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Dorn, who's designed stylish cases from "wristlets" for pocket-sized cameras to suede rolling camera bags bit enough to protect 2 camera bodies, 2 flashes, 2 lenses and a laptop too, believes consumers are more willing than ever to pay more for this particular accessory.
3. Hot among creative-types: photo books and fancy papers.
It's not just scrapbookers who will invest in high-margin consumables like ink, fine art paper, and a plethora of photo-book products/services. Wedding photogs, art students, teenagers, and young urban professionals are interested in elegant new ways to display their images. Gregory Schern, the director of digital imaging for Legion Paper, says prosumers especially are looking for products that will turn pix into works of art, whether it's a framed print or a coffee table book.
"When people buy a camera, they don't have to come back," says Schern, "but papers, portfolios and books get customers back into the store. We're seeing a rise in the demand for high-end printing, especially among people who've been using D-SLR's for more than two or three years."
4. "The camera has married the computer." (Quote from Alan Gelman, a Bogen Imaging rep)
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Wisconsin do-not-call list deadline approaching
Tired of robocalls and telemarketers? Get registered on Wisconsin's do-not-call list before the quarterly deadline Friday, May 31.
Remember: You have to re-register every two years to stay active.
To register your landline or internet phone to the list, visit the state of Wisconsin's Do Not Call page. You can also dial (866) 9NO-CALL. That's (866) 966-2255. It's free.
Wisconsin residents who register by the 28th will be on the list starting April 1.
The list is updated four times a year - Jan. 1, April 1, July 1 and Oct. 1. People can register any time, but people who don't register by the end of May won't be added until Oct 1.
The do-not-call list does not cover political calls, calls from nonprofit organizations and calls you have given written or verbal permission for the caller to make. You can find more information on the no-call page linked above.
Also note: Just because you're on the no-call list doesn't mean you won't get robocalls. Those are often made with software that autodials, or based on lists of numbers that the callers purchased. You can read more tips on how to reduce the number of robocalls you get in my robocall story from Feb. 12.
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A 2-0 World Series hole isn't inescapable, but it isn't a predicament the Texas Rangers want to find themselves in as they fly back to Arlington following Game 2 of the World Series on Thursday night. The last team to recover from a 2-0 deficit and win the World Series was the 1996 New York Yankees.
Flaws the Rangers' must correct in Game 2:
1) Heart-of-the-order woes
Texas' Nos. 2-4 hitters (Elvis Andrus, Josh Hamilton and Michael Young) went 0-for-11 with three strikeouts in Game 1. Not only weren't Hamilton and Young driving in runs, they weren't getting on base for the boppers behind them.
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Game 1 starter C.J. Wilson walked six Cardinals in 5 2/3 innings. Although none of those runners scored, the Rangers can't expect to be as fortunate in the future. The good news for Texas: Game 2 starter Colby Lewis posted the lowest BB/9 ratio (2.5) of this career this season.
3) Patience
Rangers hitters were too eager to swing at Chris Carpenter offerings out of the strike zone and walked only twice in Game 1. This isn't a selective team—Texas tied for 20th in walks during the regular season—but it must be more disciplined in a tight game when the long ball isn't working.


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WATCH: The Daily Ledger's Graham Ledger interviews American Progressive Bag Alliance Chairman Mark Daniels on California's misguided plastic bag ban.
California Assemblyman Brian Jones speaks out against the hypocrisy of SB 270.
California Assemblyman Curt Hagman speaks out against SB 270 and calls out the United Food Commercial Workers union for flip-flopping their stance on the bill.
Employees from the plastic bag manufacturing and recycling industry rallied at the Sacramento Capitol to oppose California's proposed SB 270, a bill that will ban plastic grocery bags and charge a fee for paper bags and thicker plastic bags at checkout.
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Elicia Ortiz, an employee at Crown Poly, explains why her job is at risk because of plastic bag bans like SB 270, which threatens over 2,000 jobs in California.
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January - June, 2006 Archived ECE News Articles and Awards
Ayanna Howard Featured in The Crisis Magazine
Ayanna Howard was one of five African-American science and technology leaders profiled in the May/June 2006 issue of The Crisis. Dr. Howard was recognized for her current work and career achievements in robotics, and her commitment to increasing the number of minorities and women in engineering and science. (June 23, 2006)
Performance: Georgia Tech/IBM Team Demonstrates First 500 GHz Silicon-Germanium
A research team from IBM and Georgia Tech has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium (SiGe) transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Though the record performance was attained at extremely cold temperatures, the results suggest that the upper bound for performance in SiGe devices may be higher than originally expected.
Ultra-high-frequency silicon-germanium circuits have potential applications in many communications systems, defense systems, space electronics platforms, and remote sensing systems. The accomplishment will be reported in the July issue of the journal IEEE Electron Device Letters. Led by John D. Cressler, Byers Professor in ECE, the research has been supported by IBM, NASA, and the Georgia Electronic Design Center. (June 20, 2006) View IBM video news release (Windows Media Video; 4.85 MB; Runtime: 2:31)
EE Undergraduate Awarded IEEE MTT-S Scholarship
Amin Rida was awarded an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship at the 2006 International Microwave Symposium held in San Francisco, Calif. Advised by Manos Tentzeris, Mr. Rida studies the co-design of IC + antenna passive RFID tag. (June 14, 2006)
Vijay Madisetti Selected for ASEE Honor
Vijay Madisetti has been named the recipient of the 2006 Frederick Emmons Terman Award, given by the Electrical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. This award recognizes Dr. Madisetti's achievements in teaching, research, guidance of students, and related activities, in particular his textbook, VLSI Digital Signal Processors. Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, the award will be presented to Dr. Madisetti at the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference, to be held later this year. (June 6, 2006)
Bonnie Heck Chosen as Fellow for Georgia Tech University Leadership
Bonnie Heck has been chosen as a Fellow for the 2006-07 Georgia Tech University Leadership Program (ULP). Designed to ensure the strength and effectiveness of Georgia Tech's faculty leaders, this program fosters the development of new and rising leaders from among the faculty. Dr. Heck was one of 10 Georgia Tech faculty selected to participate in this program. (June 1, 2006)
Wizard of Watts:
James Meindl, 2006 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient
James D. Meindl caught the low-power semiconductor wave when it was barely a ripple and brought generations of graduate students along for an exciting ride. As director of the Microelectronics Research Center at Georgia Tech, he says the most important part of his job is making graduate school fun and exciting. Lots of professors make the same claim, but Dr. Meindl, the winner of the 2006 IEEE Medal of Honor, has an explosive story to prove it. (IEEE Spectrum, June 2006; also see Georgia Tech News Release - James Meindl to Receive IEEE Medal of Honor)
Moore's Law Meets
Its Match
By 2010, the "More Than Moore's Law" movement-which focuses on system integration rather than transistor density-will lead to revolutionary megafunction electronics. Real miniaturization requires something more, and we have it in the system-on-package (SOP) approach we're pursuing at the Microsystems Packaging Research Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta. (IEEE Spectrum article written by Rao Tummala) (June, 2006)
SiGe Project Receives $9.5 Million from NAS
A School of Electrical and Computer Engineering research project to develop silicon-germanium (SiGe) mixed-signal electronic components for upcoming Lunar and Martian exploration missions has received increased funding from NASA.
The effort, "SiGe Integrated Electronics for Extreme Environments," has been approved for Phase 2 funding of $9.5 million over the next three years. Led by John D. Cressler, Byers Professor in ECE, project participants include IBM Corp., the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, BAE Systems, Boeing Corp., and Lynguent Inc., as well as five other schools - Auburn University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Maryland, the University of Tennessee and the University of Arkansas. (May 19, 2006)
"Clean-Tech" Companies
Gain Traction
Volatile weather, summer smog alerts, soaring fuel prices, and rising greenhouse-gas levels have focused increased attention on cleaner, more-sustainable technologies.
That concern can be clearly seen among the startup companies formed in Georgia Tech's VentureLab program, which is assisting more than a half-dozen early-stage companies that are pursuing clean-technology products and services. Two of these companies-Ajeetco and Lumoflex-are led by ECE Professors Ajeet Rohatgi and Bernard Kippelen, respectively. (May 16, 2006)
Tech Forms Research Unit with France's CNRS
Georgia Tech and France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) have partnered to create a joint international research unit (unit? mixte internationale - UMI) to focus on telecommunications and innovative materials research.
The UMI, which is the first of its kind in France, will be based at Georgia Tech Lorraine (GTL), the European campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology located in Metz, France. This GT-CNRS initiative will be devoted to optics-based communication using the dynamics of chaos in optoelectronic components, quantum cryptography, and ultrafast optical communication. Abdallah Ougazzaden, an ECE professor based at GTL, will direct the UMI. (May 2, 2006)
Joe Hughes Named ASEE Fellow
ECE Professor and Associate Chair Joseph L.A. Hughes has been named a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) "for contributions to engineering education through program development, assessment, and accreditation activities." Dr. Hughes will be inducted into the class of 2006 ASEE Fellows at the Annual Awards Banquet on June 21, which is the culmination of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, to be held in Chicago, Ill.
Dr. Hughes joins five past and present Georgia Tech faculty members who have been named ASEE Fellows -- William M. Sangster (1991), Gerald J. Thuesen (1991), William E. Sayle (2003), Ward O. Winer (2004), and Jack R. Lohmann (2005). (April 28, 2006)
Bill Sayle to Receive ASEE ECE Distinguished Educator Award
William E. Sayle will receive the 2006 ASEE ECE Distinguished Educator Award from the ECE Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) "for sustained contributions to electrical and computer engineering education through leadership in accreditation activities, development of global engineering education programs, and service to ASEE."
Dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and technology education, ASEE covers all branches of engineering and has more than 12,000 members. Dr. Sayle, professor and associate chair emeritus of ECE, will be presented with this honor at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, to be held in Chicago, Ill. in June 2006. (April 28, 2006)
Tech, Solvay Announce $3 Million Deal for OLED Research
Georgia Tech's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) and Solvay have announced a $3 million deal for OLED research.
Solvay, an international chemical and pharmaceutical group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, has signed a three-year commitment with Georgia Tech to fund research in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), thin-films of organic molecules that give off light when electricity is applied. (April 26, 2006)
ECE Student
Takes First Place in UROC Symposium
Steven Dalton, an undergraduate researcher in ECE Professor George Riley's group, won first place at the 2006 Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) Research Symposium on April 19. Mr. Dalton's project, "Validation of PFTK Equation in Large TCP Transfers," used network simulation tools to perform an empirical validation of a well known TCP throughput equation. The College of Computing and UROC hosted this annual event, which gives undergraduate students an opportunity to showcase their research talents. (April 19, 2006)
IEEE Students Take Second Place at Robotics Competition
The IEEE student branch hardware team won second place at the IEEE Southeast Conference Robot Competition, held on April 1 in Memphis Tenn. Fifty-five schools registered for the conference, and 25 schools qualified for the final hardware contest.
The objective of this year's robot competition was to design an autonomous robot that can sort and deliver 12 FedEx packages (represented by wooden blocks) to three different "cargo planes" leaving at different times. To add a unique touch to their robot, the Georgia Tech IEEE students programmed it to play the Georgia Tech fight song at opportune moments. (April 19, 2006)
Tech Information Security Center to Host Identity Management Summit
The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) will host the Identity Management Summit on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 2 pm at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Conference Center on the Georgia Tech campus.
One of the fastest-growing and most damaging information security breaches today involves the leak or loss of personal information over the Internet, and the fraudulent use of that information by unauthorized individuals. The Identity Management Summit will foster discussion on the best methods to safeguard the "digital identities" of consumer and enterprise Internet users. (April 17, 2006)
Howard to Make Robotics Presentation at Annual NAS Meeting
Ayanna Howard and two of her research collaborators, Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin) and Brian Scassellati (Yale University), will give a presentation on advances in "Robot Learning for Space and Field Robotics" at the National Academy of Science (NAS) Annual Meeting, to be held April 24-25 in Washington, D.C.
Each year, one session from the Academy's U.S. Frontiers of Science Symposia, organized by and for young scientists, is chosen for presentation at the NAS annual meeting. Dr. Howard's and her colleagues' work, which focuses on making robots adapt autonomously to changing environments, was singled out for this particular honor. (April 12, 2006)
Develop Focus-Changing Eyeglass Lenses
Scientists at The University of Arizona and Georgia Tech have developed new switchable, flat, liquid crystal diffractive lenses that can adaptively change their focusing power. In the foreseeable future, for example, you won't change prescription eyeglasses-your eye doctor will just tweak a new prescription into the specs you already own. Bernard Kippelen, who helped start the project when he was at Arizona, is now a professor in ECE and associate director of Tech's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics. (April 5, 2006)
WIE Honors Bill Sayle with Top Award
Bill Sayle has received the 2006 Women in Engineering (WIE) Leadership Award for his sustained and outstanding leadership and service to the Women in Engineering Program and the Georgia Tech community. Presented to Dr. Sayle at the 2006 WIE Excellence Awards Banquet, the award honors his commitment to promoting engineering and science as a viable educational and career option to K-12 girls and supporting female engineering students at Georgia Tech. (April 4, 2006)
Chandler Alford Wins Junior
Weightlifting Championship
Chandler Alford, a sophomore electrical engineering major, won three gold medals and the Junior National Championship at the USA Weightlifting Junior National Olympic Weightlifting Tournament in Orlando, Fla. A Dean's List student from Conyers, Ga., Mr. Alford is currently training at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. (March 31, 2006)
William Hunt Tapped as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
William D. Hunt has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Sensors Council, which consists of 23 IEEE member societies. The fields of interest of the Council and its activities include the theory, design, fabrication, manufacturing, reliability, and applications of devices for sensing and transducing physical, chemical, and biological phenomena. (March 31, 2006)
George Riley Earns PAM Conference Best Paper Honors
George F. Riley and his collaborators have been named recipients of the Best Paper Award from the 2006 Passive and Active Measurement Conference, which was held in Adelaide, Australia on March 30-31. Dr. Riley is being recognized for his paper, "Revealing the Autonomous System Taxonomy: The Machine Learning Approach." His collaborators on this paper are his student, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, and Dmitri Krioukov and K.C. Claffy, both of the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis at the University of California at San Diego. (March 31, 2006)
ECE Student Earns Sigma Xi Award
Robert Baxley has been named as a recipient of a Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best M.S. Thesis Award for his thesis entitled "Analyzing Selected Mapping for Peak-to-Average Power Reduction in OFDM." He did his M.S. thesis under the supervision of Tong Zhou and is now a Ph.D. student in her research group. Mr. Baxley will be honored later this spring at the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Awards ceremony. (March 21, 2006)
Convergence: New Network Architecture Delivers Super-Broadband Wired
and Wireless Service Simultaneously
ECE Professor Gee-Kung Chang and his research team have demonstrated a novel communications network design that would provide both ultra-high-speed wireless and wired access services from the same signals carried on a single optical fiber.
The new hybrid system could allow dual wired/wireless transmission of the same content such as high-definition television, data, and voice up to 100 times faster than current networks. The new architecture would reduce the cost of providing dramatically improved service to conference centers, airports, hotels, shopping malls - and ultimately to homes and small offices. (March 17, 2006)
SoC Technology Makes Dramatic Reductions in Energy Consumption
Krishna Palem and his collaborators in the Center for Research in Embedded Systems and Technology announce energy savings by a factor of more than 500 in simulations with their ultra energy efficient, embedded architecture based on Probabilistic CMOS (PCMOS). The PCMOS devices take advantage of noise, currently fabricated at the quarter-micron (0.25 micron) level, and use probability to extract great energy savings. The findings were presented at the Design, Automation, and Test In Europe (DATE) Conference, the leading peer-reviewed European electronic systems design meeting, on March 9 in Munich, Germany. (March 17, 2006)
May to be Honored at NSBE Golden Torch Awards
Gary S. May will receive the Janice Lumpkin Educator of the Year Award from the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at the Golden Torch Awards Program, to be held during NSBE's annual convention on March 30. Dr. May is being honored for his work in semiconductors, integrated circuits, and intelligent electronic systems and his commitment to minority engineering education. (March 17, 2006)
ECE Ph.D. Graduate to Receive Sigma Xi Honor
Abubakr Muhammad will receive the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Dissertation Award at an awards ceremony to be held later this spring. A fall 2005 Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Muhammad will be recognized for his thesis entitled "Graphs, Simplicial Complexes and Beyond: Topological Tools for Multi-agent Coordination." He was advised by Magnus Egerstedt and is now a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. (March 10, 2006)
ECE Faculty and Students Win Education Partnership Award
Jeff Davis and Tom Collins will receive the Education Partnership Award for their work with the State of Georgia FIRST LEGO League Challenge at the Georgia Tech Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon on April 12. ECE students--Simon Chen, Eric Liu, Satya Bhan, Michael Rivera, and James Holland--and Jeff Rosen, a science teacher from Wheeler High School (Marietta, Ga.) also share in this award, which recognizes substantial partnerships between Tech faculty and students and the K-12 community. (March 2, 2006)
Creates More Compact, Inexpensive Spectrometer
Georgia Tech researchers, led by ECE's Ali Adibi, have developed a technology to help spectrometers - instruments that can be used as the main parts of sensors that can detect substances present in even ultra-small concentrations - analyze substances using fewer parts in a wider variety of environments, regardless of lighting. The technology can improve the portability while reducing the size, complexity, and cost of many sensing and diagnostics systems that use spectrometers. The technology has appeared in Applied Optics, Optics Express, and Optics Letters and was presented as an invited talk at the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2005. (February 8, 2006)
Up: CardioMEMS' New Medical Device Combines Wireless and MEMS Technology
to Monitor Blood Pressure of Aneurysm Patients
Winning a thumbs-up from the Food and Drug Administration, CardioMEMS Inc. has launched its EndoSure sensor, which makes testing safer and more convenient for aneurysm patients. Based on intellectual property from the Georgia Institute of Technology, EndoSure is the first implantable pressure sensor that combines wireless and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology to receive FDA clearance. ECE Regents' Professor Mark G. Allen is the chief technical officer and co-founder of CardioMEMS. (February 3, 2006)
Firm to Market Surge Protection Device
Innovolt Inc., a company assisted by Georgia Tech's VentureLab program, has received a technology license from Georgia Tech and is poised to begin testing and marketing a new approach to protecting electronic devices from electricity surges. Deepak Divan, a professor in the electric power group, serves chair and chief technology officer for Innovolt. (February 1, 2006)
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Amateur Radio Club Makes Contact with ISS
W4AQL, the Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club, hosted students from Tech's School of Aerospace Engineering as they posed questions to Bill McArthur, an astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station and an MSAE '83 graduate of Georgia Tech. To listen to an audio recording of the ISS contact, click here (January 20, 2006)
Sung Kyu Lim Receives NSF CAREER Award
Sung Kyu Lim, an assistant professor in computer enigneering, has received an NSF CAREER Award for his research entitled "Physical Design Automation for Fast and Reliable 3D Circuits." The goal of Dr. Lim's research is to develop the first automatic physical layout tool for 3D ICs under performance, power, size, and reliability objectives. (January 13, 2006)
Eta Kappa Nu Named Outstanding Chapter in the U.S.
The Georgia Tech chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society for ECE students, has received an Outstanding Chapter Award for 2004-05. This award, which is a mark of significant distinction for a college chapter, will be announced and formally presented at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association Annual Meeting in March 2006. (January 13, 2006)
Krishna Palem Named ACM Fellow
Krishna Palem has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his contributions to compiler optimization and embedded computing. ACM will formally recognize the new Fellows at its annual awards banquet on May 20, 2006 in San Francisco, Calif. (January 13, 2006)
Ayanna Howard Tapped as Young Global Leader
Ayanna Howard has been named to the 2006 class of Young Global Leaders (YGLs). Established in 2004 by Professor Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, the Forum of Young Global Leaders is a group of business, government, and academic leaders who are 40 years old or younger and who will work on the 2020 Initiative, a comprehensive endeavor to understand current and future trends, risks, and opportunities both at global and regional levels, to formulate a positive vision for the world in 2020. (January 13, 2006)
Tech to Expand Chinese Courses
Two of Georgia's top state universities are taking advantage of China's emerging position as a global leader by expanding their course offerings about - and in - the increasingly dynamic Asian powerhouse.
Today, the state Board of Regents is expected to approve a major in Chinese language and literature at the University of Georgia and a dual master's degree program in engineering between Georgia Tech and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. (January 11, 2006)
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"Our plane had an emergency landing in Clarksburg WV. But don't worry, we found platinum fire suits. Yes!#platinum," Miranda tweeted, sharing a photo of her and her team dressed up in HAZMAT suits. The plane landed safely at the Smyrna airport around 7p CT Tuesday.
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STAFFORDSHIRE'S new police tsar Matthew Ellis took up his new role today after being sworn in during an official ceremony at Police HQ.
Mr Ellis, who triumphed in an election last week that saw a country-wide low 11.9 per cent turnout, swore an oath of office in front of a magistrate to serve the people of Staffordshire in a fair and transparent way.
"During the next three years it's important that people across all of Staffordshire see the positive difference this new role can make," he said. "It's about working with police and other agencies to ensure crime continues to fall and people feel safer with an even more responsive police service."
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Jun 5, 2006, Vol. 11, No. 36 • By REUEL MARC GERECHT
Although Lewis was certainly in favor of the war (still is), and certainly backed the idea of U.S. support for the establishment of an Iraqi democracy (still does), his views on Muslim history, which are usually expressed in broad brushstrokes that capture several centuries, always have underscored the unrequited expectations of those who would liberalize the modern Middle East. An appreciation of this point was behind the critique done by Buruma, an intellectually serious effort that avoids the anti-Zionist animadversions that have defined most left-of-center critiques of the Princeton professor since 9/11.
Buruma suggests that Lewis's affection for the Muslim Middle East got the better of him, causing him to rashly throw his hitherto conservative intellectual force behind the democracy-through-war project of the Jacobin neocons in the Bush administration. Buruma finds the decision to go to war against Saddam rationally inexplicable, and particularly discordant for Lewis, who has long warned about the dangers of Islamic extremism (per Buruma, the "Iraqi regime was hated by religious extremists"). For years, the professor had written about the obstacles to democratic growth in the Muslim world. But Lewis, it appears, lost his patience and his conservative values because "his beloved civilization is sick." After all, according to Buruma, "what would be more heartwarming to an old Orientalist than to see the greatest Western democracy cure the benighted Muslim?" This, then, is what motivated Lewis's pro-war zeal, "or something less charitable: if a final showdown between the great religions is indeed the inevitable result of a millennial clash [Lewis, not Harvard's Samuel Huntington, originally coined the phrase clash of civilizations], then we had better make sure that we win."
Buruma's assessment is the polar opposite of those in the academy who despise Lewis for being insufficiently sensitive to Arabs and Muslims and supportive of Israel. Nonetheless Buruma's reading is a variation of Edward Said's charge against the Princeton scholar--that Lewis advances the "white man's burden"--though out of love, not imperialist motives, as Said claimed. Buruma is undeniably correct in discerning an evolution in Lewis's views since the University of London graduate in 1939 published his dissertation on the Assassins, a medieval heretical Shiite sect that once scared Sunni Muslim potentates from its strongholds in Iran and Syria.
Given the ugly history of the Muslim Middle East since 1945, it would be shocking if the professor's views had not evolved. In 1945, for example, Lewis was not in favor of a Jewish state in Palestine; today, he is, seeing Israel as one of the things that has gone more right than wrong in the region. What Buruma does not appreciate--and he is far from alone in this--is that Lewis does see the rise of bin Ladenism, and 9/1l in particular, as an epochal event for both Islam and the West.
Although Lewis has never advocated the export of democracy by force, he became increasingly focused after 9/11 on the perverse nexus in the Muslim Middle East between tyranny and the growth of Islamic extremism. He understood--because he'd actually been reading the primary material produced by Sunni Wahhabi and Shiite extremists and by Arab dictatorships--that the United States in the 1990s was increasingly seen as weak in the Middle East, and that such perceptions could be lethal. He underscored the extraordinary dangers posed by Saddam's aggressive totalitarian regime, with a proven hunger for weapons of mass destruction, which, lest we forget, was on the verge of escaping, thanks to French and Russian efforts, from its sanctions and isolation. Lewis, a child of 1930s Europe and a profound admirer of Winston Churchill, did not think the United States should make the mistake again that it made in 1991, in failing to finish off the Butcher of Baghdad.
BUT LEWIS'S CONSERVATISM REMAINS: He is still a qualified advocate of democratic change in the Middle East. Here is the qualification: He understands the centrality of the Koran and the Holy Law to the Islamic identity and Muslim emotions, and he understands that neither--even in the hands of the most brilliant Muslim modernists--is a vehicle for empowering democratic ideals. He does not trust Islamists. It is for this reason, among others, that Lewis has long admired the achievement of Kemal Atatürk, the dictatorial father of the secular (and semidemocratic) Turkish Republic.
Yet Lewis is also aware of the burgeoning democratic discussion in the Muslim Middle East. And he assesses this positively--democracy has become for him an essential part of solving the region's many problems. It is astonishing how many observers of the region choose simply to ignore or diminish the explosion of democratic sentiments that has occurred since the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. These sentiments have not yet transformed the Middle East, but they are a start. I think Lewis's emphasis on secularism and secularists as the all-critical component in democratic transformation may be a little too rigid. Democratic sentiments, however imperfect and self-serving, have embedded themselves to varying degrees even into the ulama and lay religious classes in the region. Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and the dissident Shiite clergy in Iran are the most famous and probably the most evolved of these religious drivers of democratic change.
Men of religion, I have argued, will advance the democratic movements in the Middle East more effectively than their secularist brethren will. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the font of so much violent Islamic extremism, could well turn out to be the mothership for democratic change in the Sunni Arab world. (Change that will, at least in the short term, send anti-Americanism through the roof, adversely affect liberal, secular social values, and America's military and security relationships with the ruling elite in Cairo.) This is a bit much for Lewis. Nevertheless, it is probably correct to say that his conception of who will drive democracy in the Arab world no longer fits--if it ever did--the Turkish model, which the professor admires and so many in academe dislike, if not loathe. (Though they need not be mutually exclusive, liking Turkey and liking the Arab world are usually fire and water among scholars and among the experts of the State Department and CIA.)
So what is Bernard Lewis's place in history, especially along the Potomac? Undoubtedly, his two short but compendious, bestselling books that appeared after 9/11--What Went Wrong? and The Crisis of Islam--played a part in helping senior administration officials better understand the historical context of radical Muslims who had embraced terrorism as a means of expressing their faith. His seminal essays on Islamic militancy in the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Commentary, and the New Republic also worked their way into the foreign-policy establishment, even if members of that establishment didn't know the lineage of the views that they expressed.
His bestselling books and post-9/11 articles all hark back to Lewis's greatest work, The Muslim Discovery of Europe, published in 1982. Perhaps the most illuminating book ever written on the Islamic world--a history book that has the chance of being read 50 years from now as closely and as profitably as when it was written--The Muslim Discovery of Europe allows the reader to see how Muslims saw the West, from Islam's earliest days to modern times. (The Muslim Discovery of Europe's only real competitor would be The Venture of Islam, the three-volume masterpiece by the University of Chicago's late, great Marshall Hodgson.) Lewis's book could have been subtitled The Origins of Curiosity About Infidels, for it is a 1,400-year trek through the development of Muslims' encounters with unbelievers. There are many reasons European civilization raced ahead of other, once-superior civilizations. These reasons all somehow combined to explode the rapacity and range of the West's curiosity, both individually and collectively expressed.
As Lewis regularly points out, the word curiosity doesn't really have good equivalents in Islamic languages. The Columbia University literary critic Edward Said, who loathed Lewis and the "orientalist" tradition behind him, never really understood to what degree curiosity (and sympathy)--not dark, imperialist, exploitative motives--drove Western scholarship about the Islamic world, especially during the formative "orientalist" age. A Palestinian Christian Arab by birth, whom Lewis famously debated on stage and dueled in the pages of the New York Review of Books in 1982, Said never really understood, either, how Western scholars could be proud, not particularly apologetic patriots and also profoundly respect foreign faiths, cultures, and lands. (Said never understood, as far as that goes, how men of differing views could remain civil. Under Lewis and his close friend Charles Issawi, a phenomenally accomplished scholar of both modern and medieval Islamic history who had fairly sharp political differences with Lewis, Princeton University was a refuge from the Third-Worldist, anti-Israeli political storms that made many Middle Eastern studies departments in America socially and intellectually unpleasant.)
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A WESTERNER to digest Lewis's work without it profoundly affecting how he sees the Muslim Middle East. A determination to use primary material so that Muslims can speak for themselves animates all of Lewis's writings. President Bush's faith in the medicinal value of democracy for Muslims raised under dictatorship undoubtedly has its strongest roots in America's abiding trust in representative government. But Lewis's nuanced writings on democracy in the Muslim world, and his former students and his many friends, who've all absorbed over the years perspectives of the British émigré-turned-American citizen, have probably helped to flesh out the administration's rapidly evolving understanding of Middle Eastern politics and faith after 9/11. (An understanding that may now be vanishing as the Near East Bureau at the State Department regains control of American policy in the Middle East.) Published at the time of the invasion of Iraq, before President Bush's most important speech in November 2003 about the need for representative government in the Middle East, Lewis's commentary on democracy in The Crisis of Islam anticipates and amplifies the president's themes:
The creation of a free society, as the history of existing democracies in the world makes clear, is no easy matter. The experience of the Turkish republic over the last half century and of some other Muslim countries more recently has demonstrated two things: first, that it is indeed very difficult to create a democracy in such a society, and second, that although difficult, it is not impossible. The study of Islamic history and of the vast and rich Islamic political literature encourages the belief that it may well be possible to develop democratic institutions--not necessarily in our Western definition of that much misused term, but in one deriving from their own history and culture and ensuring, in their way, limited government under law, consultation and openness, in a civilized and humane society.
The forces of tyranny and terror are still very strong and the outcome is far from certain. . . . The war against terror and the quest for freedom are inextricably linked, and neither can succeed without the other. The struggle is no longer limited to one or two countries, as some Westerners still manage to believe. It has acquired first a regional then a global dimension, with profound consequences for all of us. . . . If freedom fails and terror triumphs, the peoples of Islam will be the first and greatest victims. They will not be alone, and many others will suffer with them.
Many years ago, when I was still an Iran-watcher in the CIA's clandestine service, I thanked Lewis, who had been my teacher at Princeton, for his writings and the long conversations that he'd so generously had with me. I could respect Iranian holy warriors, who then interested the United States government more than their Sunni counterparts, because the professor had helped me to see them as they really were. He'd taught me how to time travel--to reach back and touch the events, people, and literature that still define so much of the Muslim soul. For a case officer, who feeds on the strengths and weaknesses of foreigners, there was no more valuable gift. With other students of the Middle East and Islam, with the common man who is just curious, and with Democratic and Republican officials in Washington who try to see beyond our borders, and who often are not blessed with keen historical insight, Lewis has been similarly generous and kind. We are all in his debt, and in his shadow. Kheli tashakkor mikonam, professor. Happy birthday, Bernard.
Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard.


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Mary Weaver is on weight loss journey with HMR, a clinically monitored weight management program through Sarah Bush Lincoln, and is sharing her experience with our community. She resides in Neoga with her husband, Ray.
Day 3
Saturday was day three. I decided to get a pedometer, so I drove to Mattoon to get one and a new pair of sneakers (athletic or walking shoes -not a candy bar) since mine are more than 10 years old and hey, I love shoes. So I get the pedometer and get to the sporting goods store and find a great pair of pretty blue shoes that are even on sale. I go to pay for said shoes and my debit card is "declined." This is the same card used to buy gas, pedometer, and a shirt at a resale shop. Plus I was just paid! I tell them to run it again and again and again. By now my face is almost as red as the shirt I just bought. I asked them to hold my shoes (and a pair of socks) so I can go to the bank ATM. When I get to the ATM to check my balance, I get a print out saying my card has been reported as lost..since I did not report it I have to wait until Monday to call the bank and just hope no one has stolen my identity.
So home to Neoga I go sans shoes and get my hubby's ATM card (I did Dave Ramsey and only have an ATM card), which works great at the Neoga ATM and drive back to Mattoon to get my pretty, did I say, comfortable shoes. Half way to Mattoon, the sky opened up and the floodgates opened. Anyhow, I get to the store, get my new shoes and socks and decided I will go to the mall, put on my new pedometer and shoes and go for a stroll, brisk that is.
Once at the mall, luckily I get a close parking spot to the door, because there is enough water falling out of the sky that I get re baptized on the way in. I find a chair to change into my new sneakers and clip on the pedometer. I look at the instructions for the pedometer and because I got the one that checks your heart rate, calories burned, time walked, I find that the sucker has more buttons to push than a rocket ship to the moon. In addition, I did not have my glasses to read the fine print.
At last I get my shoes on sans the pedometer and have a nice brisk 310-calorie burning walk. After this I am thinking I need a reward and of course it can't be a cookie, so I go see my friends at the nail salon at the mall and get a pedicure using the few bucks I had left over from paying for my new shoes. So as I sit here writing this, I see my pretty pink toenails.
I was hoping to walk again when I got home, but the weather did not allow it, so I am hoping to get in a stroll or step tape extra on Sunday.
By the end of the day, I met all the program requirements and I feel physically fit and not hungry. Signing off from In The Box.


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One of the best Bi-District playoff match ups in West Texas this weekend appears to be the 3A Division I battle between the Borger Bulldogs and the Lubbock Cooper Pirates.
The two teams enter the game in similar fashion. Both struggled a little in non-district play, yet were able to rebound and go undefeated in winning district championships.
The Pirates enter the playoffs coming off a big 20-14 win over a good Lubbock Estacado team in the regular season finale.
On Friday night, the West Texas High Comanches will square off against the Quanah Indians in the 1A Division I Bi-District round in Pampa.
Last year, the two teams met in the same round in Amarillo with Quanah pulling away late to get the win over the Comanches.
On paper, the match up between the Comanches and Indians appears to be a showcase of a contrast of styles. The Comanches have relied on their ground game all season to control the clock and wear down opponents, while the Indians will bring in a more balanced attack that has the ability to move the ball in the air.
Lubbock Estacado 63 Borger 24
Going into the season, Borger Head Coach Travis Nicks said he expected to see his young Borger Lady Bulldogs team to go through some growing pains to start the 2011-12 season.
On Tuesday evening, the coach's words proved to be true as the Lubbock Estacado Lady Matadors built a 34-8 lead by halftime on their way to beating Borger 63-24.
Freshman Tiffanie Prater led the Lady Bulldogs in scoring with nine points, followed by Vanessa Jones with six points.
Living Water Ministries is doing its part again this year to put a little blessing into this year's holidays for the less fortunate. The organization will be helping people in Hutchinson County with Bags of Blessings (holiday food) during the upcoming holiday season.
Those who would like to be a part of providing the "Bags of Blessings" can purchase the following complete list and return it in a paper grocery bag to Living Water at 103 West Fourth Street. The Bags of Blessings are needed by Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, and the ministry's hours are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday
Saturday is the day for all local veterans to come out and be honored at the Sixth Annual Veteran's Appreciation Dinner at the Elks Lodge.
For all those war heroes put their lives on the line to protect the way citizens live, a special appreciation dinner will be held in their honor. Everything will be hosted by the Borger Elks, American Legion, Veteran's of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans Association, and their Auxiliaries.
This dinner is set for Saturday, November 12, 2011 in the Borger Elks on 200 Opal.


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Meet State Rep.-elect J.M. Lozano and family
When he was a freshman student at Premont High School J.M. Lozano traveled with other students to participate in the University Interscholastic League state competition.
The students toured the University of Texas campus and the state Capitol during their last night in Austin.
While taking a picture of the UT tower, Lozano noticed the magnitude of the Capitol and realized someday he wanted to serve in the legislature.
At that moment Lozano made a commitment that he would attend the University of Texas and would serve as public servant in the future. Lozano was 14 years old at that time.
Now at age 29 both of his personal commitments have became realities.
He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin and was elected District 43 State Representative last month. He adheres to his family's values and goals that have helped him become a success.
He lives by this motto: "You either lead, you follow, or you get out of the way."
"I chose to lead for the betterment of District 43," he said. "Complacency is not in my vocabulary."
Lozano's commitment to seek the District 43 state representative office began July 2009 when he gauged whether he had support or not. That month he built the framework of his campaign team in each county.
"Nine out of 10 encouraged me to run because they wanted something different," said Lozano, a Kingsville businessman.
He made his announcement on Youtube which was the first time in Texas anyone had announced on the Internet. He blitzed his campaign with newspaper, television, and mail out advertisement.
He also knocked on over 2,000 houses in the District 43 counties.
About 150 volunteers helped him with his campaign.
The core of his financial supporters came from family members and the medical community.
Besides Kleberg County, District 43 encompasses Brooks, Cameron, Jim Hogg, Kenedy and Willacy counties. Lozano's early planning and persistent campaign won the race for him. Lozano received 58 percent of the votes defeating first term state representative, Tara Rios Ybarra, a South Padre Island dentist. He received 70 percent of the vote in Kleberg County.
"I am honored to have been blessed with this opportunity to serve as state representative," Lozano said.
He is also getting ready for his new post. During the last week of March he traveled to Austin to make preparations when he takes office in Jan. 2011. He met with state representatives and the speaker of the house and also attended a four-day conference on redistricting.
"I also wanted to make sure that I can open an office by Jan. 1 so my constituents can get the results they deserve during the legislative session," Lozano said.
Lozano's leadership qualities surfaced early in life in the rural community of Premont when he participated in scholastic and sports activities.
When he was a member of the Little League All Stars and the team was losing, he began a rally. This pumped up the teammates and soon they were hitting the ball and won the game. Later he served as president of the Junior High and High School Student Council. While in college he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, University of Texas Mock Trial Team and Student Association.
He attended Premont Schools from kindergarten until the twelfth grade and graduated in 1998. Lozano excelled in playing baseball from age six throughout his freshman year and later in high school he chose to focus on debate and football. While in junior high his teacher encouraged him to go to the district UIL meet in Freer, Texas. He competed in the oratory and impromptu speaking events and placed first in district in both of the categories.
As a high school student, he attended Baylor's University lauded debate camp and won the UIL State championship in public speaking.
"When I would debate in the summers at Baylor debate camp, I would picture myself engaged in a policy debate in our Capitol. The only way to change policy for the betterment of your community is to convince a legislator to start the fight," Lozano stated. "An effective legislator for your district can mean the difference between hundreds of millions of dollars in education, health and infrastructure."
Although, the high school counselor encouraged him to apply at Ivy League schools, Lozano chose UT and within 45 days after graduation he was living in Austin. He majored in government and was accepted to a legislative internship program where he worked for Carlos Truan of Corpus Christi who was a former state senator. He demonstrated his leadership qualities when he was chosen one of two students to participate in the UT Mock Trial Team.
During his UT senior year his favorite course was a redistricting law course that was taught by Ramiro Canales. He would become his favorite professor and mentor and Canales, an attorney, served as the Chief of Staff for the late District 43 State Representative Irma Rangel. Canales argued on her behalf during the redistricting and ultimately drew the district Lozano will represent next year.
After graduating from UT in 2003 Lozano began working with U.S. Congressman Ruben Hinojosa in McAllen, Texas, and soon became involved in his first redistricting battle. During this time he met his future wife, Avelina " Abby" Rodriguez, of Edinburg. She was the daughter of a strict but well-known politician. While they were dating Abby had to be home by 10 p m. and one time Lozano was parked in his future father-in- law's parking space. Her father asked: "you were leaving , right?" "Yes sir, I just came by to tell you goodbye, " Lozano replied.
The couple married and moved to San Antonio and both earned masters degree. He received a master's degree in business at Incarnate Word and she received a master's degree in educational administration at St. Mary's University. His wife previously taught high school Spanish. The couple have two children who are Penelope, age two, and J.M. Lozano III., age five months.
While in San Antonio the couple often ate at Wingstop and decided they would like to go into this business. They own a local Wingstop here and one in Alice with a total of 32 employees.
"When my wife and I opened our restaurant in Kingsville and nearly set a Wingstop franchise record, I knew I was indebted to Kingsville for life. After joining the Kingsville Chamber of Commerce and making new friends, I knew Kingsville would be a great place to call home," Lozano stated. The couple moved here three years ago.
As the only son of six children, Lozano spent much of his time with his father, a physician. Lozano recalled the best memories date to the late eighties when he lived with his loving parents and five sisters before the siblings went off to college.
"Even the smell of hairs pray takes me back to my sisters getting ready for school in the morning," Lozano said. Two of the sisters live in Kingsville.
Lozano was named after his father Jose Manuel Lozano and he attributes his values to his parents. He traveled with his father on house calls and waited for him between hospitals in Kingsville and Falfurrias. One time a local rancher showed up to their home with a goat as a gift to his father for taking him as a patient with no charge.
Dr. Jose Lozano, a native of Guadalajara, completed his medical residency in Chicago, Illinois. After visiting a few South Texas counties he decided to move the family to Premont in 1985. As a doctor he served patients in Falfurrias, Premont and the surrounding communities. Dr. Jose Lozano serves as Chief of Staff at Christus Spohn Kleberg.
Dr. Jose Lozano shared with his son that his values came from his family and faith.
"The best advice my father gave me was that my opportunities will come from my education, but these gifts come with the responsibility to give back to your community," Lozano stated.
Lozano's background reflects several years ago in Mexico where his ancestors lived.
Dr. Lozano's mother, Cleotilde Salinas, and her family lost their family ranch in Jalisco during the Mexican Revolution. Her mother and sister moved to Guadalajara while her father and brothers stayed behind and later died while defending their land.
She moved to Guadalajara where she met her future husband Reyes Lozano. The couple had eight children that included Jose Manuel. As the family matriarch, she guided her children to be hard working and always do what is fair and just. She always told her grandson, J.M. or "Pepito" as she called him that as the only son of his fathers, it was his role to carry the name with honor and respect. His grandmother lived to be 95 years old and died in Kingsville February 2009.
Once he asked his grandmother if she had ever thought about getting her land back through the courts. "God has a plan and things happen for specific reasons that are greater than us; that is destiny."
It is obvious that Lozano stayed true to the values passed on by his family.
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Logan County quarterback John Logan Dockins highlighted a strong offensive performance for the Cougars in a 14-point win over Todd County Central.
Dockins finished 20-28 for 320 yards passing for the Cougars (1-3) and threw a couple of touchdown passes to Reuben Rawlings-Watson, who paced the Cougars with 100 yards receving. Dockins also tossed two touchdown passes to Leron Collier - who finished the game with 95 yards receiving. Nathan Oberhaussen and Jonathan Barber spearheaded the Cougar rushing attack, combining for 98 yards.
Next Friday, the Cougars play at Russell County while Todd County Central (2-2) plays at Fort Campbell.


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Andy Horton: Alumni (Class of 2009)
Sport(s): Men's Basketball
Janesville, Wisconsin – Parkview High School (Orfordville, WI)
Major: Economics and Management
How did you find out about Beloit? Did you know a lot about Beloit when you first visited campus?
"I found out about Beloit College from Cecil Youngblood who was the Head Men's Basketball Coach at the time and to be honest, I didn't know anything about the college other than what Coach Youngblood had told me in our meetings from when he would come see my high school basketball games. I knew it was a prestigious academic school but other than that, I knew very little."
We are focusing a lot on Liberal Arts in Practice at Beloit; so as part of what you practice(d) name one aspect that you took away(will take) from being a Beloit student-athlete that you use in your everyday life.
"DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE!!! I can't remember a week going by where Jerry Gustafson didn't use this term in one of his classes. In the business world, you should always research or investigate how a specific market or business it doing before getting involved and going in blind. As the General Manager of a health club, it's my job to know who my competition is and what they are doing as far as promotional offers and what's new in fitness and weight loss so I can keep my gym ahead of the competition."
What (if any) accolades did you receive (Academically/Athletically) while being a student-athlete?
"I was a 2 Time Team Captain, 2 Time All Conference 1st Team recipient, 2 Time Ron Bontemps Most Valuable Player award winner, 1,000 point club as well as #7 All-time in Scoring, Recipient of the Beloit Blanket, and Lead the MWC in Rebounding for 2 seasons.
If you could name one class or professor (mentor) that really meant something to you while at Beloit, who or what would that be?
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Name one of the most rewarding experiences you took part in while at Beloit College?
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Where do you see yourself 5 years from now? - Name a career goal/aspiration you strive for.
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'Food Of The Gods' Genome Sequence Could Make Finest Chocolate Better
University Park PA (SPX) Dec 31, 2010
The production of high quality chocolate, and the farmers who grow it, will benefit from the recent sequencing and assembly of the chocolate tree genome, according to an international team led by Claire Lanaud of CIRAD, France, with Mark Guiltinan of Penn State, and including scientists from 18 other institutions.
The team sequenced the DNA of a variety of Theobroma cacao, considered to produce the world's finest chocolate. The Maya domesticated this variety of Theobroma cacao, Criollo, about 3,000 years ago in Central America, and it is one of the oldest domesticated tree crops. Today, many growers prefer to grow hybrid cacao trees that produce chocolate of lower quality but are more resistant to disease.
"Fine cocoa production is estimated to be less than 5 percent of the world cocoa production because of low productivity and disease susceptibility," said Guiltinan, professor of plant molecular biology.
The researchers report in the current issue of Nature Genetics "consumers have shown an increased interest for high-quality chocolate made with cocoa of good quality and for dark chocolate, containing a higher percentage of cocoa, while also taking into account environmental and ethical criteria for cocoa production."
Currently, most cacao farmers earn about $2 per day, but producers of fine cacao earn more. Increasing the productivity and ease of growing cacao can help to develop a sustainable cacao economy. The trees are now also seen as an environmentally beneficial crop because they grow best under forest shade, allowing for land rehabilitation and enriched biodiversity.
The team's work identified a variety of gene families that may have future impact on improving cacao trees and fruit either by enhancing their attributes or providing protection from fungal diseases and insects that effect cacao trees.
"Our analysis of the Criollo genome has uncovered the genetic basis of pathways leading to the most important quality traits of chocolate - oil, flavonoid and terpene biosynthesis," said Siela Maximova, associate professor of horticulture, Penn State, and a member of the research team.
"It has also led to the discovery of hundreds of genes potentially involved in pathogen resistance, all of which can be used to accelerate the development of elite varieties of cacao in the future."
Because the Criollo trees are self-pollinating, they are generally highly homozygous, possessing two identical forms of each gene, making this particular variety a good choice for accurate genome assembly.
The researchers assembled 84 percent of the genome identifying 28,798 genes that code for proteins. They assigned 88 percent or 23,529 of these protein-coding genes to one of the 10 chromosomes in the Criollo cacao tree. They also looked at microRNAs, short noncoding RNAs that regulate genes, and found that microRNAs in Criollo are probably major regulators of gene expression.
"Interestingly, only 20 percent of the genome was made up of transposable elements, one of the natural pathways through which genetic sequences change," said Guiltinan.
"They do this by moving around the chromosomes, changing the order of the genetic material. Smaller amounts of transposons than found in other plant species could lead to slower evolution of the chocolate plant, which was shown to have a relatively simple evolutionary history in terms of genome structure."
Guiltinan and his colleagues are interested in specific gene families that could link to specific cocoa qualities or disease resistance. They hope that mapping these gene families will lead to a source of genes directly involved in variations in the plant that are useful for acceleration of plant breeding programs.
The researchers identified two types of disease resistance genes in the Criollo genome. They compared these to previously identified regions on the chromosomes that correlate with disease resistance - QTLs - and found that there was a correlation between many the resistance genes' QTL locations.
The team suggests that a functional genomics approach, one that looks at what the genes do, is needed to confirm potential disease resistant genes in the Criollo genome.
Hidden in the genome the researchers also found genes that code for the production of cocoa butter, a substance highly prized in chocolate making, confectionary, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Most cocoa beans are already about 50 percent fat, but these 84 genes control not only the amounts but quality of the cocoa butter.
Other genes were found that influence the production of flavonoids, natural antioxidants and terpenoids, hormones, pigments and aromas. Altering the genes for these chemicals might produce chocolate with better flavors, aromas and even healthier chocolate.
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December 6, 2012
Starry River of the Sky
ages: 9+
First sentence: "Rendi was not sure how long the moon had been missing."
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Others in the series: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
In many ways, this is very similar to Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. So, if you've read that one (and you should), you know what you're in for. Alternating the main story with Chinese folk tales, with Lin's luscious illustrations, she tells just as a compelling and charming a story as the first time around.
Thankfully, you don't have to have read Mountain in order to enjoy this one: the story is in no way (at least from my recollection) connected to the other book. It's the story of Rendi, a runaway boy who happens to find work at a local village inn. The moon is missing from the sky, and Rendi is the only one who seems to hear the screams at night, so he knows he has to find it and figure out how to put it back. However, he's reluctant to do so: he's grumpy and complaining all the time, and would just rather run away than do the work. The inn starts to work its magic: he makes friends with the innkeeper's daughter, Peiyi, whose older brother has gone missing. And a mysterious lady, Madame Chang, appears teasing Rendi's story out of him.
I had much the same reaction to this one as I did to the first: it's nice. Really, really nice. Elegant nice. But, I think I enjoyed it more than I remember enjoying Mountain: I enjoyed Rendi's story, I enjoyed how the folktales wove in and out of the main story, but also served to enrich the main story as well. And even though I guessed the ending before it was revealed, I was still surprised by the way that Lin wrapped everything up.
And maybe just for that surprise, I find myself mulling over this one, and am more than happy to own a copy. It's definitely one I'll be recommending to others.
(Just for the record: because this is a Cybils nominee, I've been asked to make sure y'all know this is my opinion only, and not that of the panel.)
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Lady Gaga's personal assistant is suing her — but what for?
Here's the case by the numbers: 41-year-old Jennifer O'Neill worked for Gaga for 13 months. Her salary netted her $75,000 a year, but she alleges Gaga owes her $380,000 for the 7,168 hours of unpaid overtime she worked. (That's about 18 hours of overtime per day, weekends included, over a 13 month period.) She is also seeking unspecified damges.
In court papers, O'Neill explains she had to wait on Gaga all day (and all night), every day. She was tasked with "ensuring the promptness of a towel following a shower and serving as a personal alarm clock to keep [Gaga] on schedule" as well as "ensuring the availability of chosen outfits" in "stadiums, private jets, fine hotel suites, yachts, ferries, trains and tour buses." To which we say…well, duh.
The life of a celebrity personal assistant is anything but glamorous. Such a job is incredibly demanding, and while we argue O'Neill should have negotiated for a higher salary upon hiring or made sure her contract involved an overtime clause, her duties don't seem that outrageous. Of course, Gaga's spokeswoman dismissed the case as "completely without merit". And honestly, we think we agree.


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In the OuthouseObtain a Pirate's Crowbar and use it to pry open the Submerged Outhouse door.
|Use the crowbar on the outhouse
DescriptionHello? Hello! HELP!
I'm almost out of air! You have to get me out of here!
<The voice inside gags.>
One of those filthy Southsea treasure hunters has got to have a crowbar!
Oh, for the love of profit, do you have that crowbar yet? Drowning here!
Thank goodness! Now, just a little shove....
RewardsThe following spell will be cast on you:
|In The Outhouse: Summon Rugfizzle - Horde
GainsUpon completion of this quest you will gain:
- 4,370 experience
- 250 reputation with Bilgewater Cartel


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Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Edited by Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University.
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Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology is an international academic journal that studies the relationships between religion, culture, and ecology worldwide. The journal addresses how cultural and ecological developments influence the world's major religions, giving rise to new forms of religious expression, and how in turn religious belief and cultural background can influence peoples' attitudes toward ecology.
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Editorial Board
Christopher Key Chapple,
Department of Theological Studies,
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California 90045,
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Whitney Bauman
Assistant Professor of Religion and Science
Department of Religious Studies
Florida International University
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Associate Editors:
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University
John Grim, Yale University
Heather Eaton, St Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
Editorial Board:
J. Baird Callicott, University of North Texas (Environmental Philosophy)
Zainal Abidin Bagir, Gadjah Mada University
Sigurd Bergmann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Forrest Clingerman, Ohio Northern University
John Cobb, School of Theology at Claremont (emeritus) (Philosophical Theology)
J. Ronald Engel, Meadville-Lombard Theological School (emeritus)
Roger Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Philosophy)
Sonia Juvik, University of Hawai'i at Hilo (Geography)
Laurel Kearns, Drew University
Eliza Kent, Colgate University
David Loy, Naropa University (Buddhist and Comparative Philosophy)
Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College (Religious Studies)
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University (Religious Studies)
James Miller, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada (Religious Studies)
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- Environment Abstracts
- Human Population & Natural Resource Management
- International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scolarly Literature
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- Science of Religion – Abstracts and Index of Recent Articles
Table of contents
Special Issue: Religion, Disability, and the Environment
Religion, Disability, and the Environment - Julia Watts Belser
The Picture of Health: "Nature" at the Intersection of Disability, Religion and Ecology - Sharon V. Betcher
Lead Me Beside Still Waters: Toxic Water, Trisomy 21 and a Theology of Eco-Social Disability - Lisa Nichols Hickman
Disability and the Social Politics of "Natural" Disaster: Toward a Jewish Feminist Ethics of Disaster Tales - Julia Watts Belser
Disability Studies, Queer Theory, and the New Materialism: Environmental Metaphors for a Planet on the Move - Whitney A. Bauman
Disability and Environment: Cautions and Questions - Roger S. Gottlieb
The Reproduction in/of Disability and Environment - Mel Y. Chen
David L. Haberman. People Trees: Worship of Trees in Northern India
John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Ecology and Religion
Jochen Ostheimer and Markus Vogt (eds.). Die Moral der Energiewende: Risikowahrnehmung im Wandel am Beispiel der Atomenergie


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Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is encouraging church members to call on federal legislators to address gun violence in the USA.
US Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has challenged the Episcopal Church's Executive Council to look outwards and avoid "suicide by governance."
Speaking at St Paul's Cathedral in London, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori challenged Christians to take action against the world's injustices.
Members of the United Nations community were welcomed to the Episcopal Church Center in Washington DC, USA, for a special September 11 evening prayer service co-sponsored by the Office of the Anglican Observer at the UN.
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In the aftermath of a tense Anglican Primates (provincial heads) meeting in Tanzania, under-fire Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church in the United States has briefed the community of people who work at the denomination's Centre in New York on how oversight will be offered to a church divided on issues of sexuality and biblical interpretation.


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The first 1,000 children who attend the Nashville Mini Maker Faire on Sept. 21 will be admitted free to the Adventure Science Center. / JAE S. LEE / THE TENNESSEAN
The Middle Tennessee Exotic Bird Fair (aka the Heart of Tennessee Aviculture Society Bird Fair and Show) will bring multiple breeds of exotic birds, plus sugar gliders, bearded dragons and other lizards and hamsters to Middle Tennessee State Universitys Livestock Center Sept. 14-15. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 14 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 15. Parking is free. www.heartoftnaviculturesociety.com.
If you want to see a real horse race, Kentucky Downs 20th season of live turf horse racing starts Saturday and continues with races Sept. 11, 14, 18 and 25. Admission and parking are free. Kentucky Downs, Americas only European-style turf course, is in Franklin, Ky., just off Interstate 65 at Exit 2. 270-586-7778 or www.kentuckydowns.com
The 2013 Nashville Mini Maker Faire is Sept. 21 on the grounds of the Adventure Science Center. The Maker Faire describes itself as the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers of all ages and backgrounds.
Plus, as a bonus to the Faire, Regions Bank is hosting its September Free Day at the center that day. The first 1,000 children ages 2-18 attending the Faire will be admitted free to the science museum. Parents also get an admission discount, and parking is free at Greer Stadium with a shuttle to the museum. www.makerfairenashville.com and www.adventuresci.org.
The Tennessee State Museum is free all the time,but a great time to go would be the annual ghost story festival, Haunted Museum, which, will take place noon-4 p.m. Oct. 19. There will be a ghost trail, chilling ghost stories and Tennessee characters such as the Bell Witch, a Cherokee spirit and the legend of Davy Crockett. Children are invited to wear costumes. New this year is a ghost story passed down by the descendants of slaves at the Wessyngton Plantation in Robertson County. The trail ends at the Tall Tales stage where professional storytellers will tell stories about Tennessee. Dont miss seeing the mummy and the mummified cat in the museum and the wonderful permanent collection on state history and the Civil War. The museum is at 505 Deaderick St. 615-741-2692 or www.tnmuseum.org.
Head to Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park Sept. 27-29 for its annual fall Knap-In and Archaeoskills event. This includes a celebration of the ancient art of flint knapping and archaeoskills from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 28, with flint knappers of all skill levels exchanging ideas and materials and demonstrating their craft to the public all weekend. There will be competitions on Sept. 28-29, with opportunities for everyone to try this ancient skill. Presentations and demonstrations will include Native American pottery construction, shell carving, basketry, fire making, native plant use, cordage production and many other primitive skills. 931-723-5073 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Warner Park Nature Center is having a 40th birthday celebration 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 26, with nature exploration and education, including demonstrations, games, food, music and more. Registration is not required. 615-352-6299.
Free tours of the Tennessee governors mansion/executive residence are offered on most Tuesday and Thursday mornings through early November. There is no charge, but reservations are required (two weeks ahead is best) and adults must have a photo ID to be admitted. For reservations go to www.tn.gov/firstlady, then click on Residence, or call 615-532-0494.
The Nashville British Car Club is having its 19th annual show and competition, Brits at the Parthenon, Oct. 12 on the lawn at Centennial Park. Its from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is a good chance to see 140 or more cars MGs, Triumphs, Jaguars, Rolls and plenty of the popular modern MINI Coopers. The free event benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation. www.nashvillebritishcarclub.org.
St. Thomas Heart, the cardiac division of Saint Thomas Health, has a Heart Healthy Cooking School that offers a free series of healthy cooking classes. Classes will be held at 3 p.m. in the Saint Thomas West Hospital cafeteria, at 4220 Harding Road. The schedule includes: Healthy Southern Favorites on Sept. 10, Fall Fest on Oct. 8 and Traditional Thanksgiving on Nov. 5. You learn to make the recipes and then get to sample. To register, call1-800-588-3270.
The Nashville Public Library has puppet shows at the main library downtown throughout the year. This fall, Wishing Chair Productions, in collaboration with Vanderbilts Center for Latin American Studies, has a special Hispanic Heritage Month puppetry offering, The Amazing Twins: Ancient Maya Tales from the Popol Wuj. This show, which is designed for ages 8 and older, will be presented at the main librarys Childrens Theater at 615 Church St. at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. Sept. 28 and Oct. 5, 12 and 19.
Plus, the Librarys Puppet Truck will be making the rounds to many branch libraries throughout October, taking the Many Moons show on the road.
And if you are looking for some spine-chilling puppetry for older kids (ages 8 and older), there will be shadow puppetry and storytelling based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on Oct. 18, 19, 25 and 26.
The Nashville Public Library also brings in childrens entertainers and programs for various ages throughout the year to the main library and many of the branches. This fall there are Tall Tale Circus programs at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. most Fridays and Saturdays at the main library, and magician Scott Cantrell, Manga drawing artist Shirley Barker and the Nashville Symphony Petting Zoo will be making multiple appearances at various branches. To see the full schedule or for more information, call 615-862-5800 or visit www.library.nashville.org.
Williamson County Parks and Recreations fun Touch-a-Truck event for children is 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 12 in the Thompson Station Church parking lot at Highway 31 South at Thompson Station Road. Emergency vehicles, fire trucks, construction equipment and military vehicles will be on hand for children to explore inside and out. 615-790-5719.
The City of Franklin Parks has a Family Fun Day Oct. 5 at The Park at Harlinsdale Farm. It is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and includes lots of activities for preschoolers, including music and hayrides. 615-794-2103.
The Brentwood Library has some great free offerings on tap, including the monthly second Saturday matinee at 1 p.m. at the library at 8109 Concord Road. The movies are chosen from the American Film Institutes Top 100 list. And Lego fans wont want to miss Lego-Mania from 4:30 to 6 p.m. the first Friday of every month at the library. This Lego afternoon, which explores different themes from the librarys nonfiction collection, is primarily for 6- to 12-year-olds. It is free, but you must sign up by calling 615-371-0090, ext. 8290.
There also are drop-in story times for preschoolers four times a week and the Read with Lily program from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. on the first and third Mondays, where children can read stories to Lily, who is a READing Paws dog who loves to listen. Plus, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, the library has an After School Explorers program for kids in grades K-2, where they can explore the world through books, games and activities. To register, call 615-371-0090, ext. 8290. For more information on all the Brentwood Library activities, visit www.brentwood-tn.org/library.
Belcourt Theatres free outdoor movie series in Hillsboro Village continues with Horse Feathers and Duck Soup on Sept. 14 at sunset. www.belcourt.org.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has a free family program almost every month. There is one at 10 a.m. Sept. 14 on Making Appalachian and Old Time Music, where you can learn about the music of the mountains and try your hand at playing spoons, washboards, cowbells and other instruments. East Tennessee-based musician and educator Anna Uptain leads this interactive program, which is designed for ages 5-12. There also are free family programs in October and November, but plans are not finalized. No reservations required. Families are encouraged to tour the museum at a discounted rate after the programs. 615-416-2001 or www.countrymusichalloffame.org.
The annual Veterans Day Parade is always at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month (Nov. 11) in downtown Nashville. It starts on Broadway at the bridge over Interstate 40 and proceeds down Broadway to Third Avenue. Veterans from every branch of the military participate, from World War II to Afghanistan and Iraq.
The flea market at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds is always fun to explore. Parking is $5, but admission is free. Dates are Sept. 27-29, Oct. 25-27 and Nov. 22-24. www.nashvilleexpocenter.org/expo/fleamarket.
Take a free tour of Schermerhorn Symphony Center with knowledgeable docents at noon on most Wednesdays and Saturdays, beginning in the West Atrium adjacent to the Symphony Café. Tours last about an hour. Reservations are not required for groups of 10 or fewer. If you have a group with more than 10 people, call 615-687-6542. www.nashvillesymphony.org/schermerhorn/tour.
Stones River National Battlefield at 3501 Old Nashville Highway in Murfreesboro has lots to do and see. There are ranger-led bike tours of the battlefield at 9 a.m. every Saturday through October. They also have caravan tours at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays where you go in your own car to four or more battlefield stops and get out for 10 or 15 minutes of commentary from one of the rangers. There are ranger talks almost every day at 2 p.m. and self-guided tours all the time. There are several special events on the calendar, including the Sept. 7-8 Chickamauga Connection program, where you can watch musket and cannon firing demonstrations and hear the stories of soldiers who survived Stones River and went on to the Battle of Chickamauga. There also is an Oct. 26-27 Musket Demonstration. www.nps.gov/stri or 615-893-9501.
Barnes & Noble in Cool Springs has a weekly Monday and Saturday morning story time at 11 a.m. featuring new childrens releases and favorite storybook characters. They also have other fun programs such as a Curiosity Day with Curious George at 11 a.m. Sept. 21 and the Hands-On Learning: Lego Master Builder Academy Robot program at 6 p.m. Sept. 27. It is for kids ages 8 and older to learn sideways building and alternate uses while creating a robot from Lego Master Building Academy. Space is limited to 25 participants, so sign up early. The store is at 1701 Mallory Lane. 615-371-8993.


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Readership: Students and general readers interested in biography, environmental history, Western history, California history, Scottish history, nature lovers, and conservationists.
Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, University of Kansas
Donald Worster is Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas and the author of many books, including A River Running West, the Bancroft Prize-winning Dust Bowl, and Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West.
"Worster's biography is scholarly" - Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
Prologue: Muir's Trail
1.: Ch. 1 The Scottish Lowlands
2.: Ch. 2 "That Glorious Wisconsin Wilderness"
3.: Ch. 3 Climbing the Ice Mountain
4.: Ch. 4 Border Crossings
5.: Ch. 5 The Long Walk
6.: Ch. 6 Paradise Found
7.: Ch. 7 The High Peaks
8.: Ch. 8 Coming in from the Cold
9.: Ch. 9 The Shores of Alaska
10.: Ch. 10 Husbandry
11.: Ch. 11 A Call to Lead
12.: Ch. 12 The Company of Green Men
13.: Ch. 13 Earthquake
14.: Ch. 14 The Troubled Wealth of Nature
Epilogue: Trail's End