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Measham is a large village in Leicestershire, near to the borders with Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire; located just off the A42 and 4.5 miles (7.25 km) south of Ashby-de-la-Zouch (the closest town), and within the National Forest. It was historically in Derbyshire: part of an enclave which was absorbed into Leicestershire in 1897 (See County Enclaves). Its name means the homestead on the River Mease.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Measham. Includes sections on history (broken into two-century sections), industrialization, with an article specifically on the Measham teapot and the local pottery industry in general.
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Opportunities Abound
by Mike Coffey
The dawn of a new year is the time of hope. People make resolutions to do better in their lives. They see an opportunity for a clean slate, and want to take advantage of the benefits that slate can give. Some folks have Opportunity knocking at their door today. If they take advantage, it could mean a very prosperous 2009 — and beyond.
The Line on the Color Bar
The most obvious opportunity is that for Mike Haywood. After biding his time and plying his trade for a number of high-profile programs, he's getting his shot to be the top dog at Miami University. Haywood has served under a number of outstanding coaches, and hopefully has learned at least a little from all of them. He'll now get to show the college football world the results of his schooling, and since you can't have enough Fighting Irish alums in the coaching world, we wish him all the best in his well-earned posting.
But an even bigger opportunity is in the hands of Floyd Keith and the Black Coaches Association. They now have at least three examples — Haywood, Buffalo's Turner Gill, and DeWayne Walker, who has interviewed strongly for a number of positions and is reportedly the leading candidate at New Mexico State — they can show to their membership and say, "See, this is how it should be done. This is how you need to do it."
There are far too few African-American head coaches in Division 1A (or the FBS or whatever goofy moniker is used for it these days). The solution, however, is not forcing unprepared candidates into positions and having them flame out. The solution is for African-Americans who want to coach to be given the same opportunity to follow the typical coaching development path as their Caucasian counterparts.
Look at the resumes of Haywood, Gill and Walker, and note the similarities:
All three men got their Bachelor's degrees. Haywood got his the old fashioned way at ND. Gill and Walker went in a slightly more roundabout fashion, but both are in possession of sheepskins. Such degrees are critical for college coaching advancement. So perhaps instead of focusing on the (admittedly poor) low percentage of African-American head coaches, the BCA should focus on the (even more reprehensible) low percentage of African-American football players who finish their eligibility with a college degree. Plantations like Arizona and Michigan and Texas and Georgia, with their horrible performance in graduating African-American football players, especially in comparison to their Caucasian counterparts, should be called on the carpet. That's how you start — by increasing the pool of available candidates, and letting them get an early start on their coaching careers instead of spending two or three years getting the degree they should have been earning during their playing days.
All three men have experience at multiple levels and multiple positions. Haywood was an assistant for 20 years, progressing from a position coach at Minnesota and Army and Ball State to a Special Teams coordinator at LSU and Texas. Gill was a 17-year assistant at North Texas, SMU, and Nebraska, with the Huskers winning three National Titles during his stint there. Walker has also prowled sidelines for 20 years at places like Oklahoma State, BYU, Cal, USC, and UCLA.
One could argue it should have taken them less than 20 years, but one could also argue there are Caucasian assistants who sometimes wait that long. Pete Carroll's first job as an assistant was in 1973 but wasn't hired by the Jets as HC until 1994. Mark Richt started as a QB coach at FSU in 1985, and it wasn't until 2001 that he got a top job. Bob Stoops started in 1983 and didn't get to Oklahoma until 1999.
All three men have held leadership positions as an assistant. Haywood was ST coordinator twice and then OC at Notre Dame. Gill was Assistant HC at Nebraska. Walker was the DC at UCLA. They had experience overseeing large groups within the team, coordinating recruiting, game-planning, the works. Along with the graduation rates, the BCA should be counting the number of college coordinators of color, because those are the most direct seeds from which head coaches grow.
All three men started (or will start) their head coaching careers at a learning stop. Gill is already turning heads at Buffalo, where he has reformed one of the losing-est programs in recent memory into a MAC threat. Haywood will start at Miami, another MAC school with a strong tradition where a new coach can afford to make teeth-cutting mistakes without it making a bad first impression. Walker is looking at NMSU, and probably will find it easier to learn the intricacies of the HC position in the WAC rather than the spotlight of the Pac-10.
The Line on the Green Bar
Charlie Weis also has an opportunity, one he's been offered before. You don't always get a second bite at the apple, but here we have Weis with what might be his third chance to broaden his horizons on offense.
It remains to be seen which current Notre Dame assistants (if any) will accompany Haywood to Oxford, and it remains to be seen what other current assistants (if any) are relieved of their duties. But change is needed on the offensive side of the ball, and this may be Weis' last opportunity to make it.
The running game remains abysmal. Not to be lost in the otherwise-satisfying 49-21 thrashing of the Warriors in Honolulu was the net 73 yards gained by Irish players on the ground during the contest. While an 85 percent completion rate for your quarterback is a great thing, it's also not something dependable or even usual, and less than 100 yards on the ground against a team of UH's caliber does not bode well.
It's time for Charlie to truly become the leader a head coach needs to be. Leaders hire other leaders, and what Notre Dame needs now is a leader on offense not afraid to tell Weis it's time to run the ball well and not give up on it at the first sign of trouble. By all means, continue to utilize the weapons at QB and WR and TE. But an offense that is not a threat to run eventually falls because teams can sell out to stop the pass, as we saw to our chagrin down the stretch this season.
Weis has to replace his departing OC, and should replace his OL coach whether that departure is voluntary or not. A quality hire of someone(s) with a balanced viewpoint at both positions — someone like a Mitch Browning, perhaps — can revitalize the (truly) offensive side of the ball, and with a continuation of improvement on defense, could lead to the results we're looking for in 2009.
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5 Ways TNA Could Ruin Impact Going Live
by, 05-27-2012 at 05:09 PM (4958 Views)
Next Thursday TNA Impact takes its weekly show live at 8 PM. While this is definitely a good thing and many positives can come from this show I wanted to make a list of decisions they could make to screw it up.
5. Sting winning the TNA World Title-Sting is returning in the first match of the night against champion Bobby Roode. Roode just became the longest reigning champion ever in TNA which was handled brilliantly last week with giving AJ Styles the chance to defend his record in a great first segment of the show that had Hogan choosing between Hardy, Angle, Styles, and Bully Ray to end Roode's reign which you should watch if you haven't seen it. I can see it being tempting to take the belt off Roode to show that this is the kind of unpredictable thing that can happen on our weekly show but putting the belt on Sting is showcasing the past and not the future and not what Impact needs right now.
4. Having no OMG Segments-The greatest thing about going live is being able to surprise the fans. If I remember correctly last time Impact went live on Monday nights they introduced Rob Van Dam which was a good idea but then had a mess of an end segment with a bunch of people running in that didn't really make sense character wise. Still, just look at the late 90's era for inspiration. You'd have Sting coming from the rafters to save the day, Austin coming in to beat up everyone and have a stunnerfest, buses and limos exploding, Stone Cold being arrested, etc. Those are the kind of moments outside of a match that get you to go wow I wonder what they are going to do next week. Impact doesn't usually have these so it's something they are going to have to change if they really want the viewers to come in.
3. Don't overuse Hogans-Hulk Hogan still has his place in wrestling. Having a legend like him works with a certain crowd. But another crowd (a lot of the IWC) despises Hogan. The important thought is that he is no longer a wrestler so do not give him too much time that takes away from wrestlers. Brooke Hogan is also making her debut on the show which I could see going over either way. She has come off really well in interviews so far and has the good idea to start having women's wrestling more storyline based. I was very skeptical originally but she might do fine. Still, she is not going to wrestle so feature her lightly.
2. Don't bring out the stars-Bobby Roode and Sting are guaranteed to appear. This is good. Bring out the other big time guys and gals too. AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, Abyss, Rob Van Dam, Bully Ray, Mr. Anderson, James Storm, Christopher Daniels and Kaz, Gail Kim, Mickie James, Eric Young, Tara (if she's around??), The Pope (I hope), Crimson (I guess), and maybe King Mo if he is debuting. We don't need to see Robbie E and Rob T or Garett Bischoff. Live TV time is valuable especially on the first day you can't waste it on any but the best. Leaving them off would be a big mistake.
1. Lack of standout matches-Sting vs. Roode in a Lumberjack Match is a great idea. What a better way to set yourself apart from WWE than having SOME specialty type matches oh and not being scared of blood. I'm not really promoting hardcore matches because once you take the focus off of the wrestling and onto the weapons you are diminishing the talent. But what about a No DQ match where you might see someone grab a chair or choke someone out with the microphone cord or fight outside of the ring or in the back or be put through the announce table. It won't happen this week but keep a ladder match or steel cage in mind. I know you have to save your best stuff for PPV but based on the buyrates for TNA PPVs lately they need something on TV to get people excited about paying money to watch the pay per view. Plus, if people start hearing about TNA having matches weekly that are amazing more people are likely to tune in. That's sort of what got them going in the first place.


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London (May. 21)
Sir Robert Hamilton, M. P., will ask the government in the House of Commons today why the Palestine government cancelled 2,300 immigration certificates to Palestine. In the meantime the London press reports the decision of the Jewish National Council to hold a general strike tomorrow as a protest against the suspension of immigration.


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VirtualBox 220.127.116.11224
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
Some of the features of VirtualBox are:
- Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.
- Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.
VMM: reset the TSC on VM reset to work around a Windows bug.
Audio: fixed memory leak when enabled with VRDP connections (5.1.24 regression).
Audio: fixed creation of too many sound sinks on Linux hosts when using the PulseAudio backend.
Audio: implemented record gain registers for AC'97 emulation; those are needed for newer Ubuntu guests which rely on those when controlling gain and muting the recording (capturing) levels.
Storage: fixed hang when using the emulated NVMe controller with the SPDK.
Mouse: double click was not working with a precision touchpad.
Linux hosts: properly bring up host-only network interfaces with iproute (5.1.24 regression).
Linux hosts: provide Python 3 libraries for deb/rpm packages.
Windows hosts: make it possible to use host-only networking without having bridged networking installed.
Windows guests: fixed automatic logons for Vista and newer Windows guests (5.1.24 regression).


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Ice-T & Coco seem like a nice couple
I pretty much pulled the plug on celebrity Halloween pics yesterday but couldn't resist this set of Ice-T and his wife Coco at Club Plumm Friday night. Mostly because they're recreating the timeless love scene where Black Punisher bangs Slutty Catwoman from behind – while yanking her tail in public. God, I love Shakespeare.
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Easter was a busy time for me, I have no idea how many of these bunnies I made but I think it was pushing 60! I have been asked for the pattern but at the moment I haven't written one, its all in my head. Maybe I will do one once my life settles down after the move. They proved to be a very popular gift for Easter.
Part of the many made
I love coming up with new ideas and this is what happens when I buy loads of tulle, I was going to make the girls some tutus, but this is all I ended up making.
Here is a small bit of my stall from the March Shelly Beach Market I did.
I cut up an old dress of mine and made Ruby a skirt and head wrap.
My March makes
I managed to make myself a top for myself
My last stall at the April markets
This was my April round up
I just thought I'd post a bit more of my crafty things I've done.
I am also looking at doing markets in England, so stay tuned to see what I end up doing.
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Watch out, Benji and Lassie: There's a new star pooch in town.
Giggy -- Lisa Vanderpump's pocket-sized, super-fashionable dog on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills -- has signed with a talent agency!
PHOTOS: Who wore it best: pets edition!
"It's true," Vanderpump tells UsMagazine.com of her beloved Pomeranian, who became a breakout star on the first season of Bravo's smash. "He's with CAA." That would be Creative Artists' Agency, the same mega-firm that has such A-listers as Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts as clients.
Adds Vanderpump of her pride and joy: "He's very talented and ready to work."
What kind of gigs is Giggy sniffing for?
"He can do charity; he is open to anything. The only thing he isn't very good at is radio."


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Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Challuri, Sainath Author's Email Address email@example.com URN etd-06212006-113212 Title An Analysis of Public Transit Accessibility Using the Distance Constrained P-Median Problem Approach: Bus Stop Consolidation for the Capital Area Transit System of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Degree Master of Science (M.S.) Department Geography & Anthropology Advisory Committee
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Date of Defense 2006-05-02 Availability unrestricted AbstractOver the past four decades public transit usage has declined in the United States. Transit Planners have suggested that public transit usage should be encouraged because public transit can account for greater travel demand than cars and would reduce pollution, traffic congestion and energy consumption. Easy access to public transit stops is important because research has found that usage of public transit and access are inversely proportional. U.S. transit systems have a relatively high density of stops resulting in high accessibility levels at the cost of increased travel times. In this study access distance to transit stops and bus stop spacing were used as the basis to examine the inefficiencies, indicated by the redundancy in the number of bus stops, for the Capital Area Transit System (CATS) of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. The Distance Constrained P-Median Problem model was used. Based on the bus stop spacing standard of 300-600 m it was found that the interpreted increase in average bus stop spacing for the suggested minimum number of bus stops along all the routes was 617.97 m. Also, it was found that on average for all the routes, about 74.68 % bus stops can be reduced for the 400 m access standard. The suggested reduction in the number of bus stops will not sacrifice the current level of geographic coverage and would not increase the average access distance to bus stops beyond the accepted standard of 400 m. Files
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Libreria Universitaria, 25 mt East of Soda la U (at /street of Bitter San Padro), San Jose, Costa Rica
Located near the UCR. Has Wi-Fi. Open Mon-Fri 11:30am-8:00pm.
Category: Lacto, Ovo, International, Organic, Western, Juice bar, Take-out, Bakery
Libreria Universitaria, 25 mt East of Soda la U (at /street of Bitter San Padro), San Jose, Costa Rica
Located near the UCR. Has Wi-Fi. Open Mon-Fri 11:30am-8:00pm.
Category: Lacto, Ovo, International, Organic, Western, Juice bar, Take-out, Bakery
First Review by egoulet
This is a small restaurant located very near the University of Costa Rica and right next to a yoga centre. Its original owner did a fantastic job decorating the place and painting it herself. The food is delicious and very creative, and there are plenty of vegan options. It used to be totally vegan, but after a friend asked for some nachos which seemed to be covered with cheese, not sure anymore. In any case, the desserts are totally vegan and after trying several vegetarian restaurants, I think they are the best vegan cakes, cookies and raw cheesecakes in Costa Rica. The owners are cool and friendly and the kitchen is very clean. The dish of the day is a good deal.
Pros: Delicious food, Clean, beautiful, well-located restaurant, plenty of vegan options
Cons: It gets very crowded at noontime (12pm-1pm)
We got a cab from our hotel and the listing said it was open - we arrived after a 30 minute cab ride to find out that was not the case at all. Please update your information!!!
This food here is spectacular! And not just for vegan food - all food in general. I'm not vegan or vegetarian, but my wife is vegan. This is our favorite restaurant in all of Costa Rica (been here 8 months). Thankfully, we live within walking distance! :-)
Like another reviewer, I've only ever eaten the plate of the day because it's always different, always really great, and always throws me for a loop with the creativity. I've had bites and nibbles from some of the other dishes and they're similarly great. If all vegan food was this good, everyone would be vegan!
Portion size is excellent. We always leave very full and very happy. The price is great for the value. For the portion size and quality of food, it's the best deal in San Pedro. Probably San Jose, too, but I haven't been everywhere.
It's a little out of the way for most people, but totally worth the trip. It's near the University of Costa Rica just off "the calle" filled with college restaurants, bars, and shops. And is right next a yoga place. It's a bit small and the tables are cramped, but unless you go during the lunch rush, you'll be fine.
If you're in San Jose or San Pedro and are looking for a place to eat, this is definitely worth going out of the way for.
Pros: excellent food, good value, large portions
Cons: out of the way, a bit cramped, small, overworked staff
I have been to the Buho many times. I haven't eaten from the menu because the special of the day is always so great! Someone really knows how to cook vegetarian, very creatively. You have to try this unique place!
Pros: very clean, very friendly staff, great food
I cannot remember the last time I was this blown away by a restaurant. The inside was painted with lime greens, blues, and oranges, with artistic murals painted on all the walls. It was kind of hippie-esque, or bohemian perhaps. The waiter, Yan, thankfully spoke English. The food choices on the menus were astounding. Of our group of 10, 5 were vegetarian. Everyone, including the non-veggies, was equally impressed by the six or so menu pages of dishes, from sandwiches to burritos to salads to naan pizzas. We all got flavored water, and this wasn't your typical Safeway carbonated-fizzy fruit water. The one I got was blackberry, and it was basically blackberry pulp with water. Delicious. Some others got hibiscus water, which was even better. It tasted like fruity ginger green tea. When the food came out we couldn't stop raving about how unbelievably happy we were. I got a "burrito japonese" which was a salad with tofu, miso, sesame seeds, ginger, bell peppers, and a handful of other ingredients that I can't remember right now in a whole wheat wrap. I tried others' naan pizzas, which were crispy and delicious, and a sandwich on whole wheat bread. I honestly can't even remember what was in it because all the wonderful flavors started blending together at this point. For dessert they had chocolate chip cookies that were incredible despite the fact that they had healthy stuff in them. All together I spent less than $10, which is pretty expensive for a Costa Rica meal. I'm extremely disappointed that there isn't a place this wonderful anywhere else, and we plan on returning specifically to go to this restaurant.
Pros: amazing food, super healthy, cheap!
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For quite some time, I've been thinking about creating a Gtk TreeModel that uses CouchDB as a backend. I've just started investigating it and I've found some issues I don't know how to solve. I think this would be useful for all kinds of trees, though, so it wouldn't be specific to GTK. I hope someone can help. The general idea is simple. The tree consists of nodes that can have zero or one parent and zero or more children. So I thought each node would be its own document with an ID like [model number, root node number, child node number, child...], for instance, { "_id":[0, 0, 1,2] } would be the third child of the second child of the first root node in the first model. This way, it would be easy to get a single node or a range of nodes (including children) from a specific model. I have two problems with this; inserting, removing and moving nodes. If I insert a node somewhere in the middle, all the documents after it would need to get their IDs changed. I guess I could do this by looping backwards from the end, incrementing the id in order to create a free slot for the new node, (opposite for removals) but wouldn't this be extremely slow for large collections? It should also be possible to reorder rows, or just move something one step up or down. This would ideally mean simply swapping the IDs of two documents, but I don't know how to do this. I could give the first document a temporary value, then change the value for the second to the old value of the first, and then give the first the old value for the second. But the temporary value might itself cause problems. Any ideas or thoughts? I appreciate your insight. Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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A POPULAR tourist attraction in Rossendale ordered to close by the borough council is making another attempt to stay open.
Animal Quackers, a petting farm at Huttock Top Farm, in Bacup, was refused permission to operate by planning bosses last November.
Councillors unanimously refused the retrospective application after raising concerns about highways access, and the impact on neighbours. It had previously been operating without permission since 2007.
Now owner Terry Bork has submitted another retrospective application for a change of use of land, and associated buildings, at the farm for agricultural use, to mixed use for agriculture, and as a petting farm.
The petting farm has received support from a 1,000-strong Facebook petition, as well as help and advice from MP Jake Berry.
Mr Berry said: "The council should be doing everything it can to support local businesses here in the Valley. We want to work with the council to make sure this tourist attraction is kept open."


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Mercure Koh Chang Hideaway
- Location: Bai Lan Bay (Ao Bai Lan), Koh Chang, Trat
- Address: 111/1 Moo 1, Bai Lan Bay, Koh Chang, Trat, Thailand 23170
Hotel star rating: 5.00
Check-in time: 14:00 pm
Check-out time: 12:00 pm (noon)
Mercure Koh Chang Hideaway (formerly Dusit Princess Koh Chang Hotel) is located on Bai Lan Bay (Ao Bai Lan) and close to Tree Top Adventure Park.
The hotel has 2 large areas on both hillside and beachside designated as its Koh Chang Marine National Park. Surroundings provide a natural retreat filled with fascinating wildlife and marine life, high peaks, scenic waterfalls, lush jungles and diving and other water sport facilities.
Bai Lan Bay is not far from Bang Bao Bay at the south, Kai Bae Beach and Klong Prao Beach at the north. So you easily go to play many activities such as snorkeling, diving, elephant trekking, waterfall, restaurants and more.
Deluxe Pool Access
Deluxe Ocean View
Pool Villa
Beach Front Villa
Hideaway Suite
Family Suite
Mercure Koh Chang Hideaway Surroundings
Hotel Facilities
- Free car parking
- Electricity: AC 220 Volts 50 Hz
Map & Location: Mercure Koh Chang Hideaway
Address: 111/1 Moo 1, Bai Lan Bay, Koh Chang, Trat, Thailand 23170
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Official contact details of Mercure Koh Chang Hideaway:
- Website: www.mercurekohchang.com
- Phone: +66 2398 4100, +668 1859 1600, +66 3961 9111, +66 3969 6600 to 2


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Flame Retardants and the Associated Toxicity
By Marcelo M. Hirschler, Ph.D.
Fire Protection Engineering
retardants are incorporated into materials to improve their fire
performance, normally by slowing fire development. They are either added
into an existing polymeric material (natural or synthetic) or reacted
with other raw materials to create a new material so that the resulting
material exhibits improved fire performance. This typically results in a
decrease in the amount of combustion products released in a fire.1
toxicity and heat release are key factors in fire hazard, together with
flame spread and ignitability. In fact, "inhalation of combustion
products" is listed as the cause of death for some 2/3 of all fire
victims. It is rare for multiple fire fatalities to occur in fires that
have remained small. In the U.S., more than 83% of fire deaths in
building fires happen in fires that have become very large. Such fires
are large enough that they extend beyond the room of origin, and thus
generate too much toxic smoke for survival.2 The inherent
toxic potency of smoke resulting from burning most combustible materials
falls within a narrow range, so that there is no nontoxic smoke.
Therefore, releasing lower mass of combustibles is essential to lower
the overall toxicity of a fire atmosphere. Moreover, the key fire
property controlling the loss of human tenability in fires is the heat
release rate of the burning materials, 3 which governs the intensity of a fire and can vary by orders of magnitude for common combustibles. 4 Thus, toxic hazard is a more direct function of heat release rate rather than of the toxic potency of the smoke.
During the 1970s and 1980s,
there was a belief that burning plastic materials produced smoke that
was far more toxic than smoke from burning natural products such as
wood, wool, or cotton. A number of studies have been done to compare the
amount of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen cyanide
produced by natural and synthetic materials under flaming and nonflaming
conditions in order to model smoke toxicity. This work resulted in the
development of multiple small-scale smoke toxicity test methods, all of
which gave varied and narrow rankings for materials, resulting in
limited applicability to predicting outcomes of fire events.
Toxicologists studying toxicity data consider that ranges of toxicity
are measured in orders of magnitude step changes, while most combustible
materials produce data that are comparable and differences between
materials is generally of minor importance to the overall toxicity of
smoke.5 In other words, the smoke toxicity of virtually all
materials, natural or synthetic, is almost identical, within the margin
of error.
A pair of studies involving more than 5,000 fatalities (between fire victims and non-fire victims or carbon monoxide (CO) inhalation) addressed: (a) a period between 1938 and 1979 in a localized area (Cleveland, OH) and (b) a countrywide study in the early 1990s.6 They found remarkable similarities between the populations of victims: they all died primarily of CO asphyxiation. Other studies have shown that the fraction of any combustible converted into CO in a large (typically flashover) fire is approximately 0.2 g/g.7,8 By combining the conclusions of the studies above and others it can be concluded9 that:
key chemical elements are known to interfere or disrupt combustion:
chlorine, bromine, phosphorus, aluminum, boron, antimony, and nitrogen.11
These elements are not used as such but provide the essential
functionality into substances known as flame retardants. A flame
retardant could contain one or more of these elements. Flame retardants
act by various mechanisms, including free radical gas phase quenching,
physical barrier formation by charring or contribution of water. Flame
retardants improve fire performance by interfering with the availability
of fuel, oxygen, or ignition source (fire triangle components).
Effective flame retardant designs are rarely composed of a single flame
retardant and may (depending on the substrate) contain a multiplicity of
Two of the elements
mentioned (chlorine and bromine) are known as halogens (another halogen
exists, fluorine, which is not used in flame retardant additives but is
found as part of polymers known as fluoropolymers). Halogenated flame
retardants are generally considered the most effective and can be used
at some of the lowest concentrations. During combustion, free radicals
containing bromine or chlorine quench the fuel source in the gas phase.
On the other extreme, some purely inorganic materials (such as metal
hydroxides: alumina trihydrate or magnesium hydroxide) are used to
provide water, released during combustion to lower gas phase
temperatures. Such flame retardants are the highest volume products used
commercially but have limited applicability because they need to be
used at very high concentrations, often resulting in deleterious effects
to properties of the substrate material, such as flexibility. Between
these extremes are phosphorus-containing materials, which can form
protective char barriers on the surface of a burning material. Their
performance and applications are often improved by including other
elements, such as nitrogen or a halogen. Flame retardants are also used
in combination with other additives (to improve the functionality of the
base flame retardant) that affect fire performance or lower smoke
release. They include materials based on molybdenum, tin, zinc, and
sulfur compounds.
Flame retardants
cannot make materials "fire proof." Flame retardants are an important
first line of defense (in the case of fire) by slowing the combustion
process (or even preventing it) and by lowering the resulting heat
release and flame spread. A large and sustained heat input can overwhelm
the effect of flame retardants and the material can still burn. Flame
retardant materials are being developed continually, and the total
number of flame retardant additives that have been used commercially can
be counted in the thousands, since the first one used commercially in
the 1700s.12-14
overall smoke toxicity of materials containing flame retardants is not
significantly different from that of materials that do not contain flame
retardants (as discussed above). In fact, properly flame retarded
materials will generate less mass of smoke and combustion products, thus
causing fire atmospheres to be less toxic (as shown in a famous NBS
study15). Thus, the use of flame retarded materials will not
alter the smoke toxicity in fire atmospheres. The basic function of
flame retardants in interfering with the combustion process means that
there will be more incomplete combustion. However, as discussed above,
in large fires the fraction of burnt material converted into CO is
fairly constant, at 20%7-9 so that there is no significant effect of flame retarded materials in actual fires.
materials (including ones with halogenated flame retardants) will
contribute halogenated effluents, including acid gases, that will
contribute to the acute toxicity of fire atmospheres, although it is
normally overwhelmed, as discussed above, by the toxicity of CO. In some
cases, the thermal decomposition or combustion of halogenated materials
generates small amounts of polyhalogenated dioxins and furans as
components of the associated smoke. The composition of emitted gases
will depend not just on the material burnt but also on the presence of
catalysts (including metals like copper) and the fire intensity. The
concentrations of these gases are so small that they are not associated
with acute smoke toxicity but with the chronic effects resulting from
fires. In fact, advances in analytical and detection techniques mean
that scientists can now detect the presence of materials, or derivatives
of materials, at levels so small as to not be meaningful. Thus, they
may affect primarily those facing repeat exposures like firefighters.
vast majority of flame retardants are not carcinogens, mutagens or
reproductive toxins, and are neither bio-accumulative nor have acute
toxicity. In 2000, the U.S. National Research Council (Committee on
Toxicology, Subcommittee on Flame-Retardant Chemicals, NRC) presented
findings to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the
U.S. Congress.21,22 The work analyzed the inherent toxic
effects of individual flame retardants or flame retardant classes, both
on their immediate effects (acute) and on their long-term effects
(chronic), with primary focus on the latter. This was done by analyzing
the toxicological and exposure data of 16 key flame retardant chemicals
to assess potential health risks to consumers (primarily in residential
furniture). The subcommittee was also asked to identify data gaps and
make recommendations for future research. NRC made assessments to
determine whether causal relationships existed between the dose of each
chemical and each adverse health effect by reviewing human
(epidemiological studies, clinical observations, and case reports) and
laboratory animal data on neurotoxicity, immunotoxicity, reproductive
and developmental toxicity, organ toxicity, dermal and pulmonary
toxicity, carcinogenicity, and other local and systemic effects. NRC
also reviewed in vitro data to determine the potential for genotoxicity
as well as other toxic effects and to understand the mechanisms of toxic
action. Toxicokinetic studies were also reviewed to understand the
absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of the FR chemicals.
For some types of toxic effects, notably most cancers, the subcommittee
conservatively assumed that no threshold for a dose-response
relationship exists or that, if one does exist, it is very low and
cannot be reliably identified. Therefore, the subcommittee's
risk-estimation procedure for carcinogens was different from that for
non-carcinogens: the relationship between the incidence of cancer and
the dose of a chemical reported in an epidemiological study or an
experimental animal study was extrapolated linearly to much lower doses
at which humans might be exposed in order to overestimate conservatively
the excess lifetime risk of cancer resulting from lifetime exposure to a
chemical at a particular dose rate. This procedure does not provide a
"safe" dose with an estimated risk of zero (except at zero dose),
although at sufficiently low doses, the estimated risk becomes very low
and is regarded to have no public-health significance. The actual risk
is also highly likely to be lower than the upper bound, and it might be
zero. In the final phase of the risk assessment process, NRC integrated
the data to determine the probability that individuals might experience
adverse effects from a chemical under anticipated conditions of
exposure, by calculating a hazard-index to judge whether a particular
exposure would be likely to present a non-cancer toxicological risk.
NRC intentionally overestimated exposure levels as a precautionary approach to the protection of public health and concluded that the following flame retardants can be used on fabrics for residential furniture with minimal risk, even under worst-case assumptions:
They also recommended that additional exposure studies be made on the following flame retardants to determine whether toxicity studies need to be conducted:
conclusion, the NRC committee found no significant risk concern with
any of the flame retardants assessed, which covered a broad range of
chemical compositions.
some of these materials, additional studies were performed after the
NRC work, much of which was done for European Union risk analyses, and
it filled in some of the gaps identified. Two brominated flame
retardants, not directly studied by NRC, have been clearly associated
with potential health issues and withdrawn from the market:
pentabromobiphenyl oxide (pentaBDE) and octabromobiphenyl oxide
(octaBDE). When neither chemical has proven health effects (including
carcinogenic effects) on humans but the chemicals are bioaccumulative
and do have proven health effects on animals, they should not be used.
PentaBDE and octaBDE may enter the body by ingestion or inhalation and
they are stored mainly in body fat. EPA studied pentaBDE in detail in
2008.23 Following a comprehensive risk assessment, the European Union banned the use of both pentaBDE and octaBDE since 2004.24
In the U.S., as of 2005, "no new manufacture or import of" pentaBDE and
octaBDE "can occur...without first being subject to EPA evaluation" and
in May 2009, both were added to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent
Organic Pollutants as it meets the criteria for the so-called persistent
organic pollutants of persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity.
December 2009, all manufacturers voluntarily phased out production of a
flame retardant in the same family as the last two, decabromobiphenyl
oxide (decaBDE), in spite of the lack of proven health effects. The main
reason for this action by the manufacturers is that many of the
properties of decaBDE are similar to those of pentaBDE and octaBDE even
if the health effects are not.
earlier, the first flame retardant found with negative health effects
(carcinogenicity), and voluntarily withdrawn from the market (for
children's sleepwear) in the 1970s, was brominated tris [tris
(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate], which has not been used commercially
since. This is a different material from the chlorinated tris flame
retardant used more recently for furniture, and which is being
misidentified in the press as the same material.
(HBCD) has been found to have the potential for ecotoxicity but no
demonstrated effects on humans have been reported. The Stockholm
Convention recommended its inclusion in a list of persistent organic
pollutants, an action not completed as of 2015. However, in 2014
manufacturers of HBCD, extensively used as a flame retardant for
polystyrene thermal insulation, in conjunction with the manufacturers of
the polystyrene foam itself, have decided to replace HBCD in the foam
with a polymeric brominated flame retardant (polyFR),25 which has very low bioavailability and intrinsic toxicity and is, thus, not bioaccumulative.
other flame retardant has, at least until 2015, been demonstrated to
have such an effect on risk to humans that it was deemed necessary to
eliminate it from the market.
retardants, as discussed above, do not significantly contribute to
acute toxicity in fires. Toxicologists comparing acute toxicities use a
toxicity classification scale for inhalation that places LC50 (toxic potency) values of 10 to 100 in the highly toxic category and values of 10 or less in the extremely toxic category.26
The smoke toxic potency values of flame retarded materials are so
similar to those of the same materials without flame retardants that
they are not statistically significantly different. Moreover, as
properly flame retarded materials will generate lower masses of
combustion products, they will often cause fire atmospheres to be less
toxic. Thus, the use of flame retarded materials will not alter smoke
toxicity in fire atmospheres. With regard to the effects on the health
of firefighters, it is undoubtedly true that firefighters should have
special concerns because the rates of many chronic diseases, including
cancers, are higher among firefighters than among the general
population. These health effects on firefighters will be minimized by:
(a) the continued use of self-contained breathing apparatus both during
firefighting and during overhaul operations (after the fire has been
brought under control) and (b) improvements in the effective treatments
of firefighter protective clothing after each use. However, there is no
evidence that this is associated with the use of flame retardants. In
fact, there is significant evidence that the added effect of the
combustion or thermal decomposition products of flame retardants have an
insignificant added effect on toxicity.
regard to halogenated flame retardants, the data discussed above showed
the extremely minor contributions to the concentrations of carcinogens
in smoke and soot that polyhalogenated dioxins and furans (resulting
from halogenated flame retardants) make relative to the extremely large
contributions from PAH.
retardants are based on many individual chemical components, including
not just halogens. Some of them are also used in household applications
unrelated to fire safety. Thus, any scientifically based discussion of
the toxicity and/ or health effects of flame retardants needs to address
the specific material of potential concern and not a generic catch-all.
While it is essential to ensure that materials with negative health
effects are not used, this cannot be interpreted as a blanket attack on
flame retardants in general or even on brominated and/or chlorinated
flame retardants. Every flame retardant offered for commercial use
should always be investigated and those materials proven to be toxic or
harmful should be prohibited from use.
flame retardants offer an important way to maintain robust fire safety
in product and building designs. They are an essential first line of
defense in terms of passive fire protection. Flame retardants are a
broad class of materials with unique functionality, hazard
characteristics, and impacts on fire events.
data overwhelmingly shows that flame retardants do not contribute
significantly to either acute or chronic fire toxicity in real fires.
While some flame retardants have been removed from the market in recent
years, the vast majority in commercial use do not present significant
toxicological concerns.
Marcelo M. Hirschler is with GBH International.
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Livestock prices
COLUMBUS (AP) -- The Eastern Cornbelt Daily Direct Summary from Friday as reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture Marketing Service:
Barrows and gilts on a carcass basis: 1.40 higher.
On a carcass basis plant delivered (54-62 pct. lean)
83.57-91.00, weighted average 87.67
Actual pricing with lean premiums added:
0.8-0.9 inches backfat: 84.00-92.00.
0.6-0.7 inches backfat: 87.00-93.50.
Total prior day negotiated sales: 6,959.
Friday's total movement: 73,729.
Market trends for Monday:
Hogs steady; cattle steady; sows 2.00 lower.
Summary of last week's auctions at Ohio markets:
Light 50.00-87.00; heavy 56.00-63.50.
Light 2.00-33.00; heavy 29.00-37.75.
Light 39.00-50.00; heavy 10.00-17.00.
Commercial and utility 60.00-90.50.
Canner/cutter 55.00-72.00.
Sheep and lambs
Choice wools 91.50-125.00.
Egg markets
SHELL EGGS: Daily Midwest Regional Eggs Midwest delivered asking prices are 6 cents higher for Extra Large and Large, and 3 cents lower for Medium. Daily producer prices are steady. The undertone is steady. Retail demand is light to moderate at best while food service demand is moderate. Offerings are light to moderate. Supplies are moderate. Market activity is slow to moderate. Breaking stock prices are steady. Trade sentiment is steady. Offerings are light with demand light to moderate as breakers assess current needs. Supplies are light. Market activity is moderate.
Prices to retailers, sales to volume buyers, USDA Grade A and Grade A, white eggs in cartons, cents per dozen.
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I think the Pacers should have a statue of Reggie made and put at either the Market Square Arena site or outside Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Good idea?
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I think the Pacers should have a statue of Reggie made and put at either the Market Square Arena site or outside Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Good idea?
Smothered Chicken!
Since the Fieldhouse is the house that Reggie built, a statue of him would be very appropriate either outside it, or in the rotunda / entry pavilion IMO.
Great Idea, I don't see why not.
Turner and Young are THE FUTURE!
Him jumping around here would be perfect
Smothered Chicken!
Some of us were fortunate enough to witness the prototype clay model for one back in I think 2005. For whatever reason, it never got made/finished.
Ah, I found some old saved photos from it. It was our Summer '05 party. See attached.
or him jumping around after he hit the shot vs the bulls.
Smothered Chicken!
To play Devil's Advocate....would a city like Indianapolis raise a statue of Payton Manning before they raise one of Reggie?
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Peyton is still playing. Reggie is retired. Peyton's statue will come and it'll be in front of Lucas Oil since the RCA Dome is now the convention center
Smothered Chicken!
We're not thinking big enough here guys. The Fieldhouse, Market Square - screw it, let's just build another Soldiers & Sailors-sized monument for Reggie and Peyton. We'll call it the Shooters & Saviors monument.
Yeah that would be nice...not sure what I think of the models posted by Hicks...I think it should look like Coopdog23's picture...just me...either way we need one ASAP
Frank Vogel & Tom Crean
Roy Hibbert & Cody Zeller
Danny Granger & Christian Watford
Paul George & Victor Oladipo
George Hill & Jordan Hulls
David West & Derek Elston
DJ Augustin & Yogi Ferrell
Gerald Green & Will Sheehey
Lance Stephenson & Remy Abell
His statue should be of him doing the choke sign.
Or pushing off Jordan just because.
There was another model they were pushing around the think tank but it was too expensive to build one with all of the Knicks fans with looks of anguish on their faces.
A Reggie statue would be awesome.
Reggie Miller is a God. Period.
Passion. Pride. Pacers.
It's ALWAYS Miller Time.
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I think the OP's avatar would be a great statue, or the one of Reggie pointing to the sky with his hand over his heart when he retired. Those would be great. Don't really dig the clay model, doesn't scream "Reggie" to me. Maybe if he had a leg kicked out there it might.
Glad that clay model didn't get made. Thing looks like Gollum.
I was trying hard to remember what that clay model remind me of and thanks to you I now figured it out, you are right that looks like Gollum.
Reggie and Gollum share a lot of physical/facial traits, but let's not focus on that.
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There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
There's a joke involving a ring to be made, but I refuse to make it...
If a statue of a basketball player is to be built in Indianapolis, it should be of the greatest player to have a connection with the city. That would be Oscar Robertson. There is just no comparison when it comes to Oscar's accomplishments. No, it wouldn't be proper for it to be at BLF, but maybe somewhere on the renovated Georgia Street where they are honoring various Hoosiers. Then the second statue, one of Reggie could grace BLF.
It might be humorous to position the statues so that Oscar is throwing Reggie the ball, with Reggie getting set to launch a three! Of course that would be one really long pass.
Oscar never played for the Pacers though. I understand your reasoning but Reggie is more deserving
Smothered Chicken!
That is why I said it would not be fitting to have it at BLF. As far as the second part of your reply, nobody who ever played basketball in Indiana at any level would be more deserving of a statue than Oscar. He and his Attucks team broke barriers, and he is still the only NBA player to average a triple double for an entire season, and almost average one for his career. He also has an NBA title in his resume, just not with the Pacers, and was an Olympic Gold Medalist.
Maybe it is just a generational sort of difference in our views. I'm getting to be an old fart.
I recognize the pose as Reggie doing one of his leaner/runner shots. He used to do that enough that I associated it with him.


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Bishop Richard Malone: a "Catholic whose conscience has been properly formed by scripture and church teaching cannot justify a vote" to legalize gay marriage.
Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy: Catholics should also consider if a candidate can or will do what they promise
Catholic senator in North Dakota challenges bishop's election letter
Holy Land -- Catholic churches condemn Israeli security barrier route near Bethlehem
Paris, France -- A drive to rekindle Roman Catholicism's missionary zeal is struggling to counter the challenge of Islam, a religion with an arguably more direct message and a greater institutional hold on its faithful.
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AT&T calls Pearl Jam webcast censorship a mistake
Updated 10:00 pm, Thursday, August 9, 2007
NEW YORK -- Pearl Jam fans and Internet watchdogs are up in arms after it was revealed that AT&T censored portions of the band's live Lollapalooza concert cybercast on Sunday.
While performing "Daughter," the band segued into part of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall," and frontman Eddie Vedder sang, "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush, find yourself another home." Those lyrics were missing from the broadcast.
Vedder also railed against oil giant BP Amoco and brought a disabled Iraq war veteran onstage to call for an end to the conflict. Neither segment was edited.
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Holocaust Memorial To Be Dedicated On Monday
Ohio will officially dedicate a new Holocaust memorial on Monday on the the statehouse grounds. It's been three years in the making, but supporters say it's been worth the wait.
"People will come to the statehouse and they will see something that memorializes the lives of those lost," said Joyce Garver-Keller the Executive Director of Ohio Jewish Communities. "And it will celebrate the lives of survivors who came to Ohio to build their lives and make the state a better place."
The Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial cost $2.2 million and it's just over one thousand feet in size.
It was designed by Daniel Libeskind, a famous New York artist.
More than 15 hundred people are expected Monday for the ceremony.
Tickets are free, but required for the event.
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Pizza for Breakfast!
Recipe by 3KillerBs
Pizza for breakfast is one of those guilty pleasures adults are supposed to grow out of when we leave college and start being responsible for families. But with this easy-to-make quiche you can enjoy that beloved flavor responsibly, with vegetables even. ;) Freezes well for OAMC. Don't be put off by the long prep time. Most of it is draining the spinach and tomatoes.
Top Review by Chef1MOM-Connie
RSC 11 . This is very good. I made this on a sleepy Saturdy morning. DH was fishing so I had the kitchen to myself to bang pots and pans, blast some music and do the cha cha if I wanted. I settled for some wonderful coffee and this recipe. I liked it very much even though I am not an egg person for mornings. DH had a reheated version and liked it as well. I will make this again on one of those sleepy mornings that everyone is home and serve with a juicer juice. Your #19 option sounds fantastic but I chose to use it for juicer instead. I wil use it for a soup recipe next time as I love spinach and tomatoes in many of mmy soups. Thank you.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄2 lb frozen spinach
- 0.5 (14 ounce) can diced tomatoes
- 1 -2 shallot, minced
- 4 sun-dried tomatoes, minced
- 1 ounce sliced pepperoni or 1 Italian sausage, cooked
- 1⁄4 cup sliced mushrooms (optional)
- 1⁄2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 3⁄4 cup milk
Egg Mix
- 6 eggs
- 1⁄4 cup milk
- 1⁄2 teaspoon oregano
- 1⁄2 teaspoon basil
- 1 pinch garlic powder
- 1⁄4 cup asiago cheese
- 1 pinch cayenne chili pepper flakes (optional)
Directions See How It's Made
- Grease 9x9 pan lightly and preheat oven to 350°F.
- Thaw frozen spinach and squeeze ALL the juice out of it.
- Drain the tomatoes and squeeze out as much juice as possible. (This is critical. Wet tomatoes will result in soggy eggs).
- Chop pepperoni, reserving 9 slices OR chop sausage and reserve 1/4 of the chopped meat.
- Mix flour with baking powder. Add melted butter and work in well.
- Add the 3/4 cup milk and mix to make a soft dough.
- Flour your fingers then pat crust into the pan in an even layer that extends about an inch up the side.
- Spread spinach, tomatoes, shallots, chopped meat, and sun-dried tomatoes in layers over the crust.
- Put all the egg mix ingredients into a bowl and beat together.
- Pour egg mix evenly over the veggie and meat layers.
- Top with shredded mozzarella, the reserved pepperoni slices or reserved chopped sausage, and the optional sliced mushrooms.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until eggs are set in the center and cheese is browned.
- Any leftovers are good cold or briefly reheated in the microwave.
- Note: Prep goes more smoothly on a sleepy, weekend morning if you drain the spinach and tomatoes and assemble all dry ingredients the night before. Then you need only mix and assemble before baking.
- Note: If your family is larger or if you do OAMC the recipe can be doubled and made in a 13x9 pan or a deep-dish pizza pan if you increase cooking time appropriately.
- FOR OAMC – Freeze in individually wrapped squares. Thaw 60-90 seconds on half-power. Heat 45-60 seconds on full power, turn, and repeat. Heat an additional 20-30 seconds if necessary.
- Note: This is a forgiving recipe. If you prefer broccoli over spinach or you'd like to add a little anchovy or some green pepper go ahead. I'm not sure about the ham and pineapple though – it would be hard to drain the pineapple well enough to not get the eggs soggy.
- Note: Yes, you can use fresh spinach and tomatoes. Deseed the tomatoes to remove the excess juice.
- Note: if you save the juice from the tomatoes and the spinach along with the remaining tomatoes from the can you have the start of a nice soup later on.


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January 4, 1981
A Romance for Highbrows
By GEORGE STADE
By Iris Murdoch.
ris Murdoch's new novel, ''Nuns and Soldiers,'' is an epitome and sum of its 19 predecessors. It provides us, therefore, with an opportunity to formulate some constants among this round score of fictions and to see what they add up to. The first of her novels, ''Under the Net'' (1954), won her immediate acclaim as one of the Angry Young Men - a confusion of sexes that anticipates a number of her characters. Since then, critics, as usual, have disagreed about what is good and what bad in her work. But they have agreed above all else to take Iris Murdoch seriously, to take her as among ''the most accomplished British novelists to come to maturity since the close of World War II,'' to quote one of her critics.
Professors of English, understandably, have been grateful for novels that provide them with obscurities to elucidate, learned allusions to identify and post-modernist techniques to get solemn about. Baffled and busy reviewers have been pardonably respectful of a novelist about whom monographs and dissertations are written, who is known to be a professional philosopher, whose Muppet characters and loop-the-loop plots have an air of eschewing plausibility the better to espouse profundity. The good-natured general reader has been told so often not to sneer at what he can't take time to understand that, regrettably, he now keeps his mouth shut entirely. And then there are the closet Christians, to whom Iris Murdoch (like Graham Greene and Muriel Spark) sings Come out, come out, you are just as modern, messed up and godforsaken as anyone else. Aside from all that, Iris Murdoch has had a number of genuine, if modest, popular successes. I think I know why.
On the one hand, she writes Harlequin romances for highbrows (as defined by Brander Matthews: ''a highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence''). Secular love is the efficient cause of what goes on in her novels, as when Paul loves Paula, who loves Paulo, who loves Pauline, who has a little something going with Saul, who falls into a sudden passion for his pretty nephew Apollo when, one portentous day (''a strange mystical light pervaded London''), he finds Pauline in the arms of Paulette. Apollo, meanwhile. ...
On the other hand, Iris Murdoch is a neo-Christian apologist. Her fictions, I mean, argue a Christianity that has become so much more interesting, don't you know, since God took a powder, a Christianity that substitutes a diffuse religiosity for a formulated religion, that approves your faith according to the rigor of your disbelief. The final cause of what happens in her novels is not the earthly Aphrodite, as at first you might think, but the heavenly Eros, obscurely apprehended. ''I feel that some god is playing a game with us,'' says one lover to another, who in turn says, ''God sent you to me'' to still another lover, who in her turn notes, ''How strangely interlaced all these histories were.''
The strange interlacings of these characters, then, their sudden twists and kinks, occur not to reveal the workings of unconscious forces - Iris Murdoch's novels are pre-psychological - but to illustrate a dogma, which boils down to this: ''There was no God, but Christ lived.'' The heavenly Eros is Jesus, who plots our love, in, through, and for which He lives.
Iris Murdoch's novels, in sum, are primarily for people who can't take either their romance or their religion straight, who need the one to justify to themselves their indulgence in the other. The religion is shy, sly, elusive, oblique, as neo-Christians, I believe, find it in real life, and as well as they might. The intimations of Immanence allow you to take the romance allegorically. (''There was something almost allegorically sad about her,'' we read of a lovelorn lapsed nun who is elsewhere compared to Martha and whose beloved is very Christlike.) There are some people, are there not, who won't permit themselves to enjoy a thing unless they can first convince themselves that it is also improving them. (''How mysterious religious people were.'') Therefore we have the whole elaborate defense system of covert apologetics - the coy allusions, the pregnant names, the cute in-jokes, the cluttering symbolism, the cloying play on the language of devotion, secular and/or sacred, the name-dropping.
''Wittgenstein'' is the first word of Iris Murdoch's new novel, for it's time we got down to cases. That name is taken, not in vain (for did he not argue, in effect, that you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God?), by Guy Openshaw, who is dying of cancer and tends to wander. Guy, who has been like a father to most of the other characters, dies on Christmas Eve, and in many other respects turns out to be like the Christian deity. He's half-Jewish, for instance.
While the old Guy is dying, we meet his circle of friends, who are all related, as we gradually learn, by descent or marriage or adoption, the point being that we are all God's chillun. As we piece together their biographies we gradually learn that they are nearly all orphans, the point being that Guess Who has absconded. ''The father was absent,'' we are told, more than once, much more. And then the sexual ringalevio begins.
Guy and his wife Gertrude had loved loving each other. (''They confessed to each other and redeemed each other.'') But with her husband dead only a few months, Gertrude takes a bath in a magical pool and falls suddenly in love with Tim. Tim, having had his ''baptism'' in a canal, falls just as suddenly in love with Gertrude. (''She was as if shriven.'' ''He was transfigured.'')
The main impediment to the marriage of these two wimps is the famous circle of friends, les cousins et les tantes, as they are called, none of whom considers Tim worthy of Gertrude, who is rich. And Gertrude, of course, still loves Guy, in a way. Tim, in his way, still loves Daisy, who still loves Tim, although she is too proud to stand in anyone's way. Worse, Peter, a melancholy Pole, has long loved Gertrude with a soldierly and honorable reticence that makes you want to kick him. Anne, a convent dropout, who loves Gertrude and is loved by Gertrude, also loves Peter with nunnish devotion and the same kind of reticence. Ned Openshaw and Manfred, both of whom love Anne, don't declare themselves either. The silent and scrupulous suffering of these characters is much admired by their creator and, by implication, their Creator. Mrs. Veronica Mount, however, has no qualms about declaring her love for Manfred, but then she is neither a soldier nor a nun.
She is, in fact, a character lifted from T.S. Eliot's play, ''The Cocktail Party,'' where she goes by the name of Julia Shuttlethwaite. Both Julia and Mrs. Mount are widowed busybodies, comic versions of St. Mary the Intercessor. On the whole, I would say that Iris Murdoch's character has the cuter name. But I might be wrong.
Because of the mostly well-meant meddling of their friends, Tim and Gertrude are kept apart, until Iris Murdoch decided that the novel had gone on long enough. Peter in his soldierly way settles for the role of intimate family retainer. He is also cheered by the announcement that the new Pope is a Pole. Anne goes off to help a group of religious do-gooders in America. Daisy goes off to join a female commune, also in America, which in this novel is a symbol. These two women, you see, are nuns and soldiers. We are supposed to hope that some day, somehow, somewhere, they will meet again.
There are lots of symbols in this novel. There are symbolic rocks, rugs, birds, an orchestra of china monkeys, a patch of cliff that looks like ''a head wearing a crown,'' its brow creepy with vines and its cheeks weepy from a hidden spring, things like that. When standing there before that face, even Tim feels ''full of grace.''
My favorite symbol is that of the dog. There's a dead one in the fast-rushing canal the first time Tim nearly drowns in it and a live one the second time, much later in the novel, when Tim and dog are swept through a symbolic tunnel and deposited miraculously on a stony beach. These anointings immediately precede dramatic changes in Tim's spiritual state. The dead dog and the live one signify the disappearance and return of divinity because of what ''dog'' spells backward. In case by this time you have begun to skip, there is another dog, named Barkiss, that disappears at the beginning of the novel and returns at the end, signifying the same thing. The absence and return (from America) of a mysterious and all-knowing character named Balintoy signify the same thing too, just to make sure. These dogs are lifted from the Proteus episode of James Joyce's ''Ulysses.''
Speaking of Joyce, I should mention the prose of ''Nuns and Soldiers.'' Mostly it is nondescript. But when it dwells on the characters' transports of silent suffering or loquacious rapture (''He wanted to cry aloud and fall down and embrace her knees and kiss her feet''), when it dwells on the costumes of the women, then the prose is like that in the Nausikaa episode of ''Ulysses,'' but without the irony. Joyce himself, in a letter, described it as a ''a namby-pamby jammy marmalady drawersy ... style with effects of incense, mariolatry, masturbation, stewed cockles. ...'' Iris Murdoch's style is more genteel, however: stewed prunes instead of cockles.
I do not mean to imply that Iris Murdoch is a cynical exploiter of high-toned old Christian women, of all four sexes. Writing this bad cannot be faked; more likely it gushes straight from the unrelieved sincerity of an author who needs mostly to deceive herself. A (rhetorical) question of Anne's, I take it, puts into words the conscious informing sentiment of these novels: ''Can anyone who has had it really give up the concept of God? The craving for God, once fully established, is perhaps incurable.'' No doubt, but my own feeling is that sex this far sublimated is not more than the thing itself, but less. I much prefer to take my erotic fantasies raw. They are more nutritious that way.
George Stade is the author of ''Confessions of a Lady-Killer'' and teaches English at Columbia.
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Greet God,
I write you, because you must help me. I have seen you Space Shuttle in the television. In color. And so came me to the idea to make holidays in the world-room. Alone. Without my crazy wife.
I am the Kraxelhuber. The King of Bavaria was my clock-clock grandfather. I stand on a very bad foot with my wife. Always she shouts with me. She has a shrill voice like a circle saw. She lets no good hair at me. She says I am a Schlapp-Tail. She wants that I become Buergermaster. But I want not be Buergermaster. I have nothing at the hat with the political shit. I want my Ruah!
And so I want make holidays on the moon. Without my bad half. But I take my dog with me. He is a boxer. His name is Sausagel. So I want to book a flight in your next Space Shuttle. But please give me not a window-place. I would kotz you the rocket full, because I am not swindle-free. And no standing-place please...
And please do not tell my wife that I want go alone. She has a big Schrot-Gun. She would make a sieve from my ass. I need not much comfort. A nice double-room with bath and kloo and heating. And windows with look to the earth. So I can look through my farglass and see my wife working on the potatoe field.
And I and my dog laugh us a branch (haehae), We will kringel ourself before laughing (hoehoehoehoe)!
Is what loose on the moon? I need warm wheater and I hope the sun shines every day. This is very good for my frost-boils.
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A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
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How is it that the members of a species as greedy, quarrelsome, egoistic and deceitful as ours still manage to live together in societies sufficiently harmonious and orderly not to be constantly breaking apart? Mid-20th-century sociologists used to call it 'the problem of order', which many of them saw as constituting the raison d'être for the academic discipline of sociology. But they didn't have much success in solving it. The 'structural-functionalists', who stressed the normative and integrative aspects of human social organisation, were answered by the 'conflict theorists', who stressed the constant struggles between incompatible ideological and material interests. Politics came into it too, as sociologists for whom the US was the showpiece of enlightened liberal democracy clashed with others for whom it exemplified unbridled competition, entrenched racism and the systematic exploitation by the rich of the poor.


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"You are meeting people face to face, hearing their stories, experiencing a chant together," said the Rev. Steve Harms, pastor of Peace Lutheran Church on Camino Tassajara in Danville. "They don't often get to experience what they will experience here."
The festival is a chance for people to talk to each other, perhaps inquiring about another's religion or maybe just asking simple questions such as where they live and what school their children attend.
"Basic kinds of connection are made," said Harms. "You begin to see that the other is not so strange. You start to appreciate the gifts they've got to offer."
For the last three years at the Interfaith Festival, people have made connections, he said. "It's a whole other thing to chant with the Sikhs - what that means inside of your body - instead of reading a book."
Harms recalls talking to Rabbi Dan Goldblatt several years ago about starting the festival.
"There was this marvelous configuration on the calendar - Ramadan, Rosh Hoshana - all those things fell on the same Sabbath weekend," Harms said. "The energy this has created is, frankly, very unique."
Harms and Goldblatt are both active members of Interfaith - San Ramon Valley, which hosts a thanksgiving celebration each November as well as peace vigils, social action for affordable housing, educational events and other gatherings.
"There are other places on the globe where people of various religions have overlapped but aren't many where they have lived together with a desire to understand each other," said Harms.
He noted that although some in the United States may consider themselves interfaith, how and where it gets expressed can be random, depending on opportunity.
"Lots of people like the idea of interfaith - yeah, we should all get along. But most often it comes down to several Christian congregations and the local rabbi," he said.
The first Interfaith Festival for Families at Peace Lutheran drew about 150 people, Harms recalled, and last year had grown to 300-400.
"There are dialog panels, dancing, chants, the Sufi Dances of Universal Peace. The Sons and Daughters of Orpheus have an incredible drumming crew ... The MA Center on Crow Canyon Road will be doing chanting," he said.
"I wouldn't miss this for the world," said Goldblatt, spiritual leader of Beth Chaim Congregation. "This is a great day - a dream world we all want to live in."
For the past three years, groups have had informational booths and food tables. Something new this year will be making mandalas for the center portion of the Peace Lutheran interfaith mosaic, which was purposely left open for the mandalas to change according to celebrations.
"There will be a healing mandala, and the Sufis are working on a winged heart," said Harms. "We are drawing together young people from various communities to make a youth mandala."
Peace Lutheran is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
"We have found it nothing but enriching to explore faith questions with leaders from other congregations," said Harms. "It sharpens our perspective ... at no time has it been threatening."
"There's a lot at stake," he said. "Exploration of understanding who we are together in this life on this planet is one of the key critical questions of our time. By our unwillingness to understand who 'they' are, we will by default eliminate them, they don't matter."
"You can't hate someone as easily when you know their name," he added.
"We want to stand up and affirm that people of faith bring meaning and purpose into our lives," said Goldblatt, "especially at this time when religion is seen as a source of divisiveness in the world.
"I think there's a common well of the sacred," he continued. "When archeologists start a dig they often find, on a hill, the remains of a church and as they dig down the different strata they find the remains of a mosque, a synagogue. There is a sense of where the sacred is that transcends individual faith traditions."
"Talking with people and being together with others is always a learning experience," he said. "There are different kinds of learning - this is about wisdom of the heart."
Goldblatt compares faiths to different organs: Each is vital for the body to be healthy and whole.
The event begins at 2 p.m. with Rabbi Goldblatt blowing the Shofar. A blessing of the animals takes place during the first hour.
"We come from different places of truth. We honor and educate ourselves and come together, share our own spiritual truth, our own histories," said Goldblatt. "We come together into the universal appreciation of people who struggle with meaning. We have panel discussions and people who share different perspectives. It's a great opportunity to practice compassionate listening, to celebrate the joy of being in the presence of others who come from different backgrounds and faith communities."
There is also a ceremony to call the festival of sharing to an end.
"Everyone leaves with a smile on their face," Goldblatt said. "It's such a joyous day."
Holy Convergence: An Interfaith Festival for Families
What: A celebration of Ramadan (Islam); The Feast of St. Francis (Christian); High Holy Days (Jewish); Divali and Gandhi's Birthday (Hindu); Indigenous People's Day; In Love with Life Season (Buddhist and Bahai); World Communion Sunday (Protestant Christian); Sikh Guru Gadhee
When: 2-5:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 28
Where: Peace Lutheran Church, 3201 Camino Tassajara Road, Danville
Information: www.peacejourney.org
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"It is the ultimate act of betrayal," former premier Kristina Keneally told a corruption inquiry.
That was her damning assessment of her former factional ally Joe Tripodi's involvement in a dirty tricks campaign against their Labor colleague Jodi McKay.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption has heard that Mr Tripodi orchestrated an anonymous leaflet-drop which made damaging claims against the then Newcastle Labor MP days before the 2011 state election.
"Goodness, no," Mrs Keneally said on Monday when asked if she was aware at the time of Mr Tripodi's involvement in the campaign.
"What would have been your response as premier if you'd heard that?" junior counsel assisting the inquiry, Greg O'Mahoney, asked.
"I'm not entirely sure the language I would have used should be repeated in this room," Mrs Keneally said.
"It is the ultimate act of betrayal as a member of the Australian Labor Party to campaign against or work against the endorsed member, the endorsed candidate. It just is unthinkable."
It was an all-star lineup of Labor witnesses on Monday as the ICAC probed allegations that Mr Tripodi and the then NSW treasurer Eric Roozendaal "quite improperly took steps directly to benefit Buildev", a company part-owned by embattled coal mogul Nathan Tinkler.
The company, which funded the leaflet campaign against Ms McKay, was pushing for a coal terminal in the Newcastle suburb of Mayfield. The project was fiercely opposed by Ms McKay and was contrary to government policy.
Mr Roozendaal said it was Mr Tripodi who was "advocating" for Mr Tinkler's proposal.
Mr Roozendaal's former adviser, economist Sam Crosby, has given evidence that the coal loader was a "dog of a project" and "truly woeful" but he could not dampen the then treasurer's enthusiasm for it.
"Like Lazarus, this thing just kept climbing back up out of the ground," Mr Crosby has said.
"The treasurer kept asking me to look at it again."
Mr Roozendaal told the inquiry he regarded a project which was a rival to the coal loader as a "marginal project at best".
Asked who was the source of that opinion, he said it was Mr Tinkler's company, Buildev.
Mr Roozendaal, who will return to the witness box on Tuesday, was asked in the final minutes of the hearing if either he or anyone else had "erased" his emails relating to the coal loader proposal.
"I don't recall giving any instructions," he replied.
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- Even though the current debt-to-equity ratio is 1.24, it is still below the industry average, suggesting that this level of debt is acceptable within the Airlines industry. Despite the fact that RYAAY's debt-to-equity ratio is mixed in its results, the company's quick ratio of 1.64 is high and demonstrates strong liquidity.
- Net operating cash flow has increased to $820.42 million or 38.50% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite an increase in cash flow, RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC's average is still marginally south of the industry average growth rate of 42.10%.
- RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC increased its bottom line by earning $1.78 versus $1.39 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($2.12 versus $1.78).
- RYAAY's very impressive revenue growth greatly exceeded the industry average of 39.2%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues leaped by 76.6%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
NEW YORK ( TheStreet Ratings) -- Every trading day TheStreet Ratings' stock model reviews the investment ratings on around 4,900 U.S. traded stocks for potential upgrades or downgrades based on the latest available financial results and trading activity. TheStreet Ratings released rating changes on 68 U.S. common stocks for week ending June 17, 2011. 26 stocks were upgraded and 42 stocks were downgraded by our stock model.
Rating Change #10 Ryanair Holdings ( RYAAY) has been upgraded by TheStreet Ratings from hold to buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, good cash flow from operations and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins. Highlights from the ratings report include: