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Help Tikkun Place a New York Times Ad Against Striking Iran
Would you please help us put an ad in the New York Times, Washington Post (or maybe also Ha'aretz and Yediot in Israel, and other media, depending on how much money we can raise) to put public pressure on President Obama to NOT agree to overtly or covertly approve an Israeli preemptive strike on sites where Iran is developing its nuclear capacities?
Click HERE to see the ad and hopefully make a donation.
As of now, Iran does not have those capacities, and though Israeli leaders are arguing that they must strike now before it becomes impossible to block the development of nuclear weapons, U.S. intelligence sources said on Friday, Feb. 24th, that Iran had not made any decision to go forward with developing nuclear weapons. You can view a sample version of the ad below(though when it is layed out beautifully on a full page in the NY Times and Washington Post, it will not look as wordy as it looks now, and there will be room for the names of some who have signed and donated to it). These ads are expensive, but they've been effective for the political Right and we need to help make more visible the peace-oriented majority of Americans who don't support another war. We need to move quickly because high-level decisions on this are being made soon.
A "preemptive strike" on Iran could easily lead to a new war in which the U.S. felt it had to defend Israel from Iranian retaliations, or in which Iran attacked U.S. interests in retaliation (knowing that Israel would not go through with an attack unless it had gotten at least covert assurances from the Obama Administration that it would provide protection for Israel, even if publicly it denied ever giving such assurances). The pressure from AIPAC (at whose convention next week Obama, Netanyahu, and Gingrich have all agreed to speak, and don't be surprised if they also invite Santorum), from Christian Zionists, and from the Republican party to give Israel blanket assurances for full backing could easily push Obama and the vast majority of Democrats in Congress toward protecting themselves against being called "weak and indecisive on national defense." The way they might do that is to rally around an attack on Iran. Just as Congressional Democrats were unwilling to stand up against the Patriot Act, against the Bush-sponsored war in Iraq or the Obama escalation of the war in Afghanistan, so they may again capitulate to the call to "be tough."
As much as we detest the oppressive and dictatorial regime of the mullahs in Iran, as much as we want it to be replaced by a democratic and human rights-respecting regime, we know that the only way that can happen is through an uprising of the people of Iran. An assault by Israel backed by the U.S. (overtly or covertly) will only strengthen the horrific gangsters who have misused the language of Islam to justify their oppressive regime, twisting the doctrines of Islam away from their fundamentally decent and peace-loving essence to manifest a hateful and repressive side. But we don't believe this terrible regime can be overthrown by Israel or the U.S., and we do believe that a first strike or so-called "preemptive strike" is a violation of international law, a war crime, and is both immoral and self-destructive (because it will push Iranians of all stripes into having to support the reactionary mullahs who will be hailed as the embodiment of the nationalist efforts to survive foreign assaults). We hope someday to see those mullahs brought to trial before an international court of justice, along with the leaders of many other countries who have engaged in human rights violations, but another war, started by Israel or the U.S., will make this less rather than more likely. So lets stop this before it starts. And it could start very soon.
The hawks will be dominating the media in the next few weeks as Netanyahu arrives in the U.S., AIPAC has its national convention, and Republican candidates for the presidency will be attacking Democrats and Obama for being "too soft" or even charging them with being "pro the Iranian government"! We need you to donate to help us put an ad in the NY Times, Washington Post and other media (on-line places like Huffington Post and Salon and– you tell us) to oppose this possible attack on Iran and offset the appearance of the American people passively going along with the Right and the spineless as they lead us into yet another war. You probably could have written it better, but at this point if you agree with the bottom line of "No war and no attack on Iran" please, please sign it and donate to make it possible. There may be parts of it you disagree with, which is why each part says "some of us" so that you are not committed to agreeing with every part of it, but only to saying "No War and No Attack on Iran."
This campaign will cost at least $100,000. We can only do it if you believe it's worth it to you to donate more than you can affordto help us put pressure to not go along with this crazy plan. Imagine how much we would have saved as a society (many trillions of dollars that could have been used to help alleviate poverty, suffering, and fund medical research and housing and environmental advances) had we not gone to war with Iraq. Believe it or not, this is going to be a much worse war, and though Obama may think he is avoiding it, unless he uses his power to let Israel know that the US will stand publicly agaiinst the attack and refuse to get involved in a war with Iran, an attack on Iran has the potential of letting loose a war that will be far more likely to escalate wildly beyond US intentions once it is started.
So what we need from you is $1,000 or $500 or $300, and unless you tell us otherwise, we'll list your name on the ad (space allowing) as one of several hundred signatories if you can give that much. And we'll be happy to get whatever you can give, even if it's only $25, though we may not have space in the ad to list all the donors who give less than $300 (though we will list your name online unless you ask us not to do so). We have to act quickly if we are going to be able to have the money to publish this ad before final decisions are made to strike Iran. So please go towww.tikkun.org/iran, where you can donate to make this ad possible.
I know you share with me a desire for a world of peace. Later we may need to be involved in demonstrations or even non-violent civil disobedience, but right now all you need to do is to sign and donate to the ad (and if you don't want to have your name published, there's an option you can click when signing so that your name will not be made public). So please give generously even if it financially hurts. We have to stand together for our belief in a world of peace, and the only path to peace is a path of peace. Our means must be consistent with our ends. Stand with me on this one, please!


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Tokyo born artist Ray Morimura creates woodblock and linocut prints that manage to feel at once traditional and modern.
His crisp, sharp edges of color delineate forms that often repeat or combine to form patterns, at times varying in size to suggest perspective and distance.
Morimura studied painting at Tokyo Gakugel University. He originally worked in abstraction but, inspired by the prints of Shigeru Hatsuyama and Sumio Kawakami, he took up the study of woodplock prints.
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When you receive an inheritance, it is important to figure out what will you do with that money. If you do not plan properly on how to spend that money, it will slip out of your hand within no time. If you have already got the cash, or you are about to inherit the money, here are some five tips for using it properly.
Don't Rush Your Decision
People generally do not allow the money for a cooling-off period, after receiving the cash. This is one of the worst mistakes that people usually do. They are always in a hurry of spending the money without thinking twice. You can save the money either in a money market account or savings for at least two months in order to plan your options. You can also put the money into a short-term deposit for saving it, because you have to pay penalty if you withdraw it before time.
Assess Where You Are
If you analyse your present financial situation, you can get an idea about your future move. You can plan to start a college fund for your children, add the money to your retirement savings or keep it as an emergency fund. Make a goal in life, so that you can achieve it with the help of your inheritance.
Be Realistic About Your Inheritance
A sudden chunk of money will you lead to towards a changed lifestyle. The things like a new car or a luxury vacation that you could not afford before will now seem to be very tempting. You have to be careful to control your temptation and save your money for future needs.
Establish Boundaries
It is evident that when you receive an inheritance, many people come with a try to have a share in the money. Bank or financial sales people may call you so that you invest your money in their products. You may also be asked to make a huge donation by any charitable organisation. So, it is very important to set boundaries and prepare yourself for saying no to the people.
Be Proactive
You may need some professional help to figure out how to save your inheritance. It is absolutely fine to hire a financial advisor, but do not make your decision solely as per his guidance. In the end, it will be you who will take the final decision. Do some research and set your goals before taking professional's help.
Thus, though an inheritance is like a blessing to you, but along with it comes responsibility. Plan properly to make sure that your money lasts for a longer time.


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SAS Bucks the Trade Show Trend
Trade shows have been dying for many years to the point that they have been all but totally supplanted by vendor sponsored conferences. The vendors have become adept at the logistics of hosting large numbers of people for upwards of a week in cities like San Francisco, Orlando, Chicago and Las Vegas to name a few. Along with the care and feeding of masses of customers comes the messaging and at this point the vendor show differs from the conventional trade show considerably.
Where the trade show has been a great place to learn about new products and the reasons for their existence, the vendor conference has increasingly become a place where the vendors saturate their customers with marketing messages. Some learning may go on too but very often it involves learning how to use a vendor's products. So it was a pleasure this week to encounter the SAS Premier Business Leadership Series (PBLS) in Las Vegas.
PBLS is certainly a vendor show complete with partner exhibit floor, keynotes and breakout sessions but there are the similarity ends. Unlike most vendor and conventional trade shows, the SAS event was by invitation and rather than devolving into a standard vendor performance, the SAS show's explicit mission was to provoke thinking and idea exchange.
The conference could have easily been a long advertisement for SAS but instead it delved into a discussion of global economic trends and user driven breakouts that explicitly showed how analytics is making a difference in business performance in many vertical markets. There were presentations and discussions from
- Retailers (Macy's, Staples, Chico's Best Buy and others),
- Insurance and financial services (Transamerica Life and Protection, Chartis Insurance, UBS Financial, PNC Bank, Premier Bankcard, GE Corporate Treasury)
- Entertainment and hospitality (Harrah's Entertainment),
- Public sector (LA County, Canada Post),
- Utilities (Oklahoma Gas and Electric, Northeast Utilities),
- Telcos (AT&T, T-Mobile, Research in Motion)
and too many more to list.
It was refreshing to hear from so many people who believe, like me that there is so much data generated in business today that old ways of using gut instinct are going by the boards and that analytics may be the only way to get an appreciation for what the customer thinks en mass. And the meeting was a clear indication that global businesses increasingly "get it" when it comes to collecting huge amounts of customer data through transactions as well as through social media.
Nuggets from some memorable ideas and interviews
Jim Goodnight, CEO and Founder of SAS said that education is one of the most important issues facing both our industry and country. His specific interest is in analytics, of course, but he makes a strong case for educating kids on using information derived from all the data we collect to make better, informed, decisions. According to Goodnight, SAS is teaching college professors to teach analytics-based decision-making and has sponsored an analytics major at NC State, which is oversubscribed by nearly four fold.
Jim Davis, CMO and wearer of many other hats at SAS, told me that in the last hundred years retailers had "…made buying decisions on gut instinct but that's not longer possible because there is so much to know. In a down economy the mindset [of retailers] really changed and using analytics for assortment planning, merchandise planning and other key functions has made the difference between making a small profit and going out of business."
No wonder then that analytics is enjoying a boom.
Gary King, CIO of Chico's, White house/Black Market and Soma Intimates told me that analytics "Helps us maintain customer loyalty in a down economy."
And finally, Eric Williams, CIO of Catalina Marketing, the company that prints your coupons at the grocery store told me, "In this industry things move so rapidly today. We used to say you don't have to be first to get involved in a new technology, but today you need to be first or second."
No doubt the influx of huge amounts of data from digital and social media helps to propel the demand for analytics and this sample only addresses a few retail examples.
But retail is not the only area where analytics has taken on new significance. The biggest market for SAS is in financial services, banking and insurance. Even Canada Post uses it. The thing that ties it all together is using information derived from the torrent of digital data to make better decisions—choices that make or save companies money.
Decisions are driven by some amount of deliberation and that's where analytics come in and why coming together to think this week in Las Vegas was so important to the more than 600 mid- and senior-level executives who attended. It was an eye-opener and I wish you could have been there.
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This post is quite self-indulgent, and I don't really expect it to be of any interest to anyone. I was writing a post about a related topic and this wound up being a lengthy digression, so I took it out to use as a stand-alone post.
In the aforementioned post, which I may or may not ever get around to publishing, I offer up definitions for three generations of sabermetric practitioners and disciples (for lack of a better word). Pioneers (folks like Pete Palmer and Bill James just to name a couple), second wave (those who were brought into sabermetrics through the work of the pioneers), and the internet generation. Which group one falls into (to the extent that such classifications are valid and worthwhile, which is questionable) is not so much a question of age but of when his interest in sabermetrics was germinated.
I fall right on the bubble between the second wave and internet generation, and in case I ever do publish that post, you might want to understand where I am coming from based on my own experiences.
I was not much of a baseball fan as a kid (nine years old and under). I never played any sport at any level above friendly neighborhood games (no athletic ability--see, I meet the stereotype for a stat nerd already), and we mostly played football and basketball at that age. My general impression of baseball was that it was boring. I remember my dad watching the World Series one time, and I couldn't sit there and watch it for more than one or two innings despite being able to watch entire football games contentedly.
The first major league game I attended was in 1993; it was the fourth-last game played at old Municipal Stadium, Brewers v. Indians. The Indians won 6-4, but I couldn't have told you that if I hadn't looked it up on Retrosheet. It was a chilly fall Sunday, and the Browns were playing in Indianapolis, and a lot of the people there were listening to the game on the radio, and there was a guy with a little portable TV that people were huddled around. The Browns lost--that much I remember. This experience did nothing to lure me into baseball fandom. Looking at the box score, I feel remorseful about this, as a young Jim Thome went deep and Bill Wertz pitched in relief for the Indians, something that would make me incredibly excited were it to happen today.
The Opening Day game at Jacobs Field in 1994, despite the fact that I only experienced it through the radio, made me a baseball fan. By that time I was listening to sports talk radio, mostly to here football talk, but the opening of the Jake and the cautious optimism surrounding the Indians' 1994 campaign was a popular topic. And I certainly had a sense of history, so when I got home from school I listened to the end of the game, which the Indians won in extra innings after Randy Johnson had taken a no-no fairly deep into the game. That alone got me hooked, but it might not have stuck had the Indians not continued to play well. Fortunately, they did, and by the time summer came around I was a born-again baseball nut. Even the strike did nothing to deter me, and I the next spring I was happily listening to Joe Slusarski, Joe Biasucci, Eric Yelding, and the other Indian replacement players on the radio.
To really get into sabermetrics, you need to possess two traits. First and foremost is a deep interest in baseball, but second is the desire to quantify things and to understand them. I may have been woefully lacking in the first department, but I already possessed the latter trait. As long as I can remember I was always interested in learning facts and reading. My favorite book when I was in the second grade was the World Almanac. When I was in kindergarten or first grade, I kept notecards with data about the planets on them--distance from the sun, length of day and year, diameter, etc.--even though I was obviously too young to really understand what it meant.
So it was only natural that when I did catch the baseball spark, it was only a matter of time until I was interested in records and statistics. And since I was predisposed to like that sort of thing, the wealth of records and statistics in baseball only strengthened my interest in the game. I did take a short detour into the world of baseball cards, but that only lasted through the spring of 1995, and I was always reading the numbers on the back.
By 1995, I was filling up sheets and sheets of notebook paper with lists of the World Series winners, home run leaders, team nickname histories--basically, all of the information that you get in an average sports almanac. Fortunately, I was aware of two offensive stats called On Base Average and Slugging Average, and wanted to include lists of those in my folders, and to collect the lifetime stats for all of the great players.
The yearly SLG leaders were easy enough to find, but lifetime stats and OBA leaders were harder to find in conventional sources. I needed a specialized reference, a baseball encyclopedia, to answer my questions. And it just so happened that I had an older friend in the neighborhood who had a copy of Total Baseball II, and he leant it to me.
So I got the data I needed, but I also saw a whole world of new categories, and naturally I wanted to understand those. So I read the glossary, and when I saw The Hidden Game of Baseball at the library, I checked it out. And from there, it was pretty much over. I was into sabermetrics. Bill James followed and that was all she wrote, by the summer of 1996.
Based on my generational definitions, that account falls solidly as second wave. However, while we didn't have the internet in our house yet, I had friends who did. When school started in the fall, I told one of my friends who was also a baseball fan about sabermetrics, and he googled it (actually, he didn't, as Google didn't exist yet), and printed out some stuff for me, mostly from Keith Woolner's site (which was not yet called Stathead.com--it was still called Baseball Engineering). Anyway, I distinctly remember the article on Marginal Lineup Value being one of the things he gave me.
So while I came to sabermetrics primarily through the work of the pioneers, and not the internet (which is my definition of second wave, more or less), it was only a short matter of time until I was getting sabermetric content from the internet. Furthermore, I had only been a baseball fan for about a year and a half before I got into sabermetrics. That means I had very little time to be indoctrinated into the conventional wisdom and the conventional statistics, and I was very open to persuasion by sabermetric arguments as they didn't challenge any long-held beliefs. That is a trait that I generally associate with the internet generation of sabermetric devotees.
If I pride myself on anything about my formative sabermetric experience, it's that I didn't get sucked into Bill James' anti-linear weights stance expressed in the Historical Baseball Abstract. I always kept an open mind between the two positions and tried to see how they could be reconciled (by some rudimentary "+1"-type analysis of Runs Created). It wasn't until much later that I fully understood the full range of benefits of linear weights, but at least I never reflexively rejected them. Perhaps it was fortunate that I read The Hidden Game before I read the Historical Abstract.
Anyway, if I ever get around to publishing that post, it is somewhat critical of certain elements of the internet generation while showing a bit of a bias towards pioneers and second wavers. Hopefully, this account admitting my own biases and my straddling of the fence between the second wave and internet generation will enable my comments to be taken in the constructive nature in which they are intended, rather than viewed as self-aggrandizing.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
My Personal Path to Sabermetrics
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I'm part of the James Gang. I had already been following baseball since 1975 and understood the trad stats; knew how to calculate ERA and batting average. I was in high school when the Abstracts were being published and found the 1985 one in a local department store. So I dug Runs Created (I liked how it was on the same scale as RBI and Runs Scored) and Range Factor. But more importantly, the HBA got me into the history of the game moreso than I had been before. I'm more of a baseball history buff than a sabermetrician. Never really figured out how to manipulate databases. Had this still been the pencil and paper era, I might be alright, but I'm at a competitive disadvanatage when it comes to doing anything that's derived from the Lahman database and its descendants.


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Land trust buys Charron easement
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
NEW HAVEN — The Champlain Valley Greenbelt Alliance (CVGA) considers the Charron family farm in New Haven "one of the most striking settings" on the stretch of Route 7 between Middlebury and Shelburne. Thanks to the Vermont Land Trust's recent purchase of development rights on a large acreage along that strip, the land will continue to be farmed for a long time.
With partial funding from the CVGA, the Vermont Land Trust in May bought a conservation easement on 198.5 acres of the Charron farm.
"It is important to have some open land and I hate to see good farmland growing houses," said Lee Charron, who has farmed the New Haven property with his wife, Brenda, since 1977.
The VLT did not buy the land itself. Rather, it purchased a conservation easement. As long as the land trust holds the development rights to the land, it cannot be used for anything but farming.
"The Charrons are very committed to farming," said Al Karnatz, co-director of the VLT in the region. "They've been around for a long time and hope to see it stay a farm after they're gone."
Lee and Brenda Charron own about 125 head of Holsteins. Until now their land was not large enough to grow enough crops to feed all their cows, so they had to rent land from a neighbor. But Karnatz said this sale made it possible for them to buy enough land for their entire operation.
"This deal also gave us an opportunity to buy more land, which helps secure our future in the dairy business," Lee Charron said.
Karnatz felt that because of the location of this land — which is east of Route 7 north of the intersection with Lime Kiln Road — this deal would help maintain a good environment for farms in the area. "It's one of our most promising pieces because of its location on Route 7," he said. "Our hope is that we can protect enough critical blocks of farmland to keep farming viable."
The CVGA is a Shelburne-based organization devoted to creating "greenbelts of open space along major road corridors" to conserve Vermont's agricultural and natural resources. Its initial focus was on the Middlebury-Shelburne stretch of Route 7.
"We have identified that whole stretch of the Route 7 corridor as very scenic," said Kate Lampton, executive director of the CVGA. "The Charron property was one where we were very fortunate to have (a deal) happen."
The negotiations took almost three years from start to finish. "It was a long, multi-year process and they kept with it," Karnatz said. "In the end, they are leaving a lasting legacy to Vermont and for future generations."
The VLT is a nonprofit organization devoted to preserving as much of Vermont's wild or agricultural land as possible. They generally work by buying easements, in which landowners agree to limit development on productive farmland and forestland for a price, so those landowners can afford to use it as they have been.
Charron said that business has been good overall, but selling the easement will provide breathing room against problems like the bad weather that has plagued farmers this year.
Charron said that the deal will allow him to concentrate on day-to-day operations of his farm, and right now that is more important than ever, given the extremely wet spring.
"You have to make hay while the sun shines, this year even more than usual," he joked.
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Maddon pleased with Rays' growing popularity
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- When Joe Maddon took the managerial reins prior to the 2006 season, he expressed his desire to make the Rays a destination spot where other players would want to play.
Given what many of the new players have expressed about why they decided to join the Rays, Tampa Bay has indeed become a destination spot. Maddon's chest seemed to swell when asked about that fact.
"That's the part of the beauty about what's going on here right now," Maddon said. "We lost some really pertinent people. But the guys coming in really want to be here. And there's others that want to be here, too.
"And that's really complimentary. But the guys that are here and want to be here, it's almost like they've accepted the program before they even know what it is. It's such an easy sell to them, 'this is what we do and why we do it.' OK, I like it, let's talk about it some more. It's kind of fascinating that a lot of really good players see us as a desirable place to be. That's probably the highest compliment we can receive as a group."


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The new cast of "Dancing With the Stars" has been revealed.
ABC says the 13th season of the hit show will feature a mix of actors, athletes and TV personalities. Set to tango and quickstep with professional dance partners will be basketball star Ron Artest; World Cup soccer player Hope Solo; reality stars Robert Kardashian, Kristin Cavallari and Chaz Bono; TV personalities Nancy Grace, Carson Kressley and Ricki Lake; singer-actress Chynna Phillips; actors David Arquette and J.R. Martinez; and Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis, who may be better known in the United States for being George Clooney's ex-girlfriend.
Ryan O'Neal was set to join the cast, but his publicist said the actor had not yet fully recovered from recent knee-replacement surgery.
The new cast members will perform their first dance routines on the season premiere on Sept. 19. The first celebrity contestant will be eliminated on Sept. 20.
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Iraq is slipping back into civil war, and Sheik Zaydan Aljabiri, one of the political leaders of the Sunni insurgent group known as the Tribal Revolutionaries, seems confident that his side is winning.
"We are three kilometers from Baghdad airport! We are 20 kilometers from the Green Zone!" Zaydan proclaims in an interview here. Dressed in a princely gold robe and red kaffiyeh, he conveys the tribal authority of one of the leading sheiks of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province.
With Iraqi parliamentary elections scheduled for Wednesday, war has come back with a vengeance to that shattered nation. But this time, there's no U.S. military around to broker a truce. The last U.S. troops left three years ago, and war-weary Americans would gag at the thought of returning to such a pitiless battlefield.
But make no mistake: Brutal sectarian war has come again to Iraq, and many say it's as bad as in the dark days of 2007. "In some ways, it's almost scarier today," says a Pentagon official who follows Iraq closely. The Iraqi military isn't strong enough to fend off the Sunni insurgents, so Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is relying increasingly on Iranian-trained Shiite militias.
As the Sunni fighters push toward Baghdad, they are turning to extremists for help, some of them linked with the al-Qaeda affiliate often known by its Arabic acronym, pronounced "Daash." Zaydan insists that his 15,000 fighters don't have extremist support, but other Iraqis say that the jihadists have been on the front lines, especially in Fallujah, at the gates of Baghdad.
"It's only going to get worse," warns Maj. Gen. Ali Shukri, a retired Jordanian commander who was the late King Hussein's special adviser on Iraqi tribes. He notes that many Sunni tribal leaders have never given up the atavistic dream that one expressed to him in 2005, after the United States had toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein and transferred power to a Shiite-led government: "Iraq has always been ruled by Sunnis, and it will be again."
A vivid snapshot of the battle raging in Anbar province comes from Jalal al-Gaood, who's running for parliament in Wednesday's election. I spoke with him by phone Thursday while he was campaigning near Ramadi. He says that in town after town, extremists seize government buildings, triggering bombing reprisals and tank assaults by Iraqi government forces that drive residents away.
Gaood cites the example of a town called Albu Ali Jassim, west of Ramadi along the Euphrates River. "In the last week, violent extremists rampaged the police building and pushed people out," he explains. "The Iraqi military then began bombing and shelling the village, and the whole tribe moved out, 250 families." Because they're refugees now, these Sunnis from Albu Ali Jassim probably won't vote on Wednesday, which Gaood thinks is precisely what Maliki wants.
"Everyone tells me they've never seen what's happening on the ground now," says Gaood sorrowfully. "Hell has come to these villages and towns. It's far worse than before." On Thursday, says Gaood, Iraqi bombs destroyed the residence of Sheik Ali Hatem, the self-styled "emir" of the Tribal Revolutionaries. Gaood argues that Hatem's group should purge the extremists, but he notes they are "fierce fighters who are willing to take leadership against Maliki."
How did such catastrophic violence return to Iraq? That's really the saddest part of the story. The United States helped engineer Maliki's reelection as prime minister in 2010. But once the Americans had left, Maliki's government foolishly created a vacuum that allowed Sunni extremists to take root again in western Iraq after they had been crushed by the U.S.-backed tribal movement called the Sahwa, or "Awakening."
Zaydan's cousin, Sheik Sattar Abu Risha, was one of the Sahwa's founders. But when Maliki reneged on promises to keep paying the tribesmen, they turned elsewhere for support. Now, with Anbar in revolt, Maliki has tried to revive the Sahwa network, offering fighters as much $400 a month to back the government. But it's probably too late. "That ship has sailed," says the Pentagon expert.
Anbar is a battleground: Zaydan reports that when he drove recently from Ramadi to Amman, he saw scores of deserters from the Iraqi army. "We gave them Arab clothing, and they gave us their weapons," he says with a glint in his eye.
The Tribal Revolutionaries are ready to work with the United States to suppress al-Qaeda, Zaydan offers, but he warns: "Iraq is not now a state. It is led by gangs."
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Kyosho recently presented a new design for the Mini-z Moto Racer at the Shizuoka fair, as well as some related accesories. The motor cycle chassis will remain the same. The only thing that has changed is the design of the pilot and the design and shape of the fairing, fuel tank and motor tail piece.
In the case of the Ducati model, Kyosho also has the rights to produce replicas of the pilot and helmet. In this case it is Valentino Rossi. In this manner, unlike the first racer that appeared on the market, the Yamaha M1; both the pilot suit as well as the helmet, were exact replicas of those worn by Valentino.
Here you can see a front view of the Ducati design. The degree of detail on the fairings is more than acceptable. The fairing designs of the Ducati are, of course, different from those of the Yamaha M1, thus giving a very authentic look to the final product. With this in mind we would also like to mention that this isn´t the only fairing on which the design has been changed.
The central part of the fairing, that of the fuel tank and the mono tail piece, are also replicas of the Ducati world MotoGP.
In addition to this motor cycle model, Kyosho has offered some new spare parts and options for the Mini-z Moto Racer. Below you can find some images taken just recently at the Kysoho stand set up at the fair.
This is the image of the transparent fairing and of the fuel tank and the tail piece in white for future painting.
IT appears that this optional kit also comes with the pilot figure, also in white for future painting.
Swinging rear assembly set made of aluminium. This piece contains the cascade of gears that transmit the motor power to the rear wheel and is also responsible for the rear assebly suspension.
This is the inverted front fork. In addition to having a real-looking finish, it is much more robust and operates with greater precision than the original model. At the moment we are still not sure as to whether it operates with oil or friction grease.
We can see in this photo the front aluminium rims with a silver or black finish.
Given that they are made of aluminium, in addition to gaining more robustness and greater resistance to cracks, and fissures, they also provide greater sturdiness. In different scale motor bikes the front rim generally has an extra weight that helps to give the bike greater stability when it spins together with the rim.
Set of spare tires. At the moment we don´t now if Kyosho plans to launch tires of different hardness or compunds onto the market.
This is the steering arm used by the Mini-Z Motoracer. This part, located on the end of the arm of the servo, transfers the movement of the servo de the front fork, similar to the original model.
In this image you can see a pair of optional lateral crash bars for the motor cycle.
As you are well aware, this part is mounted on the two lateral sides of the fairing and their functin is to prevent the motor cycle from leaning execisvely. If the motor cycle leans too much the tip of these crash bars touches the ground and thus prevents the motorcylce from falling over. In the original part the cars bar had plastic ball in the tips. In this optional model the tip uses ball bearings instead.
This option could be very interesting for those who want to race this motor cycle on foam tracks such as the RCP Track.
In the Kyosho stand at the Shizuoka hobby show, Kyosho also presented its new line of car bodies. You can see the images below:
As a new feature, Kyosho presents us with this new paint design of the Ferrari Enzo, with a matt black finish. Also incorporated are some openings for air circulation in the rear section and a really outstanding spoiler. .
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GREG ALLEN, BYLINE: I'm Greg Allen in Sioux City.
At every stop in Iowa, former House speaker Newt Gingrich touts his experience. He calls himself a supply-side conservative who worked with Ronald Reagan in the '80s, and again as House speaker in the '90s, to revive the economy.
But he's not averse to a good photo op.
ERIKA JENSEN: OK. Oh, you got a little drips.
NEWT GINGRICH: I'm still dripping.
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ALLEN: At The Chocolate Season in Algona yesterday, owner Erika Jensen showed Gingrich and his wife Callista how to make hand-dipped chocolates. It gave him an opportunity to pick up a feud he's been having with Mitt Romney. Earlier in the week, after Gingrich failed to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, Romney compared his campaign to a well-known "I Love Lucy" episode.
GINGRICH: Governor Romney had a cute line yesterday, about my team resembling Lucy in the chocolate factory. And I just want to say, here I am in the chocolate factory.
ALLEN: Once again, Gingrich challenged Romney to a series of one-on-one debates, a challenge he acknowledged Romney was not likely to accept. After leading for a time in Iowa, Gingrich has been dropping in the polls, in large part because of attack ads run by opponents.
His campaign says they're not out of money. They announced a $500,000 ad buy for the closing week in Iowa. But the fact remains, that Gingrich has been outspent and is trying to regain his momentum one campaign event at a time.
But at campaign stops, sometimes unexpected things happen. Such as when a big question like the economy, becomes personal.
MICHELLE WILLIAMS: This is difficult, so bear with me. February 21st, the kids and I will be homeless.
ALLEN: Michelle Williams, a single mom with four kids asked Gingrich what he would do as president to help people like her. He said he'd start by repealing Dodd-Frank, a financial reform law that he says encourages banks to foreclose on delinquent mortgages. Williams said later, that wouldn't solve her problems, but she appreciated his answer and may even vote for him in next week's caucus.
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Suicide, laughter and the believed death of a communist leader. These were just some of my 10 favourite moments from my favourite games of 2010. (Spoilers)
We'll have favourites from the rest of the team throughout the week.
There are SPOILERS ahead so don't read it if you don't like SPOILERS.
Brian Crecente's favourite Gaming Moments of 2010
A Game To Talk About With My… Wife? (Angry Birds): My wife isn't just "not a gamer", she's the anti-gamer. She doesn't like talking about games, doesn't like playing games, has zero interest in games. Early in the year she took to mocking the sometimes obscene, often vocal outbursts I would direct at the pigs of Angry Birds. She mocked me so frequently that I gifted her the game on her iPhone and then sat back to watch her not only fall in love with the game, but become just as vocal, though maybe not as obscene, in her Angry Bird outbursts.
Dark Disney? (Disney Epic Mickey): I grew up watching the Wonderful World of Disney as a child on TV. I visited Disneyland, Disney World, and went on Disney Cruises over the course of my 40 years. But despite the love I have for Disney and its parks, I was delighted to see just how dark Warren Specter's take on Disney was when it came to the Wii. A smiling Clock Tower that crushes Small World children under its iron fists? Yes please! (Jump to the 3:20 mark)
An Ending Worthy of Halo's Start (Halo: Reach): There are a lot of wonderful things to be said about Halo: Reach. Bungie took everything good about that franchise and shaped it into a game almost completely free of fault. There are very few moments in the game when I felt it was dragging, there is no Flood, there are no absurd, collapsing driving levels. What there is, though, is an amazing climax, and an ending that is poignant and chilling, emotional if you buy into the story.
Finally, I Beat a Metal Gear Solid Game (Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker): I want to love Metal Gear Solid, honest I do. There is so much care put into the game, it has such an enormous and passionate following. People adore Snake in all of his forms. But I've never really been a fan. So I finally forced my own hand, making sure the review of the Playstation Portable game was assigned to me so that, under our own rules, I would need to finish it. And I did, but boy did it take awhile to do. Over the course of that journey I came to respect the notion that there could be an amazing Metal Gear game, but that this wasn't it. I also basked in the glow of completing a title virtually on my own, that Hideo Kojima himself said was meant to be played with friends.
Danger Close (Medal of Honor): Medal of Honor forever a game stuck in World War II finally got a chance to step from the shadows of history and deliver an experience dealing with modern warfare. There were some missteps, the game was light on content, especially multiplayer content, but the campaign was a powerful, intense experience. The game's intensity seems to come to a insane crescendo "Belly of the Beast".
The mission drops you into the boots of a member of the 1st Ranger Battalion leading an assault on the Taliban in the hills of Afghanistan. Everything about this level is intense, from the moment you take to the ground to the moment the air cavalry deliver a seat-of-your pants rescue. While that last heroic stand in a hillside crawling with Taliban is unforgettable, it's earlier in the mission that the game literally made me stop in my virtual steps. Laying down covering fire against a machine gun nest, a missile arcs into view and slams into the position. The ground shakes, dirt flies into the air and for a second everything is quiet, cloaked in a red-tinged cloud of debris and dirt. I stood and pushed my view to the sky in a slow circle, marveling at the shrouded world around me. (Jump to (9:20)
The Suicide Woods (Dante's Inferno): Dante's Inferno as video game does a sublime job of tackling the sort of issues most games run away from. The game delivers a look at a hell built on the morality of Christian ideals. It virtually preaches to gamers about the notion of sin and its consequences. Unfortunately, it was a meaningful game lost in the morass of legions of gamers whining about the mechanics and how much the game played like God of War. That means way too many people missed out on my most shocking moment of the game, the game's treatment of suicide. Not only does it stick to Dante's take on self-inflicted death (Suicides become trees in the Suicide Woods, entities made entirely of pain), but the game cleverly weaves the fiction into the mechanics, forcing hasty gamers to commit in-game suicide with one misstep. It's a powerful moment, the taking of one's own life, even if it's in a game.
A Visit To Cuba (Call of Duty: Black Ops): Yes, yes, you don't really kill Castro. You just think you do for a brief moment in Call of Duty: Black Ops. But by the time you realise he was a fake, the moment has already faded. So for that brief second, when the bullet pierces the head of a man who looks like Castro, he is Castro. And that second is shocking, doubly so to someone with family born in Cuba.
You Gotta Move It, Move It (Dance Central): I can't dance with a damn, but get enough liquor in me and I won't stop trying. But that's the thing, it's very rare for me to, of my own sober volition, get up and dance. Dance Central changes that the same way Rock Band made getting up on stage and pretending to jam in front of strangers OK. And even better, it makes my son want to get up in front of strangers and dance. Who knows, maybe I'll accidentally learn to really dance as a byproduct.
The Story (Alan Wake): As I sat on my couch watching the credits for Alan Wake slide up the screen of my television I thought, "Wow, this is it." For the first time in my life, I have experienced something that plays like a game but has the impact of a movie. The credits roll and I feel a deep sense of longing, the after effects of a being so absorbed in a story, the world of Alan Wake, that I was temporarily, emotionally displaced. That's a rare and special thing.
Laughing So Hard It Hurts (Toy Story 3): As Tristan gets older I find that along with things like throwing the football, playing Nerf wars and going to Cub Scouts with him, I also enjoy playing video games together. My favourite was a game he bought with his own money and had to beg me to try: Toy Story 3. Turns out it's absurdly fun to race with your son through the game's Toy Box town, trying to trip one another up and grabbing each other so you can toss them off course. One play session left me laughing so hard that I was in pain. I have plenty of wonderful memories of time spent with Tristan, I'm just happy one of them happened in a game.
Those were my favourite video game moments of 2010. Throughout the week, we'll be publishing the favourite moments of other writers on the Kotaku team. And at week's end, we'll want you to sound off.


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Research Highlights
March 2013
Water Supply and Demand
Scenarios to project global demand water use over the 21st century
Rising population and economic growth around the world is driving up water demands. Over the 20th century, domestic water use increased the equivalent of ten times the storage capacity of the Hoover Dam. Researchers are now focusing on developing accurate future water use projections and the effects they pose on the climate.
Results: Water is an essential resource. Future demands for drinking water, energy production, and manufacturing prompted researchers working at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) and University of Alberta to develop global domestic water use projections through the 21st century. They linked water price information through the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM), an integrated model of the human and Earth system, developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). JGCRI is a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland.
Why It Matters: Human choices and their impact on water supply and water-dependent systems will affect climate change. Rising population and economic growth around the world is driving higher water demands for households, farming, energy production, and manufacturing. Until now, no existing global integrated assessment models include analysis of water supply and demand. Over the 20th century, domestic water use increased from about 22 km3 to 345 km3 per year, primarily due to population and income growth. That's almost ten times the storage capacity of the Hoover Dam.
Methods: Researchers from PNNL and the University of Alberta addressed two primary research questions: how may global domestic water use grow by year 2100, and which use factors (population, income, technology, or efficiency) dominate the direction of change? Constructing scenarios of future water demand requires research projections of different variables including population, technological change rate, and efficiency rate for each studied region. The team established a set of three representative scenarios to simulate all variables: business-as-usual (BAU), low-tech, and high-tech.
The team found in the BAU scenario that water use is projected to increase at a slower rate than historical estimates. Only under the high-tech scenario is the global water use-per-capita in the year 2100 projected to be lower than in the year 2005. Such a decline in water use has been observed historically for some developed countries, where per-capita water use declined despite rising populations, likely due to technological improvements and conservation measures.
The newly established model structure now incorporates the effect of water's price on water use demand and is calibrated to existing observations from many countries. Their results demonstrate the importance of accounting for both socioeconomic and technological measures to more accurately assess future domestic water use projections. Because the current water demand model includes socioeconomic variables like population, income, water price, and end-use technology and efficiency improvement rates, projections of those input variables are adopted to characterize the uncertainty in future water demand estimates. Finally, they assessed the sensitivity of the results to population, income, technology, and efficiency.
What's Next? Even when reaching critical limits, water-use behavior remains consistent. As accuracy in water price and water-dependent variables change, the assessment model will need to account for those future changes.
Sponsors: The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Integrated Assessment of Global Climate Change program.
Research Team: Mohamad Hejazi, Jae Edmonds, Vaibhav Chaturvedi and Jiyong Eom from PNNL's Joint Global Change Research Institute; and Evan Davies from University of Alberta.
Reference: Hejazi M, J Edmonds, V Chaturvedi, E Davies, and J Eom. 2013 "Scenarios of global municipal water-use demand projections over the 21st century." Hydrological Sciences Journal 06 March 2013. DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2013.772301


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The statistics presented by the district health department Saturday are alarming. Seventy-five percent of the people in Orleans and northern Essex counties are overweight or obese, they say.
What might be even more alarming is the assertion made by the film Weight of the Nation that it's not entirely an accident. If you believe the documentary, done by HBO with the Institute of Medicine among others, the two-thirds of Americans who are now overweight or obese have had a lot of help putting on the pounds.
For one thing, federal farm policy encourages monoculture farming and subsidizes soy and corn, ingredients commonly used in snack and processed food.
For another, the U.S. food industry — since it's in the business of making money — most heavily markets its most profitable products, which tend to be foods made with artificially inexpensive, government subsidized ingredients. Those so-called foods are full of calories rather than nutrition, but they're cheap, quick, and generally appealing, to young people in particular.
When was the last time you saw a television commercial pushing string beans? The profit on string beans is about 10 percent. The profit on soda is 90 percent, according to Weight of the Nation.
Any parent knows that grocery shopping these days with a young child is a nightmare. The collection of junk foods aimed at children is daunting.
As a parent, I've long resented the food industry and how it's made my life more difficult. The snack cracker aisle alone is like running a gauntlet.
No, we are not getting Sponge Bob crackers. No, we are not getting Lunchables; I don't care if Johnny has Lunchables. No, we are not getting this substance that pretends it's related to yogurt….
At some point, grocery shopping with a child turned into a battle against marketers who want my kid to want things that are bad for him.
It wasn't this way even 20 years ago. When my daughter was young the battle was over SpaghettiOs, which I refused to buy. That's laughable now. SpagettiOs have come to seem pretty benign in the face of the explosion of other, far worse and voluminous, possibilities.
Twenty years ago, avoiding sedentary screen time was also easy enough: I disconnected the TV. Today, it doesn't even matter that the satellite dish is disconnected six months a year. There's the computer, Netflix, Hulu, iPads, iPhones, Wii, Xbox, so many ways for kids to engage with a screen rather than the great outdoors.
Yes, there are lots of reasons for being overweight, and lifestyle choices are among them. But it's not likely that about 30 years ago two-thirds of Americans got up in the morning and decided they'd get fat.
Nationally, there are good reasons why people add pounds: No close place to buy good food, no safe place to exercise.
Those reasons don't hold true here. It is true, however, that obesity is linked to poverty, and we are poor. It takes time and money to come up with lean and nutritious meals, and a poor population may not have much of either.
To understand what some call an obesity epidemic, we should look at the cheap and time saving choices people are offered today. Many fast food restaurants have a dollar menu. Salads aren't on it. Yes, it's good that fast food places offer healthier choices, but let's be real here. No one is going to McDonald's to get a great salad.
Frozen fruits and vegetables don't take up much room in the grocery store freezers. They're more likely to be filled with pizzas and highly processed microwavable meals.
The cereal section is no place to look for healthy breakfast food. Chocolate, marshmallow, and frosting are among the choices.
A time and money stressed family may have enough trouble buying and cooking healthy food without also battling a food industry that's making the job harder.
Weight of the Nation notes there was a time when people thought it was impossible to take on the powerful tobacco industry. That turned out to be untrue.
The food industry can also be successfully taken on, the film suggests. It's possible, at least, to cease marketing bad food to kids, as cigarettes are no longer advertised on TV.
Parents have to step up, as well. But it would help if the playing field were level. As it is, a meal of fresh fish and vegetables costs considerably more than a pound of burger and a box of Hamburger Helper, which contains soybean oil and, surprise, corn syrup, that most ubiquitous U.S. ingredient.
You can't blame a farmer for wanting to make a living. You can blame a farm policy that uses our own tax dollars to encourage overproduction of the cheap, unhealthy food that's helped make two-thirds of us fat. – T.S.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A woman was arrested in South Korea on Thursday on two murder charges from New Zealand, where the bodies of two long-dead children were found last month in abandoned suitcases, authorities said.
Authorities didn't immediately say if the 42-year-old suspect was the dead children's mother. New Zealand police had earlier told their South Korean counterparts that the mother might be living in South Korea.
South Korean police detained the woman in the southeastern port city of Ulsan, based on a South Korean court warrant issued after New Zealand requested her provisional arrest as part of an extradition process, according to South Korea's National Police Agency and Justice Ministry.
The unidentified woman covered her face with the hood of her coat as officers escorted her outside an Ulsan police station and put her in a car headed for the capital, Seoul, where she was expected to be questioned by prosecutors.
New Zealand authorities must submit the formal request for her extradition to the South Korean Justice Ministry within 45 days. The ministry will then decide whether to proceed with an extradition review at the Seoul High Court to rule whether she would be sent to New Zealand.
New Zealand police said the South Korean warrant was in connection with two charges of murder, and they have asked South Korean authorities to keep the woman in jail until she is extradited.
"To have someone in custody overseas within such a short period of time has all been down to the assistance of the Korean authorities and the coordination by our New Zealand Police Interpol staff," Detective Inspector Tofilau Fa'amanuia Vaaelua said in a statement.
He said the investigation had been "very challenging" and that inquiries were continuing both in New Zealand and abroad.
Vaaelua said police weren't going to comment further as the matter was now before the courts. Authorities in New Zealand typically don't comment on pending court cases in order to avoid the possibility of influencing the outcome.
The children's bodies were discovered last month after a New Zealand family bought abandoned goods, including two suitcases, from a storage unit in Auckland in an online auction. Police said the New Zealand family had nothing to do with the deaths.
The children were between 5 and 10 years old, had been dead for a number of years, and the suitcases had been in storage for at least three or four years, according to police.
South Korean police say the woman was born in South Korea and later moved to New Zealand, where she gained citizenship. She returned to South Korea in 2018, according to immigration records.
South Korean police say it was suspected she could be the mother of the two victims, as her past address in New Zealand was registered to the storage unit where the suitcases were kept for years.
Story: Nick Perry and Kim Tong-hyung. Perry reported from Wellington, New Zealand.


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Publications by HSP Fellows
Cinotto, Simone (Balch fellow, 2009-10). "All Things Italian: Italian American Consumers and the Commodification of Difference," Voices in Italian Americana 21, no. 1 (2010): 3-44.
———. The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
———. "Memories of the Italian Rice Belt, 1945-65: Work, Class Conflict, and Intimacy during the Great Transformation," Journal of Modern Italian Studies 16, no. 4 (2011): 531-552.
———. Soft Soil, Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California. New York: NYU Press, 2012.
———. "Sunday Dinner? You Had to Be There! The Social Significance of Food in Italian Harlem," in Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives, ed. Joseph Sciorra (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), 11-29.
Daniel, Dominique (Balch fellow, 2012-13). "Archival Representations of Immigration and Ethnicity in North American History: From the Ethnicization of Archives to the Archivization of Ethnicity," Archival Science 13 (2013).
———. Coeditor, with Amalia Levi. Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada. Sacramento: Litwin Books, 2014.
DeHaan, Kathleen A. (Balch fellow, 2005-06). "Negotiating the Transnational Moment: Immigrant Letters as Performance of a Diasporic Identity," National Identities 12, no. 2 (2010): 107-131.
DeLancey, Dayle B. (Balch fellow, 2004-05). "Vaccinating Freedom: Smallpox Prevention and the Discourses of African American Citizenship in Antebellum Philadelphia," Journal of African American History 95, no. 3-4, special issue, To Be Heard in Black and White: Historical Perspectives on Black Print Culture (2010): 296-321.
Gigantino II, James J. (McFarland fellow, 2011-12). "'The Whole North is Not Abolitionized': Slavery's Slow Death in New Jersey, 1830-1860," Journal of the Early Republic 34 (2014): 411-437.
———. The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Kazal, Russell A. (Balch fellow, 2006-07). "The Lost World of Pennsylvania Pluralism: Immigrants, Regions, and the Early Origins of Pluralist Ideologies in America," Journal of American Ethnic History 27 (2008): 7-42.
Keller, Christian B. (Balch fellow, 2004-05). "'All We Ask Is Justice': German-American Reactions to the Battle of Chancellorsville," Yearbook of German-American Studies 41 (2006): 1-26.
———. Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.
———. With David L. Valuska. Damn Dutch: Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004.
———. "Flying Dutchmen and Drunken Irishmen: The Myths and Realities of Ethnic Civil War Soldiers," Journal of Military History 73 (2009):117-45.
Klapper, Melissa R. (Balch fellow, 2003-04). Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
———. Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 (New York : New York University Press, 2005).
———. Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880-1925 (Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2007).
———. "Those by Whose Side We Have Labored": American Jewish Women and the Peace Movement between the Wars," Journal of American History 97 (2010): 636-58.
Kupsky, Gregory (Balch fellow, 2008-09). "'We, Too, Are Still Here': German Americans in St. Louis, 1919-1941," Missouri Historical Review 103 (2009): 212-25.
Lazo, Rodrigo (Balch fellow, 2005-06). Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Publications by HSP/LCP Joint Fellows
Altschuler, Sari (2010-11). "From Blood Vessels to Global Networks of Exchange: The Physiology of Benjamin Rush's Early Republic," Journal of the Early Republic 32 (2012): 207-321.
Baer, Friederike (2006-2007). The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism, and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790-1830. New York: NYU Press, 2008.
***St. Paul's, Biglerville Prize for Best Book in Lutheran Church History, Lutheran Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic, 2011***
———. "Speaking American," American History 42 (2007): 60-64.
Bell, Richard (2003-04). Coeditor with Michele Lise Tarter. Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
———. "Do Not Despair: Suicide in the Archives," Common-Place 4 (2004) [online journal].
———. "The Double Guilt of Dueling: The Stain of Suicide in Anti-Dueling Rhetoric in the Early Republic," Journal of the Early Republic 29 (3) (2009): 383-410.
———. "In Werther's Thrall: Suicide and the Power of Sentimental Reading in Early National America," Early American Literature 46 (2011): 93-120.
———. "Slave Suicide, Abolition, and the Problem of Resistance," Slavery & Abolition 33 (2012): 525-549.
———. We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Carter, Michael S. (2004-05). "'Under the Benign Sun of Toleration': Matthew Carey, the Douai Bible, and Catholic Print Culture, 1789-1791," Journal of the Early Republic 27 (2007): 437-69.
Cillerai, Chiara (2005-06). "'A continual and almost exclusive correspondence': Philip Mazzei's Transatlantic Citizenship," in Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860, ed. Theresa Strouth Gaul and Sharon M. Harris (Surrey/Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2009).
Clavin, Michael J. (2003-04). "American Toussaints: Symbol, Subversion, and the Black Atlantic Tradition in the American Civil War," in African Americans and the Haitian Revolution: Selected Essays and Historical Documents, ed. Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Baker (New York: Routledge, 2009).
———. "'It is a Negro, not an Indian War': Southampton, St. Domingo, and the Second Seminole War," in America's Hundred Years War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminoles, 1763-1858, ed. William S. Belko (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011).
———. "A Second Haitian Revolution: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the Making of the American Civil War," Civil War History 54, no. 2 (2008): 117-45.
———. Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Codignola, Luca (2002-03). "Roman Catholic Conservatism in a New North Atlantic World, 1760-1829," William and Mary Quarterly 64 (2007): 717-56.
Cohen, Kenneth (2005-06). "'The Entreaties & Perswasions of Our Acquaintance': Gambling, Networking, and Political Culture in Early America," Journal of the Early Republic 30 (2011): 599-638.
———. "'Sport for Grown Children': American Political Cartoons and Sporting Culture, 1790-1850," International Journal of the History of Sport 28, no. 8-9 (2011): 1301-1318.
———. "Well Calculated for the Farmer: Thoroughbreds in the Chesapeake, 1750-1830," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 115 (2007): 370-411.
Cohen, Lara Langer (2008-09). Coeditor with Jordan Alexander Stein. Early African American Print Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
*** Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012 ***
———. The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Cotlar, Seth (2008-09). Tom Paine's America: The Rise and Fall of Trans-Atlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
*** James Broussard Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2011 ***
Crabtree, Sarah (2005-06). "'A Beautiful and Practical Lesson of Jurisprudence': The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution," Radical History Review 99 (2007): 51-79.
Davies, John (2007-08). "Saint-Dominguan Refugees of African Descent and the Forging of Ethnic Identity in Early National Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 134 (2010): 109-26.
DeLombard, Jeannine (2007-08). "Apprehending Early African American Literary History." In Early African American Print Culture, ed. Lara Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
*** Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012 ***
———. In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
———. "Making Waves on the Black Atlantic: The Case of John Anderson," Slavery & Abolition 33, no. 2, African Americans and Transatlantic Abolition, 1845-1865 (2012): 191-204.
———. Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Dun, James Alexander (2003-04). "Philadelphia not Philanthropolis: The Limits of Pennsylvanian Antislavery in the Era of the Haitian Revolution," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 135 (2011): 73-102.
———. "'What avenues of commerce, will you, Americans, not explore!': Commercial Philadelphia's Vantage onto the Early Haitian Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly 62 (2005): 472-504.
Eustace, Nicole (2007-08). 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Faflik, David (2004-05). Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2012.
Faulkner, Carol (2006-07). "Dangerous Tendencies: Slavery, Sex, and Authority in the Transatlantic Correspondence of Lucretia Mott," in Exchanges and Correspondence: The Construction of Feminism, ed. Claudette Fillard and Françoise Orazi (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).
———. Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
———. "'A New Field of Labor': Antislavery Women, Freedmen's Aid, and Political Power," in The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War, ed. Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010).
———. "The Root of Evil: Free Produce and Radical Antislavery, 1820-1860," Journal of the Early Republic 27 (2007): 377-405.
Finger, Simon (2006-07). The Contagious City: The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012.
———. "'A Flag of Defyance at the Mastehad': The Delaware River Pilots and the Sinews of Philadelphia's Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century," Early American Studies 8 (2010): 386-409.
———. "An Indissoluble Union: How the American War for Independence Transformed Philadelphia's Medical Community and Created a Public Health Establishment," Pennsylvania History 77 (2010): 37-72.
Frank, Caroline (2005-06). Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Frank, Lucy (2006-07). "'Bought with a Price': Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Commodification of Heaven in Postbellum America," ESQ 55 (2009): 165-192.
Gerbner, Katherine (2010-11). "Antislavery in Print: The Germantown Protest, the 'Exhortation,' and the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Debate on Slavery," Early American Studies 9 (2011): 552-75.
Gold, Susanna W. (2006-07). "The Death of Cleopatra/The Birth of Freedom: Edmonia Lewis at the New World's Fair," Biography 35 (2012): 318-341.
———. "'Fighting It Over Again': The Battle of Gettysburg at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition," Civil War History 54 (2008): 277-310.
Gordon, Sarah A. (2003-04). "Prestige, Professionalism, and the Paradox of Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion Nudes," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 130 (2006): 79-104.
Greene, Ann N. (2002-03). Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
*** Fred B. Kniffen award for Best Book, Pioneer America Society, 2009***
———. "'The Now-Opprobrious Title of "Horse Doctor"': Veterinarians and Professional Identity in Nineteenth-Century America." In Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine, ed. Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010).
———. "War Horses: Equine Technology in the Civil War." In Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History, ed. Susan Schrepfer and Philip Scranton (New York: Routledge, 2004).
———. "Wolves in the Wissahickon: Deer, Humans, and the Problem of Ecology in an Urban Park." In Nature's Entrepôt: Philadelphia's Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds. Edited by Brian Black and Michael Chiarrupa (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012).
Gross, Kali Nicole (2003-2004). Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
*** Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize, Association of Black Women Historians, 2006***
Haberman, Robb K. (2002-03). "Provincial Nationalism: Civic Rivalry in Postrevolutionary American Magazines," Early American Studies 10 (2012): 162-93.
Hallock, Thomas (2004-05). Coeditor with Nancy E. Hoffman. William Bartram: The Search for Nature's Design. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010.
Hayes, Kevin J. (2004-05). Coeditor with Edwin Wolf II. The Library of Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia, 2006.
Head, David (2005-06). "Baltimore Seafarers, Privateering, and the South American Revolutions, 1816-1820," Maryland Historical Magazine 105 (2008): 269-293.
———. "Independence on the Quarterdeck: Three Baltimore Seafarers, Spanish America, and the Lives of Captains in the Early American Republic," The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord 23 (2013): 1-20.
———. "New Nations, New Connections: Spanish American Privateering from the United States and the Development of Atlantic Relations," Early American Studies 11 (2013): 161-175.
———. "Slave Smuggling by Foreign Privateers: Geopolitical Influences on the Illegal Slave Trade," Journal of the Early Republic 33 (2013): 433-462.
Henderson, Amy H. (2003-04). "A Family Affair: The Design and Decoration of 321 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia." In Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830, ed. John Styles and Amanda Vickery (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2006), 267-91.
Hughes, Amy (2010-11). Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012.
Hutter, Liz K. (2005-06). "'A Little Spark Perhaps May Lie Conceal'd': Humane Societies and the Principles of Resuscitation to Save the Drowned." Configurations 19, no. 2 (2011): 157-190.
Johnson, Ronald (2009-10). "A Revolutionary Dinner: U.S. Diplomacy toward Saint Domingue, 1798-1801," Early American Studies 9 (2011): 114-41.
Johnson, Sara E. (2004-05). The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
———. "'You Should Give them Blacks to Eat': Cuban Bloodhounds and the Waging of an Inter-American War of Torture and Terror," American Quarterly 61 (2009): 65-92.
*** Constance M. Rourke Prize for Best Article published in American Quarterly, American Studies Association, 2010 ***
Jones, Martha S. (2003-04). All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Keralis, Spencer (2008-09). "Pictures of Charlotte: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple and Her Readers," Book History 13 (2010): 25-57.
*** Book History Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2010 ***
Lyons, Clare A. (2002-03). "Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 60 (2003): 119-154.
*** Lester A Cappon Award for Best Article in William and Mary Quarterly, 2003 ***
———. Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
McFeely, William S. (2002-03). Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2007.
McMahon, Lucia (2007-08). Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.
———. "'A More Accurate and Extensive Education than is Customary': Educational Opportunities for Women in Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey," New Jersey History 124 (2009): 1-28.
———. "Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800," Journal of the Early Republic 28 (2008): 674-83.
———. "Of the Utmost Importance to Our Country': Women, Education, and Society, 1780-1820," Journal of the Early Republic 29 (2009): 475-506.
McNutt, Donald J. (2002-03). Urban Revelations: Images of Ruin in the American City, 1790-1860. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Morgan, David (2002-03). The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in America. New York: Routledge, 2007.
———. "Religion and Visuality in America: Material Economies of the Sacred." In The Cambridge History of Religions in America, ed. Stephen J. Stein (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 748-80.
Murison, Justine (2007-08). "'The Paradise of Non-Experts': The Neuroscientific Turn of the 1840s United States." In The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain, ed. Milssa M. Littlefield and Jenell M. Johnson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012).
———. The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Murphy, Angela (2005-06). American Slavery, Irish Freedom: Abolition, Immigrant Citizenship, and the Transatlantic Movement for Irish Repeal. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
———. "Daniel O'Connell and the 'American Eagle' in 1845: Slavery, Diplomacy, Nativism, and the Collapse of America's First Irish Nationalist Movement," Journal of American Ethnic History 26 (2007): 3-26.
———. "Slavery and Irish Nationalism in the American South, 1840-1845." In The Irish in the Atlantic World, ed. David T. Gleeson (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010).
Nathans, Heather S. (2003-04). Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861: Lifting the Veil of Black. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Newman, Andrew (2007-08). "Closing the Circle: Mapping a Native Account of European Land Fraud." In Early American Cartographies, ed. Martin Bruckner (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2011), 248-275.
———. "Fulfilling the Name: Catherine Tekakwitha and Marguerite Kanenstenhawi (Eunice Williams)," Legacy 28 (2011): 232-56.
———. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
———. "The Walam Olum: An Indigenous Apocrypha and its Readers," American Literary History 22 (2010): 26-56.
Newman, Richard S. (2004-05). Coeditor, with James Mueller. Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
———. Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
*** Gold award for Biography, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2008 ***
Nickels, Cameron C. (2003-04). Civil War Humor. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
Pearson, Susan Jennifer (2002-03). The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
———. "'Infantile Specimens': Showing Babies in Nineteenth-Century America." Journal of Social History 42 (2008): 341-70.
*** Best Article Prize, Society for the History of Children and Youth ***
Pfleger, Birte Britta (2002-03). Ethnicity Matters: The History of the German Society of Pennsylvania. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2006.
———. "German Immigration to Philadelphia from the Colonial Period through the Twentieth Century," in Global Philadelphia: Immigrant Communities, Old and New, ed. Ayumi Takenaka and Mary Osirim (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010).
———. "'Miserable Germans' and Fries's Rebellion: Language, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Early Republic," Early American Studies 2 (2004): 343-361.
Phillips, Christopher N. (2005-06). "Cotton Mather Brings Isaac Watts's Hymns to America; or, How to Perform a Hymn without Singing It," New England Quarterly 85 (2012): 203-21.
———. "Epic, Anti-Eloquence, and Abolitionism: Thomas Branagan's Avenia and The Penitential Tyrant," Early American Literature 44 (3) (2009): 605-637.
———. Epic in American Culture: Settlement to Reconstruction. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
———. "Lighting Out for the Rough Ground: America's Epic Origins and the Richness of World Literature," Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA), 122 (5) (2007): 1499-1515.
Posey, Trisha (2005-06). "'Alive to the cry of distress': Joseph and Jan Sill and Poor Relief in Antebellum Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 132 (2008): 215-43.
Reed, Peter P. (2007-08). Rogue Performance: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Rogers, Molly (2002-03). Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
*** Booklist Editor's Choice award for Adult Books, 2010 ***
———. "The Slave Daguerreotypes of the Peabody Museum: Scientific Meaning and Utility," History of Photography 31 (2006): 38-54.
Ridner, Judith (2005-06). A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
*** Philip S. Klein Book Prize, Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2012 ***
Sassi, Jonathan D. (2004-05). "Africans in the Quaker Image: Anthony Benezet, African Travel Narratives, and Revolutionary-Era Antislavery," Journal of Early Modern History 10, nos. 1-2 (2006): 95-130.
———. "With a Little Help from the Friends: The Quaker and Tactical Contexts of Anthony Benezet's Abolitionist Publishing," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 135 (2011): 33-71.
Schnorbus, Stephanie (2006-07). "Calvin and Locke: Dueling Epistemologies in The New-England Primer, 1720-1790," Early American Studies 8 (2010): 250-87.
Scruggs, Dalila (2007-08). "'Photographs to Answer Our Purposes': Representations of the Liberian Landscape in Colonization Print Culture." In Early African American Print Culture, ed. Lara Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), 203-30.
*** Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012 ***
Sheehan, Tanya (2006-07). "Comical Conflations: Racial Identity and the Science of Photography," Photography & Culture 4, no. 2 (2011): 133-56.
———. Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
Spires, Derrick R. (2008-09). "Imagining a State of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions." In Early African American Print Culture, ed. Lara Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), 274-89.
*** Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012 ***
———. Coeditor, with Houston A. Baker. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. A Penguin enriched eBook. New York: Penguin, 2009.
Sweet, John Wood (2002-03). Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2003.
Sword, Kristen (2005-06). "Remembering Dinah Nevil: Strategic Deceptions in Eighteenth-Century Antislavery," Journal of American History 97 (2010): 315-43.
Tomek, Beverly C. (2009-10). Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
———. "'From motives of generosity, as well as self-preservation': Thomas Branagan, Colonization, and the Gradual Emancipation Movement," American Nineteenth-Century History 6 (2005): 121-47.
———. "Seeking 'an immutable pledge from the slave holding states': The Pennsylvania Abolition Society and Black Resettlement," Pennsylvania History 75 (2008): 26-53.
Tomlin, T. J. (2008-09). "'Astrology's from Heaven not from Hell': The Religious Significance of Early American Almanacs," Early American Studies 8 (2010): 287-321.
Weil, Francois (2006-07). Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.


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Lovely Flowering Shrub: Potentilla fruticosa
Potentilla is a genus of lovely flowering shrubs and small perennials from the family of Rose. These summer flowering shrubs make excellent plants for beginners. Most species, such as Potentilla fruticosa, grow in almost any soil and are resistant to pests.
Potentilla fruticosa (Buy online) grows from 1 to 3 feet in height and produces attractive yellow flowers in late spring. Flowering continues till early days of fall. Potentilla fruticosa can be used to border plants, cover the ground in mass plantation schemes or as an outdoor ornamental plant. The ornamental value of the plant is because of its compact silvery-green leaves and attractive yellow flowers.
How to Grow Potentilla fruticosa
Potentilla fruticosa like other plants in its genus prefers bright sunlight, regular watering and a well-drained soil. To keep the plant in shape, it is advised to prune annually at the end of the flowering season. When grown in colder climates, reduce or stop watering during the freezing period. Most Potentillas can be grown from softwood cuttings or divisions. Popular varieties include:
P. fruticosa 'Abbotswood' is grown as a hardy flowering shrub that produces abundance of white flowers.
P. parvifolia 'Goldfinger' is known for its large and prominent yellow flowers.
P. fruticosa 'Goldstar' grows as a compact and low-growing flowering shrub. It is suitable for growing as a ground cover. Flowers are yellow.
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