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2014 Graduate Excellence Award winners
March 20, 2014Tweet
David Biddle – Mathematics
David Biddle is someone who wants to engage his class and wants his students to go beyond mastering the technical aspects of a subject to see the beauty writes his nominator. Whether he is mentoring high school math clubs or writing courses in mathematics, he reflects deeply about all teaching matters. He is a firm believer that everyone has the ability to perceive mathematics as a dynamic subject, and his students consider him something of a 'rock star.' His communication skills are stellar, allowing him to communicate mathematics in clear and interesting ways, and his empathic, patient style and constant availability for individual help has turned a number of struggling students around. A student writes that she was "taken by his deftness in teaching" and by the classroom environment he created where stories were told and laughter was in abundance. "I would have never thought that math could be so much fun."
Rochelle Duford – Philosophy
Extremely well organized and well prepared, Rochell Duford establishes a relaxed yet focused classroom atmosphere that encourages congenial, inclusive, intense and serious conversations in which students see themselves as stakeholders in how the entire class wrestles with complex and ethically charged materials writes her nominator. She effortlessly switches back and forth between lecture and question-and-answer, and judiciously uses new learning technologies in an unobtrusive way that clearly expands and deepens students' learning. She designs her courses with the diversity of students and philosophical perspectives in mind, and students eagerly participate in class discussions. Students note that she makes them feel at ease and is very easy to understand, which creates a give-and-take process that brings students to a deeper understanding of difficult issues or texts. "Her skills and talents will only deepen with time and experience, and we have before us the early career of a deeply successful teacher," writes her nominator.
Megan Fegley – Chemistry
Megan Fegley serves as a perfect example of a nurturing, multi-faceted professional educator writes her nominator. She has taught from entry level teaching assistant to instructor of record for an introductory level class of non-chemistry students. Known by faculty as an exceptionally strong teacher in both the classroom and the lab, she is simultaneously earning her Master of Arts in Teaching as well as her PhD in chemistry to further refine her pedagogical skills. She shares her passion for science and discovery with students at all levels, who note that she helps them see chemistry in a different light, not as a loathsome subject. She has also mentored and taught students in the Go Green Institute and Binghamton University Upward Bound program. A student writes that she succeeds in demonstrating that "the best way to manage a classroom is to keep students on-task with material that was both interesting and challenging."
Elizabeth Macaluso – English Literature
Elizabeth Macaluso is a warm, enthusiastic and engaging teacher known for her ability to encourage to students to participate in class discussions no matter how shy they may be. Her nominator writes that she is adept at drawing every student in her class into discussions and she also sets high standards for her students, and for herself. Her lesson plans are meticulous and set the stage for collaborative exchanges that help her students achieve excellence in expository writing and literary analysis. Students write of being able to thoroughly discuss their personal views about an umbrella topic or question of the day in a comfortable atmosphere. She makes difficult material understandable through a variety of activities and strategies, and is generous with her time outside of class for students who wish to meet with her. A graduate student leader as well, she is a model of what a student-centered teacher should be.
Kevin Murphy – History
Known as an exceptionally skilled and dedicated teacher by his nominator and faculty members, Kevin Murphy teaches by connecting historical topics to situations that are relevant to students today, creating what he terms a "usable past" for them as they relate historical events to the world they live in today. Using a variety of techniques, as well as technology, he often e-mails his students in advance with an agenda for class that includes guided reading and discussion questions. He engages students in brainstorming and utilizes both small group and whole group discussions. His students write of his obvious love for teaching history as well as his thorough preparation and organized class structure, and they note that he is always available during and outside of class to answer questions. His teaching receives heavy praise from nominators, and one faculty member writes that when he observed Murphy's class, it "was the single best-taught class that I have ever observed."
Reynaldo Ortiz – Sociology/Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies
Reynaldo Ortiz structures his class in an elegant manner, creating an effective balance between substantial student participation and straightforward lecturing, frequently with very demanding course material. Always on time and well prepared for class, he is also remarkably able to work with students from all backgrounds. His skill as a teacher led to his selection to teach his own classes – a rare occurrence, and, to date, he has taught 31 courses as an adjunct. Always concerned with student progress, he works closely with those who need help and is available to students outside of the classroom to answer questions, and to mentor and advise them. His students praise him for being a "determined educator whose aim is to awaken the subconscious mind of his students" and for his passion for the subject matter he teaches. He challenges his students, treats them as intellectually equal and show respect for them as individuals.
Daniel Parisian – Economics
Daniel Parisian believes that merely passing along knowledge is secondary to teaching. His primary goal is to ensure that students enhance and master the abilities and skills that will be pivotal in helping them achieve success in the future. He also believes the teacher must be interested in being in the classroom and excited about watching students change when they see that economics is not a set of boring, abstract ideas, but a practical way of thinking about the world. He comes to class well prepared and presents information in clear and interesting ways. His students write that he has courage to recognize there can be many approaches to solving a problem, that he shows genuine interest in teaching, and that he goes above and beyond in the classroom. He also offers additional office hours on a regular basis and is willing to work one-on-one until a student grasps a concept.
Angelique Szymanek – Art History
Angelique Szymanek is an inventive, engaging and rigorous mentor to her students writes her nominator. Challenging students through her commitment to experimental art practices at the intersection of visual culture and performance, and to feminist methodologies, she asks them to reconsider their presuppositions about the nature of art and its place in contemporary society, and by doing so, makes a tremendous contribution to the Department of Art History's curricular mission. Having taught survey courses, subject-specific courses, online courses and courses she has conceptualized, she has enriched her experience as a teacher and further cultivated her personal style and approach to communicating complex and multiple histories of art production and dissemination. Her nominators call her extremely gifted at reaching students and inviting them into discussions, and her students praise her for her confidence, her intelligence, her open mindedness, her passion for her discipline and her ability to motivate them to achieve at the highest levels.
Mei-Yi Zheng – Biological Sciences
Mei-Yi Zheng uses investigative research to improve student learning and immerse students in the process of science. She succeeds by utilizing cooperative learning exercises that encourage students to exchange knowledge and ideas. She believes that, by allowing students to help each other dig below the superficial, they assist each other in developing analytical skills to troubleshoot problems and find their own answers to questions. In this manner, students "own" their learning and retain it better. Always willing to demonstrate proper techniques for new procedures and give valuable advice and insight, she is known by her nominators to be instrumental in course development, working to design, pilot and improve learning exercises. A student writes that she created a constructive environment and was "open to discussion of the material and was willing to accept valid points made by the students," allowing them to learn a new set of skills instead of just be exposed to the field.
Natalia Andrievskikh – Comparative Literature
Natalia Andrievskikh's main research focus offers original and thought-provoking work that lies at the intersection of literary, anthropological and gender studies, and her work on feminist re-visitation of fairy tales stands out for its richness and the relevance of its central arguments. She has presented papers and organized panels at several conferences including the Northeast Modern Language Association and the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association annual conventions, and the annual international conference at the University of Bucharest. She has garnered grants from the highly selective Harvard Summer Institute in World Literature, Central European University's Summer Institute in Documentary Studies and as a Fulbright exchange student. With publications including three book chapters, one book review, two manuscripts under review and several other publications, she is lauded by her nominators for the elegance she brings to her field, as well as for her generosity to share her experiences in research, teaching and creative writing.
Faisal Aqlan – Industrial and Systems Engineering
Faisal Aqlan's research constitutes a novel theoretical contribution to the field of supply chain risk management, with development of a comprehensive
framework for modeling and managing supply-chain risk in global enterprises. Working within the Watson Institute for Systems Excellence (WISE), he led and participated in numerous projects relating to transportation, assessment of ergonomic occupational risks, inventory management and more. The ergonomics project he worked on is considered a best practice by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He has nine journal articles published or under review, six conference publications, and several more in preparation. He has five technical reports to his credit, as well as two patents filed and four under evaluation. His nominator writes that "he has been an integral component of the research activities in our research group," and is clearly able "to work on multiple research projects at the same time and produce outstanding results."
Vadim Bromberg – Mechanical Engineering
Called a truly extraordinary experimentalist by his nominator, Vadim Bromberg plans and executes very complex experiments in the fields of fluid dynamics and materials science, and then processes and interprets the data at a level that is world-class. A complete researcher, he possesses a mature and fundamental knowledge of fluid dynamics and transport science, as well as strong knowledge of chemistry and materials science. He has five peer-reviewed publications, with four more in review or in preparation. Among his projects, he conceptualized and developed a fast, material-efficient and fully scalable "drop-on-demand" inkjet printing process that allows precise deposition of small droplets of functional ink in a variety of patterns on a given substrate surface. This process has exceptional advanced imaging and data acquisition capabilities, with 90 percent improvement over current state-of-the-art inkjet printing capability, and has resulted in one patent filing. His work holds significant potential in the emerging additive manufacturing field.
Katie Burkhouse – Psychology
Katie Burkhouse focuses her research on gaining a more fine-grained understanding of the factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of depression in youth. Her nominator, who notes that he strongly recruited her to work in his research group, calls her "question focused" rather than "method focused," and writes that she already has an impressive start to her career with two, first-authored publications in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, and two more under review. She is also an ad-hoc reviewer for the Journal of Biological Nursing. She has presented at more than a dozen symposia and poster presentations, and garnered a scholarship to participate in the 2013 National Institute of Mental Health Funded ERP Boot Camp at the University of California-Davis. She willingly teaches others about pupillometry – using pupil dilation as an index of emotion processing – and is a highly sought-out collaborator.
Xiaoming Chen – Mechanical Engineering
Xiaoming Chen's research focuses on investigating the mechanical properties of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes and their polymer nanocomposites, part of a broad effort to develop next-generation, light-weight and high-strength multifunctional engineering materials, particularly for aerospace applications. In collaboration with NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace, and financially supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, he tackles very challenging problems and has made several breakthroughs using state-of-the-art nanomechanical testing techniques. His research findings help to better understand the mechanical strength of nanotube structures and the local stress transfer on the nanotube-polymer interfaces, both critical for design and optimization of innovative nanotube-based material systems. He has first-authored three journal articles and has nine published articles to his credit. He has made nearly 20 conference presentations and holds one patent. His nominator writes that his research achievements clearly show his capability of delivering cutting-edge research in the emerging fields of nanoscience and engineering.
Andrew Fagal - History
Andrew Fagal is charting a new direction in the political and economic history of the United States during its founding by exploring the emergence of war-making in a country deeply suspicious of standing armies, centralized power and political corruption. His nominator writes that "what he finds challenges much simplistic thinking about the community of American ideas concerning the relationship of their governments to the problem of military preparedness." His publications include an article in revision for the prestigious New England Quarterly, a book chapter and an article in process, and two book reviews forthcoming. He has presented at over a dozen conferences including one in Dublin, Ireland, and has received numerous academic honors including selection as one of two graduate students to attend the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers in Philadelphia, and a dissertation fellowship from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
Benjamin Farrer – Political Science
Benjamin Farrer is a talented and productive scholar with a diverse set of skills and strong professional background writes his nominator. His research is generally on parties and pressure groups, with a specific focus on environmental politics and organizational strategies of that niche constituency. His nominator writes that "during his years in a graduate program, he acquired a broad range of methodological skills and is rightly regarded as our strongest student in quantitative and formal methods in several cohorts," so much so, that faculty who teach advanced graduate methods have competed for him to be their teaching assistant. He is also considered a popular co-author due to his precise, yet flexible thinking and his creativity. He has completed summer institutes at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the University of California-Berkeley and Fordham University, and has two academic publications, three papers under review and a number of manuscripts in the pipeline.
Josh T. Franco – Art History
Josh T. Franco is researching the complex ethnic and aesthetic topographies of Marfa, Texas, home to the Chinati Foundation, which preserves and exhibits the estate of American sculptor Donald Judd, and also home to a significant Chicano/a population, including members of his own family. He holds a Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellowship from Imagining America and is currently a predoctoral diversity fellow in the Department of Art History at Ithaca College. He serves as an artist-guide at the Judd Foundation in New York City and has co-founded 7STOPS Magazine, an online monthly that publishes seven variations on a theme. He has published four book chapters and two scholarly periodicals, has contributed to two websites and has presented four exhibitions. In addition, he has a dozen conference presentations and papers to his credit. His nominator writes that he is an outstanding student whose scholarly work is informed by, and informs, his personal experiences.
Mehmet Kayaalp – Computer Science
Mehmet Kayaalp has made significant contributions to the field of architectural and hardware support for computer security, Specifically, he proposed two hardware-based techniques for protecting computer systems against an emerging class of code reuse attacks. He is the lead author on 10 publications in the most selective and prestigious journals and co-author on two more. He has also given four conference and seminar presentations. He has served as a journal and conference review for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Computers, International Symposium on Computer Architecture and International Conference on Computer Design. For the past three-and-a-half years, he has been a research assistant on National Science Foundation- and Air Force-funded research projects. His nominator writes that he is a talented researcher whose study of attacks against computer systems will have a long-term impact and "the quality of the work and the significance of his contributions are remarkable."
David Lindenbach – Psychology
David Lindenbach's nominator writes that he has become the "go-to" individual in the laboratory, and is an exceptional and increasingly independent scientist. Intelligent and motivated, he has played a central role in the technical and conceptual training of new students, has a keen and curious mind, shows remarkable ingenuity and patience, and has mastered an incredible cadre of techniques for the study of behavioral pharmacology, neuroplasticity and neurodegeneration. Instrumental in optimizing the laboratory's approach in vivo microdialysis, he nearly singled-handedly initiated the development of a new research direction regarding the motor cortex in Parkinson's disease, allowing him to uniquely examine questions from multiple levels of analysis. He has made 13 poster presentations and has three lead-authored publications and two others published in journals including the high-impact, peer-reviewed Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, as well as Neuropharmacology; Psychopharmacology; the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics; Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior; and the Journal of Brain Research.
Emir Malikov – Economics
A promising young economist, Emir Malikov aims to provide regulators with sound and reliable analysis of the structure of the financial intermediation sector, such as banking and credit union industries, to help them design adequate macroeconomic policies. He contributes to the literature by advancing the existing econometric methods to surpass limitations of traditional modeling tools by relaxing strong and unrealistic assumptions commonly made in empirical analysis. His nominators write that "his passion combined with innate ability makes his research stand out above that of his peers." They add that he is clearly an exception for a PhD student because he already has one article published in the Journal of Economic and Social Measurement and has five more sole-authored or co-authored currently under review. He has also presented at several seminars and conferences and serves as a referee for Empirical Economics, the Journal of Economic Surveys and the Journal of Productivity Analysis.
Kristie McHugh – Organizational Behavior
Through her work on collective intelligence and collective decision-making, Kristie McHugh has the potential of being a thought leader in her field. Traditional research has focused on the study of dyads and groups. Her research is not only novel, writes her nominator, but important from the standpoint of innovations, since some of the breakthroughs of our times have emerged from the work of collectives. With very little idea of how collectives are formed and what it takes for them to thrive, her work begins to ask and answer some of these questions. She has an impressive publication record, including four journal articles in highly respected journals including Leadership Quarterly and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice; four conference posters and presentations; as well as six articles in progress. She has been recognized as a National Science Foundation Fellow and was selected for the Southern Tier Opportunity Coalition "20 in their Twenties."
Fredrick Omenya – Chemistry
Fredrick Omenya shows the drive, maturity and patience of a passionate, successful researcher, and a colleague notes that "his humor an understanding" bring the entire research group together. He has already made a major mark in materials chemistry and battery reactions and has provided the key experimental showing the single-phase reaction mechanism for the olivine compound. He has published a dozen peer-reviewed papers about his pioneering work in leading chemistry journals, including Chemistry of Materials, the Journal of Materials Chemistry, the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and the Journal of Physical Chemistry. He has also made more than a dozen presentations at national conferences. His nominator writes that he "is an extremely dedicated and hard worker" and "an outstanding team player" who sought out sophisticated facilities to conduct his research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, allowing him to better follow the chemical reactions occurring as a battery was charged and discharged.
Chenyu Wang – Chemistry
Chenyu Wang has demonstrated his outstanding performance in materials chemistry synthesis. His original contribution to the field of nanomaterial preparation is having successfully prepared platinum-cobalt and platinum-iron concave nanocubes with high-indexed crystallographic facets. This is a worldwide breakthrough in shape-control synthesis using a solution phase synthesis strategy. He has also identified a new research direction, hydrogenation catalysis, where his novel nanocrystals can be applied, demonstrating an improved turnover frequency and superior catalytic stability. He has nine publications to his credit in journals including Nanotechnology, Nanoscale and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. He also "possesses a high interest and exceptional ability in establishing research networks," actively disseminating his research to the chemistry community, writes his nominator. This effort has resulted in a recently established collaboration with a catalysis research group at Columbia University. "Such activity of connecting and co-working long-term with research teams from a different area" is essential for success as a scientist.
Robert Wright – Computer Science
Robert Wright's primary research interests are in machine learning and distributed artificial intelligence. He is working to develop technologies enabling robust, autonomous intelligent systems that are capable of making intelligent decisions and learning from new experiences in order to adapt to ever evolving domains. He is making a significant impact in those fields. He has authored and published a dozen conference papers at leading venues and one journal article. One of his papers received the Best Paper Award at the European Conference on Machine Learning, a top international conference in his field. At the Air Force Research Laboratory, he has participated in several multi-million dollar research projects, and is the principal investigator for three Air Force Office of Science and Research grants totaling $250,000. His research "contributes to the one of the holy grails in artificial intelligence: software agents that can learn to make optimal and adaptive decisions in complex, real-world environments," writes his nominator.
Joshua Zingher – Political Science
Called "virtually indistinguishable from a colleague" by a faculty member, Joshua Zingher was presenting papers at national conferences as a second-year graduate student. Interested in the role that ethnic, racial, class and gender groupings play in the political process, he has made eight conference presentations to date, and has two articles in peer-reviewed journals and several others under review, including one that won the "Best Paper in the Racial and Ethnic Politics Section" award at the 2012 American Political Science Association National Conference. "His ideas are good; his analysis is always strong; and the ideas he has and the analysis he works on get turned into real outcomes for the political science scholarly community at large," writes his nominator. Others note that his strength as a scholar comes from his ability to "ask and answer interesting, original research questions, even in areas that might seem at first to have been worked to death."
Service and Outreach
Jason Johnson – Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Jason Johnson has used his research skills to gather background data on surface and ground waters in the Southern Tier, in collaboration with the Susquehanna River Basin Commission and the Upper Susquehanna Coalition, whose mission is to protect and improve water quality and natural resources with the involvement of citizens and agencies. His work filled a critical gap in the SRBC's monitoring program and also enhanced its community education mission by making several award-winning presentations at the local, regional and national levels. In these presentations, he educated the public about how road salting and natural brine sources can influence water quality conditions and can have implications for potential future shale gas extraction. His nominator writes that he "managed to meld research on a controversial and environmentally important topic from an assessment perspective, and then informed the general public, community stakeholders, and watershed professionals about his findings through several presentation modes."
Sarah Marcus – Biological Sciences
Sarah Marcus is enthusiastic about sharing her love of science with kids, and about making it fun and cool for them as she encourages them to keep learning about the natural world. Working with counselors at a 4-H camp for young people ages 8 to 15, she developed an experiment she called "The Fruit Fly Experiment." She then trained the counselors to follow the scientific method, while providing campers with opportunities for self-directed, autonomous learning as they worked through the experiment. Her nominator writes that the response to her lesson was dramatic and students who participated in the experiment "were more excited about science and more interested in learning" after the experiment. She has also participated in other outreach programs, including "Out of the Box Science that Rocks" at Roberson Museum and Science Center, helping children ages 5 to 12 extract DNA from strawberries while teaching them about DNA and what it does.
Angela Runciman – Comparative Literature
Angela Runciman is that rare student whose unlimited energy is devoted to both co-curricular and community involvement, as well as to professional advancement, writes her nominator. An adjunct faculty member at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, she also devoted enormous time and energy to teaching and mentoring at Binghamton and SUNY Broome Community College. She has worked on graduate student publications including Inquire, The Harpur Palate, and as primary editor for Crossings. She has served on the Graduate Policies Committee and on numerous conferences and panels including the Ervene Gulley Memorial Committee and the Freshman Orientation Reading Program, and helped develop website content to ease new graduate students' transition to Binghamton. Most recently, she proposed the idea of hosting and was selected to serve as chair of the organizing committee for the British Women Writers Association Annual Conference, to be hosted in June 2014 at Binghamton University, which will bring hundreds of scholars to campus.
Jennifer Sweeney – English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Jennifer Sweeney has put much of her intellectual energy and time into cultivating an active community of scholars, but also looks beyond academics to serve Binghamton University. Her nominators write that improving the communities she lives within remains a crucial aspect of her graduate education. As president of the Graduate English Organization, she developed and coordinated a professionalization conference. She helped organize three "Shifting Tides and Anxious Borders' graduate student conferences, helped establish a reading group to extend conference discussions and coordinated a book swap for the Broome County Library. For two years, she served as assistant debate coach for Binghamton University's highly successful debate team, also helping to plan and organize an annual tournament that drew 700 people to campus. Her service extends well beyond the academic arena, as proven by her work with the Office of International Programs to orient exchange students, and with University Police to offer self-defense classes to women.
Dianne Thornhill – Psychology
Dianne Thornhill has performed unusually demanding service for the Department of Psychology as president of the Psychology Graduate Student Organization writes her nominator. In addition to the basic duties as president, such as organizing and hosting events for graduate students, arranging funding for food during weekly colloquia and coordinating a finals week breakfast for faculty, staff and students, she has helped to improve and streamline the method for graduate students to provide input on faculty promotions. As the graduate student representative to the Junior and Senior Personnel committees, she is the sole person to administer, collect, compile and write graduate student reports on every faculty member who is evaluated. To date, she has done this for six promotions to full professor, three third-year evaluations and one tenure evaluation. She has also served on the Graduate Student Organization Budget Committee, the Graduate Women's Association and is the current Graduate Student Employees Union liaison for her department.


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|Ivan The Not So Terrible
Niko Bellic talking to Vladimir Glebov inside Comrades Bar.
|Vladimir Glebov
|Ivan Bytchkov
|Comrades Bar, Hove Beach, Broker
|Lose Ivan in the car chase.
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Ivan the Not So Terrible is the fourth and final mission given to you from Vladimir Glebov in Grand Theft Auto IV. This is the first, and one of the seven missions in the game to offer a morality choice; where the player chooses whether to take one action or another (in this case it is sparing or killing Ivan), and is the first to use ladders and jumping. The mission starts with Vlad telling Niko Bellic that Ivan Bytchkov has upset Mikhail Faustin, his boss, and wants you to kill him. Vlad explains to Niko that he persuaded Ivan to rob Roman Bellic's cab depot and wants you to kill him in an act of "self-defense".
Grab Vlad's Blista Compact and drive to Roman's cab depot. Don't stop once you get there - it seems Ivan's already robbed Roman. He is escaping from the cab depot.
Chase Ivan to a construction site nearby. He will crash near a ladder and run up it. Get out of your car and run up the same ladder with the in-game instructions. Once you get to the top, Ivan continues up another ladder. Follow him. He continues to run away. Follow him until a cut-scene appears. In the cut-scene, Ivan will jump over to a nearby building. Get onto the crane and do the same.
He will jump a few more buildings - follow him. Soon he will get to the end of the building chain. Niko chases him to a ledge where Ivan hangs from. You now have the choice of helping him onto the building and letting him run away, or kicking/shooting him off of the ledge, brutally killing him on the sidewalk below.
If you let him live, he'll come back as a random character If you kill him, you have closely followed Vlad's instructions.
Ivan's car
It is possible to obtain Ivan's uniquely colored Ruiner (black with yellow trim) by entering it as Ivan begins climbing up the construction site. Simply drive it down the block to the south and park it. Ivan will not continue climbing until Niko has begun climbing and you will not fail the mission for moving away from him. After pursuing Ivan and making your choice on his fate, you may descend the stairs to the west of the building and down the ladder to find Ivan's Ruiner where you moved it and you may take it to your parking space if you like.
- Ivan Bytchkov (by Niko Bellic) - Niko witnessed Ivan robbing his cousin Roman, and kicked him off a building ledge as revenge. Ivan's death is optional, and it is the player's choice.
- The whole traffic during the chase is scripted (as numerous other missions in the game). So the vehicles seen in the traffic are not random: a speeding Futo, a Chavos and a Marbelle in Mohawk Avenue, a Marbelle (and a parked Perennial) in Onion Street, a Stratum in Asparagus Avenue, a Perennial and a Voodoo driving (and one Perennial and three Marbelles parked) in Munsee Avenue, a Marbelle and a Mule in Montauk Avenue, a Chavos (and two Perennials and a Futo parked) in Hickcock Street, a Marbelle and a Perennial (and another parked Perennial) in northern Onondaga Avenue, a parked Stratum in Ringo Street, and a driving Bobcat, a parked Perennial, and a stopped Benson and Flatbed in southern Onondaga Avenue. There's also a stopped Biff in Kid Street.
- The name of this mission is a reference to Ivan the Terrible, the Russian Tsar between December 3, 1533 to March 28, 1584.
- During the end credits for The Lost and Damned, one of the scenes shown is the rooftop chase in this mission. Also during the scene, the mission Bleed Out is somehow happening at the same time (Roman's Taxi and Dardan Petrela's car parked on the sidewalk, Bledar Morina and Kalem Vulaj beating up Roman in the basketball courts under the El Train) despite already being completed.
- It is possible to kill Ivan before he reaches the ledge, if you shoot him enough while he is running away, he will become wounded. The player can then finish him off.
- At the beginning of the mission, Jimmy's car that you stole in the previous mission is parked in front of Comrades Bar.
- This mission is similar to the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City mission The Chase.
- There are some rumors that state the rooftop chase was based on a scene from the film, In The Line Of Fire; where Clint Eastwood chases John Malkovich across rooftops in Washington D.C.. Eastwood ends up being saved from the person he was trying to catch (instead of Niko saving/killing Ivan in the mission).
Niko Bellic, left, confronting Ivan Bytchkov.
Niko Bellic making his choice regarding Ivan's life.
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Not sure what this is from Camilla Belle.
Chad Michael Murray was there to see it first hand though.
Chaz Bono after getting his hairs cut.
Cameron Diaz poses while on a yacht in the Caribbean filled with men before
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Liz Hurley showed herself yesterday amid all the Bill Clinton affair drama.
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Airosa Dairy 100th Anniversary Sale will be held on show's final day
There are 115 more reasons for dairy producers to attend World Ag Expo February 14 to 16 in Tulare, Calif. the number of registered Holsteins, Red and Whites, and Jerseys that will sell at auction on the grounds during the show's final day.
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Spore counts don't lie...
As we come to understand the biology of this pest there will be/have been breakthroughs. There is more than one way to skin the cat.
Spore counts don't lie...
As we come to understand the biology of this pest there will be/have been breakthroughs. There is more than one way to skin the cat.
30 years ago while running bees in central Minnesota I was advised by Dick Hyser, then the Minnesota state bee inspector, that a fall feeding of Fumidil would greatly lessen my winter loss. That fall we mixed up drums of treated and untreated syrup and fed 1/2 of slected yards with and 1/2 without medication. The tally the next spring in those test yards was an almost identical loss percentage. It is the last time I used it until I heard people screaming CERANAE, CERANAE. So honestly about the only things I know for sure is that it's expensive and it's an antibiotic that could conceivably have some unforeseen effects in your hives. Just for the record Harry, if I were you I wouldn't change a thing.
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"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
I use it every year and the bees always look nice.
is this additive a closely guarded proprietary secret? is there information us little guys who can't buy truckloads of sub could benefit from?
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Oh yes I'll give credit where it's do. That's why I sent out a video and some pics last week of the bees. A little pat on the back. Haha
Dereck, I got carpel-tunnel from doing that.lol
NUTRA-BEE feed supplements
There are lots of trial available that show the effectiveness of Fumagillin against nosema.
I think the issue here may be that beekeepers are treating when they don't have an issue with it.
I would say beekeepers should test their bees first off to see if there is in deed a problem to treat
and if there is a problem, I would suggest that you would see a response to the treatment
>>Prebiotitics, probiotics, and competitive inhibition of pathogens<<
Its exciting to see this stuff !
"This is a material that has been around a long time and is a leftover from a time when we thought Nosema was a protozoa and not a microsporidian. It seems silly to use the wrong material for the wrong critter." JBJ
OK, please would someone explain why the difference is pertinent; My worst subject in school was Microbiology, and I know someone out there can explain it in layman's terms.
Jim, I actually know a nephew of Bob Hyser; The last time I saw him he told me that there was no one in the family keeping bees anymore.
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"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
"The scientific classification of Microsporidia has evolved through time with growing scientific research in the area, and the specifics are still currently debated. Initially thought to be a protozoan (kingdom Protista), recent studies using DNA techniques indicate phylum Microspora should be classified under the Fungi kingdom or at least as a sister kingdom to Fungi."
From the page http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio...sporidia1.html
My interpretation is that Nosema should be classified as a fungus.
Bottom line with Varroa under control: healthy gut = healthy bees. This is a game changer and should not be underestimated. The big three when dealing with bee health in order of importance:
1.Nutrition, 2. Varroa, 3. Nosema. The reason Nutrition is number one is that it can actually help deal with the other two by creating imuno-competent bees. Take care of number one in a big way, do your spore counts, and you just might be pleasantly surprised (and so will your bank account).
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its hard on the bees. shouldnt just use it blindly. overuse of antibiotics not a good thing. u can get a microscope and test your own. its not that hard. my bees look the best when they have that wonderful east texas pollen coming in during the spring. so that would be when i would use it again sometime cuz they can bounce back if it does some damage
Well, what about that fumagillin. (The following comments are meant as food for thought and are assumed to be rhetorical.)
When should it be used? Current thought is that Nosema cerana has replaced N. apis as the predominant species in colonies. This is the summertime nosema which grows more poorly in colder conditions.
Do we treat in the fall for N. cerana? Oh, and what dose? Standard dosing is less effective for cerana. What method of application (drench or syrup feed)? Randy Oliver has calculated dosages with a standard drench showing the total applied dose to be much lower than that recommended in syrup feeding.
So, first, we test for spores with our Suck-a-Bee vaccuum at the entrance for foragers, or under the cover, or??? Presently some university labs are testing only bees from the broodnest, as those heavily spore-laden foragers at the entrance which randomly appear, can significantly alter counts of otherwise healthy colonies. Which spore count does not lie?
Now, we also need to take into account the shortened longevity of bees consuming fumagillin. What will this do to our winter cluster in January and February? Did this also negatively impact immune function to other diseases/viruses?
Seems like the recommendations coming to us are from the pharmaceutical industry and the dealers selling the product. A little bias in the source of our guidance?
The truth is that we are treating our bees for nosema with little definitive evidence to guide us. We are treating based on testimonials, industry suggestions, and our fear of losing our bees if we deviate from what we did last year when our bees came out of winter looking okay.
Anyone with research backed ideas, on the concept of nosema treatment, to help sort this out?
BBD: that's a really, really, really good post. I think too often beekeepers just treat for Nosema because ummmm errrrr that's what good beekeepers do.....right? I don't doubt that there is a good time and place to use it but every year? By everybody? Are you a bad beekeeper if you don't? Hmmmmmmm.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
I sat in on a number of speakers talking about nosema a couple years back, they had studdies showing the effectiveness of Fumagillin in controling Nosema. Its not made up.
I think it makes a real difference on colony spore count depending where you grab the bees,
our guys tell us to take them from the lid or entrance when testing for nosema levels


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Boater pulled from waterfront Friday dies
WASHINGTON - North Carolina Wildlife Officials said that the boater who fell overboard into the Pamlico River Friday has died.
Officials said 61-year-old James Langston, of Winterville, fell overboard when he walked to the bow of the boat. They said his friend on board attempted to jump in to save him, but was unsuccessful. Another person jumped in and rescued that man from the water.
Officials say a medical issue may be to blame for Langston falling overboard. He was transported to Vidant Beaufort Hospital where he later died. His body has been taken to the medical examiner's office to determine an official cause of death.
PREVIOUS STORY: Man overboard fulled from Pamlico River
A boater fell overboard into the Pamlico River Friday night, within sight of the Washington waterfront.
According to Washington Police, the incident involved two men out on the river around 9 p.m. One of the boaters fell overboard, near the railroad bridge leading into the city.
"The man still on board started shouting for help," Sgt. Tom Amick said. "His cries for help were loud enough that people on the waterfront heard him, and one of those people called 911."
A fireboat from the Washington Department of Fire-Rescue-EMS came to the scene, a 24-foot Carolina Skiff. The boater was then pulled from the water.
Emergency crews performed CPR on the man who fell into the Pamlico. He was then taken to Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
The man's condition and identity were not immediately known. The two boaters are believed to be from the area.


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Classic 1 Bedroom Apartment Brooklyn (Parlor)
お部屋の大きさ850 フィート
Floor No.2
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|Hancock Street, 11216 New York, アメリカ合衆国
Located in a diverse cultural area, including a multitude of ethnic restaurants, jazz clubs, food markets, shopping galore.
Areas of interest include Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens,Prospect Park, Renowned Brooklyn Museum. Close to trendy Park Slope, Artsy Williamsburg, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights promenade, and the historic Fort Greene and Clinton Hill areas.
On street parking is available with easy access. Parlor apartment includes incredible details, Terrazzo mosaic tile entryway, 12ft. ceilings with double crown molding, 2 exquisite fireplaces, Gourmet Kitchen with granite counters, cherry cabinets, dishwasher, microwave, gas range and slate covered back splash. Large living space, ideal for entertaining. Space includes T.V. Stereo, DVD., DSL, washer & dryer.
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Nice apartment, with all the necessary facilities.very quiet surrounding.
Made us feel like coming home after an long day at manhattan.
The apartment was spacious and by Brooklyn standards is possibly quite good but it is old and well used. We found it poorly lit and with a noisy timber floor and other users in the building coming and going at all hours it was too noisy for our liking. The bed was comfortable and the cooking facilities adequate.
The area might be rather confronting and uncomfortable to some but we had no problems. Subway is close and local buses are good. Shops and eating options are plentiful.
David was very helpful and welcoming.
Hi David and Jacqui
Thank you for a wonderful stay in your apartment. We had a great time. New york is a marvellous as you know and we discovered. It was good to see Brooklyn and the attractions it has. We wanted to thank you for the passes to Moma and the Whitney which were both excellent and you saved us money and time as we didn't have to queue to get in. That was a tremendous bonus so thank you from us both. We found the apartment really relaxing and a good base from which to explore. It was easy to get around to everything we wanted to see. We just didn't have enough time. It was a shame that we did not get to say goodbye to you both and thank you in person for your hospitality, help and advice and recommendations. Thank you both. We have recommended you already to family and friends should they come to New York.
Jacqui and David are the perfect hosts. The appartment is sunny and clean. Towels, hairdryer, coffee, thee...everything you need is available. David gave a lot off information about the neighborhood, restaurants, shops...Friendly neighbours and very close tot the subway station, very easy tot get there from the airport and to get to Manhattan. Tanks for the fine week in Brooklyn in your lovely home.
Perfect place to stay in New York apartment. !!!!!!
Apartamento perfecto para alojarse en New York. !!!!!!
Está muy bien equipado, tiene todas las comodidades que puedes necesitar y la ubicación es excelente, está a minutos la parada de metro de la línea A y C, que te llevan a cualquier parte de la ciudad y también desde y al aeropuerto JFK.
Los anfitriones, David y Jacqui, son muy amables en todo momento, ayudandote en lo que necesites y respetuosos con los visitantes.
Hemos estado muy bien y estamos muy satisfechos de la estancia.
Volveremos a New York con nuestros hijos en unos años y nos volveremos a alojar con David y Jacqui.
It is very well equipped, has all the amenities you need and the location is excellent, within minutes the metro line A and C, which take you to any part of the city and also from and to JFK.
The hosts, David and Jacqui, are very friendly at all times, helping you in what you need and friendly visitors.
We have been great and we are very satisfied with the stay.
Returning to New York with our kids in a few years and will be staying with David and Jacqui.
As we promised 2 years ago, we came back to this beautiful apartment, this time with our son (10 month). And it was as charming as we had remembered it. Jaqui and David are the greatest hosts you can imagine. Big hearted and friendly.
We would love to come a third time.
Lovely apartment. Well equipped (good mattresses, elegant but cosey living and dining area, dishwasher, washer/dreyer available, microwave, toaster, coffeemaker, plenty of towels, etc.). Very friendly and obliging landlords.
Thank you Jacqui and David for the pleasant stay!
We stayed in this Brooklyn apartment in October. The hosts are excellent, always willing to help. We were worried upon arrival in the area as it is not as nice as other parts of Brooklyn, in fact, at times we felt a bit unsafe. The apartment and kitchen are well furnished, it has only one bed and the other two are sofa beds, not terribly comfortable. No washer and drier as stated in the Wimdu site, which was a deal maker for me, so I was disappointed as I was expecting to wash clothes a couple of times. (Jaqui took care of it) Excellent cable TV and fast wireless internet. We were not fond of the noise coming from upstairs at almost all times.
It takes about 20-25 min by metro to reach the city, take the A train as the C train stops more often.
We felt so nice and welcome in the beautyfull brownstone with Jacqui and David. All was nice decorated with David´s artwork and tastefull furnitures. The garden and the barbecue were a nice oasis to relax. All was very clean and uncomplicated. The contact with David and Jacqui was warm and lovely and really helpful. The neighbourhood is quiet.The subway station is nearby and goes directly to Manhattan. We really can recomand this house to everybody. To have a nice kitchen and barbecue with garden is really worthful after a stressfull day in Manhattan. We would always chose Jacqui and David again for a New York Trip.
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The Inn On York Street • Chester, SC
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South Carolina is already steeped in charm, but the storybook town of Chester just might be its most romantic. The evergreen countryside is blooming with pastoral scenes that looked ripped from a storybook. Visitors are sure to fall in love on a picnic by the lake in nearby Chester State Park or find their spirits stirred at any of the town's—yes—83 churches. For folks looking to Escape the impersonal city in exchange for a homey hamlet where everyone operates on a first-name basis, Chester is a sure bet.
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At An Inn on York Street, suites are individually decorated and feature queen beds fitted with soft downs and en suite bathrooms. Innkeepers Mark and Sandie Woodier provide an attentive hands-on approach to hospitality, and prepare daily three-course breakfasts for their guests. Nestled near the downtown area, the inn is close to antique shops like Hall Lumber Company. Bustling Charlotte, North Carolina, is just 30 minutes north for those looking to add another city experience to their list of things to do.
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Town Square
Who has ever heard of restrictions on shopping?
Original post made by Katie, Old Palo Alto, on Aug 27, 2007
We did however have one tiny hiccup which was unfortunate. There is a clothing store that appears to have no name but is next to Elite Cleaners and Cingular. They had big signs in the windows saying 50% off everything. So of course we were excited.
Before we entered, we noticed a note on the doorknob which said that you could only enter if you were willing to spend ten minutes in the store and were serious about trying on clothes or shopping. Well...how would we know if we were going to try on clothes, if we couldn't look through the store?
Within two steps of entering the store, the manager or owner, I'm not sure who she was - she came over and told us we couldn't shop unless we were willing to seriously shop. As she put it, this was a boutique store and she didn't wnat to have so much foot traffic dilute the store business.
We were immediately turned off by her attitude and behavior. And so we left. We stood around in disbelief at what had just happened. I have lived in Palo Alto for over 20 years and have never encountered this before at a store.
I would think that during a weekend when people are downtown for the festival, shopowners would in fact be grateful for all of the visitors and customers.
As we stood there, other people attempted to go in and they were also turned off by the sign or turned off by the owner/manager.
I can't believe that Palo Alto would allow this store to reside downtown. It's not good business for its residents nor visitors.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 27, 2007 at 11:02 am
Never actually heard of it before, but I did work in a store many years ago which was open during a similar festival and it was terrible. People came in and out who obviously had no intention to buy and would take things off shelves and racks and put them anywhere but the right place. Sometimes they came in with food or drink in their hands, often having sticky hands themselves and also with toddlers and children with very sticky hands.
Yes, there were more customers and sales did go up, but not by as much as one would think. The downside was that the store was a mess and took hours for the staff to get back to normal and often merchandise was soiled and had to be thrown out.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 27, 2007 at 11:33 am
well, I think that "not allowing" such a store would be completely contrary to who we are as a country..
there are some people who like this sort of thing, and some who don't.
The market will decide.
It seems that if the owner were concerned, she would have been better off just keeping her store shut over the week-end, or have a "call for appointment" sign
a resident of Midtown
on Aug 27, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I see the point from the store owner's aspect - but I do not agree with her implementation ! It is totally against who we are as a country.
If the sales do not go much higher during this time - then they should just keep the store closed for the day.
a resident of University South
on Aug 27, 2007 at 2:06 pm
If you were interested in shopping there, what is the problem?
If you're saving 50%, is it a requirement that people treat you nicely?
What are your priorities, saving money or being treated nicely?
a resident of University South
on Aug 27, 2007 at 3:12 pm
The store is Shaska and don't think you're the only one who had a bad experience. It's gotten a bad rep among other people, I'm amazed it's still in business.
a resident of Stanford
on Aug 27, 2007 at 6:26 pm
The owner is a prickly woman; I've been in the store a few times and it's always been a very uncomfortable experience due to her demeanor and attitude. I now refrain from going there because I would rather not interact with her, though I have found some nice things there on the occasions that I've entered to shop.
a resident of Barron Park
on Aug 28, 2007 at 2:54 am
This reminds me of going into a store in Los Altos awhile back. I had picked out a bunch of things and taken them to the counter (I was spiffing up the living room, long overdue), and the apparent owner had me standing around interminably as she chatted with a friend on the phone. A couple of minutes I could have understood, or if it was a serious conversation. Finally I left and never returned. It must be nice to be in business and not care if you make sales or not.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Aug 28, 2007 at 9:39 am
The store does not deserve to be in business.
If you don't want customers coming in during a fair, then close your doors to everyone.
I would think that a fair, bringing in new potential customers, would be a great way to showcase your garbage.
a resident of University South
on Aug 29, 2007 at 11:52 am
Some people run a store for self-satisfaction, not money.
a resident of Midtown
on Aug 29, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Katie says "I can't believe that Palo Alto would allow this store to reside downtown. "
I can't believe Katie is so naive and self centered, she writes to the world because, O, the horror of it! she met a rude shopkeeper. The city should come to the rescue! Call
911, someone!!
The lady doesn't want hundreds of people trooping through her store because they will likely spoil some of the merchandise. If you watch some women in stores, they mess up the piles of neatly folded items and leave the place as though a tornado went through it. The crowds at a fair sometimes mess up the merchandise, and sometimes, o, the horror! they even steal when no one is looking.
So this would make a good story at the dinner table or talking to friends, but I don't think we need to call in the army just yet.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Aug 30, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Chris: You are 100% correct. Long story short, I and two others in my book club were having a conversation about terrible customer service in MP and PA. When one store came up in Downtown MP, the other said, "Oh, that's Atherton." Because she used "Atherton" as a noun, I asked her what she meant. She replied, "Atherton is a store that is run without concern of profit. They, most likely residents of Atherton, operate solely to give the owners something to do." She, as a next door neighbor of one store owner, knows first hand what the purpose of a few stores in Downtown MP are for.
Wouldn't you know it? The two stores she mentioned had the worst customer service that I have ever experienced. All of us do not patronize those stores.
Now, on to this topic... I **SERIOUSLY** doubt that the store in this topic is an "Atherton" store. I must say that ANY store, whether for profit or indifferent to profit, has the duty to put customers first. Owning and operating a store is not without risk! Every store, from Wal-Mart on down, experiences theft, people messing up neat piles, and whatever. It is part of doing business. Unless you are an invitation only store, you should not treat people like you are doing them a favor by owning the store.
It has been a long standing fantasy of mine to have people compare notes on customer service and actively boycott bad stores. Maybe it is just me, but if someone is giving you money (or might), then you cater to them. Not the other way around.
O the horror: You are taking this too far. No one is calling 911. It is not a crime to have bad customer service (I wish that weren't the case though). I have absolutely NO sympathy for stores that end up with "messy piles" because that is what comes with the territory. Sure, some people are slobs and don't care about anything. Some have decencies.
While this is probably not going to happen, PA and MP should evaluate the performance of these types of stores as they, unfortunately, represent the sum and not just themselves. It looks bad if store owners are the types mentioned above.
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on Sep 6, 2007 at 11:21 am
I saw this store last week. There is a sign on it with a phone number to make an appointment to shop there. She should just close her store if she doesn't want the walk-in business. Or board up the windows, perhaps? Maybe move it to Hamilton or somwhere with less foot traffic. After all, University is such a great, high-profile place for business, why ever would she want to have her store there?


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The pastels, those big pastels that I make, are very monumental. And they have a dryness. The material is pressed into the paper over and over and over again. Behind glass, they're blurred, they're indistinct. They have a physicality, but they have the physicality of powder … or chalk, whereas the paintings are shiny, inherently shiny. In other words a pastel doesn't really have a skin. It's full of air. You know, a pastel, one doesn't get the sense with a pastel that it has an outer skin, that it has a beginning and an end. It seems, well, it's powder, so one is chasing its outer and inner extremities when one's looking at it, because you don't really know where it starts and where it ends. But with the skin of oil paint, you do.
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The United States plans to expand military cooperation with Poland and Baltic states to show "support" for its allies after Russia's intervention in Ukraine, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel said Wednesday.
"This morning the Defense Department is pursuing measures to support our allies," including expanded aviation training in Poland and increasing the US role in NATO's air policing mission over Baltic countries, Hagel told lawmakers…
"This is a time for wise, steady, and firm leadership," Hagel told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Privately, Western diplomats in Kiev have admitted throughout Ukraine's crisis that the Kremlin is a big black blot on their map. Russia's ambassador, Mikhail Zurabov, makes a point of refusing to speak to them. Senior U.S. officials worry their Russian counterparts are not really the ones deciding policy. (Russian officials who spoke to Kommersant Vlast magazine for a recent deep-dive on Ukraine policy all nodded at the ceiling and said, "Everything was decided up there.")…
It's all part of the rules of the game. And Putin knows that game very well. He never had a reason to believe otherwise: All the Western criticism of his human rights record didn't — and still, judging by their foot-dragging on sanctions, hasn't — stop European governments from looking the other way as Russia's corrupt cash passes through their capitals. Putin cracked their secret: Say one thing while doing another, and change your tack whenever you feel like it. The symmetry's deliberate; there's even a term for it, "whataboutism."…
Putin has got the upper hand in Ukraine precisely because he treats it as a show. If the threat isn't serious, then making it doesn't entail any risk: You know all too well your opponent won't up the stakes with something real. Invade a neighboring country, and what happens? The U.S. withdraws its Paralympic Games delegation. Britain insists any banking sanctions don't bar Russian access to London's banks. Merkel pushes for an OSCE mission. None of that is going to keep the lights on late in the Kremlin.
But more recently global convergence appears to have ground to a halt, and nowhere more so than in the mind of Vladimir Putin. The Russian president's blitzkrieg occupation of Crimea was hardly an isolated act. Rather it should be seen as part of a long-term effort by Putin to resurrect Russia's cultural and political dominance in the former Soviet sphere, even as he has gradually turned himself into a quasi-czar/Soviet-style ruler and subverted Russian democracy. Putin's brazen bid to buy off ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and induce him to join a "Eurasian Economic Union" including Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan—based on what Putin called "the best values of the Soviet Union"—may have been politically motivated, but it was largely justified on cultural grounds.
The Russian leader and the conservatives he surrounds himself in the Kremlin have long sought to promote the reconstitution of Russian power based on the idea that many of these countries with large Russian-speaking populations, including the breakaway Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia (now under Moscow's control), are part of a distinctive Eurasian culture that is different from the West on many levels, including spiritually. "We should not be shy when bringing back the ideas of ethnic unity," Putin's protégé, former Russian President Dimitri Medvedev, said in 2011 as they laid plans for the Eurasian union. These views have deep roots in Russian academic literature, playing out in debates over concepts such as "Neo-Eurasianism" and "Byzantism," whose unifying theme is a rejection of Western values…
U.S. presidents, both Democratic and Republican, have also naively tended to see Putin as someone who believes that Russia's fundamental interests lie in global integration, democracy and capitalism. But based on his rhetoric and actions since he first rose to national power in 1999, Putin appears to believe that Russia is engaged in if not quite a new Cold War, then a civilizational as well as geopolitical struggle with the Western powers. He has made a mockery of Western-style democracy, and he has done little to transform or integrate Russia's economy, despite what should have been a world-class tech sector stemming from Russia's defense and science prowess. Indeed, it is striking that while China and the U.S. have grown far more financially and economically interdependent, Putin's Russia is still trying to exert old-style geopolitical influence as a "natural-resources superpower."
Let's start with Putin. Any man who actually believes, as Putin has said, that the breakup of the Soviet Union was "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century is caught up in a dangerous fantasy that can't end well for him or his people. The Soviet Union died because Communism could not provide rising standards of living, and its collapse actually unleashed boundless human energy all across Eastern Europe and Russia. A wise Putin would have redesigned Russia so its vast human talent could take advantage of all that energy. He would be fighting today to get Russia into the European Union, not to keep Ukraine out. But that is not who Putin is and never will be. He is guilty of the soft bigotry of low expectations toward his people and prefers to turn Russia into a mafia-run petro-state — all the better to steal from…
What disturbs me about Crimea is the larger trend it fits into, that Putinism used to just be a threat to Russia but is now becoming a threat to global stability. I opposed expanding NATO toward Russia after the Cold War, when Russia was at its most democratic and least threatening. It remains one of the dumbest things we've ever done and, of course, laid the groundwork for Putin's rise…
For a long time, Putin has exploited the humiliation and anti-Western attitudes NATO expansion triggered to gain popularity, but this seems to have become so fundamental to his domestic politics that it has locked him into a zero-sum relationship with the West that makes it hard to see how we collaborate with him in more serious trouble spots, like Syria or Iran. President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is engaged in monstrous, genocidal behavior that also threatens the stability of the Middle East. But Putin stands by him. At least half the people of Ukraine long to be part of Europe, but he treated that understandable desire as a NATO plot and quickly resorted to force.
Just as Putin is not as much in command as many Western hawks suppose, Russia is not as great a power as Putin himself likes to project. It's at best a regional power, with no global reach. Even his incursion into Crimea is hardly an imperial gesture. Leonid Brezhnev sent five tank divisions into Czechoslovakia. (Now that was aggression!) U.S. military advisers estimate that the Russian army could invade eastern Ukraine if Putin so ordered, but they say it's much less clear how long they could sustain an occupation, especially with even sporadic insurgent resistance.
Obama's policy of "resetting" relations with Russia rested on two premises. First, the United States and Russia had a lot of common interests, so it would be good to solve problems and meet challenges together. Second, Putin's predecessor, Dmitry Medvedev, seemed more a more willing partner. They did accomplish a fair amount for a while. But now it's not working much at all. Russia plays a limited role, at best, in the various hot spots the United States is facing. Yes, it's helping to rid Syria of chemical weapons, but that's very much in Russia's interest; Putin would be doing that regardless of broader relations. Russia also helped carve the initial P5+1 talks to limit Iran's nuclear program, but Iran's main motive in continuing the talks is access to American and European economies, not Russia's.
So, given that Russia isn't helping out much in the world anyway, the best way to impose "costs" and "consequences" on Putin's behavior is to ignore him.
Let's have some perspective. Putin may look decisive and bold enough to play skins in world politics. But Russia is acting out of weakness. The breakup of the Soviet Union saw the Kremlin's dominion shrink, and despite promises to the contrary by George H.W. Bush, NATO has expanded closer and closer to Russia's borders.
Having lost important influence over Kiev's government, it has taken a provocative gamble in occupying Crimea. Perhaps Putin wants to make sure that his own interests and the interests of Russian speakers in Ukraine are taken seriously by the new government. Or maybe he has written off that hope and is settling for an annexation to preserve access to the Black Sea, with a dash of intimidation for good measure. Perhaps he simply saw an oncoming regional disaster for his own interests and acted hastily. In that case, Obama should take Jacob Heilbrunn's advice and offer Putin opportunities to back off.
But the political class in America should remember that Moscow is mostly a symbolic foil in world affairs, not a great geostrategic foe. America's political class should stop ducking under its desks and wailing for some kind of symbolic action or rebuke to soothe the nerves. It's unnecessary. The Kremlin used to compete with the free world for entire continents — now it is reduced to an embarrassing grab at Crimea. An aggressive U.S. response over a sliver of Ukraine would not be meeting Putin's strength with our strength, but matching his desperate anxiety with our own.
Obama's critics contend that he's not Ronald Reagan, but Reagan, as eager as he was to speak to the moral failings of communism, treated the Soviet Union with more nuance than his ideological hagiographers would suggest. Indeed, by the end of 1983, Reagan grew skeptical of those advisers who urged him to treat Soviet leaders as belligerents, as if they were routinely and only deceiving him — which is to say, not to deal with them directly at all — and instead recognized that in order to advance the cause of nuclear disarmament, he would have to acknowledge that the Soviets had legitimate interests and that those interests had to be recognized…
After Able Archer, Reagan wrote in his diary that "I feel the Soviets are so defense minded, so paranoid about being attacked that, without in any way being soft on them, we ought to tell them that no one here has any intention of doing that."
Within weeks, he had consolidated control of the nuclear portfolio into the White House, and out of the Pentagon. Reagan would never labor under the illusion that the Soviet leaders were telling him the full truth. It confounded him, for example, that Gorbachev would deny the existence of a Soviet strategic missile defense program, even though the U.S. was observing its testing from the skies. But he looked beyond that. He found a way to talk, to negotiate, with people intent on deceiving him. Obama admires Reagan for thinking beyond his present moment. Here is a chance for him to do the same.
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No luck today..got my bodywork all done but confused on if I can use another brands activator or not.I did shoot a
Abother test panel I keep getting these imperfections that look like dust or dirt specs but there not&when I wet sand it makes it really dull.Any ideas?&I'm running
a big torpedo heater but cutting off before I shoot.
Impossible to say without good pics.
Tryd taking pics but it dosnt seem to show up in pics
If they are tiny bubbles, it could be water/contamination in the air supply or solvent pop. You should be using FAST activators/reducers in these less than ideal conditions.
Experts please correct if that is bad info...
As far as your "dust or dirt specs" issue, it's hard to tell you what it is without seeing it. It could be dirt or dust, your conditions aren't optimal for a dust free paint job. It wouldn't be solvent popping, to cool for that. I'm not sure I understand when you say you wet sand it and it makes it really dull??? It should make it really dull, you need to polish it after it's wet sanded.
I do quite a bit of the cold weather painting and you really should use the fastest reducer you can get for that paint. The one "good" thing I can say about painting in the cold is there are NO bugs. I don't care how well I seal everything off, there are always bugs landing somewhere on the work. Not so bad for the sealer or base, but your really in trouble when they start landing in the clear. So for that reason I try not to spray in the warmer months. And like I said before you really need to push the flash times longer in the cold than you would normally. Especially with a S/S paint, that will take longer to flash than a base coat would even in the cold weather. I don't know how long that particular brand calls for flash times, but I myself go double if not triple on those times, according to just how cold it may be.
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Excellent info there. Thanks mr.4speed. I ordered paint for a project Im working on tonight, and will be spraying in a few weeks... I was on the fence about using medium or fast reducers/activators... decided on the fast even though I am in a garage that is somewhat heated.
Thanks for your insight/ experience with this
Andy, what is the temperature when your painting?
It will not be above 70 degrees thats for sure... They are calling for low 50s this week as the high...and its going to get colder... I have a reddy heater, but that gets shut off when the paint starts flying.
I had good luck this weekend with my epoxy primer
OK, are you using fast in your base and your clear? And what is the cost of a gallon of reducer for the clear your using?
Ok...so this is what is going on pic #1 is the current issue which its hard to tell from a few feet away you can't even tell but its there.
#2 same pane just with no flash on the camera
#3 this though also gray a totally different type of paint.I know this was all botched up...it was my first time trying it ,was supposed to be a ss metallic that I put on way too fast over reduced&didn't wait long enough between coats.The reason I'm posting this is the marks kind of look like this but a lot more settle not as much like orange peel can't really find the words that Im looking for so Ill just say a lot less noticeable.It looks like a cross between solvent pop&fisheyes. What I have going on now that is
1)Do you or has anyone in contact with the vehicle ever use a product like Armorall on the outside or the interior of the vehicle?
2)Is there any loose products in your booth like WD 40, oil, turtle wax, that type of thing?
3) What do you use to wipe the vehicle down with before painting, what type of rags, wax and grease remover, or a mineral spirit designed for wiping it down?
4) It's cold outside, when you bring the vehicle into the booth, how long do you wait before painting, is the metal on the body at spraying temperature?
5) Is there anything outside the booth that resembles products in question 2 and 3. You mentioned you where in a shop...what do they do in this shop?
6) When you say"it happens as it clears" do you mean that it happens when the over spray gets sucked out of your booth?
7) What do you use to clean your gun with?
8) When you suck out the over spray your removing air from you painting area, what part of the shop is the fresh air coming into the booth coming from...(Oil change bay, detail bay, car wash bay...what do they do beside your booth)?
I know these questions sound stupid and simple, but usually the solution is just as bizare. I should ask more questions and will as I get answers to these. Bare with me and we should be able to come to a workable solution
This is a start, please answer these questions and I'll try real hard to get to the bottom of this situation for you...If it is fish eyes and the more information you give me, the more it sounds like fish eyes are one of the biggest PITA's in the painting world..but let's beat this thing. Depending on how you answer these questions, I will have more questions. I'm sorry my man...one of the joys of painting, don't think it's just you, every painter worth his salt has gone though it and I'll try and help.
I'll wait for your response.
Hey there I was In the process off posting this but Ill paste it&add to it&it should give some more insite......
also before I forget..I had a brand new fiberglass hood I painted with the same gun same temp conditions etc the thing came fresh out the box&I just shot it as a test no prep work came out flawless with a nice gloss&could see my reflection..then I had a fender that I sanded to bare metal&that although of course you could still see the sand marks..didn't have the paint flaws The test hood I used I did only use 1 coat of primer&1 coat of paint.The single coat of paint leads me to believe it isn't solvent pop.I'm leaning towards a combination of bad prep work,not the correct activator&or over reducing.I'm pretty sure the over reducing is a big part of it because When I had this issue in the past I just kept adding more reducer trying to get it wetter.Also I'm thinking maybe to much..I'm not going fast@all it seems when I go fast I get my worst results its hard to explain my speed Id say I'm going pretty slow overtime I speed up I get major orange peel.I know its all trial&error but these little spots are killing me!
Ok let me try to answer a few questions.Now I've gotten this effect with guns fresh out the box or old guns I clean with nason reducer.Its happened on all different panels.When I had the issue in the summer it was in the 90s.So with the same issue while cold I'm thinking temp is playing a big roll.All the panels had been sitting in the shop for months&I had heated the shop for a few hours.When I say shop I mean my home shop.Its a detached 24x36 metal building sheeted with sob&insulated with foam board.I work on my project cars&bikes down here that's all nothing exposed that shouldn't be.The building is well ventilated it has a pitched roof almost like a lean to starts@7 ft & runs to 12 I'm working I'm the 7-10 ft section&above my head is the foam board which has 1x2s securing it to the peeling that are on the other side of the foam& below the metal.This issue has happened when painting inside or out.I even used a booth for a day @ a friend of a friends&had same issue.There not really like craters as there's no hole in the middle of em. It &this is gonna sound stupid looks like if you fell asleep on the carpet&it left indentations on your skin.
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