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Book Notes: Aug. 26, 2012
Midwife pens first novel CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Patricia Harmon's novel "The Midwife of Hope River," published by William Morrow Paperbacks, will go on sale Aug. 28. The Morgantown woman has spent more than 30 years as both a lay midwife and a nurse midwife. She has written about her experiences in two earlier memoirs. In her first novel, a publisher's news release says, "Harmon explores one of the most tumultuous times in American history and the challenges that the Depression, Prohibition and the West Virginia coal wars brought to an already struggling Appalachia." The Library Journal describes the novel as "an uncommonly good piece of American historical fiction," and Kirkus writes, "Midwives are warriors in this beautifully sweeping tale." Harmon will launch her debut novel at 7 p.m. Aug. 28 at the Morgantown Barnes & Noble, 3000 University Town Centre Drive. History of W.Va. Capitol CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A former statehouse reporter for the Charleston Daily Mail has written a history of the West Virginia Capitol. Jim Wallace, author of "A History of the West Virginia Capitol: The House of State," said his paperback book also serves as a guide for visitors "to the many artistic features of the building and its campus. The Capitol is a masterpiece from the legendary architect Cass Gilbert, but state officials began deviating from his plans before the building was finished." This year is the 80th anniversary of dedication of the Capitol. Wallace spent two decades covering state government as a newspaper and radio reporter. He is senior counsel for public relations for TSG Consulting in Charleston. The book, published by the History Press in Charleston, S.C., is available at local bookstores and online for $14.99. 'Shrapnel' book signing CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Marie Manilla, of Huntington, will sign copies of her novel "Shrapnel" from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 22 at Taylor Books. She is a graduate of West Virginia University, Marshall University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her collection of stories "Still Life with Plums" was published by WVU Press in 2010. Her latest novel, "The Patron Saint of Ugly," was just purchased by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and will be published in spring 2014. Valerie Neiman, author of "Blood Clay," wrote this about "Shrapnel": "From the opening pages, where we find Bing Butler selling off the remnants of his life at a yard sale, 'Shrapnel' takes us on a journey through the reshaping of the American family and American community. Texan, veteran, workingman, husband -- the life that Bing Butler had imagined for himself has exploded, and he will have to assemble a new one from the shards, far across the country in West Virginia, a place known only through jokes and stereotypes. This crotchety Candide will be led astray and will experience terrible, ordinary betrayals on his way to a future he'd not imagined. This is a sensitively wrought first novel with characters you'll long remember." Find more about Manilla's work at www.mariemanilla.com. Poetry 'Reflections' CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Letha Judge, a West Virginia native, has published a book of poetry titled "Reflections of the Soul." Judge attended West Virginia University-Parkersburg where she studied journalism and creative writing. Her book is available online from www.createspace.com/3953394, amazon.com and on her Facebook page. Vote for Reel Teens CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Voting starts Monday in the Kanawha County Public Library's Reel Teens Book Trailer Contest. Teens have been working all summer writing and filming their own trailers for a favorite book, using live action, animation, puppetry or any other form of filmmaking. Visit the library's website at www.kanawhalibrary.org to view the entries and to vote. Voting ends at the close of business on Sept. 10. Cash awards will go to the top three vote-getters: $100 for first place, $50 for second, $25 for third. Winners will be announced Sept. 12. Prizes are provided by the Friends of The Library Foundation of Kanawha County.


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Maria Sharapova looked stunning at the annual Vanity Fair Oscar Party last night. According to her website, the Russian glamazon "wore a dress by Amanda Wakeley, shoes by Manolo Blahnik and accessorized it with a clutch bag by Alexander McQueen, earrings by Isharaya and cuffs by Katherine Sultan."
The site even delves deep into her hair and makeup inspirations: "Inspirations for Maria's hair: Sleek, modern and chic. Inspiration for Maria's makeup: Chic, young, classic, neutral palette, and lip on channel coco moisturizing lip balm. Line on top of eyes to define her eyes with voluminous mascara." Like I said, DEEP.
She also got to tweeting about her prep and the dangers of dressing in a floor-length at a crowded party (I totes get it):
Four hours of training in the morning, a baby birthday stop by and now the Vanity Fair party. I've seen it all today. Busy #oscars2013 day!
— Maria Sharapova (@MariaSharapova) February 25, 2013
Is the Vanity Fair party ready for some more sleek blonde hair action? #OscarReady
— Maria Sharapova (@MariaSharapova) February 25, 2013
Floor length gowns don't really work in sardine canned environments. #redcarpet
— Maria Sharapova (@MariaSharapova) February 25, 2013
UPDATE: Here's an interview from the Oscar party.
[Photo(s) credit: Getty Images]

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I have a friend in Glennallen that has been after me to come up and hunt with him. I was wondering how good the opportunities are for moose and caribou in that area - chances of success, trophy size, etc.?


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STEUBENVILLE - Two second half scoring bursts made the difference Tuesday as Steubenville's girls knocked off Oak Glen 53-39 and advanced to the finals of the Wheeling Hospital OVAC Class 4A Tournament.
Phil Casinelli's top-seeded crew will play the survivor of tonight's Martins Ferry-Union Local clash at 3 p.m. Saturday for the conference crown. The title game is scheduled for Ohio University's Eastern campus in St. Clairsville.
"It definitely is a nice win for our program," Casinelli said. "I'm so proud of our girls. This is a great accomplishment for them. They work hard and they earned it.
"We'll enjoy this for maybe a day. We'll find how who our opponent will be then we'll get to work and come up with a game plan."
The trip to the OVAC championship contest will be Big Red's first in four years.
Big Red (14-7) and Oak Glen went toe to toe during the first 16 minutes. The Golden Bears used baskets by Jessica Stivason, Casey Patterson and Kaitlyn Herstine to grab a 14-10 advantage after one quarter.
Lysiah Rice and Hannah Masloski recorded back-to-back hoops to give Big Red a 22-20 lead at halftime. The contest featured five opening half lead changes.
Scott Wiley's Oak Glen club knocked seven of its first 12 field goal tries and shot 50 percent (10 for 20) for the half.
The hosts led 30-27 midway through the third before staging their initial scoring run. Rice got things rolling when she scored from the lane. The Masloski sisters - Hannah and Emiley - then drained consecutive triples and Big Red was up 38-27. It was 38-29 Big Red heading into the final quarter.
Oak Glen wasn't about to go away quietly. Vanessa Hissam, Stivason and Tori Feicht all scored to open the fourth and slice the Big Red lead to 38-35. Points by Mytia Baker and Emiley Masloski put the score at 43-35. OG's Alex Arnott recorded a pair before Big Red put the semifinal win on ice with a second 8-0 burst.
Barker turned consecutive Emiley Masloski passes into points then the two juniors each sank a pair of free throws. Barker scored 10 of her team's 17 fourth stanza markers.
After shooting well in the first half, the Golden Bears were just seven for 24 during the final quarters and were guilty of 12 turnovers.
"Their pressure hurt us and we didn't handle the ball well," Wiley said. "We had some open shots but we couldn't get the ball in the hole. They play tough man to man defense and we knew that coming. There's a reason why they're number one in the OVAC."
Casinelli pointed out his team did make some defensive adjustments at the half.
"We were getting beat on back-door plays on the baseline in the first half," he said. "The girls responded to the changes made by the coaching staff and did a great job in the second.
"Any time you can hit the three that definitely is a plus. We haven't been able to hit three's recently but tonight a few fell at the right time. We hit some shots, got a couple of defensive stops and that's how you get those 8-0 runs."
Barker led Big Red in scoring with 18 and also collected nine of her team's 22 rebounds.
"I think playing the last two weeks without Emiley, Mytia really stepped up and played," Casinelli said. "She gained confidence in herself and it showed. She knew she had to pick up her game and she did a great job of rebounding, attacking the basket and getting to the foul line."
Emiley Masloski, still not at full strength, added 10 and dished out five assists. Hannah Masloski added nine and three assists.
Stivanson, who canned her first four shots, paced Oak Glen, now 9-8, with 10 points. Feicht and Hissam each had eight. The Golden Bears had 30 rebounds, Hissam getting nine and also blocking five shots.


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My good friend Jan-Eric browsed bikes for months on end, trying to find a proper bike for him and his 2 year old son. New, second-hand (if you include 1930's Gazelle transport bikes) and he was recently handed-down a 35-year-old Gazelle gents bike by a friend to tie him over.
This weekend he visited me for my house warming party and as he rode with me on the back of my bike on Friday afternoon, we figured we might as well get him a good rental bike. So we oozed over to Workcycles.
The rental part quickly faded when he entered the shop. He talked to mechanic Tom about his needs:
They talked details a bit and Jan-Eric went for a test ride. Fast forward 5 minutes. "Wow…", "Smooth…", "Beautiful…". "Ok, how much is it?", "…oh, really." "You can deduct it from your business account through the national Fietsenplan.". Fast forward another 5 minutes: "Tom, how quickly can you get it ready for me?" "One hour." "Ok, please do, I'll take it."
Obviously, Jan-Eric had fallen in love with it. It was sort of at 'second sight', as he was very familiar with my bike, but I'm sure this black steed appeared all new to him.
We watched as Tom made the adjustments Jan-Eric wanted. Handlebars like mine (wider, more comfortable), coat guards to ensure that his son won't hurt himself when he takes his feet out of the fitted foot rests), test-fitting a Bo-Bike seat, attaching a steel cable to secure his Brooks saddle, and last but not least, 'No Fr8 without a crate'.
All done, we rode off, two FR8's side by side, as it seems it was meant to be. One owner totally amused, another completely smitten.
His maiden ride that evening was quite interesting, as it couldn't be more Amsterdamish; one big string of downpours would follow us through the night when we went bar/club-hopping.
"At least we've got the water baptism over and done with".
Parking them in the bike garage next to club Paradiso prompted another shot…but the moment that really iced the cake was when we exited the supermarket the next day. Tens of kilos worth of food but mostly beverages needed to be hauled back home. Perfect job for the Freight Brothers. No sweat, either.
Stay tuned for the video of Jan-Eric leaving the shop and venturing into town on his first real ride.
[Update] Meanwhile, check out this visual of Jan-Eric's son, checking out the Fr8. You can hear him think "Now this is the perfect ring side seat for me…". :)


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Just hours after a Swiss bank froze access today to a legal defense fund established for WikiLeaks provocateur Julian Assange, a group of hackers have shut down the bank's Web site in an escalating "infowar."
A group calling itself Operation Payback took responsibility for the Internet attack on the Swiss bank, PostFinance, via its Twitter account. "We will fire at anyone that tries to censor WikiLeaks," the group said in its announcement.
Congressman Steve Chabot could give Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci a few pointers about doing quick backflips.
Less than three days after Chabot prohibited the use of cameras at a supposed "town hall" meeting in North Avondale and used the services of a Cincinnati police officer to stop offenders, the congressman is rescinding the rule for future sessions.
Never piss off the proletariat.
Upset about his low pay and dismal working conditions, a worker at one of Facebook's Third World contractors has leaked the social media site's ultra-secret document about what type of content it censors.
Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, worked for an outsourcing firm last year that scanned Facebook members' pages for banned content. Given Facebook's profitability, Derkaoui became angry about its stinginess with workers.
As a result, Derkaoui gave a copy of Facebook's internal guidelines about what content it will delete to Gawker, a top Internet gossip site.
Some of the forbidden items are obvious like racial slurs, depictions of human or animal mutilation, photographs or cartoons of sexual activity, violent speech and content that organizes or promotes illegal activity.
But some of the other verboten items are more unusual, if not downright strange.
For example, naked "private parts" including female nipple bulges and butt cracks are forbidden, but male nipples are allowed. The list specifically mentions "mothers breastfeeding" as unacceptable.
Also, most depictions of bodily fluids are unacceptable, but not all. It lists "urine, feces, vomit, semen, pus and ear wax" as unacceptable (yes, ear wax). But, it helpfully notes, "cartoon feces, urine and spit are OK; real and cartoon snot is OK." Well, that's good to know.
Other items subject to deletion include cartoon nudity, images of internal organs, bones, muscles, tendons and "deep flesh wounds," along with "blatant (obvious) depiction of camel toes and moose knuckles." (Confession: I had to Google "moose knuckle" to know what that meant.)
Images of "crushed heads, limbs, etc. are OK," however, as long as "no insides are showing" and the person posting them doesn't express delight or gratification.
Moreover, all criticism of Ataturk, the founder of the nation of Turkey, along with images depicting the burning of Turkish flags are forbidden. It's believed this restriction is due to certain European laws that, if violated, could cause the site to be blocked in Turkey.
The 17-page manual includes a one-page "cheat sheet" so workers can quickly reference it when making decisions about what to delete.
Gawker said Derkaoui found his job through the outsourcing firm oDesk, which provides content moderation services for Facebook and Google. About 50 people across the globe — mostly in Turkey, the Philippines, Mexico and India — work to moderate Facebook content. They work from home in four-hour shifts and earn $1 per hour plus commissions.
"It's humiliating. They are just exploiting the Third World," Derkaoui told Gawker.
If you need to do some research, post on Facebook or look at online porn (c'mon, we know you do it), you had better get it done before March 31.
That's when the global computer hacking group known as Anonymous — or someone claiming to represent it — allegedly plans to launch "Operation Global Blackout." To protest efforts by corporations and governments to restrict access to some material on the internet, the hacktivists plan to shut the web down, maybe just for an hour or perhaps much longer.
Almost every year, the Super Bowl is the most-watched television program and it's not just football fans who are responsible for the massive viewership. The annual game has become a social event replete with parties and non-football fans who tune in to see highly publicized halftime shows, inventive commercials and episodes of promising new TV shows afterward.
Some people might call it the "Case of the Conveniently Disappearing Blog Item."
In an instance of revising history to suit changing political circumstances that would make old Soviet-style bureaucrats proud, a conservative anti-tax group has deleted a nasty blog item attacking a local official now that the person has agreed to help a fundraiser for the group.
After WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange voluntarily turned himself into British authorities today, he was denied bail and remains in custody until at least Dec. 14, according to The Guardian newspaper in London.
Assange, 39, was told by London Metropolitan police about new charges he faces in connection with two sexual encounters he had in Sweden. "He is accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010," the newspaper reported.
Censorship is one of the major reasons we have a constitution and the form of government everyone points to as the best in the world. But that doesn't stop individuals and groups from claiming objectionable materials must be removed from libraries and other institutions.
The Nazis used book burning to censor reading, but we're more "enlightened" here in the U.S. Instead we create what might appear to be reasonable arguments for saving people from themselves and their ignorance about the perils, usually moral in nature, such writing creates.
To call attention to those people who think the First Amendment applies to others, we celebrate the 26th Banned Book Week this week. "Observed since 1982 during the last week of September each year, Banned Books Week celebrates the Freedom to Read," according to Kristin Fahrenholz, an ACLU law clerk. "Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose and the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular. It also stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them."
Sponsored by rabble such as the American Booksellers Association, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Association of American Publishers and National Association of College Stores, Banned Book Week is also endorsed by that most subversive of all groups, the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. In a press release about this important week, Fahrenholz and the ACLU provide some interesting information:
"What is Censorship?
"Censorship is the suppression of ideas and information that certain persons -- individuals, groups or government officials -- find objectionable or dangerous. Censors try to use the power of the state to impose their view of what is truthful and appropriate, or offensive and objectionable, on everyone else. Censors pressure public institutions, like libraries, to suppress and remove from public access information they judge inappropriate or dangerous, so that no one else has the chance to read or view the material and make up their own minds about it. The censor wants to prejudge materials for everyone.
"Who Attempts Censorship?
"In most instances, a censor is a sincerely concerned individual who believes that censorship can improve society, protect children, and restore what the censor sees as lost moral values. But under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, each of us has the right to read, view, listen to, and disseminate constitutionally protected ideas, even if a censor finds those ideas offensive.
"Often challenges to books are motivated by a desire to protect children from 'inappropriate' sexual content or 'offensive' language. Although this is a commendable motivation, the Library Bill of Rights states that 'Librarians and governing bodies should maintain that parents -- and only parents -- have the right and the responsibility to restrict access of their children and only their children to library resources.' Censorship by librarians of constitutionally protected speech, whether for protection or for any other reason, violates the First Amendment.
"What Is the Difference Between a Challenge and a Banning?
"A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials."
Challenging the ban on a book is simple: Go to your local public library and check out a copy of one of the most frequently banned books of 2007:
1) And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
Reasons: Anti-Ethnic, Sexism, Homosexuality, Anti-Family, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group
2) The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Violence
3) Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
Reasons: Sexually Explicit and Offensive Language
4) The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Reasons: Religious Viewpoint
5) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Reasons: Racism
6) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language
7) TTYL by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group
8) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Reasons: Sexually Explicit
9) It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Reasons: Sex Education, Sexually Explicit
10) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group
Off the list this year are two books by author Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye and Beloved. Both have been challenged for sexual content and offensive language.
If these books aren't in your library, demand an explanation, write a letter of protest and encourage others to do the same. If the books are there, happy reading!
— Margo Pierce
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Is your favorite new show in danger?
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- On TV Guide's website, there's a headline that proclaims "Save These Shows!" It's a list of shows that are in danger of being canceled, of which you can rank your top five and share your choices with friends. It's a way for you to spread the word for others to watch and perhaps boost the ratings of your favorite flagging shows.
The list is: "666 Park Avenue" (10 p.m. Sunday, ABC), "Beauty and the Beast" (9 p.m. Thursday, CW), "Chicago Fire" (10 p.m. Wednesday, NBC), "Emily Owens, M.D." (9 p.m. Tuesday, CW), "Guys with Kids" (8:30 p.m. Wednesday, NBC), "Last Resort" (8 p.m. Thursday, ABC), "The Mob Doctor" (9 p.m. Monday, Fox), "Nashville" (10 p.m. Wednesday, ABC), "The Neighbors" (8:30 p.m. Wednesday, ABC), "Partners" (8:30 p.m. Monday, CBS) and "Up All Night" (8:30 p.m. Thursday, NBC).
("Guys'" Wednesday night partner, "Animal Practice," isn't on that list because it's already been canceled. The final episode airs at 8 p.m. Wednesday.)
Obviously, I am SUPER bummed that "666" is on the list. The only reason I can think that it hasn't caught on better is that it's not super soapy like a lot of ABC's other dramas, including its lead-in, "Revenge." I guess it's not soapy enough to be a guilty pleasure, but it's too much of a straight-up drama for people who want their Sunday ABC shows to have some levity (see "Desperate Housewives," "GCB").
It has a great cast, though, and it's wonderfully atmospheric. In addition to the main story of the building owners (Terry O'Quinn and Vanessa Williams) and the new managing couple (Dave Annable and Rachael Taylor), the opportunity for supernatural stories is virtually limitless, since it's set in a large apartment building that always seems to have some openings.
I've seen it referred to by some as "American Horror Story lite," but I prefer "666" to that show. It has genuine creepiness that's just as effective, although much more understated than the over-the-top horror in "AHS," which I often find more funny than scary.
As for the other shows on the list, I've already stopped watching a number of them: "Emily Owens, M.D.," "Guys with Kids," "The Mob Doctor," "The Neighbors" and "Partners." Most likely, "Beauty and the Beast" and "Chicago Fire" will join them soon; I've got several episodes of each that I haven't gotten around to watching yet because their pilots didn't hold my interest.
I'm still on the fence with "Nashville." I enjoy "Last Resort," although I won't be heartbroken if it gets canceled (but I do hope it's given enough notice so it can give us some sort of conclusion).
The lone returning show on the list is "Up All Night," and I'm OK with that. It was one of my favorite new shows last season, but I haven't enjoyed it nearly as much since they retooled it this season, canceling Ava's talk show and adding the character of Regan's brother.
At midseason, it will go on a three-month hiatus to be retooled again, turning it into a more traditional multi-camera/live-audience show. Then, it gets five new episodes to prove itself before the end of the season.
That might be more than other shows on the list get, so if something you like is on it, watch now, while you still can.
Series premieres: "Malibu Country," 8:30 p.m. Friday, ABC (Reba McEntire sitcom); "Dangerous Grounds," 10 p.m. Monday, Travel (global search for rare coffee beans); "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley," 10 p.m. Monday, Bravo (young tech entrepreneurs); "LOLwork," 11 p.m. Wednesday, Bravo (inside Internet humor site ICanHasCheezburger.com).
Season premieres: "Last Man Standing," 8 p.m. Friday, ABC; "Undercover Boss," 8 p.m. Friday, CBS; "Gold Rush," 8 p.m. Friday, Discovery; "Brides of Beverly Hills," 10 p.m. Friday, TLC; "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," 9 p.m. Monday, Bravo; "Moonshiners," 10 p.m. Wednesday, Discovery; "Top Chef," 10 p.m. Wednesday, Bravo.
Schedule changes: "The Voice" rerun pre-empts NBC's comedies Thursday; "The X Factor" extra episode, 8 p.m. Sunday, Fox; election coverage pre-empts all primetime network shows Tuesday.
Season finale: "Call the Midwife," 8 p.m. Sunday, PBS.
Series finales: "The Men who Built America," 8 p.m. Sunday, History (miniseries); "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations," 9 p.m. Monday, Travel.
Special: "Country Music Association Awards," 8 p.m. Thursday, ABC.
Of note: See Dr. Dog on "Austin City Limits," 10 p.m. Saturday, PBS2, then hear them live at "Mountain Stage" at Huntington's Keith Albee Theater, 7 p.m. Sunday.
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Diesel prices drop below $4 per gallon
May 24, 2011
Diesel prices dropped 6.4 cents this week to $3.997 per gallon, according to the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA).
This represents the single largest weekly decline since a 7.3 cent dip from the week of May 24, 2010, and it marks the third straight week and the fourth out of the last five that the price per gallon of diesel headed down. This is also the first time diesel has been below the $4 per gallon mark since hitting $3.976 on April 14.
On an annual basis, the price per gallon for diesel is up $0.976 per gallon.
A recent report from the EIA stated that the recent decline could be due to a softening in demand, given a May 12 report from the EIA which indicated that the country's crude inventories rose by 3.8 million barrels in the first week of May, and that gasoline stockpiles rose 1.3 million barrels, suggesting demand for crude and gasoline is softening, according to a Dow Jones report.
Even with the recent decline of diesel prices, shippers and carriers remain concerned about the price of diesel and oil. While many have told LM that prices at current levels are still digestible, they cautioned that could quickly change depending on how quickly prices rise with summer driving season approaching.
In terms of how these prices can impact supply chain and logistics operations at a time when freight volumes are showing slow but consistent growth, many shippers have expressed concern about the pace of these diesel increases, explaining that if prices continue to rise at their current pace, it has the potential to hinder growth and increase operating costs, which will, in turn, force them to raise rates and offset the increased prices to consumers.
The price per barrel for oil is currently trading at $98.57 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, according to wire reports. This is slightly up from previous levels, due to Goldman Sachs raising its crude forecasts on concern the shutdown of Libyan output will drain spare OPEC supplies, according to the Associated Press.
Goldman said that it expects the "ongoing loss of Libyan crude oil production and disappointing non-OPEC production will continue to tighten the oil market," noted the AP report. "It's only a matter of time until inventories and OPEC spare capacity will become effectively exhausted, requiring higher oil prices to restrain demand."
Derik Andreoli, Ph.D.c., Senior Analyst at Mercator International, LLC, noted in a recent LM blog posting that volatility is precisely what should be expected when oil markets are tight, as they have been since the onset of the recovery.
"Despite living up to expectations, however, the recent volatility has led some to conclude that the prices simply don't reflect the underlying fundamentals of supply and demand, but such a conclusion is not supported by sober analysis," he wrote. "The majority of recent news regarding the supply side of the equation strongly indicates a further tightening of oil and fuel supplies."
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Roger Federer has organized an mixed-doubles exhibition ahead of this year's Australian Open to support the relief efforts in Haiti.
Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt, Serena Williams, Kim Clijsters and Sam Stosur have agreed to join the world's top baller on Sunday in raising funds for the survivors of Tuesday's devastating earthquake which has claimed tens of thousands of lives already.
"I had the idea we could do something to help Haiti after the tragic earthquake. So, I spoke to some other top players ... they said 'yes, we should do something'," said Federer.He also took to his Facebook page to announce the event with Rafa following suit on his:
We play an exhibition match at Melbourne Park tomorrow to help the victims in Haiti. Roger's idea, he texted me and I thank him for that. It is at 2 pm so we hope that you can come so that we raise money also with your help. IT's a few of us, not just Roger and me. also Novak, Kim, Lleyton, Andy,... Roger's idea, great one!. You have to come! Don't forget!A-Rod, ReRe + Kimmie took to Twitter to spread the word.
The event will take place at 2pm local time and tickets will be $10 for adults and free for children under 12. Make it if you can and support the cause!
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Hostess Brands Inc., Irving, Texas, will terminate its defined benefit plan, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. will assume its liabilities, said Lance Ignon, Hostess spokesman.
The news follows Hostess' announcement on Nov. 16 that it will close its business and sell off all its assets.
Hostess suspended payments to the 42 multiemployer pension plans to which it contributes in August 2011. "For active employees, the circumstances differ for each MEPP, so (participants) should contact the administrator of the MEPP" in which they participate, Ignon said in an email, citing an employee Q&A document. He could not provide further information by press time.
The company's IBC Defined Benefit Plan had about $56 million in assets and $111 million in liabilities as of April 30, according to the PBGC.
"PBGC exists to safeguard retirement security in uncertain times, and that's what we'll do for the 2,300 men and women in Hostess' single-employer plan if the company liquidates. The plan is underfunded by about $55 million," said J. Jioni Palmer, PBGC spokesman, in an emailed statement.
"Hostess belongs to 42 multiemployer plans, but its liquidation wouldn't cause those plans to immediately become insolvent. PBGC doesn't take responsibility for multiemployer plans, but instead gives financial assistance to the plans that can't pay benefits," Palmer said.
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I recently upgraded a 5.0.9 system to 6.0.6
The posix extensions where installed prior to the upgrade.
As the wikis where not very clear (to me) I did undeploy and removed all the samba/posix stuff using Uninstall Instructions for Unix and Windows Account Management in Admin UI
I noticed that my last created users were not showing in zimbra admin UI but the stores were still in place.
zmprov gaa did not list them too
I re-created the users and changed the sambaID and could access to the users accounts
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As I cleaned those attributes earlier, I can't figure out where such attributes may still sit.
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outputs no attributes left on any accountCode:for i in `zmprov -l gaa`; do echo $i && zmprov ga $i | grep -i "uidNumber|gidNumber|loginShell|sambaAcctFlags|sambaSID|homeDirectory|sambaNTPassword|samba"; done
but when I try to change a user password, the admin complains about missing sambaNTPassword attribute
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May 31, 2016
A Meridian businesswoman says she's not into politics but she is into making things better for the community. Kim Houston says that's why she's running for city council.
Houston, an insurance agent, says the foundation of her campaign is that strong schools produce strong communities:
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Houston will challenge incumbent Barbara Henson. The deadline to qualify for municipal elections is Mar. 8.
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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) -- Investigators are trying to figure out who shot a 15-year-old boy to death as he walked home with a friend in Rocky Mount.
Authorities said Brian Freeman died shortly after he was shot around 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
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RICHMOND, Va. � The Southern Environmental Law Center is out with its latest endangered places in the Southeast and there are some familiar names among the top 10.
The list released Thursday includes places in five states that the environmental group says face the threat of intrusive development, such as proposed highways and energy projects. It includes, for instance, Southside Virginia and what it calls the continuing threat of uranium mining; and a proposed timber sale within view of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, N.C. Some 472 acres of forest could be lost.
Other entries include an unlined coal ash pond near Myrtle Beach, S.C., that is leaking levels of arsenic; and plans for reservoirs in the Atlanta area that the SELC says are not needed and threaten water supplies downstream.
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Odyssey c. Eighth Century B.C.
Greek poem.
For information on the Iliad, see CMLC, Volume 1.
The Odyssey is considered one of the greatest literary achievements of Western civilization. Composed of twenty-four books totaling over 12,000 lines, it details the wanderings of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and focuses on his honor, bravery, resourcefulness, and nobility. Although the Odyssey has been deemed inferior to Homer's other epic, the Iliad, by many critics, it has been praised for its structural sophistication, thematic consistency, and complex characterization.
Plot and Major Characters
The story of the Odyssey begins ten years after the fall of Troy, during which interval Odysseus has been trying to return to Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope, is faithfully waiting for his return. The reader is first introduced to the hero, Odysseus, in Book V, near the end of his seven-year captivity by the goddess Calypso. Under Zeus's orders, Calypso releases Odysseus, who, after building an improvised boat, resumes his journey home. Along the way Odysseus stops at the island of Phaeacia, where he meets the young princess Nausicaa and recounts to the Phaeacians his adventures during the first three years after the Trojan War— with the Lotus-Eaters, the Cyclops, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Sirens. Odysseus sets out to sea again and upon his arrival in his kingdom discovers that Penelope is being courted by suitors who are also plotting to kill his son, Telemachos. Disguised as a beggar, Odysseus mingles with the suitors in his palace, talks with Penelope, and is recognized by his old nurse, Eurycleia. He is also reunited with Telemachos, and together they plan their revenge against the suitors. Penelope, longing for Odysseus's return but realizing that she can no longer delay replying to the suitors' marriage requests, decides to hold a bow-and-arrow contest and offers herself as the prize. The suitors try in vain to string Odysseus's bow, and finally Odysseus (still dressed as a beggar) steps forward to try. He succeeds, revealing his identity, and together he and Telemachos kill the suitors; Odysseus then approaches Penelope, who is still not convinced that he is truly her husband. As a final test to determine if her husband has really returned home, Penelope asks Odysseus a question about their marriage bed, and his correct answer proves his identity. They go to their bed, make love, and exchange stories of what has happened since they were last together. Odysseus then resumes his place as King of Ithaca and restores peace to his kingdom.
Major Themes
The central theme of the Odyssey is that of disguise and recognition. The clearest example of this is Odysseus's concealment of his identity from his friends and family in Ithaca and the subsequent private scenes of recognition that structure the second half of the poem. Odysseus reveals his identity to a number of characters in the poem: his son, Telemachos, who then makes plans to help him kill the suitors; his dog, Argus, who recognizes his scent and dies from the excitement of his master's return home; his nurse, who sees the scar on his thigh by which she recognizes Odysseus as she bathes him; his wife, Penelope, who is cautious to believe he has returned; his father, Laertes, who regains physical and emotional strength upon his son's return home; and the suitors, who are punished for their selfish and underhanded actions during Odysseus's absence. Sheila Murnaghan has noted that, furthermore, "the reunions of these characters with Odysseus involve these characters' own shedding of disguise and recognition as well as his." Laertes, for example, sheds his rags and the weakness of old age upon Odysseus's return, becoming the strong patriarch that Odysseus left behind twenty years earlier. Telemachos also undergoes a change, but, unlike that of Laertes, it is not a recovery of a previous state but growth into a new state of maturity. The complex nature of the two main characters, Odysseus and Penelope, also plays an important part in the Odyssey. W. B. Stanford has praised Odysseus as "one of the fullest and most versatile characters in literature: a symbol of the Ionic-Greek Everyman in his eloquence, cleverness, unscrupulousness, intellectual curiosity, courage, endurance, shrewdness," and Nancy Felson-Rubin has observed that, "the Penelope who emerges by the end of the poem is a forceful figure who operates imaginatively within the constraints of her situation and succeeds in keeping her options open until she reaches safety in her husband's embrace."
Textual History
Authorship of the Odyssey has traditionally been attributed to the blind Greek bard Homer, but his relation to the Iliad and the Odyssey has incited much scholarly inquiry and has brought together the efforts of experts in such fields as archeology, linguistics, art, and comparative literature. As a result of their research, three main theories regarding the composition of the poems have emerged: the analytic, the separatist, and the unitarian. Until the publication of Friedrich Adolph Wolf's Prolegomena ad Homerum in 1795, the notion that Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey was largely undisputed. However, citing certain inconsistencies and errors in the texts, Wolf asserted that the two works were not the compositions of one poet, but the products of many different authors at work on various traditional poems and stories over time. Wolf's argument convinced many critics—who were subsequently termed the analysts—but also inspired the notorious authorship controversy known as the "Homeric question." Another theory that escalated at this time was that of the separatists, who believed that the Odyssey and the Iliad were written by two different authors who may not have even known about each other's works. While these two views prevailed throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they were ultimately challenged by an opposing group of critics, the unitarians, whose primary spokesman was Andrew Lang. The unitarians insisted that a single individual of genius composed the Homeric epics, supporting their claim by citing a unified sensibility, original style, and consistent use of themes and imagery in the poems. Another theory, proposed by Samuel Butler in 1897, asserted that the Odyssey was written by Nausicaa, a young woman from Trapani and a member of King Alcinous's household, but this theory has been widely discredited among scholars.
The textual history of the Odyssey is assumed to have begun with an oral version of the poem which was transmitted by local bards and probably recorded on papyri shortly after Homer's death. Although Homeric Greece did not yet have a system of writing appropriate for literary texts, records indicate that a Phoenician alphabet may have been adapted and used for this purpose in the eighth century B.C. Once set down in writing, the poems most likely became the exclusive proprety of the Homeridae, or sons of Homer, a bardic guild whose members performed and preserved the poems. Scholars believe that in the second half of the sixth century B.C. the Athenian dictator Peisistratus, who ruled from 560-27 B.C., established a Commission of Editors of Homer to edit the text of the poems and remove any errors and interpolations that had accumulated in the process of transmission—thereby establishing a Canon of Homer. Fragments of papyrus have been found in Egypt, the earliest dating from the third century B.C., but the oldest complete manuscript is the Laurentianus of the tenth or eleventh century A.D. The first printed edition of Homer's poetry appeared in Europe in 1488 and remained in use until the seventeenth century. Many translations of the Odyssey have subsequently been published; critics agree that the most influential translations have been those by George Chapman, Alexander Pope, Samuel Butler, and Richmond Lattimore.
Critical Reception
The Odyssey has often been unfavorably compared to the Iliad by critics who have condemned it for its excessive repetitiveness, drawn-out narrative, and lack of unity. Yet in spite of its weaknesses, the Odyssey is still considered one of the greatest literary works of all time. G. S. Kirk has stated that, "no one in his senses can deny that the poem is a marvelous accomplishment," and Stephen V. Tracy has asserted that, "the Odyssey has something for everyone; it is a highly entertaining adventure story." One aspect of the poem on which scholars have focused is that of the origin and artistic merit of the first four books of the Odyssey, collectively known as the Telemachia. Cited by some critics as evidence in support of the analytic theory because of its distinctive treatment, the Telemachia, according to other critics, is indeed a part of the original story and figures prominently as a necessary link to establishing Odysseus's importance and stature within Ithaca. Pointing out the centrality of the Telemachia in the Odyssey, J. W. Mackail has commented that, "nothing in the Iliad is such a feat of design as the way in which the first four books of the Odyssey do not bring Odysseus onto the scene at all and yet imply him through every line as the central figure." Differences in style between the Odyssey and the Iliad have also prompted significant debate, particularly the Odyssey's greater emphasis on myth, prominence of women in the poem, and downplaying the lore of warfare. Samuel Eliot Bassett has noted that, "the Iliad is a tale of war, unmarked by trickery: the Odyssey of domestic intrigue," and Andrew Lang has observed that, "the Odyssey is calmer, more reflective, more religious than the Iliad, being a poem of peace." Examining the role of the gods in the Odyssey, Samuel Butler has noted an evolution, contending that "in the Odyssey the gods no longer live in houses and sleep in four-post bedsteads, but the conception of their abode, like that of their existence altogether, is far more spiritual." As early as the eighteenth century, Alexander Pope cautioned, "whoever reads the Odyssey with an eye to the Iliad, expecting to find it of the same character, or of the same sort of spirit, will be grievously deceived." Although critics still debate the relative merits of the Odyssey compared to those of the Iliad, most agree with Stanford's assertion that "few long poems equal it in the variety and charm of its word-music, and few stories surpass it in sustained excitement and human interest."
Principal English Translations
The Odysseys of Homer (translated by George Chapman) 1614
The Odyssey of Homer (translated by Alexander Pope) 1725
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (translated by William Cowper) 1791
The Odyssey of Homer (translated by Theodore Alois Buckley) 1855
The Odyssey of Homer (translated by William Cullen Bryant) 1871
The Odyssey of Homer (translated by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang) 1888
The Odyssey (translated by Samuel Butler) 1900
The Odyssey (translated by J. W. Mackail) 1903-10
The Odyssey (translated by A. T. Murray) 1919...
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George Chapman (essay date 1614)
SOURCE: A dedication to the Odyssey, in Chapman's Homer: The "Iliad," the "Odyssey," and the Lesser Homerica, Vol. 2, edited by Allardyce Nicoll, Pantheon Books, 1956, pp. 3-8.
[A successful English dramatist and poet, Chapman is chiefly remembered as a scholar and translator of Homer's works. While his merits as a translator are often debated by scholars, his Iliad and Odyssey remain landmarks in Homer studies. In his 1614 dedication of the Odyssey to Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, Chapman deems Homer "the most wise and most divine Poet."]
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René Le Bossu (essay date 1675)
SOURCE: "Selections from Treatise of the Epick Poem (1675) translated by W. J.," in The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English Translation, edited by Scott Elledge and Donald Schier; revised edition, Cornell, 1970, pp. 307-23.
[Le Bossu was a French critic best known for his Treatise on Epic Poetry, written in 1675. Much discussed in England even before it was translated into English, the Treatise was severely criticized by Samuel Johnson and, in France, by Voltaire for its rigid rules concerning epic poetry. In the following excerpt from that work, Le Bossu analyzes Homer's crafting of the hero of the Odyssey,...
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Thomas Hobbes (essay date 1675)
SOURCE: "Preface to Homer (1675)," in Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II: 1650-1685, edited by J.E. Spingarn, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1908, pp. 67-76.
[Hobbes is best known for such philosophical writings as Human Nature (1650), Elements of Law (1650), Leviathan; or, the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil (1651), and Elements of Philosophy (1655). As a young man he knew Francis Bacon and assisted the great Lord Chancellor in translating several of his essays into Latin. Hobbes was greatly influenced by the works of Galileo and his contemporary, Descartes. In his 1675 preface to the Odyssey, Hobbes...
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Alexander Pope (essay date 1725)
SOURCE: A postscript to The "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" of Homer, edited by W. C. Armstrong, translated by Alexander Pope, Leavitt and Allen, 1848, pp. 401-19.
[Pope has been called the greatest English poet of his time and one of the most important in the history of world literature. As a critic and satirical commentator on eighteenth-century England, he was the author of work that represents the epitome of Neoclassicist thought. His greatness lies in his cultivation of style and wit, rather than sublimity and pathos, and this inclination shaped his criticism of other writers. In the following excerpt from the postscript to his 1725 translation of the Odyssey, Pope argues that the...
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Thomas De Quincey (essay date 1841)
SOURCE: "Homer and the Homeridae," in The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, edited by David Masson, A. & C. Black, 1897, pp. 7-95.
[An English critic and essayist, De Quincey used his own life as the subject of his best-known work, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822), in which he chronicled his addiction to opium. He contributed reviews to a number of London journals and earned a reputation as an insightful if occasionally long-winded literary critic. At the time of his death, De Quincey's critical expertise was underestimated, though his talent as a prose writer had long been acknowledged. In the following excerpt from an article first published in...
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Samuel Butler (essay date 1897)
SOURCE: "Who Was the Writer?", in The Authoress of the Odyssey: Where and When She Wrote, Who She Was, the Use She Made of the "Iliad, " and How the Poem Grew under Her Hands, 1897. Reprint by University of Chicago Press, 1967, pp. 200-09.
[An English novelist, satirist, essayist, and translator, Butler is best known for his The Way of All Flesh (1903), an autobiographical novel that satirizes Victo-rian church and family life. As a Homeric scholar, Butler achieved notoriety for his The Authoress of the Odyssey, in which he propounded the theory that the Odyssey was written by a woman. In the following excerpt from that work, he contends that the Odyssey was...
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Andrew Lang (essay date 1906)
SOURCE: "Notes of Change in the Odyssey" in Homer and His Age, 1906. Reprint by AMS Press, 1968, pp. 229-43.
[Lang was one of England's most powerful men of letters during the closing decades of the nineteenth century. A romantic vision of the past imbued Lang's writings, coloring his work as a translator, poet, and revisionist historian. Among the chief proponents of Romanticism in a critical battle that pitted late-nineteenth-century revivalist Romanticists against the defenders of Naturalism and Realism, Lang espoused his strong preference for romantic adventure novels throughout his literary criticism. In this essay, Lang contends that there are few societal differences between...
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Franz Kafka (essay date 1924?)
SOURCE: "The Silence of the Sirens," translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, in Parables in German and English, Schocken Books, 1947, pp. 75-77.
[Regarded as a major figure in twentieth-century liter-ature, Kafka was an original, profoundly moral writer whose central concern was with the essential loneliness of modern man struggling to comprehend an incomprehensible world. His literary reputation rests largely upon the posthumous publication of Der Prozess (1925; The Trial, 1935), Das Schloss (1926; The Castle, 1930), and Amerika (1927; America, 1938), which relate surreal, nightmarish stories of alienation. In the following essay, originally written in...
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Werner Jaeger (essay date 1934)
SOURCE: "Nobility and Areté," in Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, Vol. I, second edition, translated by Gilbert Highet, Oxford University Press, Inc., 1945, pp. 3-14.
[Jaeger was a German educator and classics scholar whose works include Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development(1934) and Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture(1939-44). In the following excerpt from the latter work, originally published in German in 1934 under the title Paideia: Die Formung des Griechischen Menschen,Jaeger examines the Iliad and the Odyssey as examples of the early Greek aristocratic culture, noting the embodiment of those ideals in the...
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Samuel Eliot Bassett (lecture date 1936?)
SOURCE: "The Epic Illusion (Continued)" in The Poetry of Homer, University of California Press, 1938, pp. 57-80.
[Bassett was an influential Greek scholar and one of the foremost Homeric specialists of his time. In this excerpt from a posthumously published collection of lectures, he analyzes Homer's use of dialogue to create the "illusion of personality" in the characters of the Odyssey and the Iliad.]
No poetic picture of past human life can produce the illusion of reality if it does no more than convince us with its general likeness to life. The real world that we know is peopled with other human beings no two of whom are identical. The more intimately...
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Erich Auerbach (essay date 1946)
SOURCE: "Odysseus' Scar," in Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, translated by Willard R. Trask, Princeton University Press, 1953, pp. 3-23.
[Auerbach was a German-born American philologist and critic. He is best known for his Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der Abendländischen Literature (1946; Mimesis, The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1953), a landmark study in which the critic explores the interpretation of reality through literary representation. In the following excerpt from that work, Auerbach compares the discourse, perspective, detail, and historical development of the Odyssey with that of several Old...
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Mark Van Doren (essay date 1946)
SOURCE: "The Odyssey," in The Noble Voice: A Study of Ten Great Poems, Henry Holt and Company, 1946, pp. 45-85.
[Van Doren was one of the most prolific men of letters in twentieth-century American writing. He wrote accomplished studies of Shakespeare, John Dryden, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, and served as the literary editor and film critic for the Nation during the 1920s and 1930s. Van Doren's criticism is aimed at the general reader, rather than the scholar or specialist, and is noted for its lively perception and wide interest. Like his fiction and poetry (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939), his criticism consistently examines the inner life of...
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E. M. W. Tillyard (essay date 1954)
SOURCE: "Homer: The Odyssey," in The English Epic and Its Background, Oxford University Press, 1954, pp. 21-39.
[Tillyard was an English scholar of Renaissance literature who remains highly reputed for his studies of John Milton, William Shakespeare, and the epic form. In the essay below, Tillyard details similarities between the Iliad and the Odyssey, maintaining that they are different but equally brilliant poems.]
Some readers think the Odyssey greatly inferior to the Iliad. T. E. Lawrence's chilly preface to his translation is a modern example of such an opinion, and Longinus's remark on the Odyssey,...
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W. B. Stanford (essay date 1954)
SOURCE: "The Untypical Hero," in The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero, second edition, Basil Blackwell, 1963, pp. 66-80.
[Stanford was a writer on Greek literature, politics, and ecclesiastical affairs. In this essay, first published in 1954, he explores Odysseus's unconventionality as a hero, noting that Homer "skilfully succeeded in distinguishing Odysseus by slight deviations from the norm in almost every heroic feature."]
There is nothing freakish about Odysseus's personality in the Homeric poems. In the Iliad Homer endows him with the normal qualities of an Achaean hero—princely birth, good physique, strength, skill...
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Cedric H. Whitman (essay date 1958)
SOURCE: "The Odyssey and Change," in Homer and the Heroic Tradition, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958, pp. 285-309.
[An American classics scholar specializing in Greek literature, Whitman is highly esteemed as a Homer critic. In the following essay, he explores some societal and artistic changes that took place between the time of the Iliad and that of the Odyssey, and notes how these changes are reflected in the latter work.]
A study of Homer oriented … through the Iliad is bound to differ widely from one whose focus is primarily the Odyssey. For all their identity of style, the contrast between the...
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Albert B. Lord (essay date 1960)
SOURCE: "The Odyssey," in The Singer of Tales, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960, pp. 158-85.
[A specialist in Slavic studies and contemporary literature, Lord has written extensively on folklore and folk epics. In this essay, he analyzes the structure of the Odyssey as oral epic, emphasizing its place within the context of other narrative oral poetry.]
In reading the Odyssey or the Iliad we are at a distinct disadvantage because we are reading isolated texts in a tradition. The comparison with other traditions shows us very clearly that songs are not isolated entities, but that they must be understood in terms...
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G. S. Kirk (essay date 1962)
SOURCE: "The Odyssey," in The Songs of Homer, Cambridge University Press, 1962, pp. 355-71.
[An English professor of Greek, Kirk is the author of numerous critical works on classical authors, including several books on Homer. In this essay, Kirk assesses the flaws of the Odyssey, contending that while "the poem is a marvellous accomplishment" it "fails to achieve the profound monumental effect of the Iliad."]
The Odyssey is a poem of greater structural sophistication than the Iliad. This is seen particularly in the division of the action between Ithaca, the Peloponnese, Calypso's island, Scherie and, by reminiscence, the scenes of...
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Howard W. Clarke (essay date 1963)
SOURCE: "Telemachus and the Telemacheia," in The Art of the Odyssey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967, pp. 30-44.
[In the following essay, first published in the American Journal of Philology in 1963, Clarke discusses the first four books of the Odyssey, known collectively as the Telemacheia, which deal with Telemachus' journey and his gradual coming of age.]
The criticism of Homeric epic has become so formalized over the centuries that it has developed denominations to accommodate scholars of various persuasions. There are, first, the "Separatists," who believe that the Iliad and the Odyssey are by two different poets, who may...
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H. D. F. Kitto (essay date 1966)
SOURCE: "The Odyssey" in Poiesis: Structure and Thought, University of California Press, 1966, pp. 116-52.
[A British critic, translator, and specialist on Hellenic drama, Kitto has written extensively on ancient Greek literature, theater, and history. In this excerpt, he defends the structure and theme of the Odyssey.]
There are two Homeric questions. There is the one first asked by Lachmann and eagerly debated ever since: one Homer, or two, or a multitude? The other is: What are the poems about? How did Homer think? We can consider the poems either as historic monuments (which they are), or as poems (which they are). I admit that the two questions are not...
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C. M. Bowra (essay date 1971?)
SOURCE: "The Odyssey: Its Shape and Character," in Homer, Gerald Duckworth & Company Limited, 1972, pp. 117-40.
[Bowra, an English critic and literary historian, was considered among the foremost classical scholars of the first half of the twentieth century. He also wrote extensively on modern literature, particularly modern European poetry, in studies noted for their erudition, lucidity, and straightforward style. In this post-humously published essay, Bowra examines the characters, structure, and sources of the Odyssey. Textual references to the Iliad have been rendered in roman numerals, while references to the Odyssey are in arabic numerals.]...
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Denys Page (lecture date 1972)
SOURCE: "The Lotus-Eaters," in Folktales in Homer's "Odyssey, " Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973, pp. 3-21.
[Page is a classics scholar and the author of the highly regarded Sappho and Alcaeus (1955). In the following excerpt from a lecture delivered in 1972, he speculates on the historical basis of the tale of the Lotus-Eaters.]
Odyssey 9.80-104: Odysseus and his companions set sail from the coast of Thrace. Their course lay down the east coast of the Peloponnese, round its southern promontories, and up the west coast to Ithaca:
But as I was doubling Cape Malea, the waves and current and...
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Jasper Griffin (essay date 1980)
SOURCE: "Characterization," in Homer on Life and Death, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1980, pp. 50-80.
[In the following essay, Griffin addresses the issue of inconsistent characterization in the Odyssey, contending that the complexity of the characters gives them "depth and significance."]
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Sheila Murnaghan (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Recognition and the Return of Odysseus," in Disguise and Recognition in the "Odyssey," Princeton University Press, 1987, pp. 20-55.
[Here, Murnaghan explores the theme of disclosure and recognition as it relates to Odysseus and Laertes, Telemachos, Eumaeus, and Penelope, as well as discussing Odysseus's need to re-establish his past relationships with these characters.]
During their meeting in Book 13, Athena and Odysseus sit down together at the base of an olive tree and concoct the plot through which, imitating the story of a disguised god, he will defeat his enemies. This then becomes the plot, in a literary sense, of the second half of the poem, a plot...
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Nancy Felson-Rubin (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Wife," in Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics, Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 43-65.
[In the essay below, Felson-Rubin examines the husband-wife relationship of Odysseus and Penelope and details "the formal pattern of their second courtship."]
Odysseus's image of Penelope once he is home differs radically from the image that drew him there. While he journeyed, he envisioned Penelope as a fixed point, a stable goal, a telos or "fulfillment." So long as he remembered her and Ithaka, he never strayed too far nor roamed too recklessly. Once he is on Ithaka, however, Penelope becomes an enigma for him (as she is for other characters). In a...
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Further Reading
Austin, Norman. Archery at the Dark of the Moon: Poetic Problems in Homer's "Odyssey. " Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975, 297 p.
Detailed analysis of poetics, structure, and unity in the Odyssey.
Beye, Charles Rowan. "The Odyssey," in his "The Odyssey" and the Epic Tradition., pp. 158-205. Anchor Books, 1966.
Focuses on the Odyssey's recurring themes of wandering, recognition, temptation, and hjomecoming.
Bremer, J. M., De Jong, I. J. F., and Kalff, J., eds. Homer Beyond Oral Poetry. Amsterdam: B. R. Grtner Publishing Co.,...
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Nitric Oxide, LPS and the Pathogenesis of Asthma Phase 1
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|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Nitric Oxide, LPS and the Pathogenesis of Asthma Phase 1
|Study Start Date:
|May 2003
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
African American
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The purpose of the study is to determine the role of nitric oxide (NO) in asthma. We determine the effect of promoter polymorphisms in the gene for the NO producing enzyme, nitric oxide synthase (NOS2), on exhaled NO in healthy African Americans and Caucasians. We compare exhaled NO levels between African Americans and Caucasians. Information on race or ethnicity, serum samples, blood pressure, exhaled breath condensate and health questionnaires will be collected.
Three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been identified in Africans that are associated with increases in systemic NO production. These studies determine whether the NOS2 promoter SNPs are associated with differences in basal exhaled NO levels. The study of exhaled NO levels in individuals with asthma is confounded by the presence of cell types besides bronchial epithelium that produce NO, by differences in the severity of asthma and by the use of medications such as corticosteroids which alter exhaled NO levels.
Therefore, in this study exhaled NO levels in asymptomatic healthy African Americans and Caucasians are measured. The initial analysis of exhaled NO levels indicate that a subset of African American samples contained lower levels of NO than previous measurements of exhaled NO levels in Caucasians. Because differences in exhaled NO levels may influence bronchodilation and other airway responses, as part of this study, the exhaled NO levels of the African American subjects are compared to the results of sample collections from Caucasian samples.
In addition to measures of exhaled NO levels, information on race or ethnicity and DNA samples are collected to characterize samples collected from African American and Caucasian subjects. Serum samples, measures of blood pressure and exhaled breath condensate samples are collected from African Americans and Caucasians to control for confounding variables. Repeated measures of exhaled NO levels are collected to control for fluctuations in exhaled NO levels related to upper respiratory infections.
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|18 Years to 40 Years
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- Willing/able to give informed consent
- self declared non-atopic, non-asthmatic
- never cigarette smoker,
- no significant occupational exposure to respiratory irritants or toxins,
- no chronic illness
- no chronic use of medications (excluding contraceptive medication),
- no historical unstable cardiac or severe lung disease,
- within study age parameters of 18 - 40
Exclusion Criteria:
- occupational exposure to hay or grain
- smoked 20 or more packs of cigarettes in a lifetime.
- prior allergen immunotherapy
- Allergy and or asthma
- Students or employees under direct supervision by protocol investigators are ineligible
- Nursing mothers
- pregnancy
- Other investigational medication within the last 30 days
- Other medical or psychological conditions which, in the opinion of the investigator, might create undue risk to the subject or interfere with the subject's ability to comply with the protocol requirements
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00671229
|United States, North Carolina
|Duke University Medical Center
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
|Principal Investigator:
|Marc C Levesque, M.D., PhD
|Duke University
|Responsible Party:
|Marc C. Levesque, NIEHS
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00671229 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|12496-CP-006A Pro00005046
|Study First Received:
|May 2, 2008
|Last Updated:
|April 13, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS):
Nitric Oxide
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Bronchial Diseases
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Immune System Diseases
Lung Diseases
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Respiratory Hypersensitivity
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Nitric Oxide
Anti-Asthmatic Agents
Autonomic Agents
Bronchodilator Agents
Endothelium-Dependent Relaxing Factors
Free Radical Scavengers
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Neurotransmitter Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Protective Agents
Respiratory System Agents
Vasodilator Agents
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American Studies
AMST 250W American Cultural Perspectives (1)
This is the beginning course of the American Studies major but open to non-majors as well. The course will assess American high, popular and folk cultures, addressing issues of race, gender and ethnicity. Discussions of American Studies methodology and theory will inform these investigations.
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing-centered
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Vintage Air Gen II Heater/Defroster For Classic Pickups - Hot AirWritten by on June 20, 2011
Out here in SoCal, one classic truck accessory dear to our hearts is air conditioning. With a desert-like climate cool air for cruising is pretty important. That said, in the rest of the country—or at least in climes that are less temperate than what we enjoy, a source of warm air is just as important. Here, we're gonna check out the installation of a great little heat/defrost unit from Vintage Air that's not only extremely affordable and easy to install, but made to Vintage Air's high standards of quality, too. Since the Chevy we're doing the install on isn't going to be dripping with automotive bells and whistles, we decided to forego A/C, but a reliable heater/defroster is one of the creature comforts we definitely wanted to install. The truck's owner is planning on driving this truck, and on cool mornings and evenings he'll be glad to have a heater feeding warm air into the cab and a defroster to eliminate condensation on the windshield.
Vintage Air's Compac GEN II heater/defroster seemed like just the product we needed. The box's integral floor outlet is actuated by an electronic servo and opens to drop heat down toward our feet; from there, like all hot air, it will rise. A pair of flexible hoses feed the defrost ducts mounted at the stock dash openings.
Tearing open the box from Vintage Air, we were impressed by the size of the unit. It definitely is compact, but we wondered if it would move enough air to do its job in the '47. No problem. If it can warm up a street rod interior, we know it can heat the cab of Project Shop Truck without breaking a sweat.
For this application, the installation was a simple procedure. The biggest challenge was finding the optimal spot for mounting the heater box on the firewall. On the '47, the only obstacles we had to worry about were the cowl vent and the windshield wipers—and the only visible part of the system is the small three-knob control panel. The install was a straightforward affair with no surprises, and the average-skilled home builder should be able to finish the job between breakfast and lunch, using tools he probably has lying on his workbench right now. For builders with less-than-average skill, you can add about 10 minutes—it's that easy. CT
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It didn't take long to locate the optimal location for the heater, which measures approximately 10-inches wide, 10.25-inches tall, and 6-inches deep. We mounted it as close to the center of the dash as possible, so that hot air will be evenly delivered to the driver and passenger. We also needed to avoid interference with the cowl vent and windshield wipers.Once the ideal location—high up under the dash—was located, the heater was attached to the firewall with four bolts. As you can see, the firewall has a lot of contours and no flat areas as large as the heater. We used 3⁄16-inch and 1⁄2-inch spacers where necessary to fasten the heater.Vintage Air has universal defrost ducts for all standard openings as well as these ducts, which fit perfectly on the '47 Chevy pickup, and with the 2-inch diameter flexible hose.The only modification made to the dash was to slightly enlarge the existing mounting holes on each side of the defroster openings. We opened up the existing holes in the cab to fit the screws supplied by Vintage Air.The flexible hosing was installed and routed to the ducts. If this were being installed on a finished project truck, underdash obstacles such as gauges, wiring, wipers, a sound system, and others would be obvious. In this case, those things had to be anticipated so that there will be no interference with the heater hoses when they are added later.
The electronic servo heater control valve features an integrated ECU module and is installed in the pressure line on the cab side of the firewall, as shown in the next photo. This is a one-directional valve with the flow direction indicated by the arrow on the unit, which points toward the heater coil.Using a Vintage Air heater hose kit, including hoses, bulkhead fittings, and clamps, the hoses were routed from the heater core, through the firewall (using the original firewall openings in this case), to the engine, where the incoming pressure line (upper/right line on this installation) attaches to the intake manifold heater connection, and the outgoing suction line (lower/left line) attaches at the water pump. Note the position of the heater control valve on the pressure line.This unit features a three-knob control panel, which is attached at the bottom of the dash. The panel comes with mounting holes pre-drilled on top of the case, and access holes in the bottom. The knobs can also be installed directly into the dash.After locating the proper mounting spot below the dash, we marked the mounting holes using the upper holes in the control panel case as a template, and then drilled them out. The rest was as simple as turning a screwdriver, using fasteners included in the kit.The end result looks pretty clean. The knobs on the control panel operate the fan speed (three settings), heater/defroster balance, and temperature. When the '47 is ready for wiring, the new heater/defroster will be wired according to the instructions provided by Vintage Air.


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What, am I the only English major here? Post your favorites with literature (I have a feeling this thread will die quickly).
On crappy days like these I like to read a little Robert Frost, myself.
Superman comics?
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein
"If your worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on" Lance Armstrong
"Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in." Paris Hilton
"Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man." F.A. Hayek
oh, darn, I thought this was going to be a Creationist thread....
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
Thomas Jefferson, 1802
Playboy - I try to read the articles but sometimes get distracted.......
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Exaggeration is a BILLION times worse than understating.
The works of Homer. Not Homer Simpson.
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Playboy - I try to read the articles but sometimes get distracted.......
Hey, that's the excuse I use too!
i like to fling poo on walls and use interpretive strategies to decode super secret messages.
Can I Keep My Jersey?
Paul Shirley's comical book about his life in basketball.
Perhaps my favorite book of all time is "The Canterbury Tales."
Forever trying to find a cure for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
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Superman comics?
Hey, that's my answer.
What ever happened to truth, justice and the American Way?
science damn you! i thought this was going to be a creationist thread too
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Perhaps my favorite book of all time is "The Canterbury Tales."
Ahh, Chaucer, that foul mouthed Englishman. Which tale is your favorite?
Originally Posted by bizzle
Ahh, Chaucer, that foul mouthed Englishman. Which tale is your favorite?
The Miller's Tale, no contest.
How about "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck? I also found "The Catcher in the Rye" very interesting--not sure that I liked it, but it was interesting.
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Isotropic Compression With Cam-Clay Material Model
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Isotropic compression is a common exercise in soil testing. The modified Cam-Clay model describes the relation between the void ratio and the logarithm of the pressure. In this example, a soil sample is placed inside cylinder 10 cm in diameter and 10 cm in height. Due to the symmetry, the model is solved in 2D axial symmetry. A boundary load produces isotropic compression conditions.


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Arizona Under Fire: What you need to know about the Sheriff Joe Recall Effort
I don't normally stick my nose into local or district races, mostly because it conflicts with my philosophy of letting the people choose their own. damn. representatives. That being said, I do believe that the people have a right to know who they're signing petitions against and voting for–especially when the Big Progressive Steamroller of Doom© is calling the shots. Strategically bagging elections is sort | Read More »


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As many of you know, under President Obama's Feed the Future Initiative, USAID is the single largest bilateral donor to Ethiopia's agriculture development agenda with over $50 million of annual assistance to the sector. Development of the coffee value chain is an important part of our program and one of the key export commodities we support under Feed-The-Future.
SCIP is a public private partnership between USAID, the ELMA Foundation and J.P. Morgan, in conjunction with South African Department of Basic Education, seeking to empower teachers to improve primary grade reading.
Demand for wildlife and wildlife products has dramatically increased in recent years, attracting criminal networks that have made the illicit wildlife economy a global challenge, rivaling trafficking in drugs, persons and weapons. Regrettably, wildlife trafficking can offer greater profits, lower risk of detection, and lower penalties than other illicit trade, and the profits are fueling transnational criminal activities, and even terrorism. At USAID, we believe that wildlife trafficking is not only a security and ethical issue, it is a threat to development. Because of linkages with transnational criminal networks, illicit wildlife trade undermines security and rule of law on which development depends. In regions that depend on wildlife for ecotourism, trafficking costs jobs, reduces incomes, and threatens investment. With 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases originating in wildlife, trafficking is also a global health issue. And we know that drastically reducing populations of keystone species such as elephants and tigers can disrupt delicate ecosystems on which local communities depend.
It is a great pleasure and honor for me to be here tonight on behalf of U.S. Ambassador Donald Booth and the American People. Ambassador Booth asked me to convey his sincere regrets and best wishes, in particular for Dr. Eleni Gebre-Madhin as she takes on new ventures. I am new to Ethiopia but I am well aware of the importance of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) for the business of agriculture and, ultimately, for development, and Dr. Eleni's pioneering efforts to launch this important institution. Many farmers and producers have benefitted from the establishment of the ECX. Citing the example set by the ECX for markets in other countries around Africa, President Obama invited Dr. Eleni to the G8 Summit at Camp David in May of this year and the launch of the public-private New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. So it is a source of pride and satisfaction for me to be here and to be able to note USAID's contribution beginning back in 2006 to help make the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange a reality in 2008.
In order to reach the scale and sustainability required to affect real change—to finally solve intractable problems in development—we have to overcome our remaining challenges and encourage a new era of private sector engagement in development. And all of us—businesses and development agencies—will have to take a new approach.
That food security is on the global agenda today seems normal. But it was just two years ago here in Iowa that I first introduced USAID's Bureau of Food Security and discussed President Obama's recently announced global food security initiative Feed the Future. It all felt so new at the time, because it was new. It represented a new model of development, which has, in many ways, come to define the way we work around the world today:
A model that advances a far deeper focus on science, technology and innovation to dramatically expand the realm of what is possible in development. A model that aligns resources behind comprehensive country plans developed and supported by policymakers, technical experts and stakeholders in developing countries. A model that engages far more broadly with private sector partners—putting behind us an old reluctance to work together, and engaging companies not as wellsprings of corporate charity, but as real partners with an interest in serving the needs of the most vulnerable. And a model that delivers more for developing countries, but demands far more as well.
That's the guiding framework for Feed the Future, an initiative that has brought the U.S. Government together behind country-led plans that have made tough trade-offs and focused on specific regions, policies, crops and livestock with the greatest potential for fighting hunger and transforming economies. Three years later, it is high time we've taken stock of our progress and asked what we've achieved. We know there are many ways you can measure results in development, especially when you consider the comprehensive reach of Feed the Future. We know the first way is by measuring the number of people you've reached.
Programs like today's Annual Meeting permit us to celebrate our successes. Indeed, the last two decades have been a validation of our work. There has been more progress in global development since the end of the Cold War than in any time in history. In the decade and a half since the mid-90s, real incomes have risen 60 percent across developing countries, infant mortality rates have plunged by a third, and primary school enrollment rates jumped nearly 15 percent.
The truth is—you are part of an incredible generation of young people. On campuses across the country and the world, you're expressing a surge of interest in tackling global challenges, oversubscribing courses on public health, international education, global politics and development economics. And at USAID, we are working hard to support and engage this enthusiasm.
That is why it is my honor and privilege today to announce the Payne Fellowship Program, an extraordinary program that will honor the memory of Congressman Payne by supporting the next generation of leaders in global development. With two fellowships valued at up to $45,000 annually for two years, the program will provide opportunities throughout the students' graduate studies, including two summer internships—the first working on international issues for a member of Congress and the second with an USAID mission overseas.; as well as consistent and supportive mentoring throughout the fellowship program and into early employment.
It's a great pleasure and honor to be here to participate in the launch of a major new area of cooperation among the federal and regional ministries of health, the Ministry of Education, training institutions and USAID to strengthen human resources for health.
HANOI -- It is a great honor for me to be here on behalf of the U.S. Government and USAID to join you in opening this 8th Annual National Conference of Vietnam Public Health Association today.
Public health represents a major part of the United States Agency for International Development's global programs and we continue to be privileged to work with you here in Vietnam to address significant existing, emerging and re-emerging public health issues.
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The Folding Wetsuit Hanger worked very nice. As soon as I got my wetsuit bag, I took a trip to Pensacola, Florida. Having this item for motel rooms was great.
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