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Although he was born just 200 km north of Baltimore,
astronomer Nolan Walborn traveled widely before
returning to this area of the world. When he was
8 years old his family moved to Argentina, where
he attended local schools and became fluent in Spanish.
Returning to the U.S., he did undergraduate studies
at Gettysburg College, back home in Pennsylvania,
and then moved on to the University of Chicago and
Yerkes Observatory to obtain his PhD in astronomy
in 1970. His thesis advisor was one of the giants
of 20th-century astronomy, W. W. Morgan.
After a postdoctoral fellowship in Toronto, Nolan
returned to Latin America for an 8-year staff appointment
at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
He has been on the staff of the Space
Telescope Science Institute since 1984, and
he is a well-known stellar spectroscopist specializing
in the optical and ultraviolet spectra of hot, massive
(O- and B-type) stars and the regions of the Galaxy
and the Magellanic Clouds in which they are formed.
Nolan recalls that his fascination with science
in general and astronomy in particular arose because
of outstanding teachers in high school (Dr. N. Mittelman)
and college (Dr. R. Mara and staff). This fascination
was actually enough for him to abandon his original
ambition to become a jet fighter pilot!
He writes that his astronomical career has allowed
him the great satisfaction "provided by the discovery
of new phenomena, which one has the privilege of
recognizing for the first time." He has been struck
by the "awesome direct views of the Galaxy during
perfect, moonless nights on Cerro Tololo," especially
when "the Galactic Center is directly overhead,
and the brilliant plane of the Milky Way, broken
by dark dust lanes and clouds, stretches from Cygnus
at the northeastern horizon to Carina at the southwestern."
Waxing lyrical, he continues "When beholding such
sights I am impressed by their beauty, but equally
by the satisfaction of understanding them at some
level, which previous generations were unable to
do lacking the benefit of our modern sciences. I'll
never forget the images of 30 Doradus and the globular
clusters Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae through an
eyepiece at the prime focus of the CTIO 4-meter
reflector. Unfortunately, most modern astronomers
no longer have such opportunities, seeing their
targets only on colorless, fuzzy TV monitors--or
not at all with HST!"
When away from STScI, Nolan spends time with his
wife, Laura, from Argentina, who also has an astronomy
degree, and their toddler son Andrew. He enjoys
listening to baroque and symphonic music (Bach and
Vaughan Williams being his respective favorites),
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LaHood announces his exit
It's official — Ray LaHood announced Tuesday that he will leave his post as secretary of transportation, the latest in a line of Cabinet members to step down following President Barack Obama's reelection.
President Obama said "every American who travels by air, rail or highway can thank Ray for his commitment to making our entire transportation system safer and stronger."
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The White House declined to specify a timeline for selecting a successor, and names swirling include Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who would bolster the administration's Hispanic credentials, and NTSB Chairwoman Debbie Hersman, who would give him a female Cabinet pick. Another long-shot candidate could be former Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), who has said he's interested in the job, though his baggage with the administration may hurt his chances.
Other wild card candidates include former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who may be a bit too much of a straight-talking maverick; and Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio), whose outspoken nature may also hurt his chances.
In a telephone interview, LaHood said that Obama asked him to stay on, but the former Republican congressman said this is "probably the best time for me to leave." LaHood said he won't depart until his successor is confirmed, which gives the president some breathing room in selecting a new leader for the Transportation Department at the dawn of his second term.
"He asked me to stay. I've given it a lot of thought. The bottom line is I've been in public service now for 35 years," LaHood said. "I believe in going out while they're applauding. It's a combination of talking it over with my wife and the fact that this was the right time to go."
During his tenure, LaHood launched a full-court press to crack down on distracted driving. He also oversaw several significant rulemakings, including those stemming from an FAA reauthorization last year and a 2010 aviation safety bill that mandated many new aviation safety and consumer protections.

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text: As Gov. Douglas contemplates vetoes of last-minute bills passed by the Legislature, many of his supporters over the past eight years are appealing for his support of H.485, a bill that reforms the Current Use law. Douglas is considering a veto presumably because it restricts a landowner's ability to enroll the land in Current Use for a short time to avoid higher taxes, then take the land out of the program to sell it at a premium. It is, in short, a loophole in the 30-year-old law that was created in the 1990s when a "development penalty" was weakened.


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A robust rental market is making news across the U.S., but the proof is in the pricey pudding.
A robust rental market is making news across the U.S., but the proof is in the pricey pudding.
An Atlanta-based real estate investment group has more than $6 million worth of confidence in Gastonia�s once-foreclosed Chateau Village apartment complex.
Hammond Residential Group Inc., acting as VCP Chateau Village LLC, last week paid $6,037,500 for the apartments and townhomes.
The tax value on the 23-acre property near Ashbrook High School: $7.3 million.
Former owner GMC Charlotte, the North Carolina division of GMC Properties out of Jacksonville, Fla., defaulted in August on a $19.5 million loan from Wells Fargo. GMC Charlotte apparently owed $7.9 on the loan, which was granted in September 2007 before real estate values crashed.
The two- and three-bedroom apartments and townhomes are 38 years old. In the past they�ve rented for $645 to $745 a month.
Chateau Village is in an apartment-heavy neighborhood. Bordeaux Village Apartment Homes opened last year on the same road that leads into the complex.
A Fayetteville construction, development and management company spent $3.5 million to build Bordeaux Village.
Chateau Village is the third foreclosed apartment building to find a new owner in the last month.
Florida-based Quatro Real Estate Group bought a six-home unit in west Gastonia earlier this month for $2.39 million. The units at 3125 Spring Valley Drive went back to lender Fannie Mae in 2011.
And late in December Southwood Realty paid $2.75 million for The Landings apartments at 2249 Hudson Landings Drive.
JP Morgan Chase foreclosed on half the complex in November 2011. That half, phase one with buildings A through L, is the part Southwood bought.
The rest remains the property of Ohio�s The Landings II Limited Partnership.
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Halloween has grown exponentially in the last decade, ballooning into a $15 billion industry. Consumers, who are spending over one billion on Halloween activities, are demanding newer, scarier attractions this season. Hauntworld's list of the top haunted experiences includes the most creative and terrifying haunts anywhere in the U.S., and they have all added something new and special this year.
"There's no creativity ceiling on the Halloween industry. Consumers expect haunted houses to be scarier every year, so the industry has to tap into modern technology, be truly innovative and create the best experiences possible in order to keep people coming back," said Larry Kirchner, owner of www.Hauntworld.com. "The haunts on this year's list are especially impressive and unique. I've never seen such ingenious designs and diversity between the top houses in the country. No two houses on the list have the same theme, and each brings its own brand of artistry to the table – there is something on here for everyone, and if you love Halloween, the houses on this list are a must-see."
Here are the top 15 haunted house attractions in the U.S, as identified by Hauntworld, the world's largest Halloween resource and online directory of haunted houses and activities.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
My old girl Olivia
21 comments:
- Damie said...
- May 24, 2012
- Shad Mika said...
That is f'ing awesome!
- May 24, 2012
- Brandon Fuller said...
Love it.
- May 24, 2012
- Footfeathers said...
I'm not real big on human/wildlife "friendships" but I suppose it's inevitable in certain settings and I feel ok with this setting. Pretty cool.
- May 24, 2012
- Lauren said...
She's a beauty!
- May 24, 2012
- Andy said...
That is too cool!
- May 25, 2012
- Steve Pero said...
Your best post yet....love it. How nice to have a wild animal choose to make friends with "you"! Very rare indeed...
- May 25, 2012
- Shevaun said...
That is tremendous.
- May 25, 2012
- Wyatt Hornsby said...
Awesome. Your kids will always remember Olivia. Most kids today would never have such an experience.
- May 25, 2012
- Wassdoc said...
The two of you are clearly connected:)
- May 25, 2012
- Lucho said...
Mike- I'll be out working on my bike in the shed and she'll just come and sit at the door. Keeping me company.
- May 25, 2012
- Kevin said...
Thanks for sharing
- May 25, 2012
- mtnrunner2 said...
Great photos. What a beautiful animal and a special relationship.
I really enjoy it when wild animals start to relax around me, or I even when I get to know a particular individual. I think that's even happened to me with a bird (barn swallow).
There's a coyote that I see on trail runs, that I wish could relax and realize I mean no harm, but it's just not going to happen.
- May 25, 2012
- Stay Vertical said...
"...I really enjoy it when wild animals start to relax around me..."
Wild animals don't relax around humans. If you get them to relax, then they are not wild animals anymore.
- May 26, 2012
- GZ said...
I am still trying to get Lucho to relax around me so I think he might still be a wild animal.
More seriously ... you wrote this in a way with a combo of pix that was particularly touching.
How do your cats deal with the fox?
- May 28, 2012
- Lucho said...
Ha! Don't try to change me man...
The cats and Olivia get along just fine. I've seen my cat lounging on the deck half asleep and Olivia will walk right by and not even glance at the cat. Flynn though is a big old tomcat that probably weighs the same as Olivia. And when we first moved up here Flynn would chase Olivia away. I think fox are are probably smart enough to not want to fight for a meal and Flynn would be too much to handle.
- May 30, 2012
- Trigirlpink said...
LOVE Oliva! She is the BOMB. I can remember you posting about her when she first came around back then. Three years feels like a blink... Have fun at training camp! Nate is very psyched. :-)
- May 30, 2012
- Lucho said...
Thanks TGP! Ya, the time has gone by.
Ask Nate how psyched he is after 3 days at high altitude running up the Powerline :) I'm ready for some foul language directed towards me. But ya, it's going to be awesome!
- May 30, 2012
- Trigirlpink said...
- May 30, 2012
- Lucho said...
Oh hell ya!
- May 30, 2012
- funny firm said...
That is so cool! It is like you have a pet fox. Who wouldn't want a pet fox. I sure wood. So cool!
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So, what do we have here? It leaked, and day after a high ranked scientist resigned. True, they dont call it Elenin, the name is YU55 Asteroid, but none the less, its coming folks and its coming fast. What most of people that have been researching this topic noticed is they have been confusing us on purpose with all the different names, but if one follows dates it should be more clear.
So, with all this economic changes, Im asking if they are maybe creating this on purpose, to keep eyes of the public from a global threat, one way bigger than Wall Street going down? Factories have been pulling their canned food by tons, saying its been corrupted and cant go to sale like that. Water wells and rivers that never dried, are now dry. Its not the economics making them dry, its the Planet itself, reacting to something. Solar flares and storms? Prolly. But why not notify public and get people ready and prepared for all? Do they really follow their agenda to wipe out the population by two thirds, and they are letting galactic changes do their dirty work?


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36 dogs killed in separate fires 3 weeks apart at New Hampshire kennel
9 dogs found alive after second fire
9 dogs found alive after second fire
9 dogs found alive after second fire
Police in New Hampshire are investigating after three dozen dogs were killed in two separate fires over the past three weeks.
The fires broke out at a kennel where police said German Shepherds are bred in Bristol.
Seven dogs, including two adults and five newborn puppies, were killed in the first fire three weeks ago. 29 more dogs, including three adults and 26 puppies, were killed in a fire Wednesday morning at the same place.
Police executed a search warrant Wednesday and found nine dogs that were still alive.
Police said a knocked-over heat lamp caused the first fire, which destroyed a home on the property. Wednesday's fire at a cottage on the property may also be related to a heat lamp, police said, but they are still investigating the cause.
No charges have been filed.
No people were hurt.
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If This Meltdown Were a Movie
Ben Bernanke would be played by Harvey Keitel, reprising his role as Winston Wolf if we're lucky or Victor the Cleaner if we're not.
The responsibility for this financial meltdown does not rest with him. It was his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, whose stewardship of monetary policy set the stage for the debt-laced consumption rampage of the American consumer and the leverage-soaked financial carnival of mortgage lenders and investment bankers. (If you're keeping score at home, Greenspan still doesn't get it.) Based on his performance so far, I'm nominating Ben Bernanke to the All-Madden team of central bankers.
Bernanke has two broad categories of options:
1) Damned if He Doesn't
Bear Stearns just collapsed--it cannot pay its creditors. What was a liability to Bear Stearns was an asset to some other investor. That asset now has no value. If the other investor was also a financial institution, then it has fewer assets relative to its liabilities and is now less solvent. It may not be able to pay all of its creditors. And so on, all through the leveraged financial sector.
The Fed can act to prevent or mitigate this cascade. Looking at the prospect of contagion, the Fed has acted on two fronts. It has lowered short-term interest rates to prop of asset values across the economy. As discounting for risk has increased, discounting for time has decreased. The Fed has also intervened in specific episodes, directly backstopping private actors like JP Morgan who have stepped in to assume the liabilities of the likes of Bear Stearns.
Bernanke can't sit idly while large financial institutions crumble. There is a perception, if not the reality, of too much collateral damage in the process.
2) Damned if He Does
The Fed is supposed to be the economy's lender of last resort. If a solvent but illiquid bank needs short-term cash and cannot find it on the private market, the Fed should make credit available. Without this backstop, financial institutions would be less willing to take leveraged positions in support of beneficial economic activity.
But sometimes financial institutions take these leveraged positions in support of exceedingly risky activities. This is particularly true when they hold a put option to sell the activity to someone else if its value falls. Any intervention by the Fed extends that put option to would-be speculators, if not today, then certainly in the future.
You can call this Samwick's Law if you like:
If an institution is deemed too big to fail, then it is only a matter of time before it finds a way to get big and fail.
When you provide insurance against outcomes that a financial institution cannot control, you distort incentives on the activities it can control. Specifically, they take on more risk. To address the immediate problem, Bernanke invites the next one. Snotty bloggers two or five or ten years from now may be hanging the next crisis--runaway inflation, a persistent liquidity trap, even more spectacular bubbles in financial markets--around Ben's neck.
The task of finding the least worst way to do the wrong thing is a thankless one, but Bernanke is persevering admirably. Let's see what he does at 2:15 today.


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Welcome to the webpage of the Relativity Group at the FSU Jena
Gravitation is the most universal of the four fundamental forces and dominates the structure of cosmic objects. It is described by Einstein's theory of General Relativity, and due to the rapid development of measuring and observing methods, it is one of the highlights of modern experimental and theoretical research.
The group in gravitational theory and general relativity at the FSU Jena consists of two research groups, which together offer a unique opportunity in Germany for a fully comprehensive education in this field.
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dANCEpROjECt will present its fall/winter concert of new and repertory works at the Knickerbocker Theatre on in downtown Holland on Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 25-27, at 8 p.m.
This concert will feature the premiere of "Helix," a world of colorful simple forms that are both organic and alien, and a new work by guest artist Amanda Drozer of New York City that was commissioned by a grant from the Hope College Patrons for the Arts and features the choreographer in performance with the company dancers.
Also dancing for the company will be guest artist Hiroko Maeda from Japan who, for the first time, will present a woman's interpretation of "Unwritten Letter." The company will also revive "Unet," an exploration of shape, form and symmetry by two figures in a confined space, and the emotionally powerful "Bolero," a popular favorite and one of the company's signature pieces.
dANCEpROjECt, previously known as Aerial Dance Theater, is a diverse movement experience under the guidance of Artistic Director Steven Iannacone which is dedicated to creating and presenting stimulating sophisticated works that entertain Holland-area audiences and audiences beyond the local community; developing serious movement and dance artists who are able to establish themselves in the professional dance community; and providing opportunities for both emerging and established choreographers to create and present their work.
Along with the performances at the Knickerbocker in Holland, the company's touring season includes performances at the Griswold Auditorium in Allegan (October 13), the Detroit Institute for the Arts (November 16, and 17, and December 14) and Temple Theatre in Saginaw (January 22). All the performances will feature atmospheric and technical design work by Erik Alberg, and costumes crafted and designed by Susan Eyler.
Tickets are $7 for regular admission, $5 for senior citizens and students, and free for children under 12, and may be obtained in advance at the ticket office in the college's DeVos Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890. Tickets will also be sold on performance nights at the door, which opens at 7:30 p.m.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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Vintage Halloween greeting card from the USA, circa 1940
Halloween is an annual festival observed on October 31, celebrating the eve of Hallowmas or All Saints Day on November 1. Largely appropriated by the Americans as a spooky celebration involving dressing up and the exchange of candy, Halloween has its roots in the Gaelic/Celtic festival of Samhain, an old Irish word that translates roughly to "summer's end".
Samhain was a complex festival of great importance to the Gaelic peoples, who recognised the importance of balancing the intertwining forces of existence: darkness and light, night and day, cold and heat, death and life. The Celtic year was divided into only two seasons: the light and the dark. Samhain was particularly important because it celebrated not only the coming of the dark season but also the start of the Celtic New Year. The most magically potent time of Samhain was its eve, called Oidhche Shamhna, when huge feasts were prepared and great bonfires (in Gaelic the 'tine cnámh' or bone fire) lit by Druid priests. People and their livestock would walk between two bonfires as a cleansing ritual, and the bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Personal prayers were also thrown into the fire and gifts offered up in thanksgiving for the harvest. It was also believed that the boundaries between the living world and the Otherworld were weakened at Samhain, allowing the dead to return to the places where they had lived. Villagers put out offerings of food and drink for their dead, set places at their tables and left their windows, doors and gates unlocked to give them free passage into their homes. Divination of the events of the coming year was another highlight of Samhain and hazelnuts were often used to foretell the future along with apple peels, which were thrown over the shoulder to reveal the initial of future spouses' names.
Snap-Apple Night, painted by Irish artist Daniel Maclise in 1833. It was inspired
by a Halloween party he attended in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832.
Today, Halloween festivities include activities like trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns out of pumpkins, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories and watching horror films. Some of these traditions date back to Celtic times: apple bobbing was a Samhain custom associated with the legend of Emhain Abhlach ('Paradise of Apples'), also called Avalon, where anyone who found and ate of the fruit of a magical apple tree after traveling across the sea would enjoy a blissful afterlife. Carving guardian jack-o'-lanterns out of turnips and placing them at the door or gate was also a Samhain practice, warding off the malevolent or unfriendly spirits that accompanied the dead on their return to the living world – in turn a throwback to the more grizzly early Celtic tradition of ritually beheading human sacrifices and leaving them at the door as warnings. Young people would put on disguises or swap clothing ("guising") and pretend to be the returning dead to trick their elders. The formalities and social niceties of society were weakened at Samhain along with the barriers separating the living and the dead, allowing for boisterous behaviour and the playing of tricks and mischievous pranks.
the stuff of nightmares. A traditional Irish turnip jack-o'-lantern from the early 20th century. Museum of Country Life, Ireland. Photo credit: Rannpháirtí anaithnid
With Christianisation, Samhain was integrated into the Catholic calendar of festivals from at least the 8th century to become Hallowmas, or All Saints' Day, when the dead who had been canonised that year were honoured. November 2nd became All Souls Day, when prayers were offered to the souls of newly departed and those waiting in Purgatory for entry into Heaven.
While the celebration of Halloween has waned in England and Ireland with the passing centuries, in America it has been reborn - in fact, if it weren't for the Americans taking up the baton with such gusto, the secular festival might have died out altogether. Halloween arrived in America with the first of the Irish and Scottish Catholic colonists. It quickly grew in popularity, probably because it coincided so neatly with the end of the summer harvest. The jack-o'-lantern was changed from a turnip to a pumpkin, because of its plentifulness in American harvests, and divination was conducted with walnut shells rather than hazelnuts. Trick-or-treating and guising also remained popular customs. After the 1930's, the commercialisation of American Halloween began in earnest, with the first mass-produced costumes appearing in stores around this time, along with specialised candies and party decorations. The American celebration of Halloween has had a huge impact on how the event is observed in other countries, and its influence has largely eclipsed the more traditional and beautiful pagan elements. Very popular in many parts of East Asia, in Australia and New Zealand the coincidence of Halloween with the season of spring has robbed the festival of its most important traditional meaning and is barely observed. However, there is still something in the celebration of Halloween for all of us: a time to give thanks for the year past, a time to remember departed loved ones, a celebration of the bond among all people and a sense of community and belonging.
The less scary modern version of the jack-o'-lantern seen today in America. Or is it?
A candle is lit in the mouth of the lantern to guide the dead back to their homes on
Hallows Eve. Photo courtesy of Laszloen.
A sanitised image of Halloween complete with flying witch and haunted house.
Traditional Celtic Chant for Samhain
A year of beauty. A year of plenty. A year of planting. A year of harvest.
A year of forests. A year of healing. A year of vision. A year of passion.
A year of rebirth. A year of rebirth. This year may we renew the earth.
Let it begin with each step we take. Let it begin with each change we make.
Let it begin with each chain we break. And let it begin every time we awake.
References and Further Reading
Kelley, Ruth Edna.Hallowe'en in America.
Knight, Kevin. Halloween and All Saints Day.
Feast of Samhain/Celtic New Year/Celebration of All Celtic Saints November 1. All Saints Parish
HerodotusOctober 31, 2010. The Origins of Halloween Part 1: Samhain and the Celtic Time of Spirits
Traditional Halloween greeting card, Scotland
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Kevin Doyle is National Director of Programs for the Environmental Careers Organzation (ECO), a national nonprofit environmental careers development organization. Mr. Doyle is the editor and primary author for ECO's The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century, which is currently in its third edition. With ECO for almost 20 years, he has been a key player in the creation of an environmental internship program that matches college students and recent graduates with environmental and conservation projects throughout the nation.Let's dive right in. How is the market for environmental jobs weathering the downturn in the US economy right now?
The market for environmental and conservation jobs is reflecting the economy rather than rising above it or being dragged under by the national sluggishness. The number of environmental job openings is down in rough proportion with the general economy. Having said that, there is still a steady demand. Also, there are trends on the horizon that tell me it's getting better, and when it does it will get notably better.
One of the trends is the coming retirements of a large percentage of the current environmental and conservation workforce, especially in federal and state government agencies. The federal government environmental work force is just under 200,000 people, spread out over the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior, Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, etc. Somewhere between 30-50 % are eligible for retirement within the next five years. That doesn't mean they'll all take retirement, but these agencies - as well as the consulting firms that support them and the corporate environmental units that must comply with their regs - are all very concerned about where the next generation of conservation workers are going to come from.
In fact, a major conference on this subject is being held in Washington, DC on October 28-29, 2003. It's sponsored by the US Geological Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USDA Forest Service, Renewable Natural Resources Foundation, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and it should produce some fascinating results. Look for information about the event's findings on the foundation's website at www.rnrf.org sometime before the end of the year.
A second trend pointing toward a lot of new hiring in the not-too-distant future is the huge need to replace and repair much of the environmental infrastructure in the United States and the world. This refers to everything from water and wastewater systems to national parks, national forests and wildlife refuge systems, transportation systems, etc. All of these things will take huge amounts of money in repair and restoration and that will also be reflected in jobs. The U.S. water system alone will require over $200 billion over the next 10-15 years.
A third favorable factor is the very rapid growth of the green or alternative economy - things like organics (not just in agriculture), recycling, alternative energy (especially wind energy), conservation work, fair trade and green investments, products from sustainable forestry practices, eco-tourism, etc... All of these are elements of an economy built on sustainability principles. And even though it's small right now, it is growing by leaps and bounds, which is presenting some very interesting opportunities in employment.
Fourth, there is a growing need for changes in the basic regulatory regime that helped create environmental jobs in the first place. We're not going to be able to go on forever without some significant changes in the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, possibly even the National Environmental Policy Act. Changes to the traditional regulatory regime have been big drivers in the creation of new environmental employment in the past. Changes that pour new federal and state dollars into environmental protection create more and different jobs - and even though the substance of these changes may or may not be approved by the environmental community, change itself can often generate employment.
The last major trend to be aware of is a category that can be referred to as "smart growth." There are still places that are going strong, well beyond maintenance and restoration. Any place that is growing in terms of housing, population, transportation and general development is creating environmental pressures and, therefore, environmental employment.
There is one big thing, however, that has not happened: We're not moving in a dramatic way in the direction of a sustainable economy. That would mean putting into place a policy goal of consciously moving toward an economy based on ecological health, social justice and economic security. Sustainability continues to be the big hope for explosion in the environmental field, but although the conference circuit is cutting down forests of paper talking about it, it is not really happening like it should, and that is very unfortunate.
For those who know they want a job in the environmental field, how do these trends change things for them?
The three most important things for any new person entering the environmental field remain the same as always:
1. Figure out what difference you want to make, what result you want to achieve
2. Identify a community of practitioners that share that same passion and focus
3. Get started, get working
If you're working creatively with the people that matter on something important, you'll never have to worry about finding work. The people who do have to worry, especially in this economy, are the people who are just looking for a box called a job without bringing to it a focus on what results they can achieve for their employer and the environment and the community. Overwhelmingly, the environmental field is looking for people who can achieve results on the issues of the day: global climate change, water quality, smart growth, biodiversity protection, ecological economics, and so forth.
We've gone beyond a focus on diagnosis or simply going through the maze of environmental review and permitting processes. We're so much more focused on the environmental bottom line - clean air and water, greater justice, healthier ecosystems, reduced energy use, serious decreases in greenhouse emissions.
What types of environmental professions are hiring?
There are a few things in demand:
1. Conservation biology - This refers to "results-focused" biology. It's biology that is focused not on answering questions about what is the problem, but on restoring nature, protecting habitats, and slowing down the rate of destruction. Look at the Society for Conservation Biology web site to learn more. There are opportunities for leading-edge conservation biologists throughout the governmental and conservation world, in the natural resource industry, in forestry companies, in electric utilities, agriculture, and the consulting firms that support them.
2. Industrial ecology - Industrial ecologists redesign systems and put new ones in place that achieve dramatic reductions (not just little ones) in emissions, the use of toxics, and other environmental damage. One way to think about it is that the field goes beyond compliance, but it also goes beyond pollution prevention and into dramatically new ways of looking at how we do things.
3. Almost anything related to Water and Wastewater - The fact is that water-related activities and the protection of water resources takes up the overwhelming center of environmental work in the US. Most people can see that playing out in their everyday life: Everyone uses water - every industry, every community, and every species needs clean, healthy water ecosystems.
4. Environmental monitoring - Largely a technological field, this includes things like new advances in sensing technology, satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), nanotechnology, global positioning systems (GPS), and so forth... All of these ways of monitoring the environment are being pulled together, and we can dream about the possibility of a relatively comprehensive system that can help us monitor the natural world and human interactions, almost in real time. Think about, for example, the way we can turn on the television and learn about weather happening right now anywhere in the world. Imagine the possibility of similarly monitoring global climate change, water pollution, biodiversity loss.
5. Environmental policy integration - We need a new generation of policy integration professionals. The previous policy regime has separated air from water, water from soil, different kinds of waste from one another, people from other species, and used political boundaries instead of natural ones. This approach has led to an implementation regime of environmental policy that is uncoordinated, too expensive, hard to manage, and not reflective of how people and the natural world interact with each other. From the international level to the community level, people now are looking for a more integrated way to protect the environment, and our environmental policies and their implementation need to reflect that.
How are cheaper and better global communications affecting the environmental profession?
I can't really speak to the issue of global communications, but the globalization of the economy has had a huge impact on enviromental work in several ways. First, international standards, certifications and trade agreements affect all corporations that want to do business globally - and, of course, that includes many, many American businesses. Second, the biggest markets for water, wastewater, emissions control, solar, wind, hydropower and other infrastructure contracts are in foreign countries, often developing ones. In fact, foreign environmental expenditures top US ones by more than 2:1 ,with the US market relatively stagnant and foreign ones on an upward curve. Finally, environmental companies from Great Britain, Europe, Japan and Asia are competing very effectively against American ones - a list of top 100 environmental engineering and consulting firms, for instance, shows a majority are not from the United States.
How great is the danger of jobs in the US being siphoned off overseas as other countries are graduating environmental professionals who can work remotely for a fraction of the cost?
Well, there are two issues here. One is the involvement of "in country" environmental professionals to handle work in places like Central America, South America, Southeast Asia, China, and so forth. It's an undeniably good thing that local people should work on local environmental and conservation projects, so as the number and quality of environmental workers grows throughout the world, this can hardly be perceived as a "siphoning off" of American work to people overseas. It was never our work in the first place.
The second issue is whether or not the environmental work within our boundaries can be shipped overseas, in the same way that manufacturing jobs can. Some information technology and data analysis work will be, I suppose, but for the most part the job of protecting air, water, soil, ecosystems and human health is a local activity. There's no factory or customer service call center that can be moved to, say, Bangalore.
Is an anti-environmental administration, like that of President Bush, good, bad or neutral for the environmental job market?
I'm uncomfortable characterizing the current administration in any way - I'll leave that judgment to others. That said, there has been an overall negative effect on environmental employment, but mainly at the margins. For example, under the Bush Administration, we still have wildlife refuges, national parks, EPA, the Energy Department, and so forth. Most of the day-to-day activities of managing these large environmental responsibilities remains relatively unaffected by the political viewpoint of the current administration. Permanent federal employment was slow or declining under Clinton/Gore, and that's continuing under Bush II.
What is affected, though, is the prospect for future growth. For example, there is no employment growth inspired by new regulations, or by a priority placed on environmental improvement, or by expanded grants and loans to state and local government, or by increases in investments in new technologies and sustainable industries. These things are not happening under the current administration, and are not expected to happen - especially given the huge expenditures needed for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Which sectors benefit, which suffer?
Politics definitely affects contributions to the nonprofit sector - usually positively. However, the nonprofit environmental community itself has different sectors, roughly called activism, management and education.
Activism receives a boost because "crisis" brings contributions and the Bush Administration policies can certainly be described in a way that inspires a desire to fight back by many in the enivronmental community.
Environmental management nonprofits find that there is no single pattern connecting politics and financial growth. The land trust community, for example, is doing pretty well in ways unrelated to who is in the White House. From The Nature Conservancy down to the smallest land trust, there are more people earning a living in these kinds of nonprofits. Certainly, the last few years of stock market downturn have affected nonprofit finances at least as much as the election results have. See the Land Trust Alliance web site for more detailed information.
Education is the third nonprofit sector, including nature centers, aquariums, zoos, arboretums, etc. These institutions are dramatically affected by downturns in the overall economy, and many now are suffering some serious problems.
What's your advice to young people with regard to getting an environmental education that will prepare them for the work force?
1. Don't be afraid of science and technology. Regardless of what path you take, whether you want to be a journalist, lawyer, eco-tourism guide, lobbyist, marine biologist or whatever, you will need it. Science and technology is crucial to effective environmental work.
2. Don't focus too narrowly on the professional field that you want to enter. Focus on the results that you want to achieve in the world. In other words, if your goal is to help affect a decrease in global pollutants, or to work for social and environmental justice, then this is what you need to keep in mind when you approach your education. Let your ultimate goals guide you to your educational needs, instead of the other way around. Don't ask, for instance, "what can I do with a geography degree?". Instead ask, "Is a geography degree a good preparation for what I want to do?"
3. The best new environmental professionals will combine complementary fields and degrees. For example, someone with a bachelors degree in environmental engineering and a masters in business administration; or a BS in biology with a law degree (JD); or a person with a joint masters in environmental science and public administration. These complementary educational paths dramatically increase people's employability, as well as their ability to make a difference in the world. The only place this would not be true would be in highly technical fields that are in demand unto themselves - for example, sophisticated remote sensing systems.
4. Don't steer clear of politics. The argument for sustainability seems so self-evident to many of us that we sometimes wish it could be imposed from on high through strategic plans, cadres of professionals, and rigorous codes. That's not how this country works. Just as non-technical people need to embrace the requirements of science and engineering types, so the consistently logical need to allow for emotion, special interests, grassroots organizing, negotiation, compromise and, well, democracy!
Closing Comment
View environmental work as a long-term career, and don't be waylaid from your ultimate career goals either by early job search difficulties or by early job successes. It may be just as easy to be pulled away from your goals by "golden handcuffs" as by unemployment.
More than anything - build and maintain your network with other creative people who are doing the work that you want to do. In times of trouble, your network of friends and colleagues will help you out more than anything else - and in the good times, you'll have more fun!
EDITOR'S NOTE: For more information about Environmental jobs and careers, see excerpts from ECO's book, The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century:
- The Environmental Job Search.
- The Most Popular Environmental Careers .
- Education for Your Environmental Career.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Friday Rock Out: The Clash - London Calling
It was 30 years ago this month that The Clash unleashed the greatest rock 'n' roll album of all time on an unsuspecting public. And three decades later, it still sounds pretty sweet.
Mark December 14 on your calendars as London Calling Day, and blast your eardrums into oblivion for the day. You'll be glad you did.
Your Tom Cheek Reminder
Tom's still hanging tough at the top of the leaderboard of the Facebook Hall of Fame thingy. We're not sure that the group of former honorees are going to give a fadoo.ca about the vote totals on this new-fangled website, but we still kinda think that if Tom walked away with half the internet vote, it would be hard to deny him. So hit the Facebook poll and click until it hurts.
And incidentally: If you run into Bob Uecker anywhere this winter, be sure to put in a good word for Tom to him.
10 comments:
- eyebleaf said...
The important thing is that we all give a fadoo.ca.
I have never heard this album you speak from, from The Clash. I must expand my horizons.
And farewell, Marco. I mean that in the most non-literal sense. I hope he bombs. Nothing personal, just business.
- December 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Absolutely... best album... ever
- December 4, 2009 at 12:29 PM
- Peter D said...
I am hearing whispers of possible Blue Jay interest in David DeJesus, as he could fill hole in RF and bat lead-off. Personally I think he makes too much for what he provides, which is mediocre numbers across the board. I would especially hate to give up anything of value to get him.
- December 4, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Great song, underappreciated band.
For a great take on that song: Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, Dave Grohl and Elvis Costello
- December 4, 2009 at 2:01 PM
- eyebleaf said...
I just read Handsome Tony Viner's comments from yesterday's post. Which means I've been giggling like a jackass for the past few minutes.
Handsome Tony Viner has swept me off my feet. With his handsomeness.
- December 4, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- The Ack said...
So good I just dropped a tweet sampling some of HTV's stylings. Bam.
- December 4, 2009 at 2:46 PM
The Clash is under-appreciated?! How much fawning admiration does a band need before they are appropriately appreciated?
I love the Clash, but I think they are appreciated quite enough. Big Audio Dynamite is under-appreciated!
- December 4, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Joe Inglett claimed by the Rangers off of waivers. Not exactly sure where he'll fit in as I didn't really know he could skate? Maybe he's there to beat some fucking sense into that asshat Avery.
Shit, even the Rangers are dipping into our talent pool. If it wasn't for cro-magnon doppelganger Messier, the Isles would still be chanting "1940!, 1940!'' at those reprobates.
Shame really, I thought Inglett coulda done something in baseball. If this decision works out for the Jays, well, I defer to Handsome Tony's Omnibus plan - in Handsome Tony I Trust. Doubting the man is nothing but a fool's errand, a waste of time that you'll never get back.
- December 4, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- Bitey said...
Is it wrong that London Calling is probably my least favourite track from that album?
- December 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM
- BlueDot said...
Spanish bombs, baby!
- December 4, 2009 at 8:39 PM


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Helen Greenwald is a musicologist, cellist, and translator. Her scholarly interests center on vocal music of the 18th–20th centuries, and her work has appeared in such journals as 19th-Century Music, Acta Musicologica, Music & Letters, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Current Musicology, The Mozart-Jahrbuch, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, The Music Library Association's Notes, Studi musicali toscani, Newsletter of the Résource Internationale d'Iconographie Musicale, Verdi Forum, and Cambridge Opera Journal.
She is the convenor and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Opera (Oxford University Press, 2014), a volume of fifty essays by an international array of scholars. Her critical edition of Rossini's Zelmira (Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, 2005) was premiered August 2009 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, under the direction of Roberto Abbado with Juan Diego Flórez in the role of Ilo, and was recently released on DVD (Decca, 2012). Her critical edition of Verdi's Attila (University of Chicago Press; Ricordi, 2013) was premiered in 2010 by Riccardo Muti in his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 2013 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) selected Greenwald's edition of Attila as a featured project.
Greenwald has presented papers in the international forum, including the 1991 International Mozart Congress (Salzburg), the 2001 Verdi Congress (Parma), the Royal Music Association, the British Society for Music Analysis, the biannual British 19th-Century Music Conference, the Salzburg Symposium, the American Musicological Society, the International Musicological Society, the Society for Music Theory, the New England Conference of Music Theorists, the Music Theory Society of New York State, and the Modern Language Association. Greenwald was also contributing curator and consultant to the international exhibition "La Scena di Puccini," shown September 2003–February 2004 at the Fondazione Ragghianti in Lucca, Italy.
Greenwald also writes regularly for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera. She was Visiting Professor of Music at the University of Chicago in 2008. Her current project is the critical edition of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana for Bärenreiter.
B.S., M.A., Hofstra University; M.Phil, Ph.D., Provost's Scholar, City University of New York; Certificate with honors in German, University of Vienna. Cello studies with David Wells, George Ricci.


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As the long velvet curtains closed behind Lucien I considered my options. On the one hand, he did tell a good story, on the other hand...
In a heartbeat, ironic turn of phrase don't you think, I'm sprinting through the long hall, hoping I can find the exit. It's not going to be back up those stairs, so I plunge through the ground-floor door and skid to a halt in a tiled-floored lobby.
I have a quick look round – there's a door ahead of me and one to my left, but it's the big iron-bound oak door to my right that looks like my best best, I reckon. I dash past a rail of coats and muddy boots and throw my shoulder against the door. And bounce off. It's locked. Shit.
Oh, hang on, this door's got one of those posh locks on it that means it's locked from the outside, but has a latch on this side so you can always get out. I flick the latch, haul the door open – why do you always push a pull door when you're panicing – and dive through.
There's the brief sensation of gravel under my bare feet. Next thing I know, I'm going arse-over-tit, coming to rest upside down in a flowerbed. I'd expect to be winded, but I'm not. Odd, that. Lucien's leaning against the front wall rubbing the scuff mark off his shoe where he tripped me.
'I told you you'd never make it,' he says, helping me to my feet. 'You'd best come back inside, the sun will be up in an hour.'
The sun? What the hell does that have to do with anything, I wonder.
Lucien slings an arm around my shoulders and propels be back into the house. I mutter every curse I can think of, and he chuckles when I get to, "may his ears turn to arseholes and shit down his neck." I glare at him out the corner of my eye.
'Aren't you going to lock that?' I tip my head towards the front door as Lucien kicks it shut behind us.
'No need. Once the sun rises, neither of us is going anywhere.'
So, the part about sunlight and vampires must be true, but why's he including me in that statement?
Reality dawns with a suddeness that makes my legs turn to jelly and my stomach turns over. Lucien catches me before I fall, but can't stop me chundering a mixture of whisky and bile all over his expensive-looking carpet.
I swear, if he says, 'Better out than in,' I'll swing for him.
'The Purge has begun. Good,' is what he says instead and I still want to take a swing at him, but I'm feeling decidedly wobbly so he half-carries me back to the armchair and sits down opposite.
My head's spinning and I'm not sure I'm taking this all in. I only dimly notice Lucien placing a bucket next to my chair before the rest of the whisky comes back up.
'How long?' I croak.
'The Purge?'
I nod, weakly.
'Twenty four hours, or thereabouts.'
Looking back on it, I'm quite surprised it doesn't take longer to remove every last, lingering shred of my humanity. You'd think it'd take longer.
'You will feel better once the Purge has run its course. You might even feel like eating something by tomorrow.'
Did he say eating someone? I'm having real trouble keeping up. Feels like my brain is being extracted through my eye sockets with a blunt teaspoon.
'Rest, don't try to talk. You will need all your strength later.'
Rest? No kidding! I'll put my plans for running the London marathon on hold for now then, shall I?
'Since you seem to be prepared to listen to the rest of my story, I shall continue.'
Prepared to? Prepared to?! And just what else did I have on my social calendar for this evening? As I feel as weak as a kitten and probably couldn't stand even if I wanted to, I decide it might be better not to mention this out loud.
Lucien's eyes narrow. Oh shit, he thought-heard me again.
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I know not whether I slept or was unconscious but, as I later discovered, I lay beneath that pile of stones for two days and nights until my strength returned and I was finally able to claw my way out. I was still weak, as you are now, but I was alive. Or so I believed.'


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Swine Flu Crisis May Overshadow 100-Day Milestone
By Ben Pershing
Even for presidents, the best-laid plans can sometimes go awry. So as Wednesday's 100-day milestone approaches, watch closely to see whether the White House's carefully choreographed effort to tout the administration's accomplishments and lay the groundwork for more big-ticket initiatives is instead overshadowed by a public health crisis.
Swine flu has dominated headlines for the last two days, presenting President Obama with an unexpected challenge. The U.S. has declared a "public health emergency," though Janet Napolitano yesterday cautioned, "That sounds more severe than really it is." Administration officials did say they expect many more cases of the flu to be discovered in the coming days, which ensures that the focus on this crisis will only grow as the week progresses. Is there anything Obama can or should be doing to address the crisis that he isn't already? It doesn't appear so, but it does appear that his Wednesday prime-time press conference could end up being dominated by flu talk, which is certainly not how the White House drew it up.
The swine flu crisis and the rest of the world's problems didn't stop Obama from playing golf Sunday. The president's poll numbers are good enough that the White House presumably isn't too concerned that Obama's political enemies will take pictures like these and try to portray him as elitist or out of touch. At Sunday's press briefing on swine flu, Robert Gibbs was asked: "What if anything are we meant to read into the fact the President Obama decided to go golfing today? Is this part of your effort to reassure Americans that there's no need to panic?" Gibbs said he wouldn't "draw a direct conclusion" between the flu news and the golf outing, but that's our job in the press -- to read meaning into every single thing the president does. (By the way, Obama lost yesterday. Does that symbolize something?)
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Past swine flu outbreaks have been spread from pigs to humans, who then passed the flu on to other humans. However, with A-H1N1, there have been no reported infections of pigs. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), A-H1N1 has gene segments from North American swine, bird and human flu strains and a segment from Eurasian swine flu.
Where are the pigs that spread this flu?
Posted by: seemstome | April 28, 2009 3:44 AM | Report abuse
The first 100 days is a manufactured issue of no significance. The swine flu epidemic may or may not be an important issue but considering how much press it is getting I suspect it too is manufactured. MSM only gets it right by accident. They will not spend what it takes to be relevant.
Ben Pershing, you are second rate, but I am not telling you something that you don't already know. It is not your opinions I find so offensive, it is your banality.
Posted by: Gator-ron | April 27, 2009 5:31 PM | Report abuse
Keep an eye on Rove and Cheney. They pull their worst stunts when the media are preoccupied. Last time the media was this preoccupied a key witness to illegal Bush administration actities was killed, and few took notice.
Most European countries have reasonable sick leave, and family leave policies, which decreases the chances of bringing home diseases that could be deadly to our children. Not us. The party of "Family Values" has turned us over to the market, sold us for a quick buck like they always do. Republicans hate Americans when they're through using them.
Posted by: rooster54 | April 27, 2009 3:52 PM | Report abuse
Bye Bye MSM...
Posted by: JohnQuimby | April 27, 2009 2:55 PM | Report abuse
8 years of this intellect- Worldwide Americans do not even rank in the top 25 for education –
Now the 'JUST SAY NO' Party will begin their ignorant rhetoric and worry about the border NOW----
All the while, apparently no concerns with 'our national security' while the "Party of NO' and the Bush administration allowed the wide open borders for the last 8 years to exist?
Now the 'C' mentality will add to the list of CLEANUP for OBAMA to handle--the 'A' student.
Oh well- I am sure he will.
Posted by: sasha2008 | April 27, 2009 1:53 PM | Report abuse
OMG ! It just hit me as to who started this Swin-Flu !!!!!
If you plot the time-line carefully, guess who came-out -of-hiding from underneath his rock, just before the outbreak ?? ''THE SWINE'' himself, - - - DICK CHEYNE !!!!!!!!!!!!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: mewindows | April 27, 2009 12:03 PM | Report abuse
Thank you Congresswoman Giffords!
I am one of the more susceptible to swine flu seniors(70).
Your effords on opening our southern border to illegal aliens by decriminalizing those employers who hire illegals is a magnificent way to reduce both unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare as well as current cash outflows for both. KILL THE SENIORS OFF WITH SWINE FLU. You do recall the whole of America has been told illegals only fill jobs Americans won't do - FAST FOOD for example.
Your failure to act responsibly as our elected representative has now put millions of Americans as well as Arizonans at risk of premature death. Who is going to stop and screen the flow of illegals accross our border? The DRUG Lords who are paid to guide them across?
Your support for a President who makes the following public statements is obscene as is your effort to decriminalize employers of illegals. Obama: Swine flu cause for concern, not alarm. U.S. launches border screening after declaring public health emergency. Newspapers: NATIONS RACE TO CONTAIN SWINE FLU.
Posted by: PRRWRITER | April 27, 2009 11:09 AM | Report abuse
You know, there was spending for pandemic flu preparation in the Stimulus Bill.
The Republicans insisted that it be removed.
Posted by: nodebris | April 27, 2009 10:37 AM | Report abuse
Most people's immune systems have experience with previous swine flu variants.
The danger is nowhere near as great as bird flu was.
A lot of this is just an excuse for anti mexican xenophobia.
As a patriotic America, I apologise to them for this very un-American response.
Posted by: svreader | April 27, 2009 10:22 AM | Report abuse
re: "100 Days" press conference
Mr. President:
The Senate Armed Services Committee report on "enhanced interrogation techniques" used at Guantanamo stated at least twice that detainees were subject to "induced physical weakness and exhaustion."
The report also stated that detainees were subject to "physiological and psychological pressures" and "environmental manipulation."
Has your administration inquired as to what "induced" these effects...
...and whether detainees were exposed to microwave radiation devices such as so-called "directed energy weapon" discharges... or any other type of radiation, including X-rays, gamma rays, sonic waves, or laser "dazzlers"?
If detainees were exposed to radiation, does that not constitute "torture" and "cruel and unusual punishment" in and of itself?
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Posted by: scrivener50 | April 27, 2009 10:13 AM | Report abuse
Some cheap shots from Pershing's rifle...The idiot at the press conference who implied that President Obama should have abstained from a day on the golf course because of 8 American cases of the "swine flu" should have been identified by name. And what is wrong with any administration wanting to highlight its achievements at the media-hyped 100 day benchmark? "Choreographed?" Is trying to contain an economic depression and the loss of jobs and home foreclosures that are its consequence, dealing with two wars in which our men and women in uniform are being killed and maimed every day, restoring the diplomatic standing of the US in the world, dodging the rotten tomatoes the Republicans toss at every move he tries to make, putting forward a health care plan that will become even more imperative if there is a major epidemic, flu or otherwise, some sort of "dance" the Obama administration is performing?
Pershing needs to find more deserving targets for his sniping.
Posted by: profco | April 27, 2009 9:52 AM | Report abuse
Takes the pressure off of 100 days and allows the administration to be seen as something other than partisan.
Posted by: parkerfl1 | April 27, 2009 8:41 AM | Report abuse
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It's so ironic how I wrote about 'grabbing opportunities that come your way' in one of my recent posts. We just missed an opportunity of a lifetime for Philippine basketball. Our recent 4th place finish in the FIBA Asia, which was held in Wuhan China, drew mixed emotions. On one hand, it was a great success because the team was able to make it to the Final 4 quite convincingly after a series of victories against UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Japan and Syria in the elimination round and against Chinese Taipei in the Quarterfinals. Basketball experts say the top 4 finish hasn't been done in 20 something years and probably the best finish since the emergence of the middle eastern nations. But after the quarterfinals, horror began!
I talked about painful losses, but the wounds of this one will take a lifetime to heal. I thought I'd somehow get used to dealing with lost games/tournaments but this one is just the most painful and most difficult.
The loss against Jordan in the semifinals was tough and painful, but nothing compared to the one against Korea. Jordan is a tall, experienced and skilled team, not to mention they have Coach Baldwin whom I truly respect not only because of his ingenuity and professionalism inside the hardcourt but also his kind, humble and friendly personality off the court. Those who closely followed the FIBA Asia would know that Iran (ranked #1 in the QF) was the clear favorite to make it to the finals, and we knew that if we can get pass Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals, that we would have to face a huge road block , which is Iran. Having included Kazemi in their lineup, Iran has never fielded a stronger team. But guess what, they were upset by Jordan in the quarterfinals. When we heard this, we suddenly saw a crack in the door leading up to the Olympics. This was because we knew we would match up better with Jordan than Iran and that we've defeated them several times in prior games including that in the elims.
Unfortunately, the Jordanians were very focused and they did their scouting homework excellently , causing us to lose our offensive fluidity, as a result of their switching man-zone defenses. I will not expound on the details anymore. Basically, they deserved to win that game.
In the game against Korea for the bronze medal, it was pretty much a won game for us until the dying minutes of the 4th quarter where Korea got their shooting confidence. One layup or a pair of free throws would have put our lead up to 12 or 14 points coming into the last 5 minutes of the game and that would have been enough to put the Koreans away. But no, instead, they brought the lead down to single digits and it gave them hope until they finally found their shooting stroke and ended up winning by 2 points! That shocking game for us will be recorded as one of the greatest comebacks in the Korean history books.
What makes it more painful, was that we had everything going our way. From the body language of both teams at the beginning of the game, our players were more energetic, motivated and clearly wanted the win more. Korea had an 8pm game the night before and they look very tired. Our defense made them miss a lot of shots throughout the game, but they also missed 3 or 4 point blank layups in the 1st quarter. Some of their key players were even injured. Everything was going right for us until the unexpected happened! We were stunned!
One of the main reasons why I felt some regret is because we missed a golden chance to place ourselves in the history books by at least bringing home a medal for the country. That hasn't been done in decades, not even by some of our basketball idols. We had it in the palm of our hands but somehow it slipped away.
I have to admit that the Pinoy fans have been extremely supportive and appreciative of the result but still there's that feeling of disappointment that we could have made them even more proud, knowing that the Philippines is still a basketball-crazy nation! It was so close. We've been receiving very supportive and appreciative messages on twitter, and since we got back, right when we stepped off the plane or wherever I go, people would go up to me and congratulate me for a job well done but there's always that expression of 'Sayang!' whether explicitly said or not. You can see it through their faces.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Sunday's Senior Day celebration was a day full of deja vu for the Golden Eagles, as they found themselves in yet another extra inning battle with the Skyhawks of UT Martin. The two teams fought through 11 innings of play before senior Trice Powers' single appearance of the contest yielded the second straight, 8-7, walk-off win of the series for Tech.
Martin took the early 1-0 lead in the top of the first on an RBI double by Chase Okey hitting in the two spot, but surrendered it quickly in the bottom of the frame on a one run double by Chad Oberacker and an RBI groundout by Ben Burgess.
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The Golden Eagles notched a 7-6 lead at the bottom of the eighth inning, putting up one run on a hit and two Skyhawk errors, the first of which put designated hitter Tevis Sherfield on base with one out for Chad Hayes, who moved Sherfield to second with a single through the left side. A second error put lead-off man Austin Wulf on first and scored Sherfield, putting Tech on top with the chance to hold Martin in the top of the ninth for the win.
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Sherfield would end his day going 2-for-5 with one run scored and an RBI for Tech, which had six hitters combine for the team's eight runs on 14 hits. Leading the way offensively was Oberacker, who went 4-for-6 at the plate with two runs scored and an RBI on the day.
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With the sole out of the inning posted, Trice Powers was called from the dugout to pinch hit for Michael Morris. Powers laid down a perfectly executed squeeze bunt and reached first on a fielder's choice as Oberacker sped home, sliding in to beat the play and clinch the win and the weekend sweep for Tech.
Powers' appearance marked only his tenth at-bat and only RBI of the season, as well as his first career walk-off performance.
On the defensive end, Oberacker pitched the final 7.1 innings of the game for Tech, surrendering just two runs on four hits and notching nine strikeouts for the win, improving to 2-2 on the year. Martin's Alex Boshers demonstrated equal tenacity, making his second appearance of the weekend and pitching through 9.2 innings after starter Wes Patterson left the game in the first inning due to an aggravated injury. Boshers shouldered the loss, allowing six runs – for of the earned – on 12 hits, falling to 4-2 on the season.
Tech's improved record of 23-25 overall, 11-10 in the conference leaves them in fourth place in conference standings. They'll head to Murray State for their final regular season series of the season next weekend before the commencement of the 2011 post-season tournament in Jackson, Tenn.