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At 11 o'clock in the morning on Saturday, June 8th 1968 an immigration officer at Heathrow Airport peered at a passenger's Canadian passport, looked up and said casually;
Would you please step into our office for some routine questions, Mr Sneyd.
The man he called Mr Sneyd offered no protest and followed him into the office. His demeanour changed as soon as he saw a policeman in the room and he blurted out, "Oh God, I feel so trapped". The bespectacled Mr Sneyd was found to not only have another passport on his person but also a .38 caliber revolver stuffed in his back pocket.
An hour later Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Butler, a man who had become well known to the British public after the arrest of the Great Train Robbers four years previously and not particularly prone to shyness when it came to publicity, arrived at Heathrow to make the arrest. The observant immigration official's initial suspicions were confirmed by the senior policeman and fingerprints proved that Sneyd was, in reality, Illinois-born 40 year old James Earl Ray – the escaped convict accused of assassinating Martin Luther King on April 4 in Memphis Tennessee.
Four days after he had fired the Remington rifle that had killed Dr King, Ray had driven across the Canadian border and rented a room in Toronto. It was well-known amongst American prisoners, and Ray had been an habitual but unsuccessful criminal pretty well all his adult life, that it was ludicrously easy to get a Canadian passport. All you really had to do, essentially, was swear that you were Canadian and ask for one. Ray requested a passport under the name of Ramon George Sneyd – a Toronto policeman whose name was probably picked at random from a city directory. On May 6 he flew on a BOAC plane to London and on the following day he flew on to Portugal.
The FBI, meanwhile, had launched their biggest manhunt in their history but there seemed to be almost no leads at all. On June 1, however, there came a big break. At the FBI's request (they were also aware of Canada's lax passport rules), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been checking hundreds of thousands of passport photos and eventually they came across a picture that closely resembled the escaped convict and the only real suspect for Martin Luther King's murder – James Earl Ray
While this was all going on, Ray was in Lisbon working out his next move. He attempted to change his fake passport but only got as far as changing the 'd' in Sneyd to an 'a' – telling the Canadian consul: "My name has been misspelled," and with no questions asked he was issued with a new passport on May 16.
The following day Ray flew back to London and anonymously stayed in one of the hundreds of back-street seedy hostels around the Victoria, Pimilico and Earls Court areas of London. On May 28 he checked into the New Earl's Court Hotel situated at 35-37 Penywern Road – a seedy and run-down street in those days. Jane Nassau the receptionist at the hotel helped Ray with the confusing 5p and 10p coins that had been introduced a month or so before. She later stated that: "I recognised his southern drawl and wondered why he had a Canadian passport."
On June 5 Ray moved again, this time staying at the Pax Hotel at 126 Warwick Way (equally seedy in the late sixties) which was run by Swedish-born Mrs. Anna Thomas. She later told reporters that for the next three days Ray never left his room for more than 20 minutes. He even refused to to emerge for four telephone calls, two of them from an airline. When she brought breakfast to Ray's door:
"He was always fully dressed. I had the idea that he never got undressed for bed."
It was never revealed how he got the number, but on June 6 while staying at the Pax Hotel, Ray mysteriously telephoned Ian Colvin, a senior journalist at the Daily Telegraph and asked him for a contact who could help him to become a mercenary. Colvin offered an address in Brussels and it was to there Ray was heading when he was arrested at Heathrow two days later.
Ray was charged at Cannon Row police station with possessing a forged passport and having a firearm without a certificate but on June 14th when he entered the witness box at Bow Street Magistrates Court for his extradition hearing, he flatly denied that he had killed Martin Luther King. Roger Frisby, his British lawyer, asked him these questions:
"Are you the man who was arrested at London Airport?
"Did you know Dr. Martin Luther King?
"No Sir"
"Had you ever met him personally in your life?"
"No Sir"
"Have you ever had any grudge of any kind against him?"
"No Sir"
"Did you kill Dr. Martin Luther King?"
"No, Sir"
Ray almost certainly did kill Martin Luther King and he was quickly extradited to the States and charged with his murder. He confessed to the assassination on March 10, 1969, (although three days later he wrote a letter to the court asking that his plea be set aside – the judge refused the request) and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
On June 11, 1977, Ray and six others escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee but recaptured three days later. A year was added to Ray's previous sentence, to total 100 years.
James Earl Ray died in 1998 at the age of 70 from complications related to kidney disease caused by hepatitis C probably contracted as a result of a blood transfusion given after a stabbing while at Brushy Mountain.


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We can assume that you have used apple cider vinegar in a number of recipes: from pickles, pie to salad dressings. But, have you ever thought about drinking it?
Maybe you will not believe it, but drinking apple cider vinegar before bedtime can significantly improve your health and life in general!
Read these 10 benefits and find out more how Apple Cider Vinegar can help you!
1. Weight Loss
According to many studies, obesity is closely related to a lack of sleep. The more weight a person has, the more sleep problems will have.
Apple cider vinegar has the ability to prevent the accumulation of fat and reduce the appetite. It contains a compound known as pectin, which makes your brain feel more satisfied.
So, if you are feeling hungry before bedtime, apple cider vinegar is your solution! Instead of reaching for a chocolate bar or cookies which contain a lot of fat, just mix 1 teaspoon of ACV with a cup of water and drink it!
2. Treats a sore throat
The bacteria responsible for a sore throat can't thrive in the acidic environment created by ACV. Moreover, apple cider vinegar has powerful antibacterial properties.
Take 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and swallow it an hour before going to bed. Swallow another teaspoon 30 minutes later then another one just before going to bed.
3. Hiccups will be gone!
Apple cider vinegar can stimulate the nerves in the throat responsible for the hiccups, due to its bitter taste. This will make the nerves to "forget" the need to hiccup. Take 1 teaspoon of organic apple cider vinegar and swallow it.
4. Relieves stuffy nose
ACV has rich content of magnesium, potassium, and vitamins B1, B2, A, and E which can thin mucus and clear the sinuses. In order to get a quick relief, you should mix 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar with a glass of water and drink before going to bed.
5. Treatment of acid reflux
Apple cider vinegar has the ability to restore the acidity of your stomach. Just mix 1 tablespoon of it with a glass of water, and drink it 1 hour before going to bed.
6. Bad breath
The bacteria in the mouth can be the reason for your bad breath in the mouth. As we said before, ACV can kill the bacteria, thus keeping your mouth fresh. You should take 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar before bedtime.
7. Reduces stomachache
Apple cider vinegar can help you to forget those sleepless night caused by your upset stomach! You will no longer have the problems with cramps and gas. Mix 1 teaspoon of organic ACV with a cup of warm water, and drink it before going to bed.
8. Prevents indigestion
Insomnia is closely related to indigestion. Apple cider vinegar has the ability to help you in the case of bloating and nausea. Mix 1 teaspoon of ACV and honey in a glass of warm water and drink it half an hour before going to bed.
9. Reduces nocturnal leg cramps
The lack of potassium is considered as the main cause of sharp pain in the legs. Fortunately, apple cider vinegar has rich content of potassium which can reduce the cramping and restore the balance of your body.
Mix 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with a glass of warm water and drink it before going to bed.
10. Lowers blood sugar levels
High level of blood sugar is the second most common cause of insomnia. Apple cider vinegar can increase the insulin sensitivity, thus reducing the blood sugar. You should regularly take 2 teaspoons of ACV before going to bed.
Note: If you use medications for diabetes, you need to consult your doctor before using apple cider vinegar.
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Some 40 million people depend on the Colorado River Basin for water but warmer weather from rising greenhouse gas levels and a growing population may signal water shortages ahead. In a new study in Nature Climate Change, climate modelers at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory predict a 10 percent drop in the Colorado River's flow in the next few decades, enough to disrupt longtime water-sharing agreements between farms and cities across the American Southwest, from Denver to Los Angeles to Tucson, and through California's Imperial Valley.
"It may not sound like a phenomenally large amount except the water and the river is already over-allocated," said Richard Seager, a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty and lead author of the new study.
The study expands on findings published in 2007 in the journal Science that the American Southwest is becoming more arid as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns shift from human-caused climate change. It also comes on the heels of a major study of the Colorado River Basin by the U.S. Department of Interior that projected longer and more severe droughts by 2060, and a 9 percent decline in the Colorado's flows.
"The projections are spot on," said Bradley Udall, an expert on hydrology and policy of the American West, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "Everyone wondered what the next generation of models would say. Now we have a study that suggests we better take seriously the drying projections ahead."
The present study narrows in on three key regions for water managers—the Colorado River headwaters, the greater California-Nevada region and Texas, which gets nearly all of its water from within state borders. The study makes use of the latest models (those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its Fifth Assessment Report due out next fall), to estimate seasonal changes in precipitation, evaporation, water runoff and soil moisture in the near future, 2021-2040. "It's a much finer grain picture than the one we had in 2007," said Seager.
Drying is expected in all three regions, as warmer temperatures trigger more evaporation, even in places that may see greater seasonal rain or snowfall, the study found. The models project that temperatures in 2021-2040 will be 1 to 2 degrees Celsius warmer than now. The Colorado headwaters are expected to see more precipitation on average, but annual stream flow is expected to decline by 10 percent, and as much as 25 percent during springtime, as warmer temperatures boost evaporation, the study found. California and Nevada will also see big changes in spring, with a projected 20 percent drop in spring runoff; Texas will overall become drier with a 10 percent decline in annual runoff. For Texas the models predict that precipitation will decrease and evaporation rates will also go down in spring and summer, but only because "there is no moisture to evaporate," said study co-author Mingfang Ting, a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty.
Population growth in the Southwest is putting added pressure on regional water resources. To put the Colorado flow projections in context, a 10 percent decline is about five times the amount of water that Las Vegas uses in a year, said Udall. With alternate water sources tapped out, the West will likely have to meet the decline by cutting back on water use. "You can't go build another water project," he said. "That's what makes this problem so difficult."
Lamont scientists discuss the Nature Climate Change study: Projections of declining surface water availability in the southwest U.S. in coming decades
Water in the Southwest; Think Green, Economist, Dec. 22, 2012


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Surrealistic portraits at Fulcrum
The Weekly Volcano, May 24,2012
reviewed by Alec Clayton
Pictured: "Anemone" by Larkin Cypher
Strange creatures both human and animal lurk in the front rooms of
Fulcrum Gallery. The show is called Visions
from the Other Side Surrealistic Portraits, a Group Show. Featured are
works by Larkin Cypher, Kelsi Finney, Jeremy Gregory and Keith Carter.
The work is inventive. Each artist has a personal, sometimes
warped and often funny vision of the world or of worlds beyond this world. The
craftsmanship, drawing and painting skill is undeniable. The strongest works
visually are Gregory's black jesso, pencil and aerosol paintings; Finney's
gouache, watercolor ad pencil drawings; and Cypher's elaborate, homemade
frames. Carter's drawings of bears and gorillas and a cricket and a goldfish
are skillfully executed but not particularly inventive or interesting in terms
of color, composition or paint application. I do, however, give him credit for
anthropomorphizing his animals in a delightful, children's-illustration
fashion, and I must say I got a kick out his picture of Santa Claus drinking
Jack Daniels whiskey.
About Gregory's paintings: First, I don't know what jesso is. A
misspelling of gesso, or maybe a painting media of his own invention. I'm also
not sure about what he means by aerosol. Spray paint, I guess. But I do know
that there is a wonderfully dark, chalky and brittle look to his paintings. They
are full of mystery and seem to illustrate stories without giving enough
information about what's going on. There's one in which a large ghostlike or
masklike face emerges from the shadows and another in which can be seen resist
writing or writing that appears to have been burnt into the surface of a
picture as if etched by acid. There is one called "The Day It All Changed" that
is dark and ominous — actally they are all dark and ominous — yet
simultaneously very tender. It pictures what I interpret to be a father and his
daughter tending an injured bird person.
Gregory is also showing some horror-show puppets that are designed
so that you, if you buy one, can pose them any way you want. They come with their
own settings and props — ready-made theatrical scenes. My favorites are a
couple with black faces and hands and long, white fangs riding an old rusty
skate as if it's a convertible car. They're called "The Creepy in love Couple."
There's also a rodeo clown sitting on top of his dressing room/trunk with a
chicken in one hand and a whiskey flask in the other that I really like.
Cypher is showing fantasy paintings of dark creatures in tones of
charcoal black and sepia with wonderfully elaborate frames made of woven
Finney's drawings are delicate with finely drawn details and rich
impasto surfaces and a wonderful glow to the yellow tone that predominates.
In the back room is a photographic installation by Sharon Styer called Nightwatchman, which
deserves a review all its own. I'll grant it that favor next week in this
[Fulcrum Gallery, Visions from
the other side, noon to 6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and by appointment, through
July 14, 1308 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma, 253.250.0520]
Here's more on this show
from The Weekly Volcano blog Spew
Surreal history
Visions from the other side
Surrealism was born in the early 1920s and soon became majorly popular
throughout the world —popularized to a large extent by Salvador Dali, who was
more showman than artist. The rallying cry of the Surrealists came from a line
in a poem by Comte de Lautréamont:
"beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine
and an umbrella."
The guiding principle of Surrealism as exemplified by
that line was the juxtaposition of things that could not logically go together
in the so-called real world.
Combined with
influences from the movies, from graphic novels and science fiction,
Surrealistic art has become more popular today than ever, especially among
young people. Somehow — although I can probably never fully understand this
phenomena — the popularity of this trend in art (and I do see it as a trend or
a fad as opposed to an art movement as such have classically been known) seems
to be related to the popularity of zombies and vampires, the Twilight series,
PBR and mac 'n' cheese. Yes, yes, that's it. Surrealism today is the mac 'n'
cheese of art.
When I was
teaching art in the mid 1980s almost 99.9 percent of freshmen art students came
to college with portfolios of Surrealist art or drawings and paintings right
out of the pages of graphic novels. I've been out of touch with students all
these many years since, but I have a suspicion this has never changed.
I have
tremendous respect for the pioneer Surrealists and for the artists of their
sister movement Dadaism (begrudgingly so in the case of Dali). Without them and
without the parallel movement of Cubism we would never have had Abstract
Expressionism or Pop Art or anything that has come since.
The one thing
that made Surrealist art popular from the beginning was its tendency to present
unreal images in a hyper-realistic manner. Dali's melting clocks and Magritte's
strange inventions and odd juxtapositions of dream imagery and reality struck a
chord with a vast public, and such imagery continues to strike the public
fancy, even more so today when modern technology in movies and on the Internet
has made such imagery commonplace.
This is the
one drawback I see to contemporary Surrealism; everything that was once
shocking has become routine. Nobody gives a second thought to buildings turned
upside-down and trains flying through the clouds and men growing horns.
What got me
thinking about all this was the current show at Fulcrum Gallery, Visions from the
Other Side: Surrealistic Portraits, a Group Show. It may prove to be one of Fulcrum's most popular show ever.
It's far from their best, but it's a good show. The images are hardly even
startling, hardly even strange or inventive. A lizard or a bear wearing a suit
is no big deal. From the movies to tromp l'oeil murals, we've all seen so much
fantasy art that even the most casual observer must be jaded by now, which
means for this art to stand up to critical judgment it must be measured
according to aesthetic criteria; it must be judged by the same yardsticks we'd
use to measure the worth of a landscape or an abstract painting. That is color,
composition, the use of rhythm, harmony and contrast. Actually I think it's a
good thing that it's come down to this. I think the show at Fulcrum measures up
pretty well. I enjoyed it.
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Fans of the Jay and Silent Bob characters will be excited as today is the day that the film "Jay and Silent Bob Reboot" opens up in theaters around the country. Back in the beginning of the month, I shared the Green Band Trailer which you can review by clicking HERE if you didn't see it. Below I've got the Official Poster, Premise and Casting so have at it.
The Synopsis:
After losing the legal rights to their names over a film reboot of Bluntman and Chronic, Jay and Silent Bob travel across the United States in an attempt to prevent the reboot from being made.
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Another semester's worth of cool microcontroller projects has come to a close at Cornell University and Bruce Land sent us the results for the Spring 2008 ECE 4760 course:
Students in ECE 4760 at Cornell University were given the responsibility of choosing, designing and building a project using Atmel Mega32 microcontrollers. Over 30 projects this year include a trumpet MIDI contoller, a motorized guitar tuner, a
eyeblink/head-motion computer controller, Biometric Authentication system, and a rocket inertial guidance system.
There are a number of projects worth commenting on, but I really thought the rocket guidance system that one of the teams created was a particularly smart idea. It's a bit of a misnomer – it's not the rocket that's guided during flight, but the post-flight payload. The microcontroller, an accelerometer and two stepper motors are employed to steer a simplified parafoil-style parachute on the descent, ideally delivering the payload to a specified location, such as the launch point.
It sounds like this particular project had some launch-day engine malfunctions, but the idea is great. Something like this could someday be used to help direct food payloads and other cargo drops to a specific, controlled destination.
I think this marks 10 years worth of great work that's been documented online for this course. As always, these projects are incredibly well documented, both on the hardware and software side.
Cornell University ECE 4760 Student Microcontroller Projects
Rocket Inertial Navigation System
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Round four of the Mountain Bike World Cup in Mont Ste Anne, Quebec, concluded with the crowd-pleasing Downhill. Both Aaron Gwin (Trek World Racing) and Tracy Moseley (Trek World Racing), the men's and women's leaders in the World Cup, won their respective events, padding their leads after this fourth round. Steve Smith (Devinci) was the top Canadian, finishing seventh in the men's race and retaining his fifth in the overall standings.
Moseley took her third win of the season to extend her lead in the overall women's standings to 140 points. Moseley, who had qualified first by an impressive 11.5 seconds, had more of a battle on her hands in the final, with second-ranked Floriane Pugin (Scott 11) finishing 1.850 seconds behind.
Canadian national champion Micayla Gatto was the first to go under 5:40, but she was quickly supplanted by Emmeline Ragot (Team GR). Sabrina Jonnier (Maxxis-Rocky Mountain) was next to sit in the Hot Seat, taking the time down to 5:21. American national champion Jill Kintner crashed high on the course and could only manage 12th. Jonnier's time would hold until the final three riders came down the course, with each bumping the other out of the lead.
Rachel Atherton (Commencal) took a second off of Jonnier's time, but even she knew that wouldn't be enough, and Pugin came in nearly five seconds faster. But Moseley was faster still - over two and half seconds up at the first split, and an additional second up by the second split. She lost a bit of time in the lowest part of the course, but still comfortably took the win, to extend her lead over Pugin to 140 points with three events remaining.
"I've definitely got good memories from Mont Ste Anne, when I won [the world title] here last year," commented Moseley. "But the course changed completely yesterday after it had been so wet all week. It had some big holes and was possibly the roughest Mont Ste Anne I have ever raced. It's really great to get the win here again, but it's the same top three every race, so I can't count on the title yet."
Moseley now has 910 points to Pugin's 770, with Atherton in third at 580 points. Manon Carpenter (Madison Saracen) continues to lead the Junior World Cup, with 200 points.
Women's Results
Race Notes
- Gatto was the top Canadian finisher, in tenth, with Miranda Miller fininishing 15th. Gatto commented after her run, "I definitely had a few close calls, and maybe gave a bit of a show to the crowd. It was a little scary for me, but no completely off the bike crashes, so I was pretty happy with that, considering the course is so long and some of the girls are falling right near the end because it is so exhausting and physically demanding. It was an okay run, but I think I could have done better."
The men's Downhill was expected to be a battle between current leader Gwin from the U.S. and second-placed Greg Minnaar (Santa Cruz Syndicate), who was only 36 points back. Minnaar had qualified first and Gwin second, and the rider who won the final would don the leader's jersey. Unfortunately, Minnaar's crash derailed his attempt to take the jersey, while Gwin padded his lead with his third win of the season.
Czech national champion Matej Charvat set the early standard of 4:47, but riders following him steadily jumped away at it. Justin Leov (Trek World Racing) was the first to go under 4:40, and his time would be good enough for tenth at the end of the day.
Andrew Neethling (Giant) knocked a few tenths off Leov's time, but Junior World Cup leader Troy Brosnan (Monster Energy/Specialized/Mad Catz) then took a significant 1.2 seconds off the lead. Brook MacDonald (MS Evil), one of the revelations of the season, then took a massive five and a half seconds off the leading time two riders later.
MacDonald's time held up through pre-race and local favourite Steve Smith (Devinci), Sam Blenkinsop (Lapierre International), Gee Atherton (Commencal) - who flatted - and Danny Hart (Giant) and Cameron Cole (Lapierre International). It took Josh Bryceland (Santa Cruz Syndicate), the third fastest qualifier, to finally remove MacDonald from the top spot, by five-hundredths of a second.
All that were left were Gwin and Minnaar. Gwin had a good, solid run, but less than half a second faster than Bryceland; not the spectacular gaps we have seen earlier in the season. Minnaar started strongly, setting the highest speed through the speed trap - the only rider to crack 60 kilometres an hour. At the first split he was less than a tenth of a second behind Gwin, but then disaster struck for the South African, when he hit a rock and crashed. While he was back on his bike quickly, the damage was done, and Minnaar would finish 18th, seceding an additional 137 points to Gwin in the World Cup race.
"I was on a good one, having a smooth fast top," explained Minnaar, "so I backed off a bit at the bottom to continue the flow through, and somehow I got too close to a tree, got hooked on a rock and went over the bars. I'm pretty banged up right now, but hopefully I'll be back next week to keep the challenge going.
Gwin tried to put the pressure of the world Cup lead out of his mind for the final. "My qualifying run didn't go as well as I hoped it would, so I was focussed on not making any mistakes and riding like I knew I could. I know at this point that if I put a good one together I should be right up there, so I just focussed on doing that. Minus one massive mistake at the top, I think I did that, so it was good."
Gwin now has 868 points, followed by Minnaar with 695, and then Gee Atherton at 547. Brosnan leads the Junior World Cup standings with 314 points.
Men's Results
Race Notes
- Smith continued his string of top-ten finishes, but wasn't completely pleased with his ride. "It was really calm, which wasn't exactly what i wanted to do this race run. There were no mistakes, but I just wasn't happy with how I performed. This is the kind of course where you have to hang it loose and I just didn't do that."
Kyle Sanger was the second Canadian man, finishing 42nd, and 18.197 seconds behind Gwin. he was also the fifth Junior. "I don't think I could do that run again ... it was a really good run, and I just tried to keep it up on two wheels and get a little bit loose in sections. I can't complain. This course is amazing, I raced the world champs here last year, and every year it just gets better and better. I'm leaving tomorrow for Windham, and hopefully I can do the same thing next weekend."


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ArchDaily would like to wish Oscar Niemeyer a Happy 103rd Birthday today. In 1988, at age 81, Niemeyer was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, together with American architect Gordon Bunshaft. Setting the pace for us all, Niemeyer continues to practice architect from his office in Rio de Janeiro, with ongoing projects in Brazil and Spain. He even recently composed the song Tranquilo com a Vida, download and listen here.
Richard Meier and Oscar Niemeyer met in October and here are some photos that Richard Meier & Partners shared with ArchDaily. We will soon be featuring an interview with Richard Meier, so be sure to keep a look out.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple headquarters is still standing in this leafy Silicon Valley suburb even after Steve Jobs' industry-rattling announcement that he was resigning as chief executive of the company he co-founded in a garage more than three decades ago.
That news comes as little surprise in the Valley, where few doubted Thursday that despite the loss of its legendary leader Apple would continue to succeed — at least for the next few years.
"I don't think in the short term it will suffer," said Ethan Salter, 35, an engineering consultant who had stopped in at a Starbucks just down the road from the Mountain View headquarters of Google Inc., a major Apple competitor. "In the long term, things change really quickly around here."
Tech workers interviewed by The Associated Press said they were not shocked to hear Wednesday that Jobs was stepping down. His health troubles, which have included pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant, are well known.
Yet in a place where the lightning speed of success is matched perhaps only by the careening pace of failure, some wondered whether Jobs' departure could ultimately lead to a turn in its fortunes.
Apple itself floundered for a decade after Jobs left the company, and its rise to its current success did not begin until he returned in the late 1990s, cementing his image as the key to the company's success.
"Last time he left Apple, it wasn't so pretty," said Aaron Wegner, 31, a computer programmer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Silicon Valley for the day.
"I think he's a driving force behind what their products end up physically looking like."
Jobs' reputation as a micromanager of Apple's design process has both helped and hindered the company. The company's string of successes over the past decade has convinced many consumers and investors that with Jobs in charge the company couldn't fail. The flip side of that confidence is an anxiety about whether the company will falter without him.
Mi Young, 43, a business operations manager at a small computer networking company in Santa Clara, said she doubts Jobs would have stepped down without a plan in place.
Many of the ideas to come out of Apple in the next five years she believes will still bear Jobs' stamp. "Beyond that, I don't know who will be able to fill those shoes."
Part of the concern among Apple fans hinges on how heavily the company itself has relied on Jobs' cult of personality to market its innovative products.
His onstage appearances to unveil Apple's newest designs draw thousands of adoring fans and hundreds of journalists who broadcast his every word around the globe.
"There's this identification of the company with the man," said Alex Bochannek, curator at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. That kind of identification is not unique to Apple in the history of computer companies and leads to the assumption that these large, complex organizations are run singlehandedly, he said.
But Jobs has clearly surrounded himself with smart people, Bochannek said, such as lead designer Jonathan Ive, best known to the public as the stylish Brit who extolls Apple's latest products in the company's online marketing videos.
"I don't think anyone thinks Apple is going away tomorrow," he said. At the same time, he said, "ultimately it's the leader who creates a culture."
While Apple's focus on attractive design and ease of use has fostered a culture of innovation, heavy secrecy is also a cornerstone of its operations.
The veil the company drapes over its inner workings encourages a furious online trade in speculation and rumors about Apple and its products.
Outside the company's Cupertino headquarters Thursday, Apple employees were unsurprisingly tight-lipped about their boss' decision, saying they're under strict orders not to talk to reporters.
"It's called job security," one employee said.
Jobs' replacement as CEO is Tim Cook, a longtime Apple executive who has temporarily filled the spot when Jobs has gone on medical leave. While no one including Cook can currently match Jobs' tech industry star power, some longtime industry observers say the key to Apple's future success lies in how much attention it can continue to draw to its products, not its leader.
Says Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow: "The question is whether Tim Cook is going to keep innovating."


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Made in Russia: Vintage Curiosities of Soviet Design
By Maria Popova
During the Cold War, the world on the other side of the Iron Curtain certainly yielded its fare share of design curiosities, from its eerie monuments to its various propaganda to its haunting photography to its prison tattoo subculture. But nowhere does that world's peculiar design culture shine more dazzlingly than in Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design — a fascinating and irreverent compendium of 50 masterpieces of agitprop graphic and industrial design, collected by editor Michael Idov, from cross-cultural icons like the LOMO camera and the Sputnik to mundane yet bizarre items like carbonated tap water dispensers, fishnet grocery bags and a color-coding system for caviar that endures to this day. Essays by notable Russian artists and writers Boris Kachka, Vitaly Komar, Gary Shteyngart and Lara Vapnyar contextualize and frame the odd artifacts, many of which I remember creeping into my own childhood in Eastern Europe — and some of which you might recognize, appropriately appropriated, on IKEA shelves.
During the games themselves, Misha appeared as a giant balloon that was released during the closing ceremonies as a cartoon version of him shed tears on a screen and a choir of children sang 'Good-bye, our sweet Misha.' There was not a dry eye in the stadium. One can only imagine the tears that the mascot's further fate would elicit: The balloon was recovered on the outskirts hours later, and put in storage where it was abandoned to be devoured by rats."
The thirsty Soviet may have had his choice of beverages — soda water from a machine, kvass from a barrel — but rarely, if ever, did these things come with a paper cup, let alone a plastic one. Like communism itself, disposable dishware existed only in theory. In practice, what was available to the masses was the highly suspect communal drinking glass. The collapsible cup was thus a telescopic beacon of hope in an icky world of strangers' germs, and a modest triumph of individuality to boot."
A pair of tweezers wrapped in cotton are soaked in vodka or rubbing alcohol and set on fire. The flaming pincers are then stuck inside the glass jar, which sucks out the air so that the edges of the 'cup' will form perfect suction with the skin. In one swift motion, the flaming pincers are removed from the now oxygen-less glass jar, and, with the sound of a horrible kiss, the cup is then stuck to the invalid's back, supposedly to pull the mucous away from the lungs, but in reality to scare the toddler into thinking his parents are raving pyromaniacs with serious intent to hurt…. Even today I loathe to replace a burned-out light bulb because a banka so resembles a hollowed-out version of the same."
The zany ghost of a bygone zeitgeist, Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design is as much an offbeat design ethnography as it is a precious and peculiar slice of the space-time continuum.
via The Atlantic; images via Foreign Policy
Published September 7, 2011


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Once you cross wires with a modular synthesizer, it's like your bloodstream turns into sine waves. The documentary I Dream of Wires looks at the technological and philosophical genesis of the instrument, all the way to its demise and subsequent resurgence. Make no mistake, this movie is for the fanatics — it clocks in at four hours (!) — but with a shorter theatrical release set for Moogfest in April, maybe it'll inspire a new generation of synth wizards.
Before coming on as producer and interviewer, Jason Amm (working under the Solvent moniker) was commissioned to score the soundtrack. On New Ways — a nod to the Gary Numan song "I Dream of Wires" — Amm was granted access to a ridiculous arsenal of large-scale gear to experiment, pairing it with a Eurorack system (essentially a more compact modular synth). Taken by itself, the soundtrack is exploratory and wide-eyed, but most of all playful. And if Kanye West still has that industrial Yeezus itch to scratch anytime soon, he should consider sampling "Burn the Tables," which gets this woozy video.
And what good is a dark synth-pop jam created on modular synths if the video isn't also synthesized? Director Jennifer Stratford took footage from I Dream of Wires and mixed the signal into a LZX Video Synthesizer and a Fairlight CVI, the vintage machine responsible for some of the effects seen in the first MTV videos. Images distort, blur and repeat in a hypnotic black-and-white display that deserves a blown-out full screen.
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As cool as Lightsabres are, only a handful of Star Wars characters can wield them. For the rest of the galaxy, they have blasters. From big-bad turbolasers onboard capital ships to tiny handheld weapons like Han's blaster, good looking lasers are as essential to the visual feeling of Star Wars as lightsabres and Jedi Knights. Like the rest of my Star Wars tutorials, this guide to creating lasers begins with an observation section to make sure that our effects are as accurate and true to the films as possible. The rest of the tutorial is a detailed explanation of creating this trademark effect to the smallest detail.
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Part 1: Observations and References of Blaster Bolts An analysis of the different types of laser fire, including stun blasts, and various related effects. Part 2: Creating a Blaster Bolt Creating a long and narrow cylinder with tapered ends and a glowing texture. Part 3: Creating a Simple Firing Animation Creating a path between the muzzle of the gun and the target. Part 4: Adding a Muzzle Flash Modeling and animating a simple muzzle flash effect. Part 5: Adding an Impact Explosion Creating the nice little explosion that occurs when a blaster bolt hits a metal object like a battle droid. Part 6: Adding an Impact Flare Making the flare that appears when a blaster bolt strikes a person.
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Anxiety, Regret and Persona in "Death of a Salesman"
I love theatre, and I'm lucky enough to live in the Toronto, Canada area. We have a lot of excellent theatre hereabouts, including the wonderful Soulpepper Theatre, which is not nearly so famous as it deserves. I was fortunate enough last Saturday to see Soulpepper's production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. which was arresting and raw. It's a profoundly psychological play, in the ways in which it deals with anxiety, regret and "persona", or the false self.
Lots of people know the story of Willy Loman, the crumbling salesman at the centre of the play, and the drama of his decline and eventual death. Clearly Willy is retreating more and more from reality and from life — but what pushes him into this?
Clearly, Willy and his family live in an atmosphere of intense anxiety. In the initial scenes of Act 1, Willy has returned from a business trip because he cannot concentrate when driving, and has nearly driven off the road. The interactions between Linda and Willy are full of an unacknowledged but agonizing anxiety that pervades the whole of the play until the tragic climax. An important psychological question, though, is, "What is the source of this anxiety?"
Grandiosity and Failure
I believe the answer is found in the tension between Willy's grandiose and idealized image of greatness, and his own very real sense of failure to live up to this idealized image of himself, to be the "well-liked" man whose fame precedes him, and for whom all doors open. Willy does not dare become fully conscious of this profound sense of failure. He can only look at it indirectly, or acknowledge it glancingly in his interactions with Linda. It seems when he does do this, he expects to be re-assured by Linda, to be argued out of his feeling. Right through the play Linda enables Willy by shoring up his illusions.
Willy's Persona
In Jungian terms, Willy is firmly in the grips of a persona (Latin for "mask") or false self with which he identifies and tries to present outwardly to the world. But it is deeply at odds with who he really is, and his attempts to carry off this masquerade are costing him more and more emotionally and — dare we say it — spiritually. Willy is in a horrible dilemma: the only image he has of himself is as a "well-liked" salesman — and yet he knows that he has failed profoundly in realizing this ideal. However, there is no other sense of himself that he can find to hang onto, and so he is drowning.
So Willy does what parents often do in this kind of situation: he transfers all of his hopes for success and greatness to his sons, and in particular, onto his eldest son, Biff. However, whatever wounds Biff may be dealing with, he cannot ultimately bring himself to live out the unlived life and fantasies of his father. After initially succumbing to his father's illusory picture, Biff refuses to enable his father further, saying "we're a dime a dozen, you and I!" to Willy, which is the very thing that Willy cannot, will not accept.
The picture is further complicated for Willy by his profound regret, particularly for an incident in which he was discovered by Biff with another woman with whom he was having an affair in a hotel room. This incident has a profound and fateful effect on Biff. Miller's dialogue masterfully shows how Willy can neither really face and be honest with himself for what he has done, nor can he release himself from the torture of his regret. Finally, this regret will lead Willy to a horrific act of atonement, which is intended to restore Biff to the path of "greatness" — as imaged by Willy.
"The Woods are Burning"
What is it to be consumed by false self, by persona? What are its inner psychological effects? I believe that playwright Arthur Miller captures this powerfully in one phrase that Willy uses several times throughout the play: "the woods are burning!" In dreamwork and in fairy tales, the deep woods, which are dark and where one's view is limited, are often the image of the unconscious. The image of the woods burning, of a huge forest fire in the unconscious symbolizes the psychological reality in a profoundly eloquent way. The true self may be ignorred, and may be pushed into the unconscious, but not without powerful, often devastating consequences.
What about You and I?
The false persona and false self are real things in human life, not just art. It can be a devastating thing to live with a false sense of who one is, and without any real connection to the true self. I have had personal experience with the ways in which such an over-identification with the persona can bring a person into difficulties. I was fortunate to have the help of a good case studies to get me through that extremely difficult period.
Staying as true to the real self as possible is an ongoing process in life, a genuine psychological work. This is especially true in a society like ours, which becomes more success and image-oriented with every year, or so it seems. Are these issues which you, too, have encountered in your life, or are addressing right now?


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Polly and Her Pals: The Complete Sunday Comics Vol. 1: 1925-1927
IDW's Library of American Comics launches its new oversized hardcover "Champagne Edition" series with what historians and critics consider one of the essential masterpieces of comic strip art, Cliff Sterrett's Polly and Her Pals.
Polly and Her Pals: Complete Sunday Comics, 1925-1927 reproduces every one of Cliff Sterrett's dynamic full-color Sunday pages from 1925 to 1927 in a large 12" x 16" hardcover format so that it can be fully appreciated. The pages also include Sterrett's topper strips, Damon and Pythias and Dot and Dash.
Edited by Dean Mullaney, the book contains the detailed background and biographical material that helped earn The Library of American Comics the prestigious Eisner Award. The cover design is by two-time Emmy winner Lorraine Turner, who teams up with Mullaney on the overall book design.


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Are you an ECO POET? Climate science needs YOU
Creative writing and global warming formally allied
The dividing line between creative writing and climate science - sometimes thin - has been triumphantly dissolved. A new postgraduate course at the University of East Anglia hopes to bring together "researchers in the environmental sciences, philosophy, history and literature to develop new ways of thinking about environmental change and social transitions".
And put that thermometer down. If you have experience writing "eco-poetry", then the UEA wants to hear from you.
It's the brainchild of Mike Hulme, senior scientist at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, founder of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and IPCC lead reviewer, features in the Climategate emails.
The one-year MA/MSc in Environmental Sciences and Humanities also "aims to initiate and foster fundamental academic inquiry as well as encouraging practical and effective action."
All stirring stuff.
UEA, the heart of the Climategate emails, already runs a project in "eco poetry" aimed at primary school children, intended to "stimulate and strengthen children's environmental awareness". You can see a leaf haiku here.
It isn't cheap, though. The course costs £5,000 for UK students and £11,900 for overseas students.
Hulme's motivation is that climate is too scientific. "The new climate reductionism is driven by the hegemony exercised by the predictive natural sciences over contingent, imaginative and humanistic accounts of social life and visions of the future," he wrote.
"Whereas a modernist reading of climate may once have regarded it as merely a physical condition for human action, we must now come to terms with climate change operating simultaneously as an overlying, but more fluid, imaginative condition of human existence," he wrote in 2009.
And Hulme is nothing if not ambitious:
"The idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical, and spiritual needs."
He certainly has a way with words.
Heartless cynics at the Bishop Hill blog are describing it as a waste of taxpayer's money.
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Dustin Johnson upstaged playing partner and Grand Slam-chasing Jordan Spieth by posting a seven-under-par 65 on day one of the 144th Open at St Andrews.
Johnson, who finished second behind Spieth at last month's US Open, leads a group including Scotland's 1999 Open champion Paul Lawrie and England's Danny Willett by one shot. (BBC Sport)
The Royal and Ancient face a race against time to get the 144th Open finished on Sunday evening after play was delayed on Friday morning because of heavy rain and with 47mph gusts forecast for Saturday. Play was suspended for over three hours on Friday after five hours' worth of rain fell within 60 minutes to leave vast swathes of the Old Course under water. Head greenkeeper Gordon Moir says that 20mm of rain had fallen since 6am, with play resuming at 10am. (Telegraph)
In a supermarket car park 80 miles from the finish of Thursday's Tour de France stage something stirred from the Tour's past: a bus, a horde of reporters and television cameras, a Texan drawl. Lance Armstrong had returned to French roads, to ride the "One Day Ahead" challenge with the former England footballer Geoff Thomas, who hopes to raise £1m for CureLeukaemia. (Guardian)
Andy Murray and his Great Britain team-mates have spent the week trying to discover which of them has the best "total package". This weekend GB will be trying to prove they have much more to offer in the Davis Cup than France. (Mirror)


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Government auditors say federal officials know nothing about thousands of miles of pipelines that carry natural gas released through the drilling method known as fracking, and need to step upoversight to make sure they are running safely.
Amid the gas-drilling boom, private companies have put in hundreds of small gathering pipelines in recent years to collect new fuel supplies released through the high-pressure drilling technique.
Nationwide, about 240,000 miles of gathering pipelines ferry the gas and oil to processing facilities and larger pipelines in the major energy-producing states. Many of these pipelines course through densely populated areas, including neighborhoods in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Government Accountability Office said in its report issued Thursday that most of those miles are not regulated by the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, which means they are not regularly inspected for leaks or corrosion.
In some states, officials don't know where the lines are.
Emily Krafjack, who lives in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation in Pennsylvania, said many local residents have no idea that the pipelines near their homes are not overseen by federal regulators. Gathering lines that run in the rural northeastern corner of the state receive no federal oversight if there are fewer than 10 homes within 220 yards of the pipeline.
"Who would ever think that they could run something like this next to your home and it wouldn't have any regulations attached to it?," said Krafjack, a former community liaison for Wyoming County, Pa., on gasissues.
Nationwide, there are about 200,000 miles of gas gathering lines and up to 40,000 miles of hazardous liquid gathering lines in rural and urban areas alike, ranging in diameter from about 2 to 12 inches. But only about 24,000 of those miles are regulated, according to the report.
The industry is not required to report pipeline-related fatality, injury or property damage information about the unregulated lines. PHMSA only collects information about accidents on the small subset of gathering lines that the agency regulates, but that data was not immediately available Thursday.
The pipeline agency is considering collecting more data on the unregulated gas gathering lines, but the plans are still preliminary and have met with some resistance from the natural gas industry. Agency officials are reviewing more than 100 public comments received about their proposal for gas lines, and also plan to propose a rule that will cover hazardous liquid gathering pipelines by the fall, said Jeannie Layson, a spokeswoman for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
PHMSA delegates some enforcement of its rules to state-level pipeline safety authorities, who the Government Accountability Office surveyed to understand the array of risks associated with gathering lines.
Those state-level agencies told the auditors that construction quality, maintenance practices, unknown locations, and limited or no information on current pipeline integrity all posed safety risks for federally unregulated gathering pipelines.
The expansion of hydraulic fracturing, which involves shattering rock thousands of feet underground with a combination of water, sand and chemicals, promises staggering yields, and drilling also comes with promises of job creation and economic opportunities.
But in Fort Worth, where dozens of new gathering lines have been laid in recent years to capture supplies from hundreds of new wells, some residents say there aren't enough protections from leaks and ruptures due to corrosion.
"It's ridiculous," said Jerry Lobdill, a retired chemical engineer who lives in a Fort Worth neighborhood near several new gas wells and has several lines running near his home. "The gathering lines are unregulated, the city doesn't know where they are, and they're buried so you can't see them."
The recent surge in drilling also has led California lawmakers to write new laws to increase oversight of the industry.
Assemblyman Bill Wieckowski, D-Fremont, is sponsoring a bill now pending before a state Senate committee that would require gas and oil producers to disclose what chemicals they are using when they engage in hydraulic fracturing.
"If we're on this cusp of a boom then maybe we at the very least need to know where these lines are," Wieckowski said.


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The UN's Human Rights Council says it is "very likely" Myanmar's Rohingya minority has faced crimes against humanity and possibly genocide at the hands of Myanmar security forces and their helpers.
Addressing an urgent meeting held by the 47-member rights body in Geneva, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, described reports of "acts of appalling barbarity committed against the Rohingya, including deliberately burning people to death inside their homes, murders of children and adults; indiscriminate shooting of fleeing civilians; widespread rapes of women and girls, and the burning and destruction of houses, schools, markets and mosques".
Award-winning photojournalist Allison Joyce met Rohingya rape survivors at refugee camps in Bangladesh. IBTimes UK shares their harrowing stories of abuse at the hands of the Myanmar military.
Mumtaz Begum, 30, said that one morning the military attacked the village of Tula Toli in Myanmar and burned homes. Everyone ran and hid but the military found them. They shot her husband in front of her and as he lay dying, he asked the military for some water. They responded by shooting him again, and he died.
Then the military took her and five other women to a house, with some of their children. They started raping her and the other women and when the children screamed, they hit them in the head with machetes. They hit one of her sons, splitting his skull open, and he died. They also hit her daughter, but she survived and escaped the house.
When the military was done raping her and the other women, they set the house on fire. Mumtaz crawled through the flames and her clothes caught fire and the roof caved in, but she was the only woman who managed to escape. The other five women burned to death. She hid in the forest until a group of people found her and carried her to the border and into Bangladesh.
Mumtaz says "I want justice and I want to tell the world all the things the military did. They raped and killed us. We want justice."
Mumtaz Begum, 30, becomes emotional as she touches the wounds she received when the military set her house on fire after raping her Allison Joyce/Getty Images
Mumtaz Begum shows some of the scars she received when her burning clothes stuck to her body Allison Joyce/Getty Images
Sunuara, 25, says she had a good life in Myanmar before the attacks on 25 August. She was wealthy, with rice paddy fields, 42 cows and two cars. One day the military attacked the village of Boulibazar and soldiers came to her home.
Her husband was staying in another village with relatives and her other children were staying with her parents. Only her 16-year-old son was home with her, and in front of her eyes the military shot him in the stomach and then cut off his head with a machete. Then they tied her wrists and ankles with rope to her bedposts and nine men took turns raping her for six hours. She was eight months pregnant at the time, and the military punched and kicked her stomach. She lost consciousness and when she woke up, her husband and brother found her.
For six days they carried her to the border while she drifted in and out of consciousness. They crossed into Bangladesh where she gave birth at a hospital, but the baby died a day later.
Sunuara, 25, poses for a photo in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Allison Joyce/Getty Images
Roshida Begum, 22, says that the military threw petrol bombs in the village of Tula Toli, setting houses on fire and randomly shooting people. She fled and hid on a river bank, but the military found her and others. Her husband swam across and escaped. They shot the young boys and stole any jewellery the women were wearing. They took little children and babies and threw them into the river.
"Then they took us to a pond and made us kneel up to our necks in the water," she says. "A helicopter was circling overhead again and again. My baby was just 25 days old, but they grabbed him from my arms and smashed him on the ground so hard he died. The military took me and five other women into a house and raped us. After they were done, they slit our necks with machetes. They thought I was dead and they left and set the house on fire. I was the only one who escaped."
She hid in a paddy field and in a forest until she came across another woman and her daughter, and together they walked towards Bangladesh. For eight days they walked, surviving by drinking water from the paddy fields. They took a boat into Bangladesh and she went to the MSF clinic, where she spent 18 days recovering. Her husband found her there, and when she was discharged they moved into a camp.
In the attack, she lost her mother, father, brother, all together she lost 17 members of her family. "In Bangladesh, sometimes I'm happy, but then I'll see an old man and miss my father, or I'll see a woman with a baby, and I'll miss my son. I can't help but cry. I want justice from the world, why did they kill my mother and father and sisters? I hope the world will give me justice. They killed my parents and relatives for no reason. "
Roshida Begum, 22, shows where the Myanmar military slit her throat Allison Joyce/Getty Images
Roshida Begum shows off her scars Allison Joyce/Getty Images
Dildar Begum, 30, says the military stormed into her house in Tula Toli. They took her husband out of the house and to the river bank and shot him. Then they came back into her house and grabbed her two-year-old son from her arms and stabbed him in the head, and then they killed her four-year-old son.
Two soldiers held her arms while another raped her, she says. They then beat her and she pretended to be dead. When they left, they set her house on fire. Her 10-year-old daughter, Nurkalima was severely injured when the military beat her over the head with the blades of machetes, but she helped her mother crawl past the bodies of two of her children and out of the burning house.
For five days she hid in the hills and when the military left, she went back to Tula Toli on her way to the Bangladesh border. All that was left of her village was smoke and ash where houses used to be. There were bodies everywhere, so many that they were uncountable. She came across some men who carried her for two days to the border, where they were able to cross into Bangladesh by boat.
"I don't see any future for me here in Bangladesh. My husband is dead, who will earn money for me and my daughter? I want justice. My kids were killed, I want justice for them." she says.
Dildar Begum, 30, becomes emotional while her 10-year-old daughter, Nurkalima, looks on Allison Joyce/Getty Images
Dildar Begum's scars from being beaten over the head with a rifle Allison Joyce/Getty Images
Myanmar's army began what it called "clearance operations" on 25 August following an attack on police posts by Rohingya insurgents. Refugees arriving in Bangladesh said their homes were set on fire by soldiers and Buddhist mobs, and some reported being shot at by security forces. UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said actions by Myanmar's government to "dehumanise" the Rohingya minority were likely to fan more violence and affect more communities across the region.
Myanmar's ambassador in Geneva, Htin Lynn, denied any state efforts at "dehumanisation" of the Rohingya, saying it "could be an act of extremist individuals. My government is doing everything possible to deter these extremist acts," he said.
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This track shows genes targeted by International Knockout Mouse Consortium (IKMC) mapped to the human genome. IKMC is a collaboration to generate a public resource of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells containing a null mutation in every gene in the mouse genome. Gene targets are color-coded by status:
The KnockOut Mouse Project Data Coordination Center (KOMP DCC) is the central database resource for coordinating mouse gene targeting within IKMC and provides web-based query and display tools for IKMC data. In addition, the KOMP DCC website provides a tool for the scientific community to nominate genes of interest to be knocked out by the KOMP initiative.
IKMC members include
Using complementary targeting strategies, the IKMC centers design and create targeting vectors, mutant ES cell lines and, to some extent, mutant mice, embryos or sperm. Materials are distributed to the research community.
The KOMP Repository archives, maintains, and distributes IKMC products. Researchers can order products and get product information from the Repository. Researchers can also express interest in products that are still in the pipeline. They will then receive email notification as soon as KOMP generated products are available for distribution.
The process for ordering EUCOMM materials can be found here.
The process for ordering TIGM materials can be found here.
Information on NorCOMM products and services can be found here.
Genes were mapped to the human genome by IKMC.
Thanks to the International Knockout Mouse Consortium, and Carol Bult in particular, for providing these data.
Austin CP, Battey JF, Bradley A, Bucan M, Capecchi M, Collins FS, Dove WF, Duyk G, Dymecki S, Eppig JT et al. The knockout mouse project. Nat Genet. 2004 Sep;36(9):921-4. PMID: 15340423; PMC: PMC2716027
Collins FS, Finnell RH, Rossant J, Wurst W. A new partner for the international knockout mouse consortium. Cell. 2007 Apr 20;129(2):235. PMID: 17448981
International Mouse Knockout Consortium, Collins FS, Rossant J, Wurst W. A mouse for all reasons. Cell. 2007 Jan 12;128(1):9-13. PMID: 17218247


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Tenor recorder Canta knick baroque double hole with double key
Canta – the joy of ensemble playing
Versatile, reliable recorder ensemble with an homogenous sound, made of pearwood
Natural holding position: the "knick" (bent head) brings the instrument closer to your body; you have a significantly smaller distance to get to the lower notes.
Pleasantly clear sound – speaks easily: for use in ensembles or as a solo instrument, Canta is the model that offers versatility.
Especially resilient and reliable due to the choice of wood and robust, practical design.
Relaxed holding position due to the wellbalanced weight distribution, light construction and slender, economical design.
The tenor is the ideal instrument for anyone who already plays the soprano recorder but loves a warmer, deeper recorder sound. You don't have to relearn anything: the fingerings and notation are identical to that of the soprano recorder.
Wood type: Pearwood
Fingering: Baroque with double holes
Fingering chart: download
Range: c1 – g3
Pitch: a1 = 442 Hz
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Sean is referring to this section of the copyright statement (technically, not a terms of use), which is re-displayed from the tutorial:
Images may not be copied or offloaded, and the images and their texts may not be published. All digital images of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri are © Imaging Papyri Project, University of Oxford. The papyri themselves are owned by the Egypt Exploration Society, London. All rights reserved.Future use of the transcriptions may be hinted at a bit on the About page:
The papyri belong to the Egypt Exploration Society and their texts will eventually be published and numbered in Society's Greco-Roman Memoirs series in the volumes entitled The Oxyrhynchus Papyri.It should be noted that the closed nature of the project is likely a side-effect of UK copyright law, not a policy decision by the Zooniverse team. In the US, a scan or transcription of a public domain work is also public domain and not subject to copyright. In the UK, however, scanning an image creates a copyright in the scan, so the up-stream providers automatically are able to restrict down-stream use of public domain materials. In the case of federated digitization projects this can create a situation like that of the Old Bailey Online, where different pieces of a seemingly-seamless digital database are owned by entirely different institutions.
I will be very interested to see how the Ancient Lives project fares compared to GalaxyZoo's other successes. If the transcriptions are posted and accessible on their own site, users may not care about the legal ownership of the results of their labor. They've already had 100,000 characters transcribed, so perhaps these concerns are irrelevant for most volunteers.


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"Bread & Rolls in France" Published
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Bread & Rolls in France industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2008-12, and forecast to 2017). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the France bread & rolls market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.
- The bread & rolls market consists of retail sales of artisanal bread & rolls, in-store bakery bread & rolls and industrial bread & rolls.
- The French bread & rolls market had total revenues of $7.4bn in 2012, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.4% between 2008 and 2012.
- Market consumption volumes increased with a CAGR of 0.3% between 2008 and 2012, to reach a total of 3.4 billion kilograms in 2012.
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