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US's Delicate Dance with Iran the US Has Opted for Quiet Diplomacy to Halt Moscow's Sale of Nuclear Power Plants to Iran, Not Entirely out of Choice
Jonathan S. Landay, writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
IN March 1995, the Clinton administration launched a high-profile diplomatic offensive to pressure Russia to cancel an $800 million sale to Iran of a nuclear-power reactor.
Senior officials warned the deal could advance the Islamic republic's alleged atomic-weapons development efforts. Russia responded with angry denials and refused to abandon the sale. As congressional calls for sanctions against Moscow fueled the dispute, the White House vowed that derailing would be it a major priority.
A year later, the reactor project remains on track. But it has all but disappeared from Washington's pronouncements on differences with Moscow. The reason: a realization that by focusing attention on its failure to halt the deal, the administration could be forced to take punitive action against Russia that could seriously jeopardize overall relations, including cooperation on nuclear disarmament.
Accordingly, officials say, the administration has deliberately taken the spotlight off the issue while continuing to pursue it behind the scenes amid scant hope that it might still persuade Russia to drop the project.
"We were in danger of rhetorically painting ourselves into a corner," says one official. "There was a realization that the steps we could take that might result in stopping this deal ... might endanger other aspects of our relations with Russia that were not worth it."
Asserts another official: "We continue to oppose this reactor sale. It is an extremely ... intensive effort" being handled directly by President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and Secretary of State Warren Christopher. But, he acknowledges, success is "not predictable."
New world compromise
The issue underscores the difficult tradeoffs the administration must make in maintaining smooth relations with the world's No. 2 nuclear power. It also illustrates the limits of Washington's policy of isolating Iran. While the administration last year banned American firms from doing business with Tehran, it has failed to persuade other governments to cut economic ties with a regime it says nurtures terrorism, aspires to regional hegemony, and seeks weapons of mass destruction.
Under a January 1995 accord, Russia agreed to complete construction of a nuclear-power reactor at Bushehr, on Iran's Gulf coast, that the German firm, Seimens, abandoned after the 1979 overthrow of the late Shah Reza Pahlavi.
Russia signed a separate $30 million contract to provide nuclear fuel to Bushehr and take back the spent fuel.
News reports and officials say the project is moving ahead despite temporary problems Iran has had in meeting payment deadlines. They say Russian technicians completed design studies in January and have begun dismantling old structures to make way for new construction.
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In urging Russia to cancel the deal, the United States contended that knowledge derived by Iran from operating the plant could be used to advance its alleged clandestine effort to develop nuclear weaponry. The threat from such weaponry would extend to Russia, it argued.
Russia defended the sale, saying that Iran is obliged to observe international safeguards as a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. …


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Since it's a new twist on the ancient sport, the events are pretty open. Meets are coed, featuring wrestlers from the peewee ranks at 10 years old, and up.
Why beach wrestling?
"For thousands of years, in dozens of cultures, wrestling op-ponents would face each other, centered in a circle drawn on the sand," Bergami said. "Through rounds of hand-to-hand combat, a victor would emerge to boast that they were king of the sport. That's what will be happening in Pine Lake on Aug. 5."
USA Wrestling, the national governing body for wrestling, will sanction the competition. The local event is one of only four such championship matches set for the East Coast this summer. The other East Coast national competitions will occur in Long Beach, New York, New Jersey and Florida.
The regional championship matches all lead up to the world championship meet in Antalya, Turkey, in October.
Wrestlers win their matches when they score falls by forcing the opponent's shoulders to the sand; they score two takedowns; they score two throws; their opponent is penalized twice for fleeing the competition area; they score one takedown and have one fleeing call against their opponent.
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This. Enterprise's opening sequence is the best of all the Treks by far. It's both fitting and inspirational. I honestly don't understand people dissing the song, in many cases it seems to be simply disliking it from being different from the other shows, which makes no sense.
I don't think so. I can assure you that I hate it for just one reason: because it sucks. I would applaud them for doing something different with the credits, if they had used a good song, or at least a decent one. The song is cheesy and the singer is horrible, it's one of those songs I literally cannot bear to listen. It sounds like... Michael Bolton, or one of those awful sweet metal bands of the 1980s. I press the mute button or fast forward the credits every time I watch ENT... except if I am watching
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I realize this is kind of a weird request, but I'm looking for the best games to play while doing other stuff at the same time. I'm in a situation this summer where I'm involved in an activity that requires much of, but not all of, my attention (Think a series of conference calls where you need to know what's going on and sometimes respond, but don't need to focus on every word and can sort of half pay attention for longish stretches.)
I'm looking for games to play during these periods that will not be too difficult, absorbing, or distracting, basically something to do with my hands and a little bit of my attention. I also can't play multiplayer stuff because there will be periods where I need to pause and give my full attention.
It can't be something like an RPG with a deep and involving story, or anything too intense because I will completely zone out the audio and focus on the game. I'm looking for mildly involving, pleasant experiences.
Here's what I have so far:
NCAA 2012: Perfect, Extremely repetitive and nothing unexpected or super involving ever happens. Unfortunately I've gotten pretty sick of it.
Banjo-Kazooie, first 2/3ds: The laid back exploration elements of this game were great, but some of the later levels involve platforming or puzzles that require a bit too much attention
Prince of Persia HD Collection: The platforming here is pretty good and the lowish difficulty + time rewind is nice, but the games are a little TOO good in general and I've found myself sucked in at times.
Lego Star Wars: Nice and pleasant and not too challenging or anything.
Not so good:
Xbox Minecraft: I find myself getting too involved with creating interesting spaces or figuring stuff out. This is also why I probably don't want to go with something like Tropico that would otherwise seem almost ideal
Skyrim: This would seem almost ideal, especially doing something like working on smithing or whatever, but the intensity of dragon attacks and interesting quests appearing make it problematic for this purpose
Borderlands DLC: Once again too much intensity. I get drawn in to some of the more frenzied firefights and stop paying attention.
This is not the first time I've used games like this, but it seems like the current generation offers fewer experiences you can just sort of half play while focusing on other things. There's too much voice acting or too many peaks in the action. I'm just looking for something nice and relaxing to help pass the time while I'm doing other stuff.


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Really good take on colors love it
Lovely paint!
wow this is beautiful! Really amazing work! Great job
Simply beautiful. You are so talented with your landscape pieces, I find myself getting inspired just looking at this one. There's so much I can learn from you!
I really enjoy the strokes and the tones to create such a relaxing atmosphere! The style approaches a little bit to Cezanne's work. Well done!
I love the mountains in the background and how you painted them. Outstanding work.
Wow, another great work! What I like about it is the water because how it's integrated with surround of the environment. I also love the moutain and the detail of the ice caps on it. Great job!
The texture here is brilliant, and the colour choices are awesome. <3
lovely landscape, great work on the water it looks very calm and peaceful
beautiful composition.
Wonderfull traditionnal painting (: (nice reflection on the water)
This is a wonderful painting, was it done on the spot? I really like the dabs of impasto paint, they add a lot of expressiveness to the overall piece. The trees look a little sparse though, it would be nice to add more foliage to them.
This is amazing! I can see you emphasize the houses in the middle and the hills and trees frame around it perfectly.
Really nice painting of the lake in autumn
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I can think of 5 people who would come because they love me, 5 or 10 more who would come because they know me and would feel obligated, and maybe 20 more who would come because they care about my family members.
There are maybe 10 more who would come if they were in town.
It scares me to think that when I die it won't even be worth it to have a funeral. The number of people who will care then will be even smaller.
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No sooner has Monty started to make progress, then all manner of aliens swarm to attack him and unless he's armed, Monty doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of surviving. This moan aside however, Impossamole is probably the best platform game to appear for the ST in quite a while - it's just a pity it isn't as good as the 8-bit original.
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Wieder einmal sollte man sich einen Plan zeichnen (oder "Voltax" einnehmen...), damit man weiß und sich erinnern kann, wo man mit welcher List und Tücke am besten vorankommt. Impossamole knüpft somit fast nahtlos an seine 8-bit-Vorgänger an. Ein gelungenes Comeback des kleinen Maulwurfs, den wir alle noch schätzen und der uns auch diesmal nicht enttäuscht!
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The title screen's pretty naff but in-game graphics are colourful and neatly-defined, Monty looking good and moving well. Sound effects are simple and music warbles away in a crude and mildly annoying manner.
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I loved the original Monty games and was looking forward to this turbo-charged update very much - but unfortunately it's turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. My main gripe is that it's terribly frustrating. Impossamole looks and sounds very jolly, but at the end of the day it just doesn't have anything special to make it stand out.
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For platform games to make the grade nowadays, they have to have something special or be just plain enjoyable. Gremin's own Switchblade 2 (see page 74) is just one of those games. lmpossamole, unfortunately, isn't. If it was offered at full price it would be laughed off the shelves, but at this price it's one for those desperate moments when you really really want to buy a game and there's nothing better around. It's not really a bad game, it just joins that huge teetering pile of games labelled "average" that are re leased and almost immediately forgotten about.
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What ensues is a two hundred-plus screen arcade adventure involving running, jumping, shooting and killing as Monty does his best for interplanetary relations. Impossamole could have been quite an enjoyable budget game were it not for the fact that the main character is a pain in the neck to control, making for frustrating gameplay in the long-run. Graphically, the game's fine, albeit rather basic, but because of the annoyance factor, one to leave on the shelf


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"The Bishops invite the sons and daughters of the country to use the voter registration cards not as a bargaining chip, but as a means to participate in the construction of the city, voting freely according to conscience", said Mgr. Ndiaye.
The President of the Episcopal Conference also urges politicians and citizens to promote peace and the common good, respect of others and their opinions, noting that this year's local elections are important for territorial reforms envisaged.
The Diocesan Council of the Laity of the Archdiocese of Dakar, has launched an appeal so that the vote to be held on June 29 is peaceful, free and fair. Recalling the serious incidents that marked the presidential election two years ago (facts "never recorded in the history of our Country"), the Council of the Laity appeals "to all the players involved in the electoral competition to work for a civil campaign, respectful of democratic and social norms, in order to establish a local government which is the promoter of the common good and respect for the harmonious development of the population". (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 16/06/2014)
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Justin Timberlake reportedly disapproves of Britney's husband Kevin Federline, according to Star magazine.
Aww Justin. Be a man and tell that bitch you were the best dick ever. And that you guys were so pretty together that we got diabetes just looking at your cuteness together. If she was with you she would still have a career though you probabl would not because she would not have inspired you to write a FU song. But yes you were her best dick ever!!
"He's pretty sad at how things turned out for her." What a smug prick. It's not like his career has been smokin' lately, either. And Cameron Diaz might be even stupider than K-Fed.
dance off –> around the brittney giving birth sculpture! yes…with her spraying on them…awesome! can't ever be No. 1…
He can pretty mych say anything he wants about her because he'll always be the only guy who got her virginity. He is, however, number 896,656,468,463,875,196 to speak out about not liking Kevin Federline.
Wait, I thought they were the same person…
Well I dont knwo about you but I am in love with Britney Spears!! She is just so real. SHe doesnt' care what you say, what I asy . or what Justin says..
I hate K-Fed. He's nothing but a dick weed.
You'll all see one day she will return back tot eh top of teh charts.. you wait adn see, when Country goes out again she will be teh reason.
I don't like Britney or Federslime, but this sounds pretty cocky of Timberlake to say. Perhaps he still has feelings for her & is jealous?
I can just hear him singing to Brittney right now.
"I want rock your body, come back to me, dance with me."
"I'm gonna get your FAT ass, back into shape, dance with me."
"No need to cry about, Kevin being gay, come back to me."
I may be the only person who thinks that Justin wasn't being insensitive and rude that he said he's sorry things didn't turn out better for Britney.
I think he might still care about her and wishes they had lasted. Now he's stuck with fugly Cameron and Britney with nasty K-Fed.
Karma's a bitch.
You guys are always hilarious, but the idea of a dance-off is truly priceless. You should pitch ideas to Saturday Night Live. Maybe then the show would be funny again. PRICELESS!
Are we supposed to care what this snot-nosed boob thinks? Go cry to your mama.
Britney made her bed…now she's gotta lie in it…with sheets that smell like Cheeto and K-Fed stank.
Cameron Diaz isn't much a beaut either.
hey, neither are you Justin.
Never thought I'd say this, but I agree with something Justin Timberlake said. Whether I like Spears or not, it is kinda sad to see all the money that she busted her ass all during her teen years to earn, being blown by this waste of space. Anybody on this site could spend that money better than that douchebag. (Most would spend it on a lawyer who could figure out how to keep it without staying married to the dumpster queen)
Looking at that picture Justin should be more concerned to find a
GEE-ZUS Timberlake, how much do you pay for those Brazilian's?
K-fed would kick timberlakes ass.
I'm sure the feud between these two thugs will be played out on the streets of Compton with 9mm guns turned sideways, a jumbled mix of Cry Me a River and Popozoa blaring from their Escalades sittin' on chrome 20's, a dazzling array of gang signs, and a complete and total misuse of the word "nigga".
Gangstas will be gangstas, regardless if one used to be on the Mickey Mouse Show and the other grew up on the mean streets of upper class Fresno.
I personally can't wait for K-Fed's response. 2-1 it involves Timberlake being "a lil' bitch", "getting dealt wit", or "wishin he had mad skillz like me". Whatever he says, it will more than likely be journalistic gold.
Justin, be the hero, go and profess your love to her, kick K-fed's ass, take Brit and SP and run away, where y'all can live happily ever after. It is the fairy tale of the modern ages, right?
That's gold, PapaHotNuts…gold!
It's obvious guys, JT is sooo totally scared of the competition from K-Fed's music. No truly…
"But you can call him Daddy instead"
This just in…Justin says that he is sorry to hear that Elvis died. He also thinks that Michael Jackson is really creepy.


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Did that really just happen?
Is Stefan Salvatore really dead?
There's no other question fans can really ask after events on The Vampire Diaries Season 5 Episode 21, except to perhaps also wonder: Is the show's town about to go down?
Indeed, the official teaser for The Vampire Diaries Season 5 Episode 22 doesn't focus on the fate of Stefan at all.
It actually takes on a light-hearted tone in detailed "Project Kaboom," Damon's plan to blow up Mystic Falls in order to avoid the Travelers' curse.
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Dockery (a.k.a. feisty heiress and widow Mary) took to Instagram to post an adorable reunion photo of the two.
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I'm sorry, I didn't think domestic violence was so pointless? for someone who would more than likely walk away or ignore it if he heard someone being hit by their spouse or significant other you should shut your mouth before talking out your butt next time this is not something to find pointless
So what was the point of this picture, to remind people of what happened in 2009? Now that's pointless I love how people have this I'm perfect and never did any thing wrong attitude. I mean come on that was so stupid and senseless, if she forgave him the world needs to get over it and move on. Look for anther poster child for domestic violence
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WALLA WALLA — A local produce packing and shipping company in existence for almost 100 years is calling it quits.
Walla Walla Gardener's Association closed its doors today, said Mark Jones, a financial and business advisor to the company. Located at 205 N. 11th Ave., it sold and shipped Walla Walla Sweet Onions under the Gloria label and fresh asparagus.
The company has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and the court will decide how to dispose of its physical assets.
"The board felt that Chapter 7 was the most effective way to dissolve the business," Jones said.
Paul Castoldi, company president, said the association employed close to 15 full-time employees. That number went up to 60-70 people during seasonal harvest months from April through October.
Jones and Castoldi said that over the past few years the company has faced difficult financial times due to a declining grower base and poor pricing for onions. Asparagus had also been a large part of its business in previous years, but now much of that crop is produced in other areas of the United States as well as abroad.
The company was founded in 1916 as a cooperative for local farmers to pack and ship their produce, Castoldi said.
"It is with great sadness that the board announces our closing," he said in a release today. "Gardeners have been an important part of our community for years and a central part of many farmers' lives.
Castoldi said that several of the growers' families have been involved with the company for generations.
"We are especially thankful for the many dedicated employees who have worked with us over the years," he said.
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On the human interest scale, we feel this story, written by Herald reporter Priyanka Dayal McCluskey with an accompanying photo by staffer John Wilcox, is a chart-topper, and thus clearly worthy of a Page One lead. "For all of us within the Brigham (and Women's Hospital) community, the marathon really bonded us together," said emergency physician Dr. Eric Goralnick, who, along with trauma surgeon Dr. Robert Riviello, will be running with a purpose this April.
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Re-shaping a Cardassian: Toward the Ninth Circle
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Sir. Damar entered Dukats office with, he hoped, air of confidence.
Yes, Damar, what is it? The gul didnt even raise his head from a padd he was studying.
Are you unsatisfied with my performance, sir?
That caught Dukats attention. No, not at all. Why would you think so?
I must admit I am puzzled. Damar took a step forward, closing to Dukats desk. If my service as an aide is satisfactory and up to your high standards, then why do you need an aide from another warship?
Dukat leaned back in his chair. Damar, she is here not to replace you, but to co-ordinate our manoeuvres with the other ships.
I can do that. I am not afraid of taking more responsibilities...and I dont want to fail you. Damar knew that if he wanted to achieve his goal, he had to make it look like it was Dukats benevolence and kind heart that had led him to the unnecessary decision of bringing Jarol on board. And stroking Dukats ego never failed. The glinn was unable to read Dukats face and as the moment of silence stretched, he began to wonder if he hadnt just brought trouble on himself. It was possible that Dukat assumed Damar was an idiot who didnt understand the real reasons why Jarol was on the
I know what youre thinking, Dukat said finally, raising from his chair and approaching his officer. You are angry with her for her disrespectful behaviour on the bridge a few days ago.
Damar didnt lose a second and immediately used the opportunity. Her behaviour was outrageous and I dont want her on the ship. You deserve a crew better than that.
Dukat smiled graciously. All right, Damar. Send her back to her warship.
Thank you, sir. The glinn didnt have to fake his relief.
He left the office and at once went to Jarol. Leave the ship, he said quietly. And do it quickly, before he changes his mind. She uncertainly looked at the door to the guls office. Dukat observed them through the half-glass door. I said get off the ship! Damar barked louder for his commanders benefit and then added impatiently, Ill do it myself. He grabbed her elbow and pulled her toward the lift door. She was so surprised that she didnt resist.
They entered the lift. Sorry, he said, withdrawing his hand as soon as the door closed, cutting them off from the bridge. I had to put a show for him.
She observed him for a moment. Can I really return to my ship? she asked.
Yes. Tell your gul everything that happened. I complained to Dukat about your presence here and your outrageous behaviour. He rolled his eyes as a sign he didnt really mean it. He bought it. So its better if your gul plays the game for your and my safety.
Damar, how can I thank you?
He smiled. If you want to thank me, help Yassel get off this ship, too. She deserves better than that. He felt almost sick, saying those words. He liked women; he liked them a lot. He liked their company, but wanted it to be enjoyable for both him and his lady. No meant no and he had no problems with accepting refusal. But for Dukat it wasnt about beauty of blue
s, it was about power and domination over someones life, including their body. For Yassels safety, Damar and Yassel pretended she was Damars woman, but the glinn was sure he had noticed Dukat losing patience and it was more than probable that soon the gul would stop being loyal to his officer and take his woman. Damar liked Yassel and didnt want any harm to happen to her.
Ill try, she promised.
Dont try, he snapped. Do it!
She nodded sharply. Ill do it!
The lift doors opened and they headed for her temporary quarters to pick up her things. Then he escorted her to the transporter chamber. He had no idea how nervous he was, until she safely left the
and was beyond Dukats reach.
He was on his way back to the bridge, when he was informed about the alien delegation returning for another session of talks. It was the fifth meeting and Damar already knew a great deal about their society. They called themselves the Dominion and were led by the Founders, whom Weyoun and his guards considered gods. The glinn found it amusing, but did his best not to show his opinion to their...guests. However, he was impressed by the order the troops were organised by and wondered if some of those solutions couldnt be adapted to the Cardassian military.
He headed for a transporter chamber to welcome Weyoun and his JemHadar and to escort them to Dukats office. There, as usually, he motioned to his seat but Dukat changed the routine and told him to report to the bridge. Damar found it weird to be asked to leave, but he didnt protest. The JemHadar guards stayed outside and Dukat was alone in the room with the Vortaas the alien called his specieswho didnt look like someone who could pose a physical threat to a Cardassian, so the glinn couldnt use the argument of staying inside for security reasons as an excuse to be present and listen to what they were discussing.
He didnt like the idea of leaving. He had witnessed some of talks and he noticed that Weyoun not only shared information about the Dominion, but also gathered a lot of information about the Cardassian Union and it was obvious that politics were the matter he wanted to know most about. The last time the Vorta managed to manipulate Dukat to reveal much too much information by manoeuvring the gul and making him presenting his own role in the structures of power greatly overestimated. Damar had to admit that Weyoun knew exactly how to make Dukat tell him everything he wanted; it only took playing on the guls egotism. All attempts to warn Dukat failed, as he had seemed to enjoy drawing picture of himself being so great, so in the end Damar was paid with denial to join the discussion as the reward of his caution. He dreaded what might be going on behind that closed door now. He was certain the Vorta noticed his reserve and now, with Damar gone, Weyoun could become even bolder in his approach.
Damar, theres something I want to show you, Yassel said quietly, approaching him. He followed her to the communication console. I keep an eye...an ear... She grinned. On everything in space and I noticed that the Dominion ship is in contact with...something or someone.
Theres nothing surprising about that, he said. Wed do the same if we were in range of our empire. They probably send reports and such.
Well, yes, that was my initial thought, but there seems to be more than that. Its possible that their technology is so different from ours that it appears to be more than just simple reports, but its also possible that... She hesitated.
He nodded, encouraging her to continue. Go on.
My guess would be that its an extensive visual communication. And it happens only when the Vorta is aboard his own ship, so I think he talks to someone. A lot.
Informing his superiors of our talks and getting instructions on how to proceed, he wondered.
I thought the same thing.
Did you tell Dukat about that.
Id rather you do it.
He understood her perfectly. Limiting her direct interaction with the gul was something he had suggested himself. I will.
Theres more, Raseen suddenly joined them.
Damar looked at the Obsidian Order agent. What do you mean?
My guess is that Dukat already knows about those communiques. Im sure Weyoun reports everything to his superiors and each subsequent meeting in the office He nodded toward the door to Dukats room. is the result of new orders he receives.
Damar tried to hide his impatience; it wasnt a good idea to irritate the political officer. You said theres more.
Raseen seemed to consider whether to answer, as for a moment he just stood, biting his lower lip and looking to the left. Then he grabbed Damars elbow and pulled him away, out of Yassels earshot. I know Dukat is also in contact with Weyoun while the Vorta is on his ship.
Damar raised an eye ridge. Talking face to face is not enough? He didnt have to ask where Raseen had the information from, because he was certain the agent knew a lot about everyone on the warship. The question was why he was sharing it with the glinn now. It wasnt a standard procedure.
I do not know, but I am going to confront him about that. I dont like the fact that he has secret conversations with some aliens and...right now even the talks aboard our own ship are uncontrolled.
What do you mean?
You, people, find a lot of ingenious ways to deactivate our...devices and each attempt of bringing them back to operation is counteracted by even more ingenious actions. It was no news for Damar. Everyone knew that the Obsidian Order bugged everything and everyone tried to have some privacy, scrambling and fooling the bugs. But he is there alone with that slimy alien and I dont trust him.
You mean youd trust
I trust that neither you nor Dukat would trust each other to do something unlawful in the others presence. But right now hes out of control and this cannot go on.
What can you do?
Let me worry about that. Raseen shook his head and went away, leaving Damar puzzled why that conversation had happened at all.
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This is the opening article of a series of articles (3), which aim to look at libraries and the landscapes they are a part of and help build. Though archives are the mother concept of libraries and include many other typologies such as museums, this series will focus more specifically on libraries while creating occasionally necessary bridges -- when relevant -- to moments of conceptual overlap with those other spaces. It is understood that a totally different and relevant angle would easily be to have an entire discussion on the contemporary dissolution of these categories.
Starting with few examples of the widening public space of public and private libraries in the end of the 20th century and beginning of 21st and reflecting on library spaces as they are being designed now, the second article will discuss relevant relationships between historical precedents and contemporary examples of libraries from a production of knowledge angle -- and their morphological variations vis-à-vis their differentiated cultural role and of their processes. In the 3rd article, I will discuss the larger or meta function of the library as an archive typology and its possible futures. The influence of the concept of Web 2.0 (and 3.0) in libraries situates the right context to make new questions for design, namely how it engages different points of contact between information, content, knowledge, the body and the built environment: imagining the near and speculative future of library/archive spaces.
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Geisel Library at UCSD by William Pereira, 1970. Featured in Novel "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge. Image by Carla Leitao.
"The library's various programs are intuitively arranged across five platforms and four flowing "in between" planes, which together dictate the building's distinctive faceted shape, offering the city an inspiring building that is robust in both its elegance and its logic." via http://www.oma.eu/ Image credit: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_library_main_branch_overhead.jpg By Rex Sorgatz from Seattle (Seattle Library) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Top of the Microsoft auditorium, bottom left - 3rd floor, with cafe and gift shop. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_public_library_main_branch_5th_Avenue_exit.jpg By Jeff Wilcox from Seattle, WA, USA (seattle public library) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
"Seattle Central Library creates a civic space for the circulation of knowledge in all media, and an innovative organizing system for an ever-growing physical collection – the Books Spiral." Image via: http://littlecreamlife.littlecreambook.com/2006/07/koolhaas-awesome-seattle-central.html
4th floor – lecture halls, conference rooms, etc Image credit: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_Public_Library_4th_floor_6.jpg By Joe Mabel (Photo by Joe Mabel) [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
"OMA's ambition is to redefine the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but rather as an information store where all potent forms of media – new and old – are presented equally and legibly. In an age in which information can be accessed anywhere, it is the simultaneity of media and (more importantly) the curatorship of its contents that will make the library vital." "Our first operation was to "comb" and consolidate the library's apparently ungovernable proliferation of programs and media. We identified five "stable" programmatic clusters (parking, staff, meeting, Book Spiral, HQ) and arranged them on overlapping platforms, and four "unstable" clusters (kids, living room, Mixing Chamber, reading room) to occupy interstitial zones. Each area is architecturally defined and equipped for dedicated performance, with varying size, flexibility, circulation, palette, and structure." in http://www.oma.eu/ Image credit: http://lennylikeslibraries.blogspot.com/2010/08/seattle-public-library.html
Mixing room. "The Mixing Chamber, centrally located on the third floor, is an area of maximum librarian-patron interaction – a trading floor for information orchestrated to fulfill an essential (though often neglected) need for expert interdisciplinary help. Librarians guide readers up into the Books Spiral, a continuous ramp of shelving forming a co-existence between categories that approaches the organic: each evolves relative to the others, occupying more or less space on the Spiral, but never forcing the ruptures within sections that bedevil traditional library plans." in http://www.oma.eu/ http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/washington/seattle/library/mixing.html
"The LLC comprises a 'Learning Center' with workplaces, lounges and cloakrooms, library, a language laboratory, training classrooms, administration offices, study services and central supporting services, copy shop, book shop, data center, cafeteria, event area, clubroom and auditorium." Text and images via: http://www.zaha-hadid.com/education/library-learning-center
"The LLC comprises a 'Learning Center' with workplaces, lounges and cloakrooms, library, a language laboratory, training classrooms, administration offices, study services and central supporting services, copy shop, book shop, data center, cafeteria, event area, clubroom and auditorium." Text and images via: http://www.zaha-hadid.com/education/library-learning-center
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Smaller footprint in ground floor allow for covered public space, and event space in interior. Image Credit: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peckham_Library_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1263976.jpg Richard Rogerson [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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"the circle, the rotunda, the arch and the yurt are merged into the form of a Moebius strip. The clarity of the circle, the courtyard of the rotunda, the gateway of the arch and the soft silhouette of the yurt are combined to create a new national monument appearing local and universal, contemporary and timeless, unique and archetypal at the same time" (Bjarke Ingels). Image via: http://www.archdaily.com/33238/national-library-in-astana-kazakhstan-big/
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"The prominent site on the East River, facing a magnificent view of Manhattan, inspired the design, which cuts the lines of the main interior circulation route into the west façade. " Image and text via: http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=educational&id=119&page=0
A "Manhattan view" stair rises up from the open arrival space, allowing the users a great view toward the city, flanked perpendicularly by reading tables in ascending sections backed with bookcases. While users may be on computers, the view from the entry is of books, and the view on the way up is of the East River and Manhattan. "The program's separation into children's area, teen area and adult area, can be read in the carved cuts of the east face of the building, one façade opening for each area. Yet the programmatic divisions are fluid: not "this is that," as childhood can return. The building section of the new library is open and flowing, while the plan is compact, allowing for the most energy-efficient design and the greatest amount of public space on the site." Image and text via: http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=educational&id=119&page=0
"On the east entrance side , the library together with a low park office pavilion forms a public reading garden with a bosque of ginko trees. Ascending the stair inside one can reach the rooftop reading garden with amazing panoramic views." Image and text via: http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=educational&id=119&page=0
"At night the glowing presence of the new library along the waterfront joins the Pepsi sign and the "Long Island" sign at the old Gantry to become a beacon and inviting icon for this new community place." Image and text via: http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=educational&id=119&page=0
Library and Archives
At a central moment in Vernor Vinge's sci-fi novel "Rainbows End" (2006) the Geisel Library (1970) at UC San Diego experiences a paradigm shift as its contents undergo a dramatic program of digitization: an automated process that involves destroying the source books themselves. This implies that the state of affairs in this near future has evolved into prioritizing the preservation of the content of each of the books at the library to such a degree that only an extremely excessive automated and machine-based scrutiny -- scrutiny with intrinsic destruction of source -- can render maximum fidelity -- minimum error or lapse -- of the material to be preserved.
The spaces of libraries lend themselves well to being representations of either the mind or the universe, as in the case of the emblematic "The Library of Babel" (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges, where a conceptualized library space displays a high degree of cohesion between the books' meanings as collective and individual artifacts, to the geometric logic of the layout of space and its relationship to narrative, as well as the absorption of content and life cycle and, well... the very idea of infinitude that the library's image of language easily suggests.
Libraries have been fundamentally associated with the reception and tending of the past in the multiple forms its recording entails, and the different paradigms of preservation that pass through them across time. A great and varied history of library spaces as places of representation, cultural safe-keeping, hub/connection-making, study and research, religious observance and study, and other behaviors provides examples of often clear differentiations: between Western and Eastern civilizations (so strangely and roughly defined), the so-called developed and developing world, active and dead archives, and other dichotomies.
Parallel to the discussions internal to library and information sciences that tend to focus on content, format, preservation and use, it is important, specifically for architects and designers, to understand the formulation of library spaces as an interface: a place where different media -- and their implied gestures of interaction -- cohabitate and are juxtaposed, compared, remembered, reconstituted and, finally, become part of future constructions of knowledge and actions.
A New Type of Public Space
When OMA designed the Seattle Public Library (2004) they made a clear statement about the new condition of public space that could be found in libraries at the turn of the century (20th to 21st). The concept drawings and schemes, tools to politically negotiate the interiority of this new library and rethink the modes by which themes were encountered, thus restructured how gestures of search and formation could take place. When thematic becomes complex and format becomes both more uniform (digital content) and multifaceted (multiplicity of access space and protocol, proximity and remoteness of content engaged) the typological library space necessarily encounters questions of adjacency between user-derived space as well as those of the new building with other public spaces in the city. The substitution of certain narratives that were founded on the interaction with particular media (particularly, books) give way to the focus on the gesture of production of public space once again(cultural production and preservation/distribution of knowledge).
Several contemporary takes on the library typology -- see examples in gallery -- mainly engage in the celebration of this new public space for its promise of being non prescribed by commercial protocols or agencies. Moreover, the widening public space of individual customization inside libraries seems to begin to engage a potential un-linking of its use from institutional agencies as well. The reverse side of this is of course, the evermore insidious ways in which these system dispositions -- commercial, institutional -- try to make their way back into undefined territory.
Internal Body Shifts and their New Spaces: Media and Scale
Several contemporary libraries -- built or in the making -- have in common a few key attitudes and spaces that today we inevitably see formalized into the brief of any near future library.
These points signal a final shift of libraries from the long incubation period of scholastic studies, into active knowledge production support centers, community centers, workplaces and social incubators. Social and Web media are impacting or being reabsorbed into discourses that deal with navigation and space at varying scales of experience that create many new gradients within the private and the public. The inevitable attention to the concept of Web 2.0 -- where information sharing, collaboration and participation are key concepts -- creates the desire for new models for these spaces to become focused on the users' various navigation, input, feedback and co-operation behaviors.
Themes of contemporary discourse in the disciplines of new media and information and library science will further their presence in architecture, urban design and planning discourse through the increasing inclusion of communication technologies in the very materials with which buildings, cities, infrastructure and landscape are negotiated, articulate, re-imagined, and finally built.
The main features of contemporary library typologies in the developed western world are subject to the digital revolution, and the pervasiveness of information and communication technologies. The following conditions influence the current mode by which libraries operate with the growing tendency of users to transition from information consumers to knowledge producers and libraries from information hubs to cultural production centers:
1. Multimedia: an increasing presence of media content and spaces and features that allow access and interaction with content. Flexible modus operandi is needed to accompany the changing technologies and skills of users and evolutions of their ambitions -- individual and collective. Different media however require different protocols for engagement therefore generating specific needs that have spatial implications, as well as changes in the ways in which structural organization of taxonomies takes place.
2. Production place:the library is a production space where meetings, sharing and collaboration happen. This naturally accompanies what already happens in virtual social, cultural and work networks, where tools for production of information proliferate to provide services to different types of communities, expertise and exchange protocols. Isolation and concentration spaces now become fragments or rhythms situated across a diverse landscape of adjacencies. However, libraries have been concerned with production in several moments of their history and their character as a place of consumption has a particular time frame (I will discuss this in the next article).
3. Social Conviviality and Intersection of live/work modalities: libraries propose ever more comfortable spaces to study/work, offering different platforms of mediation for working and socializing (some libraries even host massage sessions and dance classes). General libraries tune up their facilities with coffee shops, hosting lectures and cultural events, and diversify spaces to allow the cohabitation of different groups of people as well as different modalities of use by each user. Libraries also propose themselves as a node with a wider reach than their apparent body suggests, allowing users to tap into their remote resources Research libraries will often have spaces that can be temporarily customized, as in the case of some university libraries that allow researchers to temporarily build a "station", or a second-home, within the public space of the private library.
4. Interconnectivity: the library is a hub to reach other networks and materials. Additionally to the commonly known interlibrary loan systems, libraries increasingly belong to consortiums which allow them to expand their -- mainly digital -- collections and increasingly these include periodicals and access to diverse digital databases. This means that their spaces expand their condition of hubs to a widening circle of reach by communities, potentially acquiring new value as nodes and centers of cultural connection and production.
5. Educational Events: libraries hold the materials that educational institutions distribute. With a new density and character of learning and exchange spaces in libraries, the distance between archives and their unpacking is bridged creating a new opportunity for the rethinking of education and its rhythms or cycles and information collection and preservation and its value systems. As well, there are far more offers of media to produce and exchange information across users, which can be done outside of institutions, greatly modifying the role these have over the production of educational events. The difference between information, formation and knowledge can become more visible again.
It is not often yet that an Architect will be asked to design the particular way in which digital database is accessed or the ways their visualizations or interactivity can happen. Instead, many of the points above, when distilled into a spatial design strategy tend to deal with the physical space elements as operators of the large ensemble. For this reason, the common contemporary synthesis that responds to the typological shifts above is not proportional, as seen below:
1. Miniaturization of program: Though several programs can be found in the library they partake with the other programs and spaces so that they more easily cater to their function of providing to the real main typological space -- a public space.
Libraries are less public plazas than they are miniature cities. Having several units of the same program -- in frank market competition -- seems key to making the library space a second home: several cafes, reading rooms, relaxation rooms, lecture rooms, game areas.
2. Customization: after what could have become an inflated tendency to bring the public realm within the private, libraries clearly have private living rooms within their public space. The strong focus on a new furniture politics, its diversity, modularity and reconfigurability are evidence of a by now long standing use of libraries as a second home. The emphasis on generic comfort and "lounging" equipment as well as on open rooms for playing Wii -- with top sound equipment -- both refer back to a portable sphere of individuality, intimacy and domesticity which travels comfortably in what was formerly called collective public space.
3. Production areas: Individual or collective, production areas demand both miniaturization and customization because they are places where synthesis happens. Folksonomic systems are not news anymore and they refer to a collaboration that can happen both in co-present work meetings but as well in the "privacy" of networked individual, multi-valent, library "stations" or rooms.
Shifts also include differentiation of spaces for diverse behavior required by media or content (ex. Demographic) -- audio, image, objects, classes, interactive, games. As well, it means provision of plug-in flexibility, that is, spaces have receptors of devices brought by users -- laptops, smartphones, reading devices, mini-projection areas, etc.
4. Interiority outside: The contemporary library space engages other public spaces in the landscape it belongs to by expanding its interior outwards. Again, this seems to be a clear argument already in the Seattle Library by OMA, where a (proportionally) thin transparent mesh wraps around the interiority of the program within and its spatial play.
It seems as if architects would do away with this last barrier if possible and would directly connect these new educational centers - central for a continuing education future society - to the surrounding landscape (whatever that may become...).
This interiority is also two-fold
5. Outside outside: In a truly overlayed and overlaying society (West, developed) networked content is essential to navigate. Libraries become the possible spaces to be in the truly outside. For this reason, they tend to incorporate an exterior space within. Or multiple. Simple exterior and green spaces are now too local to be neutral. Or private. The learned, second-skin, prescribed space of the library lends more outsides to the possible exterior than the non-prescribed exterior can do now.
Information or Culture Production Center?
Historically, the archive has been defined by its content, meaning, and its cultural difference or range of cultural differences. But one could argue that if museums are more associated with the preservation of the past, libraries seem to constantly give away a society's dreams and/or preoccupations with its future. The perseverance of the library typology to pop up as counter-actors in economically harsh environments seems to be clear evidence of this.
The added value that libraries gain by sheer numbers -- diversity and quantity of materials and remote locations accessed - might continue to shift their role into cultural hubs -- literally becoming large living rooms - therefore creating new modalities of collective work-live-study spaces and the landscapes they can form. The future of libraries will perhaps be inextricably linked to a new mode of reification of locality to be produced.
The difference between public and private libraries is very relevant to this discussion and can be furthermore discussed in the context of the influence that open source and copy-left movements have had in the realm of publications and copy-right law at large. The problem of private vs. public access is never to be dismissed in design culture but is often difficult to engage directly. An addition to these transformations will be the shifting role of the librarian(s) as libraries strengthen their character as production centers.
The examples provided in the photo gallery are characteristic of this particular transition period where a merging of library spaces with their twins -- educational institutions -- creates hybrid institutions with diverse focus points on how they define their own locality.
Carla Leitão is an architect, designer and writer currently living, working and teaching Architecture in New York. Practice and academic works interests in ubiquity and intersection of new media and architecture.
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Cambodia has two principal types of visa: (1) the tourist 'T' class visa, which is valid for 30 days on a singly-entry basis and can only be extended once, and, (2) the business 'E' visa, which is initially also valid for 30 days on a multiple-entry basis and can be extended by one, three, six or 12 months, which you can continue to do indefinitely (at the time of writing in March 2015). The fee for a tourist visa is $30, while the one-month business visa is $35.
You can obtain your visa either on arrival, or online in advance as a tourist e-visa, which costs $37 including a $7 processing fee. The tourist e-Visa should take three working days to process and is valid for use for three months from the date of issue. An e-visa will only be accepted at Siem Reap and Phnom Penh airports, Koh Kong, Poipet (from Thailand), and Bavet (from Vietnam).
For a visa-on-arrival, you will need to bring two passport photos with you, or you will be charged a $1 "administration fee", and for the tourist e-visa, you need to file a digital photo.
Beware that overcharging may occur on overland crossings. You can choose to argue with officials, but the easiest way to get through is to simply smile, be sincerely polite and hand over the correct amount in dollars.
While most people get the visa on arrival, if you are planning on entering at Koh Kong, it is worth considering getting your visa beforehand to avoid any "misunderstandings" at the crossing. Given how easy it is to get an e-visa, and as they are valid at the Koh Kong crossing, the e-visa is really the way to go.
A tourist visa can be extended once, for 30 days only. The extension costs US$50. Business visas can be extended pretty much forever. The fees are $50 for one month, $80 for two months, $160 for six months and $290 for one year. Both types of extensions take a day or two and are best handled through agents.
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The main issue facing tourists is that tourist visas can only be extended once. If you are looking at a longer stay in Cambodia, get a business visa. It costs just $5 more, requires no extra paperwork, and can be extended for a far longer period.
While it isn't a big deal to overstay a visa in Cambodia, it does get expensive quickly. The base fine is $6 per day of overstay. So for instance if you overstay by five days, you will be required to pay $30 on exit.
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The main potential problem revolves around buying your visa at the border. Some immigration officers demand that you pay in baht, using a very poor exchange rate (and they pocket the difference). This is a particular problem at the Koh Kong crossing. The easiest way to avoid the problem is to get your visa in advance or don't use the Koh Kong crossing.
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