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Formerly called
|Aerospace and defense
|as OKB-51, 1939
|Moscow, Russia
Key people
|Pavel Sukhoi, founder
|Military aircraft
Civil airliners
|₽47.8 billion (2011)[1]
|₽7 billion (2011)[1]
|₽5.2 billion (2011)[1]
Number of employees
|26,177 (2011)[1]
|United Aircraft Corporation
Sukhoi Company (JSC; Russian: ПАО «Компания "Сухой"») is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow,[2] and designs both civilian and military aircraft. It was founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKB-51, design office prefix Su).
Company history[edit]
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, each of the multitude of bureaus and factories producing Sukhoi components was privatized independently. In 1996, the government re-gathered the major part of them forming Sukhoi Aviation Military Industrial Combine (Sukhoi AIMC).[3] In parallel, other entities, including Ulan Ude factory, Tbilisi factory, Belarus and Ukraine factories, established alternate transnational Sukhoi Attack Aircraft (producing e.g. Su-25 TM).[3]
The Sukhoi AIMC comprises the JSC Sukhoi Design Bureau located in Moscow, the Novosibirsk Aviation Production Association (NAPO), the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association (KnAAPO) and Irkutsk Aviation. Sukhoi is headquartered in Moscow. Finmeccanica (since 2016, Leonardo-Finmeccanica) owns 25% + 1 share of Sukhoi's civil division.[4] The Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.[5] Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit.[6]
Sukhoi is also working on what is to be Russia's fifth-generation stealth fighter, the Sukhoi PAK FA. The maiden flight took place on the 29 January 2010.[7]
Sukhoi's Su-24, Su-25, Su-27, Su-30, Su-34, Su-35 and shipborne Su-33 aircraft are in service with the Russian Air Force and Navy as well as foreign armies. The Su-25 is the oldest Sukhoi still in production. Sukhoi attack and fighter aircraft have been supplied to Armenia, India, China, Poland, the Czech Republic, Iraq, Slovakia, Hungary, Georgia, East Germany, Syria, North Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Iran, Angola, Ethiopia, Peru, Eritrea, and Indonesia. Venezuela signed contracts for the purchase of 30 Su-30 fighter jets in July 2006. More than 2,000 Sukhoi aircraft were supplied to foreign countries on export contracts. With its Su-26, Su-29 and Su-31 models Sukhoi is also a manufacturer of aerobatic aircraft.[original research?]
U.S. sanctions[edit]
On August 4, 2006, the U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on Sukhoi for allegedly supplying Iran in violation of the United States Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000. Sukhoi was prohibited from doing business with the United States Federal Government.[8] In November 2006, the U.S. State Department reversed its sanctions against Sukhoi.[9]
Civilian aircraft[edit]
In September 2007, Sukhoi launched its first modern commercial regional airliner—the Superjet 100, a 78 to 98 seater, built by Sukhoi. It was unveiled at Komsomolsk-on-Amur.[10] The maiden flight was made on May 19, 2008.[11]
Production aircraft[edit]
- Su-2: 1937, light bomber aircraft
- Su-7: 1959, "Fitter A", ground-attack aircraft
- Su-9: 1959, "Fitter B", interceptor fighter aircraft (nearly identical to the MiG-21 in appearance)
- Su-11: 1964, "Fitter C", interceptor fighter aircraft
- Su-15: 1965, "Flagon", interceptor fighter aircraft
- Su-17/Su-20/Su-22: 1970, "Fitter D" variable-wing ground-attack aircraft
- Su-24: 1970, "Fencer", jet bomber, variable-wing attack aircraft
- Su-25: 1975, "Frogfoot", ground attack aircraft
- Su-26: 1984, single seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
- Su-27: 1977, "Flanker", air superiority fighter
- Su-29: 1991, double seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
- Su-30: 1993, "Flanker C", multi-role strike fighter aircraft
- Su-31: 1992, single seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
- Su-33: 1987, "Flanker D", carrier-based multi-role fighter aircraft
- Su-34/Su-32: 2006, "Platypus", Strike-fighter aircraft
- Su-27M/Su-35: 1995, "Flanker E", air superiority fighter aircraft
- Su-35BM: 4++ generation multi-role fighter aircraft
- Su-80: a twin-turboprop STOL transport aircraft
- Superjet 100: 2008, regional jet
Polish Air Force Su-22UM-3K (export version of the Su-17) at RIAT 2010
Superjet 100 RJ
Experimental aircraft[edit]
- Su-1/I-330: 1940, high-altitude fighter
- Su-3/I-360: 1942, improved Su-1
- Su-5/I-107: jet-propeller fighter
- Su-6: 1942, ground attack aircraft
- Su-8/DDBSh: 1943, ground attack aircraft
- Su-9: jet fighter
- Su-10: jet bomber
- Su-12: observation plane (1947)
- Su-15: interceptor fighter
- Su-17: fighter
- Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21: a supersonic business jet design.
- Sukhoi KR-860: doubledeck superjumbo jet design.[12]
- Su-37 ("Terminator"): an improved Su-35
- Su-28/Su-25UB: trainer and demonstrator
- Su-25TM/Su-39: 1984, ground attack aircraft, optimised for anti-tank use
- Su-38: light agricultural aircraft
- S-32/37: multirole fighter (was marketed for a time under the designation Su-47)
- Su-47: experimental aircraft
- P-1: 1958, interceptor fighter
- T-3: 1956, fighter
- T-4/100: 1972, supersonic bomber, similar in concept to XB-70 Valkyrie, which was developed by Sukhoi during the 1960s and 1970s.
- T-60S: intermediate range bomber.
- Sukhoi T-50/PAK FA: fifth generation fighter. Basic future aircraft of Russian Frontline Aviation. Maiden flight January 29, 2010.[13]
- Sukhoi/HAL FGFA: FGFA is a derivative project from the PAK FA being developed by the Sukhoi OKB and HAL for the Indian Air Force (FGFA is the official designation for the Indian version).
Planned aircraft[edit]
Note: The Sukhoi OKB has reused aircraft designations, for example: the Su-9 from 1946 and the later Su-9 from 1956, the former was not produced in quantity. Sukhoi prototype designations are based on wing layout planform. Straight and swept wings are assigned the "S" prefix, while delta winged designs(including tailed-delta) have "T" for a designation prefix.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles[edit]
- Sukhoi Zond-1
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Sukhoi annual financial 2011 report (in Russian)" (PDF). Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^ "Contacts : Sukhoi Company (JSC)." Sukhoi. Retrieved on 17 December 2010. "23B, Polikarpov str., Moscow, 125284, Russia, p/b 604." (Direct link to map) – Address in Russian: "125284, Россия, Москва, ул. Поликарпова д. 23Б, а/я 604" (Direct link to Russian map)
- ^ a b Austin, Greg (2000-07-14). The Armed Forces of Russia in Asia. pp. 291–292. ISBN 9781860644856.
- ^ "Finmeccanica Will Buy 25% of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft." Bloomberg.com. February 21, 2006.
- ^ "Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger". The New York Times. February 22, 2006.
- ^ Su-35 "In Parallel" With PAK-FA Archived March 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Venäjällä esiteltiin uusi hävittäjäkone | Ulkomaat | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi
- ^ "Russia slams U.S. sanctions on Russian arms companies". People's Daily Online. 2006-08-05.
- ^ US lifts sanctions on jet maker Sukhoi – World – GMA News Online – Latest Philippine News
- ^ Reuters, PREVIEW-Russia eyes new aviation glory with Superjet
- ^ Russian News and Information Agency
- ^ KR-860 Ultraheavy transport and passenger aircraft.
- ^ Russian fifth-generation fighter jet takes to the air. Retrieved: 12 July 2011.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sukhoi.
- Company website (English)
- www.sukhoi.ru—Other sources
- Sukhoi pages—Russian Aviation Museum
- Опытно-конструкторское бюро Сухого @biograph.ru (Russian)
- "Russian plane firm challenges West" by Jorn Madslien, BBC News


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Obtaining Folder Objects from Folder Paths in Outlook 2007
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Summary: Create an add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to navigate Outlook folders and find folders that contain specified data.
Applies to: 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Second Edition
Ken Getz, MCW Technologies, LLC
September 2007
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Imagine that in your organization, you know that all users have a folder in their Inbox folder named Customers, and in the Customers folder is a folder named Archive. You want to navigate to that folder, and if it exists, display it in a new window.
In this example, you create a Microsoft Office Fluent Ribbon customization that adds a button that is available when you are viewing a contact. By clicking the button, you can navigate to the Inbox\Customers\Archive folder and display the folder contents, if it exists. This particular location for the button is arbitrary, but it allows you to test the sample code. To demonstrate the technique, follow these steps.
To create Ribbon customization that adds a button
In Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, create a Visual Studio 2005 Second Edition add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Name the new project ObtainFolderObjectAddIn.
In Solution Explorer, right-click the project.
On the shortcut menu, click Add, and then click New Item.
In the Add New Item dialog box, click Ribbon support.
Click Add to insert the new Ribbon customization.
Modify the new Ribbon1.xml file, replacing the existing content with the following XML.
<customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui" onLoad="OnLoad"> <ribbon> <tabs> <tab idMso="TabAddIns"> <group id="MyGroup" label="How To"> <button id="button1" label="Display Customers" screentip="Switch to Inbox\Customers Folder" onAction="OnClick" /> </group> </tab> </tabs> </ribbon> </customUI>
In Solution Explorer, right-click the ObtainFolderObject project.
On the shortcut menu, click Properties.
In the Properties pane, click the Resources tab.
In Solution Explorer, drag the Ribbon1.xml file into the Properties pane.
This action adds the Ribbon1.xml file as a project resource.
Close the Properties pane, clicking Yes when prompted to save.
In the Ribbon1.vb or Ribbon1.cs file, uncomment the ThisAddIn partial class.
In Microsoft Visual C# only, at the top of the code file, add the following using statement.
In the Ribbon1 class, modify the existing GetCustomUI implementation so that it retrieves the Ribbon1 resource, and returns only the resource if the current ribbonID value is Microsoft.Outlook.Contact. In Visual C#, you must expand the IRibbonExtensibility members code region to find the procedure.
Public Function GetCustomUI(ByVal ribbonID As String) As String _ Implements Office.IRibbonExtensibility.GetCustomUI If ribbonID = "Microsoft.Outlook.Contact" Then Return My.Resources.Ribbon1 Else Return String.Empty End If End Function
In the Ribbon1 class, add the following declaration, making it simpler to refer to the Outlook Application object.
In the Ribbon1 class, add the following callback procedure. Clicking the new button on the Ribbon calls this procedure.
Save the project, and run it. In Outlook 2007, create a contact. On the Ribbon, click the Add-Ins tab, and verify that you see the new button on the ribbon. Close Outlook when you finish, returning to Visual Studio 2005.
Run Outlook 2007, and browse to your Inbox folder.
If it does not already exist, add a new subfolder named Customers.
In the Customers folder, create a subfolder named Archive. If you like, copy some e-mail messages into this folder.
Quit Outlook 2007 when you finish.
In the Ribbon1 class, add the following procedure.
Private Function GetFolder( _ ByVal folderPath As String) As Outlook.Folder Dim returnFolder As Outlook.Folder = Nothing Try ' Remove leading "\" characters. folderPath = folderPath.TrimStart("\".ToCharArray()) ' Split the folder path into individual folder names. Dim folders As String() = folderPath.Split("\".ToCharArray()) ' Retrieve a reference to the root folder. returnFolder = _ TryCast(Application.Session.Folders(folders(0)), _ Outlook.Folder) ' If the root folder exists, look in subfolders. If returnFolder IsNot Nothing Then Dim subFolders As Outlook.Folders = Nothing Dim folderName As String ' Look through folder names, skipping the first folder, ' which you already retrieved. For i As Integer = 1 To folders.Length - 1 folderName = folders(i) subFolders = returnFolder.Folders returnFolder = _ TryCast(subFolders(folderName), Outlook.Folder) Next End If Catch ' Do nothing at all -- just return a null reference. returnFolder = Nothing End Try Return returnFolder End Function
private Outlook.Folder GetFolder(string folderPath) { Outlook.Folder returnFolder = null; try { // Remove leading "\" characters. folderPath = folderPath.TrimStart("\\".ToCharArray()); // Split the folder path into individual folder names. String[] folders = folderPath.Split("\\".ToCharArray()); // Retrieve a reference to the root folder. returnFolder = Application.Session.Folders[folders[0]] as Outlook.Folder; // If the root folder exists, look in subfolders. if (returnFolder != null) { Outlook.Folders subFolders = null; String folderName; // Look through folder names, skipping the first // folder, which you already retrieved. for (int i = 1; i < folders.Length; i++) { folderName = folders[i]; subFolders = returnFolder.Folders; returnFolder = subFolders[folderName] as Outlook.Folder; } } } catch { // Do nothing at all -- just return a null reference. returnFolder = null; } return returnFolder; }
This procedure takes the full path you send, in the form Mailbox—Your Name\Inbox\Customers\Archive, and splits the path into individual folder names. It attempts to locate the root folder, Mailbox—Your Name, and, if it succeeds, loops through all the remaining folder names, each time retrieving a reference to the corresponding folder, until it runs out of names. If it successfully reaches the last folder name, it returns the corresponding Outlook.Folder object.
To modify the existing OnClick procedure
Modify the existing OnClick procedure, so that it retrieves a reference to a root folder, passes the full path to the GetFolder procedure, and then displays the selected folder, if it is found.
Public Sub OnClick(ByVal control As Office.IRibbonControl) ' Retrieve the name of the top-level folder, for ' the purposes of this demonstration. Dim inbox As Outlook.Folder = _ TryCast(Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder( _ Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox), Outlook.Folder) ' Retrieve a reference to the top-level ' folder. The GetFolder method expects to ' start at the top level, so you need ' this information. If inbox IsNot Nothing Then Dim parent As Outlook.Folder = _ TryCast(inbox.Parent, Outlook.Folder) If parent IsNot Nothing Then Dim folder As Outlook.Folder = _ GetFolder(parent.Name & "\Inbox\Customers\Archive") If folder IsNot Nothing Then folder.Display() End If End If End If End Sub
public void OnClick(Office.IRibbonControl control) { // Retrieve the name of the top-level folder, for // the purposes of this demonstration. Outlook.Folder inbox = Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder( Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox) as Outlook.Folder; // Retrieve a reference to the top-level // folder. The GetFolder method expects to // start at the top level, so you need // this information. if (inbox != null) { Outlook.Folder parent = inbox.Parent as Outlook.Folder; if (parent != null) { Outlook.Folder folder = GetFolder(parent.Name + @"\Inbox\Customers\Archive"); if (folder != null) { folder.Display(); } } } }
Save your project, and press F5 to run it.
To edit an existing contact (or create one), on the Ribbon, click Add-Ins, and then click the new button.
If you built the add-in correctly, you can see the Inbox\Customers\Archive folder displayed in a new window.
The Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 object model provides several different ways to find a particular folder. If you are looking for the default folder of any particular type, such as Inbox or Contacts, you can use the Application.Session.GetFolder method, passing in one of the OlDefaultFolders enumerated values (as shown in the OnClick procedure in this article). If you are looking for a subfolder, you can retrieve a reference to the top-level folder, and use its Folders property to retrieve a specific subfolder (as shown in the GetFolder procedure in this article). If you know the EntryID or the StoreID value for a specific folder, you can call the Application.Session.GetFolderFromID method, although this method exists only to ease the transition between MAPI and Outlook, and is not as useful as the technique presented in this article for finding folders.
In this example, because the input to the GetFolder method is a string containing a full path, the code must attempt to locate each subfolder by name. Given a full path such as Mailbox—Your Name\Inbox\Customers\Archive, the example loops through the parsed folder names at each level by using the Folders property of an Outlook.Folder object to retrieve a reference to the subfolders. Because Outlook can index into its folders by name, at each level, the code attempts to retrieve a reference to the requested folder, given its name parsed from the full path. This solution relies on string parsing to find the path you need.

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The Man Who Will be President.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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This election is not about the woman who could be president, it's about the man who will be president. It's time to put down the fear.


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Sarah Palin's sparkling, new high-end $150,000 wardrobe, purchased recently on a "campaign accessories" shopping spree, is the currently topic du jour for nearly every blog, newspaper, TV news show, etc. etc. Maybe your grandmother called to tell you about it? Maybe you saw a plane fly overhead and write it in the sky this morning? Maybe your dog barked it out to you in Morse code?
MYTH BUSTING15 years agoOctober 22, 1993 | Cecil Adams, of the Straight Dope, answered a reader's question.Since you seem to know everything, just what is 'tantric sex,' anyway?Tina S.Montreal
"Cecil has been deeply studying this question, as is only fitting. His reference sources include many learned texts on Eastern religion plus, naturally, Cosmopolitan magazine.
Ladies: in case you've ever watched those ridiculously annoying tampon commercials, and wondered WTF was up with the obnoxiously happy women with their periods salsa dancing and kickboxing, and what is that blue liquid they always use, Sarah Haskins can commiserate. Haskins, a former improv actress who went to Harvard (so that makes her kinda, sorta affiliated with Boston), writes for a show called infoMania, on the Al Gore-helmed indie media company Current TV, and she's got a regular segment called Target:Women
In case you forgot, Tina Fey does something other than impersonate Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. She writes, produces, and stars in a show called 30 Rock, and it's really good. You should watch it. The third season is about to premiere. Actually, it's premiered already on the internet, and legally at that.
The short film that just induced fits of uncontrollable laughter and disbelief was made sometime in the late 1950s or early '60s. The singer was the late Joi Lansing (39 - 23 - 35), a stereotypical '50s blonde bombshell, who appears in quite a few little pre-MTV music productions such as this. Her supporting players were, presumably, random members of the catering staff and a couple of extras waiting around for their walk-on in a Roger Corman movie.
On December 15, the City of Boston
will honor comedian Steven Wright will be honored as the first inductee into the Boston Comedy
Hall of Fame.
"It was a unanimous choice," says City Councilor John Tobin of the
City's decision to make Wright the inaugural honoree. "He showed another path
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been said over and over again this long campaign season: despite its myriad and
manifest problems, America
these days is still — hopefully always will be — a place to which people the
world over long to come, a nation where the new arrival will have a fair shake
at a better life.
The Jews are not enough!
With the battle for the Swing States still in full, well, swing, it's imperative that the presidential candidates do whatever they can to try and influence voters in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida, and do it quickly.
The recent Great Schlep (the Sarah Silverman-endorsed initiative to encourage
young Jewish people to travel down to Florida and convince their grandparents to
vote for Barack Obama) was one of the more creative ways that Barack Obama's supporters have conjured to try and garner votes and media attention.
When friends from the ICA phoned on Monday to alert me to the fact that Shepard Fairey was going to be wheatpasting in Harvard Square like, right then, the boss handed me a camera, and I dashed over there. Fairey's got an exhibit going up at the ICA in February, and - let's face it - a press release just can't be the right way to spread the word for the former Andre the Giant posse-founding, Providence skater kid turned Obama-poster-designing street art luminary.
If it seems like
I was just yesterday commending The Boston Globe for its coverage of ballot
Question 2 concerning marijuana decriminalization; it's because I was. Indeed,
this past Monday reporter David Abel penned a news piece that evidenced how
ill-reasoned the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association (MDAA) is in its crusade
against the Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy (CSMP)
After spinning such gritty urban yarns as Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, and some cracking episodes of The Wire, Dorchester native Dennis Lehane decided to go ahead and not write the great American novel (he claims), but a great, sprawling Boston novel instead.
In The Given Day,
Lehane surveys the vortex of chaos that gripped 1919-era Boston -- a
city rocked by anarchist terrorism, Spanish influenza, World War I, the
Great Molasses Flood, and the Boston Police Strike --
through the eyes of a black ballplayer and an Irish cop.
Middlesex County DA Gerry Leone told The Globe that he only "tried pot once," but it looks like he at least remembers how to inhale
Regular Phoenix readers already know how I feel about Massachusetts Ballot Question 2, which, if passed, would decriminalize the penalty for less than one ounce of marijuana to a civil fine of $100.
On Friday, we blogged about how born-to-lose presidential hopeful John McCain's irresponsible remarks about the community-organizing group ACORN's voter-registration efforts had attracted vandalism and insult at ACORN offices across the country.
This morning, we received an unsettling email pass-along that demonstrates just how far down the cultural sewer those GOP campaign barbs were listened to.
A soft adieu to the man who judges celebrities' outfits so we don't have to. I can only imagine what the mourning couture will look like at his funeral.
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My 18 year old is working in the landscaping business this summer. He's in the hot sun all day, and so I worry. I'm less concerned though, than I might be because I have homeopathy. And so does he. Every morning he makes a homeopathic electrolyte concoction that he carries with him on the job. Water just isn't enough in temperatures in the 90's.
Here's what Peter drinks all day. I recommend it to anyone who is exposed to high heat and or excessive sweating.
Peter's Homeopathic Electrolyte Concoction
- 16 pills of Bioplasma (from your health food store)
- 16 pills of Nat sulph 6x (from your health food store)
- ¼ cup acidophilus bifidus yogurt or kefir
- ¼ cup fresh lemon or lime juice
- maple syrup or raw honey, to taste
- 1 teaspoon Celtic salt
- ½ cup coconut milk (optional)
Fill the remainder of the gallon with ice water and be sure to shake before each drink. Enjoy!


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BeschreibungIn the 1990s, influenced by the deconstructionist movement in literary theory and trends toward revisionist history, a cadre of academics and historians led by William Cronon began raising provocative questions about ideas of wilderness and the commitments and strategies of the contemporary environmental movement. While these critiques challenged some cherished and widely held beliefs -- and raised the hackles of many in the environmental community -- they also stimulated an important and potentially transformative debate about the conceptual foundations of environmentalism."Reconstructing Conservation" makes a vital contribution to that debate, bringing together 23 leading scholars and practitioners -- including J. Baird Callicott, Susan Flader, Richard Judd, Curt Meine, Bryan Norton, and Paul B. Thompson -- to examine the classical conservation tradition and its value to contemporary environmentalism. Focusing not just on the tensions that have marked the deconstructivist debate over wilderness and environmentalism, the book represents a larger and ultimately more constructive and hopeful discussion over the proper course of future conservation scholarship and action. Essays provide a fresh look at conservation icons such as George Perkins Marsh and Aldo Leopold, as well as the contributions of lesser-known figures including Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, and Scott Nearing. Represented are a wealth of diverse perspectives, addressing such topics as wilderness and protected areas, cultural landscapes, rural/agrarian landscapes, urban/built environments, and multiple points on the geographic map. Contributors offer enthusiastic endorsements of pluralism in conservation values and goalsalong with cautionary tales about the dangers of fragmentation and atomism. The final chapter brings together the major insights, arguments, and proposals contained in the individual contributions, synthesizing them into a dozen broad-ranging principles designed to guide th
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ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Valley Conference has exercised contract extensions to conduct both its men's and women's basketball championship in the St. Louis region for at least two more years. The MVC men's championship will be at Scottrade Center in St. Louis through 2015, while the MVC women's championship will be played at Family Arena in St. Charles through 2014.
"This was an important decision for our conference, and we are excited to be able to continue the remarkable run that our tournaments have enjoyed in this neutral city," said Elgin. "We are indebted to Scottrade Center and to Family Arena and to many corporate supporters who have made it possible for us to grow our tournaments in a first-class fashion at a neutral site," Elgin said.
Only the Big East Conference has had a longer, continuously-running event at the same neutral site than has the Missouri Valley with its Arch Madness, which has built a strong tradition with the men's basketball championship in St. Louis. The Big East has played its men's tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York City every year since 1981 (33rd consecutive year in 2013).
Before moving to the new American Airlines Center in Dallas for the 2003 tournament, the Big 12/Big 8 event had been staged at Kemper Arena in Kansas City since 1977 before moving to the Texas site (a string of 26-straight in Kansas City). With the signing of the extension, the Missouri Valley Conference will be celebrating its 25th year in St. Louis during the 2015 tournament.
Now in its 18th year, the MVC Women's Basketball Championship has truly become a weekend event. In 2012, over 8,000 fans attended the league's fifth neutral site event at The Family Arena. This year, the championship weekend begins on the evening of March 14 and concludes with a 2 p.m. title game March 17.
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Three Surprising Ways to Feel Less BusyBy Christine Carter | March 9, 2016 | 0 comments
Christine Carter shares her tips for achieving relaxed productivity—and why you can't afford to ignore them.
Busyness stinks.
Although people tell me all the time they like feeling busy—perhaps because it makes them feel important and significant—I'm not buying it. Would you ever choose busyness over a more relaxed form of productivity? When life starts to feel hectic, here are a few ways to dial back the overwhelm.
1. Give yourself a shot of awe
When researchers induced feelings of awe in people—by showing them video clips of people next to vast things like whales or waterfalls—it altered their perception of time such that the people felt like they had more time on their hands. So much time on their hands, in fact, that awestruck people become likely to give away their time by volunteering to help someone out. They also report fewer feelings of impatience.
Not sure where to find yourself some awe? Look no farther than YouTube. Try searching "awe" and "whales," or just watch this oldie but goodie video clip—it makes me feel awestruck every time. If the concept of "awe" feels too abstract, try thinking about things that amaze you. What makes you feel a childlike sense of wonder? Makes you feel elevated or inspired? Now take five minutes to let one of those things work their magic on your busy brain.
2. Create an anti-busyness ritual
Researchers believe that the brains in both humans and animals evolved to feel calmed by repetitive behavior, and that our daily rituals are a primary way to manage stress. This is especially true in unpredictable environments or situations where we feel pressured, a lack of control, or threatened in some way.
When the pace of life seems to be taking off without you, create a ritual to help you feel more in control. What counts as a ritual? Something you do repetitively in certain situations—usually a series of behaviors done in the same order. Think of your favorite ball player's pregame ritual.
When I start to feel pressured for time, my own "busyness ritual" kicks in: I stretch my neck (first by looking to the left, and then to the right, and then by tipping my left ear to my left shoulder and my right ear to my right shoulder). I exhale deeply with each stretch, and then center my head, and straighten my posture. On my last exhale, I think to myself: "I have plenty of time." The stretching and deep breathing may be what helps me feel calm, but also having and using a ritual—any ritual—can help us feel more in control and less overwhelmed.
3. Find "flow"
Dropping into "the zone" or finding flow is the opposite of feeling busy. Time seems to stand still—if we are aware of time at all. Flow isn't as elusive a state as you might think, but it does require that we stop multi-tasking, and that we build a fortress against interruption around ourselves. (I also have a "get into the flow" ritual that I use before I write).
I know, I know. You don't have time to foster awe, or create an anti-busyness ritual, or stop multi-tasking. You're too busy!
Listen: You don't have time NOT to do these things. Busyness is a mark of what neuroscientists call "cognitive overload." This state impairs our ability to think creatively, to plan, organize, innovate, solve problems, make decisions, resist temptations, learn new things easily, speak fluently, remember important social information, and control our emotions. In other words, it impairs basically everything we need to do in a given day. So if you have important work to do, please: Take five minutes to dial back your busyness.
If you liked this post, you'll love this short and funny documentary, HumanKinda. The premise is that busyness robs us of our humanity, making us only "kinda" human.
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The dynamical range of global circulations—I
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The dynamical range of atmospheric circulations is examined by integrating a global circulation model (GCM) over a wide range of parameter values. We study the influence of rotation rate on moist and dry atmospheres with regular, drag-free, and interior-heated surfaces in Part I, and on axisymmetric, oblique, and diurnally heated moist atmospheres in Part II. Despite their variety, the circulations are composed of only a few elementary forms whose existence, scale, and mix alter as the parameters vary. These elements can be interpreted in terms of standard symmetric-Hadley (SH) and quasi-geostrophic (QG) theories. The natural-Hadley (NH) circulation consists of a polar jet and a hemispheric direct cell, such as occur in slowly rotating SH flows, together with Rossby waves generated by moist convection and barotropic cascades. The quasi-Hadley (QH) circulation consists of a tropical westerly jet and a narrow direct cell, such as occur in the low-latitude part of rapidly rotating SH flow, together with Rossby waves generated by baroclinic instabilities in the neighboring midlatitude part of the SH flows; it occurs only in moist atmospheres. The two QG circulations represent the two extremes of eddy momentum flux produced during eddy cycles-the special form of enstrophy acscade describing nonlinear baroclinically unstable wave growth and barotropic wave dispersion. The QGγ element has a latitudinally asymmetric wave dispersion that gives a poleward, jet-traversing momentum transport, while QGβ has a symmetric wave dispersion that gives a jet-converging momentum transport. Both elements have a westerly jet and three cells. (In Part II, we describe the solstitial symmetric-Hadley, the QG-Hadley, the diurnally modified NH, and the Halley circulations.) In moist atmospheres, NH circulations exist in the rotational low range\((\Omega ^* = 0 - {\raise0.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 1$}\kern-0.1em/\kern-0.15em\lower0.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 4$}})\); overlapping QGγ and QH elements in the midrange\((\Omega ^* = {\raise0.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 1$}\kern-0.1em/\kern-0.15em\lower0.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 2$}} - 1)\); and QGγ, QGβ, and QH elements in the high range (Ω✻=2−8); here Ω✻=Ω/ΩE is the rotation rate normalized by the terrestrial value. In dry atmospheres, circulations follow a similar progression but have a simpler blend because they lack a QH element. Kinetic energy peaks at\(\Omega ^* = {\raise0.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 1$}\kern-0.1em/\kern-0.15em\lower0.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 8$}}\) in the moist, Hadley-dominated atmospheres but at\(\Omega ^* = {\raise0.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 1$}\kern-0.1em/\kern-0.15em\lower0.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 2$}}\) in the dry, QG-dominated atmospheres. Instability-generated Rossby waves propagate equatorward more easily in the westerlies of the diabatically driven (moist) Hadley cell than in the easterlies of the eddy-induced (dry) ditropic at Ω✻=0 to almost radiative-convective at Ω✻=8, while maintaining almost constant global means. In modified-surface systems, freeslip conditions eliminate the QH element from a moist atmosphere and allow strong deep easterlies to arise in low latitudes to balance the strongly barotropic westerly jets that occur in midlatitudes. In a regular dry atmosphere, enhanced surface heating in low latitudes imitates latents latent heating and produces a tropical circulation resembling that of the moist QH element. Overall, circulation theory works well in explaining the GCM states but does not, as yet, describe the interactions among elements or reveal how jet scales are determined, nor explain phenomena at the extremes of the parameter range.


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January 3rd, 2006
To start off the new year, I'm posting a show by one of my favorite bands of all-time, Genesis. I've been a fan since 1982(ish) when I was a wee lad of 10 years and delving into my older brother's tape collection. Truth be told, there were many tapes that I listened to quite a bit but there was one that really caught my attention. On one side there was an odd mixture of songs from Blackout by The Scorpions and Freeze Frame by the J. Geils Band. On the other was the then most-recent effort by Genesis, Abacab. It's hard to explain what it was about that album that caught my ears but I can tell you that I played it so much that I ruined the tape. It wasn't a cheapie bit of media; it was a TDK SA90 – chromium dioxide. Those were the days when I was a latchkey kid and no one was around for a good hour or more when I got home from school so I had time to crank up music on my dad's rather nice stereo system. One day I got home, threw the tape in, and found, much to my dismay that there was a whole chunk in the middle of it that was fucked up. The music from the other side of the tape was barely audible in a muffled haze of hiss. Somehow the music swapped sides. Looking back, I suspect that, since my dad played mostly vinyl, the heads of the tape deck had become magnatized from my constant use and that this was responsible for the anomaly.
Time wore on and the band's album Genesis was released. "Mama" and "That's All" were on the radio so I recorded them with a cheapie tape recorder. Then in 1984, one of the radio stations in Chicago (which I was still living in) started promoting a multi-hour Genesis retrospective. Upon hearing the first promo for it, I secured a few tapes and the use of my brother's boom box for that night. I remember very well lying in my bed next to the radio recording it – being careful to edit out the commercials and not lose a nanosecond of the show. It was really neat to learn the history of the band and hear an endless barage of songs that were completely unfamiliar to me. Outside, the sun had almost set when I had my eureka moment. The program had just described Peter Gabriel's departure from the band and how Phil Collins became lead singer when "Squonk" started playing. BAM! It hit me like a ton of bricks. The bluesy guitar, the drum fills which took the song through its twists and turns – the song was just so fucking cool that I knew what my purpose in life was. I just *had* to get my mom to take me to the Rolling Stone record store at the Harlem-Irving Plaza so I could get every single album by the band. It was imperative – no matter how many lawns I had to mow or how much I had to beg. In all seriousness, it was like a junkie going through withdrawl. I HAD to have more!
I eventually did make my way to Rolling Stone and got the album with "Squonk" – A Trick of the Tail – and listened to the record constantly. The seventh grade rolled around and I befriended one of my new classmates, Pete. He was addicted to music as well but was into Dire Straits, ZZ Top, et al. One day we arranged a trade. I got Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits and lent him A Trick of the Tail. Handing him the record, I told him, "Just sit down and listen to this. It will blow your mind!"
The weekend came and went and on Monday morning I asked Pete what he thought of it. He couldn't contain himself as he ranted and raved about how much he loved it. From then on, he became my partner in crime and we spent countless hours collecting the entire Genesis catalogue and listening to their music. Going to the record store was like a pilgrimage. We'd return to his house, lock ourselves in his room, and listen to the record we'd just purchased in silent devotion. It was a liturgy.
With the every Genesis album to be had between us, we started delving into the solo albums of members past & present and, much to the chagrin of our wallets, to bootleg collecting. We'd hop on bus after bus to travel around town and hit various record stores that sold bootlegs. Up and down Clark Street we went. Out to Gurnee. To the Old Orchard Shopping Center which held record conventions. Just anywhere we could get our grubby little hands on Genesis shows. Plus we would each buy a copy of Goldmine magazine and scan the classifieds in the back for traders.
One of the first Genesis bootlegs we got was called Live From the Mouth of the Monster. Here's the album cover:
It was recorded on 13 October 1978 at the Uptown Theater in our hometown of Chicago. The concert was broadcast on the radio by WXRT so the boot was of excellent quality. And it is this show that I'm featuring this week.
At this point in the band's history, they were down to a trio with Peter Gabriel having left in 1975 and guitarist Steve Hackett the previous year.
Tony Banks – keyboards
Phil Collins – vocals, percussion
Mike Rutherford – bass, guitar
Chester Thompson had been recruited the previous year to man the drum stool for live performances freeing Collins to sing. Thompson had played with Frank Zappa and Weather Report, amongst others, before joining Genesis, and he added a certain swing to the music that was missing from the studio recordings. During instrumental passages, Collins would get behind the drums as well and this made for some powerful and dynamic performances. With guitarist Steve Hackett gone, the band needed someone to fill his shoes for concerts and Miilwaukee native Daryl Stuermer got the nod. He'd played with Jean-Luc Ponty, et al before being recruited by the band.
As I said above, this show is from 13 October 1978 when Genesis were out promoting their latest album, …and then there were three… with its hit single, "Follow You Follow Me". They'd performed in Chicago once already that year towards the beginning of the tour on 6 April at the Chicago Stadium. This was where the Blackhawks (Chicago's professional hockey team) played and the band was none too pleased with the sound there. And so they returned six months later to perform in a smaller, more cozy venue, the Uptown Theater.
I pulled this show from my collection (of a few hundred by the band) because I've been listening to …and then there were three… lately in addition to the high quality of the recording. (The band did play 3 nights in Milwaukee in 1978 but the lone recording from that stand is an audience recording.) I've posted about an hour's worth of material here from the two and a half hour long show. I wanted to include a goodly amount from …and then there were three… and some choice older material. I have also included the introductions to the songs, one of which is very naughty and involves Romeo & Juliet at a drive-in movie theater…
Burning Rope
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight/The Musical Box (Closing Section)
Deep In The Motherlode
The Lady Lies
The Cinema Show/…In That Quiet Earth
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Thanks a lot for the Genesis gig. Started listening to them in '77 and they still remain my big love in music. Appreciate the effort.
Mark in Dublin, Ireland
Mark – you are mighty welcome! I'll post more Genesis eventually. Stay tuned.
Great show to start off the new year! This is one of my favorite shows from that tour (the full show is almost 2 and a half hours), and the quality of this recording is excellent. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it, Geopainter. I started off 2007 with some Genesis as well.
This tour, when it hit Los Angeles, was the first concert I went to in a big arena. So, this holds special memories for me.
Thanks for posting it.
Roger – you're very welcome.
The 1st time that I heard this album was in Venezuela in 1979. It was a box with 3 vinyl Lps. This is also the first time that I began to hear Genesis seriously. Since then I never stop listening all their music. They are still amazing despite they are not a band anymore.
Thank you for this! I'm a huge Genesis fan also, and I have a copy of the original bootleg record, but I don't have a way to have it on my computer. However, now I can enjoy this show on the go! Thanks again!


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Making Singlehood Acceptable
The consequences are numerous: being single might result in funny looks at restaurants, hints of disappointment from family members, or second-class seating at weddings and holiday meals. Whether someone is happy being single or not, we've created some rather hostile environments for those not coupled up. Something about being single begs to be picked on within our society for better or for worse.
What we want is for our loved ones to be happy. Our fear is that their singlehood means loneliness, a psychological state which might threaten their health or longevity. And while relationship status can be related to lower satisfaction, higher self-consciousness, and lower self-schemas, this might come from the social pressures that promote pair-bonding. Too often we want someone there for ourselves or a loved one in the Disney movie schemas our culture is built upon. Yet our ubiquitous push to achieve joy though romantic relationships may not be the healthiest way to express such a concern. If we want to support the people we care about, why can't we do so when they're not dating someone else?
In his new book, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg explores the swelling masses of those who choose to live alone and the myriad benefits resulting from such a decision. They have more time to socialize with friends and have spaces more accommodating for productive solitary time spent bolstering mental health. This means going it alone is a different thing from being isolated or feeling lonely.
In some instances, being removed from the dating world means sex with fewer partners. While some might shudder at such a prospect, such a behavior change reduces risk for sexually transmitted infections or unwanted pregnancy. And anyone with a hand, a vibrator, or a powerful showerhead knows that masturbation can be a perfectly satisfying form of sexual release.
So if we understand that not being with someone is okay, how do we push ourselves (and each other) to be encouraging of those who aren't shacked up? Maybe small steps in our own behavior can move us towards that direction.
When catching up, don't ask, "Are you seeing someone?" If they are, you'll know. You'll probably have to beg them to shut up about it. Normalizing this sort of question makes it seem like a significant other is as necessary for biological functioning as breathing or bowel movements.
Compliment them for who they are. It's easy to fall into the habit of expressing pride and praise based on the partner someone's landed. But this places value on them as an entity orbiting an other rather than as a stand-alone star. The people close to you have earned that place on their own and should be celebrated as such rather than for who their partner is.
Don't push. Blind date set ups are too often a favor or feel-good maneuver for the matchmaker rather than an actual path to romantic potential. If they're looking for ways to meet people, they'll ask. Otherwise you're pressuring them to fit a mold they're not made for at this time.
In the midst of such a historic era, when we as a society are opening our minds to so many different types of relationships, we ought to allow non-romantic partnering be an acceptable option. We can make this choice just as appealing as any other, whether it's a choice we make ourselves or not. But it's up to all of us to support those around us, single or otherwise.


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This tasteful Christian screensaver shows the sacred angels enjoying life in the clouds. Pearly gates surround the scene with a gentle melody playing. Graceful white doves can also be seen flying in the distance of this Christian Screensaver.
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A few books I'm dying to purchase for my bookshelf this summer...
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Great choices. I can't wait to receive the Cupcakes and Cashmere book. Emily is such an inspiration.
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Tuukka Rask to represent Finland in Sochi Olympics
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Finland announced its roster for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, with Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask among the three goaltenders selected.
Rask will be part of a strong goaltending group for Finland, who is also sending Kari Lehtonen and Antti Niemi. All three goalies are in the NHL's top 25 in save percentage, led by Rask, whose .934 clip is third in the league. Rask is also tied for the NHL lead with four shutouts this season.
Predators netminder Pekka Rinne is not on the team as he recovers from hip surgery. The roster is as follows:
Goalie: Kari Lehtonen, Antti Niemi, Tuukka Rask
Defense: Lasse Kukkonen, Juuso Hietanen, Sami Lepisto, Olli Maatta, Sami Salo, Kimmo Timonen, Ossi Vaananen, Sami Vatanen
Forward: Juhamatti Aaltonen, Aleksander Barkov, Valtteri Filppula, Mikael Granlund, Jussi Jokinen, Olli Jokinen, Mikko Koivu, Leo Komarov, Petri Kontiola, Lauri Korpikoski, Jori Lehtera, Antti Pihlstrom, Tuomo Ruutu, Teemu Selanne
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Joke - Trapped in the Library
"What time does the library open?" the man on the phone asked. "Nine A.M." came the reply. "And what's the idea of calling me at home in the middle of the night to ask a question like that?" "Not until nine A.M.?" the man asked in a disappointed voice. "No, not till nine A.M.!" the librarian said. "Why do you want to get in before nine A.M.?" "Who said I wanted to get in?" the man sighed sadly. "I want to get out."
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Labels: Complain, Imperfection/Limitation
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Joke -Nearing the End
A priest and a pastor from the local churches are standing by the road pounding a sign into the ground that reads: The End is Near! Turn Yourself Around Now Before it's Too Late! As a car sped past them, the driver yelled, "Leave us alone, you Religious nuts!" From the curve they heard screeching tires and a big splash. The priest turns to the pastor and asks, "Do you think the sign should just say 'Bridge is down'?"
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Sory - Building our own house
A very skilled and extraordinary carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer/contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life. The contractor was sorry to see his amazing worker go and asked if he could build just one more house for full pay as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career. When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you." What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.
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An Atheist Businessman who Believes in the Power of Prayer
An atheist businessman decided to open a disco business right opposite a church. The church started a petition to stop the disco from opening and the congregation prayed daily against the disco business. One day a violent lightning struck the disco and it was burnt to the ground. The businessman sued the church on the grounds that the church through its congregation and prayers was ultimately responsible for the demise of his disco. In its reply to the court, the church members denied all responsibility or any connection that their prayers were reasons to the destruction of the disco building. The judge looked over the paperwork at the hearing and commented: "I don't know how I'm going to decide this case, but it appears from the paperwork, we have an atheist businessman who believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire church congregation that doesn't."
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The Jewish Perspective on Guilt
The Jewish Perspective on Guilt There is something special about a Yiddishe Mamme. • After all the money we spent on braces, is that the biggest smile you can give me? [Mona Lisa's Jewish Mother] • I don't care what you've discovered, you could have still written articles. [Columbus' Jewish Mother] • Of course I'm proud you invented the electric light bulb. Now be a good boy and turn it off and go to bed. [Thomas Edison's Jewish mother] • But it's your Barmitzvah photo. Couldn't you do something about your hair? [Albert Einstein's Jewish mother] • That's a nice "story." So now tell me where you've really been for the last 40 years. [Jonah's Jewish mother]
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"I learned my name is David."
A Jewish mother walks her son to the school bus corner on his first day of kindergarten. "Behave, my Bubaleh" she says. "Take good care of yourself and think about your mother, Tataleh! And come right back home on the bus, Schein Kindaleh. Your Mommy loves you a lot, my Ketsaleh, my angel!" At the end of the school day the bus comes back and she runs to her son and hugs him. "So what did my adorable beauty learn on his first day of school?" The boy answers, "I learned my name is David."
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Labels: Jewish Identity, Jewish Mother, Joke
Big Ben
There is a story of an American who took his son to London to show him the interesting sights of that historic city. During the tour, the father made sure to take him to Parliament and point out the huge clock on top of the building known as "Big Ben." The child strained to get a full view of the clock, and so did the others who came to see it. "Daddy, I would like to ask you something," said the boy. "Why did they put the clock so high and make people strain their necks to look up to it? Couldn't they have made the clock level with the eyes so that everyone could see it easily, without trouble?" The father thought for a moment and replied, "It is this way: If they had placed the clock low, people would adjust Big Ben to the time on their watches. Now that the clock is high, beyond the reach of all, they cannot try to reset it. If they want to have the correct time, they must set their own watches in accordance with the time shown by Big Ben."
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Labels: Direction, evolution, Jewish Identity, Joke
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December 18 -- Gov. John Kitzhaber today released his 10-year energy action plan that focuses on improving energy efficiency and conservation, improving the state's clean-energy infrastructure and accelerating the transition to cleaner transportation options. >>View Article
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Empowering Children To Confront Disney and Despair
I'm feeling protective of my children. Perhaps it's the fact that my baby, Rockerchik, turned 10 last week, that Girlchik is 11 going on 15, and that my eldest will be 17 this week. Now that his college applications are all in, I'm acutely aware that he will soon be leaving home. And I am very much aware of preparing each of them, as best I can, for the next chapters in their lives.
One of the things I am conscious of trying to give them is something I wasn't aware even existed until I was much older than they are: a sense of their own agency. I want them to be conscious of the power that each has to make change in their lives and in the lives of others. Two stories in the New York Times this week got me thinking about that empowerment.
The first piece shows how vulnerable we are to marketing and merchandising behemoths, such as Disney, which is trying to reach the only segment of the childhood market that they haven't yet vanquished: newborns. Now they're targeting mothers who are still in the hospital immediately after giving birth with freebie onesies, festooned, of course, with Disney characters, to try and get them hooked.
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Disney estimates the North American baby market, including staples like formula, to be worth $36.3 billion annually. Its executives talk about tapping into that jackpot as if they were waging a war. "Apparel is only a beachhead," said Andy Mooney, chairman of Disney Consumer Products. As such, the company does not intend to stop with bodysuits, which are playfully adorned with Disney characters like Simba from "The Lion King." Also planned are bath items, strollers, baby food and an abundance of other products — all pushed with so much marketing muscle that Disney Baby may actually dent operating margins in Mr. Mooney's division in the near term. But this is a long-term play, and it could have its greatest value far beyond the crib. Disney Baby is also intended to draw mothers into the company's broader web of products and experiences.
The story shows us how much work it takes to protect our children from being sucked into the endless vortex of consumerist need that is so much a part of American life.
To be sure, we are all consumers — of resources both natural and man-made, and of culture and media. And I am no Walden-esque eschewer of the pleasures of the marketplace. I like a little retail therapy as much as the next person.
But it does seem clear that we need to teach our kids how to be smart consumers. Helping them develop the ability to refute the marketing onslaught is a form of empowerment.
Then I turned to this article about the latest project from Jewish playwright-activist Eve Ensler.
She has built a "City of Hope" in one of the most hopeless places in the world for women, the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rape is a frequent tool of violence against women.
The story states that "hundreds of thousands of women have been raped, many quite sadistically, by the various armed groups who haunt the hills of eastern Congo."
Ensler, and those who support the City of Hope and the women it will educate for leadership, is providing them with more than physical refuge. She is giving them a place where they can learn to have their own sense of agency and, hopefully, grow into being leaders of their community.
Is the issue of repelling a deluge of Disney marketing anything like the horrifying issue of rape in the Congo? Of course not. But there is one subtle aspect of standing up in the face of both: teaching girls and women to be empowered.
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"What do you mean by that?" Luna was intrigued by this strange pony.
"It's nothing...just that I often found myself place on the outskirts of the crowd during any time of social activity. Like I wasn't even there. So, recently, I've decided to just "fly solo", as it were."
"I see." replied Luna. Before her exile, she had been somewhat of an outcast as well. She wasn't the social butterfly that her sister ones, and she often felt pushed aside, unnoticed in the light of her sister's glory.
"So, what is it that you do here? I mean, if I'm not being too forward in asking. It's just that I haven't seen you at any of the public event's Celestia has attended recently. I just...you know, wondered why."
"Isn't it obvious? Most ponies still consider me a threat to Celestia and all of Equestria. After everything that happened with Nightmare Moon though, I don't really blame them. Whatever they think of me, I've brought upon myself."
She looked away from ShadowMist, gazing over the beautiful garden. It was so peaceful here. And yet, even with all it's tranquility, it was still such a lonely place.
"You seem to...do that a lot." ShadowMist observed.
"Do what?" said Luna, quickly turning back to face her, her train of thought broken.
"You just...all of a sudden start staring off at nothing. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I mean, I do that all the time. Just...not generally when I'm talking with somepony."
"Oh my goodness, I've been so rude!" Luna exclaimed.
"No, I mean"
"Would youwould you like to see the castle?" Luna blurted.
"Ifif that is what you wish, your majesty." ShadowMist replied as though touring the castle would be more of a duty than a pleasure.
"Well, if you don't want to, we don't have to." Luna said quickly.
"I am your guest, Princess Luna. Whatever you say we shall do, than that is what we shall do."
Luna seemed slightly flustered by this. "Whatever you want to do is what we'll do. We should do something that you'll enjoy. Somethingsomething that normal ponies like to do.
Well, normal ponies actually like to spend time with their friends and family. ShadowMist lacked the former and didn't live close enough to her family for the latter.
"Normal ponies like tours of castles." ShadowMist said.
"Do you want to tour the castle?" Luna asked.
"Yes." ShadowMist replied flatly. Debating with Luna was getting them no where. Besides, she thought that a tour of the castle might actually be somewhat fun, and anyway, it was something to do.
"Come along then." said Luna, leading the way to the door. ShadowMist followed, slightly nervous. It was one thing to be friends with another pony. But when that pony was a princess, things were entirely different.
They spent the next couple of hours exploring the castle, more than actually having a tour of it. It seemed to ShadowMist that Luna knew about as much about the castle as she herself did. However, having a private tour of the castle with one of its princesses was a once in lifetime opportunity, and she was happy to oblige. She was also enjoying the time she got to spend with Luna. It seemed that Celestia and Luna, sisters though they were, had nearly opposite personalities.
After sometime of going through room after room and hallway after hallway and climbing various staircases, ShadowMist realized that it was nearly sunset.
"Luna." ShadowMist said, and Luna paused, turning to look back at her. "Thank you for the tour. Today was...a lot of fun. But it's...it's probably getting a little late. I have to fly home before the sun sets...flying in the dark isn't the most safe or fun thing in the world."
"Oh, of course! I should have thought of that." Luna turned and headed back down the way they had come. When they reached the bottom of the spiral staircase, Luna looked around at the many doors and hallways leading to different places in the castle.
"Do youdo you know which way to go?" ShadowMist asked tentatively.
"Well, I...no, notnot entirely." Luna stammered, nervously stamping a hoof up and down on the ground.
"I know the way." offered ShadowMist, heading down one of the many hallways. She paused, waiting for Luna to follow.
"How do you know this is the right way?" asked Luna, coming up beside her.
ShadowMist began walking again as she replied. "I'm observant, that's all. It helps me to be good with directions, even in new places."
They continued on, Luna having to trust ShadowMist's lead. She seemed to be more familiar with her surroundings than Luna was, and Luna had grown up in this castle! Well, part of it at least. She couldn't quite remember the layout after being gone for a thousand years, but she was pretty sure the castle had been expanded upon in her absence.
"This place isn't as big as you think, Princess. Maybe if you...brought a map next time?" ShadowMist was trying to be polite in her suggestion.
"I probably won't come this way again." Luna mused. "There's not a whole lot up here, just a lot of spare rooms and storage areas. But, perhaps you're right, all the same."
ShadowMist had half expected Luna to chide her for her seemingly rude remark, but she took it very well, as if she was the same as a pony who simply had trouble finding her way around the house.
It didn't take long for them to reach the door which led to the garden again. Luna thought that perhaps the castle wasn't so large after all, and that she had simply led them in circles...but that ShadowMist just hadn't said anything.
They stood by the door, and ShadowMist made an attempt at saying good-bye. "Well, Ponyville's kind of a long flight, so I guess II'll"
"Do you...want to come visit me again? I know that a lot of ponies still don't trust me, and perhaps you're one of the ponies that's scared to be around me. Which is perfectly fine, I mean, I understand that." Luna tried not to project the sadness she was feeling inside onto her face.
"I know that you're not Nightmare Moon anymore. I don't see any reason I should fear you." It was true. ShadowMist could see that Luna was a changed mare. Whatever had happeend between the two sisters was their business, their quarrel.
"Next week? Same time and day?" asked Luna.
"If that's what you want, princess."
"You can just call me Luna, you know. I'm not really much of a princess nowadays."
"O-of course, PrinLu-na." ShadowMist said her name slowly, enunciating it, as if she were trying out the taste. She'd used the name before, true, but never by itself.
"I'll be going then." ShadowMist said. Luna opened the door, and ShadowMist stepped out into the garden. It was nearly time for Celestia to lower the sun. ShadowMist opened her wings and prepared to take off.
"Sometimes I feel like Nightmare Moon is still with me." said Luna, seemingly to herself.
ShadowMist turned around to look at Luna, folding her wings as she did so.
"But...I thought Nightmare Moon was destroyed." she said, curious.
"The physical part of Nightmare Moon may have been destroyed. But I can't help but fear that she may still be around." Luna's voice held a hint of worriment.
"How do you know?"
"Once we were the same, she and I. But things changed." Luna drifted off and seemed to lose herself in thought for a moment. "You should" she cleared her throat. "you should get going."
"Oh, you're right!" ShadowMist had momentarily forgotten what time it was. "I'll see you again soon." she said, turning around and spreading her wings.
"Good-bye!" Luna called, just before ShadowMist took off into the air. The same as last time, she made a midair U-Turn and headed back to Ponyville.
Luna trotted into the garden again once she was gone, for a last view of it before the night. The garden was beautiful at night as well, of course, but it was a different sort of splendor entirely. The creatures that were around at night were very different, for one thing. The plants, basked in the glowing light of the moon, gave off a faint, almost ominous, glow themselves.
But as the last bits of sun faded and shadows began to glow, Luna couldn't help but feel a different sort of shadow come over her.
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