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LIVE: The Beards – The Black Box, Belfast
"We are The Beards. We have beards. We like beards. We'd like to welcome everyone with a beard." No prizes for guessing the subject of focus for the evening. Their opening statement establishes the theme of the night; the eager appreciation of facial hair through the medium of song. Touring throughout Europe on their "Euro-bout to Grow a Beard" Tour, the comedic 4 Piece are spreading the virtues of facial hair on an international scale.
Warming up the stage in the same manner a set of whiskers would warm your chin are Belfast trio The HardChargers. Their blend of dirty blues roots and electrified psychobilly engages the crowded Black Box nicely. With lead work reminiscent of Rory's Irish Tour and proficient use of the washboard their performance shadows that of Bob Log III and Seasick Steve as far as gritty demeanor is concerned.
Musically their set progresses without much deviation from the gristly aural onslaught though this isn't a performance concerned with showcasing the groups sensitivity to genre definition. Best enjoyed with a bourbon or twelve, the group make no apologies for their scuzzy disposition, and wrap their set up with their newest release, "Too Little Too Late" featuring a change from resonator to standard electric and from washboard to full kit. Perhaps a herald of what's to come from the group in coming months?
After a short interval the lights dim, the sound of hundreds of voices chanting Beards! Beards! Beards! Is pumped into the venue, and in moments the majority bearded crowd follow suit. In a flash the grizzly-faced 4 piece have made the stage their vantage point from which to preach their fuzzy gospel.
From the offset the band prioritize crowd interaction, to the extent that the front row of beard enthusiasts (aptly named the VIB section by the band) would grasp at the beards of the band in admiration; a behaviour that is only encouraged by the band who on occasion take glee in admiring each others.
They open with I like Beards, and with lyrical content such as "Beards are good, beards are great, they look so good on your face" it's evident that comedic value is prioritized over lyrical content, though nobody's in attendance with hope of scouting the next Dylan.
With songs such as Got Me A Beard, and the anthemic Born With a Beard the simple yet memorable lyrical content means the crowd's contribution never wanes, and the band never fails to engage in between.
Those in attendance with the misfortune of the inability to grow a set of whiskers spent the night on the receiving end of ridicule, with frontman Johann Beardraven prompting bearded members of the crowd to stand in front of those without, and prompted ridicule of their assistant Michael who they employed as an assistant on the basis that they wouldn't be comfortable telling a bearded man what to do.
Lyrically the band are akin to their New Zealand neighbours Flight of the Conchords and comparison could be made to Tenacious D as far as their musical arrangements and content are concerned. Beardraven switches between keyboard and saxophone throughout the set, and for the encore adopts a keytar for Sex With a Bearded Man, a move that sends the group into The Darkness and Steel Panther territory.
Throughout the performance the entirety of the 4 piece focus on keeping crowd interaction a priority, going to the lengths of handing out awards for best and worst beards (Assuming that the recieving party of the best beard ought to be the mayor of Beardfast) and rubbing beards with members of the crowd. With three full length albums and counting, the gospel of The Beards is alive and well, and based on the response in the Black Box, newly deemed Beardfast remains an advocate of their message. Jamie Wright.


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Ben Roethlisberger is and idiot, and I don't want to refer to him as Big Ben because Big Douche suits him so much better. The police reports that just came out verify that he is a complete douche bag. You are one of the highest paid NFL athletes, you should be able to get a girl, and not attempt to rape them, or chase them around with your penis out. You have some serious problems, and you better not fucking blame this on sex addiction.
This is my campaign to make Ben Roethlisberger the face of Douches across the world. I'm not sure if Summer's Eve is looking for a new sponsor, but I think he could make it work pretty well. Because I know when I think Douche, I think Roethlisberger.
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Limavady District LOL No.6 marked the 99th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme with a Drumhead Service and Act of Remembrance at Limavady War Memorial followed by a parade of Bands on Wednesday.
The service was led by District Chaplains, Rev B Hassan and Rev A Smyth and after the service and Act of Remembrance a wreath laying ceremony took place together with a parade led by bands from the District.
The Parade route took in Protestant Street, Catherine Street, Linenhall Street, Main Street, Ballyclose Street, Church Street, Alexander Road, Main Street, Connell Street, Irish Green Street, Roemill Gardens, Roemill Road, Rathbrady Road, Massey Avenue, Protestant Street, Catherine Street, Limavady Orange Hall.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, July 12, the annual Church Service for the District will be held this year in 2nd Limavady Presbyterian Church on Sunday, July 12 at 4pm and the speaker will be Bro John Martin of No Surrender LOL 255.
Assemble on William Street from 3pm for parade at 3.30pm, accompanied by Boveva Flute Band and Bellarena Accordion Band.
Parade route to the Church will be William Street, Roemill Road, Catherine Street, Linenhall Street, Main Street, Connell Street, Irish Green Street, 2nd Limavady Presbyterian Church.
After the service the parade will reform and parade to the dispersal point via Irish Green Street, Catherine Street, Protestant Street.


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If Wishes Were Horses is a collection of semi-biographical songs covering the universal, and not so universal, themes of education, politics, sex, love, ennui, self-employment, social migration and Shetland. Drever's recent outpouring of songs stems from a move back to the Northern Isles, Shetland this time rather than his native Orkney and the discovery of new lyrical voices to describe his life, times and wild new surroundings.
Helping Kris realise the album are the renowned guitar genius Ian Carr, ace bassist Euan Burton and Admiral Fallow frontman Louis Abbott on drums and vocals.
Drever's voice and guitar is a part of the backbone of today's contemporary roots and folk scene. Hugely admired as a solo artist, collaborator, and member of folk superstars Lau, he is a phenomenal and prolific artist. Drever has already played alongside Jack Bruce, Bela Fleck, Tinariwen, Joan As Police Woman, Jerry Douglas, Danny Thompson, Tim O'Brien, Sarah Jarosz, Shawn Colvin, Phil Cunningham, Rosanne Cash, Roddy Woomble, Eddi Reader, Adem, Kate Rusby, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart and many more.
Alongside the new material from If Wishes Were Horses, Kris will revisit old songs from across his back catalogue playing many outside of the recording studio for the first time. Fans can get involved by posting, on his Facebook page, old songs they would like to hear; Kris will then pick from those selections.


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Working dads help each other
Larry Kellogg says the juggle of acing exams, bringing home a paycheck and raising a family 30 years ago still ranks as the most challenging time in his life. It inspired him to set up a scholarship for other fathers working their way through law school.
Kellogg wants to help a new breed of working fathers, with new priorities.
Some are dubious that fathers would help other men with their lives. Clearly, women are pushing the policy changes and family-friendly programs that have landed companies on the Working Mothers list of Best Places to Work. But fathers seeking a better work-life balance are creating change, in more subtle ways.
They are colleagues who donate personal leave for another in need. They are role models who create workplaces where flexible work schedules and telecommuting becomes doable. They are entrepreneurs who start Daddy blogs and online support groups. And, they are fathers who help others shake off the long-standing pressure to get ahead at all costs.
''The number of male voices is rising from Gen X and Gen Y men in particular who are begining to demand more balance for themselves and their families,'' say researchers from the law firm of Heller Ehrman.
Ralph Baena, 28, a Miami-Dade firefighter, is from the generation that expects to be involved in their children's lives.
Baena understands the pull of work and home life as a father of a 14-month-old daughter. By swapping shifts, he often helps other fathers spend holidays, birthdays or special events with their kids. He says his chief, a father as well, supports the shift changes. ``The fire department is like a family in itself, and we try to back each other up especially when it comes to our individual families.''
When four senior managers at KPMG were expecting at the same time, the soon-to-be fathers made plans to cover each other's backs. Even though the firm's Parental Leave Program provides two weeks of personal time off, the fathers knew they would feel secure knowing a fellow expectant father was managing client expectations. ''Parental leave is great,'' Sean Olmsted said in a KPMG corporate publication. ''But the key to making it work even better was the new dads supporting each other.'' The buddy system since has become a way for parents firmwide to take parental leave or vacation time.
Today, more fathers participate in the routines of their children than prior generations -- even as they typically clock work weeks topping 45 hours. But they are struggling. In an Adecco Father's Day survey, the majority of dads said that they are likely to work late, and most think their companies should be doing more to help them achieve better work-life balance.
Even more, researchers from Heller Ehrman found that 71 percent of men ages 21-39 would give up some of their pay to spend more time with their families.
But when family-friendly policies exist, men resist. Harris Interactive claims that 59 percent of employed fathers would not take a paid paternity leave if it were offered, saying they couldn't afford to or it would harm their careers.
Change requires role models, experts say. Brian Reid, author of the popular blog Rebeldad, believes fathers most benefit others by taking advantage of policies on the books. ``Leading by example sounds uninspiring, but breaking down traditional roles has an impact.''
Reid not only pioneered paternity leave at his company seven years ago, he later became a stay-at-home dad who started a blog for other at-home dads. He compiled statistics and created forums for discussions. He says part of the reason his blog is successful is because it is ``hard to find critical mass of guys who talk openly about putting their jobs second.''
But Adecco's Rich Thompson thinks that's about to change. ``We're living in the age of uncertainty. Working fathers are realizing nothing is guaranteed or long term except for family.''
As a manager, Thompson tries to set a tone from the top. He frequently works from home and encourages his staff to do the same. ``If you live work-life balance, you become a promoter of it.''
In Miami, law partner Bill Walker, 62, sees young dads at his firm of White & Case endure enormous pressure to produce. ''It's all about how many hours you bill,'' he says. Once they have kids, Walker says, there's a lot of guilt. So, Walker began studying to become a minister and made it his job to counsel young fathers to give up late-night work habits and go home. "I tell them about the ministry of presence: `You only get one chance to raise your kids.' ''
As a father himself, Walker feels he can make a connection -- and a difference: ``I just want to help a couple of these young fathers make good choices.''


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Last Friday, the newly-appointed CPRIT governing board indicated publicly that they would only accept internal applications for the permanent executive role for the institution, and that current interim President Wayne Roberts will be their pick for the job.
As per the new SB149 CPRIT reform bill, the new governing board is tasked with appointing a permanent president by December 1st. With Friday's announcement, CPRIT appears ready to make the appointment well ahead of the December 1st deadline. As per state hiring laws, the job must be posted for ten days before Roberts and the CPRIT governing board can confirm the appointment. However, at this point, the ten-day wait is merely a technicality.
Roberts, however, remained self-effacing in the wake of the news, stating only that he would apply for the job provided he meets the qualifications.
Roberts is a safe, reasonable pick for the permanent role, considering that he took over the interim executive position last December after the CPRIT scandal broke. Since then, he has been at the center of the reform effort, working as an intermediary between CPRIT and the Texas legislature to craft the reforms that led to the re-opening of the $3 billion dollar cancer fighting agency. Prior to his role at CPRIT, Roberts has worked largely behind the scenes in Texas, playing a low-profile role as Governor Rick Perry's budget director.
UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher Dr. Kevin Gardner, himself a recipient of CPRIT awards in the past for his own cancer research, recently testified, according to The State, " . . .that he was grateful for Roberts and lawmakers rebuilding the agency but lamented the freezing of funds during the moratorium."
"This is the single most frustrating aspect I've had professionally in my career," Gardner said. "It goes without saying that cancer doesn't take the last 10 months off, but many of us trying to find it had to."
The CPRIT governing board, however, tried to characterize their choice of Roberts as a more expeditious, utilitarian choice, based on the need to quickly find a permanent president:
"So much of the discussion focused on the last 12, 14 months and how important continuity is under these circumstances," said Pete Geren, a former Democratic congressman who now sits on the new CPRIT board. "We don't have time to reach outside and get somebody else up to speed."


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As pessimists on climate change are fond of reminding us, China and India are catastrophically prolific builders of coal-fired power plants these days. While we're busy greening the Emmy Awards, they are quietly doing what they feel they need to do to provide energy for their expanding economies, more than compensating for all of the West's cute anti-warming efforts by increasing the gadrillions of tons of carbon they release into our shared atmosphere. But new carbon burying tech might help them not be so destructive. image/article from : http://blogs.discovermagazine.com
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By Mike Lehman, TTU Sports Information Coordinator
MARTIN, Tenn. – A blistering start offensively combined with 22 assists and an all-around team effort on both sides of the ball led the Tennessee Tech men's basketball team to a 91-83 victory over in-state rival UT Martin Thursday night, keeping the Golden Eagles in the thick of the hunt for a spot in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament.
Senior Jeremiah Samarrippas put together arguably his best game in the purple and gold, recording his first double-double as a Golden Eagle. The point guard dished out a career-best 10 assists while torching the nets for a team-high 20 points. Samarrippas added five rebounds for good measure, playing a game-high 38 minutes and guiding the Tech squad to a crucial road victory.
Both teams started the game as hot as can be, combining to shoot 10-of-11 through the first four-plus minutes of the game. Unfortunately for the Skyhawks, it was the Golden Eagles that kept that shooting touch flowing throughout the contest, shooting a season-best 58.8 percent from the field and a scorching 52.4 percent from beyond the arc.
Tech knocked down 11 treys in the game while tying a season-high with 22 assists as a team. The Golden Eagles also rejected a season-best 11 shots in the contest, helping to knock down the UT Martin shooting percentage as the game went on. The Skyhawks finished the game with a respectable 48.4 percent field goal percentage.
After wrapping up the first half with a five-point lead, the Golden Eagles extended the advantage to as much as 15 points in the second stanza. The Skyhawks would not be put away quietly, however, pulling within as close as three points before Tech knocked down clutch free throws to ice the game.
Despite being limited to just six first-half minutes and only a total of 23 over the game, senior Dennis Ogbe stuffed the stat sheets with 17 points, five rebounds, and four blocks. Less than 12 hours after being named to the Capital One Academic All-America Division I Men's Basketball team, the forward shot 7-of-8 from the field, taking over the game in the middle of the second period with a dominant four-minute stretch.
Beginning at the 17:03 mark, Ogbe took a six-point Golden Eagles lead all the way to a 14-point advantage, scoring 10 straight points for the Tech squad while adding two blocks and a rebound.
Seven Golden Eagle players put up seven points or more, including starting guard Javon McKay. The junior scored all eight of his points in the first four minutes of play, becoming a key distributor over the remainder of the contest. He registered a career-high seven dimes against the Skyhawks, adding six rebounds and two blocks along the way.
Junior Dwan Caldwell, also limited to just 22 minutes due to foul trouble, quietly led tied for the team lead in rebounds, pulling down seven boards in the contest. He added 11 points and two blocks for good measure. Tying Caldwell with seven rebounds was senior Matt Marseille, who put together his most complete game since missing a third of the season because of knee surgery. The forward also scored five points in just 14 minutes of action.
Josiah Moore chipped in 10 points off the bench, tying a career-high mark of two blocks and hitting two 3-pointers. Jordan Johnson scored nine points after hitting three from beyond the arc and fellow junior Ladon Carter finished with seven points, including two off an unbelievable windmill slam on a fastbreak.
Tech will return to Cookeville one final time on Saturday when the team hosts Jacksonville State in the regular season home finale. The game will feature a Senior Day ceremony for four Golden Eagles, including seniors Matt Marseille, Dennis Ogbe, and Jeremiah Samarrippas, as well as junior Mitchell Hill. The game is set for a 7 p.m. CT start at the Eblen Center.


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Of course, the government claims that public land is owned because the government claims to own the land in trust for the "public." But holding the land for "everyone" turns out to be the same as owning it for one's own selfish interests.
In order to claim ownership of land, people normally have to do something with it. This is commonly called "homesteading." Governments have never recognized this limitation. When the Spanish explorer who reached the Pacific Ocean claimed the sea and all lands touching it for the Spanish government, this was a rather severe instance of a common problem. If one wishes to own "wild land" one has to at least throw a fence around it though that would be debatable.
But if that happened, each wilderness owner would decide if he would allow visitors to come onto his or her property with a camera. If the person wanted to take pictures to sell, then it would be up to the owner to decide if he wanted to charge an extra fee. But if he tried to charge that fee, he would have to keep his price competitive with those of other wilderness owners. If he charged too much, he would lose all his customers. Those wilderness owners who had especially popular property could get away with charging more than others.
But the Federal government didn't acquire wilderness through homesteading and the market. No, it gave itself a virtual monopoly and presumed to do this in the name of the public—an obvious ruse. If it did not give itself all wilderness in the U.S. it certainly gave itself the best wilderness.
This alleged trust was supposed to benefit the public, but only a small fraction of the public who might be interested in the beauty of that wilderness can afford the time and money to travel to it (especially at the right time of year, etc). Many people only benefit from this land through photography.
Up until now, those who wanted to take pictures of the wilderness on allegedly "public" land could do so. They could then share these pictures for free or for a paying client. Since traveling to wilderness areas is not free, it made sense that compensation would help motivate people to take such pictures. On the other hand, since anyone could freely take such pictures, photographers had an upper limit on what the price they could ask for their pictures. If they refused to take a low enough offer then someone else would come along and sell their pictures for the lower price.
Now, as Snopes confirms, "The U.S. Forest Service is proposing new rules that would require permits for commercial filming and photography in federally designated wilderness areas." In fact, it seems the rules were supposed to apply to the news media as much as anyone else. Once confronted by the First Amendment, an AP story makes it clear that the Forest Service backtracked:
Faced with increasing criticism of a proposal that would restrict media filming in wilderness areas, the head of the U.S. Forest Service said late Thursday that the rule is not intended to apply to news-gathering activities.
The rule would apply to commercial filming, like a movie production, but reporters and news organizations would not need to get a permit to shoot video or photographs in the nation's wilderness areas, Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said in a phone interview Thursday.
"The U.S. Forest Service remains committed to the First Amendment," he said, adding: "It does not infringe in any way on First Amendment rights. It does not apply to news-gathering activities, and that includes any part of news."
Forest Service officials had said earlier in the week that news organizations, except in breaking news situations, would be required to obtain a permit and follow a number of criteria if they wanted to film in designated wilderness areas.
But this is going from bad to worse. Having been confronted with a clear First Amendment violation, the Forest Service responds by telling us that the First Amendment only applies to "news-gathering activities." This is like the bait-and-switch "media shield law" that politicians are promoting to codify a designation for official journalism and stomp down on bloggers and others who don't qualify. They pose as honoring the First Amendment when they are actually weakening it.
Nothing "exploits" wilderness less than mere photography. They should not be charged prices for merely taking footage.
A better move would be to abolish "public" land altogether. Let people own it and take care of it within the context of a private-property-based economic system.


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Marc Caputo: Hollingsworth's lie about PR degree bad spin for Gov. Rick Scott
Adam Hollingsworth sometimes gave an aw-shucks self-deprecating line when he gave advice: "I'm just a guy with a P.R. degree from Alabama."
It was a lie.
And it caught up with Hollingsworth, now Gov. Rick Scott's chief of staff, when The Miami Herald-Tampa Bay Times Tallahassee bureau exposed the academic fraud on Friday.
Hollingsworth didn't just verbally deceive people. He twice explicitly allowed his former employer, CSX Corporation, to issue press releases in 1998 and 2002 saying he graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree.
Hollingsworth had no degree at the time. He earned one years later.
"I am not proud of this and I deeply apologize for this misrepresentation," Hollingsworth said in a written statement.
"I have learned from this failure in judgment and know that, over the last several years, my life and character have and will continue to grow from this."
Is Hollingsworth now telling the full truth?
Hollingsworth denied his deception contributed to his departure from the railroad giant. But a tipster who worked at CSX with Hollingsworth said his lies played a part.
Something noteworthy clearly happened after Hollingsworth unexpectedly left CSX to work for Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton in 2004: He stopped lying about his academic record.
Why the sudden decision to become honest about it? If he hadn't been caught lying at CSX, how would the corporate tipster know about the deception, which Hollingsworth kept secret for years?
Hollingsworth won't explain. CSX wouldn't comment.
Hollingsworth has shown he'll keep a lie secret until caught. He didn't tell the governor about his "misrepresentation" until the media busted him.
Cover-ups often compound the crime of a lie, but Scott is sticking by him, saying in a statement that he has "confidence in Adam as my chief of staff, and my friend … I know him to be a man of tremendous integrity and character."
Considering Hollingsworth is his third (and most-effective) staff chief, Scott is running out of replacement options as he faces reelection.
In this election atmosphere, Hollingsworth is no longer just someone shaping politics and policy behind the scenes. He's now a political issue in a campaign season where Scott and his Democratic challengers are calling each other untrustworthy.
"Rick Scott was unaware his top aide had lied for years, and when told, did absolutely nothing about it," Florida Democratic Party Chair Allison Tant said in a press release Sunday.
"This is another unfortunate example of Scott and his allies acting as if the rules every other Floridian must follow don't apply to them."
Republicans say Democrats are trying to score cheap political points, and note that Democratic candidate Charlie Crist saw his campaign manager last week mysteriously depart before he started.
However, Hollingsworth's case is different, owing to his current position and the transgression.
And aside from the double-talk, a double standard abides.
Four top state officials have left office during Hollingsworth's term when headlines turned bad. Of them, three faced troubles over issues that occurred prior to joining Scott's team, and they said they didn't want to become a "distraction" hurting the governor or the state.
• Commissioner of Education Tony Bennett resigned in August amid claims that, in his prior job in Indiana, he had changed grades to benefit a charter school. Bennett decried the "malicious, unfounded reports," and an independent review board later cleared him of any wrongdoing. But Bennett said he stepped down because he didn't "think anything should distract us."
• The Department of Economic Opportunity's executive director, Hunting Deutsch, quit a year ago when word surfaced that he collected unemployment benefits while traveling in Europe before he was hired. Said Deutsch in a letter to Scott: "I find the current media focus on my personal matters a distraction to the agency and your administration and believe it is best for me to leave."
• Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll resigned in March right after state investigators interviewed her in a criminal case against Allied Veterans of the World, an illegal gambling operation that masqueraded as a nonprofit charity. Carroll, before she joined Scott's ticket in 2010, did P.R. work for the company. She was later cleared of wrongdoing. "I thought it would be better to remove myself from being a distraction," Carroll explained to the Associated Press. Hollingsworth wrote her resignation letter and told her she had to sign it.
After helping engineer Carroll's ouster, Hollingsworth then began boxing out Scott's top political advisor and pollster, Tony Fabrizio, and other Scott supporters.
Now, as the most-influential voice whispering in Scott's ear, Hollingsworth's power has increased because he's the top official vetting replacements for lieutenant governor — a post he helped make vacant.
The position has been open for an exceedingly long time — nine months — and Republican insiders say Hollingsworth has advocated for his close ally, state Sen. John Thrasher, to get the post or has positioned himself for it.
Hollingsworth also might be in line to become the official manager of Scott's reelection campaign.
For months, Hollingsworth has been a de facto campaign chief for Scott. He assumed his post in 2012, telling staffers that they'd partly measure success by public-opinion polls. Scott's approval ratings have essentially remained flat, though.
Hollingsworth also issued a 20-point "Rules of the Road" document to staffers.
The first: "Teamwork, Trust, Respect."
From his lies to his behind-the-scenes maneuvers, Hollingsworth's leadership has so strained those three tenets that it's part of the political dialogue in Tallahassee.
It's not helping Scott.
You don't need a P.R. degree from Alabama or anywhere else to figure that out.


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Release Date: 2012 |
Album Rating: 3.5You can buy this from their bandcamp for $4, well worth it.
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Album Rating: 3.5It didn't hit me instantly either chambered, let me know if it grows on you.
Album Rating: 3.5Big fan Hep Kat?
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An A-Z list of instruments
Check out our alphabetic list of instruments, from accordion to zither. As far as possible, we've tried to stick to common instruments you'll already have heard of – but some of the letters proved more challenging…
Accordion is from the German Akkordion, a derivative of Akkord 'harmony', and so named because some of the buttons on the bass keyboard are mechanically coupled to sound chords…
Bugle is ultimately from the Latin buculus, a diminutive of bos meaning 'ox'. An earlier sense of the word was 'wild ox', hence the compound bugle-horn, denoting the horn of an ox used to give signals, originally in hunting.
Clarinet is from the French clarinette, the diminutive of clarine, a variant of the more familiar word clarion, denoting a shrill-sounding trumpet with a narrow tube…
The word didgeridoo dates to the 1920s, and is from an Aboriginal language of Arnhem Land. The name is believed to be imitative of the noise the Australian instrument makes.
The euphonium is blowing its own trumpet (if you'll pardon the pun); the name of this brass instrument comes from the Greek euphōnos, meaning 'having a pleasing sound'.
Fife (the name for a kind of small, shrill flute used with a drum in military bands) is either directly from German Pfeife meaning 'pipe', or a corruption of the French fifre from Swiss German Pfifer meaning 'piper'.
Glockenspiel literally translates from German as 'bell play'. It originally denoted an organ stop which imitated the sound of bells.
Hurdy-gurdy is the (imitative) name for the instrument with a droning sound played by turning a handle, which is typically attached to a rosined wheel sounding a series of drone strings, with keys worked by the left hand. More informally, the name is applied to any instrument having a droning sound and played by turning a handle, such as the barrel organ.
Let's have a quick look at the word instrument itself. If you've had instructions in playing an instrument, then you're getting two words that derive ultimately from the Latin instruere (meaning 'construct, equip).
Jew's harp
The Jew's harp is a small lyre-shaped musical instrument held between the teeth and struck with a finger. It can produce only one note, but harmonics are sounded by the player altering the shape of the mouth cavity. The origin of the name is uncertain; one suggestion is that the instrument was made, sold, or sent to England by Jewish people (or was supposed to be so).
A koto is a Japanese zither about six feet long, with thirteen strings passed over small movable bridges. Unsurprisingly, the name koto is also Japanese; it is a transliteration of the symbol 箏.
The lute is a stringed instrument that was most popular from the 14th to the 17th centuries. Some forms of the word in other European languages are French luth, Italian liuto, Dutch liut, and Danish lut, amongst others. The name ultimately derives from the Arabic al-'ūd; literally 'the wood', perhaps denoting its wooden soundboard. .
Melodica actually refers to two different instruments, although one of them is now historical only. The first melodica was a small variety of pipe organ invented by J.A. Stein in 1770 (although the earliest known use of the term in English, according to OED research, is not until 1890). The current melodica (a wind instrument with a mouthpiece and a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds) is first attested, as a word, in the 1960s. The name of both instruments derives melody (following the same pattern as harmonica from harmony); melody is ultimately from the Greek melos, 'song'.
Ney is a type of flute used in the Middle East, consisting of an open-ended length of cane with finger-holes, sounded by blowing across the rim. The name comes from the Turkish ney meaning reed or flute, and its etymon Persian nay (pipe, reed, flute).
Ocarina is a small, egg-shaped ceramic or metal wind instrument with holes for the fingers (and you may well have played one at school). Unexpectedly, perhaps, ocarina comes from the Italian oca meaning 'goose', based on the shape of the instrument.
Piano is actually an abbreviation of pianoforte, from Italian, and found earlier as piano e forte – that is, 'soft and loud'. The instrument is so named because of its gradation of tone, in contrast to the unvarying tone of the ordinary harpsichord.
Quena, the name for various types of Andean end-blown flutes (typically made of wood with a notched mouthpiece, six finger holes, and a rear thumb hole), comes ultimately from the Aymara qina meaning 'thing full of holes'.
Ryuteki is a Japanese instrument made of bamboo, and means literally 'dragon flute'.
Saxophone is the one you've been waiting for! Saxophone was, in fact, named after its inventor – Adolphe Sax (1814-1894). He also invented the saxhorn, saxotromba, and saxtuba.
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between timpani and kettledrums? Well, only the language, it turns out – timpani is the Italian for kettledrums.
Ukulele is from Hawaiian, and literally means 'jumping flea'. The name was apparently earned by a British army officer, Edward Purvis, in the court of King Kalakaua, in response to his lively and energetic playing.
Although you may be more familiar with the violin than the viola, the word violin is actually a diminutive of viola. According to current OED research, the earliest sense of violin as a verb was 'to entice by violin-playing'.
The instrument named whistle (and the 'sound made by forcing breath through a small hole between partly closed lips') relates to the Old English hwistle, of Germanic origin. It is imitative and relates to the Swedish vissla 'to whistle'. Whistle-stop (now most commonly an adjective meaning 'very fast and with only brief pauses') was originally a noun which designated a small railway station or town at which trains did not stop unless requested by a signal given on a whistle.
Xylophone is from the Greek xylo (meaning 'relating to wood') and phone ('sound'). Other English words using the xylo prefix include xylophagous (feeding on or boring into wood) and xylography (the art of engraving on wood or printing from woodblocks).
Yunluo is a traditional Chinese instrument, and is a set of around ten small tuned gongs mounted in a wooden frame. The name literally means 'cloud of gongs'.
Zither comes from the German Zither, from Latin cithara – which, in turn, comes from the Greek kithara, denoting a kind of harp.
Our list of instruments isn't complete; let us know what you want to see included!


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His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55), and Matthew 11 and 12 demonstrate that. Jesus is doing and saying things that confuse and anger some of the people around Him. That's often our experience with what God does and says to us, too. This sermon lifts our thinking and our hearts to view many life issues from God's perspective.
Do you remember the first time you read something in Scripture or heard some godly wisdom from a teacher, and you said, "Whoa, that's pretty much the opposite of what I've been thinking!" Matthew 11 and 12 are filled with stories of Jesus bringing such surprising perspectives to His listeners.
Matthew 11:1-6 John the Baptist is in prison. When he heard about what Jesus was doing, he sent two disciples to ask if He was the Coming One. Jesus answers by quoting Isaiah 35:5-6. He often quoted Old Testament passages to tell people that He was the Messiah, and that He was the son of God.
But then he says: Mt. 11:6. This was first said in reference to his cousin John the Baptist. John likely expected that the Messiah he proclaimed would come in power and victory over the Romans, and usher in a new political and religious age.
And now John is in prison with a death sentence over him. This was confusing. John the Baptist had certain expectations that Jesus didn't meet.
Some of us might say, Oh, I would never be offended with God. We're tempted to be offended with God, with the Bible, and with what God asks of us. Circumstances can seem to cancel out what we think God is saying. But what's happened is that our understanding and our expectations get crossed by reality. And then we have a choice–we can open up to something new or we can close down and stop our spiritual growth by letting the lies in. But if we open our hearts to the point where we are no longer offended, Jesus promises a blessing.
Then we have one of the most misunderstood scriptures in the New Testament. Matthew 11:12: The kingdom of heaven suffers violence….. Remember, Jesus has just been talking about John the Baptist, the greatest of the Old Testament prophets. Jesus is simply describing the eager crowds that first came to hear John, and now come to hear him. "It was, as it were, a city attacked on all sides by those who were eager to take possession of it." That's it. Nothing more!
Some feel he's referring to Micah 2:12-13.
Then one of the most comforting passages ever written: Matt. 11:28-30. Notice the people He invites: not the strong and powerful, but those that are tired and weary.
What would Jesus' audience have heard, or thought? They would have been thinking of all the weight of following the Old Testament law, and then all the added man-made restrictions that were added by the scribes and Pharisees. Some might have realized that He was also talking about the weight of sin on them, and the guilt of it, and the effects of sin on their lives.
And He begins the whole offer with "Come to ME"! To Him as a person, not to an awareness of something, or a commitment to a cause or belief system. He says to come to Him!
There will be a yoke put around us, and a burden for us to carry. But they will be easy and light in comparison to the weight of sin or of trying to please God on our own. And Jesus again refers to the Old Testament: Jeremiah 6:16
In chapter 12, Jesus walks through a whole load of legalist and illogical thinking.
His thoughts are not our thoughts. And yet if something makes sense to us, we often think that's the end of it! Let's not lock down on our thinking just because it makes sense to us! The Pharisees did that when Jesus seemed to break the Sabbath laws, and they had a "logical response": to murder Him!
Jesus' disciples were hungry and took heads and grain and ate them on a Sabbath. Then Jesus healed a man with a withered hand on a Sabbath, and they used it to accuse Him, and then began to plot against Him. God's heart is to heal. It's his heart not to put legalism before love. In both these cases, Jesus had an understanding of the Sabbath that went back to the way it was originally intended.
Then He was accused of setting demonized people free by the power of Satan. That doesn't even make sense!
On our own, we don't think right. Is. 55:8-9. We come to wrong conclusions and then act on them, and we get into trouble. This chapter is one demonstration after another that we don't understand the thoughts of God. This is one of the great benefits of reading our Bibles every day.
Then Jesus talks about the unpardonable sin, an issue that has caused a great deal of concern and worry among God's people. Matt. 12:31-32
First let's look at the good news here. The size of our sin doesn't matter–no sin is bigger than the death of Jesus. Jesus even forgave those who killed him–the worst crime and worst sin in history!
But let's look at the context. The unpardonable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. The book of Mark adds, "…because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."
Jesus doesn't actually tell the scribes they've committed that sin. It seems to be more of a warning. But seeing the work of the Holy Spirit and calling it the work of Satan, they are on the brink of committing that sin.
If we call the move of God the move of Satan, and call the Holy Spirit Satanic, we put ourselves beyond repentance, and therefore forgiveness is impossible.
It's not what God does to anyone. It's what a person does that puts him outside of God's forgiveness. God created the plan of salvation, Jesus paid the price for that salvation, and the Holy Spirit is the one who leads us into truth, into awareness of sin, into repentance, and into salvation. If we completely reject the Holy Spirit in our lives, there's no way we can be saved.
The Holy Spirit is the one who applies the work of Christ to our lives, and if that's rejected, so is being saved.
If you fear that you've done this, you haven't.
Last part of ch. 12 – much more pleasant. But still challenging to our human nature. Again, God has different perspectives!
Look at how beautifully and gracefully Jesus handled this. There is no rebuke, but there is no indication that Jesus stopped what He was doing to attend to his natural family's needs. Instead, He used the occasion to reveal a great spiritual truth.
He said these people were His family. He didn't say, "these are like my family." He was more aware of his heavenly connection with His father than any earthly connection, and He simply said what to Him was an obvious, wonderful truth: Those that were listening to Him were His mother and brothers and sisters!
For some of us, that's our life! We don't have a natural family anymore, or we are not connected with them in a healthy way. But for many of us, we really enjoy our families, our immediate family and our extended families.
There is something of a caution here for those of us who enjoy our natural families. Let's make sure that we realize that our spiritual connections with our Christian brothers and sisters are the basis of a greater relationship. It's deeper, it's eternal.
So the good news for everyone who has accepted Christ as their Savior is that, to borrow a phrase from Olive Garden's old motto, "If you're here, you're family." Not everyone is part of God's family–that's romantic nonsense. The reality is that if you know Jesus personally, you're part of the family of God. And if we want more family benefits, let's continue to do what Jesus said of those who are His family: "Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven…."


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ithought.org status and service notices
Uplink Throughput
Network issue at hosting provider
Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:56:50 +0000
This is resolved. According to our monitoring system, this was 13 minutes of downtime, which puts us down to 99.916% availabilty for the past 365 days
Network issue at hosting provider
Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:39:33 +0000
Hello- We are experiencing a network outage from our hosting provider. They have confirmed that power is up and are troubleshooting an issue with one of their switches. Please check back here for updates
Unplanned power maintenance last night
Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:46:11 +0000
My colocation provider experienced an unplanned power-related outage last night causing a reboot of all iThought hardware. It looks like everything came back up and is fully functioning, but please let me know if you notice anything unusual.
Maintenance cancelled
Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:55 +0000
From my Provider: "This maintenance has been suspended indefinitely.". It looks like we are off the hook for a bit.
Maintenance rescheduled to 5am on 5/22
Tue, 21 May 2013 23:14:06 +0000
My provider has again rescheduled the maintenance. This will now happen tomorrow morning around 5am
maintenance moved to 5am on May 15th
Tue, 07 May 2013 13:28:26 +0000
The previousy announced maintenance for May 8th has been moved to 5am on May 15th
Scheduled Maintenance: May 8th early morning Eastern Time
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:45:07 +0000
Sometime between 5am and 6am eastern time, iThought servers will be moving to new physical space in the datacenter. The best-case scenario for this outage is 10-20 minutes, but the expected duration is several hours. I will post an update here once maintenance is complete, or if it looks like things will go past 9am eastern.
Outage report for last 24 hours
Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:09:24 +0000
The scheduled maintenance did not go is planned, but everything is resolved and in better shape than before maintenance. You can get all the details at http://ckdake.com/content/2013/upgrading-udev-and-kernels-on-a-stack-of-gentoo-servers.html"
Restarts tomorrow evening for kernel upgrades
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:05:55 +0000
Tomorrow evening starting at around 9pm eastern, every ithought.org server will be rebooted for kernel upgrades. Each server should be down for no more than several minutes. If it looks like any outage will take longer than 1 hour, notice will be posted here.
ithought quarterly update: Q4 2012
Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:35:31 +0000
All is well. No issues this month, consistent traffic, onward to 2013.


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Year Awarded: 2016
Enrique del Barco
College of Sciences
Teaching at all levels is the most satisfying consequence of my responsibilities as a faculty member at UCF. I am strongly dedicated to the education of young men and women in all aspects related to my scientific background. I am of the firm opinion that modern societies require a better understanding of the mechanisms governing our universe, at all scales, to be able to fully develop ourselves in a frame of high respect with our environment and natural resources. We, as scientists and educators of a public university, are in an adequate position and have the responsibility to help implant these natural principles in the brains of our future leaders.
My approach to scientific education is strongly shaped by a student-instructor interaction strategy, which I use in my teaching activities at all levels. The interaction strategy is of paramount importance for the understanding of science. The implementation of this strategy in the general physics courses I teach at UCF started with my initiative supported by NSF seven years ago to redesign the lectures and instructional labs of algebra- and calculus-based physics courses, making them highly interactive. During the last few years, I have focused my efforts in a further/deeper renovation of the instructional laboratories of these same courses. In particular, the new project consists in using Webassign as a platform to support the laboratory experiments, including pre-, post-, and in-lab activities, quizzes, and automatic grading. Since its pilot implementation three years ago, we have extended the project to all traditional calculus-based physics laboratories and represented a tremendous success. Two of my group of graduate students have been awarded the AAPT 2012 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for their invaluable assistance in this initiative. In addition, one of them was awarded the 2014 UCF COS Excellence Award for Graduate Teaching Assistance and the 2014 UCF University Award for Excellence as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, the highest recognition given to a teaching assistant at UCF.
But teaching science does not stop at the university; it needs to percolate into our youngest minds and excite them about the magic behind STEM disciplines. I have developed several initiatives during the last few years to reach out to K-12 students. Among these, is a new science blog that I created in collaboration with high-school students, designed to strengthen the interaction between the two sides�science and the general public. Also, supported by a UCF i-STEM fellowship in 2015, I have recently led the creation of a new Minor and a B.A. in Nanoscale Science and Technology at UCF, for which three new core courses have been developed and are offered as Service-Learning, with students interacting with middle schools in the Orlando metropolitan area and using the exciting world of nanotechnology to attract them into STEM careers.


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This Bridal Portrait was shot at a Whatley Manor wedding, in 2010. It was one of my favourite images of the year, and whilst of course the bride, Laurre, was beautiful, it was a really gorgeous day at one of the premier wedding venues in the Wiltshire / Gloucestershire area.
Of course, even though I shoot as a documentary wedding photographer, it doesn't mean that you can't get gorgeous bridal portraits too. This image is shot in a 100% candid way. Spotting the light falling nicely on Laurre, I shot this image as she looked at her wedding flowers for the first time after they were delivered to her room.


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The USDA can make a great superhero showing. They can swoop in and stop contaminated food from getting distributed and they can get food recalls underway.
But this is somewhat misleading. There is a case to be made that the USDA's job is protecting us from the damage that they cause in the first place.
Baylen Linnekin described a recent example at Reason.com:
Early last month, the USDA shuttered the lone slaughterhouse in Northern California, Rancho Feeding Corp. in Petaluma, for unspecified violations, and ordered a staggering 8.7 million pounds of beef processed there in 2013 to be recalled. While the USDA has been tight-lipped on the reasons for the shutdown, word leaked late last month that the plant had been closed because it processed some cattle that were suffering from cancer.
If true, the USDA action makes sense on its face. Cancer is an adulterant and shouldn't be in the food supply.
OK… but wait. Are we supposed to believe that all 8.7 million pounds of beef was all cancerous? That would entail a huge cancer plague among the bovines before they were slaughtered.
No, what probably happened is that, at the big slaughterhouse, a few cancerous cattle got mixed in. But there was no way to track down the tainted parts, so all the beef that was derived from that slaughterhouse had to be destroyed.
But isn't that somewhat predictable? Does it really make sense to have all that livestock slaughtered in the same place?
The USDA
is responsible for channeling animals from farmers and ranchers of all sorts—from the smallest grassfed beef farmer to his largest competitor—into a limited number of USDA-approved slaughterhouses. According to USDA data, California has just four approved slaughterhouses. Texas has but one. Many states have none.
So I guess if you trusted the USDA to always get it right, then it might be worth going this route. But when such a system fails it can only fail big. And there are reasons not to trust the USDA.
The Rancho recall is part of a much larger problem that's existed for decades in the USDA inspection process.
In 2007, USDA officials were forced to admit to Congress that for at least 30 years, "U.S. inspectors visited 250 meat processing plants as rarely as once every two weeks despite federal law requiring daily inspection."
What's the alternative? Without this USDA stranglehold, local abattoirs could flourish, recalls like the one in California would become less common, and those that do occur would have a much smaller impact on farmers, consumers, and the food supply.
That conclusion would make sense no matter how great the USDA was at providing its required "services." But if they can't even follow the laws that empower them to control the food supply, why should all farmers have to ship their steers off to questionable slaughterhouse?
Farmers already have incentive to provide safe food. Most government bureaucracies, however, demand very little accountability.
I think my food will be safer coming through the market than through the USDA.


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The Solidarity Movement – Freedom for Europe
The creation of Solidarity was a great challenge for the whole political construction of post-Yalta Europe. This construction had been tested on a number of occasions in the post-war decades by the societies striving for freedom from the dependence on the USSR and from its consequence – the communist system.
1. In 1956 - a crisis in Poland and especially in Hungary exposed the hollowness of the strategy of "liberation"; the West remained passive regarding the pursuit of liberty behind the Iron Curtain.
2. In 1968 – liberalisation of the Prague Spring did not cause a significant support from the West and the armed intervention did not disturb the détente process.
3. The politics of easing of relations (détente) meant on the one hand the acceptance of the existing division in Europe, but on the other it could constrain the radical actions of the regimes on our side of the Iron Curtain.
4. Connected with détente but emphasised by Carter (Brzeziński), the politics of defending human rights was an additional restraint and obligation against blatant cynicism.
5. The pontificate of John Paul II from the beginning was boosting both the Poles' and other East European nations' self esteem.
The attitude of the powers regarding the crisis in Poland in the period 1980-81 requires inspection with great detail, however it is already possible to say, that neither the East, nor the West was prepared to revise the status quo. Poland was to remain a part of the Eastern Bloc, the existence of which was no longer questioned. However:
1. The powers of the West emphasised the right of the Poles to govern their affairs without outside interference, in practice – without Soviet intervention.
2. It is difficult to overestimate especially the US initiative from December 1980 warning the USSR against an intervention in Poland.
3. While the rule of non-interference in internal matters of Poland was emphasised, the issues of the need for dialogue among the Poles and the acceptance of "S" as a permanent element of Polish reality were raised.
4. At the same time, in the light of well-known economic problems, the West had no vision or political courage to draft a significant plan of economic aid.
5. We know of no attempts to talk between the Yalta signatories regarding Poland, what would in any case be highly unlikely because of the USSR position.
This listing can be summed up by the probably correct assessment of American politics made by the vice-minister of the People's Republic of Poland, Józef Wiejacz, in early December 1981: "Democratised Poland with recognised political pluralism (although without a free test of strength) remaining a socialist country and a member of the Warsaw Pact is a desirable goal of the USA. Such Poland would radiate its influence on other socialist countries, not excluding the USSR. The influence would be stronger if it was supported by the reform of economy." Wiejacz added, that the limiting of economic aid for the People's Republic of Poland was the result of uncertainty about further internal political developments in Poland (it was not known who would ultimately benefit from the aid). In early 1981 the Polish government's request for financial aid of 3 billion USD (and additional 5 billion USD from the Western capitals) was rejected. The willingness of the other Western powers to become involved was significantly smaller, e.g. the West Germany government remained restrained in December 1980 and in the Fall of 1981 informed the Polish authorities in Warsaw, that they could not count on such significant financial aid.
Solidarity's leaders and advisors were mainly realists and rightly assessed the limits of possible changes of the status of Poland. They were choosing the politics of "small steps". Solidarity declared self-limitation and respect of the division of Europe, avoided speaking out on the affairs of other countries and emphasised the will to build the subjectivity of Polish society in a country still controlled by the communists, at least as far as alliances, control of the army and foreign policy go. The tactic of these statements was obvious to everyone. The establishing of a separate course in the contacts with Western leaders, mainly, but not only, trade unions, was a departure from this scheme. During the visits of Solidarity's leaders in Rome, Paris and in the Fall of 1981 in West Germany, the custom of agreeing in the matters of meetings and statements with the Polish diplomatic agencies was disregarded. The "Message to the Working People of Eastern Europe" was a particularly far-reaching departure from the scheme. It was passed by Solidarity's Convention of Delegates in September 1981 and although it was not an effect of political calculation it ultimately played a moral role and made positive relations of Poles with their neighbours easier.
The introducing of martial law on December 13th interrupted the "Polish experiment" and was an attempt do return to status quo ante. The moral commitments undertaken in the era of détente and during the Solidarity period by the Western powers did not allow to return to the politics of cynicism, however. The experience of the attack on Solidarity was an important, perhaps necessary, ingredient accelerating and defining president Reagan's politics towards the USSR. The chilling of the international climate and the intensifying of the arms race in the conditions of technological revolution were challenges, which the USSR could no longer meet.
The Polish crisis, lasting also after 1982, was one of the important factors of the erosion of the post-Yalta system. It was also contributing to the weakening of the Soviet Bloc as a result of the maintained intense resistance and the existence of organised opposition in Poland, which had contact with organizations and even the governments of the Western world.
Solidarity was present in the scope of opinion of the people in the West, the situation which was supported by the press, but also by the enormous humanitarian aid undertaken with the most intensity by Germany. It seems that this aid contributed in a decisive way towards the breaking of distrust between the Poles and the Germans, which was the crucial condition of the success of changes of 1989.
The overcoming of habits and barriers natural in the world of politics required many specific attempts that were for some time very difficult, however. In mid-1985 in a letter to Zbigniew Bujak, being in hiding, Bronisław Geremek wrote: "In international public opinion a view is becoming prevalent that it had to be the way it happened on the 13th of December and that the situation in Poland returned to the East European norm already. And this is the function of the interviews I give: that it could have been different, that <S> does exist, that <S> can be a political partner, that Poland is and will remain different from the others."
The construction of such an opinion was a result of many factors, including the influence of John Paul II. It seems that his activity should be linked with the breakthrough of 1986, which was the decision of the US government to end the economic sanctions introduced after December 13th depending on the release of political prisoners (including Bujak, arrested in the middle of the year) and making by the Pope the visit of Jaruzelski in Vatican dependant also on the release of the prisoners. The amnesty in September 1986 allowed for open, however still illegal, functioning of the opposition. Jaruzelski was received in Vatican in 1987 and that unlocked the diplomatic contacts of the People's Republic of Poland on the big stage and helped to end the sanctions mentioned earlier. In June 1987 John Paul II could make another visit in Poland, which had a big importance in reviving the activity of Solidarity. Numerous visits of people of importance from the West in Poland in 1987 included from that time the meetings with Wałęsa and his advisors.
The way out of the Polish crisis through negotiations and compromise was in accordance with the ideas and priorities of the Western powers shaped already in 1981. At least until the Fall of 1989 the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc was not taken into consideration, only its pluralisation and evolution. Poland should follow the road of gradual democratic reforms based on a possibly wide consensus. The West was also not ready to tackle the various problems, mainly economic, which had to arise from the rapid dissolution of the Eastern Bloc. This process had to take time.
What had been said earlier leads to the conclusion, that the actions of the leaders of Solidarity in 1989 were rational to the utmost and matched the ideas and expectations of the leaders of the West well and at the same time did not provoke a counterattack of those forces, which would be willing to defend the Soviet empire. The model of Polish transformation became an impulse which stimulated the freedom movements in East Germany and in Czechoslovakia, although not all are willing to admit it today.
The example of a rebellion and self-organization of a society against a monolithic state and its progressing erosion was noticed by other societies. After all, thousands of articles around the world were written about Solidarity, but also about the limited and gradual demands. The peaceful method of protest and pressure became known, together with the building by way of mobilising the masses in a calm, but determined, action. Other movements, such as Sajudis or the democratic movement in East Germany and Czechoslovakia of the end of the 1980s, adopted similar ways of self-organization and protest. Whether it was the example of Solidarity or their own experience can only be answered by further studies and analyses.
Even before the June elections the Solidarity Citizens' Committee passed a statement about international affairs, in which it was written: "We declare readiness to cooperate with all forces working for pluralism and democracy in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, in the USSR. We express sympathy towards the nations of the USSR fighting for their rights, especially the Belarusians, Ukrainians and Lithuanians. […] At the same time we declare that we support that, which strengthens the unity of Europe and the popularisation of the European idea. Poland can not exist without Europe, but there is also no peaceful Europe without Poland."
The option chosen by Solidarity in 1989 and especially during the forming of the Mazowiecki government and afterwards, was unambiguously pro-Western, aiming to establish equal relationship with the USSR and pave the way to integration with Western Europe. The politics of "small steps", which was the essence of actions of the mainstream of Solidarity, turned out to be a very effective one, not only for the Poles, but also for the neighbouring nations.
prof. Andrzej Friszke (born in. 1956) – historian, vice-president of Institute of National Remembrance . Linked to the Institute of Political Studies of Polish Academy of Science (PAN). He was editor in Solidarity Weekly "Tygodnik Solidarność". Member of editor board "Więzi".


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Dynamics of neuromodulatory feedback determines frequency modulation in respiratory network
- Natalia Toporikova1, 2Email author and
- Robert J Butera1, 2
© Toporikova and Butera; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
- Published: 16 July 2012
- Frequency Modulation
- Neuronal Network
- Raphe Nucleus
- Phasic Release
- Messenger System
Neuromodulators, such as amines and neuropeptides, alter the activity of neurons and neuronal networks. In this work, we investigate how neuromodulators which activate Gq-protein second messenger systems can modulate the frequency of bursting neurons in a critical portion of the respiratory neural network, the pre-Bötzinger complex (pBC). These neurons are a vital part of the ponto-medullary neuronal network, which generates a stable respiratory rhythm, whose frequency is modulated by neuromodulator release from nearby Raphe nucleus. Using a simulated 50-cell network of excitatory connected pBC neurons with a heterogeneous distribution of persistent sodium conductance and ER Ca2+, we determined conditions for frequency modulation in such network by simulating interaction between Raphe and pBC nuclei. We found that the positive feedback between the Raphe excitability and pBC activity induces frequency modulation in the pBC neurons. In addition, the frequency of the respiratory rhythm can be modulated via phasic release of excitatory neuromodulators from the Raphe nucleus. We further predict that the application of a Gq antagonist will eliminate this frequency modulation by Raphe and keep the network frequency constant and low. In contrast, application of a Gq agonist will result in a high frequency for all levels of Raphe stimulation. Our modeling results also suggest that high [K+] requirement in respiratory brain slice experiments may serve as a compensatory mechanism for low neuromodulatory tone.
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This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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Jewish and Arab birth rates indicate that the percentage of school children in the Israeli educational system who are Jewish will grow by 2019 while the percentage of Arabs will decline.
The Central Bureau of Statistics reported Tuesday that the Jewish percentage will rise by one percentage point, from 73 to 74 percent, and the Arab percentage will decline by a point, from 27 to 26 percent.
Previous warnings of a growing Arab population were based on birth rates that no longer are valid. The latest statistics show that there will be 12 percent more children in the Hebrew education system by 2019 but only 10 percent more in the Arab system.
One reason for the decrease in the Arab birth rate might be due to Arab families enjoying a higher quality of life and becoming part of the "middle class" that usually is accompanied by smaller families. The change also indicates that Arabs in Israel do not share the ideology of the Bedouin and fundamentalist Muslim communities that promote larger families as part of the "resistance" movement to eliminate a Jewish majority in Israel.
However, birth rates among Haredi and modern orthodox Jews remain high, one of the reasons that the supposed Arab demographic threat in Judea and Samaria also is exaggerated.
The estimated number of school children also indicates that the Haredi birth rate has declined but still is far higher than in other Jewish sectors in Israel. The annual growth rate in the Haredi primary educations schools is expected to drop from 4.7 percent, for the period from 2001 until 2012, to 3.6 percent by 2019. The rate in the secondary school system is forecast to drop by nearly 50 percent, from 4 percent to 2.3 percent.
The growth rate in state secular and religious schools will increase, but only to 1.43 percent in the primary school system, according to the Bureau of Statistics.
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(CNN) -- The state of Florida must fund some of Casey Anthony's defense in her first-degree murder trial for the death of daughter Caylee, a judge ruled Friday.
"All costs submitted shall be in compliance with the Ninth Judicial Circuit's caps and rates and are subject to further review," Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland said in a order issued Friday.
Anthony's defense team told the court Thursday that she was broke and could not bear expenses associated with her defense.
In Friday's order, Strickland granted Anthony's request to be declared indigent, which means the state will pay expenses related to her defense on a discretionary basis except for private attorney's fees.
Under Florida law, there is a presumption that a defendant is not indigent if he or she has assets of $2,500 or more, excluding the value of a home and one vehicle having a net value less than $5,000.
The "expectancy" of money is also taken into consideration. Defense lawyers testified Thursday that there were not any book or movie deals on the horizon for Anthony.
A spokeswoman for the DePaul Center for Justice in Capital Cases praised the ruling.
"The defense is pleased that this ruling came after an analysis of supplementary documents detailing the defense's income and expenditures, which were deemed by the court to meet the legal standards for the determination of indigency for costs," Liz Brown said.
"After consistent misinformation from legal analysts, bloggers, and commentators, the defense hopes this ruling ends inappropriate speculation regarding any misuse of funds and looks forward to Miss Anthony's day in court."
Anthony's lead attorney, Jose Baez, and Chicago death penalty attorney Andrea Lyon said in a four-page motion that they are not asking the state to pay their legal fees. They asked for assistance with fees for the service of subpoenas, investigations, travel, experts to interpret forensic evidence, expert witness fees and the cost of depositions.
The defense attorneys argued that Anthony is entitled to financial assistance under the Constitution's Sixth Amendment, which protects her right to a fair trial.
Because prosecutors have indicated they are seeking the death penalty, Anthony also is entitled to "the unique standard of care required for a capital defense," the attorneys assert.
Caylee Anthony's body was found in a lot near her grandparents' home in December 2008. The grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony, have been supportive of Casey Anthony but now are fighting foreclosure, according to a complaint filed by Bank of America.
Baez testified Thursday that the defense received and spent about $275,000 over the past year and a half. Of that, $5,000 came from an anonymous donor; $70,000 came from a former defense attorney, Todd Macaluso; and $200,000 came from ABC through a "deal" with Anthony. The terms of the deal were not released.
That money, Baez said, was spent on defense costs including travel, depositions and retention of experts.
"It's been quite an expensive task," he said.
Baez, who testified that he has spent about 2,500 hours on the case, has been paid an estimated $89,454, according to financial affidavits released by the court and written in what appears to be Casey Anthony's handwriting. Lyon has received $22,500 but testified Thursday that all of that money went back into costs associated with the case. "There's not a dime" left, she said.
Anthony wrote that both attorneys "were or are being paid by myself" and said her income is "zero" and her assets are "zero." She did not list her debts or liabilities.
Two more attorneys, Linda Kenney Baden and Cheney Mason, testified that they are working pro bono -- for free -- on the case.


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A research has found that young adults who use social media to quit smoking are twice as successful in their efforts as those who use a more traditional method.
The study, published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, compared the success of the social media-based campaign Break It Off with Smokers' Helpline, a telephone hotline for young adults looking to quit smoking.
After three months in the programme, 32 per cent of smokers who used Break It Off apps and web tools had quit smoking, compared to 14 per cent of their peers who used the telephone-based support.
"These results suggest that the creators of public health campaigns need to evaluate how they use social media channels and social networks to improve health, especially with regards to younger demographics," said lead researcher Bruce Baskerville, senior scientist at University of Waterloo in Canada.
The Canadian Cancer Society launched Break It Off in January 2012 to engage young adults in smoking cessation through an interactive website and social media.
The campaign, which compares quitting smoking with ending a romantic relationship, provides users with an interactive website and smartphone app to encourage smoking cessation.
In Canada, young adults aged 19 to 29 have the highest rate of smoking, but they report low use of traditional cessation services, such as helplines.
Young adults make up the largest demographic of social media users, with 91 per cent using Facebook and one-third actively engaged in micro-blogging sites, such as Twitter.
"Traditional cessation services can have limited reach and this reduced visibility lessens their impact in a digital era," Baskerville said.
"Because they are such heavy users of social media, these platforms provide an alternative and successful way of reaching smokers who are less likely to relate to other cessation programs."
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