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In her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood describes a future in which humanity has all but obliterated itself through scientific hubris and indifference to the environment. It is a Hobbesian world described through two female protagonists whose overlapping histories with the idealistic eco-group God's Gardeners culminate in a gripping meditation on human nature. Atwood has written more than 40 novels, essays and poems in a career that has garnered her numerous literary accolades, including the Man Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin. She and partner Graeme Gibson, author of The Bedside Book of Beasts, visit Santa Fe for a book event and fundraiser for WildEarth Guardians and Wild Watershed, sponsored by Garcia Street Books. SFR spoke with Atwood by phone from her hotel room in Chicago.
SFR: Your newest novel is a companion to a previous one, Oryx and Crake. Did you plan that?
MA: No, I did not. About two minutes after I finished [Oryx and Crake] and certainly about two minutes after [it] was published, everybody started saying, 'What happens two minutes after the end of the book?' The other problem was, having been asked for years and years, 'How come you write so much from the point of view of women?' as soon as I wrote from the point of view of a man, they all started asking, 'Why did you write from the point of view of a man?' The other part was filling in the grid…We didn't really know what was going on in the pleeblands and we didn't know what was going on inside the God's Gardeners, so I thought it would be interesting to find out.
Ursula Le Guin recently wrote about the novel in The Guardian and seemed inconsolable to the idea that you're not writing science fiction.
OK, let's deal with this. I'm actually doing the [Richard] Ellmann Lectures [at Emory University] on the subject. If you look at some of the things I've written, including a long review of Ursula Le Guin herself, in the New York Review of Books, and my introduction of the Island of Dr. Moreau [by HG Wells] and my intro to Brave New World [by Aldous Huxley] and Rider Haggard's book, She, I've been poking around in that large area and I like to use terms precisely…We could say that the DNA of fantasy descends through fairy tales, through George MacDonald, through Lord of the Rings, CS Lewis' Narnia books and Conan the Barbarian and weird tales and things like that…and you could say that Brave New World and 1984 [by George Orwell] descend through Jules Verne, who was writing in the 19th century, things like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, things he thought might actually happen…so the two main strands are things that are not going to happen, such as Martians arriving in big giant tin cans and coming out and drinking people's blood through straws…and things that really are conceivable, that would be Brave New World, 1984 etc., Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban's book. Mine is the second kind.
Some people think you're prophetic.
I know, but I'm not.
The heroine in Bodily Harm, Rennie Wilford, is considered prophetic by her colleagues. She disagrees and says, 'I see into the present, that's all.'
Yes, that's right. That is what people who are credited with being prophetic are actually doing: They are seeing into the present.
A literary critic once described you as a nationalist who rankles nationalists and a feminist who rankles feminists. Given that the God's Gardeners in The Year of the Flood have certain satirical qualities in relation to the modern environmental movement, are you on your way to being an environmentalist who rankles environmentalists?
We don't know how they are going to feel, do we? I might be; I might also be considered a religionist who rankles religious people and a scientific thinker who rankles scientists, if we are going to be in the label business…a short person who rankles short people.
But there are no sacred cows in your work, it's about abuse of power.
That's right. The God's Gardeners are not in a position to abuse power because they are small. We don't know what they would be like if they actually got into power. If you follow the history, for instance, of religious groups that start small and then get power, they generally follow the paths of power.
Religion in The Handmaid's Tale has that power; In The Year of the Flood, it's corporations.
The meld of corporations and government is pretty toxic. If you want to read about that, Jane Jacobs has a book, Systems of Survival, that pretty much lays it out. In The Handmaid's Tale, it's not a question of religion, it's a question of, 'If you were going to take over the United States and impose totalitarian rule, how would you do it?' So it's not a question of religion behaving that way, it's a question of people using religion to behave like that.
In a 1970s interview with Graeme Gibson, he asked you about a scene in The Edible Women, and you responded that any time one acts, one is exercising power; that if there are only killers and victims, from a survival point of view, it's preferable to be a killer, even if it's morally preferable to be a victim. I was thinking about that as I was reading The Year of the Flood, those were the choices. Although I guess Ren survives almost by luck.
You could be a lucky person. You can be a killer, a victim or a lucky person, so I've expanded my categories. But when push comes to shove, what does Toby do?
Kill…You've drawn parallels in the past between gender and national politics. You wrote an essay in 1987 opposing the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement.
And was I right?
You were absolutely right, but we won't say you were prophetic. You made a funny comparison in which you compared US dominance over Canada to male dominance over women.
Yes, that annoys people. It annoyed Canadian politicians.
Because you said they were in the missionary position and not on top. The victimization of women occurs in The Year of the Flood, but unlike The Handmaid's Tale, America as villain seems less prominent than global corporate villainy. Because America itself has had its own slippages?
Yes, it's in trouble. I don't know whether you've noticed. It's had its slippages and, like every other place on the planet, it is suffering from decline of available foodstuffs and climate change disaster.
Is there also reason to feel optimistic given the changes people are making, the so-called green lifestyle movement?
I can't pick up a magazine without finding a big green spread…this kind of thinking is now front and center, whereas five years ago it was in the back pages of nerdy publications, and that in itself is huge.
What sort of changes have you made?
Last year we replaced all of the windows in our house. We have been doing the low-energy lightbulbs ever since they happened. We don't have air conditioning, anyway. We open the bottom windows at night, we open the skylight, the air flows through; it works 99 percent of the time. We have the virtuous cars, we do the local organic shopping, all the things you can probably think of. But the most important thing is the shade-grown organic coffee. Coffee is the second most traded substance on the planet after oil, and the non-organic, non-shade-grown is a big killer of migratory songbirds, because their habitat is destroyed and then their food and [they themselves are] sprayed with pesticides. So being heavily involved in the bird world, I can tell you that what's killing them now is going to kill us later. So the shade-grown organic coffee, if you can get one message out, if people would do that, it would be a huge major change. [Atwood then recommended reading the book Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them by Bridget Stutchbury.]
There's some very dark science and genetic engineering—although extremely entertaining, obviously—in both Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. Is it a warning against people using science to play, for lack of a better word, God?
There are active groups right now who think it would be a great idea for you to be able to design a baby, the book on that is called Enough [Staying Human in an Engineered Age] by Bill McKibben. What I say to my genetic engineering people when I go to speak to them is, 'It's a tool and what we choose to use that tool for is up to us, the human beings, not to the tool itself.' So if we can use it to make drought-resistant crops, make crops that don't have to be sown every year, fantastic. If what you want to do is become immortal or design a baby, the fallout is going to be awful.
I'm curious as to your take on the 2012 Mayan apocalypse phenomenon.
It's a problem with human grammar. Once you have a past that infinitely recedes, you have to come to a beginning, which is arbitrary and once you have a future that infinitely recedes…we don't seem to be able to resist that. There's a very good writer called John Gray [Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia], you might look him up…he's writing about that mind-set that seems to push us toward having us end and then begin again. Any narrative need is pushed by grammar. There are some cultures that exist more or less in the present tense, and they don't seem to have that, 'in the beginning was…' fill in the blank, 'but then something better will come along, and it will be called…' supply the answer. But it does lead to very bad political systems, that kind of thinking. Hitler's favorite opera was one in which everything burns down in the end…that feeling that you need to knock everything down to build a perfect world.
At the end of The Year of the Flood, Jimmy, Ren, Amanda and Toby hear music and see people with torches coming through the forest. Jimmy says, 'Here we go again.' I read this as a happy ending because, despite all the loss, people survive; the emotional part of humanity that Crake wanted to destroy can't be destroyed. Am I being a total sap here or is that part of what you wanted to convey?
No, I don't think you're being sappy…all of these books are really about human nature. How far can you stretch it before it's not human anymore? What are our essentials, what are our frills?
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text: Changes from Ant 1.9.4 TO Ant 1.9.5 =================================== Changes that could break older environments: ------------------------------------------- * The ReplaceTokens filter can now use token-separators longer than one character. This means it can be used to replace mustache-style {{patterns}} and similar templates. This is going to break code that invokes the setters on ReplaceTokens via the Java API as their parameters have been changed from char to String. It may also break build files that specified multi character tokens and relied on Ant silently ignoring all but the first character. Bugzilla Report 56584 * The changes that added <get>'s support for gzip encoding automatically uncompressed content that would not have been touched before - like when downloading .tar.gz files. A new flag has been added to control the behavior and its default will make <get> work as it did in 1.9.3. I.e. if you want it to work like 1.9.4 you have to explicitly set tryGzipEncoding to true. Bugzilla Report 57048 Fixed bugs: ----------- * TarArchiveInputStream failed to read archives with empty gid/uid fields. Bugzilla Report 56641 * TarArchiveInputStream could throw IOException when reading PAX headers from a "slow" InputStream. * XMLJunitResultFormatter could throw NullPointerException if Java cannot determine the local hostname. Bugzilla Report 56593 * URLResource#getLastModified tried to access the connection to the URL without making sure it was established, potentially leading to a NullPointerException when using FTP. Bugzilla Report 56873 * Long-Name and -link or PAX-header entries in TAR archives always had the current time as last modfication time, creating archives that are different at the byte level each time an archive was built. * runant.py should now work as well when the path of the Java executable contains spaces. github pull request #1 * <junitreport> now supports nested <classpath> and <factory> elements. Bugzilla Report 47002 * complete-ant-cmd.pl now also knows about the -file option. Bugzilla Report 57371 * the br-replace template inside the XSLT stylesheets used by <junitreport> could cause stack overflows or out-of-memory errors when applied to big outputs. Bugzilla Report 57341 * removed spurious warning about unclosed ZipFiles when reading the archive failed. Port of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-297 * FileUtils.rename which is used by several tasks can throw a NullPointerException if the "normal" renameTo operation fails and an exception occurs while rename falls back to copying and deleting the file. Bugzilla Report 57533 * complete-ant-cmd.pl would incorrectly suggest words from the build file description. Bugzilla Report 51931 * complete-ant-cmd.pl now also completes tasks without a description. Bugzilla Report 57542 * LocalPropertyStack could run into ConcurrentModificationException when tasks spawned new child threads that accessed the properties. Bugzilla Report 55074 * TarEntry's constructor with a File and a String arg didn't normalize the name. * Between 1.8.4 and 1.9.0 TarInputStream started to parse file names using the platform's default encoding rather than as ASCII. This has been a breaking change that has never been marked as such (in fact it went unnoticed). In order to allow <untar> and <tarfileset> to work on platforms who's encoding doesn't match the encoding of file names inside the archive, both now support encoding attributes. The attribute has also been added to <tar> for symmetry. Bugzilla Report 57822 Other changes: -------------- * it is now possible to provide proxy configuration to signjar when using the timestamped authority. Bugzilla Report 56678 * complete-ant-cmd.pl now also analyzes the ANT_ARGS environment variable. Bugzilla Report 57371 * ported some of the write-optimization of Commons Compress 1.10 to the ZIP package * adapted unit tests to Java9 and added "javac1.9" as valid option for javac's compiler attribute. * performance improvements for <intersect> Bugzilla Report 57588 * MailLogger can now add CC and BCC addresses. Bugzilla Report 57789. * <scp>'s buffer size has been increased from 1k to 100k to match <ftp> and <get>. github pull requests #8 and #9 * The tar package can now deal with group and user ids bigger than 0x80000000. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-314 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-315 * <scp> has new attributes fileMode and dirMode that control the permissions on the remote side when sending data via SSH. Bugzilla Report 43271. * New <allbutlast> and <allbutfirst> resource collections can be used to select all but a given subset of a resource collection. Bugzilla Report 57834.


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Solving a riddle is fun,if you manage to solve the riddle,that is!!When I saw the announcement of Open Sesame 2,posted in TOI,I wondered how I missed OS1.Anyway,better late than never-did not waste any time and went to the site,chose my preferred box,that was box#1.Promptly,Siri sent me the riddle-
"A moniker in my name for a city
A phrase with me will make you cherished
I am so good for you in my utter simplicity
In Medical dictionary the fact so furnished
I am so famous in the world of bytes
Known for many aspects of usage
I am fat and rotund and make crunchy bites
My fame known from many religious traditions - right from the old age
Am, I forbidden? Or mystical ?
or the eternal giver of Youth
I consists of five internal carpels
Am good for good health of your mouth
I am as basic a fruit as you can think of
Or as hard if you dont try enough
If You eat me on a day to day basis
Then you dont have worry about anything - be it cold or dry cough."
I read it once and the word "forbidden" gave me a hint that it could be Apple.Tried to think the rest of the riddle matching it with Apple and it matched-Fat and rotund,Crunchy bites,Religious traditions,Cold&Cough-I really hoped that it was Apple and sent my reply to Siri and Bingo!!she said it was the right answer!!I was sooo soo excited!!I had to prepare a super duper dish with Apple.Had already prepared a Jam for MEC-Bottled,so was wondering what to make this time.A friend suggested that I make Apple Kheer,but I was not so sure about that.Kept the recipe of Kheer for another time and again scanned my cookbook.I saw a recipe for Eggless Apple cake and got very excited.At the back of my mind,I got warnings saying that since I am making it in the MW it wont have a brown crust etc etc.But I avoided all those warnings and went ahead with the recipe,and I am so glad I did!!
Eggless Apple cake with Apple Jam
1 apple - peeled & grated
Maida-1 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Butter - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup(or more if required)
Sift maida,baking powder and baking soda in a bowl and keep aside.
Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add grated apples and milk-beat again till mixed well.
Now fold the dry ingredients into this by adding 1 tbsp flour at a time.
Grease a MW proof dish with butter and pour the batter into it.
MW on 80% power for 8 minutes.
Leave in MW for another 5 minutes.
Serve with a dollop of Apple jam(optional).


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Category: Assign Rosters
Team rosters can be created by using this simple roster tool. Once the below fields are entered, the pool of participants is narrowed to a specific group. Admins can then simply click on a participant to assign them to a team.
Members can also be assigned to a team one at a time, or perhaps you need to switch someone from one team to another.
Assign a member to a team
Navigate to Admin > Members > Lookup
and search for a member (if they don't exist, you may need to add them). Once found, click on their name and then the "Teams" tab within their record. From here, use the drop-downs to assign them to a team and give them a position. Click Submit to save.
How to: Assign coaches to teams
- Select a Team
- Select an available season from the drop down menu. Next, select a team from the resulting drop down menu. This is the team whose roster you will create.
- Select Participants
- From the drop down menu, select a group of participants to be available to choose from. If this is the first team you are creating a roster for you should select "All participants." Select "Currently Unassigned" for all subsequent rosters.
- Member Type
- You can select from "All" members, which includes parents as well as players, or "Players Only" from the drop down list.
- Gender
- If you have both female and male participants to choose from, you can limit your roster to "Male," "Female" or "Any".
- Born Between
- Use these fields to filter members by age. The field to the left is the low birthday and the one to the right is the high limit.
- Between Grades
- Use these fields to specify members whose school grade is between the numbers you enter here. Kindergarten is specified with a "0." For pre-k use "-1."
- Registered in
- Select the program from the drop down menu that the participants are registered in. If you wish to select all participants select "None."
- Notes Contain
- This selection is optional. Enter any keywords that you would like the roster tool to search for in the notes field. For example, if you are looking for left handed pitchers you can enter "left" in this field. This tool will work only if you have entered notes in the members information.


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quote:Originally posted by The DukeKinda over - kill on a childish subject isn`t it.The guy can`t properly speak English, not alone put a correct sentence together. FFS most Canadians i know can`t put a correct English sentence together.If a fan wants to say OUR team...let him / her...the fan is paying the $$$$$ to keep the whole damn thing together.
quote:Originally posted by The DukeKinda over - kill on a childish subject isn`t it.The guy can`t properly speak English, not alone put a correct sentence together.
quote:Originally posted by Beans15Yep, all great points but it doesn't change the fact that you (or any other fan) is not part of the organization. You are not a player, coach, trainer, adminstrator, medical staff, marketing, promotions, management, etc. You are a fan. It is them, not you, who is part of the team or part of a group that makes up the team.
quote:Originally posted by Mario 66Guest I totally agree with you & was going to bring it up earlier today just been way to busy studying & do not have time to be rebuttling this week. If I make a generalized statement "they" are the very best nobody on here has a F***** clue what I am refering to. The second I say We you automatically know or atleast presume I am referencing the Pens.If WE don't take pride in our team of choice by turning on the TV or showing up to the arena; THEY don't have a livelyhood. Everyone can view it differently, but if your signifcant other & you lease a vehicle are you going to tell everyone we own it for the next 4 yrs or they (the dealership) own it? No different with your team, you pay to cheer them on whether it's through jersey sales, seat sales, or tv revenue. The second you start paying to watch, play or own something you have taken ownership in it and therefore are entitled to call it what you like.In youth we learn; in age we understand


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Mrs. G. MacKay collection : [ca. 1890's]
- CA PCA Acc3297
- Collection
- Copied 1981
This collection consists of 38 images of individuals and groups of interrelated families in the Tryon area of Prince Edward Island. The principal families included are Morrell, Howatt, Warren, and Boulter although there are some miscellaneous imag...
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On Being Ignorant of One's Ignorance and Unaware of Being Unskilled, by John Loftus
Looking back on those initial years I could see clearly that I was not able to think through the issues of the Bible, especially hermeneutics, until after gaining a master's degree. I would have told you upon receiving my first master's degree that I was ignorant before then. But I kept on learning and studying. Age had a way of teaching me as well. It seems as though as every decade passed I would say I was more ignorant in the previous one. As every decade passed I see more and more wisdom in Socrates who claimed he was wise because he didn't know. According to him the wiser that a person is, then the less he claims to know. Awareness of our ignorance only comes with more knowledge.
One writer said:
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell once wrote that "the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." This is true whether one interprets "stupid" as foolish (short on smarts) or as ignorant (short on information). Deliberately or otherwise, his sentiment echoes that of Charles Darwin, who over one hundred years ago pointed out that "ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."And so let me link to this writer who in turn links to an important study that can help us determine whether we are ignorant or not. The psychological study is called, Unskilled and Unaware of it.
The Internet is a veritable all-you-can-eat buffet of such misplaced confidence. Online, individuals often speak with confident authority on a subject, yet their conclusions are flawed. It is likely that such individuals are completely ignorant of their ignorance. Cough.
And it just doesn't apply to Christians, but anyone who has an overconfident assessment of their skills and abilities, including atheists.
The bottom line is that the more I know the more aware of how little I know. Get it? But there is no way to help a person who has all of the answers know how little he knows except by increasing his knowledge and experience. It's a catch-22 of sorts. Until you do know a great deal you will never really know how ignorant you are. Therefore only the ignorant are unaware of their ignorance. And only the unskilled are unaware of it too. We see this on shows like American Idol and on Who's Got Talent? Does it not surprise you how many people audition for these shows who completely lack talent and yet claim they are good? Most bad Karaoke singers do not know they cannot sing. It's not until they become better at it can they know this for themselves.
It's not that the ignorant and unskilled don't know they are at least somewhat ignorant and unskilled. They do. Just ask them. When asked even the ignorant will say so. It's just that the ignorant do not understand how truly ignorant they really are. They might think it's a small leap to knowledge when there is a mile (or several miles) to travel for it.
Again, the more we know the more we know that we don't know, and only people who know can truly know this. Got it? And only people who know can discern others who know. I can have a great conversation/dialogue with some Christians here because I can tell that they know what they are talking about (even if I disagree). And I know who they are because of what they say. It's a joy to me. In fact, if approved for publication an unnamed Christian scholar and I will be co-writing a book length dialogue about our differences because I can respect that he knows (well, at least as best as a Christian can do anyway). [I'm not defining "know" here as justified knowledge, but in terms of education and awareness, since, as you would expect, I think he's wrong].
So I'll continually be bothered daily at DC by ignorant people who are unaware of their ignorance, especially Christians. That's the nature of this beast. Worse off, they don't trust me to tell them what they should understand. They will most likely only listen when someone on their side of the fence--whom they respect--tells them.
For now I'm challenging people to consider whether they are ignorant/unskilled and unaware of it. Most Christians who comment here are. I would say this about them as a former professor of philosophy, apologetics, ethics, and the Bible. This is much more true of them now from my perspective.
So the more I know the more I know that I don't know. But I do know this: I know a hell of a lot more than most people about Christianity. I am not ignorant when it comes to Christianity. I might be wrong, but I'm not ignorant, at least not as ignorant as most of the Christians who comment here. Is this a contradiction? Not at all. For the only way for us to know something like this is to become knowledgeable. Someone can only say he knows a lot when he knows he doesn't know that much. And only the knowledgeable can have a proper assessment of this because the ignorant are ignorant of their own ignorance!


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Thank You to My Really Old Gym Shoes
Permanent linkA few weeks ago, a ridiculous thought occurred to me. I could not remember the last time I bought new gym shoes.
I was looking down at my shoes, ready to show the elliptical who's boss (hint: not me), and I realized that I've owned those shoes for a very, very long time. I had no memory of buying sneakers after college. Did I buy them before college? Is there a chance that these well-loved shoes were more than 10 years old?
I think the "rules" say people should purchase new gym shoes every year or every other year, which meant that it was definitely time to buy a new pair. And now, as we speak, I'm breaking in some exciting new shoes just waiting to travel the world (or at least the inside of a workout room).
But all of a sudden, I'm feeling nostalgic for my old guys.
If you read my blogs, you might know I've become obsessed with The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. One of the aspects of her book that make the haters hate hate hate hate hate is that Kondo recommends "thanking" each of your items before discarding them. Yes, it may be a little hokey to thank your oven mitts for a job well done, but it does make you feel less guilty about tossing them. "Thank you, oven mitts, for keeping my hands from getting burned as I baked cookies for my friends. But I don't need three pairs of oven mitts. I hope you make someone else very happy."
Thanking items before discarding them allows you to think about how items have more than their face value. Oven mitts lead to family gatherings. Dresses lead to memorable occasions. And gym shoes lead to health, fitness, and long walks with good friends.
So I'd like to use this post to thank my old gym shoes. It's truly been quite a journey. According to my Fitbit, which I've worn daily since November 2013, I've walked nearly 3,000 miles over the past three years. And these gym shoes have literally supported me every step of the way (except for those somewhat painful mid-workday walks with coworkers when I'm wearing flats).
These shoes have traveled with me around the globe -- to Israel, England, Holland, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, all over the United States, and throughout so many Chicago neighborhoods. They may have made me look like a tourist, but at least when I'm wearing them, I look like a happy tourist and not a "my feet are killing me so please don't make me ;go to one more stinkin' museum" tourist.
According to some exhaustive Facebook research, this is the first recorded photo of me in the shoes, taken while exploring downtown Chicago with my college roommates in September 2008:
These shoes have kept me comfortable, kept me walking, kept me exploring. They've been with me in probably more kinds of weather than is appropriate for non-rain boots.
So now, as the shoes are at least eight years old, worn and tattered, showing signs of retirement, I look ahead to my new friends for my feet:
And maybe I should set myself a reminder for this time next year to look into getting a new pair of -- gotta say it -- solemates.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trying to ratchet up pressure on Congress, the White House on Friday detailed what it said would be the painful impact on the federal workforce and certain government assistance programs if "large and arbitrary" scheduled government spending cuts are allowed to take place beginning March 1.
They include layoffs or furloughs of "hundreds of thousands" of federal workers, including FBI agents, U.S. prosecutors, food safety inspectors and air traffic controllers, said White House budget officials at a briefing and in a fact sheet that included these examples of what the cuts would mean:
— About 70,000 young children would be kicked off Head Start, 10,000 teacher jobs would be put at risk and up to 2,100 food safety inspections might have to be canceled.
—Up to 373,000 "seriously mentally ill adults and seriously emotionally disturbed children" would go untreated, up to 1,000 fewer National Science Foundation research grants and effecting some 12,000 scientists and students could be threatened, many small business loans denied, workplace safety inspections curtailed, federally assisted programs like "Meals on Wheels" slashed and 125,000 low-income renters put at risk of losing government-subsidized housing.
— Approximately 424,000 fewer HIV tests could be conducted by state agencies working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and some 100,000 formerly homeless people, including veterans, would be removed from their current housing and emergency shelter programs.
The White House said the so-called mandatory sequester cuts represent a threat to national security and the economy.
"There is no reason — no reason — for that to happen," President Barack Obama said Friday.
The spending cuts were originally to take place beginning Jan. 1, but were put off until March 1 in a last-minute deal between Obama and Congress to avert a New Year's "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts.
At issue are $1.2 trillion of additional spending cuts over the next 10 years, including about $85 billion this year.
Obama has called for a small package of spending cuts and measures to close tax loopholes and put off the deadline again.
But Republicans have so far said no.
"We agree the sequester is the wrong way to cut spending," Brendan Buck, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, said Friday. But he added: "The president got his higher taxes on the wealthy last month— with no corresponding cuts. The tax issue has been resolved."
White House press secretary Jay Carney dismissed such arguments as "convenient spin, but it's also a lot of baloney."
Administration budget officials said the list of proposed cuts was compiled by the various federal agencies that would be responsible for carrying them out — and not dictated by the White House.
In the Senate, majority-party Democrats are discussing ways to raise new revenues and curb spending to replace the cuts and aiming for a vote just before March 1. They want to cut spending as well, including direct payments to farmers that are seen as hard to defend.
"It should be a mixture," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Ideas for increasing tax revenue include a minimum tax rate for millionaires, eliminating a tax perk on corporate jets and closing a loophole that allows wealthy people to avoid paying Social Security and Medicare taxes on some of their income.
But the Democratic effort seems sure to be blocked by Republicans, who are dead set against additional tax revenue after yielding to Obama during the fiscal cliff negotiations and agreeing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest Americans. Obama got the tax increases he wanted — with no corresponding spending cuts.
House Republicans are divided between defense hawks hoping to avert Pentagon cuts and tea-party conservatives who back the sequester.
Boehner, R-Ohio, says the sequester was all Obama's idea in the 2011 negotiations that produced it, but the House speaker hasn't committed to an effort to block the spending cuts before they strike.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, praised the administration for releasing "compelling information" on the impact of the spending cuts.
"The impacts of sequester are devastating to the American people and the American economy. The public has a right to understand how sequester would impact middle-class families, jobs and the economy," she said in a statement.
Associated Press writers Darlene Superville and Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.


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ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- For Darleen Evans, it was sheer terror as the manufacturing plant where she worked collapsed around her and her colleagues. She and two other women rushed into a bathroom stall, she holding one under each arm as she prayed, a tornado roaring overhead.
She tearfully recalled their survival as nothing short of a miracle: "If it wasn't for God, this company and these people wouldn't be here."
On two occasions, tornadoes have ripped through the Daiki Corp. steel manufacturing plant that employs more than 90 people in this small community. Both times, everyone inside escaped serious injury.
The sprawling facility won't be reopening anytime soon after the storm that hit Wednesday, however: Most of it has been reduced to a pile of rubble, little more than mangled beams and twisted steel. The first time, in 2002, a tornado tossed the roof into the parking lot. Ventilation fans, ductwork and wiring were torn away.
Several media outlets aired dramatic video Wednesday showing a massive funnel cloud roaring through Adairsville, a town of about 4,600 some 60 miles northwest of Atlanta.
Three people died because of the massive storm system that marched across the U.S. — tornadoes killed one each in Tennessee and Georgia, while floodwaters killed a third in Maryland. While most came away with their lives, many lost their homes and were left with little else a day later.
Tens of thousands were without power at the storm's peak as a cold front sent what had been unseasonably high temperatures plummeting to near-freezing depths. Dangerous wind blanketed the nation's midsection, with subzero temperatures and wind chills recorded in the Dakotas. In Detroit, icy roads were blamed for a massive chain reaction wreck involving about 30 vehicles on Interstate 75. At least three people died there, and another pileup involving more than 40 vehicles near Indianapolis closed a stretch of Interstate 70 in both directions.
Others closely watched rivers swollen by torrential rains, and officials opened flood gates to ease pressure on dams in Maryland. Hundreds were evacuated to higher ground. In Anne Arundel County, one person apparently drowned in a flooded camp where homeless people live in tents, said police Lt. T.J. Smith.
Ernest Moran said he lives at the site with about 15 other people. He awakened Thursday morning to find "a swamp," he said, and escaped with only his dog and a knapsack.
Near the nation's capital, at least one motorist had to be rescued because of flash floods. In New England, powerful winds were the main problem as gusts topping 60 mph in some areas caused widespread power outages.
The tornadoes Tuesday and Wednesday broke the nation's longest break between tornado fatalities since detailed records began being kept in 1950, according to the Storm Prediction Center and National Climatic Data Center. The last one was June 24 in Florida. That was 220 days ago as of Tuesday.
Winter tornadoes are not unheard of: In January 2012, at least two tornadoes ripped across Alabama, killing two people and wiping out scores of homes and businesses. Warm air from the Gulf of Mexico can collide with cold air inland, creating the sort of instability that spawned this week's tornadoes.
National Weather Service meteorologist George Wetzel said the storm that tore through Adairsville was a high EF3 in strength, creating winds of more than 100 miles per hour. An EF5 is the strongest tornado category.
The storm traveled 25 miles across Bartow and Gordon counties, and it is not yet clear how long it took for the storm to travel through the area, Wetzel said.
By Thursday, the focus in Adairsville had turned to cleanup and rebuilding. Metal siding and fiberglass insulation dangled from trees; Christmas ornaments and knickknacks were strewn across lawns, the homes that had housed them no longer standing.
Dozens of law enforcement officials from several agencies swarmed the area, as well as other relief workers. A Krystal fast food restaurant in town served meals to rescuers as well as residents struggling to recover.
Daiki plant manager Wes Stephenson said Thursday that the facility would likely have to at least temporarily lay off most of its 90 employees. The storm knocked out most of its manufacturing capability, but there are some sections of the plant still standing where employees could do some finishing work. Stephenson said he hoped to keep a skeleton crew to do that finishing work until the rest of the plant could be repaired, which would likely take at least several months.
Rodey Kirby, a production worker, was among those who didn't know if he'd still have a job in the coming days. He was working Wednesday when the lights started flickering, and Stephenson told him and others to run. They took cover in a restroom, and Kirby and two colleagues kneeled and started praying. He heard the unmistakable roar of a tornado; he looked up and saw the ceiling tiles vanish.
"I'd see daylight and no daylight; daylight and no daylight. And then it seemed like it took forever, but then it was over," Kirby said.
"I looked around and everybody was there. And I'm glad (God) heard our prayers because that's the only thing I could do with it, just hold on and pray."
Associated Press writers Phillip Lucas in Atlanta and Matthew Barakat in Laurel, Md., contributed to this report.


text: NEW YORK -- The Irish actor Milo O'Shea, whose many roles on stage and screen included a friar in Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," an evil scientist in "Barbarella" and a Supreme Court justice on "The West Wing," has died in New York City. He was 86. Ireland's arts minister, Jimmy Deenihan, said in a statement announcing O'Shea's death on Tuesday that the Dublin-born actor would be remembered for "ground-breaking" roles, including a performance as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film adaptation of "Ulysses." O'Shea also acted on Broadway, playing a gay hairdresser in 1968's "Staircase." He was nominated for Tony Awards twice. The public knew O'Shea best as a character actor. His bushy eyebrows and white hair made him a favourite of casting directors looking for priests. He played a drunken one on the TV show "Cheers," a pedophilic one in the 1997 film "The Butcher Boy," a charming one in the 1981 Broadway play "Mass Appeal," as well as the tragedy-enabling Friar Laurence in "Romeo and Juliet." He was a judge in the film "The Verdict." His loony turn as the pleasure-obsessed scientist Durand Durand in the 1968 science fiction romp "Barbarella" inspired a British rock group to name its band after his character. Duran Duran also put him in a concert video. O'Shea moved to the U.S. in the mid-1970s and was a longtime resident of New York.


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Mohammed Badie, the top leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, has suffered a heart attack while in jail, Reuters reports, quoting the state-run al-Ahram newspaper on Saturday.
However, state-run news agency MENA has denied a report by the private al-Nahar website, citing security sources, that Badie had died.
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim was quoted by Reuters as saying that Badie is "in good health" after the heart attack.
Many of the Brotherhood's leaders were imprisoned in recent weeks in the toughest crackdown the group has faced.
Badie, considered the movement's spiritual leader, was arrested on Aug. 20 at his apartment in the eastern Cairo district of Nasr City.
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Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C), and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts. Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort.
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Ocho Rios (Spanish for "Eight Rivers") is a town in the parish of Saint Ann on the north coast of Jamaica. Just outside the city, travelers and residents can visit Columbus Park, where Columbus supposedly first came on land, and see maritime artifacts and Spanish colonial buildings. Ocho Rios was once a fishing village but it's now a resort with a cruise ship harbor and a busy bay beach that's lined with hotels. Scuba diving and other water sports are offered in the town's vicinity. The name "Ocho Rios" is a misnomer because there are not eight rivers in the area. It is most likely a British corruption of the original Spanish name "Las Chorreras" ("the waterfalls"), a name given to the village because of the nearby Dunn's River Falls - (a famous waterfall and a major Caribbean tourist attraction that receives thousands of visitors each year).
Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman is the largest of the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. George Town, its capital, is home to the Cayman Islands National Museum, dedicated to Caymanian heritage. There are fast food restaurants, night clubs, and resorts on the western side of the island down to George Town. The eastern districts have more restaurants specialising in native Caymanian cuisine. Because of its clubs, resorts, and hotels, Seven Mile Beach has the largest concentration of visitors and tourists on the island. Watersports such as scuba diving and snorkeling are among the most popular activities on Grand Cayman as the island is known for its coral reefs and underwater sea walls along with a number of shipwrecks.
Cienfuegos is a stunning waterfront city situated on the southern coast of Cuba. Its picturesque nautical setting has earned it the title, "the Pearl of the South", a description that has endured for centuries. The history of Cienfuegos possesses interesting antecedents and is rich in aborigine and Hispanic legends. Founded in 1819, it's one of Cuba's newest settlements, but also one of its most architecturally interesting, a factor that earned it a Unesco World Heritage Site listing in 2005.


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The Most Asinine Christian Argument I've Probably Ever Heard
This argument is touted recently by the Maverick Philosopher which Vic Reppert links to, who merely asks the question of whether or not he's correct. It's used by C.S. Lewis, Norman Geisler, Paul Copan, and others like Steve Hays and David Wood. It concerns the problem of evil and whether or not the atheist can make that argument without an objective standard to know evil. Now I don't usually call Christian arguments asinine, so hear me out...
C.S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity, argues from the start that there can be no evil without absolute goodness (God) to measure it against. "How do you know a line is crooked without having some knowledge of what a straight line is?" In other words, I need some sort of objective moral in order to say something is morally evil. But the word "evil" here is used both as a term describing the fact that there is suffering, and at the same time it's used as a moral term to describe whether or not such suffering makes the belief in a good God improbable, and that's an equivocation in the word's usage. The fact that there is suffering is undeniable. Whether it makes the belief in a good God improbable is the subject for debate. I'm talking about pain...the kind that turns our stomachs. Why is there so much of it when there is a good omnipotent God? I'm arguing that the amount of intense suffering in this world makes the belief in a good God improbable from a theistic perspective, and I may be a relativist, a pantheist, or a witchdoctor and still ask about the internal consistency of what a theist believes.
The dilemma for the theist is to reconcile senseless suffering in the world with his own beliefs (not mine) that all suffering is for a greater good. It's an internal problem for the theist and the skeptic is merely using the logical tool for assessing arguments called the reductio ad absurdum, which attempts to reduce to absurdity the claims of a person. The technique is to force a claimant to choose between accepting the consequences of what he believes, no matter how absurd it seems, or to reject one or more premises in his argument. The person making this argument does not believe the claimant and is trying to show why her beliefs are misguided and false to some degree, depending on the force of his counter-argument. It's that simple. If skeptics cannot use this argument here on this issue then we should disallow all reductio ad absurdum type arguments. Just ask yourself if, in order to show Idealism to be implausible by accepting the premises of George Berkeley's argument, whether you therefore must abandon your view that there is a material world, and you'll see what I mean.
Christian theists argue that in the natural world nothing can count as evil for the atheist, since everything that happens is part of nature. So, they claim atheists have no objective basis for arguing there is any evil in the natural world that can count against the existence of the Christian God. But this is fallacious reasoning. What counts as evil in my atheist worldview is a separate problem from the Christian problem of evil. They are distinctly separate issues. Christians cannot seek to answer their internal problem by claiming atheists also have a problem with evil. Yet, that's exactly what they do here, which is an informal fallacy known as a red herring, or skirting the issue. Christians must deal with their internal problem. Atheists must do likewise. I will not skirt my specific problem by claiming Christians have one. I adjure them to do the same.
The fact that many professional philosophers agree with this can be seen in reading through the book, The Evidential Argument From Evil, edited by Daniel Howard-Snyder. Not one scholarly Christian theist attempted to make this argument in that book; not Swinburne, not Plantinga, not Alston, not Wykstra, not Van Inwagen and not Howard-Snyder. I suggest it's because they know it is not dealing with the problem at all. They recognize it as a bogus argument, and obviously so.
That this is a theistic problem can be settled once and for all by merely reminding the Christian that she would still have to deal with this problem even if I never raised it at all. That is, even if I did not argue that the existence of evil presents a serious problem for the Christian view of God, the Christian would still have to satisfactorily answer the problem for herself. So to turn around and argue that as an atheist I need to have an objective moral standard to make this argument is nonsense. It's an internal problem that would still demand an answer if no atheist ever argued for it. The problem of evil is one of the reasons why Process Theologians have conceded that God is not omnipotent. It didn't take atheists to persuade them to abandon God's omnipotence at all. The problem speaks for itself. There is nothing wrong with a Christian who wishes to evaluate the internal consistency of her own belief system. To say otherwise is to affirm pure fideism.


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DoubleCheck is a Dracula teachpack for randomized testing. It is inspired by the QuickCheck library for Haskell, and implemented with the FastTest library for PLT Scheme. DoubleCheck may be used before theorem proving to establish confidence in a program property, or after a failed proof attempt to search for counterexamples.
For detailed reference, see the online documentation.
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text: Space | 16. December 2010 | posted by Jan Wörner Happy Holidays! Cooperation with partners in the United States Shortly before Christmas, the DLR office in Washington DC invites our partners to attend a Holiday reception. This way, various DLR's various US aerospace sector partners are invited to take a look back at the past year in a convivial atmosphere, and also to make plans for the future. This year, the reception occurred at the end of what proved to be a fascinating business trip, one which took me right across the US and gave me the opportunity to meet many of our partners there. First, I flew from Frankfurt to Los Angeles, visited the Edwards Air Force Base near Palmdale, home to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) with which DLR maintains close links on many fundamental questions; propulsion technology being one example. The guided tour of the laboratory and of current research activities, which included work on electrical drives, was wrapped up by a discussion about ongoing and future cooperative projects. From there, we moved on to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, in Pasadena. JPL is a very special institution because, in spite of its status as a NASA Field Center, it has a contractual relationship with NASA and is in fact managed and operated by the California Institute of Technology, Caltech for short, which employs the staff on payroll. Two current Moon missions to which DLR is willing to contribute, were presented. The Moonrise project is a particularly exciting one. Its aim is to land on the far-side of the Moon, collect samples and to bring these back to Earth. In parallel, JPL is working on a large number of other missions such as the Mars Science Laboratory, a new mission to the Red Planet, of which a very large and heavy rover is a key component. On the German side (DLR and GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences), we have been working with JPL for a number of years successfully on the GRACE project (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment), investigating the Earth's gravitational field. Another interesting prospect is using German and American technology to develop a 'Tandem' L-band radar mission. The success of the TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X missions has made us a sought-after partner. Having said that, a question mark still hangs over the issue of financing on the German side. We are currently examining various options with other research centres in the Helmholtz Association (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences etc.) The next stop in my visit was NASA's Ames Research Center, not far from San Francisco. Here too, there are various ongoing cooperative projects with DLR in aeronautics as well as space. A focal point of work at Ames is the scientific involvement in the SOFIA project. SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy) is being financed jointly by NASA and DLR; it involves a 2.7-metre telescope fitted inside a modified Boeing 747SP that carries out astronomical observations far above the interference of Earth's lower atmosphere. We were shown the impressive results of the first scientific flights, and discussed a range of ideas for future cooperation. The last stop on my trip was Washington DC where, in addition to the signing of the framework agreement between NASA and DLR, and the signing of our membership to the virtual Lunar Science Institute (LSI), an episode of the 'Masters with Masters' series was recorded. At this event, I joined NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and moderator Ed Hoffman for a Q&A session. This was not just about shared ideas and projects but instead focused primarily on personal reflections which should shed light on our career, the joint path ahead, as well as on our actions and thoughts in this regard. You get a rough impression of that event here , and the complete transcript will be published in January on www.DLR.de/en and www.nasa.gov. Before this event, I had the opportunity that morning to present German activities to representatives from the worlds of politics and business, particularly with regard to Germany's new Space Strategy at a Business Breakfast hosted by the Space Transportation Association in the United States House of Representatives. Following a press conference that afternoon at the DLR office in Washington, I attended our aforementioned DLR Holiday reception that evening with our US partners and friends, as well as with representatives of other countries (including Canada and Japan). A great atmosphere and conversations about where the future might take us made this a most memorable evening. Here, as in all preceding meetings, the presentation of Germany's new Space Strategy was the focal point of discussions around the space sector. Time and again, Germany's Space Strategy attracted great interest, and feedback was overwhelmingly favourable and encouraging. I spent the last day of my trip attending meetings with the German Embassy and with representatives of the German Army to secure their support on a range of DLR's activities in the US. All in all, a trip with many high points which we hope will help intensify our cooperation with our various partners in the US.


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Energy-Saving Lights: Options for Outdoor Lighting
When it comes to lighting, consumers have hundreds if not thousands of choices. While many of these lights use traditional incandescent bulbs, the use of LED's and compact fluorescent bulbs are becoming standard practice. Price can run from $10 to hundreds. Style can vary from rustic to over-the-top contemporary.
Outdoor lighting is not that much different than interior lighting. The main difference lies in the weatherproof nature of the lights housing or its configuration. Another element in outdoor lighting is the use of low-voltage lights. Compared to "line" voltage lights, low-voltage light systems are often installed by the homeowner, which can be a great cost benefit to hiring and bringing in a full fledged electrical contractor.
Types of Low-Voltage Outdoor Lights
Area lights: These lights illuminate larger areas, like a front porch.
Spot lighting: Got a really cool sculpture or exotic plant in your yard? Spot lighting can bring it to life.
Flood lighting: This is the big brother to the spot light. Flood lights can wash entire walls or groups of plants and other garden features.
Step lighting: Nothing will wake someone up quicker than a tumble down a few stairs. Aside from spilling your evening beverage…bumps and bruises are never any fun.
In years past nearly every one of these low voltage lights would have be supplied with a heat generating, inefficient incandescent bulb. Today many of these are equipped with compact florescent or LED technology.
Thinking Outside of the Box (or Bulb)
While traditional lights were energy hungry beasts, newer LED's are mere nibblers when power consumption is concerned. So much so, that many of these lights can run off small batteries that are charged by solar power. Not only do these lights not add pennies or dollars to your monthly electric bill…they are carbon and green house gas friendly. Add to that the simplicity of their installation (no wires required) and they are some great choices for remote locations.
Old School for Rustic Charm
On the other end of the technology spectrum from solar-powered LED's lies the humble candle or oil lamp. Tiki torches fall into this category and can be found in dozens of shapes sizes and colors. Like their solar counterparts they do not require wires and use ZERO electricity. If filled with citronella oil they can even keep a few bugs at bay.
For those folks that want simple quick and easy changes to lower their energy use many existing light fixtures can be equipped with newer LED or CFL bulbs…this change is quick and very cost effective as there is sometimes no need to swap out any wiring of fixtures.
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This letter to the editor was submitted on April 9, 2008, to the Philadelphia Inquirer:
As their six-year-old lawsuit against Princeton University finally moves toward trial, the Robertson children and their public relations team are heating up their rhetoric, but the facts don't support their baseless allegations. In his April 9 column about the litigation ("Use of charitable funds is at heart of Princeton case"), Frederic Fransen rehashes several erroneous claims and fails to point out that it is the descendants of the donor, not Princeton University, who are trying to overturn the intent of the donor.
When Marie Robertson made her gift of $35 million to Princeton in 1961, she explicitly chose to entrust her funds not to her descendants, but to Princeton. At the heart of the case are two key decisions that she put in writing: that the University should control the gift and it should be used to support the graduate program at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Under Princeton's stewardship, Mrs. Robertson's gift is now worth almost $900 million, and for 47 years it has been used solely for its intended purpose. As a result, the Princeton program is a world leader in its field.
Mrs. Robertson's descendants have spent well over $20 million, not from their own funds but from a family foundation, in an attempt to overturn both of these decisions so they can seize control of the funds and redirect them to other purposes.
For more than 250 years, Princeton has fulfilled the commitments it makes in accepting gifts and has adhered to the highest standards in all its fundraising. Unlike the plaintiffs in this case, Princeton believes the decisions of the donor should continue to be respected, including decisions about how the funds should be used and how they should be administered.
Robert K. Durkee is vice president and secretary of Princeton University