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A Planet in a Different Light
This artist's animation shows first what a fiery hot star and its close-knit planetary companion might look like close up in visible light, then switches to infrared views. In visible light, a star shines brilliantly, overwhelming the little light that is reflected by its planet. In infrared, a star is less blinding, and its planet perks up with a fiery glow.
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took advantage of this fact to directly capture the infrared light of two previously detected planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. Their findings revealed the temperatures and orbits of the planets. Upcoming Spitzer observations using a variety of infrared wavelengths may provide more information about the planets' winds and atmospheric compositions.
In this animation, the colors represent real differences between the visible and infrared views of the system. The initial visible view shows what our eyes would see if we could witness the system close up. The hot star is yellow, because like our Sun, it is brightest in yellow wavelengths. The warm planet, on the other hand, is brightest in infrared light, which we can't see. Instead, we would see the glimmer of star light that the planet reflects.
In the second half of the animation, the colors reflect what our eyes might see if we could retune them to the invisible, infrared portion of the light spectrum. The hot star is less bright in infrared light than in visible and appears fainter. The warm planet peaks in infrared light, so is shown brighter. Their hues represent relative differences in temperature. Because the star is hotter than the planet, and because hotter objects give off more blue light than red, the star is depicted in blue, and the planet, red.
The overall look of the planet is inspired by theoretical models of hot, gas giant planets. These "hot Jupiters" are similar to Jupiter in composition and mass, but are expected to look quite different at such high temperatures. The models are courtesy of Drs. Curtis Cooper and Adam Showman of the University of Arizona, Tucson.
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I have gone back here half a dozen times...I don't know why I keep hoping it will be different. The menu is extensive, and everything I've ordered there has been great. But never ONCE have I been happy with their service. No one on staff notices when a customer walks in, when you finally seat yourself & order your food, the only other time you'll see your server is when your food is delivered. After that, if you want another drink, or if there's something wrong with your order or you want to pay your check, you're on your own to get up & track down your server & force them to give you a minute of their time. And if you're like me, and you think sitting at the bar might allow for better service since the server is never more than a few feet away from you...well, forget it.
Posted by used to be a fan on 12/24/2012
The waitstaff are untrained or uninterested and the food, while a good value and a great selection of bar type food, is inconsistent and you never know what will come from the kitchen. You can sit and wait and then get food that is not prepared well (or again, completely different than what you ordered before) and then sit and wait some more for another beer or your check. Forget it if they left something off your order 'cause by the time the waitress comes back you will be done with your meal.
Posted by uprwestsidechic on 06/23/2012
Never had a disappointing meal -- eat-in or delivery. excellent food. great people. Alana burger is delicious. enjoy!
Posted by beerfan on 05/17/2011
I define a dive bar as one that is unpretentious first and foremost. If they have great beers and a solid menu then its just bonus. Secondly a place that you can say what's on your mind from politics to s.e .x. this place meets that criteria. i have not had a bad beer or meal there yet. keep it up dive bar!
Posted by Longtime NYer on 03/07/2011
Used to go here for the past decade and a half, and it was a steady local. But no longer. Simply stated, there are too many 20-something trust fund frat jocks and sorority girls, the new demographic on the UWS. Yet another good joint and neighborhood bite the dust. Suburbia on the Hudson lives!
Posted by Ashley on 10/31/2010
Like the title says, this is the best bar on the UWS. They have a great selection of beers, many local. The bar hosts lots of beer tastings and other fun events. Service is always great, as is the food. The wings and homemade sweet potato chips are worth a trip.

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Upon walking into your office, your prospects should be treated
like royalty. Your receptionist should get up from his or her desk,
greet them warmly, shake their hand and address them by first
name, welcoming them to the office. Will some prospects think it is
overkill? Possibly, but what's the alternative?
Have the prospective clients brought into a conference room,
where a table is set with individual place cards, freshly baked cookies and a tablet (iPad or other) for each attendee. Make sure your
receptionist offers them a drink (water, coffee, tea, soda, beer or
wine) and invites them to browse through the company's app prior
to the meeting.
You may also want to present a note-taking app so that your
prospects' notes can be emailed directly to them after your meeting
is completed.
On the way out of the conference room, the receptionist should
press play on a remote in her pocket to start a video. The owner
of the company (or whomever is appropriate) should appear on
screen, welcoming the prospects to the office and thanking them
for taking the time to visit. He or she should encourage them to ask
as many questions of the advisor they are meeting with as necessary, and suggest meeting with them at a later date.
Gen Y consumers may be wary of working with someone who does
not empathize with their problems. If you are a mature advisor,
you're at an uncontrollable disadvantage because of the generation
gap. One idea that might help sway me: Create a "client wall" on one
wall of your conference room or reception area.
Display photographs of your current clients, Gen Y included
— with client permission, of course. Next to the pictures, include
the main goal the client is working toward. This will give your
prospects comfort that they are working with someone who truly
understands them.
Finally, when you walk into the room, greet them warmly by
name and lead them in a conversation about themselves. Do not
talk about yourself, or your company, until the couple asks or there
is a natural end to the discussion about their needs.
Nothing is worse in the financial planning process than data gathering. It's time consuming and often repetitive. Your job is to make it
When it's time to collect client information, have this process be driven by one of
your younger associates, if possible — making
that person the secondary contact, after you.
This accomplishes two goals: It not only lets
Gen Y consumers know that you work with
their generation, but it also says you trust this
generation to help you run your practice.
This associate will work closely with new
clients to design and monitor their financial
plan. At the onboarding meeting, he or she
will run them through the process.
Be sure your firm has implemented technology to make this data-gathering process
easier — perhaps a software package such as
PreciseFP or FinaMetrica. Cutting-edge technology can sparks conversation — iPhone 5
and iPad mini, anyone?
As your associate finds common ground
with the clients, they may offer up more
information about themselves. Have your
associate take notes; you can ask the clients
further questions later on to help develop the
relationship and refine their plan.
Is that close to the experience you currently
provide? For some companies, it will be very
close; for others, however, it would require a
big change.
I'll admit: Even my firm, Vantage Financial
Partners, doesn't offer all these experiences
— but then again, if our target audience were
Gen Y, we might want to reconsider.
Wouldn't it be great having a prospective
client looking forward to working with you
and coming back to see your receptionist
again? Or your associate?
That's how outstanding companies operate. It's time to become one. FP
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is a financial planning analyst with Vantage
Financial Partners in Arlington Heights, Ill.
He is also the founder of NAPFA Genesis, a
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Alaska to the Rescue? That and Other Reflections on U.S. Oil Import Dependence
The Dilemma in Brief
Sharp increases in oil prices, a substantial degree of oil-import dependence, and worry about the political stability of a number of major oil-exporting nations and relentless pressure on prices from the growing Chinese economy ensure that oil in particular, and energy in general, remain firmly fixed in the public consciousness.
The United States currently consumes almost 20 million barrels of oil a day, nearly 60 percent of which is imported. And the share of imports in U.S. oil consumption is projected to grow steadily over the next 20 years to around 70%. This trend raises concerns about U.S. dependency on a world oil market increasingly dominated by supplies from the Persian Gulf, where an estimated two-thirds of the world's known oil reserves are located.
Fears that politically unstable Middle Eastern countries -- and perhaps some other important exporters -- have the United States by the jugular have led to many calls for reducing U.S. oil dependence, both to limit our exposure to the possibility of high sustained oil prices as well as to the greater certainty of periodic price gyrations. Environmentalists and their congressional allies have tended to emphasize energy conservation measures, such as higher fuel economy standards for new passenger vehicles and higher energy taxes, while the Bush administration has pushed for tax and regulatory relief for U.S. energy producers and the opening up of new areas for drilling, such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (see below).
Oil Imports and Oil Intensity
However, on closer inspection the case for immediate and drastic measures to cut U.S. oil imports looks more questionable. For one thing, the oil intensity of gross domestic product (that is, the relationship between oil consumption and GDP) has declined by about 50% over the last three decades as a result of improved energy efficiency and structural changes in the economy. Whether trends in the years ahead will be equally dramatic is hard to say. But at least some continued decline in energy intensity seems likely, thereby suggesting that a given future oil shock will cause less economic disruption, relative to the GDP. And the case for policy measures inducing the private sector to consume less oil, thereby mitigating the impact of oil price shocks, is not ironclad: at least to some extent, individuals, but especially firms, are aware of the risk of future energy price volatility and will already take into account the benefits of reducing exposure to such volatility when making choices about energy investments and conservation options.
Naturally, we would be better off if we could somehow isolate ourselves from the risk of oil price shocks, but reducing oil imports does not automatically reduce our exposure to price volatility. Oil is a fungible commodity, meaning that its price in the United States will be driven by worldwide oil market conditions. The only way to reduce the economic disruptions from world oil price shocks is either to reduce the overall oil intensity of GDP through enhanced energy efficiency or to lean against oil price volatility itself through more active use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The World Oil Market: Limits to U.S. Policy Influence
Americans would also be a lot better off if world oil prices were determined competitively rather than being manipulated by Middle East countries, acting through OPEC. But again, the ability of the United States to counteract the abuse of market power by OPEC is limited. Most likely, a reduction in U.S. oil imports would have only a moderate effect on the world price, and it is difficult to reduce oil imports, as opposed to total U.S. oil consumption, or to favor imports from secure suppliers (such as Canada) without running afoul of WTO trading rules.
Might reduced dependence on imports confer an indirect economic benefit by necessitating less military spending in the Middle East? Perhaps. But keep in mind that Middle East military expenditures serve numerous objectives, not just oil security. Surely, the estimate by one analyst that gasoline at the pump justifies a price over $5 a gallon to reflect this military element is wildly exaggerated.
When it comes to the oil sector, it's easier to pose questions than to answer them. Are market forces signaling future oil prices much higher than were anticipated in projections of a year ago? Or are we perhaps overreacting to the sharp increases of the last few months and forgetting that real world oil prices have tended to show only a slight upward trend over the past quarter century? Still, couldn't a steadily increasing concentration of oil production in the Middle East invite the exercise of greater market power and contribute to the unsettling impact of greater volatility in oil prices? Without dismissing the possibility of harm through acts of disruption by extremist groups, should we not assume that the stakes that governments of oil-producing countries have in a stable world economy will inhibit policies and provocations detrimental to their self-interest?
Calls for radical policies to make the United States self-sufficient in energy within a decade are wholly unrealistic and misguided. Nevertheless, oil dependency remains a legitimate cause for concern. Studies suggest that some fairly modest taxation of overall oil consumption, perhaps in the order of $3 to $6 per barrel, is warranted on economic grounds for addressing the risk of disruptions from oil price volatility and certain market power issues. An environmental-protection element would justify some additional premium. For example, while the country's clean air policies have effectively reduced some important "externalities" from fuel combustion, the problem of greenhouse gas emissions remains essentially unaddressed. Yet the oil-burning transport sector accounts for around a third of U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions, making it a nontrivial factor in global warming. A case can also be made for more R&D to diversify our energy portfolio, thereby making us less oil-intensive over time. In the case of steep, short-term oil price spikes, the government should consider more aggressive withdrawals from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (ideally, in coordination with Europe and Japan) to stabilize the market. In short, no single approach can adequately meet the oil dependency challenge. A combination of strategies -- both near- and long-term -- is needed.
ANWAR to the Rescue?
There has been much debate over the oil potentials of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and how these prospects might map into the oil-dependence issues so far discussed. Without expressing any judgment about the pros and cons of opening the reserve for development, we are content to point to factors that might be more prominently injected into the ANWR policy debate. Probabilities are, of course, central to the issue: while there is a small likelihood of very large discoverable reserves and a high likelihood of only modest discoveries, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) analysis points to a mid-range estimate of around 10 billion barrels. This magnitude -- while certainly significant relative to the country's present proved reserves -- might at best sustain a production rate a decade from now approaching, say, a million barrels a day, when global energy demand is forecast to hover around 100 million barrels per day. Since, as noted, oil prices are determined in a world market setting, it is hard to see how ANWR's roughly one percent contribution to this fungible global pool would lower our gas pump prices by more than a few pennies below levels otherwise prevailing.
ANWR opponents might seize upon such calculations to justify rejection of policies to proceed with development, arguing that the economic gain doesn't justify the environmental risk. Evidence of much larger reserves -- and therefore much greater output potential -- might weaken the environmental grounds for such opposition. Even so, given the inherent difficulty of "monetizing" the preservation of unique ecosystems in a benefit-cost framework, there will no doubt be continued dissent from some groups embracing the intrinsic and -- to them -- unmeasurable value of an unspoiled landscape, irrespective of the economic benefits foregone. Those hoping to be able to reconcile economic logic with spiritual values have their work cut out.
This web feature is an adaptation of an online commentary originally published February 4, 2004, and is based, in part, on RFF Discussion Paper 03-59, The Costs of U.S. Oil Dependency, by Ian W.H. Parry and Joel Darmstadter, distributed in December 2003.
Joel Darmstadter and Ian Parry are Senior Fellows at Resources for the Future, an independent energy and environmental research organization in Washington, D.C.
RFF is home to a diverse community of scholars dedicated to improving environmental policy and natural resource management through social science research. Resources for the Future provides objective and independent analysis and encourages scholars to express their individual opinions, which may differ from those of other RFF scholars, officers, and directors.


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Or…what happens in Hyde Park when you invite a squirrel over whilst your husband is snapping away behind the scenes at a photo shoot…
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Jennie says
V Funny. It took me a moment to figure out what was going on here! Perhaps he thought your furry hood was a friend? xx
tina says
Ha! These photos are the best! I just love squirrels.
ade-lou-sity says
Hahhaa so funny… I do enjoy your husband snaps. A very precious moment with your new furry friend.. LOL
Helen says
Avril Keys says
That is so funny Amanda! Your expression in the second last photo is hilarious. However, you remained annoyingly stylish throughout…and didn't let go of the MK bag – IMPRESSIVE! Avril x
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(Gawker) - Police are still investigating how a 12-year-old girl from Taylor, Michigan, came to possess a backpack stuffed with $20,000 in cash.
According to local police chief Mary Sclabassi, the unnamed Sixth Grade Academy student had brought the backpack to school with her and had been handing out large sums of money to her classmates when she got caught by school officials.
"Had word gotten out to maybe someone other than some other 12-year-olds, it could have put her in a dangerous position," Sclabassi said.
Though police have released few details concerning the source of the ill-gotten gains, they would say that the girl had apparently received the backpack the night before from "another child who lives across the street."
The money has since been returned to the neighbors, but police, who refuse to name any of the people involved, say the investigation is ongoing.
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A home in The Woodlands remained under quarantine Saturday as health officials wait for test results to confirm the presence of the deadly rodent-borne hantavirus. [Read More]
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Two firefighters are being treated for heat exhaustion as authorities continue to battle a four-alarm fire at a chemical warehouse near the Houston Ship Channel on Saturday. MyFoxHouston reports that a forklift and highly flammable materials be have started the fire shortly before 1 p.m. at the Texas Distribution Services Inc., 13609 Industrial Road, near […] [Read More]
Baby killed in north Houston drive-by
A baby was killed in a drive-by shooting about 3 a.m. Sunday on Ponnel near De Walt in north Houston. KTRK-TV reports in a developing story that the baby was with her mom in a car when the shooting erupted: Neighbors tell us the mother fainted in the driveway while holding the baby. They said […] [Read More]
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This was the last case* argued by Mr. Hitchcock in this court. I had collected some facts and dates for a biographical notice of him, to be inserted here; I have since met with one, embracing the same facts and dates, already prepared, which I am happy to avail myself of, for this purpose. It is contained in The Law Reporter for November, 1845, vol. 8. no 7. p. 836.
Samuel Johnson Hitchcock was born of worthy parents in an humble condition of life, at Bethlem, in Connecticut, in February, 1786. His childhood was favored with no superior opportunities for intellectual cultivation. His father was poor. and required his assistance in the mechanical business by which his family was to be supported, and was unable to educate him or assist in his education. But he so well improved his privilege of attending the common schools, that at fourteen he was employed to teach for the winter in a neighboring parish. He afterwards received gratuitous instruction from Dr. Azel Backus, the minister of the pariah, and by teaching school in the winter, he was at last, in the autumn of 1806, just as he was coming of age, enabled to enter the sophomore class in Yale-College. He was graduated, with the most distinguished honor among his class-mates, in 1809. He was obliged to pursue the business of a teacher, for some years afterwards, in order to pay off the debts which he had contracted. He was four-years a tutor in Yale-College. He selected the legal profession as the employment of the remainder of his life, and in 1815, having been admitted to the bar of the New-Haven county court, he established himself in New-Haven, as a counsellor at law. He pursued the business of his profession with diligence and success. His habits of business were in the highest degree methodical; his judgment was clear and sound; and his manner of speaking ready and fluent, though not brilliant. His manners were unobtrusive and retiring; but his talents. learning, industry and integrity won for him a high rank in the profession. Some five or six years after his admission to the bar, he began to be a professed teacher of the science and practice of the law. His connection with the law school in New-Haven gave it a great reputation, and his pupils have everywhere been loud in his praise. He avoided office rather than sought it, and declined a seat on the bench of the superior court of the state, because he deemed his acceptance of that honor incompatible with his duties in other relations. When he had modestly withdrawn himself from the bar, he consented to serve the state, for a while, upon the bench of the county court for the counties of New-Haven and Hartford. As mayor of the city, and afterwards, as a recorder under the altered charter, he presided in the city court. His influence in society, and especially upon the growth and prosperity of New-Haven, was strong and beneficial. He was a consistent Christian, and for nearly twenty-nine years was a devout and constant communicant in the Centre Church of New-Haven, of which, in 1833, he was chosen a deacon. He died, at his residence in New Haven, on the 31st of August, 1845 in the sixtieth year of his age.
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Cantillation: Chanting the Bible
Today the Bible is chanted in synagogues with an intricate musical system, but the practice began with one man projecting in a marketplace.
By Marsha B. Edelman
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One can hear the Bible chanted in synagogues all around the world, although the sound varies widely from region to region and sometimes from community to community. The same notation is used throughout, but there are noticeable differences in the melodic patterns associated with the symbols. Within a single community, the set of melodic patterns that is used also changes throughout the year, based on the occasion as well as according to which text is being chanted: The melodies for chanting from the Torah, Prophets (the haftarah), and Writings (such as the megillot, or scrolls, read on certain holidays) are all different, though they employ the same system of notations. The following article is excerpted with permission from Discovering Jewish Music (Jewish Publication Society).
Cantillation (from the Latin cantare, meaning "to sing") is the practice of chanting from the biblical books in the Jewish canon. The practice goes back to the time of Ezra, when the Jewish people returned from their Babylonian exile following the destruction of the first Temple (about 510 B.C.E.).
Realizing that the people had stopped observing the laws of the Torah, Ezra took it upon himself to read portions of the Law every time he could assemble an audience. Sabbaths and festivals provided obvious opportunities; so, too, did market days, when large groups would gather to buy, sell, and catch up on local news. Market days were Mondays and Thursdays, and so, to this day, the Torah is read publicly at least three times each week.
Of course, Ezra did not have the benefit of modern acoustics, microphones, or even the undivided attention of his congregation. Ezra stood in the marketplace surrounded by squawking chickens, braying animals, and unruly children, and competed with the sounds of life. Exaggerating the highs, lows, and cadences of normal speech, Ezra projected the holy texts in a style caught somewhere between speaking and full-blown singing.
Formalizing the Practice
Ezra did not read the Torah in the manner common today. In fact, it is assumed that he differentiated only the beginnings, middles, and ends of verses. The notion of chanting the Bible was an evolving one that gradually became accepted and musically more elaborate. By the second century, Rabbi Akiva (ca. 50-135 C.E.) demanded that the Torah be studied–by means of chant–on a daily basis (B. Sanhedrin 99a).
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Starting next week, some middle school students in the Vandalia-Butler City Schools district who were prohibited from using district school buses will be able to ride the buses again.
Financial savings from the district's decision to outsource its busing services has allowed the district to expand transportation to and from school for some students who attend Smith and Morton Middle Schools, according to Bethany Reiff, public relations coordinator. These students live in neighborhoods that are within the district's two-mile no-transportation zone.
In August, the district's board of education approved a five-year contract with First Student, a Cincinnati-based transportation company, in August for an anticipated savings of $1.4 million.


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A massive tornado touched down just south of Oklahoma City on Monday, killing dozens.
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Manhunt Over: Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Captured
A massive manhunt that spanned several Boston communities has come to an end with Boston police announcing that 19-year-old Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, has been captured.
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Another week, another batch of tweets by parents that would surely horrify their children if they were old enough to read. Parents this week hit Twitter with their frustrations over Daylight Savings Time and the embarrassing things their kids say in public
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When it comes to maternity leave, The United States earns a pretty dismal ranking when compared to other countries, being the only first-world country, and one of only three countries (the others being Lesotho, Swaziland and Papua New Guinea) that does not offer paid maternity leaves. Not only do other countries have better systems in place for maternity leave, but they have some pretty great welcoming gifts for their newest citizens. In Finland, for example, new parents can choose between receiving the above maternity package filled with essentials for baby's first few months or a tax-free lump sum of 140 euros as a maternity grant.
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Children's unfiltered honesty can be as heart-meltingly adorable as it is embarrassing. (What parent hasn't wished for an invisibility cloak after a loud proclamation by their child in the middle of the grocery store?) Valentine's Day gives kids a chance to put that honesty to good use while telling their family members how much they care
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Episode Four...Duncan's wee problem
Lifeswap 4 – Change! Urine Stinks (AKA Change your Instincts) from Steffen Kreft on Vimeo.
The fact that, in the German language, one still refers to one's...ehem...crotch zone as the Schambereich or "shame area" seems in dire need of revision. Come 30 degree celcius heat or a trip to the sauna, Germans get positively gleeful, even mildly zealous, about the health benefits, nay health necessities, of being, as Jörg says, "naked in za nature". Perhaps "shame area" could be recycled as a geographical term for the stretch of sand on a New Zealand beach between the high tide mark and the dunes where even the most body-proud of Kiwis can be observed performing an elaborate, one-handed, one-legged ritualistic dance behind a towel while changing out of wet togs. What with gratuitous public nudity and some rather confronting bathroom rules, episode 4 is Duncan's turn to be seriously confronted by living abroad. Some cultural differences just refuse to be bridged...
Episode Three!
...In which Jörg must come to terms with the damp, the draughts and the rationed oil heaters of a kiwi flat and Duncan discovers a fundamental German social leveller: the "Hausschuh" (kind of like slippers in the English speaking world, but somehow more ergonomic). Enjoy the next domestic adventure of our two heroes on cultural exchange and, if it makes you smile, send it to a friend! Every time a new person sees Lifeswap, joy warms our insides like a wall-mounted, adjustable German central heating unit.
The Winter Deniers from Steffen Kreft on Vimeo.
The Winter Deniers from Steffen Kreft on Vimeo.
Episode Four...this isn't going to be pretty
Why do some Germans toilets present you with a shelf at the back and a hole at the front? When I first encountered one of these "Flachspüler" (horizontally flushing) toilets, I was confronted with a series of emotions.
Firstly, confusion: was one meant to straddle these things backwards? The answer was clearly no.
Which then led to other emotions: disbelief, shock, disgust (is that an emotion?), fear, then a kind of peaceful acceptance and now, on occasions, a morbid interest.
The disadvantages seem to me, a non-German and prudish Kiwi, rather obvious. I won't go into detail (this is a family blog), but suffice to say that certain unpleasant issues can arise including odour, trying not to look down as you grope for the flush, then a phenomenon I will call "heavy streaking" and, the worst of all, on occasion, finger grazing. (Okay, you can open your eyes. The worst part of this blogpost is now over.)
The advantages of the Flachspüler? These appear to be far more elusive. I have now quizzed quite a few Germans at parties as to why some people opt for this kind of toileting experience in their homes and work places and have never had a convincing response. But one thing is clear: just as the German language does bother with euphemisms (Brustwarze is the word for nipple and literally means "breast wart" - I rest my case) so too do the Germans themselves seem to be completely un-squeamish when it comes to bodily functions...Steffen's got some fun drawing ahead!
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In the beginning was Goethe.
And then Goethe said to William and Steffen "Let there be Life(swap)" and there was Life(swap).
And on the second episode, MFAT said "Let us divide the funding" and it was so.
And then for the third, fourth and fifth episodes, Goethe and MFAT said "Let us offer joint funding for future episodes, so that this may be hereafter called a "series". And there were some costs yet to be covered and MFAT said "Let us cover those extra costs." And it came to be.
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Anyway, it allows him to draw directly onto the screen with a special pen (that's not a biro) to create more nuanced images.
Steffen and Wacom have a close bond. Steffen says using the tablet feels just like drawing on paper, and I have noticed that the characters who have emerged since he's been using it, like Hannes' Hausschuh wearing punk brother (pictured) have a special presence and sense of personality. Episode three will be quite something, I think...
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of German civilization (at least from November till April)...
The double window and the permanently-on-radiator.
And in the room behind the camera, Steffen and I are sitting in T-shirts (not out of antipodean bravado, but because it is actually warm) working on episode three in which……
Joerg must wear all of his insulated, wind-resistant extreme outdoor clothing in his bedroom because he has learnt that the New Zealand answer to draughty, uninsulated houses is "Then put on another jersey!" And Duncan is on the verge of a German rite of passage: he is about to buy his first pair of "Hausschuhe"; so much more than a pair of slippers, this felt-based footwear, along with double-glazing and central heating, completes a kind of holy trinity accepted by all Germans. Hausschuhe protect against the myriad of mysterious illnesses that Germans seem to believe are lurking at floor-level, waiting to assail bare or merely socked feet. More updates soon….
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Once and for all, ABC did not set up that engagement anniversary trip to Tahiti for The Bachelorette's Ali Fedotowsky and Roberto Martinez — but who did? In the wake of reports that the luxury vacation was arranged by ABC as a PR stunt to bolster the idea that at least some Bachelor/Bachelorette couplings are successful, we asked an ABC publicist for the show if the network had planned and paid for the pricey getaway.
"[T]he network is no longer actively involved with the stars from past seasons," the rep told Wetpaint exclusively. "Subsequently, any reference to ABC would be incorrect as it pertains to these two."
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The New York Times is not the paper of record on crime. In the division of labor that controls newspaper reporting in New York City, the three tabloids—the Daily News, the Post, and Newsday— cover local crime. The Times covers Nagorno-Karabakh.
When a crime is particularly heinous or unusual, however, the Times will bring the weight of its attention to bear upon it. The coverage the Times devotes to a story can be factually useful; its treatment of the case of Tawana Brawley was notably thorough and revealing. More important is the role of the Times in expressing the public opinion of the event.
Public opinion, at least as it appears in the Times, should not be confused with popular sentiment. (We owe this distinction to John Lukacs.) Popular sentiment is what everyone thinks. Public opinion is what everyone thinks he ought to think. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Public opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations. The two may overlap, of course. But it is ever the intention of responsible people—and the Times is nothing if not responsible—to transmute the base metal of the one into the good coin of the other.
In Trollope novels, the Times of London, disguised as the Thunderer, creates public opinion by fiat. The Times of New York has no such power. The opinion that appears in its pages is the result of the interplay of several factors, of which the Times's editorials and op-ed pieces are perhaps the least important. Public opinion in the Times also reflects the questions its reporters choose to explore, and the people to whom they turn for answers; the way the resulting stories are played; and, finally, the reactions of public figures, who have been influenced by past currents of public opinion.
On the night of April 19, 1989 a twenty-eight-year-old investment banker was attacked as she jogged along the 102nd Street Transverse in northern Central Park. Her attackers slashed her, beat her with a rock and a pipe, raped her, and left her in a puddle where she was found, three-and-a-half hours later, bound and gagged and nearly naked. She was not the only crime victim in the northern part of the park that night: eight other people, men and women, were harassed or assaulted. A male jogger who was struck on the head with a pipe—evidently the same one used to batter the young woman—had to be hospitalized.
The crime spree was the work of a band of teenagers of shifting size. The police arrested five that night as they were leaving the park. Over the next few days, more arrests were made until the police held eight suspects (later reduced to six) for the rape. The oldest was seventeen. The youngest was fourteen.
In the weeks that followed, most of the Times's coverage was devoted to the unfolding details: accounts of how the alleged attackers had assembled, and what exactly they had done; bulletins on the condition of the victim; profiles of her, and of the suspects; the preliminary charges of the assistant district attorney, and the rebuttals of the defense lawyers; a piece on the ethos of late-night joggers. There was even speculation on how the crime might affect the mayoral race—Mayor Koch is perceived as being tough on crime, but Rudolph Giuliani, his likely Republican opponent, is a former prosecutor. Early on, a new word was added to the vocabulary of Times readers: "wilding" (pronounced, the Times noted, with a silent "d"). But all along, as befits an organ of public opinion, the Times also sought to explain—to put the grotesque and monstrous incident in some context.
The victim was easily explained. We learned, it seemed, everything about her except her name—the Times and the other dailies withheld it, on the grounds that she was a rape victim, and still alive—and everything we learned about her was impressive. She had graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley, where the lowest grade she ever got was A—. While there, she had worked at a shelter for battered women in Boston, and spent a summer as a congressional intern. After graduation, she did another internship, for the State Department in Zimbabwe. A graduate degree from the Yale School of Management led to a job at Salomon Brothers, where her work was described as "top-notch." She also loved running—"she was really obsessed by running," a former colleague said. She was, in short, smart and able, and also had, as the Times profile put it, "warmth and compassion." By herself, she supplied half of a ready-made tale of two cities—a combination of success and virtue, far more attractive than Tom Wolfe's weak and egotistical Sherman McCoy in The Bonfire of the Vanities, who was also brought low by the city's underside.
The suspects were a different matter. When the Times turned to them, the story line—all story lines—broke apart. Public opinion was baffled.
The problem was motive, or lack of it. There were no underlying causes of the sort beloved by sociologists. There were not even plausible personal motives of the kind sought by the police. Greed had to be discounted, since only two of the victims were actually robbed (one of them lost a sandwich). Drugs, the all-purpose urban bogeyman, also did not seem to be a factor. From what Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo was reported as saying, the suspects—at least those arrested on the spot—had been clean and sober at the time of the crime. Nothing in the profiles the Times pieced together later mentioned drug-selling or drug use.
What about the "underclass"? The "underclass" is a term so vague it is almost circular: a person is defined as a member of the underclass because of his compulsive performance of the kind of behavior that keeps people . . . in the underclass. But the word is not, in fact, content-free. Not all poor people belong to the underclass, but everyone in the underclass is poor. If the young woman's attackers did not want her money, might they at least have been inflamed by the fact that she had money, and they didn't? On April 25, in the middle of a story about "the apparently motiveless rampage," the Times tentatively floated such a notion.
"For many psychologists," the Times reporter wrote, "the idea of attacking people who seem to personify a level of unattainable affluence is a common pattern among participants in wolf-pack attacks." The Times then turned to an expert, Dr. Leah Blumberg Lapidus, a psychologist at Columbia, who suggested that "joggers may represent a level of socioeconomic attainment that the media have convinced everybody is necessary to have in order to be an acceptable person. . . . So, to that extent, such people become a target."
The next day, however, the Times undercut the underclass argument simply by printing profiles of the eight suspects. "Some were the children of broken homes," the Times began cautiously, "and certainly all bore daily witness to the abounding pathology of drugs, drink, and poverty. But four lived in a building with a doorman, and one went to a parochial school. One received an allowance of $4 a day from his father. . . ." The "building with a doorman" was Schomburg Plaza, a moderate- to middle-income high-rise complex at the northeast corner of Central Park—not Park Avenue swank, but not desolation, either. "This is not a community, people here say," the Times noted in a separate story a week later on the Schomburg Plaza's neighborhood, "that should be branded with the images of poverty, fear, and despair. . . . According to police and census data, the neighborhood is not plagued either by sky-high crime rates or wrenching poverty."
Other stigmata of the underclass were also missing. The father of one of the original suspects was described as a neighborhood role model who coached a baseball team that had competed in a tournament in Puerto Rico; his son played third base. Another suspect's mother was a born-again Christian who had been in church the night of the assaults. One teenager played drums in a church choir. The teenager who attended a Catholic school had also been enrolled in the Big Brother program. Two of the suspects' parents, the Times reported, set curfews for their children. Only one of the suspects—the drummer—had any criminal record. These were not abandoned children. Their parents worked hard to keep them out of trouble. The Times headlined the piece: "Park Suspects: Children of Discipline."
The one motive the Times was relieved not to find was race. For the first three days of its coverage, the Times did not mention race. The first five teenagers to be arrested were described as living in "northern Manhattan," rather than in Harlem. When the Times dropped the race taboo, it was in a story about black fears of a white backlash. That same day—the fourth of its coverage—the paper ran another story speculating that some of the Central Park suspects may have been involved in an earlier rampage on April 15, which had victimized East Harlem (not "northern Manhattan").
To a degree, the Times was taking its cues from the police. In the beginning, when the police saw no racial angle, the Times reported that. When, after five days, the police said they were looking at the racial angle, the Times, warily, reported that too. "The question of whether this was a series of bias-related incidents is being looked at very closely," the Times quoted Deputy Commissioner Alice T McGillion, in the same story that picked the brains of Dr. Lapidus. Evidence of "bias," the Times went on, included "testimony from victims" of the crime spree—testimony to what? racial abuse? the Times did not elaborate—and a statement by one of the rape suspects that another member of the group had suggested that they "get a white girl."
The Times then performed the evidently distasteful task of listing the races of the people involved. The rape victim: white. The teenagers accused of assailing her: black. The eight other victims of the night's wilding: five white, two Hispanic, and one black "who was briefly harassed until one youth shouted that he knew the man." The following day, the Times let the racial explanation go again. One of the suspects' lawyers, the Times reported, denied that any "get a white" remark had been made. The story went on to quote "police officials and other authorities familiar with what some call wolf-pack crimes" as saying that "the phenomenon cuts across all racial and ethnic lines, and that, statistically, blacks tend to outnumber whites as victims in such attacks." "The question," the Times pronounced editorially the same day, "demands more than the quick reassurance of a label."
Some public figures found reassurance in other labels. Reverend Herbert Daughtry, a black minister, declared that this was a "violent society," which we were "all guilty" of creating. Rabbi Balfour Brickner, a liberal rabbi, fingered economic disparity between racial groups as the cause of urban crime. One commentator in a major paper, Pete Hamill of the New York Post, blamed Washington directly: "For twenty years, conservatives have run the federal government and we are living with the consequences of their policies."
But public officials shared the Times's agnosticism—an indication of how well the Times was performing its opinion-expressing role. "You name me one social reason you can give to explain it," demanded an angry Mayor Koch at a press conference. Later, he called the attackers "an aberrant group that would have assaulted anyone in their way." The wilding mob, offered Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, was looking for "targets of opportunity. . . . it looks as though they picked their victims at random and that there was no other reason for the attacks."
The Times made a last effort to find the slow reassurance of an explanation two weeks after the crime occurred. The effort was double-barreled. A Times book and TV critic asked experts about the possible role of television in stimulating the crime and found a confusion of tongues. One professor of communications felt that blaming the medium was "far-fetched." Another blamed commercials for encouraging "a psychopathic world view" and "class-based anger." A third attacked television not for inciting the crime, but for the way it had covered it afterward, which had "play[ed] on the fears of the white middle class." "Television," the Times critic concluded wearily, "as usual, is guilty, only no one can say for certain of what."
The bigger story that day mustered four macro-level theories, all buttressed by experts, under the headline "Grim Seeds of Park Rampage Found in East Harlem Streets." Two of these theories implicated crack. Since the drug was not involved directly, its influence had to be traced indirectly. The key verb was permeate: "Crack permeates East Harlem." This permeation had led to "an extraordinary resurgence of violence," according to Philippe Bourgois, an anthropologist living in East Harlem, since "to be successful in the underground economy, you have to be ruthless." Crack also distorted the roles of adults and kids. "In the community as a whole," said Ansley Hamid, another East Harlem-based anthropologist, "there is a prominence that youth have on account of their control of this important commodity."
The third theory looked to gangs, or posses. The problem with New York City posses, it seems, is that they are not structured enough. Joan Moore, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, was cited as a student of Chicano gangs in Los Angeles, where apparently they do it better. In a "more goal-oriented gang," the Times paraphrased her, leaders can rein in the "most frenzied" members.
The last theory was a recycling of underclass resentment. William Kornblum, an academic at the City University of New York, said his "research has found that East Harlem ranks higher than any other neighborhood in the United States on indicators of the underclass." (The reporter of this story and the reporter of the story on the Schomburg Plaza should have gotten together.) Meanwhile, the Upper East Side, only blocks away, "represents the greatest concentration of wealth that we have found anywhere in the United States."
These theories were offered as explanations of the crime, but they did not explain it away. This, at least, seemed to be the feeling of the residents of East Harlem, as reported by the two anthropologists who had come to study them. "Everyone condemns it," the Times quoted Bourgois. "Everyone is disgusted," Hamid agreed. Nor was the Times swept away by its own results. It put the "Grim Seeds" story in the third section of the newspaper, the "Science Times." Two days later, its second editorial on the subject repeated that "those arrested evidently did not act out of racial hostility, involvement with drugs, or economic deprivation." The Times's last characterization of the crime was "random brutality." Public opinion had drawn a blank.
The most important reason for public opinion's agnostic reaction to the Central Park rape may be a weariness with distractions. Tom Wicker's op-ed column, "The Worst Fear," on the eighth day of the Times's coverage, was a notable expression of that weariness. "None of the usual suspects," he wrote early on, "can be rounded up," after which he made the by-now ritual dismissal of drugs, race, and the underclass, though he could not let it go at that: "The attackers lived surrounded and surely influenced by the social pathologies of the inner city. . . . These influences are bound to have had some consequences." But there was a second "but." "The bleak existence of the inner city does not finally explain this crime. Nothing does. . . ." That was the "worst fear" of his title, that the crime was "inexplicable."
In the effort to discover why crimes happen, we risk losing the ability and the will to deal properly with the principals after the crimes have occurred. Therefore if public opinion is finally growing weary of explanations—not just in this case but in general—something good may yet come out of the Central Park evil.


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Instead, that money has gone to a barrage of attack advertisements, alternately depicting Obama as willfully making the economy worse and Romney as the misanthropic businessman out to line his own pocket.
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Obama's campaign has spent the most, more than $225 million on advertising in key battleground states. While Romney's campaign lags far behind, at just $68 million spent so far, a trio of outside organizations--American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS, and Americans for Prosperity--have combined to purchase another $145 million in television spots. All told, Romney and his allies have now outspent Obama and his allies by nearly $20 million.
This week alone, Romney and Republican outside groups are outspending Obama and Democrats by a close to 3-1 margin. Republicans are spending $27.1 million, while Democrats put only $10.6 million into television spots. Republicans are spending twice as much as Obama's team in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia; three times as much in North Carolina; and almost eight times as much in Pennsylvania, where Obama has curtailed his television spending and is focusing on radio spots in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh markets.
Obama's campaign is spending $9.45 million on ads this week, less than they have spent in two previous weeks. Romney's campaign, which has slowly ramped up spending as his coffers recover from a drawn-out, expensive primary, is doling out $7.8 million. And Restore Our Future, the pro-Romney super PAC, is spending more than $10 million on advertising this week alone.
Underscoring Democrats' money problems, even the Republican National Committee--which was mired in more than $20 million in debt just last year--is spending more this week than Priorities USA Action, the pro-Obama super PAC. The RNC has spent $2 million on advertising in eight states, while Priorities spent almost $1.2 million across five states between August 14 and August 20.
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Democrats, meanwhile, have spending advantages in three critical swing states that are crucial to Romney's path to 270 electoral votes--Colorado, New Hampshire, and Ohio.
Voters in Ohio, where Democrats have spent $57.3 million compared with $46.1 million from Republicans, have seen more than $103 million in paid advertising. Florida has seen a nearly identical amount of advertising, though Republicans have outspent Democrats by a $53.7 million to $49.6 million margin in that state.
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Source: Feinberg, R. 2002. Bilingual education: a reference
handbook. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.
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Krashen, S. January 1999. Condemned without a trial: Bogus arguments against bilingual education. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Krashen presents an analysis and
refutation of five myths surrounding bilingual education. His emphasis is on
major issues of the debate prior to passage of California's Proposition 227;
among them are the relationship between bilingual education and the Hispanic
dropout rate, immigrants who succeeded without bilingual education, and language
policy in other countries.
Lemberger, N. 1997. Bilingual education: Teachers' narratives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Lemberger presents narratives from eight
experienced bilingual and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers in New
York, California, and Illinois that illustrate what its like to be a bilingual
teacher on a day-to-day basis. The teachers' language backgrounds included
Russian, Haitian-Creole, Cantonese/Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Spanish.
Stepick, A. 1998. Pride against prejudice: Haitians in the United States. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Stepick illuminates important aspects of the realities of Haitian life in south Florida, thereby giving voice to members of that community, and helping to dispel negative stereotypes about them.
Journal Articles:
Bernal, J.J. An historic perspective of bilingual education in Texas. The Journal of the Texas Association for Bilingual Education 4, no. 1.
This chronicle by a former state senator of the evolution of bilingual education legislation in Texas includes a description of the major factors supporting its enactment in 1969.
Hodgkinson, H. 2001. Educational Demographics: What teachers should know. Educational Leadership 58, no. 4.
Hodgkinson describes the impact of shifting demographics on the student population in the United States, and how those changes affect teachers and students.
Articles/Chapters in Books:
Jenks, F.L. 1997. The quest for academic legitimacy: Building for language program entry into institutional and community infrastructures. In M.A. Christison and F.L. Stoller, eds., A handbook for language program administrators. Burlingame, CA: Alta book Center Publishers.
Jenks argues that Intensive English Programs must act as full partners in education if they hope to be treated as such, and suggests ways to reach that goal.
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