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American Art Glass
American art glass refers to decorative household glass objects made in factory or production settings from the Victorian Era to the present. We're not talking about Heisey or Fostoria pattern glass here, or even carnival glass made by the likes of Fenton, Northwood, and Imperial. No, this is the seriously fancy stuff made by companies with names like Tiffany, Steuben, and Blenko.
One of the biggest influences on American art glass was the American branch of the Art Nouveau movement, which sought to break down the barriers between so-called high art (painting and sculpture) and the applied arts (craft) to create a unified aesthetic that would speak to people of all classes. It was, in part, a rejection of mass-produced goods, but it didn't take long for the same champions of the naturalistic look we associate with Art Nouveau to figure out ways to produce their goods quickly and at a profit.
Louis Comfort Tiffany was a particularly successful early producer of art glass, making leaded lamp shades and iridescent vases that today seem to be the definition of the genre. The son of the famous jewelry designer, Tiffany studied painting with landscape painter George Inness before learning art-glass techniques from French master Emile Galle. These experiences informed Tiffany's work at the Tiffany Glass Co., which he established in 1885 to produce leaded-glass doors and stained-glass windows.
Tiffany renamed his firm the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company in 1892—in 1902 it would become Tiffany Studios. Throughout, blown glass remained a preoccupation for Tiffany. In 1893, in order to have as much control on the process as possible, Tiffany installed glass-blowing furnaces at his studio. A year later, the Favrile brand was born.
Favrile glass was prized then, and is still admired today, for its eye-catching iridescent surfaces. The Favrile line included classic forms harking back to Tiffany's fondness for ancient glass shapes, as well as for new inventions like the paperweight vases, which are technical marvels that remain difficult for contemporary artists and artisans to duplicate to this day.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Tiffany's love for leaded-glass windows and electrical lamps combined into a series of lamp shades on bronze bases. Tiffany lamp shades seem to drip and drape over their light sources, in dense organic patterns resembling wisteria, apple blossoms, and other plants and trees. The colors of the glass he used were proprietary, which is one reason why copies of Tiffany lamp shades look like the pale imitations they are.
Steuben came next, in 1903. Co-founded by designer Frederick Carder, Steuben's first line was a new form of iridescent glass called Aurene. Unlike Tiffany's dense and dark Favrile, which had been introduced almost a decade earlier, Carder's Aurene pieces were luminous and lustrous, seeming to radiate more light than they absorbed...
The shapes of Carder's Aurene pieces were also unlike Tiffany's. His Favrile forms and their surface decorations tended to the organic and naturalistic—they were pure Art Nouveau. Steuben's Aurene vases, bowls, and candlesticks flirted with Art Nouveau, but Carder never strayed far from classical forms, and he used decoration sparingly.
Steuben's earliest years were largely devoted to the production of Aurene. Gold was a favorite color, sometimes paired with white or shades of green or red. Blue Aurene was a Steuben glass mainstay—some blue Aurene Steuben vases had concave bodies and ruffled rims; others were squat and almost utilitarian looking. By the 1910s, Egyptian shapes (tall vases with collared necks and high shoulders) were added to the company's repertoire.
After Steuben was sold to Corning Glassworks in 1918, Carder remained with the company to guide it through the 1920s. Many Steuben vases from this period were acid etched and suggested the influence of Art Deco. It was beautiful stuff, but it wasn't selling, so, in 1933, Carder was replaced by sculptor Sidney Waugh, who turned the company's focus to clear crystal. Waugh wanted to take advantage of a new glass recipe, created by Corning Glass chemists, that permitted the full spectrum of light to pass through it, including ultra-violet waves. The result was unprecedentedly clarity.
Almost all Steuben products produced in the years following this innovation were made out of this new crystal, which was called 10M—from stemware to drinking glasses. As for the company's art glass, it was heavily influenced by Art Deco. Large cut or blown bowls, urns, and vases were routinely engraved using copper-wheel techniques. Waugh most famous piece, his Gazelle Bowl, came relatively early on—1935—and was soon added to the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
In 1940, Steuben collaborated with 27 internationally renowned artists, from Georgia O'Keefe to Henri Matisse. After World War II, Steuben designer Walter Teague turned to the drawings of John J. Audubon to create a series of 10-inch plates, each of which featured an engraving of a different bird on its base. In 1947, President and Mrs. Truman presented a set of the Steuben Audubon plates to Princess Elizabeth as a wedding present.
Another leader in American art glass has been Blenko, which began in 1921 as The Eureka Glass Company—it was renamed after its founding family in 1930. In its early years, Blenko paid the bills by making glassware, but during the 1930s, Blenko's pieces got incrementally fancier. Blenko's iced-tea and highball glasses, as well as its candleholders, rolled-rim plates, and crackle-body decanters, caught the eye of the people running Colonial Williamsburg, who, in 1933, made Blenko the exclusive manufacturer of table and stemware for the historic site.
By the end of the decade, a new shop foreman named Carl Ebert Erickson had joined the company—Blenko's line of "Heavy Swedish Type Vases," which have been attributed to Erickson, gave the company its identity just before the war.
After the war, Winslow Anderson took the company's design reins. He introduced indented vases of various sizes and colors, bent-neck cruets, and slender, flat-bottom decanters with teardrop stoppers. Anderson laid the groundwork for one of Blenko's most influential designers, Wayne Husted, who was with the company from 1953 until 1963. During that decade, Husted pushed both form and color to bring Blenko into step with the prevailing Mid-century Modern aesthetic.
In the mid-to-late 1960s, Joel Philip Myers, who is now a well-known studio glass artist, designed for Blenko, injecting humor and whimsy into the company's sensibility. Especially charming are some of the decanters Myers designed with cowboy hats and longhorn skulls for stoppers.
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Environmental Studies
Courses of Instruction
Environmental Studies (ENST)The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
ENST 100 Introduction to Environmental Studies (4, FaSp) Gateway to the majors and minors in Environmental Studies. Provides students with an overview of how government agencies and societal institutions address (or fail to address) the interrelated social and scientific aspects of environmental problems and policies.
ENST 150xg Environmental Issues in Society (4, Fa) Exploration of the major social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical disagreements that exist between scholars, leaders, and citizens concerning today's most serious environmental issues and problems. Not available for major or minor credit to environmental studies majors and minors. Concurrent enrollment: WRIT 140.
ENST 201 Introduction to Applied Environmental Science and Engineering (4) (Enroll in ENE 201)
ENST 255 American Environmentalism (4) (Enroll in GEOG 255)
ENST 260Lg Natural Hazards (4) (Enroll in GEOG 260Lg)
ENST 270 Introduction to Environmental Law and Politics (4, Sp) (Enroll in POSC 270)
ENST 298 Introduction to Scientific Diving (2, Sp) Extensive academic preparation in the physics, physiology, safety, and methodology for in-water scientific diving. Recommended preparation: Background in natural science and/or environmental studies is strongly recommended.
ENST 320ab Water and Soil Sustainability; Energy and Air Sustainability (a: 4, Fa; b: 4, Sp) Overview of issues related to water and soil sustainability including science, policy and business aspects. (ENST 320a: Duplicates credit in former ENST 420.) Recommended preparation: ENST 100. (ENST 320b: Duplicates credit in former ENST 430.)
ENST 323 Politics of Global Environment (4) (Enroll in IR 323)
ENST 345 Conservation of Natural Resources (4) (Enroll in GEOG 345)
ENST 347 Environmental Law (4) (Enroll in POSC 347)
ENST 350m Race and Environmentalism (4) (Enroll in GEOG 350m)
ENST 360 Environmental Disasters (4) (Enroll in GEOG 360)
ENST 370 Marine and Coastal Environmental Policy (4, FaSp) Survey of major environmental policies both international and domestic as they relate to fisheries, shipping, pollution, seaports and coastal management. Recommended preparation: ENST 100, ENST 387.
ENST 387x Economics for Natural Resources and the Environment (4, Fa) An introduction to the economic tools and issues that affect natural resource use and environmental management. Not available for major credit to Economics majors.
ENST 390 Special Problems (1-4) Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
ENST 396 Directed Governmental and Political Leadership Internship (2-8, max 8) (Enroll in POSC 395)
ENST 400 Environmental Engineering Principles (3) (Enroll in ENE 400)
ENST 422 Ecological Security and Global Politics (4) (Enroll in IR 422)
ENST 427 The Global Environment (4, Sp) (Enroll in BISC 427)
ENST 436 Environmental Politics (4) (Enroll in POSC 436)
ENST 440 Environmental Risk Assessment (4, Sp) Assesses various potential environmental risks and examines how science, government, business, and industry measure and prepare for environmental risks. Recommended preparation: ENST 100.
ENST 445 Earth Climate: Past, Present, and Future (4, Fa) Introduction to the tools used to reconstruct past climate change and a thorough discussion of past climate changes on earth with an emphasis on the recent past. Recommended preparation: any introductory GEOL course.
ENST 450 Case Studies of Green Business (4, Sp) Introduction to the principles, drivers, and critiques of green business from the private perspective of profit maximization and the public perspective of environmental benefits. Prerequisite: ENST 387.
ENST 456L Conservation Genetics (4, Sp) (Enroll in BISC 456L)
ENST 477 Water Resources (4) (Enroll in GEOG 477)
ENST 485 Role of the Environment in the Collapse of Human Societies (4, Sm) Field studies in the roles of environmental problems in the collapse of ancient civilizations and analogous problems facing contemporary populations in those same places. Recommended preparation: ENST 100.
ENST 487 Resource and Environmental Economics (4) (Enroll in ECON 487)
ENST 490x Directed Research (2-8, max 8, FaSpSm) Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.
ENST 495 Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies (4, Sp) Students form multidisciplinary teams and are asked to study and resolve a major environmental problem facing a particular region or target population.
ENST 499 Special Topics (2-4, max 8) Selected topics dealing with environmental issues and problems.
ENST 500 Introduction to Environmental Studies (4, Fa) This course introduces students to the major environmental issues and problems society faces today. Business, industry, and government actions concerning these issues and problems are examined.
ENST 501 Environmental Science I (2, Fa) Exposes students to critical scientific principles, concepts, and issues related to pollution control, remediation, and ecology. Corequisite: ENST 502.
ENST 502 Environmental Science Seminar I (1, Fa) A series of biweekly guest lectures on critical scientific principles, concepts, and issues related to pollution control, remediation, and ecology.
ENST 503 Environmental Science II (2, Sp) A continuation of ENST 501. Exposes students to critical scientific principles, concepts, and issues related to pollution control, remediation, and ecology. Prerequisite: ENST 501; corequisite: ENST 504.
ENST 504 Environmental Science Seminar II (1, Sp) A continuation of ENST 502. A series of biweekly guest lectures on critical scientific principles, concepts, and issues related to pollution control, remediation, and ecology.
ENST 505ab Advanced Environmental Science Seminar (2-2, FaSp) Ties together science, technology, and finance with risk assessment and policy.
ENST 510 Statistics for Environmental Analysis (4) This course introduces graduate students to the various quantitative techniques and methodological approaches used in pollution control, natural resources management, and environmental protection.
ENST 530 Environmental Risk Analysis (4, Fa) Analyzes various potential environmental risks and examines how science, government, and business measure and prepare for environmental risks.
ENST 536 The Landscape Planning Process (3) (Enroll in ARCH 536)
ENST 590 Directed Research (1-12) Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
ENST 594abz Master's Thesis (2-2-0) Credit on acceptance of thesis. Graded IP/CR/NC.
ENST 595 Graduate Seminar in Environmental Studies (4, Sp) Addresses the obstacles to environmental policymaking and management by examining the interrelationships between science, technology, and social science. Recommended preparation: ENST 500, ENST 501, ENST 502, ENST 503, ENST 504.
ENST 599 Special Topics (2-4, max 8) Subjects specifically relevant to an environmental studies field, sometimes conducted as intensive short courses.


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From the NYMetroParents November issue, a selection of thought-provoking, laugh-inducing, and just plain interesting facts and quotes from the web and the world of parenting.
"Every day there's a new plea for Snapchat or Vine or Kik or whatever else she's learning about from the three hundred plus school friends and camp friends and camp counselors that she's following on Instagram. And now that I've said yes to one of them, it's hard to come up with a rationale for saying no to the others."
—Risa Green, book author and mom of two, in a post entitled "Instagram Is the New Marijuana" on modernmom.com, in which she recounts the challenges of monitoring her 11-year-old daughter's social media usage (sound familiar?)
"When we were young, we wondered why the Girl Scouts visited the elderly and learned macramé while the Boy Scouts built cabins and got dirty climbing rocks. These days, the Girl Scouts spend more time building skills and taking risks, yet we still put a premium on the 'goodness' of girls. We communicate to girls a host of things they 'should' be: nice, neat, well-behaved. These are fine virtues, but why make them a bigger priority for our girls than our boys?"
—Sharon Meers (@sharonmeers) and Joanna Strober, professionals, wives, and mothers with 5 young children between them, in the paperback re-launch of Getting to 50/50: How Parents Can Have It All, writing about the value of two-career households and division of labor (topics that never seem to go out of fashion); read more at gettingto5050.com
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Well, the much ballyhooed Special Session called by the Governor got off to a rather slow start last week. The Senate and House met on May 14th, as required by law, and handled some internal matters. However, the Senate went home the same day, and will stay out until there is business to deal with. There are two reasons for doing this: first, the Constitution requires that any legislation that involves a tax must first be passed out of the House of Representatives. That means the Senate can do nothing until a bill is formulated, debated, passed out of Committee, and finally passed out of the House. That could take weeks, if not longer. Which leads me to my second point: it only makes fiscal sense that the Senators be at home taking care of normal business. When we're not in Session, we aren't being paid by the State, and the taxpayers save a lot of money.
If and when a bill comes out of the House, we'll head back down to consider the proposal.
So what are the chances of something coming out of the House? Not great. There are an unusual set of circumstances that exist which will hamper the House's ability to come to agreement. First, the Speaker of the House, John Gregg, announced in February that he was retiring. Two other high ranking Democratic House leaders also made a similar announcement. The decision to retire undermined Speaker Gregg's ability to get his caucus to work out an agreement on the budget crisis. There is much uneasiness in the House about voting to pass a tax increase in an election year. The Democrats fear that doing so will jeopardize their ability to retain control of the House. When the Speaker himself doesn't have to worry about keeping his own job because he is retiring, it creates a leadership vacuum at precisely the time when strong leadership is needed most. When the Speaker's lieutenants are doing the same thing, it really causes havoc.
Even stranger, the legislator charged with coming up with a budget bill is Rep. Pat Bauer, the House Ways and Means chairman. Normally, he would be rolling up his sleeves and trying to find a way to create a bill that his caucus could vote for without gagging. However, Rep. Bauer is one of the leading candidates to become Speaker of the House. This puts him in a tremendously difficult position: he doesn't want to make his fellow Democrats mad at him because he came up with a bill that required them to vote for a tax increase. That could cost him the Speaker's position. On the other hand, he doesn't want to be blamed for failing to get a bill out that would help his party and the Governor, not to mention the State. That makes the Democrats look inept, and divided.
The final complication is the fact that Rep. Bauer and the Speaker have said that to pass any bill, they will require some significant Republican support. That is a nice way of saying they won't make their caucus support a bill that raises taxes unless a fair number of Republicans vote for it also, this way, it wouldn't be as much of an election issue.
The Democrats' tenuous hold on the House ( 53-47 ) supports the concerns of the Speaker and Rep. Bauer. However, getting Republicans to support the bill won't be easy, and not only because it might be to their political advantage to refuse to do so. The Republican House members want tax restructuring that will help Indiana's economy move into the 21st century. That means getting away from an over-reliance upon property taxes, and doing away with anti-business taxes that chase away jobs to our neighboring states. These are worthy and important goals that should be included in any bill, because raising revenues simply to continue on down the same road of overspending while the State loses more jobs is a disaster waiting to happen. But finding a way to achieve these goals makes an agreement very difficult to obtain.
This race for Speaker of the House has created a major obstacle to obtaining a budget agreement between the House, Senate and the Governor's office. Given these dynamics, it is fair to say that no one knows if any bill can pass the House, which would mean the Senate would never get the chance to put its stamp on a bailout of Indiana's fiscal mess. But stranger things have happened, so stay tuned, and hang onto your wallet!
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Consuelo Ortiga y Rey
Consuelo Ortiga y Peréz or Consuelo Ortiga y Rey was one of the many women in Dr. Jose Rizal's life. She was the daughter of Don Pablo Ortiga y Rey, the then-Alcalde of Manila and president of the Consejo de Filipinas in Madrid. Her father, intimately called "El Padre Eterno" (The Eternal Father) by the Filipino expatriates, often held informal gatherings for the students in his home. The Ortiga's residence was situated in Madrid and was also frequented by Dr. Jose Rizal and his compatriots.
Consuelo and Rizal's love affair was further evidenced by the writings of Consuelo in her diary where she kept the record of her relationship with Rizal. Moreover, Rizal dedicated his poem 'A La Señorita C.O. y R.' to Consuelo. The said poem is now dubbed as one of the best poems written by Rizal.
The diary
According to Consuelo's diary, she met Rizal on September 16, 1882 when she was introduced to two Filipinos named Rizal and Perio. However, the first lengthy conversation happened in January 18, 1883. Consuelo wrote:
- "Rizal talked with me for a long time, almost the whole night. He told me that I was very talented, that I was very diplomatic, and that he was going to see if he could extract some truth from me within two weeks; that I was mysterious and that I had a veil over my ideas …"
She also wrote: "Rizal told me that he detested amiable women because when they smiled, men imagined that they did so for something else. As he had told me the night before that I was very amiable, I understood that he meant it and I left him so that he would not make a mistake. A man should first study the ground and if he sees that the smile is for everybody he ought not to pay attention to her smiles because in distributing them so freely they lose all their meaning."
Based on Consuelo's writings, Rizal seemed to have some reservations which keep him from initially pursuing Consuelo. However, these reservations were finally worn down in February 26, 1883 when Consuelo wrote:
- ". . . Rizal is also in love; he has not declared this but almost, almost. He told me last night that he had a sickness that would not leave him except when traveling and that was only perchance."
Consuelo's tone was filled with hope and expectation. However, Eduardo de Lete, one of Consuelo's suitors and Rizal's compatriot as well, contended for her attention. Consuelo originally preferred Lete, but she was evidently attracted to Rizal and was worried about his intense feelings for her. She wrote:
- "He also told me and I understood why, that two brothers had killed each other because both played the same card, that is, because both loved the same woman. He said that he had taken notice of one who was very tall for him but in spite of the fact that he had done it to amuse himself, it was useless."
- "I listened to him with pleasure because he talks well and I fear that because of that he may think that I'm giving him hope, as it is in reality, but as it happens that I like his conversation, I abandon myself to it and then when he goes away, I'm sorry; he comes and again I do the same thing."
Because Consuelo was indeed pretty, she also had to deal with other suitors aside from Rizal and Lete. It was also during that time when the brothers Maximino and Antonio Paterno visit her regularly. Consuelo seemed to be thorned between many good men but after a series of self-contemplation, ended up preferring Rizal among these good men.
- "I find myself in a position of not knowing which side to take: Lete on one side, Rizal on the other, on another the two brothers; all attack and I have nothing with which to defend myself except my head, for I don't see, as I go nowhere, my former admirers, though it would be the same should I see them."
- "Then I had more suitors than now and I don't know if for that very reason I didn't give them altogether even ten minutes. Now, on the other hand, I think of them and my opinion is divided between Rizal and Lete. The first one tempts me by his manner of speaking and because he seems to me a serious lad, though formal ones frighten me."
The content of Consuelo's diary portrayed a surprising image of our national hero. A frank, romantic Dr. Jose Rizal who shamelessly expresses his feelings for such a wonderful woman. Consuelo wrote on February 24, 1883:
- "Last night as in former times I was talking with Rizal. He said that now if he would make love to a girl, he would do it "with the mouth, inasmuch as my heart is dry, as you know."
- "This is what I vaguely recall of our conversation; but in the struggle of that soul, in the profound meaning of his words that he articulated one by one underlining them with the accents of passion that he could ill conceal, there was a moment when I seemed to hear him (presumption of my youth, perhaps!) say: "You're the woman who has performed that miracle, I love you," and certainly, or my heart deceives me greatly, who know if the satisfaction of being loved, of the mere fact of being so, certainly it seemed to me that he was at the point of saying it, but he refrained from doing so, not so much for the fear of being repulsed but for not being a traitor to that friend, but I can say without fear of making a mistake that there passed through his imagination all that I wrote and last night he was happy and unfortunate at the same time."
After some time, Rizal eventually gave up his romantic intentions for Consuelo. Rizal did not want to compete with Lete, whom he treated as a brother. He was also still in love with Leonor. Consuelo, on her part, admitted to Rizal that she could not reciprocate his love, as he had wished.
- "Rizal told me the other night that they had written him telling him that his family would be glad if he would return to the Philippines in June. His manner of saying it made me understand that it was like flight … Conversing with me he said that he had not yet understood me, that he didn't know what I think of him."
- "As a friend,' I said to him. 'Would you want more?'"
- "'It's true that's enough," he replied with a slight irony.
The intimate records on Consuelo's diary ended on May 28, 1884 when Rizal came to their house one morning to bid farewell. Until the very end, Consuelo could not help but express her admiration with Rizal's ingenious humor and intelligence.
- "Last night many came to bid us farewell. Rizal was the first to arrive. I had on a morning cape that I had made out of the cloth that Rizal had given me as a present. I made a grand impression. I showed it to him saying: "So you see I've fulfilled my promise; I'm dressed like a doll."
- "Rizal was expressive and bolder than other times, and I mean by this that he told me some things more clearly; but, as always, he used other persons and images to tell me what he wanted to say. It pleases me to have to divine his thoughts veiled with innumerable metaphors and euphemisms, a thing which is not very difficult for me to understand as I have the key."
Discovery of the diary
The copy of the diary came from Mr. Eduardo de Lete, one of Rizal's contemporaries who became the fiancée of Consuelo.
A La Señorita C.O. y R.
Rizal was indeed engrossed with Consuelo and apparently, Consuelo asked him some romantic verses. One of them was A La Señorita C.O. y R. (To Miss Consuelo Ortiga y Rey), a poem written by Dr. Jose Rizal on August 22, 1883 which was dedicated to Consuelo. The poem was about Rizal's confusion on his relationship with Consuelo.
According to Lete, soon after the formalization of their engagement, she soon lost her humor. It also seems that their marriage did not push through. Lete narrates that years after her father's death, Consuelo's brother Rafael went to the Philippines to fill in a government post but died suddenly. Lete further recounts:
- "She was left alone and abandoned in Madrid. A romantic girl deprived of her mother at an early age, possessing an education rare in those times, she saw all her love affairs crumble and all her illusions wither."
- "She was very unfortunate, dying alone, sad, and abandoned, a victim of tuberculosis … An excellent and illustrious friend communicated to me this news when I went to Madrid as representative of a very important news agency of London on the occasion of the marriage of King Alfonso XIII in 1906 … May she rest in peace."
- The Diary of Consuelo Ortiga y Pérez [1] (Accessed 1 March 2012)
- Heartbreak marked Rizal's love life [2] (Accessed 1 March 2012)
- Rizal@150 - Rizal:Haligi ng Bayan [3] (Accessed 1 March 2012)
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Fracking for gas not only uses toxic chemicals that can contaminate drinking and groundwater—it also releases substantial quantities of radioactive poison from the ground that will remain hot and deadly for thousands of years.
Issuing a report yesterday exposing major radioactive impacts of hydraulic fracturing—known as fracking—was Grassroots Environmental Education, an organization in New York, where extensive fracking is proposed.
The Marcellus Shale region which covers much of upstate New York is seen as loaded with gas that can be released through the fracking process. It involves injecting fluid and chemicals under high pressure to fracture shale formations and release the gas captured in them.
But also released, notes the report, is radioactive material in the shale—including Radium-226 with a half-life of 1,600 years. A half-life is how long it takes for a radioactive substance to lose half its radiation. It is multiplied by between 10 and 20 to determine the "hazardous lifetime" of a radioactive material, how long it takes for it to lose its radioactivity. Thus Radium-226 remains radioactive for between 16,000 and 32,000 years.
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Canada Day is going out with a bigger bang than usual this year.
The weather forecast is calling for hot temperatures and clear skies when the fireworks go off over Charlottetown on Tuesday night.
Organizers say the capital city's waterfront will be lit up like never before as Canada Day is capped off with the largest fireworks display in the country.
That's right — the country. In years past, organizers would always boast the display of pyrotechnics was the best in eastern Canada.
Not this year. Not with Prince Edward Island celebrating the 150th anniversary of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, a meeting that led to the creation of a nation.
There will be two fireworks shows this year, going off at the exact same time.
Two barges will be stationed one kilometre apart in the Charlottetown harbour, making the fireworks very visible from Victoria Park, Confederation Landing Park (where the P.E.I. 2014 Inc. celebration zone is located) and the Charlottetown Event Grounds.
Organizers say this year's fireworks feature shapes and colours come from the best shell manufacturers in Spain, Italy, Portugal and China and will shoot more than 1,000 feet into the Charlottetown skyline.


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The nomination of Michael Wynne to be Air Force secretary comes amid a continuing struggle by the Bush administration to win approval from the Senate for its top Pentagon nominees. If confirmed, Wynne would replace James Roche, who quit in January after his nomination to head the Army stalled in the Senate because of a series of Air Force scandals.
Those scandals included allegations of rape and sexual harassment among students at the Air Force Academy and charges of a hostile climate at the school against those who are not evangelical Christians.
The Air Force has jettisoned a $23.5 billion plan to lease jets from the Boeing Co. for use as air refueling tankers. Boeing's former chief financial officer and a former top Air Force official were sentenced to prison on corruption charges related to the deal.
The former Air Force official, Darleen Druyun, is serving a nine-month term at a federal prison in Florida. She admitted inflating the lease price as a "parting gift" to Boeing before leaving the Pentagon for a job at the aircraft giant in 2002.
Wynne was a deputy, then head of the Pentagon's acquisition office. A report by the Defense Department's inspector general in May faulted Wynne for not requiring the Air Force to follow proper procedures for the Boeing leases.
The report said Wynne told the White House budget office that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved the lease idea "after comprehensive and deliberative review by the Leasing Review Panel" when that panel had not finished its deliberations or made recommendations.
"He wasn't a bad guy, particularly, but he wasn't a good guy, either," says Danielle Brian of the non-profit Project on Government Oversight, a critic of the lease plan. "You would have hoped someone in his position would have stopped it."
Chris Bolkcom, a military analyst at the Congressional Research Service, says Wynne's nomination could generate new scrutiny of Air Force acquisition practices.
"It doesn't do the Air Force any good if the confirmation hearing is a battle," Bolkcom said. "I think it has the potential to exacerbate the painful position the Air Force is in."
One of the strongest critics of the tanker plan was Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a member of the Armed Services Committee, which handles Pentagon appointments. McCain could not be reached for comment.
Wynne's nomination comes as the Bush administration continues to have difficulty winning approval for its Pentagon nominees. Earlier this month, Bush used recess appointments to install top policy and international security officials at the Defense Department whose nominations had been blocked on Capitol Hill. If Bush appoints a nominee during a congressional break to a position that normally requires Senate confirmation, that person can hold office until the current Congress ends in January 2007.
The administration has had particular problems with its picks for civilian heads of the military services:
• Former Enron executive Thomas White was forced to quit as Army secretary in April 2003 after clashing with Rumsfeld over the Crusader mobile artillery system. Rumsfeld canceled the program, saying the big gun was too heavy, slow and expensive. The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Enron of improperly shifting profits to the struggling Enron Energy Services division, where White was an executive. White has not been charged with wrongdoing.
• Roche was Bush's first pick to replace White, but he withdrew from consideration in March 2004 after it became clear the Senate would not confirm him.
• Navy Secretary Gordon England has been waiting for months to be confirmed as Rumsfeld's top deputy. England is in his second tour as civilian head of the Navy, having returned in 2003 after eight months at the Department of Homeland Security when his nominated successor committed suicide.
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Picked up five Lantana plants of different colors this year and love them. A 5-year old could grow these! Just water and go :)
My plants seem to actually love the 100 degree days as they get the intense afternoon sun and no shade.
They might be THE most durable plants I have gotten with the SuperBena and some Supertunias right there with them.
Now if only a true blue Lantana were offered...
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PHILADELPHIA – Penn women's tennis (3-0) will be back on the court on Friday afternoon for a 4 p.m. match against Stony Brook. The Quakers are coming off a 7-0 thrashing of the four-time defending Atlantic 10 Conference champions, Richmond, back on Feb. 10. The match against the Seawolves will be Penn's last home match until March 23 against Temple – they will be in Virginia, Florida and Maryland until then.
The Red and Blue have started 3-0 in the spring in two consecutive years for the first time since the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons — the Quakers were the Ivy League Champions in 2007. Additionally, Penn's first-doubles pair of Sol Eskenazi and Sonya Latycheva is ranked No. 22 in the nation and No. 1 in the Northeast Region. That is the highest ranking ever for a Penn duo. They compiled a 10-2 record together in the fall, and are 2-0 in the early going this spring.
Penn and the Seawolves have met just once before, on Feb. 19 two seasons ago. The Quakers fell to Stony Brook, 4-3, and trail 1-0 in the all-time series.
The Seawolves were greatly affected by Winter Storm Nemo, as their first two matches of the spring, scheduled for Feb. 9 and 10 in West Point, N.Y., were canceled due to the inclement weather. Stony Brook comes into 2013 after winning the 2012 America East Championship — its first in school history. The defending champions are led by senior Nini Lagvilava, the 2012 America East Player of the Year, and sophomore Polina Movchan, the 2012 Rookie of the Year.


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Secretary-General meets with Chairperson of UNCITRAL
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On 13 October 2011, Mr. Salim Moollan (Mauritius), Chairperson of the forty-fourth session of UNCITRAL, met with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at United Nations Headquarters in New York to update him on the current work of UNCITRAL, on the challenges which it faced and on the opportunities which it might seek. Mr. Moollan emphasized UNCITRAL's role as the core institution of the United Nations system for the development of international trade law, while recognizing that there was still room to improve the visibility of UNCITRAL and its texts. He also noted that UNCITRAL was facing significant challenges in its endeavours to continue to fulfill its mandate. As a way of seeking alternative ways to fulfill its mandate within the current constraints, Mr. Moollan noted that UNCITRAL will establish UNCITRAL regional centres to increase the regional presence of UNCITRAL, with the first UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific to be established in January 2012.


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South Buffalo supervisors approve 8-mile natural gas pipeline
South Buffalo Supervisors on Monday approved a plan by EQT Gathering to build an 8-mile natural gas pipeline through the township.
The line would enter the township at its border with North Buffalo, continue south and cross under Route 28, then snake toward McVille Road, where an above-ground valve will be located.
From there, the pipeline will continue southeast and exit the township under the Allegheny River near the border with Freeport.
EQT Corp., EQT Gathering's parent company, doesn't have gas wells in South Buffalo.
The 16-inch natural gas gathering line would connect with a larger, 21-mile system intended to transport gas east toward Elderton, where the company has a compressor station.
A compressor station in North Franklin Township will provide enough pressure to get the natural gas through South Buffalo, company officials said.
EQT representatives presented their plans during a public hearing on Monday where some residents expressed concerns about safety, given the pipeline could carry gas at a pressure between 750 and 1,400 pounds-per-square-inch.
"I have a home that is exceedingly close to the pipeline and I'm concerned about that," said Brad Milliron, who said his home on Ford City Road sits about 185 feet from the center of the pipeline. "That doesn't make me sleep very well at night."
Some homes could be located closer to the pipeline. The company has negotiated 50-, 75- and 100-foot permanent rights of way, said EQT regional land manager Richard Meder.
Safety measures include sensor valves, which can be remotely accessed, that will monitor for leaks or other problems in the pipeline and shut off the movement of gas if needed, he said.
The line will be marked and registered with the PA One Call system, so that excavators are made aware of its location when they call before digging.
Registration has been a concern in the township since a road crew hit an unmarked line that wasn't registered.
Supervisors approved the project on several conditions, including that EQT provide a safety record, hold a safety meeting with township officials and emergency responders, provide a certificate of liability insurance and the class of pipe that will be used.
The pipe thickness and gauge of steel required by state and federal regulations varies by class. Class is based on state-determined population spans and ranges from class one in rural areas to class four in a city.
With the experience they gained during NiSource Midstream Services' construction of a high-pressure natural gas pipeline through the township, supervisors will know how to tackle problems, said Supervisor Terry Van Dyke, who is also the township's road superintendent.
"I'll be keeping a close eye on them," he said.
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Do you realize who came up with W.I.N. in 1974? Alan Greenspan! And you thought you were stuck in a going-nowhere job.
In 1974, Emerson Lake & Palmer released Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends, a tone-deaf song that was resurrected last week on one of the Friends specials.
And in 1974, The Six Million Dollar Man made its debut. Not that anybody has built a bionic person who can run in slow motion to a strange clicking sound. But a number of things have been popping up that begin to meld humans and machines, blurring distinctions between the two.
For instance, there's the important and deeply scientific experiment being conducted among the barely clothed patrons of Baja Beach Club in Barcelona. They're getting electronic credit cards implanted under their skin.
Beautiful club-goers have a problem: If you're going to wear a halter top and micro-skirt, there's not much of anywhere to put a wallet. And who wants to carry a purse when you're there to dance? Luckily, a company called VeriChip this year unveiled a solution based on radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.
It's a slender glass capsule about as long as a dime is wide. Inside sits a computer chip, which stores a unique code that can identify an individual — sort of an electronic Social Security number. The capsule also holds a tiny antenna, which can radio that code to a receiver many feet away.
At the Baja Beach Club, Tuesdays are VeriChip implantation days. Stop in and a "nurse" — the club's word — uses a syringe to inject a VeriChip capsule under your skin. There don't seem to be any rules about where on the body it has to be placed. If you think this sounds like something you'd never do, then you're not the kind of person who goes to clubs wearing your bestest nose ring.
Once implanted, you become your own credit card. Need to pay for a drink? Wave your implant near a reader, and you're done. VeriChip has dreams of going global with its "human implantable ID technology" — once implanted, you could wave a body part to pay for a burger at Wendy's, a beer at a baseball game, or whatever.
There are a few kinks to be worked out, like the fact that you can't turn the chip off. Privacy groups are going to dog-pile on that one.
Another company is taking the idea of implanted radio-enabled chips to a different level. Cyberkinetics of Foxborough, Mass., calls itself "a leader in the rapidly emerging field of brain computer interfaces." The company makes BrainGate — which, despite the 1974 analogies here, is not a reference to a scandal involving someone's brain.
When implanted in a person's brain, the device can allow that person to control a computer just by thinking. It is essentially a mouse moved by brain waves. Last month, the company got federal approval to implant the chips in five paralyzed people as a test.
While the first uses of BrainGate would be to help the paralyzed, certainly such devices could eventually be implanted in healthy people. The military has visions of pilots flying planes by thought. Imagine what the porn industry — always on tech's cutting edge — could do with hands-free computing.
Another recent development suggests that people might someday be able to see in the dark. Earlier this year, Raytheon announced its Thermal-Eye 2600AS technology. This allows thermal-imaging cameras — the kind that lets people see at night or through smoke — to be small enough to be built into a firefighter's helmet. Instead of a bulky camera, thermal imaging can become almost a part of a firefighter.
The company says the technology can keep getting smaller and better. Someday perhaps it could make regular eyeglasses into night-vision glasses, or even contact lenses. All those promises my mother made about eating carrots might finally come true.
Progress in bionics isn't just about putting electronics into humans. In some cases, it's about putting humanness into electronics. Like when a group of researchers and drama students recently turned on Valerie, who sits behind a desk at Carnegie Mellon University and has the title of "roboceptionist."
Valerie looks like a 21st century scarecrow. Her head is a flat computer screen that projects her animated face and head. The screen sits on top of an industrial mobile robot that is always dressed in real clothes — the kind you'd see on your typical corporate receptionist. She is equipped with a laser scanner that can detect and track people in the room.
All this is driven by a computer programmed by the scientists at CMU's Robotics Institute and — in the most interesting twist — by the school's drama department, which was charged with giving Valerie character.
To ask her a question, you have to type on her keyboard, but she'll answer in a computer-generated voice. If you take a seat in the waiting area, you'll hear Valerie talk on the phone to her friends or her "motherboard" about all her problems, including how she hates to date vacuum cleaners.
It might seem whimsical, but Valerie pushes at the boundary between machines and humans — a step toward the Robot on Lost in Space, the most likable character on the show.
There will be a lot more news about the merging of machines and humans. University labs are doing research. Companies are being started.
Meanwhile, hopefully 2004 in no other way echoes 1974. I really don't want to have to wear Brut and tube socks again.
Kevin Maney has covered technology for USA TODAY since 1985. His column appears Wednesdays. Click here for an index of Technology columns. E-mail him at: email@example.com.


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I'm hoping for a lot of comments on this one – especially from those of you (Vanx, Claudia…) for whom art is a way of life.
I had the good fortune to attend a conference on teaching the Holocaust at my university yesterday. While I would have preferred they break the event into two days (eight-to-five of that subject is, shall we say, a bit overwhelming), I learned a lot and came away with the sense that I can be a better teacher because of what I learned.
Part of the conference included a trip to the art gallery on campus, where a number of works by Samuel Bak were being displayed. Bak did a fair portion of his growing up in the Vilna ghetto in Lithuania, managed to be secreted out of harm's way by his father and spent the rest of the German occupation hiding in a convent with his mother. She and he were the only members of his family to survive World War II, and Bak has only recently begun to paint about his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust.
Conference members were given about an hour (though it felt like much less) to view the works on display and, if they wished, to talk to the artist, who had graciously made the trip to the university to speak to us. I never managed to get to him, though, because I was completely sucked into his work.
I know about this much about art. I recognize when I "like" something, but much of my art experience has been limited to just that – personal preference. I don't know anything about technique, movements or trends, who's famous and why, or symbolism and interpretation. Even with that ignorance, though, I was able to come away from the Bak exhibit profoundly moved and positively stunned at the layers of meaning present in his work. I was seeing meaning everywhere, and feeling confident that I understood it despite my lack of experience and knowledge in the medium.
I spent most of my time in front of this painting. It's about five feet by six feet, and this photo doesn't – obviously – do it justice; if you click on the image, you should get a full-screen version, though even that doesn't come much closer to speaking to the power of the actual piece. I could go on for quite some time about what *I* see in it, and why I think what I see is so profoundly significant to what I've been studying with my students, but I'm interested to hear other voices. Please, please comment.


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April 20
Windward Boats Presents
9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Kailua Beach Park is located across from Buzz's Restaurant
Boats may be found on the beach where the canal meets the ocean.
Kayaks may be tried out for ½ hour paddle/pedal/sail. The sailing kayak will have sailing demonstration and sailing instructions with David Elgas and Kevin Uyeda.
All kayakers will need to fill out the liability release prior to any demonstration. This release has been attached to this e-mail for your convenience.
If you have a preference for a time slot please call Stan at 808-380-5859 to reserve a particular kayak at a specific time.


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Louise Carroll, UCAR Communications
The most permanent thing that art has given me is the ability to really see the world around me: the beauty in small things, the color in shadows, the abstract arrangement of shapes. When someone says to me, "I'd love to try painting but I have no talent," I say, "Don't set limits on yourself, and paint for the sheer joy of creation, not to please others."
Chris Wold, CGD
Toy castle making
All of these images are transformed through my love of wood into toys. It is especially satisfying to work with hardwoods because of their durability, color, and intricate grain.
Jim Ellis, Design and Fabrication Services
Candle making
With my wife Renee, I've poured and decorated many different styles and varieties of candles made from both paraffin and beeswax. Our candles are made in our spare time in the comfort of our own home. Our goal is to make the finest quality product available for an affordable price. To improve our skills and upgrade our selection of merchandise we attend semiannual candle conventions held by the International Guild of Candle Artisans (IGCA), with whom we are members in good standing. Through these experiences, I have learned that it is never too late to try something new, and that satisfaction is the result of your labors.
Kym Kram, UNAVCO
Rubber stamping
It has been fun learning and teaching new techniques. The best part is watching how excited people get when they learn a new technique and create their own masterpiece!
Hillary Keyes, Library and Information Services
Clothing and jewelry handcrafting
As for my hat painting--well, that started out as a joke. My mother, an avid golfer, has a very unusual name. She was joking one day about having to spell it for the other golfers so often that she should just write it across her forehead. I took the idea and ran with it. I ended up sending her a box of hand-painted golf visors with her name on them. Friends who saw them encouraged me to make more and sell them at craft fairs, and the rest is history!
Susan Jesuroga, COMET
I try to paint at least once weekly as an escape from my left-brain activities at work (supervising the computer group for the COMET program). I paint solely for my own enjoyment since it brings some welcome balance to my often hectic professional life. But with each new painting, it's easy for me to imagine becoming a full-time watercolorist someday.
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Today is a monumental day in American history. It is the day that an American President blatantly disregards public opinion and does an end-run around Congress. Today is the day that Barack Obama's edict to support faux amnesty goes into effect. You can call it anything you want. But let's call it what it actually is: a desperate ploy to secure a voting bloc in the November election. However, President Obama may be doing more harm than good with the wave of his pen. Legalities aside, he's playing with other people's lives by pushing them into a realm of uncertainty. Barack is not thinking about the lives he may potentially ruin; Barack the narcissist is only thinking about Barack and how best these people can be the pawns that help him secure 4 more years in the White House.
Dr. Thomas Sowell said it best:
Whatever the merits or demerits of the Obama immigration policy, his Executive Order is good only as long as he remains president, which may be only a matter of months after this year's election. People cannot plan their lives on the basis of laws that can suddenly appear, and then suddenly disappear, in less than a year. To come forward today and claim the protection of the Obama Executive Order is to declare publicly and officially that your parents entered the country illegally. How that may be viewed by some later administration is anybody's guess.
Employers likewise cannot rely on policies that may be here today and gone tomorrow, whether these are temporary tax rates designed to look good at election time or temporary immigration policies that can backfire later if employers get accused of hiring illegal immigrants.
These innocents are simply a means to an end. Barack Obama is Santa Claus personified today but on 11/7, the rug of the path to citizenship might just be ripped right out from underneath the illegals as they face the future prospect of a President Romney.
Additionally, we have the issue of those who have waited years for the privilege of living in the US and one day becoming a citizen – legally. They have toiled over mountains of paperwork, participated in lotteries from their relevant country to win a coveted spot in the quota, or might even have attended school in the US history to earn a place in line to receive a coveted spot. They helplessly stand by and watch those who have gamed the system, entering the country illegally and cutting to the front of the line, even if not by their own devise. And now being rewarded for it with a short-cut to citizenship.
Effective today, August 15, for a mere $465, the "application" (wink, wink) can be filed by those persons 30 and under who were brought to the United States before the age of 16. Even certain legal infractions will be overlooked (wink, wink again) during the confirmation process – for example, driving without a drivers' license or assuming a false identity for work purposes. Initial estimates projected the program allowing about 800,000 people but actual numbers have swelled and now put the count at 1.75 million. Even more critical is the age bracket. The targeted group being the under 30 crowd will actually put more stress on an overcrowded job market field.
Now, along comes UCLA, announcing that it will officially establish a "college of Illegals!" Christened "National Dream University," UCLA will create a joint program with the National Labor College. This is only open to Illegal Aliens! The prerequisites are as follows: US High School diploma, minimum cum 2.7 GPA, application submission by 10/5/12, and most importantly, demonstrate a commitment to immigrant labor rights and social justice!
Let me get this straight – A National Dream University with a specialty to commit to immigration/labor rights and social justice?? Seems the entire DREAM platform has breaking the law at its core.
Folks, if you were looking for a reason to not vote for Barack, put this one on the top of your list. If you were not looking for a reason, you just found one.


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101 Uses for an Iron Spike
Items (Tools) (Non-Magical)
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108 - Recipe for ceiling mounted machine gun.
1 Halfling (or Gnome, bloody light Human, Elf or 1/2 elf)
6 to 12 iron spikes for the afore mentioned character, plus 1 or 2 for the quivers of arrows
a few short (by comparison) lengths of rope
1 bow and 1 or 2 quivers of arrows
1 hammer (unless you really want to try and hammer them into the stone ceiling by hand), mace, hammer, or other top heavy implement would suffice.
Hammer spikes into ceiling
Secure character to spikes with rope, do the same for the quivers
Have everyone else looking docile below the character on the ceiling, playing the afore mentioned Nim with spare spikes if you wish.
Wait for unsuspecting bad guys to see you and move towards you - hope they fail their spot checks.
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WASHINGTON - Congress is growing increasingly wary of controversial National Security Agency domestic surveillance programs, a concern likely to erupt during legislative debate - and perhaps prod legislative action - as early as this week.
Skepticism has been slowly building since last month's disclosures that the super-secret NSA conducted programs that collected Americans' telephone data. Dozens of lawmakers are introducing measures to make those programs less secret, and there's talk of denying funding and refusing to continue authority for the snooping.
The anxiety is a sharp contrast to June's wait-and-see attitude after Edward Snowden, a government contract worker, leaked highly classified data to the media. The Guardian newspaper of Britain reported one program involved cellphone records. The Guardian, along with The Washington Post, also said another program allowed the government access to the online activity of users at nine Internet companies.
Obama administration officials quickly provided briefings about the programs, and they continue to have strong defenders at the Capitol. "People at the NSA in particular have heard a constant public drumbeat about a laundry list of nefarious things they are alleged to be doing to spy on Americans - all of them wrong," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said last month. "The misperceptions have been great, yet they keep their heads down and keep working every day to keep us safe."
Most in Congress remain reluctant to tinker with any program that could compromise security, but lawmakers are growing frustrated. "I think the administration and the NSA has had six weeks to answer questions and haven't done a good job at it. They've been given their chances, but they have not taken those chances," said Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash.
The House of Representatives could debate one of the first major bids for change soon. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., is trying to add a provision to the military spending bill, due for House consideration next week, that would end the NSA's mass collection of Americans' telephone records. It's unclear whether House leaders will allow the measure to be considered.
Other legislation could also start moving. Larsen is pushing a measure to require tech companies to publicly disclose the type and volume of data they have to turn over to the federal government. Several tech firms and civil-liberties groups are seeking permission to do so.
Other bipartisan efforts are in the works. Thirty-two House members, led by Amash and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., are backing a plan to restrict Washington's ability to collect data under the Patriot Act on people not connected to an ongoing investigation. Also active is a push to require the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which rules on government surveillance requests, to be more transparent.
Late Friday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reauthorized collection of telephone and online data by the federal government, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper revealed. He said the administration was "undertaking a careful and thorough review of whether and to what extent additional information or documents pertaining to this program may be declassified, consistent with the protection of national security."
"It is incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to have a full and frank discussion about this balance when the public is unable to review and analyze what the executive branch and the courts believe the law means," said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who has asked the administration to make the opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court public.


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This black flutter sleeved dress is so flattering, the blue geometic detail adds a bit of fun and interest to an otherwise simple silhouette.
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The dropped waist and looser fit on this makes it easy to wear, and for any occasion... Colorblock gone couture.
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This grant offers funding for workshops, conferences and training opportunities, or to provide funding for arts projects or activities that have not been previously funded by R2AC. Organizations may apply for up to $1,000 to fund projects that would benefit the residents of Beltrami, Hubbard, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, or Mahnomen Counties. Projects must be completed within six months of the grant award date.
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Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 13, 2014
Shanghai's vice mayor on Monday urged cooperation from Hong Kong over China's ambitious new free-trade zone, saying its potential to boost growth will offset any competitive threat to the former British colony.
The FTZ in Shanghai, launched in September, will allow unfettered exchange of China's yuan currency as part of a bold push to reform the world's second largest economy.
But the zone has been seen as a threat to Hong Kong's free economy and its status as a finance hub, with fears that capital might flow out to the FTZ. Observers have said that it could be a warning by Beijing to dampen political protests in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous region of China.
But Tu Guangshao, executive vice mayor of Shanghai, brushed aside those concerns, saying the FTZ could serve as an engine for collective growth.
"We should make proactive efforts to seize the opportunity. It should provide room for (both) Shanghai and Hong Kong (to grow)," Tu said at the Asian Financial Forum conference in Hong Kong.
"I heard people saying that resources may flow from Hong Kong to Shanghai. There is such possibility. But we should rather see... there will be a greater market need."
China formally set up the FTZ in Shanghai on September 29, with the government promoting free conversion of the yuan currency, greater cross-border use of the yuan and interest rate liberalisation.
Hong Kong has fallen to number three in the International Institute for Management Development 2013 World Competitiveness Yearbook, compared to its top spot in 2012.
Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing warned in September that the new FTZ will have a "big impact" on Hong Kong's economy, urging the city to up its game to avoid losing out.
But Tu, citing potential areas for mutual cooperation, said Hong Kong and Shanghai could develop new financial products, adding that both cities will be "motivated" to work together under the new mechanisms to be implemented in the FTZ.
"Hong Kong and Shanghai can together fuel growth in Asia and globally," Tu said.
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The TSP is designed for students who have demonstrated ability and interest in one of the targeted sports.
Entry to the program is competitive. Students must complete an application form and return it to school by the set date. Students may apply to be in the selection trials in a maximum of 2 sports.
The acceptance of a student into the TSP is dependant on satisfying both schooling and sporting requirements:
Students will have their academic reports reviewed by the school. In particular, students must have:
- demonstrated a commitment to school studies.
- displayed a satisfactory record of school conduct and an adherence to school rules.
Coaches will assess the suitability of a student for each respective program. Coaches will base their selections upon:
- the skill level of the athlete.
- the sporting potential of the athlete.
Coaches may also consider the historical performances, ability to work in a team, and level of fitness of an athlete.
Coaches will then indicate to the school their selections based on their assessment.
Given that:
- the selection trials are not conducted for the purpose of coaching,
- there is a large number of students trialled within a given time-frame,
coaches are not required to provide an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of each student, nor are they required to supply assessments as to why students were not accepted into a program.
Trials for prospective Year 7 students take place throughout a two-week period towards the end of Term 2 each year. For students entering the school at various times throughout the year, application forms need to be completed and submitted with appropriate supporting documentation, at which stage trials for entrance into a sport will be arranged.
Sporting Selection Policy
Students representing Endeavour Sports High School in sporting events are selected by their coaches in their respective sports. Coaches will base their selections on their:
- judgement of the abilities/capabilities of each athlete.
- professional experience.
In many situations the mentor of a particular sport may also contribute to the selection process. Where a coach deems it necessary, trials/race-offs may be arranged to assist the final determinations of teams/selections.