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Some printers use a vacuum process to suck ink to the heads. If air enters the tiny tubes, the vacuum is broken. When refilling cartridges using hypodermic-type needles, it is common for air to enter the tanks.
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Note that refilling a single-use ink cartridge is not the same as doing so with an ink cartridge specifically designed for refilling and using special ink dispensers designed to eliminate air, leaks and spills.
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This spring, composer and music faculty member Chester Biscardi traveled to Shanghai and Beijing, where he was a featured composer at the week-long Beijing Modern Music Festival (view schedule). In both cities, he presented lectures, taught workshops and master classes, and oversaw concerts of his work. But that was the easy part. He also ate cow stomach, inhaled vast quantities of smog, and experienced firsthand the noise, pomp, and bureaucracy of modern Chinese culture. Biscardi recorded his impressions in an honest and detailed journal, excerpted here.
Friday, May 14
4:50 p.m.
Shanghai, China
Arrived at Pudong International Airport at 1:30 p.m. and was met by two unbelievably nice and generous and fun graduate students: Su Xiao, a composition student of Jia Daqun, and Gaoyan "Nightingale" Xiazi, a musicologist specializing in Romantic and 20th-century Western music. Language/communication is "interesting" and good-natured, and we muddled through somehow. They brought me via an hour-long taxi ride through endless rows of modern high rises (of course, there are 17 million people here!) and intense and dense smog and rain past the Expo, which was hardly visible, and the Huangpu River, to the Donghu Hotel, No. 70 Donghu Road.
8:20 p.m.
First impressions. Went for a walk around the neighborhood, down Central Huaihai Road to tree-lined Hengshan Road. An attempt at Paris, but it doesn't quite make it. Dodging bikes and angry cars. Incense, the perfume of flowers, and exhaust all mingle together in a kind of stewed wetness. Dinner at The Dakota, a bar & bistro, across the street from the hotel. What a mix of things. English flying around everywhere. People seem to stand at attention in the few public places I witnessed today: guards at the airport, police at the top of the stairs of a subway station, the waiters in the restaurant.
Saturday, May 15
8:45 a.m.
Down to breakfast in the main, oldest villa guarded by lions in front of which is a fountain of muses. A huge spread, most of which turned my stomach! Boiled eggs in tea, various rice and noodle dishes with meats, and unidentifiable soups, etc. At least not this morning on a jetlagged stomach.
5 p.m.
I take back what I said about Paris. After resting, lunch (Western!), and working on my lecture for tomorrow, I took a very long walk to really see my extended neighborhood of the French Concession. This is just a small, small sector of Shanghai but it seems to go on forever and is full of riches—art galleries, gated mansions, and heritage sites. But you have to pass new construction of enormous—I mean enormous!—structures on sites where workers work 24 hours a day every day. Every chic store lines Huaihai and shoppers are everywhere. Nothing changes the fact that the air is heavy and full of dirt. It is hard to breathe. Everyone is coughing. Some wear masks. Some smoke cigarettes. Invigorating, amazing, enervating.
Monday, May 17
12:45 p.m.
A quick tour of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Xiao, a mix of old and then ultra-new buildings. There were almost life-size posters of my headshot all around campus! Unnerving and wild. Then met Linda, my translator, and a lot of other students. Linda's English is good, but it's going to be an interesting ride this afternoon from 2-4 p.m. when we try to get across what I'm trying to say. I'm already cutting huge areas of my lecture in my mind while I'm taking a brief rest. From lunch.
Finally met Jia Daqun, my host, the composer and Dean of the Graduate Study Programs (among a million other official government titles), at elementfresh, a neighborhood hangout. A dish with blood sausage and cow stomach, which he insisted I try: "You know that as a composer you need to be adventurous." Oh, Lord. I got the cow stomach down but not by much.
Maybe we're spoiled in the West re: personal space and need for solitude. Xiao walks me to the bathroom and waits at the door. He comes all the way up to my room when he brings me back to the hotel. The first experience weird, the second nice in a way. I guess that's the way it is here.
9:10 p.m.
There were about 30 people at the lecture ("In Time's Unfolding: Influence and Resonance"). Linda introduced me—they applauded—and translated for me. After a brief introduction about myself and my interest in music from the East, I analyzed and played Tenzone, Mestiere, In Time's Unfolding, Tartini (which Beibei requested), Piano Quintet, and Trasumanar (which Xiao requested), and then sang "You've Been On My Mind" in my inimitable voice, coarser now for the Shanghai air.
In the midst of which I asked them to talk about themselves. At first they were shy and blushed, but then they couldn't stop asking questions! They like minimalism, tonal music, and pop. They asked questions about orchestration, about the "vertical" aspect of music, do I actually feel colors and how do I translate them into music?
Afterward they stayed around asking more questions and made it clear that they loved the music: "The Piano Quintet moved me so much. When you had just the strings I felt such sadness, such loss." This from Beibei, a violinist to whom I gave a copy of Tartini, and he went out and copied the quintet.
The lecture went on for 2-1/2 hours. At the end, one of the students who had been looking at me intensely said: "The white moons of your fingernails mean that you are very healthy." Is it so?
The master class was unlike any I've ever done. They had a video camera on non-stop and people were walking around photographing me from every angle. By 6 p.m. the jet-lag tiredness was almost unbearable, but there I was in front of another 30 faces waiting for something. And I think I gave them whatever it was that they were looking for, because there were smiles all around, laughs, another zillion questions.
I found the five students who presented me with their work to be diverse, very talented, and very accomplished. Although they say they like minimalism, tonal music, and pop, they presented scores that included trying to fit Chinese pentatonic scales with 12-tone Western chromaticism in a Webernesque-Bartokian mix.
I found myself encouraging them to break rules, using their imaginations in new ways to accomplish what conventional music does. They had so many questions about how to really evolve a piece, its form, should musical transitions coincide with visual ones? To which I replied by talking about Toru Takemitsu's scoring for Ran, for instance, as well as letting musical experiences overlap changes of scenes, etc. Finally, Xiao played me his award-winning Brand II that combines Western and Eastern instruments that was full of exciting, dance-like rhythms and almost Mideastern textures.
Tuesday, May 18
4:30 p.m.
I can't imagine asking any of my students to go pick up a guest at the airport and then take care of them every step of the way for the duration of their visit! Xiao and Nightingale were at my hotel at 9 a.m. to take me via subway to Expo 2010. What I have not known until today is that they have been paying for all of my meals out of their own pockets, including those on our trip to Suzhou. The Conservatory covers certain things but not that. It's humiliating to me, but it's what they expect to do. The real thing, however, is that both of them—and the others like Linda—are just naturally generous and open and willing to be there for you. I am deeply touched by all of this. And I visibly see that they exhaust themselves in doing everything with perfection and detail and all smiles. There is a real shift in me since yesterday about the Chinese and their culture as I begin to feel more comfortable here.
9:10 p.m.
Shanghai is complex. I can't believe how transformative this experience is beginning to be. In my mind previously: China on parade—authoritarianism gone amok. Today: a city more Western than the West. Even old folk walk around like this is what they expected their future to be.
Wednesday, May 19
8:30 a.m.
To the local Xiangyang Park earlier to see the folk doing Qi Gong. Not as choreographed as I had expected! Music and instructions coming from an old boom box cassette player. Lot of oldsters looking as though they're making up their own Gestalt movements. Well, they are. Only the Buddha could possibly guess their form.
Jia Daqun and I had a last meeting and tea (a sweet herbal tea for health, a box of which he gifted me). He is calm and soft-spoken and very warm. And very busy! I made the mistake of asking him the best way for me to make a quick visit to The Bund and Pudong and the financial center this afternoon. He immediately called Xiao—in spite of my protests (I really wanted to do something on my own at my own pace)—to accompany me not only to those places this afternoon but to take me all the way out to the airport tomorrow morning.
I told Daqun that it would be unthinkable for me to rely on my students to do even one of the many, many things that Xiao has done for me during this past week. American students don't know that kind of sense of respect. "In America, that's democracy, no? Here it's about family and brothers. We take care of each other. You were invited by the Division of Graduate Studies, and everyone is involved." His students engrave his works from his manuscript and do anything he asks of them. And he takes care of them in all ways: as mentor, friend, helping them get work.
Xiao met me with a pianist friend, Xiang "Cathy" Xiao Qin, a really lovely person. I'm moving between horrified and ecstatic from moment to moment, but when they arrived my unease abetted, and we immediately started having fun. The subway to The Bund. Past the Peace Hotel where Noel Coward wrote Private Lives in four days in 1930 when he had the flu. Then, finally, the famous view of Pudong with the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Jinmao Tower, and the bottle-opener Shanghai World Financial Center. Impressive if you could see through the dense smog or whatever it is. Hot and stinky day. A ferry boat ride across the Huangpu River and a walk along the boardwalk to look back at The Bund. A million pictures later we head home.
Thursday, May 20
5:50 p.m.
Xiao came to pick me up, as diligent and kind as ever, and when we arrived at Hongqiao International Airport via taxi (the driver of which saved our lives when some madman crossed four lanes to get to the off ramp—and we were in his path) he walked me all the way to the security point beyond which he couldn't enter. We hugged, and when I looked back he was still standing there looking at me. I felt truly sad.
On the China Southern Airlines flight (two hours to Beijing) I just kept thinking about why I dislike and am so resistant to Chinese culture—the saccharine music and in-your-face sweetness of graphics and yet the seeming indifference that shows in many people's faces. Protection? How do I let all of this go so that I can have a genuine experience rather than wanting to reject it and go "home"—to my place of comfort? Then the intensely green Yen (bird) mountains come into view before we land. I know that I'm someplace very different.
Two Beijing Central Conservatory of Music students pick me up: a composer, Li Shaosheng, and Liu Yitian, who is specializing in all things solfège. Shaosheng is well dressed, wants to study in New York, and already has a pedigree (studies in Vienna, major performances worldwide, Tanglewood next summer, knows Boulez). He has a million questions right out of the parking garage, including what kind of music young Chinese composers should be writing.
He has a car, and it takes just under two hours to get into the center of the city! The sun is out. It's 92 degrees. We pull into the Merchantel Hotel, No.2 Xi Bian Men Wai Da Jie, Xi Cheng District, which must be a godzillian star hotel. It's brand new and right across from the Conservatory. It feels like I've gone from abject poverty to the gilded cage. Shaoshen hands me tickets for all events, an envelope with $1,000 American in it, and they both bring me to my room where I want to live for the rest of my life! From pimply-faced Xiao (whom I adore) to well-groomed Shaoshen.
First impressions of Beijing: bigger than God; more modern than any city I've seen, even though we did pass a 17th—century Tibetan Lama Temple. Most of the past has been erased here.
10:30 p.m.
Yi Tian picks me up at 8 p.m. and we taxi to Hepingmen Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant that is considered to have the best Peking Duck in Beijing. And it does. Even George Bush has eaten there and signed the wall! And why didn't I bring my camera? And we talk and laugh a lot. Out into the hot night and a stroll down to the Front Gate (Zhengyang Gate) and walk along the west side of Tiananmen Square all lit up (till 10 p.m. when the lights suddenly went off) past the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. There has to be a better word than "imposing" to describe the whole area, let alone the Great Hall of the People.
Friday, May 21
10 p.m.
Yi Tian picked me up at 10 a.m. and we headed for the Forbidden City. There are 20 million people in Beijing and I think all of them were there today—in what became unbearably stifling heat. The Forbidden City goes on forever and one can't help seeing it now as a film set.
On the way back we went down the broadest and longest street in Beijing, the Dong Chang'an Jie, past new buildings that rivaled each other in breathtaking imaginative structure. It's impossible to stop to photograph anything in the insane traffic. Past the Beijing Hotel, the oldest Western hotel, from which the 1989 riots were photographed and videorecorded—photos and videos which have never been seen by the Chinese.
Saturday, May 22
2:15 p.m.
Aaron Kernis, Yi Tian, and I out instrument shopping. I bought a sheng/sho-like instrument called a hulusi (with an accompanying CD and beautiful leather case), a whistle called xun, and a small rhythm block called muyu. Around the corner to a hutong and more shopping and a visit to an indoor market where half a cow carcass was just lying on the floor with flies buzzing about. Then to Baiyun Temple (White Cloud), a Taoist complex. The best meal so far at Qiaojiangnan. A colorful and utterly distinctive array of dishes: Muslin lamb chops with hot pepper and cumin; chicken with ginger and bamboo shoots and chilies (old Beijing style); potted bean curd with three different sauces; cold sesame chicken noodles; sweet yams with celery; and stuffed and fried sweet lotus root.
11:45 p.m.
The Chinese clearly know what they're doing in a big way. Push the government to the background somewhat—or seemingly so—and put the businessmen in front. The opening concert of the Festival took place tonight at the new National Centre for the Performing Arts that is possibly the most brilliant architecture I've ever seen. The "egg" is surrounded by a moat. You have to go in a tunnel under the water, which you see floating above, in order to get into a complex maze of wood and myriad textured marble floors that crisscross and envelop the concert hall.
The evening started with a select group invited to cocktails and a banquet in the Western Restaurant. The guest list included a few of us Americans and a host of famous businessmen, actors, and athletes. I sat between Gao Min, former two-time Olympic medalist in diving, and Luo Yan, a movie producer who lives in Hollywood and is now producing a $50 million movie about the history of Shanghai and its opium roots, Hugh Jackman or Clive Barnes possible leads. Kelly Liu, a model and winner of the 2007 Miss International Beauty Pageant. Zhao Ruirui, the tallest Chinese person I've ever seen and champion volleyball player. David Li, the president of Greater China Region of UBS. Yuan Li, the famed actress from Raise the Red Lantern, who, of course, was stunningly beautiful—delicate and subdued in her demeanor, actually.
We were all introduced in Chinese and English. Place names were embroidered on our napkins along with engraved personal welcomes. During dinner people would just get up and walk around and talk to the other guests and then come back and continue eating—a Chinese custom to mix during dinner so that they can visit with everyone beyond their nearby dinner partners.
The concert was nationally televised. A woman came out and played the opening measures of Bach's D minor toccata on the organ with its vast array of pipes, and then the orchestra played several bars of the Danse Sacrale from the Rite of Spring, I guess to demonstrate the acoustics. Weird.
First Aaron's Newly Dawn Sky, beautifully performed. Then Ye Xiaogang's dynamic and exciting Horizon, followed by about 100 children from the far west of China singing two very nationalistic, hopeful songs. In-your-face stuff. A new commissioned work after intermission—Qin Wenchen's wandering, layered landscape for orchestra and electronics, The Nature's Dialogue—and the first movement of John Corigliano's The Red Violin, stunningly orchestrated and Samuel Barber-esque. So, they got in a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award. Corigliano is admired here by the students. They are really impressed by and need to put the "famous" forward. When I was introduced my honorific was that I am an American composer who has a PhD from Yale!
Sunday, May 23
9:30 p.m.
Breakfast with the group and then meeting up with Kit (Mitrapaap) Young (American pianist who played Mestiere years ago and I first met in Bangkok at the Festival in 2006) who took me to Zhongshan Park (Sun Yat Sen Park) next to Tiananmen Square. Beautiful rock sculptures, hundred year old trees, ponds, and thankful quiet. Long talks.
Subway—interesting to see an older one—back to the hotel and lunch in a café within the local music store. Off to my first visit to the Conservatory and rehearsals of the quintet and viola piece. I was surprised at the level of preparation, understanding, and technical/musical acuity. The violist especially, Kang Wenting, who happens to be a friend of Kit, is outstanding.
Monday, May 24
6:10 p.m.
This is surreal, actually, and if this doesn't change the way I live my life I don't know what it would take.
I got to the hall at 3 p.m. for my 3:50 p.m. talk at the International Forum on Culture, Fine Arts and Human Development. I wanted to give myself some time to acclimate to the event, the room, the cameras, the hordes of people. The room was full of whizzing computers and fanciful PowerPoint presentations. They changed the venue from the Great Hall of the People to the Conservatory. OK. I sit through one speech—in Chinese, of course (I was the only non-Chinese speaker on the program today)—and go out for a breath and bump into Hu Yongyan, the conductor, and then my translator, Ma (like "silence", the space in between in Japanese). He tells me that they can't afford the simultaneous translation like they did yesterday for Aaron (whose topic was the history of the Pulitzer Prize). So, at a moment's notice I have to break the speech up into smaller groups so that he can translate appropriately.
OK. So, I sit through another speech. And then it was my turn. Oh, but it wasn't my turn. They decided to break for coffee and then immediately started setting up for the discussion of the panelists who had spoken before. But what about me? "After the discussion." No apologies, explanations. Ye Xiaogang, the composer who runs the Festival and is overseeing the Forum, came in. I said that I needed to do other things this afternoon, find out about rehearsals that have not been set—no one gets back to me. He said perhaps I should do the speech tomorrow. I said, no. He, of course, has no idea how much I've suffered over deciding to do this, spending weeks and weeks writing it, and being nervous for forever about presenting it.
So, I agreed to stay and do it as the last speech after the discussion. But the discussion, slated for 45 minutes, was going on over an hour. When I asked when I'd go on, they asked me to cut the speech to 15 minutes—total! I said I'd do the entire speech (can you imagine cutting part of a poem, a novel, a piece of music?!) right after the discussion, but they said they had other speakers, too, and the audience demanded that the discussion continue. So, I said: "Let's just cut my speech." "Come back tomorrow." "No!" OK. Sorry.
Rude beyond belief. No apologies. I did get mad. Good for me, but "so what" for them. I'm going to live through this—become "stronger," as they say. This is not a trip about enrichment of soul but perhaps a toughening of skin. Read the speech Biscardi had planned
Tuesday, May 25
4:30 p.m.
Today made up for the nightmare. Master Class—"In Time's Unfolding: Influence and Resonance." Yi Tian brought me over to the classroom where there were 70 students waiting for me; some came all the way from distant provinces. And there was one woman from France who said she heard my music in Paris. I had fun with them and made them laugh and feel at ease. Talk of my background and then about influence and resonance (non-musical and otherwise) and memory. Played and explained Tenzone, Mestiere, and Piano Quintet. They really responded.
The Master Class was supposed to be an hour long, but the students wanted to show me their music. One guy showed/played me a work using the resources of the Pierrot ensemble that had some unexpected, eerie "voices". A decent piece, but he cut off two climactic moments. When I asked him why, he said that it was written for a competition for works no longer than five minutes! Well, write an appropriately structured work for five minutes! A woman played an extended work for sheng and a newly invented sheng with two stringed areas and, therefore, two different tunings. As I was trying to pack up, students swarmed around me and asked for my card—I gave all that I had away—and wanted to copy my scores. I let some of them take them promising to return them at the concert tomorrow since I want to leave the scores with the Conservatory library.
Almost two hours into it Chen Yi called Shi Fuhong, the composer/theoretician and faculty member of the Conservatory who translated for me, to insist that I meet her in the lobby, where she sent me off with other Conservatory faculty and three Americans for an unbelievable and elegant dim sum (including an organic rice mix, who knew?) in a private dining room at Hongkong Tang Palace, a very posh place. I told the story about my experience yesterday, and, clearly, this is not an isolated experience! Then back to the Conservatory for a rehearsal of Resisting Stillness with a duo that plays it to perfection. Now a rest before a rehearsal with Luisa Sello of Traverso. I won't hear Tartini until the dress rehearsal tomorrow at noon.
I seem to change my pronouncements about how I feel about this experience every second. From yesterday's "I will never come back to China" to the fact that today has been "beautiful" because, in fact, I love to teach and interconnect with students and make music and all of that. That's what's important. Wherever. Can one have hope in the new generation of Chinese?
Interesting that after lunch the American 'cellist, Hamilton Cheifetz, remarked about the omnipresent watchfulness of the Chinese. If you're a white man in this society you are in many ways watched like Black Americans are in ours. I've seen that when I'm just wandering alone in the hotel or in a bathroom. Hotel workers have stopped me to ask what I'm looking for. Freedom and Democracy in America, even through these worst of times, is still an amazingly precious thing.
Wednesday, May 26
4:15 p.m.
A rampage of color and noise and silence and flashing cameras! I'm SO thankful that the two weeks ended up with the events of today. Got to the noon dress rehearsal to find out it had been changed to 12:30 p.m.. Should I be surprised since yesterday's Tartini rehearsal at 5 p.m. was cancelled, and I'm waiting for the two faculty members who will play that work—both just back from major tours—to arrive? They finally do. We work quickly. Then the quintet comes in. We do the same. And the viola piece. And I run over to another building to hear Luisa as she just finished Alfredo Casella's work and dives into mine, which she plays with abandon and passion and gorgeous sounds and lines. She said in the way of the introduction: "He likes to sing and give space to the music."
The faculty performers were the least prepared but still did a knockout job on Tartini. The pianist was a bit aggressive, as was Luisa's accompanist. It seems that Chinese pianists—at least the ones I've heard here so far—are either very aggressive or a bit timid. The guitar duo was breathtaking in its delicateness and shape and utter beauty. Wenting played the viola piece with such poise and sheer beauty that it took my breath away, too. The piano quintet was convincing although short of being a perfect performance. It didn't matter, because the emotional directness and line blew people away. Ah, and me, too. I am so thankful.


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Skip to comments.Rise in violence 'linked to climate change'
Posted on 08/01/2013 6:13:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests.
US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war.
The team says with the current projected levels of climate change, the world is likely to become a more violent place.
The study is published in Science.
Marshall Burke, from the University of California, Berkeley, said: "This is a relationship we observe across time and across all major continents around the world. The relationship we find between these climate variables and conflict outcomes are often very large."
The researchers looked at 60 studies from around the world, with data spanning hundreds of years.
They report a "substantial" correlation between climate and conflict.
Their examples include an increase in domestic violence in India during recent droughts, and a spike in assaults, rapes and murders during heatwaves in the US.
The report also suggests rising temperatures correlated with larger conflicts, including ethnic clashes in Europe and civil wars in Africa.
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But Judge- the Weather made me do it!
a study of studies .. fwiw
It's true, it's true! Every time a discussion comes up about climate change a fight breaks out. The libs are the ones foaming at the mouth when we disagree with them.
as good a reason as any to break into a popsicle factory..
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Climate 'drives African conflict'
Justice for Climate!
aka, a meta-study.
Wow the earth worshippers have descended at last to self-parody.
How "scientific!"
Garbage in, garbage out.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls our climates.
3. The earth is a rock.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
I stubbed my toe this morning. All I can think is that the rising sea levels had something to do with it.
Did it not occur to these morons that more people tend to be outdoors or traveling around when the weather is warm?
Who wants to rob a bank or go shoot someone if it is freezing cold outside?
Must have been hotter than hell in 1968.
I don't believe the climate has anything to do with it.
When Leroy wants a new TV for free riots.
How come white Americans don't riot when it gets hot?
I am always amazed that even the leftist media still takes leftists seriously. Or themselves.
I remember my grad stats course and the prof said that there was virtually a perfect correlation between cotton crops in the US South and rainfall in Iceland. His point: until you have a testable hypothesis with a theoretical explanation, you have nothing. Pretty much the same thing here.
The eggheads are purposely trying to make people equate temperature with climate. Ludicrous, stupid, and leftist.
i'd say it has more to do with the leftist / liberal policies put in place the last 50-60 years.
Because we're out working trying to make enough money to pay the air conditioning bill.
Is there ANYTHING that is not caused by globull warming?
Some day I suppose the headline will be "Rise in violence linked to anti-American, anti-Constitution LIBs being lawless".
??? Its not white racism?
Is there ANYTHING that is not caused by globull warming?
All-pervasive white racism.
If this be true how can there be anyone left alive in Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia or Kiribati?
That's a very dishonest piece from the BBC. "Small changes in temperature" in general don't routinely correlate with rises in violent crime. Increases in hot weather do, and we've obviously been entering a cold spell, contrary to the fantasies of the AGW monkeys.
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This explains irritable bowel syndrome. If this trend continues it will become militant bowel syndrome.
With greenhouse gas discharge.
Answer? Spend more of the other green..
"The study is published in Science. "
Love that British sense of humor...
well, that explains the norsemen, the Huns, the Mongols...
who writes these scientific journals?
The rise in violence is due to the people that believe in climate change arguing with the people who do not.
Exactly - the bad guys always need an excuse and someone to blame it on - it would seem that "Bush's fault" would do so they don't have to get "scientific" with climate change.
It also explains alex baldwin and andy dick.
Closer than any other explanation I've heard.....
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I have purchased similar products and they did not do half the job this purifier can do on its own. The design is sleek. I don't feel like I have to hide it behind a house plant. The product does look a little bit different from the picture. I would say it is more gray in color. The chrome gives it a nice touch. When it is on there is a soft blue glow just under the chrome to let you know it is working.
By MissKim
RatingThe air purifier works great. I have two dogs. Ever since I started using this, my house doesn't smell like dogs anymore.
It also helps air circulate in my basement. The basement no longer smells like a basement (stagnant air - water scent). It freshens the entire basement (1,500 sq. ft.) within two hours. I set the time and leave it. When I come back, it is off and the room smells CLEAN.
It's also light weight. Therefore it is easy to move it around the house.
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RatingI've owned the pet germ guardian for about 3 weeks and wondered how I lived without it for so long. I keep it in my living room because we are there majority of the time. There are 5 speeds, the highest 5 has a little noise but 4 down you can barely hear it. The timer is a nice feature if you just want it on for an hour. The air feels fresh and clean. My sister is allergic to my dogs and ever since I bought this her eyes no longer water. I would recommend and might buy one for the bedroom.
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Ratingthe unit is in my toddler's room and it's very quiet and non-intrusive. the air smells cleaner and so far, i'm happy with the product.
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My cat seems to have a problem with dust also, hopefully this will help him too.Winter is tough, can't open the windows as often and get fresh air.
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Oh yes - I have rear round allergies - and I DO SLEEP BETTER when this thing is running.
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Oh yes - I have rear round allergies - and I DO SLEEP BETTER when this thing is running.
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RatingI did a lot of research on ratings on air cleaning systems and even though some people don't care for the germguardian, i love it! It really is quiet and does a good job keeping the air clean. I will note that when it is on, cool air is circulated which if you have a warm room, it is two-fold so to speak. Keeps the air cleaner and cools your room. Keep in mind that it doesn't cool your room like an air conditioner would but there is cool air coming out of it. I love the style of it, the height is good, and the digital is nice although the manual ones are fine too. I actually bought two of the manual (knob) germguardians for two other rooms in my house. I'm glad i chose the germguardians.


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We are gearing up for a wonderful Fall Welcome program full of activities for you as new students in the Herberger Institute. We encourage you to attend these special sessions, which are devoted to providing you with necessary information for your specific major within the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
Student Orientations:
All Majors:
All Institute Welcome - Please attend only one of the two sessions offered.
RSVP is REQUIRED, please click a time below to reserve your seat.
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 8–8:45 a.m. | ASU Galvin Playhouse
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 9–9:45 a.m. | ASU Galvin Playhouse
Your fall welcome activities in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts begin with the welcome assembly. New students and parents will have the opportunity to meet deans, faculty, academic staff and unit leadership.
The Sun Devil Welcome – Required for Freshmen
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2–3 p.m. | Wells Fargo Arena
A must-attend event for all new freshmen across all campuses, being hosted on the Tempe campus. Programming for the show begins at 2 p.m. Hear from ASU President Crow about the exciting opportunities that await you, learn the ASU fight song and more about the amazing class of 2019!
Arcadia Residential Community Welcome – Required for Arcadia Residents
Monday, Aug. 17, 9–11 a.m. | ASU Art Museum
All residents of the Arcadia Residential Community for Design and the Arts are invited to attend this welcome event designed to provide information on the residential community, introduce you to the community staff who will be working with you during the academic year, and orient you to the programming and opportunities provided within the community. Faculty, staff, advisors and administrators from the Herberger Institute will also be in attendance. Light breakfast and coffee will be served.
New Graduate Welcome Reception — Graduate students only
RSVP is REQUIRED, please click the time below to reserve your seat.
Monday, Aug. 17, 4–5 p.m. | ASU Art Museum
Welcome to the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. This informal welcome to graduate students offers a chance to mingle with other graduate students, coordinators, faculty and the directors. Refreshments will be served.
Out of State Student Welcome Reception — Out of state students only
RSVP is REQUIRED, please click the time below to reserve your seat.
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 4–5 p.m. | ASU Art Museum
Please join us as we welcome our out-of-state and international first year students! This event will be a great chance for you to meet with other students from around the U.S. as well as the world. Refreshments will be served.
Major specific sessions: Tuesday, Aug. 18
Major orientation sessions are divided by school within the Herberger Institute, and you will meet with the administration and faculty within your major. Sessions will be held as follows:
School of Art New Student Welcome – Required
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | ART 220
This is an orientation program for all new majors in the School of Art. You will receive information on degree offerings, student organizations, galleries and other opportunities for students in the School of Art. Lunch will be served.
Arts, Media + Engineering: Digital Culture New Student Welcome – Required
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Stauffer B125
All new undergraduate students majoring in digital culture should plan to attend this orientation session to learn more about the offerings within the nine concentrations within digital culture as well as have the opportunity to meet faculty, staff and current students within Digital Culture. Lunch will be served.
Cross-Institute Degrees: BA in the Arts and BA in Design Studies New Student Welcome – Required
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 10–11 a.m. | MUSIC E277
This is an orientation session for all incoming students who plan to pursue the BA in the Arts or BA in Design Studies program. You will receive additional information about the program and interdisciplinary curriculum offerings. Lunch will be served.
The Design School New Student Welcome – Required*
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 10–11 a.m. | Evelyn Smith Music Theatre
All new undergraduates majoring in Architectural Studies, Landscape Architecture, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design and Environmental Design should attend this important orientation session. You will learn about your academic discipline as well as meet faculty and staff from the school.
*Additional breakout sessions for your individual major will follow this session from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Breakout Sessions – Architecture/Landscape, Graphic Design, Industrial Design and Interior Design - Required
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Various locations (see below)
Architecture/Landscape Architecture Evelyn Smith Music Theatre
Graphic Design CDN 60
Industrial Design Design Bridge (CDS/CDN second floor)
Interior Design CDN 68
Please plan to attend your major session: Architectural Studies and Landscape Architecture, Graphic Design, Industrial Design or Interior Design to learn more information about your specific discipline and meet faculty and staff within your academic program.
School of Film, Dance and Theatre New Student Welcome – Required
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 11–11:45 a.m. | Galvin Playhouse
Film, Dance and Theatre undergraduate students are invited to a welcome gathering with faculty and staff which will also provide advisement information, descriptions of special events including the MainStage production season and other student activities. Light refreshments will be served.
Breakout Sessions – Film, Dance and Theatre – Required
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 11-11:45 a.m. | locations (see below)
Film Galvin Playhouse
Dance FAC 122
Theatre FAC 133
Please plan to attend your major session: Film, Dance or Theatre to learn more information about your specific discipline and meet faculty and staff within your academic program.
School of Music New Student Welcome – Required
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 10 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Recital Hall Patio
This orientation session is required for all entering music majors who have passed their audition. You will meet other music students, learn about undergraduate student services and gain tips on how to survive your freshman year. Lunch will be served.
For more information on the other programs and activities scheduled during Fall Welcome, please see the following website: students.asu.edu/fallwelcome.
Feel free to contact the Herberger Institute Office of Student Success with any questions regarding this schedule or the fall welcome events by calling 480.965.9699. We look forward to greeting you soon!


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Stathi Paxinos Joe Tomane did not hesitate when asked on Wednesday what effect former coach Craig Bellamy has had on his career.
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Lions learn and deliver a lesson to Rebels
Stathi Paxinos Tourists beat Australia's youngest Super Rugby team 35-0 at AAMI Park.
Lions happy, but unlikely to ring many changes
Stathi Paxinos Major changes unlikely in Lions team for second Test despite big win over Rebels.
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ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - Joab Jerome scored 16 points and Larry Brown added a double-double, 10 points and 10 rebounds to help Winthrop pull away from Liberty 66-56 Saturday night in Big South Conference play.
On top 52-49 with 6:50 to play, Winthrop extended its lead behind a 14-2 run capped by Andre Smith's 3-pointer to make it 64-51 with 2:03 remaining.
Liberty (7-16, 3-6) made just one field goal the rest of the way as Winthrop cruised to the victory.
James scored 14 points in the second half, and Winthrop led by as many as 13 points.
Winthrop shot 60 percent (15 of 25) in the second half while holding Liberty to just 36.7 percent (11 of 30).
Tavares Speaks finished with 15 points for the Flames.
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I'm following the Minnesota recount pretty closely because we could potentially have the makings of a super majority on our hands if Franken wins the recount and Jim Martin is able to beat Saxby Chambliss in Georgia.
In any event, after the first day Franken had cut Coleman's lead from 215 to 172. And today Coleman has lost an additional 36 net votes.
FiveThirtyEight has some details…
Coleman's lead over Franken is now 136 votes after two days and 46% of the ballots recounted. 30% of votes have been recounted in heavily Democratic Ramsey County, 36% in Democratic St. Louis County, and 42% in Democratic Hennepin County.
Six relatively small counties are set to begin counting tomorrow. More are set to begin counting next week, and the challenge adjudication phase of the process can begin as early as December 6, but likely Monday December 8.
Dakota County, which went for Coleman decisively, has produced a net gain of 32 for Franken. Coleman has lost 40 votes to Franken's 8, so perhaps this is where Franken challenges have stepped up.
It's still anybody's ball game at this point, but Franken didn't keep up his pace from yesterday and he'll need to gain a lot more if he hopes to overtake Coleman.
Basically, if Coleman's lead was 215 at the start, and Franken has only gained 79 so far (43 the first day, 36 the second day), he's 19 behind the pace he needs to be at with 46% of the recount completed or 98 votes. So my gut tells me that Franken will ultimately fall short by about 40 votes.
More as it develops…


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People will most remember Pope Benedict XVI for leaving his position as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, instead of the changes he made while he was pope, a Greenwood priest said.
The pope announced Monday he will resign on Feb. 28, making him the first pope to do so since 1415.
But that decision also could change the tradition of being pope until death and modernize the position with more youthful and energetic leaders, a religious studies professor said.
Monsignor Mark Svarczkopf, of Our Lady of the Greenwood Catholic Church, said he was shocked to hear the news of the retirement on a morning talk show.
"It was a surprise for everybody this morning. The most important thing everybody's going to remember is that he retired. I do know that popes have retired before, but in modern times, no," Svarczkopf said.
Svarczkopf said then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been the obvious choice to replace Pope John Paul II in 2005. He said that, since then, the pope has made the Catholic Church more modern in his choices of whom to elevate as cardinals and his use of social media.
"He was the first pope to be on Twitter, that's for sure," Svarczkopf said.
Franklin College professor of religious studies David Carlson said Benedict's decision to step down also was a modern choice.
The pope is expected to travel much more now than 100 years ago and to work from the time he wakes up until he goes to sleep, which means the person in the position needs to be healthy and energetic, Carlson said.
The church's tradition is for a pope to be in the position until he dies, but Carlson said future popes could follow Benedict's example and decide to retire, so that younger, more energetic people can take their place and carry on the responsibilities.
"Now, this could become the new precedent in keeping with the modern world. Leadership for life is really not a modern model," he said.
Benedict took over the position at age 78, a time when most people would be retired, and his health has declined over the past year, Carlson said.
Svarczkopf said he understands the pope's decision to step down and thinks now most likely is the best time to do so, because the Catholic Church is stable.
"He might have thought, 'The church isn't in any crisis right now, it's in a good place for me to retire. I don't need to stay on to make sure nothing bad happens,'" Svarczkopf said.
Svarczkopf met Ratzinger while working at the Vatican more than 10 years ago and said the then-cardinal was a smart theologian and a great listener. One year, a group of students chose Ratzinger to ordain them, and Ratzinger made sure to ask the students what they wanted him to do at the ceremony, Svarczkopf said.
Carlson said Benedict is more loving and compassionate than he expected, and he will remember the pope for trying to get more people in Europe to return to the Christian faith.
Svarczkopf looks forward to learning who will take over the title.
"There's not a big No. 2 name in the Vatican. When you would say Cardinal Ratzinger's name before he became pope, everyone recognized it. There isn't anyone like that now," Svarczkopf said.


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Why does it hurt when I get a speck of dirt in my eye but when I put my contact lenses in, I don't feel much of anything?
-- Eyes, San Diego
The human cornea is choosey about what it reacts to. Tiny things like dust or dirt hurt like heck and potentially could do damage to your eye. Large, smooth objects are pretty much ignored. Notice that you don't feel anything every time you close your large, smooth eyelids. If we weren't wired up this way, we'd probably walk around all day going blink, ouch, blink, ouch....
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"It is utterly crucial that in our darkness we affirm the wise, strong hand of God to hold us, even when we have no strength to hold him." — John Piper
Even the most faithful, focused Christians can encounter periods of depression and spiritual darkness when joy seems to stay just out of reach. It can happen because of sin, satanic assault, distressing circumstances, or hereditary and other physical causes. In When the Darkness Will Not Lift, acclaimed pastor and author John Piper aims to give some comfort and guidance to those experiencing spiritual darkness.
Readers will gain insight into the physical side of depression and spiritual darkness, what it means to wait on the Lord in a time of darkness, how unconfessed sin can clog our joy, and how to minister to others who are living without light. Piper uses real-life examples and sensitive narrative to show readers abundant reason to hope that God will pull them out of the pit of despair and into the light once again.
John Piper, is senior pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as well as a respected theologian and author. He is the author of over 30 books, of which more than two million copies have sold.
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