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During the congressional recess and this week both aides and lobbyists were reluctant to speak on the record.
One aide to a senator who is not a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee said committee aides had begun asking staffers from other offices their opinion of the bill and whether their bosses would support it as written.
Senate aides noted that the bill that came out of the Senate Agriculture Committee was a product of the committee's current membership, which includes Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and John Thune, R-S.D., who wrote the "shallow loss" program that is the centerpiece of the new commodity support program, and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., a former Agriculture chairman, who supported it.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and ranking member Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said at the April 26 markup of the farm bill that they are open to further changes to the commodity title if they fit within the budget, but it's unclear whether the committee is considering any proposals to address the issues that rice and peanut growers and others have raised about the draft bill.
The aides also noted that southern power on the committee has diminished since the defeat of former Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., but they pointed out that on the Senate floor, southerners will have more power in influencing the legislation.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told Iowa reporters Tuesday he expected amendments on the floor to weaken the $50,000 payment cap written under the Agriculture Risk Coverage program in the commodity title. Grassley also plans to offer his own amendments to set a $75,000 individual payment cap on marketing loans.
One lobbyist also said it is becoming clear that House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R., Okla.) will write his own bill, and that the final bill will have to be reconciled with whatever the House produces, but that farm leaders would like the two bills to be as similar as possible to reduce the time for reconciliation and to create an image of solidarity to get the bill passed.
Lobbyists and aides also said conflicts remain over the importance of crop insurance, with northerners emphasizing that the Senate bill maintains and enhances that program, while rice and peanut growers still doubt whether it will work for them.
In addition, there are differences within groups over whether target prices are still needed to protect farmers from multiyear crop price declines.
Lobbyists have noted the decision to take out price protection in the 1996 Freedom Farm bill resulted in price and income declines that led to multibillion bailout packages in the late 1990s and the reintroduction of target prices and a countercyclical program in the 2002 farm bill.
One Senate aide said the new shallow loss program provides better protection than the farm program established in the 1996 bill, but some lobbyists say it is still not good enough. Another lobbyist said, however, that the concern over target prices outside rice and peanuts is limited to certain states such as Oklahoma and Montana and that the battle will have to be fought on a regional basis because it will not be possible to get national groups to take up the issue.
Resolving the conflicts over the commodity title is vital before the bill goes to the Senate floor because the farm bill will then face a wide range of critics outside of agriculture, a key Senate aide said.
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Hsinchu, Taiwan
Dec. 2, 1998 to Dec. 4, 1998
Message from the Program Chair (Abstract)
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Steering Committee (Abstract)
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Technical Program Committee (Abstract)
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Reviewers (Abstract)
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A Processor Description Language Supporting Retargetable Multi-Pipeline DSP Program Development Tools (Abstract)
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Poster Presentations
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Communication and Interface Synthesis on a Rapid Prototyping Hardware/Software Codesign System (Abstract)
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Invited Talk
Session 3: Application-Specific Synthesis Techniques
pp. 83
Proposal for Unified System Design Meta Flow in Task-Level and Instruction-Level Design Technology Research for Multi-Media Applications (Abstract)
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Session 4: Synchronization and Interface Issues
pp. 105
Integrating Communication Protocol Selection with Partitioning in Hardware/Software Codesign (Abstract)
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Session 5: Instruction Encoding and Software Synthesis Techniques
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The FX markets are a bit choppy today, with the USD slightly weaker vs. the EUR and GBP after the release of the U.S. CPI report earlier this morning, confirming the current inflation rate remains well below the Fed's 2% target (USD negative). The offset to the inflation report was the jobless claims announcement, which showed the number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits jumped to the highest since July. In Asia trading, AUD weakened below .8900 (3yr low) following a poor jobs report (decrease of 22k jobs), following an upward revision in Nov., increasing the probability of an interest rate decrease at the RBA's next meeting. Today's Events• U.S. CPI rose 0.3% in Dec., in-line with consensus vs. unchanged; core @ +0.1% • U.S. initial jobless claims slipped 2k to 326k, below consensus @ 328k for the week of Jan. 11 • U.S. Philly Fed index rose to 9.4 in Jan., above consensus @ 8.9 from 6.4 in Dec. • Canadian portfolio data revealed foreign investors bought CAD 8.7 bln in Nov. • ECB report strengthened via wording on forward guidance and easing bias • Eurozone Dec. HICP inflation confirmed @ 0.8%, German @ 1.2% • AUD dove on anemic jobs report• NYMEX crude up over $1 near $94.00 on EIA storage draw, firmer U.S. data Looking Ahead01/17 USD: Industrial Production/Housing Starts (Dec.)01/17 GBP: Retail Sales (Dec.)01/20 CNY: GDP Y/Y (Q4'13)01/20 USD: Markets Closed (MLK)01/21 CAD: Wholesale Trade/Inventories (Nov.)01/22 AUD: CPI (Q4)01/22 CAD: BoC Overnight Target Rate (Currently @ 1.00%)01/23 CAD: Retail Sales (Nov.) 01/23 USD: Leading Indicators/Existing Home Sales Reports (Dec.) FX Indications EUR 1.3629GBP 1.6362CAD 1.0918JPY 104.34CHF 0.906AUD 0.8806RUB 33.385INR 61.545CNY 6.056BRL 2.359ILS 3.495ZAR 10.94NZD 0.8313SEK 6.4639 Stock Indices Dow 16433.9Nasdaq 4211.23S&P 1842.56FTSE 6816.85DAX 9722.52Nikkei 15747.2Shanghai 2023.7 Commodities Oil 93.99Gold 1241.21 U.S. Treasuries 2 Year 0.385 Year 1.6510 Year 2.8630 Year 3.79
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The Ag Alumni Mentoring Program began during fall semester of 2012 as a pilot program with ten mentoring pairs. Ten additional pairs were matched for the spring semester. More than thirty students signed up to participate this past spring. Students are matched with mentors from a database of Ag Alumni who have indicated an interest in participating as mentors and have completed a professional profile. Potential mentors from all career stages are continually being solicited. Mentors make a commitment of one semester, and they are always given the opportunity to opt out before a match is made.
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Jan. 21, 2013
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - After averaging 23.0 points per game and shooting 60.6 percent from the floor, Duquesne's Wumi Agunbiade has been named Atlantic 10 Player of the Week.
The junior forward, who earns her third all-time POW award, scored 23 points on 10-of-19 shooting in Duquesne's 68-41 win over Saint Louis on Wednesday. She scored 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting against Temple in Sunday's 65-45 victory.
Duquesne (14-3, 3-0 A-10) hits the road for a Wednesday night game against VCU. Tipoff is at 7:00 p.m.


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Fayetteville Police Detectives are requesting the public's assistance in locating a missing female.
57-year old Edna Sinclair Roper of 4110 S. Dowfield Drive in Fayetteville is a black female, 5'5 tall, approximately 150 lbs, with brown eyes and black hair.
Ms. Roper was last seen by her grandson on Monday March 23rd, at approximately 0430 hours. She was wearing a green blouse with a green skirt. Ms. Roper is thought to be driving a 2001 Green Mitsubishi Galant, with license plate number YSB5329.
Ms. Roper suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
An older photograph of Ms. Roper was obtained from her grandson and is attached to this release.
Anyone having any information as to Edna Roper's whereabouts' is urged to call the Fayetteville Police Department at (910) 433-1856.
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Get dirty, have fun and grow more food with great gardening tips from real-life gardeners.
By Cheryl Long
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Pumpkins with warts look pretty weird, and in America, and especially at Halloween, weird often sells well. So the Siegers seed company is attempting to patent and "own" all pumpkins with warts, even though pumpkins with warts have been grown by gardeners for centuries. As heirloom vegetable expert Will Weaver put it, "This is like trying to patent all trees with twisted limbs." But Siegers is claiming they have somehow "invented" warty pumpkins, and threatening to sue other companies if they try to sell seeds of warty pumpkins if the patent is granted. The ETC group has sounded the alarm and called on the U.S. Patent Office to "reject all 25 claims of the patent application on warted pumpkins."
Warty pumpkins are clearly not a new invention. Patenting a "new and improved" variety is one thing, but Siegers is attempting to claim ownership of all warty pumpkins.
Read more in the GRIT blog by Mother Earth News contributing editor (and plant geneticist) Hank Will: Siegers Attempts to Patent Pumpkin History and Siegers Seed Co. Threatens Action Over Warty Pumpkins.
Gardeners and farmers have seen this kind of attempt to abuse the patent process before. Maybe an outpouring of objections, directed to the folks at Siegers and to the patent office will convince them to withdraw their patent application.
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> I need a 100ms cyclic thread ,and use serial comm.
No Linux / µCLinux can _guarantee_ to meet any timing (hard real time).
This is not what Linux is made for. You only can bet on a certain (high)
likelihood that your cycles will occur with their 100msec window (soft
real time).
If you need hard real time you can add RTAI to Linux (and AFAIK to
µCLinux as well).


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From Special Report: Global Opportunities - May 2012
Mixed fortunes for Asia as Europe struggles on
Asia Pacific ex Japan markets generally fell in March and April, but still outperformed world markets
Hugh Young, Angus Tulloch and Mark Mobius remain the top-performing managers in Asia, producing stellar returns in spite of macro pressures from Europe and high commodity prices.
Mr Young, manager of the £1.2bn Aberdeen Global Asian Smaller Companies fund, notes that Asian stockmarkets fell in March amid worries of a sharp economic slowdown in China, although losses had been capped by hopes of further quantitative easing (QE) in the US.
He observes that while inflation has started to ease in the region, persistently high oil prices "threatened to reverse the trend".
This was most notable in China, the world's second largest economy, where consumer prices rose 3.6 per cent compared with a year earlier, up from February's 3.2 per cent, as bad weather and government policies pushed up food and fuel prices. However, it is still below the government's 4 per cent target for the year.
Asia Pacific ex Japan markets generally fell in April as well, but still outperformed world markets. In April the markets hit were India and Taiwan, while Thailand and China made gains.
Industrials and materials were the worst performing sectors, while the consumer sector posted the greatest rises.
However, while Europe continues to struggle through the debt crisis, Mr Young says the effect on Asia has been "mixed".
"Anaemic European demand hurt exports from China, Malaysia and Thailand, whereas Korea, Singapore and Taiwan saw electronics shipments improve," he adds.
The Aberdeen Global Asian Smaller Companies fund is the best-performing fund in the IMA Asia Pacific ex Japan index over three years and five years with a volatility of 4.48.
It has returned 122.1 per cent in the three years to April 26 and 108.2 per cent in the five years to April 26.
This compares with the MSCI All Country Asia Pacific ex Japan index which returned 57.5 per cent in the past three years and 42.3 per cent in the past five years, according to FE. Within the fund the largest country weightings are Hong Kong listed stocks and companies based in Malaysia which each account for 17.4 per cent of the portfolio.
Mark Mobius's £11.1bn Templeton Asian Growth fund was the second best performing fund in the five years to April 26, delivering 79.4 per cent.
The manager's largest overweight position was in Thailand as of March 31, accounting for 23.3 per cent of the fund, while it makes up just a fraction of the MSCI All Country Asia Pacific ex Japan index.
Angus Tulloch's £5.7bn First State Asia Pacific Leaders fund also ranked in the top five, and has south-east Asia as an overweight position in the portfolio. He says he expects macroeconomic volatility to continue in the medium term, but, as with the other top managers, he adds that he is using it as a buying opportunity.
Rebecca Clancy is senior news reporter at Investment Adviser
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- US a winner in sentiment stakes
- Companies that the managers favour
- Broadly positive about emerging markets
- Why the smart money could still be in Asia
- The risks to Asia remain
- Unearthing the roots of recovery
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Egypt Resorts to Emergency Law
Morsi Takes Risk in Imposing Hated Mubarak-Era Measure to Calm Three Cities After Deadly Riots
CAIRO—Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi imposed emergency law and set a curfew in three cities where rioting against his rule killed about 50 people over the weekend, in a move that seemed poised to further inflame violent opposition to his rule.
In a stern address to the nation Sunday evening, Mr. Morsi said he would impose the measures on the cities of Suez, Port Said and Ismailia for 30 days effective on Monday. He also called for talks Monday with the political opposition, which had urged more demonstrations.
Mr. Morsi's gambit was risky. Opposition to the emergency law was a central cause of the revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak nearly two years ago, spurring a democratic shift that led to Mr. Morsi's presidential victory in June.
The much-reviled law hands broad powers to the police to investigate, arrest and detain suspects indefinitely without charge. Mr. Mubarak maintained the law during his 30-year rule to imprison political opponents, particularly Islamists from the powerful Muslim Brotherhood organization that Mr. Morsi helped lead for much of his adult life.
The emergency law, which expired in May, will empower police to disperse protesters, ban demonstrations and block off certain areas, said Heba Morayef, a researcher for the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch. "This heavy-handed policing, which was a hallmark of Mubarak's police force, will just inflame opposition," Ms. Morayef said.
Even as the law outraged Mr. Morsi's opponents, it is likely to reassure many Egyptians who were terrified by some of the most violent street-level clashes since the revolution.
On Sunday, at least seven people were killed and more than 400 people were injured in Port Said after unknown assailants attacked a mass funeral for some of the 31 people who were killed during riots that engulfed the northern coastal city a day earlier. People who attended the funeral described a chaotic scramble for safety after mourners dropped their caskets to flee seemingly random gunfire.
Saturday's violence flared after a court in Cairo sentenced 21 Port Said residents to death for their role in the alleged murders of 74 soccer fans at a postmatch melee in February 2012.
In response, armed and outraged Port Said residents invaded a prison complex that housed the convicts, eventually freeing some of the captives inside. Some of the prisoners remain at large, reported Egypt's official state news agency.
A day earlier, on Friday, at least 11 people were killed in the city of Suez after protests to mark the second anniversary of Egypt's revolution turned into pitched battles between police and protesters in cities across the country.
Mr. Morsi coupled the announcement of expanded police powers with an invitation for opposition political forces to join a dialogue on Monday to resolve the country's latest crisis.
The predominantly secular and liberal opposition has in the past declined Mr. Morsi's dialogue offers, saying he must first meet some of its demands. The rioting and renewed emergency law appeared unlikely to change opposition leaders' minds.
The abrupt surge in street-level violence, which also occurred in Cairo on Sunday, has empowered Egypt's fractured political opposition, uniting them to capitalize on the crisis.
As Port Said surged with outrage over the death penalty verdicts on Saturday morning, the National Salvation Front, an umbrella group opposed to Egypt's Islamist government, released a statement threatening to boycott parliamentary elections unless Mr. Morsi agreed to amend the Islamist-friendly constitution, move up presidential elections and pass power to a "national salvation government."
But the opposition may have overestimated its power. The protest movement that ousted Mr. Mubarak has morphed into a mass expression of public rage, accountable to no one and without clear political goals or obvious negotiators.
Mr. Morsi, in his address Sunday, responded to the unchecked violence, took on the same scolding and harsh tone that outraged millions of Egyptians during Mr. Mubarak's final days. Twice during his speech, the president told his audience that he would impose even harsher police measures if he deemed it necessary. At several points, Mr. Morsi even waved his finger at the television camera, as if to admonish viewers for their naughtiness.
"I saw the speech and I saw [Morsi's] finger," said Adel Shehata, 54, a teacher in Port Said whose son, Mohamed, was among the 21 people sentenced to death. "The speech is the biggest evidence that he gave a thumb-up for the police to kill more. We will not be imprisoned in our homes for 30 days."
At the same time, the president sought to reassure Egyptians that his move wouldn't plunge the country back into autocracy. "There is no going back on freedom, democracy and the supremacy of the law," he said.
Sunday's announcement is the latest in a series of escalations of Mr. Morsi's political authority.
Mr. Morsi sparked massive riots in Cairo in November after he announced a presidential decree that sidelined Egypt's judiciary, letting his Islamist allies ratify an Islamic-tinged constitution. The move struck many secularists as a throwback to the strong-armed political tactics of Egypt's ousted regime. For many protest leaders and activists, Sunday's speech sounded like a case of history repeating.
"I'm afraid to say that it's the first time that I have the feeling that Mubarak was far better than this guy," said Shadi Al Ghazali Harb, an activist who helped lead the protests that ousted Mr. Mubarak.
Mr. Ghazali Harb, like many youth activists, supported Mr. Morsi's second-round presidential bid last August against a former Mubarak loyalist. After Sunday's speech, Mr. Harb said he now plans to reignite the dormant protest movement against Mr. Morsi.
"This guy, I can never describe him as our president," said Mr. Harb. "We will fight until our last drop of blood until he goes. He lost all legitimacy."
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Tyler Russell and his younger brother, Kyle, rest in between Tyler's workouts at Ray Stadium in Meridian.
Six months removed the shoulder surgery that hurt his chances of making of an NFL roster, Tyler Russell describes himself as 80% healthy.
"When I do get my time… I don't know when it will be. I can't tell you," said Russell. "Right now, I'm about six months out of surgery. The doctor says it's probably going to be about.... a month and a half now, maybe two, until I'm 100 percent healthy."
But in the meantime, his days are full. When he isn't helping out with his father's lawn business, he's doing everything he can to be ready when he is healthy enough to accept a mini camp offer. He wakes up everyday at 4:30 in the morning for weight sessions with personal trainer Mike Sanders.
"And he'll call every phone in the house to wake me up. If i don't get up," said Russell
Three times a week, Russell gets help from long-time friend and exercise science graduate Will Fuchs (ho recently got a degree from Ole Miss) who runs routes from the former bulldog.
"We ran 25 routes today, and didn't have an incompletion," said Fuchs. "You know, he puts it on the money every time. His arm looks strong, and it's just going to continue to get stronger."
When they have finished, Fuchs pushes him grueling sprints of 40, 60 and 100 yards.
"We're just working on getting as much power into the ground as possible."
He hears from Demond Kauffman, his Houston, Texas-based agent, almost everyday. Kauffman wants to know how his workouts are going and how he's progressing. Russell has even started a Facebook fan page to make himself as visible as possible.
"I post all my workouts, everything that I'm doing. So, if any teams want to [ask], 'Hey, what is Tyler doing right now? Is he just sitting down, not doing anything, or is he constantly working out?'"
The answer is the later. Joined by Fuchs and his two younger brothers, Russell is doing everything he can to be ready for when he's 100 percent healthy and opportunity knocks.
"Tyler's always got a great attitude. Ya'll know him," said Buchs. "This city's behind him, and he knows it., and he comes to work every day.
"Now it's just up to getting cleared by the doctor, and I'm sure he'll be able to get on with somebody."


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An Artist's Voice
Aesthetic Commentary
Pandora's Box Part
3by Michael
The form of art and its function in
human life are central to the debate between postmodern art and
art. In the first two parts of this series I essayed 1) how
postmodern art shocks your epistemological processes through its
anti-art means, and 2) how it
shocks your psychological processes by expressing disturbing
content as the ends. Along these lines, I will go deeper in
examining the theoretical basis of postmodern art and then, I
would like to show you that an alternative to postmodern art
exists, today, in the here and now.
To start I would like to address a few
of Kant's concepts of the sublime. These concepts are important because he
introduces some profoundly radical concepts into the history of
aesthetics that have, in a fundamental sense, become the
blueprints for postmodern art.
Kant states: "The beautiful in nature
is a question of the form of the object, and this consists in
limitation, whereas the sublime is to be found in an object even
devoid of form."
Kant is contrasting the beautiful with
the sublime. He connects, quite reasonably, the beautiful with
the form of an object but, oddly, he attaches formlessness to
the concept of sublime. To give you two examples, think of the
Venus de Milo and Duchamp's Fountain. The Venus de
Milo derives her aesthetic value because of the sculptor's
superlative skill in creating a fluid, graceful female form
in stone. The Fountain, on the other hand,
is a urinal. It derives its postmodern aesthetic esteem because
Duchamp exercised no skill and used no means; it is the
antithesis of making sculpture. In a very true sense it is
aesthetically formless, it represents an idea but the actual
urinal is of no aesthetic value in itself.
Kant's view is that a concept
communicated through a formless means is superior to a concept
communicated through the form of sculpture or painting. In other
words, it is the concept that counts and not the artwork.
Kant's concept of the formless nature
of the sublime is the ideological birthplace of the postmodern
aesthetic that art, visual art, doesn't need to be expressed
through the means of representational painting or sculpture. In
practice, this aesthetic opened up the floodgates of a nihilistic
revolution in the 20th Century in which postmodern artists
deconstructed art and/or substituted any object but
painting or sculpture for art, i.e. arranged rubbish, excrement,
installations, etc.
An opinion voiced by many people in
response to postmodern art, such as Andre's bricks arranged on a
floor as exhibited in the Tate, is "my eight-year old could do this." It is easy to
understand their perspective; their assumption is that a value
is something that takes effort and skill, the higher the value
the more it would require superlative skill, not something
assembled at random.
This attitude, in part, echoes
Aristotle's comment that "art is identical with a state of
capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning." The
idea is that a sculptor sculpts and a painter paints and they
remain true to their arts forms, to the means of creation. There
would be no room in his concept of art to include assemblages of
factory-made objects. "All art is concerned with coming into
being, i.e. with contriving and considering how something may
come into being and whose origin is in the maker." An
Aristotelian definition of a person who scattered bricks would
be a brick arranger, not an artist.
A contemporary take on the nature of
art comes from Rand, who connects humanity's need of art to the
process of translating concepts, through painting or sculpture,
into an immediate perceptual concrete. She observes: "An artist
isolates the things which he regards as metaphysically essential
and integrates them into a single new concrete that represents
an embodied abstraction."
In Delacroix's Liberty
Leading the People, we literally see a woman leading people
forward, an immediate perceptual concrete, and this scene projects concepts such as fighting for
one's values, overcoming barriers, and life or death struggles. Experiencing this phenomenon is what
can give humans the
sense of the reality of their possibilities. The idea is that
artistic visions can and do inspire our dreams and goal directed
actions in real life.
Both Rand and Aristotle keep aesthetics
grounded to art. On the other hand,
Kant, through his concept of the formless nature of the sublime,
divorces aesthetics from art.
As the means of an artwork deals with
the form, the end deals with the "point", the intellectual and
emotional expression of the art. In Kant's view the end point of
the sublime should "excite[s] a feeling of an outrage on the
imagination, and yet it is judged all the more sublime on that
Kant's theory of the sublime is the foundation
for all the derivative theories of shock aesthetics that find
realization in such postmodern works as: meat grinders for
humans, Hatoum's Mouli Julienne; the irrelevant
defacement of the Mona Lisa image by the inclusion of a
moustache, Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q.; canned shit, Manzoni's
Merde d'artista; empty room as art, Creed's The Lights
Going On and Off; etc.
On a basic human level there is a touch
of nastiness in all these works. They are displays that take us
to states of mind that are either envious, grotesque, or
The Dalai Lama by contrast believes that your happiness is threatened if you embrace
negative states of being. He eloquently states: "...hatred,
jealousy, anger, and so on are harmful. We consider them
negative states of mind because they destroy our mental
happiness; once you harbor feelings of hatred or ill feeling
towards someone, once you yourself are filled by hatred or
negative emotions, then other people appear to you as also
hostile." Though he is not making an aesthetic statement, his
idea serves as an ethical stance in which happiness is a proper
aim for one's life.
The question arises: what role does
human value, as a subject matter, have in aesthetics?
Kant has already shown us his negative
stance by the idea of an "outrage on the imagination". In
contrast to Kant's aesthetics, Rand and Aristotle have
benevolent views of what the end point in art should be. In
Rand's case she thinks art can/should create the experience of
"a moment of metaphysical joy--a moment of love for existence."
And Aristotle thinks that: "Every art is thought to aim at some
good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to
be that at which all things aim."
Rand and Aristotle come from the
standpoint that every act of human creativity has a human value
as an end point, including art. The converse would be that if an
act has a negative state as its end, it would be destructive or
meaningless for a healthy humanity.
So let's start afresh, away from Kant's
malapropos use of the word "sublime", and find out what the
dictionary definition of it is. The American Heritage Dictionary
defines sublime as 1) characterized by nobility; majestic. 2) a.
Of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth. b. Not to be
excelled; supreme. 3) Inspiring awe; impressive. 4) Archaic.
Raised aloft; set high.
Keep those definitions in mind as we
look at the following work.
Feldman's sculpture group, The
Future In Our Hands, 1992, Reservoir Park, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, is four life-size bronze statues placed around a
large outdoor fountain. There are two males and two females,
life-sized, each playing with a child.
Instead of looking at each sculpture
separately, let's first look at their common features.
Each adult is standing with one leg
solidly anchored on the ground, giving us the sense that they
are grounded in real life. Their other leg is relaxed and
slightly extended, giving them a sense of balance and flexibility.
Each adult is intently looking at their child and, more, their
entire body language is directed to and in support of the child.
Notice how each adult has an extended free arm poised for
maintaining balance. Their free arm is also extended in an
expression of care.
Each child is in a moment of freedom;
they are rising, reaching, or flying.
Notice that none of the children are
held or held back.
There is an intensely intimate physical
connection between the adults and the children.
Aside from the one child literally in flight, the other children
are balancing themselves on their parents. As well, in beautiful
exchanges of tenderness, the parents are balancing the children
with little more
than a touch of a finger, the support of a palm, or the tip
of a nose.
If we continue to look more closely at
the sculptures, we will notice that each adult is a unique body
type: the lithe girlish figure contrasts with the full womanly
figure; the men's figures are similarly contrasted between
slender and solid builds.
Notice the face of the mother tossing
the child; the line of her mouth and the tilt of her nose are
distinct features. We have the sense that if the model walked by
we would recognize her. Each figure has these unique
characteristics, which marks them as individuals. But common
among them is the elegance of the proportions of their body
parts. Not a hand, head, or foot seems out of sync with the
whole body. Here Feldman has stepped away from the generic
prototypes of the ancient Greeks, where, for example, youths'
heads look very much alike.
In each sculpture notice the flow of
the surface skin and how it moulds the underlying anatomy from
the hips to stomach up to the chest to around the shoulders.
Look at the natural shape of the knees; we can sense how they
are either locked into place or totally relaxed. This is a
virtuosic display of modeling clay. It also shows the breadth of Feldman's
anatomical knowledge from the delineation of a neck muscle to
the hardness of an elbow.
It might be easy to overlook the simple
naturalness of the children. But there are several very
difficult technical things going on here. One is that their
proportions are true to little children: the largeness of their
heads and the fullness of their torsos. Another aspect is the
modeling of their flesh, which gives us a sense of a malleable
plumpness. The third is that these toddlers are in incredibly
dynamic poses.
Children, throughout the history of art, from the Egyptians to
modern times have often looked, simply put, weird. It is
refreshing to find in sculpture children that look like
Stepping back, let's take in the
sculptures from a distance and look at their big forms. The big
form is, in contrast to details such as ears, the essential
"sweep" of the whole sculpture. If you use your imagination it
is like waving a magic wand in ascending arches, in large
flowing curves, or in shooting diagonal exclamation marks. And
imagine that your gestured arches, curves, and diagonals
magically turn into wildly arching backs, shoulders pivoting
against thrust hips, and ecstatic children soaring.
Looking at the sculpture of the lithe
woman with the flying child, follow the bow-like sweep from her
right shoulder through her left hip down through left leg that
ends at the curve of her left big toe. Notice how the child is
flying diagonally off the sweep of the mother's body, like an
arrow shooting off a bow. Feldman is using this big sweep to
dramatically accent the child's flight.
Parenthetically, Rodin's greatest
historical innovation was his integration of big sweeping forms
of the human body, which he used to give a sense of immediacy,
of living in the moment, to the expression of the figure. His
figures never feel "posed", like the melodramatic poses you
might see in silent movies. It is outside of the scope of this
essay but it could be argued that Rodin sacrificed proportions,
the flesh-like texture of the modeling, and the completeness of
the entire figure so that he could achieve the big sweep of
immediacy and form. On the other hand, Feldman has integrated
this technique without sacrificing any of these other sculptural
A swirling twist of space is the big
form in the sculpture of the child who is raising himself off
his mother's shoulder. She is taking a step, rotating in the
direction of her turned head, following the direction of her
child, whose back enhances this line and whose head is turned in
such a way as to continue this sweep out towards his furthest
sight. The whole composition is like a waltz of balance.
Looking at the sculpture of the child
balanced on his father's shoulder, we can sense a flowing "S"
sweep from the father's right leg, swinging up through his
torso, curving through the tilting torso of the child, ending in
a burst of joyfully flung arms and legs, much like the ascent
and explosion of fireworks.
Perhaps the most impressive of the four
sculptures is the one in which the father has raised the
delighted child on high. Notice the soaring line from the
father's right shoulder through his arm up through the child's
high flung leg.
The Future in Our Hands has a
lot to take in: the theme of joy of supporting human growth with
its sub-themes of individuality, flight, comradely, and equality
of the sexes. There is its multi-faceted execution of intimate
detailing, naturalism, dynamic movement, and big forms all of
which underlie and support the theme. In one way it simply looks
natural but the aesthetic construct is a tour de force of
I don't know if contemporary critics,
curators, and collectors have lost the capacity to feel awe for
good things. Whether they have or have not, it would be hard to
miss the qualities in The Future in Our Hands of
nobility, value, excellence, and rising the human spirit aloft,
in essence those things which make the sublime.
The Postmodern project substitutes
exaltation for rage, visual means for formlessness, and
sublimity for nihilism, but it can not destroy the existence and nature of art, or
other human accomplishments. But these anti-art definitions can
and do destroy our general ability to identify important
aesthetic values in
works of art; if we are not careful we could lose the
language to distinguish the good from the absurd.
The antidote to postmodern and
the key to understanding the dilemma
posed by this Pandora's Box series is
identification: open your eyes and name it for what it is.
All three versions of the legend of
Pandora's Box are true: the swirling demons and the diseases of
insanity; the hope; and, as well, the magnificence of human
creation. But it is the third version of Pandora's Box, the one
in which "out from the box rose up all the glories of humanity
and they spread throughout the world with undiminished splendor"
is the real one. It is the version that has value for those of
us wishing to achieve a flourishing existence on earth.
Michael Newberry
2002, first published in the Free Radical #54
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In 1989, after feeling sick and rundown in the months before her wedding, Berman learned she had Hodgkin lymphoma. She was 25 years old, vibrant and athletic, and had a hard time comprehending that her left lung could be filled with disease.
"The whole focus of cancer then was on a cure, not long-term survivorship," Berman recalls. "They were just starting to cure people with Hodgkin; there were no long-term survivors and they just hit you hard with chemo and radiation."
Doctors did stop the cancer, and slowly Berman returned to her active life and put the disease behind her. Then, less than a year after the birth of her second son, in 1997, she felt a lump under her arm. She had developed breast cancer, likely as a result of the earlier radiation treatment. A bilateral mastectomy, reconstruction surgery, and six months of chemotherapy followed.
"I had been warned about the possibility of a second cancer, but it was still very jarring," she says. "It quickly became clearer that this was a long-term thing I would have to deal with the rest of my life – the uncertainty, worry, and physical issues."
Although she still loves to ski, golf, and play tennis, Berman also has physical challenges. Her heart races, and she gets winded easily. She has stiffness and muscle pain, and her feet and hands are often cold. Still, Berman remains upbeat, serving as co-chair of DF/BWCC's Adult Patient and Family Advisory Council.
"Survivorship is learning to live your life in a balanced way," she says. "There may be more aftereffects looming, but I learned that there are things in life I can't control. That's really scary, but on the flip side I'm able to live a good life and raise my kids and do all the wonderful things I wouldn't have been able to do if I hadn't survived. I look at my life in a much more reflective way than I would've been able before diagnosis. That's the gift."
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Mardi Gras
- Yes, Virginia, there will be a Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 2006.
- The loping interplay of euphonium, trumpet, sax and trombone on 'Segala', and the glorious swagger of Oblemou wouldn't sound out of place at a Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
- The museum stocks stuff like the necklace Britney wore in a Mardi Gras parade and two dresses from her Star Search days.
- The annual Caribbean Carnival will top off the festival on June 20 with a Mardi Gras from 7pm-midnight and firework finale.
- And if you want Europeans to attend more then make it a Mardi Gras and I think then the mayor will have a tourist attraction.
- We went out on the town taking in a Mardi Gras like there was no tomorrow.
French, literally 'fat Tuesday', alluding to the last day of feasting before the fast of Lent.
shrift from Old English:
To give someone short shrift is to treat them in a curt and dismissive way. The phrase originally referred to the short time that a condemned criminal was allowed to make their confession to a priest and be shriven, prescribed a penance, and absolved of their sins, before being executed. Its first use in the literal sense comes in Shakespeare's Richard III: 'Make a short shrift, he longs to see your head.' The Shrove in Shrove Tuesday is a form of shriven. As the day before the start of Lent, it is marked by feasting and celebration before the Lent fast begins. In Britain people eat pancakes on the day, giving the alternative name Pancake Day or Pancake Tuesday. Other countries celebrate it as the carnival of Mardi Gras, French for 'Fat Tuesday'. See also carnival
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January 31, 2010
For a man whose job includes talking hostage-takers and suicidal pilots down from their rampages, Bryan Emmerson comes across as reserved, even shy. "It wasn't any kind of silver-tongued superhero there," Emmerson said recently about his role in the Dec. 23 standoff at the Wytheville post office. He looked pained to be singled out for attention. "It was the community of agencies coming together." A decade ago, Emmerson was a popular English teacher at Salem High School. But he switched careers shortly after the Sept.
Parkway Murders: Fbi Officials Meet With Victims' Families
By Mike Mather WTKR NewsChannel 3
January 9, 2010
In a three-hour meeting with several families Friday, FBI officials outlined a roadmap detailing how agents will use new science and manpower to solve the decades-old Colonial Parkway killings. A complete forensic search for the killer's DNA on the old evidence "will take months, rather than weeks as I had hoped," said Bill Thomas, one of more than a dozen who attended the meeting. Thomas' sister Cathleen was one of the first two victims taken in 1987. "That's a bit disappointing, but to be fair to them, we're really looking for the best possible result," he said.
Colonial Parkway Murders: Evidence Goes To Fbi Lab
By Mike Mather WTKR NewsChannel 3
December 19, 2009
The FBI is doubling the Colonial Parkway reward to $20,000 and is sending fingerprints and trace evidence from the killings for advanced scientific testing at its laboratory in Quantico, bureau officials said at a news conference Friday. Alex J. Turner, special agent in charge of the Norfolk FBI office, said he could not promise when that blood and fiber evidence would be tested for DNA, but "the FBI laboratory has committed to expediting the examinations." "I think the focus is it is being done," Turner said.
Parkway Murders: Some Cases Won't Get Fbi Review
By Mike Mather WTKR NewsChannel 3
December 12, 2009
State officials confirmed Friday two of the four "Parkway Murders" cases are not getting the same attention the FBI recently promised other families because the state police don't have enough resources. The murders of David Knobling and Robin Edwards, who were shot to death on Ragged Island Wildlife Management Area in 1987; and Daniel Lauer and Annamarie Phelps, killed near an Interstate 64 rest area in New Kent County in 1989, will not be subjected to the same "top-down review" that the FBI pledged to other families.
Fbi Revisiting Parkway Case
By Matt Sabo, email@example.com 757-247-4712
October 10, 2009
A string of six slayings and two disappearances known as the "Parkway Murders" that has confounded investigators for more than two decades is getting a "top to bottom" review by the FBI. The impetus for the review isn't advances in DNA technology or other investigation techniques. It was the discovery last year by a Williamsburg resident that sensitive crime scene photos - including graphic shots of victims - were floating around in the public domain. Fred Atwell learned in November the Parkway Murder photos had been obtained by a private security firm from an FBI source and was being used by the firm for training materials.
Lawyer: Scientist Should Get Less Than Two Years
By PETER DUJARDIN, email@example.com 247-4749
April 7, 2009
A Chinese-American scientist from Newport News who admitted passing sensitive rocket technology to the Chinese government should get credit for telling the FBI everything he knows about the case, his attorney said. That's one reason that Quan-Sheng Shu, 68, a physicist who worked at the Applied Research Center on Jefferson Avenue, should be sentenced to less than two years in prison, asserted Shu's lawyer, James O. Broccoletti. That's less than a third of the punishment federal attorneys are calling for. Shu faces up to 25 years in prison and fines of up to $2.25 million when sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry C. Morgan Jr. Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan M. Salsbury voiced no objection to federal sentencing guidelines that called for Shu to get between five years and 10 months and seven years and three months in prison on the charges.
Fbi Is Likely To Handle Inquiry In Inmate's Death
By DAVID MACAULAY, firstname.lastname@example.com 247-7838
January 10, 2009
The FBI is likely to take over an investigation into the drug overdose death of an inmate at the Newport News City Farm last year, police say. Jessie R. Truslow Jr., 25, of Charlotte Drive in Newport News, was found in physical distress at 4 a.m. on Sept. 28, police said. Truslow was taken to a local hospital where he was admitted in critical condition. He died a day later. Newport News spokeswoman Kim Lee said Truslow had taken an illegal substance, but would not reveal what drug he'd ingested.
Man Charged With Soliciting Sex From A Minor During Fbi Sting
By Mike Holtzclaw, email@example.com - 757-928-6479
December 19, 2008
A 56-year-old Williamsburg man has been arrested and charged with trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a 7-year-old girl. Arel Wayne Powers was arrested after police say he went to an online chat room and negotiated with a person he thought was the mother of a 7-year-old girl. The person was actually an undercover FBI agent. Powers is charged with utilizing a communication device to solicit sex with a child under 15, which is a Class 5 felony. The FBI and the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation worked together on the investigation and the arrest.
Fbi Agent Trainee Faces 5 Charges
By DAVID MACAULAY, email@example.com 247-7838
December 5, 2008
Yue Cheng enlisted in the Navy and was later accepted into the prestigious FBI academy in Quantico. But the Williamsburg woman's career has unraveled following a federal investigation that concluded she entered into a sham marriage to gain U.S. citizenship seven years ago. The 26-year-old trainee FBI officer, who joined the academy last year, was arrested Thursday. She is charged with five offenses linked to a marriage she entered into in Las Vegas when she was 19, according to Dana J. Boente, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Alex J. Turner, special agent-in-charge of the local FBI office.
Fbi Documents Detail Case Against Scientist
By Peter Dujardin, email@example.com 247-4749
September 26, 2008
It was early 2006 when Quan-Sheng Shu was trying to help a French firm land a contract with the Chinese government. Shu's company - AMAC International, based at the Applied Research Center in Newport News - stood to make a $425,000 commission if the French firm won a deal to make a device to rapidly convert gas hydrogen to liquid. But Shu thought he'd try to boost the French company's chances of getting that contract - as well as AMAC's odds of getting the commission - by bribing some well-placed Chinese government officials, the FBI says in a court filing.
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Two Northeast Mississippi construction firms have combined operations to take advantage of booming construction activity in the region and state.
Hill Bros. Leasing Co. Inc. in Falkner and Worsham Bros. Inc. in Corinth are merging operations but will not create a new company or change the names of the firms.
The leasing company leases construction equipment and is related to Hill Bros. Construction Co., an excavation construction company founded in 1978, said Jimmy Hill, the firm's secretary-treasurer.
Hank Worsham said the family firm, founded in 1945, is an engineering firm involved in the construction of metal buildings. The company also is a developer of residential properties in Alcorn County, he said.
The move is a "complementary merger," Hill said. The companies can pursue projects that include site work and construction. "Both companies can accommodate a customer much more readily than if they operated independently," he said.
Hill Brothers, which also operates in Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama, employs about 450 workers. Worsham has a payroll of 25.
Mississippi's highway construction program has helped Hill Bros. "I get excited about the (state's four-laning program) every time I think about it. It's very difficult not to find a four-lane road within a few miles of where you live," Hill said.
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I have two Haks, My good one is a a Bujin 8oz one that I love, It is easy to fold and wear's well. Since I wear it both indoor and outdoors in does get dirty and I have to wash it about every 6 weeks. I usually just fold it wet and put it in the car to dry (hawaii lots of heat in a dark car. My other on is a very light polyesters job that I only wear when it is really hot (Guam, deep south etc.) It is rather annoying in that it is so light the pleats to stay in without lots of starch but I refuse to wear a heavy one in high humidity. Bujin's cotton hak is Heavy and if you have hard water it leaves white streaks through the fabric. It is also a royal B@#*h to fold however once the folds are set it becomes easier. We raz a guy in my Jodo class about his "stonewashed" looking Blue cotton Bujin Hak. There is a drycleaners here that knows how to fold Hakamas though so we are blessed with that if it gets too out of whack (he droped his off this week for a "tune up"
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SIKESTON -- The past week has been a big shuffle for Kristi Orman and her three children.
Orman lived in one of the homes that was part of the mortgage fraud scheme that hit Sikeston. She's known that she would eventually have to vacate her home, and had made arrangements to move into an apartment by Dec. 10.
But the mortgage company that foreclosed on her home, EMC Mortgage, said she had to move out by Friday.
So this week, she and her three children are living in a room at the Midtowner Motel.
"It's crazy," Orman said. "It's really put a burden on me."
Others who live in homes that were also foreclosed on are facing similar dilemmas. According to Scott County Recorder Tom Dirnberger, there have been at least 300 fraudulent loans in the county, most of which resulted in foreclosures. A large portion of the affected properties are on the west side of Sikeston.
Jenny Hobeck, principal at the Sikeston Kindergarten Center, said her secretary noticed several families calling with a change of address, due to their rental homes being foreclosed on.
"We've had about three parents call (Friday)," she said.
The DAEOC Homeless Shelter in town isn't able to meet demand.
"We have several on the list now that their house is being foreclosed on," said Gina Crowley, homeless project case manager. "We just don't have the room to put them up."
The shelter only has six units, so that makes it difficult to fill the need.
"They come in all the time," she said. That leaves those without a home to stay with family, friends, or at a hotel, like the Ormans.
Crowley said those who stay have a hard time finding a new place; and just need to catch up their finances.
"A lot of times if the house is foreclosed on, they don't get their deposit back," she said.
Orman said that she met with representatives from the mortgage company on Nov. 20, and she told them she was set to move Dec. 10. "They said, 'no problem,'" she recalled.
But then last Wednesday, representatives came back and said she needed to move out by Dec. 1 -- and since that fell on a Saturday, Orman had to vacate the home by Friday.
With the short notice, as well as being out of pocket for the hotel, Orman didn't have the money for a storage shed for her belongings. She was able to use a friend's shed -- but it had a leak, so all her furniture was destroyed with the weekend rains.
"We pretty much just have our clothes," she said.
Orman said she is supposed to receive $500 of relocation assistance from the mortgage company. "But that's nothing, considering that now I'm going to have to buy new furniture."
She's also got the extra cost of food for the week, since Orman doesn't have a refrigerator or any other appliances at the motel. "We bought a hot plate to keep there," she said. They'll use that to make dishes such as noodles and soup.
Orman hopes she can move into her new home on Friday, three days earlier than planned. "(The manager) said she would try to push it," Orman said.
Jack Vincent, a local real estate broker who manages properties -- and had managed several of the properties after the owners became disgruntled with Century Mortgage, which previously managed them -- said that several tenants got lost in the shuffle, and are having problems finding a place to live.
"I get 10 calls a day and I don't have properties to rent," Vincent said. And, based on the simple rules of supply and demand, that's driving up rental rates.
In all of the properties he managed, however, Vincent said he gave the tenants ample notice that they would soon have to move, so they should begin looking for other housing.
Larry Lindsey, a Realtor with Century 21 (in no way connected to Century Mortgage, which is now defunct), said most of the people he's worked with have found a new place to live. However, he didn't know whether these people had to stretch their budgets a bit more to make rent.
Orman's friend, Heather Hood, has been without a home since mid-June, just a few weeks after she had a baby.
She said the crisis has definitely impacted the housing market, especially homes that qualify for Section 8.
"People are racing to get the houses available," Hood said. "There's nothing here now -- except with too high of rent."
Hood knew her home was being foreclosed on. However, her manager, William Churchill with Century Mortgage, told Hood it would be OK. "He said someone was going to buy the property and collect rent just like he did."
But two days after her daughter was born, she received a letter stating that she had a week to vacate the property. She spoke to the sheriff, who said the company "could come and put my stuff out on the street."
Hood went back to work only three weeks after having her daughter, while she was at the Children's Hospital in St. Louis. Hood now works two jobs, but that's still not enough.
"We live, basically, out of my car," she said. "All of my kids' clothes and my things are in the trunk of my car."
They bounce out of friends and family members' homes as space is available, Hood said.
From this aspect, children are some of the biggest losers.
Orman said that her children have faced a lot of confusion in the past week. "It's a 'where are we going today' kind of thing," she said.
And Hood said her daughter is hurt by the whole experience. "She can't have her own space, or her own time -- she cries about it, she does want our own house," Hood said. In fact, she said, her daughter's teacher noticed how sad she was about the whole ordeal.
Hobeck said she and other faculty "just feel sorry for the family and the kids." But, she expressed some concern about school enrollment, as well as the local economy, especially if tenants have to move out of the city limits to find affordable housing.
"With that many houses, we're really concerned about how that can affect us," Hobeck said. "Both the district and the community."


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Although the heart of a customized tour is probably the village your ancestors once inhabited, other regional highlights include the castle and fortress in the city of Kamenetz Podolsk, nominated for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Donations fund orthopedic drill sets at TRH
Recent donor contributions to the Transylvania Regional Hospital Foundation have allowed the hospital to purchase new drill sets for complex orthopedic surgeries, such as joint replacement, to be used by orthopedic surgeons Dr. Angus Graham and Dr. Mark Lemel.
"This new equipment is a great addition to our surgical service at Transylvania Regional Hospital," Graham said. "These latest generation drill sets provide for more efficiency during our joint replacement procedures at the hospital and help us achieve outstanding results for our patients. The new drills have longer-lasting batteries, which help Dr. Lemel and me minimize the amount of time it takes to perform an orthopedic procedure. On behalf of our patients and the hospital, we are very grateful for the generous donations to the TRH Foundation to purchase these new drill sets."
"We were pleased that so many members of the community stepped up when asked to support this vital need," said Sharon Johnson, executive director of the TRH Foundation. "I also want to thank Dr. Graham and Dr. Lemel who made special presentations demonstrating this equipment to community groups as part of our fundraising efforts."
TRH offers free seminars on joint replacement and recovery, outlining options and detailing "what to expect." Seminars are held at 12:30 p.m. the second Wednesday of every month. For more information, visit trhospital.org/services/joint-experience. Call 828-883-5350 to reserve a place at an upcoming session.
To make a donation, contact the TRH Foundation at 828-877-4777 or visit TRHospitalFoundation.org.
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The Blood Connection and First Presbyterian Church of Hendersonville will host a blood drive from 3:30-6:30 p.m. today at the church, 699 N. Grove St., Hendersonville.
Prospective donors are asked to drink water and eat before donating. All donors receive a free T-shirt or a free movie ticket.
For more information, visit www.thebloodconnection.org.
NAMI to host fundraiser
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness is promoting awareness of mental health issues with public events including the 12th annual NAMIWALKS fundraiser.
Local chapters representing Henderson, Polk and Transylvania counties will be "hiking" around Jackson Park Saturday, with registration starting at 3 p.m. and activities ending at 7 p.m.
Start-off speaker will be Shelby Mood, local veteran from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Mood will relate his experience as a survivor of PTSD.
Comedienne and author Susan Gambrell Reinhardt will discuss what humor and irony she's found as a survivor of mental illness.
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Definition of Mixtec in English:
noun (plural same or Mixtecs)
1A member of an American Indian people of southern Mexico, noted for their skill in pottery and metallurgy.
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- The sculptures depict the sacred symbolism used in the costumes of the Zapotecs and Mixtecs, two of the main pre-Hispanic societies of Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca.
- The author has produced a work on the Mixtecs of colonial Mexico which rivals the best of that on any of these other better-known and documented groups.
- He argues that the Aztecs and Mixtecs had their own history and their own writing systems and should be understood and appreciated as such without necessary reference to the Old World.
2The Otomanguean language of the Mixtec.
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- All of these elements are rallied into a cohesive whole, whether she is singing in English, Spanish or any one of four native Indian languages, including the Mixtec of her own background.
- The typical resident is 18 years old, speaks Spanish or Mixtec, and works all day in the blast-furnace desert heat.
- My nephew tried to organize these farmworkers, only to discover that they did not speak Spanish and he spoke no Mixtec.
Relating to the Mixtec or their language.
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- Terraciano has a number of distinguished predecessors, among them Ronald Spores, who threw light on many aspects of prehispanic, colonial, and modern Mixtec affairs.
- Terraciano rightly points to the ways in which Christian formulas in Mixtec testaments can mask a most unorthodox Christianity.
- As with the Nahua-speaking Aztecs of central Mexico during the same era, a three-stage scheme of language change seems to fit the Mixtec case.
Spanish, from Nahuatl mixtecah 'person from a cloudy place'.
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ASX Chief Thinks Nasdaq-NYSE Merger Makes Sense
The head of Australia's largest exchange believes Nasdaq OMX Group should consider buying NYSE now that IntercontinentalExchange $10.3 billion takeover of NYSE Euronext is close to completing.
"The question is, why wouldn't NYSE and Nasdaq be together?" said ASX Ltd. CEO Elmer Funke Kupper Thursday on the sidelines of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australian Investment Conference in New York.
Mr. Funke Kupper believes ICE pursued NYSE Euronext primarily for its London-based derivatives division, known as NYSE Liffe, meaning two of NYSE Euronext's other units may become available to suitors. Atlanta-based ICE has said it intends to list European stock exchanges, known collectively as Euronext. It plans to retain NYSE, the biggest U.S. exchange by market share.
"Who knows if Euronext can actually be a standalone company or if someone will try and snap that up," said Mr. Funke Kupper.
"It's not for us, but surely, that creates the next opportunity in Europe…I don't know if anyone will actually do [a deal], but I'd be staggered if they don't try because in-market consolidation drivers are still there."
He declined to comment on ASX potential interest in NYSE, but said Nasdaq would be the most logical suitor. To be sure, in 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice blocked a rival bid for NYSE Euronext by ICE and Nasdaq on the grounds that combining the Big Board with Nasdaq would create a monopoly.
Mr. Funke Kupper said the fragmentation of U.S. exchanges creates increased risk by having to transact in various markets. He thinks the BATS Global Markets Inc. and Direct Edge Holdings LLC merger, to create the second-largest U.S. stock-exchange operator by volume, won't immediately solve the problem, though it underscores that consolidation in the sector "makes sense".
"[BATS's] whole business model has been based on high-frequency trading…but it's not going to lead to the defragmentation that I think would be helpful to end investors."
Turning his attention to Australia, Mr. Funke Kupper said he believes the conservative Liberal National party, which won the nation's election Saturday could be positive for any future merger involving ASX.
"We see a clear majority government as a positive…what you want in business is clear leadership across the board," said Mr. Funke Kupper.
In 2011, Australia's Labor party – which was voted into power by independent ministers following the previous inconclusive election – rejected Singapore Exchange Ltd's 8.4 billion Australian dollar (US$7.8 billion) bid for ASX, on the basis that it was not in Australia's national interest.
"I'd like to think, and maybe I'm a bit naïve, that we can have a good conversation with any government about the merits of [any] kind of moves to consolidate," said Mr. Funke Kupper, adding a caveat that the company is not currently in any talks.
"We don't know if anything will ever happen [but] what you do want to do is put yourself in the best possible position to participate on your terms; in a strong position to be competitive," he said.
Although the ASX is yet to experience a glitch of similar magnitude to the one that caused Nasdaq to suffer a three-hour trading outage in August, Mr. Funke Kupper said all exchanges face a continuous battle.
"I think there's no escape for technology-driven businesses, we can't rest on our laurels and can't be happy with the way things work," he said. "Saying we haven't had an issue is a statement of the past, not the future, so we must remain vigilant."
China Securities Regulatory Commission's closure of the nation's IPO market last October has encouraged some of the more-than 700 backlogged Chinese companies to seek offshore listings, and Mr. Funke Kupper has encouraged compliant candidates to list in Australia.
"We don't have any immediate concerns here. We have amongst the tightest rules around things like continuous disclosure that reach anyone no matter where they're domiciled," Mr. Funke Kupper said. "We should be careful and considerate [and] can never guarantee there won't be issues."
Issues have arisen in the U.S., where more than 100 tradable Chinese companies have faced questions about their accounting and disclosure from regulators, auditors and investors, and U.S. authorities, encouraging a U.S. senator to urge the Obama administration to press China for increased cooperation on accounting-fraud investigations


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(Bory) Cleve 1894 Category: Symmetrical biraphid
BASIONYM: Navicula amphisbaena Bory 1824
Contributor: Jaime Zebill Haueter - June 2014
Length Range: 59-77 µm
Width Range: 21.3-26.4 µm
Striae in 10 µm: 15-17
Valves are elliptical to elliptical lanceolate, with capitate apices. The axial area is broad and expanded to form a large lanceolate rhombic central area. The central area is slightly asymmetric from one side of the axial area to the other. The raphe is straight and centrally located. Proximal raphe ends are slightly expanded. Distal raphe ends are curved in the same direction. Striae radiate throughout most of the valve, becoming parallel to convergent at the ends. Two longitudinal lines are present along each side of the raphe, dividing the striae approximately into thirds.
Note that Patrick and Reimer (1966) report a greater range in length (36-80 µm) and breadth (20-30 µm).
Basionym: Navicula amphisbaena
Author: Bory 1824
Length Range: µm
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Haueter, J. (2014). Caloneis amphisbaena. In Diatoms of the United States. Retrieved August 24, 2016, from http://westerndiatoms.colorado.edu/taxa/species/caloneis_amphisbaena
Species: Caloneis amphisbaena
Contributor: Jaime Zebill Haueter
Reviewer: Sarah Spaulding
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Caloneis amphisbaena was found in epipelon samples from the Little Sioux River, Dickinson County, Iowa. Other specimens were found in epiphytic samples from Dugout Creek, Dickinson County, Iowa.
Mann (1989) stated that Caloneis amphisbaena in Blackford Pond appeared to be asexual, as no cells were observed to pair and form auxospores.
Caloneis amphisbaena live cell in valve view and girdle view.
Credit/Source: Jaime Haueter
Caloneis amphisbaena live cell in valve view showing chloroplast structure.
Credit/Source: Jaime Haueter
Caloneis amphisbaena live cell in valve view showing chloroplast structure.
Credit/Source: Jaime Haueter
Sampling Caloneis amphisbaena from epipelon of Little Sioux River, Dickinson County IA
Credit/Source: Viviana Mazzei