligonucleotides), high field 1H,13C NMR, X-ray crystallography. Purity must be established by one or more of the following:
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Sequence verification also needs to be carried out for nucleic acid cases involving molecular biology. For organic synthesis involving DNA, RNA oligonucleotides, their derivatives or mimics, purity must be established using HPLC and mass spectrometry as a minimum.
For new derivatives comprising modified monomers, the usual organic chemistry analytical requirements for the novel monomer must be provided (see 'Organic compounds'). It is not however necessary to provide this level of characterisation for the oligonucleotide into which the novel monomer is incorporated.
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Company plans solar operation near Marshville
A Charlotte based company wants to build a solar electric power plant near Marshville.
According to Brian Bednar, the owner/president of Birdseye Renewable Energy, the company is working on plans to build a solar electric power plant near the town's Duke Energy substation.
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The closeness of the potential site to Duke Energy was one factor in choosing it for the project. They plan to meet with Marshville's Board of Adjustment in January about the project and hope to start construction sometime in the first half of 2013. When completed, the plant will run quietly and the county will benefit from additional tax revenue from it. The power generated by the plant will be sold to Duke Energy and be distributed around the county, he said.
So far an application for a special use permit or plans for the proposed project have not been submitted to the town, Amanda Reid, Marshville's town manager, said.
They anticipate that the documents will be submitted later this month but the company has to go before the town's Board of Adjustment for approval of a special use permit and before moving forward with the project. The company recently hosted a neighborhood meeting about the project for those living near the plant's potential location but the meeting was not a town-sponsored event, she said.
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What good is a stream if it goes offline towards the end of the final?
Agreed. It's about time an event like this gets TV coverage... no excuse for The Tennis Channel to not cover it. The Aussies do an awesome job with the streaming of their wildcard events.
I'm not going to overly complain, as this is much better than what we've had in years past. In 2009 when I first really started following American tennis, we just got updates at the end of the day (usually after 5) from the USTA official website
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Ryan Reed's cover story on Cruz Contreras and the Black Lillies was very informative and well written. ["Runaway Success," March 14, 2013] I was privy to the early jam sessions and the recording of their debut CD at his North Knoxville home—I was a neighbor in the Armstrong Avenue duplex. Mr. Contreras was a polite neighbor who always let me know when they planned to be "making some noise." I felt at the time that I was privy to jam sessions of a local band with a bright and promising future. As it turns out, I was right and I know of no other local band more deserving of the accolades. Congratulations to Knoxville's Black Lillies and kudos to Ryan Reed for a great cover story! I will see you at the Tennessee Theatre on March 23.
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This is a pretty big week for DVD and Blu-ray releases, so read on to see what's hitting shelves today! Singin' in the Rain: 60th Anniversary Edition – Considered by many to be the greatest musical of all time, this classic film is finally released on Blu-ray. There are two versions available: a standard Blu-ray […] [Read More]
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President Barack Obama, criticized by many for not taking a more active role in Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, could not and should not have done more, says Ted Galen Carpenter in USA Today. American support for autocrats in the region limited Obama's options, Carpenter says.
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Chile\'s southern region of lakes and volcanoes is an expression of nature\'s inimitable aesthetic and startling exuberance. Between volcanic cataclysms, glacial sculpting, torrential rivers and massive temperate rainforests, this is very much a landscape in flux, modeling and remodeling itself before our eyes.
This area is home to one of the most remarkable indigenous cultures in the Americas, the Mapuches. For nearly three centuries, the Mapuches defended their homeland, La Araucania, from the Spanish conquistadors. Three centuries: such vigor! But that is the nature of the lake region.
Vigorous, yes; but safe and with a European elegance which is surprisingly familiar. As the Mapuches ceded their territory to the newly independent republic, European settlers flocked to this paradise of rich volcanic soils, ancient forests, and clear glacially formed lakes whose waters reflect the chain of active volcanoes along the eastern horizon.
These settlers cut and burned the massive tracts of temperate rainforest back into the mountains and built their towns throughout the central valley, in select ports along the wild Pacific coast, and upon the shores of myriad rivers and lakes. The pastoral landscape which characterizes the central valley in this region - broad undulant pastures, German-style farmhouses, quiet tidy lakeside pueblos - can be attributed largely to the industry and vision of these 19th century immigrants.
If the Lake Region\'s forests were a challenge and threat to these first settlers, to the modern-day traveler they are a source of wonder. In the northern portion of the Lake Region, La Araucania, national and private parks protect the last tracts of Araucaria trees, an ancient conifer dating from the Jurassic age and now a Chilean natural monument. The towns of Temuco and Pucón, built in the heart of the Mapuche homeland, provide access to the rivers, lakes, forests and volcanoes that make this one of Chile\'s prime adventure travel destinations.
Further south, the Valdivian Rainforest - the second largest temperate rainforest in the world - blankets the mountains of the coast and the Andes. The cities of Valdivia, Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt are jumping-off points for excursions among the chain of beautiful lakes which nose into the Andes, in some places straddling the continental divide which marks the Chile-Argentina border.
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The left's romance with Stalinism ended decisively 30 years ago with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago." For the true believers, things have only gotten worse. The onset of glasnost in the '80s saw the release of official documents that not only confirmed but exceeded the numbers of dead the historian Robert Conquest had claimed in his 1968 book "The Great Terror." When Conquest set about preparing a new edition of the book using those documents (it appeared in 1990 as "The Great Terror: A Reassessment"), his publisher asked whether he thought a new title would be appropriate. "How about, 'I Told You So, You Fucking Fools'?" Conquest responded.
For Martin Amis, in his new book "Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million," the fools were people like the philosopher A.J. Ayer, whom Amis recalls in conversation with Amis' father, Kingsley Amis:
"In the USSR," Ayer argued, "at least they're trying to forge something positive."
"But it doesn't matter what they're trying to forge, because they've already killed 5 million people," Amis said.
"You keep going back to that 5 million," Ayer complained, unconsciously echoing Stalin's remark that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million "a statistic."
Stalin was shrewd enough to grasp the limits of a sane person's credulity. The stories laid out in "Koba the Dread" — like those told in "The Great Terror," in the historian Catherine Merridale's recent "Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia" and in Eugenia Semenovna Ginzburg's 1967 "Journey Into the Whirlwind," her memoir of 18 years in Stalin's prisons and labor camps — are, in the truest sense, unimaginable. A country deliberately forced into famine so bad (in 1932 and '33) that parents ate their children. So many dead that the bodies were stacked in the streets, only to be frozen in the Russian winter whose snow turned, in the spring thaw, into infected water that ran through the streets and killed even more. A 1937 census, commissioned by Stalin, uncovered statistical proof of those who had died and therefore caused the census takers to be shot. Were this the stuff of fiction, it would be pulp horror or the most callous absurdism.
Despite the fact that it can be plausibly argued that true communism has never been achieved, by now it's clear that every state that has attempted it has perpetrated totalitarian outrages. In the end we find that the differences among all the variations on the theme are less striking than the similarities of the experiences of those who had to live under those regimes. More unites than separates voices like Josef Skvorecky and Milan Kundera in Czechoslovakia, Peter Schneider in Germany, Reinaldo Arenas in Cuba and the Chinese students in the Tiananmen Square documentary "The Gate of Heavenly Peace."
"Koba the Dread" is an adumbration of the incidents that Amis has gleaned from "several yards of books about the Soviet experiment." Woven through the book are his own experiences in the arguments about communism, arguments conducted with his father (a communist for 15 years before becoming a devoted anti-communist), and with his friend Christopher Hitchens. It encompasses his friendship with Robert Conquest (whom he has known since he was a child).
Amis' tone doesn't match the earned belligerence you find in Conquest's revised post-glasnost version of "The Great Terror." His prose gives off a sense of appalled wonder. Underneath the steady accumulation of facts and horror stories, Amis is asking how anyone in his or her right mind can still consider Marxism as a means to a more just world; how people (like his pal Hitchens) can joke about their communist past without invoking the horror that someone who joked about his fascist past would; how the apologists for Stalin, despite having plenty of evidence as to the truth of Soviet Russia before glasnost, can be thought of any differently from Holocaust deniers.
Part of the answer, of course, is that the public face of anti-communism has been that of buffoons like Joseph McCarthy or the John Birch Society. For many of us on the left, anti-communism has so often led to the excesses of the right that it became an ideological taint to avoid. Who, for instance, would want to believe in Alger Hiss' guilt when that meant finding oneself on the same side as Richard Nixon? But neither McCarthyism nor the execution of the Rosenbergs (who were, of course, guilty) is an adequate excuse for denying the facts of Stalin's terror, or Mao's Great Leap Forward, or — on a lesser scale — Castro's persecution of homosexuals, among other groups. (The catastrophic failure of Castro's revolution has increasingly become the subject of Cuban crime fiction, including Josi Latour's "Outcast" and Daniel Chavarrma's wonderful "Adios Muchachos.")
Anti-communism has, in some essential way, never been accepted as the moral equivalent of anti-fascism. When Paul Mazursky's film "Moscow on the Hudson" came out in 1984, a friend of mine, a Canadian who has lived in the United States for years, praised it in print only to have friends back in Canada ask him, "What's happened to you there?" — "there" being Reagan's America. His acceptance of even Mazursky's gentle portrait of a USSR with all sorts of shortages and the KGB menacing citizens who didn't toe the party line was seen as succumbing to grotesque capitalist propaganda.
Amis comes close to explaining the enduring allure of communism in the letter to his late father that ends the book. Quoting his father's essay "Why Lucky Jim Turned Right," he finds this sentence about the elder Amis' goodbye to the faith. "The ideal of the brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss."
As Amis the younger points out, that sentence embodies the naiveté that leads many to communism in the first place. "Just what
"Don't fall for moral equivalence," Hitchens warns his friend when Amis tells him he's wondering about the distance between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. Inevitably, Amis' attempt to put the latter on a moral par with the former comes up against the question of "Which was worse?" Too often, the answer has been decided by tallying up the dead. By that measure, Stalin's 20 million wins handily over Hitler's 6 million Jews (the number rises significantly if you add in the rest of the Nazi's victims). But morally, counting bodies is a mug's game.
It wasn't so long ago that the loaded number of 6 million was used to argue that the killing going on in the former Yugoslavia wasn't as bad as it could have been and therefore didn't merit American intervention; it was bad enough, and beyond a certain point, scale is irrelevant. Amis quotes Robert Conquest, who was asked in an interview if he thought the crimes of the Holocaust were worse than the crimes of Stalin. "I answered yes, I did, but when the interviewer asked why, I could only answer honestly with 'I feel so.'" Amis writes: "In attempting to answer the question why, one enters an area saturated with qualms."
After some unsatisfying (though not irrelevant) preliminaries (Marxism appealed to the intellect, Nazism "yellow, tabloidal, of the gutter," appealed to "the reptile brain"), Amis comes up with as good an answer as any. Much simplified, his answer is that Stalin's ends — collectivization, industrialization, even the attainment of absolute power — were at least comprehensible (which is not to say right, desirable or even thought-out), although the means he used to achieve them were barbaric. Hitler employed rational, industrialized means (one could even call them "neat," and therein lies part of the offense) toward an irrational end: the physical elimination of every Jew.
It seems insane, given two nearly incomprehensible events, events that take place outside of the accepted notions of what it is to be human, to say which is worse. Instead, Amis attempts to get at the particular character of each terror. It was easier, for example, in Nazi Germany to know who the enemy was. Describing one of the interrogations recorded in "Journey Into the Whirlwind," Eugenia Ginzburg writes, "A communist held by the Gestapo — I would have known exactly how to behave. But here? Here I had to determine who these people were who kept me imprisoned. Were they fascists in disguise? Or victims of some super-subtle provocation, some fantastic hoax? And how should a communist behave 'in prison in his own country,' as the Major had put it?"
"Nazism," Amis writes, "did not destroy civil society. Bolshevism did destroy civil society." When you read "I Will Bear Witness, " Victor Klemperer's diary of being a Jew in Nazi Germany, you're struck by the bit-by-bit degradation of everyday life, but there is still some vestigial sense of normal life. The accounts of Stalinist Russia are best summed up by the slogans of "1984″ — "WAR IS PEACE," "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY," "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" — representing as they do the complete eradication of meaning.
The subtitle of Amis' book is "Laughter and the Twenty Million." The query that runs through the book, never fully answered, is how is it that we can laugh at Bolshevism but not at Nazism? That premise isn't entirely sound. Though their crimes weren't funny, the Nazis lent themselves to ridicule, being humorless, dogmatic and possessing accents that could easily be adapted for comic effect. And Jewish writers and comics have made much of the Holocaust as the latest episode in the endless, cosmic suffering of Jews. Perhaps only a Jew could have come up with Mel Brooks' peerless definition of the difference between comedy and tragedy: "Tragedy is I cut my finger. Comedy is if you fall into an open manhole and die." (A friend who has many family members who died in the camps and some who survived had among the latter an uncle who, faced with something like a cut finger or a hangnail, would exclaim, "First the Holocaust, and now this!")
"It seems," writes Amis, "that the Twenty Million will never command the sepulchral decorum of the Holocaust … It would not be so unless something in the nature of Bolshevism allowed it to be so." I'd like to suggest that this has something to do with the inversions exemplified by Orwell's slogans, the total annihilation of meaning, of even the ability to define which side you are on.
The black humor of the terror is present throughout "Journey Into the Whirlwind." It's the absurdity reserved for true believers betrayed. Ginzburg is not the only inmate in Stalin's prisons who, at first, can't help but believe that her fate is a mistake that will soon be rectified by the party. Another prisoner even attempts to get her to give up the names of all those she knows who oppose Stalin, reasoning that the more names the party possesses of people who are against Stalin, the quicker the party will be to realize that all these good, loyal communists can't be wrong. (Ginzburg refuses.) At one point Ginzburg is told by a fellow inmate that she was right not to answer some questions from other inmates because "Who knows which of them is really an enemy, and which are the victims of a mistake, like you and me?" It would, as Oscar Wilde said, take a heart of stone not to laugh.
It would be false optimism to detect any hope in that sort of laughter. But perhaps this bleak mirth does indicate that, even in Stalin's Russia, there was the possibility of some sort of truth-telling, however covert. And above all, what Amis is trying to do in "Koba the Dread" is to clear the mental decks, to synthesize what various sources have to tell us about the reality of a major episode of 20th century history and to disdain any attempt to apologize for it or explain it away. That he does not consider himself especially political may be why his tone is so even (though firm), why he's without either the guilt or the fury that ex-believers feel in having allowed themselves to be deceived. Amis is asking if we can finally talk about this as logical, sensible, morally sentient adults.
You could fill books with the literary friendships that have broken up over arguments about communism. It may be that Amis' friendship with Christopher "Lenin was … a great man" Hitchens is one of them. Toward the end of the book is a long open letter to "Comrade Hitchens" in which Amis writes, "So it is still obscure to me why you wouldn't want to put more distance between yourself and these events than you do, with your reverence for Lenin and your unregretted discipleship of Trotsky … Why? An admiration for Lenin and Trotsky is meaningless without an admiration for terror. They would not want your admiration if it failed to include an admiration for terror. Do you admire terror? I know you admire freedom."
The letter is not without affection. But it is also very sly, Amis having chosen to air this disagreement with his friend in public. No doubt Hitchens' hatchet job lamenting his friend's inadequate grasp of history, theory, the horrors of capitalism, ad nauseam, is still to come. But the question Amis asks him — "Do you admire terror?" — is not easily ducked. And it's the question that Amis is asking of all the apologists, all the infatuated.
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Friday, November 9, 2012
The Harmony of the Gorge chorus presents its annual musical show, "Radio Daze," on Saturday, Nov. 17, at Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River. The comedy takes place on a day in the life of a rogue radio station as it might have been in 1947.
The Tualatin Valley Harmony Masters men's chorus will also be featured on the show with their vaudeville act.
Attendees will become a "live studio audience," cued for applause, laughter or boos. The audience can also join in a sing-along if they wish by trying to stump accordionist Carol Bales with a song she doesn't know.
There will be a matinee at 2:30 p.m. and an evening show at 7 p.m. Tickets bought in advance are discounted by $2. Regular ticket prices are $10 adult, $8 senior and $8 children. Tickets are available at Klindt's Booksellers in The Dalles, Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River and Postal Connection in White Salmon, or from any Harmony of the Gorge member.


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Gertrude Hagerthey of Evesham, a longtime Vincentown resident, went home to be with her Lord Monday, July 28, 2014. She was 96.
Born in Mount Holly, the daughter of the late Thomas and Anna Spicer, Mrs. Hagerthey was a longtime member of the Vincentown Baptist Church.
She was an alumnus of the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, a charter member of the Vincentown Historical Society, and a member of the Mount Holly Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.
The wife of the late Floyd, Gertrude is survived by her daughters, Anne Lippincott (Wayne) and Jane Fort (John), all of Southampton; grandchildren, Jennifer Teisen (Steven), Tim Blackstone (Dina), Stephen Blackstone, Andrew Fort, Trevor Fort, Colin Fort, and Alexandra Fort; great-grandchildren, Bradley, Lauren, and Rachel Teisen; and five nieces and nephews. She was the sister of the late Eleanor Fabritiis and Phyllis Jane Hagerthey.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10, at the Vincentown Baptist Church, Main Street, Vincentown. Private burial will be in Vincentown Baptist Cemetery.
Contributions in her name may be made to The King's Christian School,5 Carnegie Plaza, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003. Perinchief Chapels,
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October 26, 2007
Burma, China, Mongolia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand
Danny Fisher has a good round-up of the sad / hopeful goings-on in Burma. And Tricycle's own Jeff Wilson gives us a statement on Burma from the Buddhist Churches of America. U.N. Envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari says the talks between opposition leader Aung Sann Suu Kyi and the Rangoon regime make him hopeful, but "much more is needed" to bring about real results. And meanwhile Burmese government forces are back out on the street in force and surrounding "holy sites" in order to forestall more action by Burma's monks. More »
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October 25, 2007
Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Government Official
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October 24, 2007
Unrepresented Peoples
Great piece about some guys on a mission to meet the Dalai Lama. A blogger in San Diego reports on the fires there. BURMA: Normalcy / Normality in Burma from the Penguin Blog. Plus, the Burmese regime agrees to an earlier visit by U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari. Australia imposes new sanctions on Myanmar. Is the willingness of the junta to deal more openly with the U.N. More »
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October 23, 2007
Books: Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind
Earlier this year Wisdom Publications released Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Life and Letters of an Irish Zen Saint by Maura Soshin O'Halloran. This extraordinary young woman (sadly numbered among those forever young, since she was robbed of the chance to grow older) was a world-traveller who became a very serious student of Zen in Japan in the early 1980s. The book is a collection of Maura's journals and letters, mainly chronicling her stay in Japan, and is a rare and valuable window into the world of intensive Zen training as experienced by a Western woman. More »
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October 23, 2007
Bush v. Burma
U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari says he is encouraged by India's stance on Burma. Few details were provided, so we should take it this means India is willing to do "something." More »
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October 22, 2007
Following up on the Dalai Lama's visit
Two of our favorite sites, The Worst House and Dreaming of Danzana Ravjaa, point us to two ha-ha's on the DL's visit with Dubya: one from Slate and the other a Letterman Top Ten list. Some blowback on the visit: Chinese authorities drop the hammer on celebrations -- or rather, attempted celebrations -- over the DL's visit stateside. More »
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October 22, 2007
Bloomberg, Burma
Yet another piece on the Dalai Lama's visit to New York from the Times, but with some interesting bits: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg invited him to a Gracie Mansion breakfast last Friday with 20 or so New York Buddhists. The event was not listed on Mr. Bloomberg's public schedule. Leaving it off was not a political statement, a mayoral spokesman said. Mr. Bloomberg routinely has groups over for breakfast in private. Besides, the spokesman said, the mayor wanted the Dalai Lama's appearance to be a surprise to the other guests. More »
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October 21, 2007
Hope for Burma
Three trends that will keep Burma on the world's radar: diplomatic pressure from the West and China, increasing interconnectedness due to globalization, and the internet, particularly petitions by groups such as MoveOn.org. Don't give up hope on hitting the Burmese generals where it hurts, says Tom Malinowski of the Washington Post. Try smart, targeted sanctions, among other things. And a postcard from Burma: "Please tell others what you have seen here." - Philip Ryan, Web Editor More »
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October 20, 2007
Burma news, 10/20/07
Life is superficially returning to normal in Burma (the Rangoon curfew is lifted) but fear is not far beneath the surface. The White House orders sanctions on Burma, which means freezing the U.S.-held assets for some members of the junta and tightening the restrictions on exporting/importing certain products to/from Burma. Does that include oil? Now Congress needs to follow this up. And Panties for Peace: as a sign of protest, women are sending panties to the junta: The group, Lanna Action for Burma, says the country's superstitious generals, especially junta leader Gen. More »
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October 19, 2007
More sanctions, more arrests
President Bush is threatening more sanctions for Myanmar for continuing to defy international will and failing to "stop their vicious persecution." He also called on India and China, Burma's most powerful neighbors, to do more. This last part seems like the way to go. You can try and isolate countries like North Korea and Cuba, and the people end up starving while the government grows rich. Burma was pretty much a closed country anyway. But how about the president calls David J. O'Reilly, CEO of Chevron, and tells him to stop doing business in Myanmar? Well, human rights are human rights, but dammit, we need that oil. Take a look at how many dictatorships are propped up by oil money. More »
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October 18, 2007
Bush and the DL
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October 17, 2007
Liberation Prison Project
We get a tremendous amount of mail from prisoners here at Tricycle, and we do our best to send them something in reply to their letters. Beth Phelan of the Vajrayana Institute in Sydney, Australia (guiding light behind the tremendous Happiness & Its Causes conferences) visited us today and, talking about last year's conference, mentioned the dynamic Buddhist nun the Venerable Robina Courtin and the incredible work she does on the Liberation Prison Project, which works with Buddhists in prisons around the world. The U.S. has a prison problem. More »
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October 17, 2007
500 Still Held by Junta (maybe)
The Burmese government is saying it detained nearly 3,000 people during the protests. Around 500 are probably still in custody. China, Burma's most prominent supporter, says it agrees with UN envoy Gambari's mission, which is to get the southeast Asian nations (and probably India, if China's for it) to call Myanmar to account. Also Japan, which gave Myanmar 26.1 million dollars or so last year, is withholding that money now. (By comparison, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees earned about 22 million dollars last year.) In Washington, DC yesterday, the Dalai Lama voiced his support for the Burmese monks. He also said his successor might be chosen by an unorthodox method. More »
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October 16, 2007
HHDL on the NYT homepage
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October 16, 2007
Vipassana Forum and Awakening 101
There's a new site out called the Vipassana Meditation Forum, run by the Irreverent Buddhist. Looks like it's getting a lot of action after only a few days alone, which is great. Also came across the site Awakening 101, a self-guided tour of the Dharma. It included the cool pic below, from the Illustrated History of Buddhism. More »
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October 16, 2007
HHDL in NYC
This weekend, Tricycle's hometown of New York City was lucky (or big and rich) enough to host His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. In lieu of his usual barnstorming, His Holiness gave three full days of teachings at a Manhattan landmark, Radio City Music Hall, home of the Rockettes (yes, they're alive and... kicking). Did they welcome him to town with a saffron kick-line? Sadly, no, but Radio City made for a magnificent venue, the huge arched ceiling lit a subtle orange. (Here's a photo from flickr that gives you an idea, despite the biblical scene.) More »
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October 16, 2007
"There must be no justice or good people in the world"
No, that headline is not some disillusioned do-gooder decrying the world's lack of action on the Burma situation, but rather a petulant Chinese official mad at the US for dealing with the Dalai Lama. Big Red's hopping mad over the DL's visit to Washington, DC, where he'll trade pleasantries with the Prez for the third time. He'll also visit Capital Hill and be honored by the US Congress with the Congressional Gold medal. "Such a person who basely splits his motherland and doesn't even love his motherland has been welcomed by some countries and has even been receiving this or that award," Tibet's Communist Party boss, Zhang Qingli, told reporters during the [Communist Party] congress. "We are furious," Mr. Zhang said. More »
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October 15, 2007
Lopez on the term "aryan"
Donald S. Lopez Jr.'s article on the term "aryan" from the Winter 2006 issue of Tricycle is available here. Buddhist extremists gang up on Catholics in Sri Lanka. Those Sri Lankan Buddhists aren't playing, either. Many monks have been militarized by the long, brutal civil war with Tamil rebels in the north. Buddhist movie plot #427: Tiny Jodo Shu church represented by a spunky little law firm fights the big mother church in Japan, which is of course backed by a huge faceless corporate Firm. Buddhist Relics do Edmonton. A photo would have been nice but maybe is verboten. More »
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October 15, 2007
Who Said What on Burma
Danny Fisher points us to the Buddhist Peace Fellowship's collection of statements on Burma, and also what Buddhist leaders Thich Nhat Hanh and Jack Kornfield said recently. And for all the coffee fiends out there pouring their hard-earned money into the crowded coffers of Starbucks, Urban Monk shows the way to CoffeeTao, a blog on coffee and the politics thereof. Peter of the Buddha Diaries spoke with Thanissaro Bhikkhu recently on pacifism and whether it was ever ok f More »
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October 15, 2007
Burma and Boycotts
Big Buddhist week in New York last week: Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama were in town (see the Worst Horse tracking Gawker Stalker as HH rolls through the Village), and the Tricycle office had a little gathering attended by many fine readers from the area plus Sharon Salzberg and Lama Surya Das. British PM Gordon Brown is working to put pressure on Burma. He will press for tough sanctions in the UK and the EU and asks those countries that trade most with Burma to cut ties. More »


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OK we've got someone who's seriously :retard:. No point in responding except to say it's disgusting to think Roger would marry and father a child with someone he didn't really love. Just because some fans aren't ready to accept Roger as a husband and father (or they think it's distracting him from his career) doesn't mean he's in denial or is doing this against his will.
Is it me you are insulting with a lame and stupid smiley?
Who do you think you are to treat people like that? because you got more messages? Good grief, you want a medal?
Because someone doesn't agree with you and don't think like you, give you the right to call him insane with a stupid smiley not even directly to him but to others?
You are pathetic.
I'm not even waiting for apologies, coming from someone like you, it has no values whatsoever.
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CLU alumni network ... fast
Melody Kraus wanted to spend her four minutes making connections in the counseling and guidance field. For Andrew Kiefer, it was about meeting as many people as he could, perhaps prospective clients, in a short time. Both had at least one thing in common with everyone else in the room: all were graduates of California Lutheran University.
Kraus and Kiefer were back at CLU on Tuesday evening for the university alumni and parent relations office's second round of networking with a twist. Speed networking was born of necessity, according to CLU's assistant director for alumni and parent relations, Lana Clark.
"I'd spent a lot of time talking to graduates," said Clark, herself a 2006 graduate. "It was apparent that we were meeting a need, especially in this economy."
The first speed networking event was in November of last year.
Taking a cue from CLU's School of Management, which has held a number of networking events, Clark added the caveat that the networking event would be timed and narrowed to four minutes. Participants arrive and sit at long tables. Once the event starts, each pair is given four minutes to meet and give their introduction, splitting the time between them for two minutes each.
"We tell people to have their two-minute elevator speech ready," Clark said. "It's a really safe environment for people. Not everybody can walk into a room and start a conversation with a stranger. This kind of gives everyone an opening."
Kiefer particularly liked the timed feature.
"At a lot of networking events, you might meet three, four or five people," he said. "That's an hour or two of an evening with not a lot to show for it."
Kiefer graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1998.
"Here, I'll meet between 20 and 30 people tonight, and that's a good use of my time," he said.
Brian McCoy, a 1995 graduate with a bachelor's degree in marketing and advertising, agreed.
"The thing I like best is to meet a lot of people quickly," he said.
McCoy lives in Simi Valley and works for Underwood Insurance Group.
"The social aspect is important, too. It's great just to connect with fellow alums," he said.
McCoy said CLU has been around long enough that alumni have become more plentiful.
"I used to envy USC grads because they had that long history of alums and they were so loyal, they'd really help each other out. But CLU has a long history now, and there are a lot of us out there," McCoy said.Kevin Holt graduated in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in communications.
"I came to the first one, and it was kind of tough," he said. "I met a lot of accountants. But I also met a lot of alums and got to talk to a lot of great people, so I came back."
Holt works as an administrative assistant with Genesis Capital in Westlake Village.
"Ideally, I want to work in the nonprofit sector, and so meeting people is a necessity," Holt said.
The four-minute meetings are fruitful for alumni, according to Clark.
"We've had a lot of good feedback on these programs," she said. "It's open to all alums, all decades, and that's meant a lot. Sometimes, it's just older alums who've been out in the world giving advice to new alums."
Verna Murrell earned her master's in business administration from CLU in 2007. A senior procurement analyst at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Murrell came to learn about speed networking because she's going to be hosting a similar event at her office.
"I want to use this as a model, so I came to see how it works," she said. "Networking is one of the most important tools you can have in today's world."
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text: The Death-Stalker wiki last edited by Riot_Sqrrl on 08/07/13 09:38PM View full history Little is known about the current Death-Stalker.She allied herself with Purple Man and his Villains for Hire - whether through choice or manipulation is unrevealed - and soon found herself up against the team who would come to be the new Heroes for Hire. Death-Stalker, along with Avalanche, Scourge, the Shocker, and Bushmaster, were sent to retrieve a PDF in police custody containing off-shore accounts belonging to several Maggia families. The Purple Man intended to use these resources to bankroll his criminal empire. The Purple Man's plan was going well until Tiger Shark and Bombshell interceded on behalf of their employer, Misty Knight. Death-Stalker was about to engage in battle with the Tiger Shark, but was shot through the neck by Crossfire with a sniper rifle from a distant vantage point. Death-Stalker survived, and teleported aboard a helicopter with the PDF, piloted by what appeared to be Nightshade. Using her death touch on Nightshade, she discovered the villainess was in fact a Life Model Decoy an instant before the helicopter exploded. Death-Stalker either teleported to safety or she possesses amazing recuperative powers; in either event, the Purple Man's aide-de-camp, Headhunter, reported her survival.IdentityHer identity is a mystery yet to be revealed, and it is unknown if she has any connection to the original Death-Stalker, who died many years ago fighting Daredevil, although she does shares the same power-set as the late Phillip Wallace Sterling. Sterling's mother once enacted a revenge scheme against Daredevil, but the plan ended in her death.The new Death-Stalker claims to be "already dead," and Headhunter referred to her as "not exactly human". Indeed, she had regained her ability to speak just moments after being shot through the throat.


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I don't really understand prior comments, we didn't find it so good, we didn't have bread, water (not even a glass !!) we were alone ( a friday night) and not a smile! We were full of peach!!! But not them... And it's not a bad thing but they didn't speak our language (french) it's weird because it's the only...
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Stupid Oval Shaped Head
I love this helmet, but it absolutely does not fit me. There really isn't any adjustment to be made, so this helmet either fits or it doesn't. In my case, it is not snug at all laterally and fits very loose in that dimension. This helmet has proper rear coverage extending to the base of the skull, and is far far lighter than it looks. I like the crazy styling, and it even comes with a cool helmet bag/cover and sheet of stickers to rice out whatever needs some ricing. If you have a rounder head, then this should fit you pretty well.
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Sometimes, when the weather gets hot, a bad relationship starts itching at you like a million grains of sand in your bathing suit. At least we're assuming that's what happens, seeing as how the summer months have been rife with celeb break-ups this year. From old married like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to the most casual of booty calls like Kris Humphries and Myla Sinanaj, at least all these painful break-ups will bear delicious new relationships in the fall. Or a few Twitter meltdowns. Either way, you will survive, celebrity dumpees!
1) Johnny Depp & Vanessa Paradis
After fourteen lovely years and two children together, Johnny and French actress Vanessa called it quits in June. As if that wasn't painful enough, welcome to Johnny Depp's post-split midlife crisis!
2) Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes
Considering Katie filed for divorce at the end of June and they reached a settlement last week, this celebrity break-up actually went as smoothly as possible. The shock factor alone, however, is enough to put them on the list. Like you weren't stunned when you heard the news!
3) Kristen Stewart & Rob Pattinson
Okay, okay, so these two aren't definitively broken up (and we keep hearing rumors of a reconciliation), but the fact that Rob spent a few weeks on Reese Witherspoon's couch after the world learned Kristen hooked-up with Snow White director Rupert Sanders suggests that the outlook is pretty grim for these two.
4) Katy Perry & John Mayer
This celebrity break-up almost gave us whiplash: the Katy/John rumors started at the end of July and ground to a halt just last week.
5) Trace Cyrus & Brenda Song
Do you think Miley tried to play down her huge ring after her big brother broke off his engagement last month? Maybe that's what her new hair is all about…a visual distraction from his misery!
6) Debra Messing & Daniel Zelman
The Smash star and her husband announcing their split isn't what makes this break-up the worst. It's the fact that they stayed living in the same apartment after the announcement…for months.
7) Zoe Saldana & Bradley Cooper
After Saldana and Cooper split back in March, they allegedly reunited last month…only to break up again, with Bradley allegedly giving her the cold shoulder. And now we know about it. Yup, that qualifies as the worst.
8 ) Kris Humphries & Myla Sinanaj
Kris tried to deny rebounding with Myla Sinanaj as his divorce from Kim Kardashian neared. Meanwhile, false rumors of Myla's alleged pregnancy seized the Interweb. Some people could not be happier the summer is almost over…
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Helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter is to lose long-serving chief executive Lutz Bertling, who has resigned from the Marignane-based company for a position at Bombardier Transportation, the Canadian group's rail systems division.
He will be replaced at Eurocopter by Guillaume Faury, who has been executive vice-president for research and development at car maker Peugeot since 2010.
However, Faury is a former Eurocopter employee, working at the airframer from 1998 to 2008 where he held a number of posts including chief engineer on the EC225 programme, head of the heavy helicopter flight test department, and, ultimately, executive vice-president for research and development.
Bertling has headed up Eurocopter since November 2006, having served since 2003 as executive VP governmental helicopters. Before that, Bertling was with EADS military aircraft as vice-president of its Augsburg plant and aerostructures programmes, since 1999 - following six years with Adtranz, the then-DaimlerChrysler's rail systems business.
He will take over the position of president and chief operating officer at Bombardier Transportion's global headquarters in Berlin, from 3 June.
Tom Enders, chief executive of Eurocopter parent EADS paid tribute to Bertling. "During his tenure Eurocopter became more international, more innovative, and overall, more competitive. I thank him for all his work and wish him the best for his future," he says.
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New Israeli Attack on Sudan
"And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth."
from Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad on London as the epitome of Western Culture
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Reports of Israeli violence in Sudan abound. Sudanese newspapers claimed that Israel's Air Force bombed vehicles twice this month, though Sudanese officials denied the report. Foreign media linked Israel to two previous and similar attacks. In May 2012, the Sudanese government claimed that one person was killed when a car exploded in the City of Port Sudan. It also claimed that the event was strikingly similar to a blast last year that killed two people and that it had been blamed on an Israeli missile strike. Before that, in 2009, another similar strike took place in Eastern Sudan.
On December 15, 2011, vehicles in South Sudan—which gained independence from Sudan in July 2011—were bombed, four passengers died in two cars. Three days later, another car was bombed; all its passengers died. The Sudanese newspaper al-Intibaha blamed the Israeli Air Force in both cases, and reported as well on the landing of an Israeli Apache helicopter in a South Sudanese radar station. All these events were dwarfed by an attack on a convoy in Sudan in January 2009; international media reported 119 dead people. In the first week of May 2012, Sudan's al-Intibaha newspaper reported that Israel was transferring logistical and military equipment, including missiles, to South Sudan. This was quoted with no denial by Hebrew media. This air-convoy was performed by daily flights, which landed in one of South Sudan's airports every night at 3AM. Israeli media reported all the violent events mentioned in these paragraphs, always adding to its articles "foreign media blamed Israel." The reports were neither denied nor confirmed. This formula of the Hebrew media fits events in which the Mossad is involved.
Israel and Sudan
Militaristic (non)Democracy
I often analyze the inner characteristics of the Israeli Administration. Invariably, I reject its self-definition as a democracy. Its systematic violation of human rights denies any possibility of recognizing this regime as a democracy, or even as legitimate. Violence towards one's own citizens is unacceptable. This article puts the spotlight on the Israeli Administration's attitude towards others. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was recognized as international law by the UN already in 1994. These rights are independent of geographical and any other considerations. No country can violate a human being while claiming that this is allowed because the victim is not its citizen. These rights are absolute. In this case—as in many others—Israel allows itself to ignore the rights of Sudanese people and bomb them in their own home country based on unproven allegations. Israel knows that courts invariably serve the rich; no Sudanese can approach the International Court of Justice and sue Israel.
Attacking Sudan, Israel follows the Western Blueprint. From Western mainstream media, one gets the eternal impression that regardless of what the reality is, Goliath was the victim, where Goliath represents the West. Reality is different; the blueprint is clear. For 500 years, we have been watching a well consolidated club of enslavers running amok around the world pillaging every attractive corner, enriching themselves by robbing the world's poorest. They perform these acts of violence claiming that they act in the name of Freedom and Democracy. The actual War on Terror and the future War on Iran are modern variations on the theme. If these wars fail—blocking further expansion of the Western military industry—Sudan will be a handy victim. Israel is already making sure its newest enemy is portrayed as a terrorist by the media. Regardless of this propaganda, on Judgment Day, the entire world will know that the victim's blood is on Israeli hands, and not for the first time.
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Seven years ago, PhRMA launched the Partnership for Prescription Assistance. Since then, more than 7 million patients have been matched through the PPA with programs that could help them get their medicines for free or nearly free. Like I do on my own birthday, I'd like to take a moment to look back at how far we've come and be proud of what we've achieved.
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Cleveland Students Attend Reptile Presentation
Cleveland Elementary School students recently attended a reptile presentation given by Deb Enockson of the Eastern Wisconsin Herpetological Society and Rescue. Enockson brought several of her reptile friends to educate the students and staff about the importance of her organization. The Herpetological Society and Rescue organization is similar to a humane society but for reptiles. The organization takes in and cares for reptiles that are in need of rescuing and need a home.
Enockson is also a humane officer for the city of Plymouth and she works with the police department.
Deb Enockson shares a rescued Bearded Lizard with Cleveland students.
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Deserted NYCFriday, June 20th, 2014
Bronx leaders are planning a waterfront district they say will rival Brooklyn Bridge Park – but a draft plan warns of steep challenges in building a neighborhood from scratch on a long-desolate flood zone.
The draft report from SoBRO, the Mott Haven-based development group, raises issues that also include pedestrian safety, waterfront access and site accessibility. The report, obtained by the Mott Haven Herald, comes amidst community members' concerns about whether the development will have enough affordable housing – or potentially divide the neighborhood between the haves and the have-nots.
The $3 billion plan to transform Willets Point from a grungy haven for auto shops into a slick shopping mega center has sparked protests, petitions and even a hunger strike since the Bloomberg administration announced the project.
But opponents largely fell silent after the City Council voted to approve the plan on October 9. Now, they're waiting to see what the incoming mayor might do.
The notion of a new high-rise residential building in Tribeca is not sitting well among neighborhood residents.
Nicknamed "Jenga" after the popular puzzle game for its unusual design, the Leonard Street development is poised to become the highest building in Tribeca, standing 800 feet tall at more than 57 stories. Unlike most buildings in the area, the Jenga building is designed as a post-modern structure with a glass-and-steel facade.