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North Atlantic right whale
The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), which means "good, or true, whale of the ice", is a baleen whale, one of three right whale species belonging to the genus Eubalaena,[1] formerly classified as a single species. With only 400 in existence, North Atlantic right whales are among the most endangered whales in the world. They are protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Vessel strikes and entanglement in fixed fishing gear are the two greatest threats to their recovery.[3]
About four hundred right whales live in the North Atlantic Ocean. They migrate between feeding grounds in the Gulf of Maine and their winter calving areas off Georgia and Florida, an ocean area with heavy shipping traffic.
Like other right whales, the North Atlantic right whale, also known as the northern right whale or black right whale[2], is readily distinguished from other whales by the callosities on its head, a broad back without a dorsal fin, and a long arching mouth that begins above the eye. The body of the whale is very dark grey or black, occasionally with white patches on the belly. The right whale's callosities appear white due to large colonies of cyamids or whale lice.
Adult right whales average 45–55 feet (14–17 m) in length and weigh up to seventy tons (63,500 kg); the largest measured specimens have been 60 feet (18 m) long and 117 tons (106,000 kg). Females are larger than males.
Forty percent of a right whale's body weight is blubber, which is of relatively low density. Consequently, unlike many other species of whale, dead right whales float.
There is little data on their life span, but it is believed to be at least fifty years, and some may live more than a century.
North Atlantic right whales recordings are available online.[4][5]
They first give birth at age nine or ten after a year-long gestation; the interval between births seems to have increased in recent years and now averages three to six years. Calves are 13–15 feet (4.0–4.6 m) long at birth and weigh approximately 3,000 pounds (1,400 kg).[6]
Right whales feed mainly on copepods and other small invertebrates such as krill, pteropods, and larval barnacles, generally by slowly skimming through patches of concentrated prey at or below the ocean surface.[2]
Right whales were so-named because whalers thought they were the "right" whale to hunt. As the "right" whale continued to float long after being killed, which made it possible to 'flech' or strip the whale of blubber without having to take it onboard ship. Combined with the right whale's lack of speed through water, feeding habits, and coastal habitat, they were easy to catch, even for whalers equipped only with wooden boats and hand-held harpoons.[7]
Basques were the first to commercially hunt this species. They began whaling in the Bay of Biscay as early as the eleventh century.[8] The whales were hunted initially for their oil but, as meat preservation technology improved, their value as food increased. Basque whalers reached eastern Canada by 1530.[9] The last Basque whaling voyages were made prior to the commencement of the Seven Year's War (1756–1763). A few attempts were made to revive the trade, but they failed. Shore whaling continued sporadically into the 19th century. It had previously been assumed that Basque whaling in eastern Canada had been the primary cause for the depletion of the sub-population in the western North Atlantic, but later genetic studies disproved this.[10][11]
Setting out from Nantucket and New Bedford in Massachusetts and from Long Island, New York, Americans took up to one hundred right whales each year, with the records including one report of 29 whales killed in Cape Cod Bay in a single day during January 1700.[12] By 1750, the North Atlantic right whale population was, for commercial purposes, depleted. Yankee whalers moved into the South Atlantic before the end of the 18th century. The population was so low by the mid-19th century that the famous Whitby whaler Rev. William Scoresby, son of the successful British whaler William Scoresby senior (1760–1829), claimed to have never seen a right whale (although he mainly hunted bowhead whales off eastern Greenland, outside the normal range of right whales).[13]
Based on back calculations using the present population size and growth rate, the population may have numbered fewer than 100 individuals by 1935.[12] As it became clear that hunting right whales was unsustainable, international protection for right whales came into effect, as the practice was banned globally in 1937. The ban was largely successful, although violations continued for several decades. Madeira took its last two right whales in 1968.
For the period of 1970 to October 2006, humans have been responsible for 48% of the 73 documented mortalities of the North Atlantic right whale.[14] A 2001 forecast showed a declining population trend in the late 1990s, and indicated a high probability that North Atlantic right whales would go extinct within 200 years if the then-existing anthropogenic mortality rate was not curtailed.[15] The combined factors of small population size and low annual reproductive rate of right whales means that a single death represents a significant mortality rate. Conversely, significant reduction in mortality rate can be obtained by preventing just a few deaths. It was calculated that preventing the deaths of just two females per year would enable the population to stabilize.[15] The data suggests, therefore, that human sources of mortality may have a greater effect relative to population growth rates of North Atlantic right whales than for other whales. The principal factors believed to be retarding growth and recovery of the population are ship strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.[12]
Ship Strikes & Ship Noise
The single greatest danger to this species is injury sustained from ship strikes.[16] Between 1970 and October 2006, 37% of all recorded North Atlantic right whale deaths were attributed to collisions.[7][14] During the years 1999–2003, incidents of mortality and serious injury attributed to ship strikes averaged 1 per year. For the years 2004–2006, that number increased to 2.6.[2] Additionally, it is possible that the official figures actually underestimate the actual ship-strike mortality rates, since whales struck in offshore areas may never be sighted due to low search effort.[14]
In 2002, the International Maritime Organization shifted the location of the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS, i.e. shipping lanes) in the Bay of Fundy (and approaches) from an area with the highest density of North Atlantic right whales to an area of lower density.[17] This was the first time the IMO had changed a TSS to help protect marine mammals.[18] In 2006, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) established a set of recommended vessel routes to reduce ship strikes in four important eastern-US right whale habitats.[19] In 2007, and again on June 1, 2009, NOAA changed the TSS servicing Boston to reduce vessel collisions with right whales and other whale species.[20] NOAA estimated that implementing an "Area To Be Avoided" (ATBA) and narrowing the TSS by 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) would reduce the relative risk of right whale ship strikes by 74% during April–July (63% from the ATBA and 11% from the narrowing of the TSS).[21]
A 2011 analysis of data collected in the Bay of Fundy has shown that exposure to low-frequency ship noise may be associated with chronic physiological stress in North Atlantic right whales.[22]
Fishing Gear Entanglement
The other known source of human-induced mortality is entanglement in fixed fishing gear such as bottom-set groundfish gillnet gear, cod traps and lobster pots. Between 1970 and October 2006, there have been 8 instances where entanglements have been the direct cause of death of North Atlantic right whales. This represents 11% of all deaths documented during that period. From 1986 to 2005, there were a total of 61 confirmed reports of entanglements, including the aforementioned mortalities. It is likely that official figures underestimate the actual impacts of entanglement. It is believed that chronically entangled animals may in fact sink upon death, due to loss of buoyancy from depleted blubber reserves, and therefore escape detection.[14]
Beyond direct mortality, it is believed that whales that survive entanglement episodes may suffer other negative effects that may weaken it, reduce fertility, or otherwise affect it so that it is more likely to become vulnerable to further injury. Because whales often free themselves of gear following an entanglement event, scarring may be a better indicator of fisheries interaction than entanglement records. Recent analysis of the scarification of right whales showed that over 75% of whales examined during 1980-2002 were scarred at least once by fishing gear. Further research has indicated that between 14% and 51% of right whales are involved in entanglement each year.[12]
In 2007, so as to protect northern right whales from serious injury or mortality from entanglement in gillnet gear in their calving area in Atlantic Ocean waters off the southeast United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) revised regulations implementing the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan (ALWTRP). This plan expands the restricted area to include the waters off of South Carolina, Georgia, and Northern Florida. It also prohibits gillnet fishing or even gillnet possession in those waters for a period of 5 months, beginning on November 15 of each year, which coincides with the annual right whale calving season.[23]
When entanglement prevention efforts fail, disentanglement efforts occasionally succeed, despite the fact that such efforts are more frequently impossible or unsuccessful. Nevertheless, they do in fact make a significant difference. During the period 2004-2008 there were at least four documented cases of entanglements for which the intervention of disentanglement teams averted a likely death of a right whale.[12] For the first time in 2009 and again in 2011, scientists successfully used chemical sedation of an entangled whale to reduce stress on the animal and to reduce the time spent working with it. After disentangling the whale, scientists attached a satellite tracking tag, administered a dose of antibiotics to treat entanglement wounds and then another drug to reverse the sedation.[3]
Population and distribution
According to a census of individual whales identified using photo-identification techniques, the latest available stock assessment data (December 2010) indicates that a minimum of 361 recognized individuals were known to be alive in 2005.[12] Up to four hundred North Atlantic right whales are thus thought to exist at present, almost all living in the western North Atlantic Ocean. In spring, summer and autumn, they feed in a range stretching from New York to Nova Scotia. Particularly popular feeding areas are the Bay of Fundy, the Gulf of Maine and Cape Cod Bay. In winter, they head south towards Georgia and Florida to give birth.
There have been a few sightings further east over the past few decades, with several sightings close to Iceland in 2003. There was speculation that these could be the remains of a virtually extinct Eastern Atlantic stock, but examination of old whalers' records suggest that they are more likely to be strays from further west.[9] A few are sighted regularly in waters adjacent to Norway, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands.
In January 2009, one animal was sighted off Pico Island, Azores, the first confirmed appearance there since 1888. It was later revealed that this animal, which was named as "Pico", is a female from the western Atlantic group.[24] Right whales have rarely been observed in the Mediterranean Sea, near Italy[25] and Portugal.[26] The Norway sightings appear to be of vagrants, or strays from the western Atlantic stock.[27] In 2009, right whales appeared in waters around Greenland[28] although their origin was not confirmed.[29] Prior to this, no right whales had been killed or confirmed present off the coast of Greenland for around two hundred years.[30]
In early 2009, scientists recorded a record number of births among the western North Atlantic population. 39 new calves were recorded, born off the Atlantic coast of Florida and Georgia.
"Right whales, for the first time in a long time, are doing their part: they're having the babies; they're having record numbers of babies. We need to be vigilant and still do our part to prevent the whales from being killed."
— Monica Zani, New England Aquarium, Endangered right whales appear to be on the rebound, CNN.com[6]
Conservation status
In the United States, this species is listed as "endangered" by the NMFS under the Endangered Species Act. It is also listed as "depleted" under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
On a global level, the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS, or the "Bonn Convention") is a multilateral treaty specializing in the conservation of migratory species, their habitats and migration routes. CMS has listed the North Atlantic right whale on Appendix I, which identifies it as a migratory species threatened with extinction.[31] This obligates member nations to strive towards strict protection of these animals, habitat conservation or restoration, mitigation of obstacles to migration, and control of other factors that might endanger them.
Additionally, CMS encourages concerted action among the range states of many Appendix I species. To that end, a small portion of the eastern Atlantic population's range is covered by the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS). The Atlantic area bounded on the west by a line running from Cape St. Vincent in southwest Portugal to Casablanca, Morocco, and on the east by the Straight of Gibraltar.
Another multilateral treaty, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, (CITES, or the "Washington Convention"), also lists the North Atlantic right whale on its own Appendix I. Being so listed prohibits international trade (import or export) in specimens of this species or any derivative products (e.g. food or drug products, bones, trophies), except for scientific research and other exceptional cases with a permit specific to that specimen.[32]
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Applied Optics Center
An advanced technology center authorized by the State's 21st Century fund.
Purpose: Facilitate the formation of strategic development alliances among primarily Delaware-based organizations, and pursue the development and commercialization of advanced optics based products. Initial focus is on laser diode devices and laser spectroscopy.
This Center is organized as a non-profit Delaware corporation, Applied Optics Center of Delaware, Inc.(AOC). The AOC Board of Directors represents key industry sponsors (Dade-Behring, Altos, and B&W Tek) and Delaware State University and has met monthly. The Center is housed at laboratories in the Physics Department of Delaware State University. One laboratory is fully operational and the second is ready for occupation. One PostDoc is working with Dr. Melikechi at DSU and a graduate student is working for AOC with Prof. Watson at the University of Delaware. A second PostDoc and two additional graduate students are being sought. Computers and general laboratory equipment are in place and three of the four projects currently planned have commenced.
Relationships are being developed with other Optics Centers. We are already addressing the issue of Center sustainability by identifying the core competencies on which the future of AOC will be built and identifying processes for grant applications by AOC and its members.

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Ryan Buch has maybe the most powerful arm in the 'pen. He hit 96 on the stadium gun but struggled with his control, walking two and punching two out. His stay in Kannapolis will be dictated by his K/BB ratio…
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Cairo, leaving from the East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on November 20, 2012. The Secretary will meet with regional leaders, starting with our Israeli partners, to consult on the situation in Gaza.
Secretary Clinton's visits will build on American engagement with regional leaders over the past days -- including intensive engagement by President Obama with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Morsi -- to support de-escalation of violence and a durable outcome that ends the rocket attacks on Israeli cities and towns and restores a broader calm. As President Obama noted in his conversations with President Morsi, we commend Egypt's efforts to de-escalate the situation and are hopeful that these efforts will be successful.
The Secretary will emphasize the United States' interest in a peaceful outcome that protects and enhances Israel's security and regional stability; that can lead to improved conditions for the civilian residents of Gaza; and that can reopen the path to fulfill the aspirations of Palestinians and Israelis for two states living in peace and security. She will continue to express U.S. concern for the loss of civilian life on both sides.
Irv in California writes:
The Israeli government assassinated Ahmed Jabari with the intention of disrupting his negotiations for a permanent truce with Israel. This was a calculated decision to choose war over peace. Why pretend otherwise?
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#gaza : 4 more more years ... of terror ... of elite profit
clinton: for nobel4peace 251 truce between terrorist and israel achieved
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Good to see that a cease-fire has been entered into today, the level of violence in the region threatens all.
Happy Thanksgiving Madam Secretary, and as well to all the folks @ State!
Well done!
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Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. Egypt has announced a cease-fire agreement to end a week of fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
Glade that you had successful meetings with regional leaders.
Have A Wonderful Thanksgiving Hillary and DipNote Folks. :)
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The Creators Project: You are one of the progenitors of techno. How did it first capture your attention? Richie Hawtin: I grew up in Canada, in Windsor. The Motor Capital of America—Detroit—was right across the river and without this looming dark city right next to my provincial town, I wouldn't be sitting here right now. When I was 15 or 16, I became bored with what I could do in Windsor and went across the border and found a whole underground of record shops and nightclubs and resale shops. That was the beginning.
What kind of music were you listening to then? No offense, but it must have been tough to find a source for electronic music in a place like Windsor. When I was growing up radio was quite a big thing, and there were hardly any Canadian radio stations, so we listened to the stations out of Detroit. There were a lot of mix shows and weird electronic shows that were playing early acid house and Chicago house. Before I even went out to visit the clubs, I stayed up all evening listening to the music before going to school the next morning. The more I found out about music, I discovered that what I liked the most was made by people from Detroit. That was a key moment. When you find something you like that's happening so close to your home you really get into it. It caused me to spend as much time as possible in Detroit. And that led to DJing? I started DJing by accident in in '87 or '88. My friends in Windsor were too scared to go to Detroit but wanted to dance to the music, so we went down to a nightclub in our hometown and asked if we could play our music. They asked us who was going to DJ. All of my friends pointed to me because I had all of the records. Two weeks later we threw this party, which was super successful, and as soon as the night was over the club-owner offered me a job. But over the next few weeks less and less people came because they got used to it, and five or six weeks later I lost my first steady DJing gig. You've been around long enough to experience the transition from analog to digital instruments, which has undoubtedly transformed your work in unthinkable ways. When you first starting using computers and other digital equipment, what were the immediate benefits? The reduction in the size of the equipment and expansion of possibilities were invaluable. A lot of my sets in the early days were quite long—six or seven hours—and I would cart around four or five huge boxes of records. Computers did away with all of that and made things more spontaneous. What's the next step for you? Right now the problem I see with performing is breaking the visual barrier. I find it rather uninspiring to play to audience with just laptops in front of you. So I'm experimenting with touchscreens and flat-panel displays. One thing about the days of turntables is that you could see movement and action that you can't pull off with a laptop, so I am checking out interface methods that enable me to do new things—ways the audience can see my human movements. I am trying to figure out ways to visualize my movements and the connection they have with the music I create.


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After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life.
Alice, Scarlet, Lulu, Beth, Harriet, and Ellen welcome Mary into their circle, despite her reluctance to open her heart to them. Each woman teaches Mary a new knitting technique, and, as they do, they reveal to her their own personal stories of loss, love, and hope. Eventually, through the hours they spend knitting and talking together, Mary is able to tell her own story of grief. In doing so, she reclaims her love for her husband, faces the hard truths about her relationship with her mother, and finds the spark of life again.
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I am sorry to have to say I was quite disappointed in this book. I found it dreary and rather pedestrian. In the circle, every character's story was unbelievably tragic, to the point where they became numbing. There was no light until the very end, and no comic relief at all, unless you count snide comments by the main character about others. I realize a book about a mother mourning her child is not meant to be a chuckle-fest. This is a story about a woman in the grips of what is clearly a severe clinical depression. (In fact, the redemptive power of knitting notwithstanding, I found myself wondering why her friends were not insisting she seek medical help and counseling.) But the biggest problem was that, surprisingly, the main character was extremely unsympathetic. She seemed to react more with annoyance than sadness when people tried to reach out to her. (This was not helped by the fact that the audio narrator gave the character a voice that was both grating and whiny.)
I am giving this book three stars, out of deep respect for what the author clearly went through with her own tragedy, and because the book comes to a positive conclusion eventually. But listeners interested in a well-written, touching knitting "yarn" are better off with "Knitting" by Anne Bartlett and "The Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs.
"Tear-jerker, and not in a good way"
While Ann Hood has been known in the past as a fine writer of literary fiction, "The Knitting Circle" is a bit too sentimental, predictable, and tends to rely on cliche. The stories told by the women in the knitting circle are very similar to one another and don't really move the story forward. Overall, I was disappointed.
"Knitting Review"
Touching story that keeps the reader's attention from beginning to end. Reader is excellent as is the entire story told through the eyes of the characters and their individual tragedies.
"a book for Knitters & non-knitters alike"
Loved this book! I work with avid knitters and I saw them in this book, it touched me over and over again, so worth your time! Plus, I might just pick up Knitting now.
"New Knitter's Review"
Not great but enjoyable, definitely falls into chick lit category. Interesting side comments on knitting.
Avid listener on my daily commute!
"Absorbing listening during my daily commute"
It became too formulaic, predictable and preposterous, the way each member of the Circle had her own horrific story to match or top that of the main character .
I liked a lot of the voices, especially Scarlett's soothing, tranquil, dreamlike voice and Lulu's youthful, slightly hoarse, city-girl twang.
No....please, no....enough over-the-top sad stories!
I liked the reminder to all of us that no matter what we might be going through in our own lives, SOMEONE ELSE ALWAYS HAS IT WORSE! A timely reminder to count one's blessings. Also: It inspired me to take up knitting again!!
"Healing help"
This is the first audiobook I have tried. It was excellent. I love to knit, but I haven't mastered knitting and reading a book at the same time, so, this was a perfect option for me. I hope you make more knitting circle and knitting mystery books audiobooks.
A self help book because both have helped me through some very difficult times. The Knitting Circle was a book I could relate to since I too have lost a child.
The "affair" in Maine!
When each of the women "poured" their heart out and revealed their "story"
Please turn more books like this about knitting circles and knitting mysteries and knitting stories into audiobooks so I can continue to do my favorite things together, at the same time. Thank you.
"not the best..."
I thought the main character was depressing. I know the story was about a tragedy, but it was hard for me to like her. She was boring, rude, selfish, and immoral. I felt like she didn't have many redeemable qualities. So It didn't make me feel much sympathy for her even though I should have. I think because I couldn't connect with the main character, the story dragged on. I just didn't like it that much.
"I absolutely loved this book!"
This was my third and favorite audiobook.
I loved each of the characters and appreciated the way that knitting helped them through life challenges. Those who find knitting therapeutic will relate to this book. It made my long for a knitting circle of my own.
"Life Patterns"
I liked the individual stories, the gains and losses, the recapturing of what may have been lost. I liked the way the story threads lended themselves to the theme of knitting, how as there are stitches dropped from a needle so, too, there are dear people and things dropped in life; how what is built from a series of knots can/may unravel due ro nature or inattention. I liked the healing nature of a story about being productive.
Because I'm a knitter for some few decades now, I wasn't sold on the pace of the knitting projects and their alignments with place and time. Either I am extraordinarily slow or the characters worked with amazing speed. Nonetheless, an enjoyable read.
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- Wings of Desire Series III #11 of 12 in series. The Last Remaining Light is part of the Wings of Desire series. This third edition is darker than the second edition. Done with a brown filters to capture the emotion of loves solitude. The success of series 1 & 2 has led to parts 3 & 4 and upcoming 5. This image is ©Greedy Fly Effects™ - ©Element 9™ 2010
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Hi Bellas!
Last Thursday I stopped into MAC to check out the Naked Honey collection. Overall, it was a decent collection with pretty, wearable colors. The colors veered more on the summery side with bronzes, apricots and golds. Honestly, no real stand out/must haves but some good basics for your summer makeup look. I picked up a few items.
Check out my video to see the swatches in person, as well as some new updates!
First I got Queen Bee lipglass. This is a great apricot/nude shade...great for the J-Lo lip or even bridal makeup.
I also picked up Golden Nectar highlight powder. I usually skip these, but this shade was surprisingly more pigmented and darker the most. This could serve as a bronzer for lighter skin tones and a good highlighter for darker tones. On me, it looked like a shimmery/bronzey/peach blush...again great for summer. Check out my video to see me wearing this highlighter.
I also picked up two eyeshadows from the collection. I skipped on the frosty gold color because it was extremely dupeable. I picked up pollinator- a peachy pink/apricot shade and buckwheat - a bronze with gold shimmers. If I could do it again, I would probably not have picked up pollinator because it's very sheer - but I think i'll make it work for bridal looks.
Here are the swatches. As you can see, Pollinator is rather sheer...if you wanted to see the color you'd need a base. I could have skipped this one. The only eyeshadow which I could recommend is Buckwheat which would be a nice bronzey shadow for any skin tone.
Here's a shot of me without makeup except for the Golden Nectar highlight powder on my cheeks and Queen Bee lipglass. I'm a lot more tan now after coming back from the Philippines! I like how this highlight powder looks like a pretty shimmery blush on my skin tone.
I filmed a travel makeup video this weekend giving you tips for making smart for summer vacay. I pretty much showed you what I packed for the Philippines. I also have an airbrushing tutorial filmed and ready to upload. Tonight I think I'll film my Grab Bag winner video for the Are You Fierce Contest. Stay tuned!
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Monday, June 15, 2009
MAC Naked Honey Haul and Updates
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6 comments:
- ♡ Nic Nic ♡ said...
ohh that lipgloss looks gorgeous on you!
- June 15, 2009 at 11:19 AM
- LaDonna said...
Looking great, good picks. :-)
- June 15, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- Kymie Neutron said...
is that lipglass anything like moonbathe lipglass? From the pictures it looks very similar. Since thats my fave itd be nice to have an alternative.
- June 15, 2009 at 4:06 PM
- SPECiAL x GiRL said...
Queen Bee looks great! : )
- June 15, 2009 at 8:30 PM
- lindah said...
ooooh I like the lipstick in the video :D lipglass looks pretty too!
I think your eyes are having that reaction to the circle lenses! A lot of people have said that too! Your eyes can't really breathe with it on since they're thicker than US lenses I think. But I don't know how long you wear them for though?
- June 16, 2009 at 3:11 AM
- Imo said...
Naked Honey hasnt come out yet in the UK :( Style warriors is here though! :D im really looking forward to getting purple rite :D
- June 16, 2009 at 5:05 PM
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I recently spoke at the 13th annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi, India. My remarks focused largely on the importance of creating a good environment for investment in the agricultural sector. I emphasized the particular need to improve food supply chains that connect farmers to markets. Significant additional improvements in food supply chain infrastructure are needed to reduce post-harvest food losses, which are disturbingly high in many parts of the world.
Some important progress already has been made. The Government of India recently took steps to open India's multi-brand retail sector to encourage foreign direct investment. This investment is critical for India's overall economic growth prospects as well as the development of India's food storage and distribution industry. As Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh explained, an organized and efficient retail sector "will help to ensure that a third of our fruits and vegetables, which at present are wasted because of storage and transit losses, actually reach the consumer."
Prime Minister Singh makes a compelling point -- one that is not only vital to India but also should be recognized in countries around the world.
Among the most important and efficient ways to improve food security, nutrition, and incomes for millions of small farmers is to make certain that every bushel of wheat, liter of milk, or kilogram of rice that is produced is stored properly and delivered efficiently from farm to table. The current large and tragic losses of food adversely affect farmers and consumers, especially those in the lowest income groups. In addition, post-harvest food losses are a waste of valuable farming inputs, such as water, energy, land, labor, and capital.
This is a problem not only for India but also for the world at large. Enormous quantities of food in many countries are needlessly lost or rendered less nutritious or less palatable due to inefficient processing, spoilage, exposure to heat, devastation by insects and rodents, and other avoidable factors. Experts estimate that about one-third of global agricultural production never makes it to the consumer or arrives in poor condition. Because the magnitude of post-harvest losses is so massive, finding and supporting efforts that sharply reduce and ultimately eliminate such losses has been a high priority for me since I took this job over three years ago.
A number of businesses have technologies and capacities to help developing countries reduce food loss. Cargill, Ingersoll-Rand, and Walmart have already successfully deployed food storage and preservation technologies in several regions of the world. Several entrepreneurs have also stepped up to develop new technologies and approaches to reduce food loss. U.S.-based Promethean Power Systems -- a start-up co-founded by an MIT graduate and a Boston entrepreneur -- has partnered with an Indian company called Icelings to develop a solar-powered refrigeration system for transporting fruits and vegetables from rural farms to city markets. In June 2012, Secretary Clinton awarded the Promethean-Icelings partnership the first ever grant of the U.S.-India Science and Technology Endowment Fund.
Even with the right technology solutions, many countries lack meaningful incentives, affordable financing options, and necessary government policies to encourage farmers to adopt efficient practices or to enable retailers to invest in equipment, facilities, and stores needed to reduce food loss and broaden market opportunities. Hence, it is critical that governments -- as India is doing -- adopt policies that encourage greater investment in post-harvest storage and distribution network infrastructures.
It is high time to make solving the problem of post-harvest food losses an urgent global priority -- and to make such losses a thing of the past. Success will improve the food security of hundreds of millions of people around the world, boost the incomes of millions of small holder farmers in villages and towns throughout the world's developing and emerging countries, and represent a giant step forward to better conserve our planet's natural resources.
Ashim C. in India writes:
As far as multi brand retail is concerned, it is only a matter of time before it becomes a reality. Delay is due to a perception created by middle men and traders in the mind of small neighbourhood retailers that MBR shall force them out of business. Perception management in this matter is done by some of the leading political parties. It is indeed the failure of US & Indian INC to sell MBR in India. Instead of unnecessarily going through federal government, they should have moved through state and local governments in introducing MBR. They could have selected any state ideally like Gujrat, where local government is strong and decision making is fast to avoid making MBR an ideological issue. They could have started with development of backend infrastructure and could have included in it creation of food processing infrastructure, Indian handloom and garment fabrication in small towns and cities and market them through existing Indian MBR businesses. In this process, idea MBR could have been sold more easily paving way for FDI in in retail.
One would like to emphasise that development of food processing industry ideally through cooperative of farmers in any country like India, which are very large producers of fruit, flower, vegetables, milk share the added value of the processed products to empower millions of India farmers with it's benign economic effects on economy. Similarly, India handloom & garment industry ought to get focussed attention from Indian & US Inc. MNCs & Indian corporates have to realise business potential of this segment, which is waiting for support in improvement of processes and marketing to realise it's full . A focussed attention on India handloom, Silk and woolen fabric shall benefit and empower again millions of weavers, ho have skills that are not easily substitutable. One wonders, why handloom woolen fabric, silk of Indian states along the entire length of Himalayas and plains cannot be put to extended use as marketable and high end western fashion wears all over the world where MNC multi brand retailers have presence and market penetration.
With about 250 to 300 million Indian middle class, if India have been achieving 5% to 8% growth rate, how much more can be the growth and how that will benefit not only India and rest of the world.
It is reasonable to assume if this business development process is followed in one state of India, other states including left dominated states like Tripura, West bengal & kerala too would willingly embrace FDI in MBR.
Abu T. in Bangladesh writes:
For food security we need to increase our cultivation & this issue not only for us but also for all the countries who want food security.And for positive result all sector s/b united by helping each other by their chain from Govt to farmer where all the farmer works pleasantly.
Bill in California writes:
Mr. Hormats neglects to mention that, like so many other officials in the Obama administration, he was formerly with Goldman Sachs, where he served as Vice Chairman. In that capacity, he aggressively pushed the GATT policy which makes developing nations vulnerable to being looted by investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, as well as by the food cartels that he praises in his blog post.


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Highway 14: A Road Too Narrow
By Josh Moniz
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ST. PAUL Supporters of Highway 14 four-lane expansion presented their case to a Minnesota Senate committee on Wednesday at the Capitol.
A bill introduced in the Senate calls for $431.6 million in funding for the remaining two-lane segments of Highway 14. The funding splits $219 million for the segment between Owatonna and Dodge Center and $212.6 million for portions from New Ulm to Nicollet. The money would be put aside for up to five years.
A companion bill, which has the exact same proposals, is moving through the State House.
Highway 14 gained attention in the last few years as possibly the most dangerous highway in Minnesota. The segment between New Ulm and Mankato was determined to have a fatal crash rate three times the state average for similar highways, according to a report by Minnesota Department of Transportation. Advocates of the four-lane expansion project have argued it is the only way to improve safety on the highway as well as unleash significant economic growth for cities with heavy trucking like New Ulm.
Several members of the Highway 14 Partnership testified on the importance of the expansion.
Aaron Lambrecht, of the New Ulm-based Shelter Products, said he was so concerned over how dangerous Highway 14 is that he will not let his kids ride the bus to school. He said his wife personally drives them, and that they bought a vehicle explicitly for conditions on the highway.
Other members of the partnership testified on their own experiences with the highway's dangers. Testimony also indicated that business growth was being stunted by the two-lane segments.
The bill requires the MnDOT commissioner to put the expansion of Highway 14 on its 20-year plan. MnDOT indicated last year it was unlikely to include Highway 14.
The hearing was part of several highway corridor hearings for the Senate Transportation and Public Safety Division committee. The projects are being put aside for future inclusion in an omnibus bill to be voted on later in the session.
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City Man Sentenced To State Prison In Robbery Case
MAYVILLE – A Jamestown man has been sentenced to five years in state prison with five years post-release supervision for his role in the April robbery of a Wilson Farms.
David Foley, Chautauqua County district attorney, announced Wednesday that Murray A. Hall, 27, of Newland Avenue, was sentenced to state prison time for the April 15 Hazeltine Avenue robbery. A grand jury in June handed up the second-degree indictment charge for Hall.
Hall, who was one of five suspects charged in connection to the robbery, was in custody at Chautauqua County Jail on unrelated charges when he was arraigned on the robbery indictment.
Police say Hall entered the Wilson Farms with two other suspects. They robbed the store while wearing masks. Two other suspects were waiting nearby in a getaway vehicle. Tips from the public led to the arrests.
Foley on Wednesday also announced the sentence of a Jamestown man charged with third-degree rape. Matthew S. Myers, 35, of South Main Street, was sentenced to time served and 10 years probation.
Police in November arrested Myers for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a child less than 17 years old. He was arraigned in Town of Ellicott Court and had been remanded to Chautauqua County Jail.
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LaMar Spencer, 29, of Windsor Street, Jamestown, was sentenced to two and a half years in state prison with one year post-release supervision for criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth-degree concurrent with two years in state prison and one year post-release supervision for fifth-degree attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Spencer in September was apprehended after Jamestown police executed a search warrant on a Sixth Street residence. Police seized over a half-ounce of crack cocaine as well as cash. An investigation revealed the drugs were being sold from the residence.
Robert W. Harmon, 49, of Linwood Avenue, Jamestown, was sentenced to two to four years in state prison for first-degree criminal contempt.
Norman J. Lindell, 39, of Prospect Street, Jamestown, was sentenced to one year in jail for second-degree criminal contempt concurrent with one year in jail for aggravated fourth-degree criminal mischief.
Clifford Latta, 38, of Potter Road, Mayville, was sentenced to one year in jail for first-degree aggravated criminal contempt.
Gordon Fairbanks, 68, of Jamestown was sentenced to four months of weekends in Jail and 10 years probation for a second-degree criminal sex act.
David W. Newhouse, 52, of Little Valley, was sentenced to five years probation, 60-month ignition interlock device and 1 year driver's license revocation for first-degree unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.
Amy M. Schuk, 34, of South Main Street, Dunkirk, was sentenced to 90 days in jail, five years probation and six months driver's license revocation for fifth-degree attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Stephen M. Easley, 25, of Lincoln Avenue, Dunkirk, was sentenced to time served and five years probation for fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.


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On April 27, 1965, my father told me, "The man you were named after died today."
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Jennifer Pharr Davis is well known in the outdoor adventure realm as the record holder for the women's supported hike in the Appalachian Trail, which runs between Mount Katahdin in Maine and Springer Mountain in Georgia. On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 Ms. Davis will visit New Canaan Library to speak about her book Becoming Odyssa, an account of her first venture onto the Appalachian Trail. The event will take place at 1:00 p.m. in the Adrian Lamb Room.
Unsure about her life's focus upon college graduation in 2008, Jennifer was drawn to hiking the famous Appalachian Trail, which stretches 2,175 miles, Maine to Georgia. Despite pleas from her family and friends to reconsider, she set out alone to hike the trail, hoping it would give her time to consider what to do next. Though the next four months brought her physical and emotional challenges the likes of which she had never imagined, she also gained so much more than she had imagined. Becoming Odyssa recounts Jennifer's hardships along the trail, encounters with fellow hikers, unexpected kindnesses and the discovery of her own resilience and growth.
Jennifer Pharr Davis grew up in the North Carolina Mountains, where she developed a love for hiking at a young age. Since her first Appalachian Trail hike, Jennifer has hiked more than 11,000 miles on six different continents; some of the highlights include Mount Kilimanjaro, the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, and the 600-mile Bibbulmun Track in Australia.
In the summer of 2011, Jennifer topped her own 2008 Women's Endurance Record for the fastest thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail, making her the overall record holder for both women and men. Jennifer is the first woman to hold the overall title. Jennifer is a 2012 National Geographic Top Adventurer of the Year nominee for her record-breaking thru-hike, has been on CNN, The Early Show, NPR numerous times, and was featured in Fitness Magazine and Shape magazine, among others. Jennifer has also written for Trail Runner magazine, Away.com, is a frequent contributor to Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine, and has written three guidebooks. Jennifer lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, and is the owner and founder of Blue Ridge Hiking Co.


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Richard Clarke was right. So was Paul O'Neill. During the six months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration paid little attention to the threat from al Qa'ida and instead set the stage for a war with Iraq.
Two weeks before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, national security wasn't even a top priority for the Bush administration. Security - job security, health security and national security - was last on a list of major issues Bush planned to deal with in the fall of 2001, according to a transcript of a speech Bush gave on 31 August, 2001, to celebrate the launch of the White House's new website.
National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, who is scheduled to testify on Thursday before the commission investigating the 9/11 terrorist attacks, says Clarke, President Bush's counterterrorism specialist, is a liar after Clarke told the commission two weeks ago that the Bush administration failed to deal with al Qa'ida seriously before 9/11.
Clarke exposes the Bush administration's attitude toward Islamic terrorists in his book, Against All Enemies and says the Bush administration was obsessed with Iraq before the terrorist attacks. Paul O'Neill, the former Treasury Secretary, made similar statements a few months ago in the book The Price of Loyalty and he too was branded a liar and a disgruntled former White House employee.
Rice is expected to be grilled by the commission. She'll try and prove that the Bush administration dealt with al Qa'ida seriously. But there's no denying that the allegations Clarke, O'Neill and other whistleblowers have made, that the White House was obsessed with Iraq, are rock solid. Here's the proof.
As early as January 2000, Rice was trying to sell a war with Iraq. It was then that she wrote an article for Foreign Affairs magazine entitled Campaign 2000 - promoting the national interest in which she promotes regime change in Iraq, but fails to mention threats from Islamic fundamentalist groups such as al Qa'ida.
"As history marches toward markets and democracy, some states have been left by the side of the road. Iraq is the prototype. Saddam Hussein's regime is isolated, his conventional military power has been severely weakened, his people live in poverty and terror, and he has no useful place in international politics. He is therefore determined to develop WMD. Nothing will change until Saddam is gone, so the United States must mobilize whatever resources it can, including support from his opposition, to remove him. These regimes are living on borrowed time, so there need be no sense of panic about them."
She echoed that line in August 2000, during an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations, where Rice said Iraq posed the gravest threat to the US and the world.
"The containment of I


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Danish Air Transport Selects Installed, Mobile EFBs
Charter carrier Danish Air Transport has a new three-year charting and electronic flight bag (EFB) service agreement with Jeppesen to begin using a combination of onboard and mobile EFBs.
(Jeppesen's iPad-based EFB. Photo, courtesy of Jeppesen.)
The carrier will use the Windows-based Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro for its installed avionics, and the iPad-based version of Pro to provide pilots with mobile access to flight data. Both versions are aimed at reducing Danish Air Transport pilots' reliance on paper-based flight information manuals.
The dual EFB format is unique, as most airlines have selected to use only the iPad or other tablet-based EFBs without installing an onboard version.
Danish Air Transport CEO Jesper Rungholm said the EFBs will help continue the regional carrier's "transition to a paperless operating environment."
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Author is setting up for a book 4, I would bet. AFAIAC, Julia saves the story with her excellent narration. I am ok with the ending


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Ethnobotanicals are plants that
have some significant relationship to humans. This can be anything from common
Herbals to
Amanita muscaria or other
An entheogen ("God inside us"), in the strict sense, is the
use of ethnobotanicals within a psychotherapeutic, religious, shamanic, or
spiritual context. Entheogens are used for
Shamanic practices including healing, transcendence, and revelation and
include meditation, psychonautics, art projects, and psychedelic therapy.
If you came here trying to learn about Kratom, you'll probably
be interested in the other Entheogens, of which Kratom is just one of
hundreds. Entheogens are plants commonly used in
practices. As scary as they are to the media and the
corrupt government, they have actually been used for thousands of years
by humans all over the world. Entheogens are the basis of just about every
religion ever seen in the world
including Christianity and may very well be at least partially
responsible for much of human evolution as well as civilization.
Unfortunately, that part of human history is little known by the
mainstream today. In fact that information and the practicing of our ancestors
religions is being oppressed today by those in power. From the illegalization
and eradication of plants like Salvia divinorum or Amanita muscaria
to to the propaganda and arrests against those that do still try to practice our
oldest traditions, this knowledge and way of life is being threatened.
Bouncing Bear Botanicals also specializes in
Kratom products.
Kratom (Mitragyna
speciosa) is a leaf harvested from a large tree native to Southeast
Asia. It is in the same family as the coffee tree. Although using
Kratom has been common throughout its native range of Southeast Asia,
this amazing plant has remained virtually unknown outside of that area until
the last few years. The leaves of Kratom have been used from time immemorial
by peoples of Southeast Asia.
ethnobotanicals we offer like Amanita muscaria and the traditions
and beliefs associated with them should be respected, not feared. It is our
mission at Bouncing Bear Botanicals to preserve the most basic way of
life and traditions and the plants associated with it through education,
keeping the plants and the knowledge of them available to those that seek to
find them.
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by Anton Shilov
Mobile Internet devices (MIDs) have always been beyond understanding of the consumer and have also been challenged heavily by smartphones, sub-notebooks, personal digital media players and even notebooks. As a consequence, MIDs are still not popular. But that is hardly surprising: nearly half of consumers in the U.S. surveyed by ABI research want MIDs as replacements for cell phones.
In the survey carried out by ABI research, almost half of respondents did view mobile Internet devices as a substitute for cell-phones, lending support to models incorporating cellular voice, while 34% said they would continue to use a typical cellular handset.
"This is going to become a question for MID vendors and consumers alike. There will be little difference between a smartphone such as the Palm Pre which uses an OMAP 3 processor and a MID with cellular voice, except for screen size. Understanding of what consumers want from stand-alone MIDs without cellular voice will be important," said Philip Solis, principal analyst at ABI Research.
ABI Research believes that some people will value a separate device with a bigger screen for the web browsing, that they can choose when to carry. The more interesting promise offered by MIDs without cellular voice will be their repackaging in the form of specialized Internet-connected consumer electronics devices such as media players or personal navigation devices.
Quite a lot of mobile Internet devices have been introduced in the recent years, but none has become truly popular. The vast majority of such devices feature about 7" touch-screen display with complex buttons to emulate mouse and are pretty bulky. As a result, those, who need Internet for business reasons choose to have notebooks, whereas those who want basic Internet browsing buy smartphones.
Nowadays MIDs are attacked by netbooks, which provide both browsing as well as additional services. That said, the MID category does have to transform into devices like Apple iPhone or T-Mobile G1, which are rather small, otherwise, MIDs will continue to be a very niche market aimed at small groups of users.


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The prosecutors in the on-going impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona owe the defense a mountain of gratitude. After all, it was the defense that proved what the prosecutors could not: That the chief justice has dollar deposits in the amount of— at least—$12 million, which he failed to disclose in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth.
What on earth was the defense thinking when it called on the Ombudsman as its own witness? Perhaps they thought that the Ombudsman would not honor the subpoena sent to her to testify in the Senate. But why would she ignore such a subpoena when as a retired Supreme Court magistrate, she knows all too well that unlike contempt issued by the courts, a contempt imposed by the legislature may be for a lifetime. Did they think that the Ombudsman would not disclose details of her ongoing investigation, or at least not the documents tending to show the existence of the CJ's dollar deposits, because to disclose these would be to violate the existing law protecting the confidentiality of dollar deposits without a court order?
But why would the Ombudsman not disclose this? To begin with, the secrecy of dollar deposits is only provided for by a law, while the duty of the Ombudsman to "investigate public official" for "illegal, unjust, improper, or inefficient" acts and its power to "request any government agency for assistance and information necessary x x x and to examine, if necessary, pertinent records and documents" are both provided for by the Constitution. Pursuant to the principle of hierarchy of laws, the Constitutional provisions on the Ombudsman prevail over the prohibition of the FCDU law.
What makes the defense act even more perplexing is that from the declarations of the Ombudsman herself, she apparently had no intention of taking the stand in the ongoing trial. When asked by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago to what purpose the Ombudsman could investigate an impeachable officer such as the CJ, the Ombudsman responded that is was only for the purpose of "recommending to Congress the filing of an impeachment complaint after the one-year ban in December of this year." Ergo, her investigation, if warranted, would have resulted only in a letter to the Speaker of the House perhaps recommending a second impeachment proceeding against the chief justice. This implies that she did not see taking the stand as an option.
So the question is: Why did they do it?
Lawyer Jose Roy III said it was upon the express order of Corona himself, to know what the Ombudsman has. I guess the defense achieved its purpose—except that in the process, they crucified their client.
The defense, after realizing that the Ombudsman dropped a bomb shell against the chief justice, is now saying that the information divulged are: one, not accurate, because the amounts were not verified by the Ombudsman herself; and two, in any case, illegally obtained and hence inadmissible.
Such are admirable attempts to contain the consequences of their self-inflicted damage. But these are utterly bereft of merit. To begin with, the Ombudsman divulged the documents only insofar as it forms part of her ongoing investigation about an alleged dollar deposit undeclared by the chief justice in his SALN. Certainly, this was what complainants Rissa Hontiveros-Baraquel et al alleged in their complaint. Moreover, although she has not personally verified the accuracy of the accounts, she is still entitled to presume that a very specialized agency such as the Anti-Money Laundering Council would be discharging its functions regularly. If at all, the AMLC cannot be faulted for heeding the constitutionally mandated power of the Ombudsman to solicit its assistance. Instead, it should perhaps be faulted for not conducting its own investigation even before the impeachment trial.
Moreover, the chief justice himself, in the form prescribed for the SALN, has expressly authorized the " obtain and secure from all appropriate government agencies, x x x such documents that may show my assets, liabilities, net worth, business interests and financial connections." How can he now complain about the acts of the Ombudsman?
With the testimony of the Ombudsman, Corona has put the last nail in his own coffin. Ironically, we have the defense to thank for this.


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Skrillex - The Mix Up Kid
Whether you've discovered Skrillex yet or not you will have heard his trademark fidgety, dubstep wobble. Whether it's one of his own tracks or one of the many copycat sound-a-likes out there, the Skrillex sound is the sound du jour. Producer, re-mixer, DJ and all round digital native Sonny John Moore went from emo also-ran to 2012's new wunderkid on the block.
But Skrillex's overnight success has been a long time in the making. There were years spent playing in rock bands, DJing at underground parties, remixes and electro side projects. Then, in 2009, his tweaked dubstep electro began its spirited rampage across the internet. With the release of a free eponymous download EP on Myspace the electro aficionados lauded the arrival of a new laptop wizard. Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites followed in 2010 and before long the Skrillex wobble was spreading like a digital virus.
More Monsters and Sprites followed in 2011 and some high profile festival slots. But it was the release of his EP Bangarang in 2011 and 2012's Make it Bun Dem that saw Skrillex truly smash the mainstream. From underground accolades to Grammy success Skrillex has brought a very modern kind of digital iconoclasm to the charts. No cows are considered sacred. There are no cliques of cool to dictate what projects he takes on. In the Skrillex universe collaboration with the Doors sits happily next to a Lady Gaga remix. Programming and production for metal heads KORN somehow compliments work with pop pixie Ellie Golding. You can see it in the way he dresses too. Part suburban metal kid, part skater with just a hint of the hooded mystery of the laptop monk it's an eclectic mix that's true to his roots and to his futures.
Skrillex is typical of a new wave of artists who have chosen to bypass record labels, PR machines and radio friendly unit shifters in favour of a career on their own terms. And he's masterminded it all from a laptop using the very same digital sharing tools that the labels claim has killed off the music industry. From T-shirts and old-school vinyl box sets to free mixes and artists on his own OWSLA label Skrillex's digital tentacles spread deep into the web. It's a new and radical philosophy that if you give something good away you'll get something good back.
To those purist critics and the few still clinging to the bobbing wreckage of the music industry - take note. It's time to remake and remodel. Artists like Skrillex are rewiring the music machine and throwing us all headlong into a bright new post-digital future. And the future isn't such a bad place to be going now is it?
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Can you drink too much tea? I've been drinking 4-6 cups a day (at
least) and someone said they knew someone that died from drinking too much tea (a pitcher a day ). It was something about kidney stones or some kind of stones. Anyway, I thought it was nonsense, but figured I'd pose the question.


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About the Author: Ann Stock serves as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.
As Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton emphasized in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning on July 4, music can be a valuable means to convey American values and build bridges between the United States and people around the globe. For example, through The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad program, every year the U.S. State Department sends American roots music groups around the world to reach out to foreign audiences who might otherwise be unable to experience live American music. This year, the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center, is sending 10 hip-hop, gospel, bluegrass, blues, and jazz groups to perform and to lead workshops and master classes in more than 43 countries.
During their travels, the Rhythm Road musicians actively engage with foreign audiences, offering them a chance to get to know the musicians as people as well as artists. Though the artists travel to share their music and demonstrate the commonalities that Americans share with people all over the world, they also learn from their experiences and take that knowledge and insight back to share with others in the United States. Often the connections these musicians make influence their work for years to come. For example, Chen Lo and the Liberation Family, a group that toured in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria this spring, continues to work closely with a Lebanese DJ they met during their program in Beirut. And the Little Joe McLerran Quartet, which this year visited Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, hopes to continue to experiment with a number of Arabic rhythms and modes that they learned during jam sessions in several countries.
In an effort to reach even broader audiences, many of this year's musicians also have been active bloggers in their few free moments between performances and educational activities. Readers worldwide can find a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the challenges the Eli Yamin Blues Band faced while visiting regions of Chile hardest hit by the 2010 earthquake, or they can learn about what happened during the Mark Sherman-Tim Horner Quartet's workshops and master classes in Asia. As the musicians' blogs and the enthusiastic audiences for Rhythm Road concerts and workshops demonstrate, music offers a common language that transcends borders.
People-to-people engagement such as The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad are a critical part of "smart power" in twenty-first century diplomacy. As Secretary of State Clinton said in her interview, "I think that we have to use every tool at our disposal. So we move a lot of different pieces on the chessboard every day. It's multi-dimensional chess, if you will. And our cultural diplomacy is an important part of that."