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An ode to Kolkatas
colonial history
STONE pebbles are strewn all over the straight beeline paths that lead to the focal point from different directions: there stands the giant white marble tomb that is 184 ft. high, in an area of 64 acres of land in the green field near Chowringhee. Victoria Memorial symbolises the architectural essence of Italian Renaissance and cultural nuances of Oriental art. The 16-foot-high bronze Angel of Victory, revolves upon its base and surmounts the dome to remind one of the glorious past of the British Raj. The grandeur of the statue could be seen reflected on the artificial lakes that encircle the dome in the beautiful gardens of paradise. Several marble arches depicting the British Raj are there at the entrance in the south as well as northern gates.
Victoria Memorial,
the pride of Kolkata, stands as a symbol of love and respect to Queen
Victoria. This is a national Valhalla of Indo-Anglian worthies
conceived as a period museum of medieval and modern Indian history at
the turn of the century when the British empire had reached its high
It was Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of British India who had dreamt of the Victoria Memorial after the expiry of the Queen in 1901. Its foundation stone was laid by King George VI, her grandson, then the Prince of Wales on January 4, 1906. It took some 20 years to complete the memorial which was formally opened to the public in 1921.
The construction of the stately building, surrounded by an exquisite garden, covering 64 acres that cost at that time over a crore of rupees was entirely funded by the Indian subscriptions - the building was designed by William Emerson, president, British Institute of Architects, adopting Italian Renaissance with a touch of orientalism in the arrangement of the domes.
The marble used for the building of 338ft x 228 ft. and the soaring height of 184 ft. was quarried at Makrana in Jodhpur. The groups of statues ornamenting the Memorial porches and the central dome were executed in Italy.
Tourists from other states and abroad will invariably be handed over a list of sight-seeing itineraries that will include Victoria Memorial on the top. The memorial is not taken merely as a beauty spot. It has been declared a national monument and preserved as a historical document of the past. It is an apparently a British imitation of the Taj.
One has to pay a nominal Rs 2 as entry fee to the national memorial which is kept open between 10 to 5 every day during March-October and between 10-4 during November-February, with usual closure on all official holidays. Inside the campus, son-et-lumiere is being held in two different shows in Bengali and English every day evening, depicting Kolkatas past and present and its culture and heritage which has a special attraction for the tourists.
That is why, the real tourist to Kolkata would rarely miss the opportunity to visit the historical monument. It is a cultural memorial of the pre-camera days with the visuals in oil and water-colour, sketches and drawing, acquaints and lithographs, stamp and postal stationery, coins and medals, arms and armour, books and manuscripts, costumes, personal relics and archival documents of the Indo-British cultural heritage.
The single largest collection of Danniells paintings are preserved in the museum of the Victoria Memorial, where the Queens personal belongings like writing desk and fountain pen, clothes and costumes, golden ornaments etc. are there. The memorials philatelic collection on Indian postal history, the Mughal emperor Aurangzebs hand-written Koran, Dara Shikos translation of the Upanishadas, George Subbs painting of Hastings, Qazars painting of Fatah Ali Shal, Tipu Sultans personal war-diary as well as the cannon-balls of the Plassey etc have been of great attraction to all. The memorial possesses the third largest paintings in the world Vassili Verestchagins The State Procession of the Prince of Wales into Jaipur in 1876.
If the initial Curzonian scheme of collection and arrangement of the exhibits are seen as a composite representation of empire, the post-Independence collection preserved in the memorial could be termed as quest for Indian national identity which is certainly evident in the National Leaders Gallery as well as collections of their artifacts Bankim Chandras writing desk, Mahatma Gandhis ashes and Jamini Roys paintings.
The exhibits are on display in the royal gallery, portrait gallery, arms and armament gallery, the central hall, the Qeens Hall, sculpture gallery, Daniels Room, Queen Marys Room, Hastings Room, National Leaders gallery and Documents gallery are of great attraction. The unique history of three centuries in capsule form are well preserved and displayed in this historic memorial.
But like all other government-run organisations, Victoria Memorial suffers from administrative lacunae, which stands in the way of proper running and maintenance of the historical memento.As a result, the Memorial now has a shabby look and the place has been gradually turning into a common place of merry-making and fun like in a Zoo or a Botanical gardens. The marble-palace building has been also a victim of pollution hazards dust and dirt and gas emanating of the speeding motors and vehicles that run down the thoroughfares.
Every day, people who visit Victoria Memorial see the place not as history but a place for fun and merry-making.
They come, buy tickets and hurriedly make a merry-go-round the place. Some, however, would casually visit the exhibition centres and then come out to visit some other places as if they are visiting the Zoo or the millennium park near the Ganga or going round the maidan and Chowringhee areas.
There is hardly any guide present there to tell the visitors about the history of the memorial. Nor are there any easily available guide-books for the visitors, telling the history of the glorious past. The archives which preserve the rare documents and the personal belongings of the Queen and her majesties family, are always found closed.
The visitors now prefer going round the gardens, sitting and relaxing near the lakes, taking snacks and gossip to keep themselves confined inside the memorial halls. In the evening, some would buy tickets and see the son-et-lumienere (light & shades programme) on Kolkata and its glorious past.
The curator of the memorial, Prof C. Panda admits about certain inherent drawbacks that stand in the way of properly running the national museum. He says there has been shortage of guides as the recruitment of guides has been stopped on financial grounds.
He, however, discloses the memorial
was given a new look by undertaking a thorough chemical cleaning of
the domes and the memorial at a cost of Rs 1 crore. The internal
renovation work including preservation of library, museums etc. and
other valuable document has been undertaken at a cost of another Rs 3
crore, which when soon completed, will enhance the attraction of the
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Pine Island retreat on the radar
Twenty years of radar coverage from ESA satellites have been used to measure the rapid thinning of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier – and it's losing more ice than previously thought.
Pine Island is the largest glacier in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and one of the fastest ice streams on the continent. About a tenth of the ice sheet drains out to the sea by way of this glacier.
At the margins of ice sheets, ice lifts off of the land and floats out over the water as an ice shelf. Measuring these ice shelves and following their evolution is important for pinpointing the mass of an ice sheet and its contribution to changing sea levels.
But measuring them is difficult. Drilling and submarine surveys can be performed locally, but do not provide the continuous and global measurements needed for accurate monitoring.
Satellites can gather information frequently and over large areas, providing an effective means to quantify the melting of ice shelves. Radars on satellites can 'see' through clouds and in the dark, making them particularly suited for measurements over polar regions prone to bad weather and long periods of darkness.
During the course of 20 years, the orbits of ESA's ERS satellites were occasionally modified to make more frequent measurements over the polar regions. Although the ERS-1 and -2 missions ended in 2000 and 2011, respectively, their archived data are still being mined to make discoveries.
In a recently published study, the accelerated thinning and the retreat of the boundary between the ice and the ocean – the grounding line – in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier were documented using ERS radar images.
The results show that, between 1992 and 2011, the glacier's grounding line retreated by 20 km on average, reaching a maximum of 40 km in the central section. The retreat remained constant while the ice thinned by over 200 m during the 20 years.
This acceleration is consistent with increased melting driven by warming ocean water in the cavity beneath the floating section of the ice sheet.
"A first challenge in tracking the ice thinning at the ocean-ice interface is to measure the displacement of ice with enough precision to be sensitive to the tidal flexing of the ice at the grounding line, the point at which the ice becomes afloat," said Noel Gourmelen from the University of Edinburgh, co-author of the study.
"A second challenge is to discriminate between the flow of ice of about 4 km a year and the tidal flexure of about 1 m – which are both captured within a single measurement."
To do this, the scientists used 'radar interferometry', combining two or more radar images over the same area to detect changes occurring between scans.
With the frequent coverage by ERS-2 towards the end of its life, scientists were able to extract tidal flexing from the maps of ice speed.
Combined with earlier observations made by both ERS-1 and -2, they mapped 20 years of thinning ice at the Pine Island Glacier with higher accuracy than ever before.
Because the glacier's melting does not appear to slow down or stabilise at any point, the scientists believe that existing projections of sea-level rise may be too conservative: Pine Island may contribute more than predicted.
While radar imagery from the ERS satellites, as well as from the Envisat mission – which ended in 2012 – provided crucial information on the evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet, continued coverage is needed for monitoring glaciers and rising sea levels.
The upcoming Sentinel-1 mission of the Copernicus programme will routinely measure ice speed at frequent intervals, allowing for more accurate monitoring of the interaction between the oceans and ice globally. The first of the twin-satellite mission, Sentinel-1A, is due for launch on 3 April.


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COOL JUSTICE: DownBeat phenom Matt Dwonszyk all Monked up
Crank up this teenager's 2010 arrangement of "Third Plane" and feel the devotion to Ron Carter, renowned bassist with the second great Miles Davis quintet.
"Ron Carter says and shows me that he is the absolute master of his instrument and a master at making any musical situation sound good. He knows what to play and what not to play. He is extremely tasteful."
This is from Matt Dwonszyk, now 21 and on the home stretch to earn a Jazz Performance degree from the University of Hartford's Hartt School of Music. While learning Carter, he didn't have time to be intimidated.
"Third Plane," he noted, "is a bass player's song. I was practicing four hours a day - you kinda lose yourself and things come out naturally. I know I'm not gonna touch Ron Carter, but I wasn't scared."
Dwonszyk has been an up-and-coming musician since his brother Joe bought him an electric bass a decade ago, steadily emerging as among the hottest and most humble jazz bassists in Connecticut. I've watched this guy play about half a dozen times over the past four years, wondering if he was really that young, forgetting and then wondering again. Dwonszyk is one smooth, mellow dude who has engendered deep fondness and respect from his mentors, colleagues and audiences.
DownBeat Magazine, the bible of jazz, blues and beyond since 1934, honored Dwonszyk in 2010 - while he was still a student at Rocky Hill High School and Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. DownBeat cited his arrangement of Thelonius Monk's "In Walked Bud," a tribute to the pianist Bud Powell. Joining Dwonszyk in that high school combo was highly-regarded drummer Jimmy Macbride, who is now at Julliard.
Dwonszyk's emulation of Monk gave Hartt faculty including trombonist Steve Davis and bassist Nat Reeves plenty to work with. Right from the start, Dwonszyk heard something that eludes even many of those who want to hear it - the core of Monk's unmatched style of seemingly irreconcilable melodies and harmonies.
"Monk," Dwonszyk told me, "says and shows me real life through music. The beautiful things and the sad things. Every emotion you can think of is captured in Monk's music.
"You could spend your whole life trying to learn Monk. When I learned a little, I really enjoyed it ... His genius is beautiful. It inspires me as a composer and as a player. He developed his own voice. Stuff I do play, I try to say something. Ron Carter's the same thing. When you hear them you know it's Monk or you know it's Ron Carter."
Beyond helping to develop his voice, Dwonszyk said he is grateful to Davis and Reeves for sharing their professional networks and insights about demeanor and work ethic.
His various colleagues and mentors independently cite the impact of Dwonszyk's dedication to the masters. In short, this is an artist everyone wants to play with.
Alto saxophonist Kris Allen: "It's hard for me to think of very many bass players anywhere whose solos I enjoy as much as Matt's; he has so much language ... You can hear a lot of history in the melodies he plays. You can hear evidence of a lot of listening to musical elders."
Drummer Ben Bilello: "Laid back, very easy to work with, always ready to embrace a challenge ... Every time I hear him he has some new surprise up his sleeve ... It happens in his solos mainly. He'll play some stuff you don't expect to hear."
Trombonist Peter McEachern: "Deep, sincere, a fine musician, hard working ... valuable to know and work with: There is a decency to Matt that is palpable and this comes through in his music."
Pianist Jen Allen: "We would spend many late nights at the school [Hartt] playing through standards and trying new things with the standards - like trying them in different time signatures and playing around with the changes. He helped me with my own compositions - playing through things to see what would work and what wouldn't. He has such good input into what will sound good. We would play his originals as well and I was always blown away at how creative he could be ... Matt is so humble in a real way - not in some fake way."
Trombonist Steve Davis: "It has been my pleasure to work a great deal with Matt over the past few years not only in the classroom, but also on the bandstand with Ed Fast & Conga Bop, with pianist Don DePalma and vocalist Linda Ransom, and with my own quintet playing original compositions as well. Matt certainly has a very bright future. I am excited to hear where he and others of his generation take the music."
Dwonszyk plays regularly in many bands, including five that feature original music. Among the latter is The New Unity Quintet.
There's a great chance to see him in action Thursday, Feb. 14 - Valentine's Day - from 5-7 p.m. during his senior recital at the University of Hartford's Millard Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. He has cast the recital as a tribute to those who have helped him along the way, encouraging guests to "bring your Valentine."
Joining Dwonszyk will be: Jovon Alexandre, tenor and soprano saxophones; Haneef Nelson, trumpet; Andrew Renfroe, guitar; Taber Gable, piano and keyboard; and Jonathan Barber, drums. Special guests include: Frank Kozyra, tenor saxophone, Michael Pallas, trombone; and Jen Allen, piano.
Andy Thibault is a contributing editor for Journal Register Co.'s Connecticut publications and the author of Law & Justice In Everyday Life. He formerly served as a commissioner for Connecticut's Freedom of Information Commission. Reach Thibault by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cooljustice.


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Workshop 2013
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Brno, Czech Republic, 10 April 2013
|Presentation No. 1 - Signaling & Interlocking Technology Development for High Speed Lines in Czech Republic, Petr Liška, Export Manager, AZD Praha s.r.o.
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The DNG Specification has been revised and the version number incremented from 22.214.171.124 to 184.108.40.206. This is not an area of frequent change given that the format has done a good job of addressing the progress of raw formats over the last three years.(The last update was finalized in February of 2005) This update addresses several industry requirements for the DNG format including the formalization of the concept of a "camera profile" and a metadata tag to validate your image data.
The definition of a camera profile for the DNG format as well as the allowance for multiple camera profiles to be embedded in a single DNG file will provide the industry with the ability to characterize raw data in an efficient and standardized format.(Think ICC profiles but for raw data)
Additional metadata tags have been defined for the DNG format including a field to indicate a 'hash' or the integrity of the raw data within the file, providing a valuable tool for validating the safety of your image data. A DNG file is comprised of three components: raw data from the sensor, metadata to describe the raw data and an embedded preview to represent your interpretation of the raw data. (See my earlier blog post on DNG if you need more background) Writing metadata back to a standardized file format like DNG is a common operation but many are concerned about the sanctity of the image data from the sensor. The opportunity to 'fingerprint' that block of data and check it from time to time to ensure that there hasn't been any disk corruption or I/O errors is a significant step forward in ensuring the archival safety of your images. For the developer crowd, the DNG SDK has also been updated to reflect the changes to the specification.
The DNG Codec for Windows Vista users is also now available as a free download from Adobe Labs. This is our first release for the Windows Codec platform and before finalizing the release we're offering it as a 'Release Candidate' on Adobe Labs. A release candidate is a version of the technology that is nearly complete but we would like the community's help in ensuring compatibility across a wide variety of hardware and software configurations.
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In a bold attempt at youth outreach, President Barack Obama has released a new ad for Live From Charlotte — a web-only show targeted towards young voters that with air live from the Democratic Convention — that features him making a very serious and important call to the show's host, none other than Harold & Kumar's Kal Penn. John Cho (A.K.A Harold) is keeping Penn company on the other end of the line, along with a big pile of munchies and a very stoned disposition.
Penn has been working with the White House as an Asian community liaison since the 2008 election. Will they be extending his title to Head of Stoner Outreach as well?
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Bosses at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have taken aim at Naomi Campbell over reports she's planning an elephant polo match in India to celebrate her boyfriend's 50th birthday.
Campbell and her Russian billionaire partner Vladimir Doronin are planning to mark the milestone next week with a lavish bash attended by family and friends.
Guests are reportedly due to take part in several adventure sports, including an elephant polo tournament - but the party plans have angered PETA chiefs.
Spokeswoman Benazir Suraya has branded the star "clueless."
Suraya adds: "Constantly kept in chains, elephants used for polo are driven insane and exhibit signs of immense frustration, including repetitive swaying, rocking and head-bobbing. The chains also result in painful wounds and pressure sores, which often become infected."
PETA has told Britain's Daily Telegraph that they want to see the model and her boyfriend rethink their plans.
"We will urge Naomi Campbell to immediately withdraw her plans to organise this cruel 'sport' and instead work with PETA to promote elephant protection in the country," Suraya has told the British newspaper.
"PETA will also meet officials at Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) and the Wildlife Department to (urge them to) refrain from issuing any permission to allow this event."


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A Voice Whispers from the Earth
1. A voice whispers from the earth of a people fallen long ago.
Its testimony rings with pow'r and strength. To all nations shall it go.
As another witness of the Lord to come forth in our day,
The Book of Mormon is our guide on the straight and narrow way.
2. A challenge from prophets old comes today to all who search for truth.
Through humble prayer we may discover that the Book of Mormon's true.
Through fervent faith and real intent, a promise giv'n to all,
The Holy Ghost will testify that it is the word of God.
3. Today we have heard the call from a modern prophet of the Lord
To take this book we have been given to all people of the world.
From the housetops will the shout be heard: "The Book of Mormon's true!"
Then Christ the King will come with pow'r and the earth will be renewed.
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Big EDM Seals The Deal
Submerged cutting of large workpieces such as honeycomb seals for jet engines calls for a larger capacity wire cut machine.
Malcolm Schneer has always been "big" on EDM. Now big EDM, as in a machine capable of handling extremely large workpieces, is playing a major role at his shop, Swiss Wire EDM.
According to the Costa Mesa, California-based company, the catalyst for its recent acquisition of a wire machine capable of cutting parts as large as 3 feet by 4 feet by 2 feet tall fully submerged in dielectric was a job involving honeycomb seals for a jet engine. Already acutely aware of the benefits that fully submerged cutting affords, Swiss Wire EDM realized that the new machine's 24-inch cutting envelope would enable it to precisely and efficiently cut the intricate seals. This expanded capacity also held promise for processing other tight-tolerance aerospace projects.
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"There's a noticeable difference in the ability to cut a large part both quickly and accurately between attempting to force enough flushing through the kerf on a non-submerged machine and having it submerged in the DI water," Mr. Schneer explains. "There's always some dielectric present at the point of erosion so the process becomes inherently more efficient and repeatable."
How EDM Stacks Up
Walking into Swiss Wire EDM, one might notice a twinkle in the eyes of Mr. Schneer. Although the origin could very well be a spark emanating from a workpiece nearby, it's more likely his unadulterated zest for electrical discharge machining. The England native first became enamored of the technology during the 1980's when Mr. Schneer acquired the business from Franz Klarer, a Swiss toolmaker who had started up the company a few years prior. Starting with three tiny EDM machines, the shop has grown steadily to its present 19 machine capacity.
One distinguishing characteristic of Swiss Wire EDM is that it is clearly not a conventional CNC shop. Specializing in wire EDM, ram (sinker) EDM and small-hole EDM, the company produces complex prototype and production work for the aerospace, medical and commercial industries. Typical parts may have 30-degree angles and corner radii of less than 0.001 inch. Perhaps most notably, the shop has been able to differentiate itself by machining even large aerospace components. How large is large? The parts that the shop customarily processes can be as tall or even as thick as 48 inches, weigh as much as 4,500 pounds and have diameters as large as 60 inches.
Mr. Schneer has found that many of the exotic materials increasingly prevalent in aerospace applications such as titanium and molybdenum are more easily machined with EDM than with conventional machining techniques.
"EDM is wonderful for cutting out contours on 22-inch-thick mold blocks or 19-inch-thick turbine disks," he explains. "We can run these jobs through a wire machine instead of milling away hundreds of cubic inches of material, which would otherwise generate mounds of chips."
To hold the tight dimensional and positional tolerances—to ±0.0002 inch—required of both the miniature and colossal workpieces that grace the shop, Swiss Wire EDM has traditionally stretched the capabilities of its existing EDM equipment. Deeming a submerged cutting environment as the best method to cut extremely large parts accurately, the shop uses its two FX20 models from Mitsubishi EDM to hold dimensional and positional control when handling components as large as 14 inches by 19 inches, with 11 inches of submerged Z-axis height.
"Both of these machines have been modified to cut parts as tall as 48 inches," Mr. Schneer comments. "Even with only the first 11 inches, the cutting results are amazing."
In addition, the company retains its first Mitsubishi wire EDM—a 200G—along with various Agie and Charmilles models to handle the influx of challenging projects. Although the shop has found this equipment to be more than adequate for most jobs, it did not have a way to efficiently machine extremely large or extremely thick parts—some as thick as 24 inches—fully submerged in dielectric until recently when it expanded its EDM arsenal.
A Tall Order
In fact, Mr. Schneer, while always ready to expand operations, was not making any immediate plans until Rolls-Royce UK approached him to research the possibility of using EDM to trim large-diameter honeycomb seals. Snagging the actual contract hinged upon creating a controlled process and passing an onsite audit in which a Rolls-Royce representative monitored the shop for an entire week.
Honeycomb cell structures are frequently used as seals for rotary components in jet engines. In this case, the seals were to be used in Rolls-Royce's Trent 1000 jet engine for a 787 Dreamliner aircraft. (The cell material of choice is often stainless steel or another high temperature metal alloy, sometimes titanium.)
The job involved cutting both the ID and OD for the round seal. The structures could contain absolutely no burrs, rips or inconsistencies. They also required a pure edge with extreme dimensional accuracy.
Having been a Mitsubishi EDM customer since 1986, Mr. Schneer was well acquainted with the manufacturer's products. Taking into account the similarity of programming among the Mitsubishi machines and the material thickness range of the machine—it can cut pieces as thick as 26.5 inches—Mr. Schneer was confident that the shop would gain significant benefits by having one of the company's FA30V machines on its floor.
Greg Langenhorst, technical marketing engineer at Mitsubishi EDM, explains how the machine's submerged cutting envelope facilitates fast, precise cutting, particularly when handling intricate components such as honeycomb seals:
"Often aerospace parts are pre-machined pieces with complicated geometries," he says. "There may be many nooks and crannies, varying widths, gaps and so on."
"In a non-submerged machine, you only have two columns of fluid from upper and lower flush cups keeping the wire wet," he continues. "Cutting 'dry' doesn't allow the entire workpiece to get wet at once. Therefore, you have to slow down to keep some kind of water in between the wire and workpiece so it doesn't break, as hot sparks can jump onto a dry surface and easily break the wire. In a submerged environment, however, you have more liquid to work with, meaning that you can use more power behind the wire and cut the workpiece faster."
To distribute ample power throughout its machining range, the FA30V uses a V500 power supply. In addition, its programmable fluid control system is designed to enhance fast machining. Machine features such as these have allowed Swiss Wire EDM to meet the tolerance requirements of the honeycomb project without having to resort to extreme measures.
"One of the beauties of EDM is that you can cut honeycomb quickly and burr-free at the same time," Mr. Schneer explains. "Whereas conventional shops might have to take exotic measures, such as freezing water in the honeycomb cells to bolster the structure during cutting, we need only use a wire or an electrode to cut them efficiently."
For Lightweights, Too
Aside from its heavyweight projects, Swiss Wire EDM is equally engaged in producing near-microscopic components, each of which can weigh merely a few grams. Burgeoning applications in the medical sector have brought about production challenges in terms of accuracy and surface finish requirements, as well.
So exactly how does this West-Coast shop efficiently process parts at opposite ends of the size spectrum? Moreover, how does the company consistently uphold Mr. Schneer's mandate for economic, accurate and efficient production while tackling these projects? Simply put, aside from having a high level of quality assurance and certifications, including ISO9001, AS9100B and NACAP, Swiss Wire EDM immerses itself in and continues to rely on the technology that has served it well for decades. As confirmation of this philosophy, the company is an approved vendor to not only Rolls-Royce, but also to GEAE, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, to name a few. Aersopace represents one of Swiss Wire EDM's many specialties. For instance, its Mitsubishi 90 HAs are employed to produce a cannula tube used to biopsy breast cancer. The shop processes 7,000 to 8,000 of these tubes per month for one customer alone.
"Regardless of how small or large a component is, wire EDM offers accuracy, favorable surface finishes and material economy," Mr. Schneer concludes.


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Taste and flavour normally get more attention when food is discussed, but the texture of food is equally important and our tongue is very sensitive, not only to taste and temperature, but also to the texture of food. The texture of food determines it's mouthfeel and it is related to many physical properties of the food. Wikipedia lists the following aspects of mouthfeel (click to see the full description of each aspect) which can be useful when analyzing food:
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I will barely scratch the surface of how texture can be controlled by highlighting a couple of topics and point you to further resources. Hopefully it will spark your interest and give some new ideas for you to play with in the kitchen. Those interested in a comprehensive review of food texture are referred to the CRC handbooks on food texture (volume 1: semi-solid foods, volume 2: solid foods).
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Put very simple, it's the relative amounts of air, liquid and solids that determines the texture of food. This is complicated by the fact that liquids have different viscosities. Furthermore the air, liquid and solid ratio is not necessarily constant. A liquid can solidify or evaporate, solids can melt or dissolve, and air bubbles can escape during cooking or storage. An elegant but quite abstract way of describing the complicated mixtures of air, liquids and solids found in food, is to use the CDS formalism (CDS = complex disperse systems), introduced by Hervé This.
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Texture can be controlled by temperature, pH, air/liquid/solid ratio, osmosis, hydrocolloids and emulsifiers – to mention a few. Here's some examples:
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Nibali (Astana), the 2013 Giro d'Italia champion, left it late but timed his bid to the line to perfection to secure victory ahead of a number of his rivals for the overall title.
He also claimed the race leader's maillot jaune, from stage one winner Marcel Kittel (Giant-Shimano), who endured a difficult day.
Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) had not travelled to Sheffield to view the stage but took to the front up the day's final climb, the brutally steep, 800m long Jenkin Road.
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Germany's Kittel relinquished the fabled yellow jersey without much of a defence on a challenging day for the sprinter in the Yorkshire countryside.
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The second day of racing in Yorkshire began with Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) announcing his withdrawal following his crash in Harrogate.
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The escapees were caught with just under 60km to go as the riders ascended Holme Moss, the Tour's first category two climb.
Kadri broke clear and was pursued by Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) as Kittel slipped backwards.
Froome's chief lieutenant Richie Porte punctured approaching the climb and was dragged back to the pack by Bernhard Eisel and Danny Pate as Team Sky attempted to control the pace at the front of the peloton.
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Peraud was reluctant to work with his compatriot and was swept up before Rolland's lone attempt to stay away ended with 8km to go.
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The PrepCom met in New York for a week of intersessional informal consultations from 24-28 October 1994. The purpose of this intersessional session was to give delegates the opportunity to identify areas of convergence and divergence in both the draft Programme of Action and the draft Declaration. The specific goal was to provide enough guidance both to the Secretariat and PrepCom Chair Amb. Juan Somav�a to produce an integrated negotiating text.
It was apparent from the start of this session that the Declaration must serve as the philosophical basis for the Programme of Action, and that matters of substance in the Programme of Action could not be tackled until some degree of resolution was reached on the Declaration. There was agreement that the Declaration must be infused with a strong "presidential tone," with strong commitments on the empowerment of women, the special needs of Africa and the least developed countries (which many regard as the true test of the Summit"s success) and the need for socially-responsible structural adjustment programmes. The key issue on poverty was how to make the related commitments clear, credible and realistic. In the area of employment, it was felt that there was a lack of appreciation for the implications of the economic globalization process. The most difficult issues were creation of an enabling international economic environment and implementation and follow-up. While there was general agreement that the substantive commitments must be accompanied by commitments to make the necessary resources available, much disagreement remained as to the possible sources and modalities. Likewise, few concrete proposals were generated around the issue of implementation and follow-up and the possible improvement of existing institutions.
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Hi Bernard, Thanks for your suggestions and comments. Definitely, I think there needs to be some sort of birds-eye view on the entire vocabulary ecosystem in the RDF community. Does the idea of www.vocabs.org make sense? You can comment using N-Triples syntax (Turtle to be supported), so anybody can extend a specific vocabulary. Then based on the amount of votes a specific comment gets, it will be more valuable, and it will automatically find its place in the final vocabulary: say 2 comments define the same "hasColor" property, only one has "10 points" and the other has only "2 points". The system will automatically do the filtering, and only the highest scored comments will find their place in the final vocabulary. So in essence this is very similar to opening your text editor, and writing some Turtle syntax down. The cool part is that it happens online, so other people can immediately comment and validate what you wrote. Thanks, Luca On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Bernard Vatant <firstname.lastname@example.com > wrote: > Hi Luca > > Welcome to the vocabularies galaxy. I cc to the public-vocabs list, which > might be more relevant for this topic. > > Seems to me the best ways to learn to write (a little) is to read (a lot). > Books, apps, tutorials and so on are fine. But above all, read vocabularies > to figure out from examples done by people who know just a bit more than > you do. You have more than 300 examples listed in the Linked Open > Vocabularies data base [1], including the famous wine ontology developed > along with the OWL recommandation [2] > As for your idea of collaborative construction, I think it's worth the > try, you'll see how it flies. The vocabularies are a critical part of the > linked data ecosystem (their genetic code, sort of), raising complex > technical and social issues, and a global governance model still to be > invented. Next Dublin Core conference in September will focus on this issue > [3] > > Regarding the complexity of building and publishing a vocabulary, after > years of struggling with Protege and other ontology editors, I've come to > the point that if you're not building a complex ontology with thousands of > axioms, but a basic vocabulary with typically 10-20 classes and a similar > number of properties, without fancy logical constructs, you just need a > good text editor and learn a bit of Turtle, and for publication rely on > public stylesheets or cool services such as Parrot. > The only tricky (just a bit) part being the server configuration for > content negotiation, but that's not very big deal either. > > It figures that we (the linked data vocabularies community) definitely > should provide a good tutorial on "Publish your simple vocabularies using > Turtle". I should put that on my backburner, actually. > > Best regards > > [1] http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov > [2] http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/details/vocabulary_vin.html > [3] http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2013 > > 2013/2/14 Luca Matteis <email@example.com> > >> Dear all, >> >> It's my first time here, but I've been attracted to the Linked data >> initiative for quite a while now. A couple of weeks ago I needed to build >> my first RDF vocabulary.. I cannot tell you how hard this process was for >> an RDF newbie as myself. I had to read a couple of books, and read a lot >> all over the web before I could get a grasp of it all. >> >> Even after understanding the linked-data context, and how the >> technologies involved worked, I was still left with a set of tools that I >> thought were pretty limited. I had to download apps, that did or didn't >> work. And learn various different programming APIs to generate the RDF that >> I wanted. I can only imagine the difficulty a non-techie person would have >> when trying to build a vocabulary. >> >> Another issue that I confronted when looking for existing vocabularies, >> was that most of the time they were created by a single entity (a group of >> people) that knows about the lexicon of the subject. I think this is quite >> limited as well. A vocabulary should be open and agreed upon a group of >> people. It should be community-driven. It should be crowd-sourced and >> validated, the same way correct answers are validated on Stackoverflow. >> >> So in a couple of days I built http://www.vocabs.org/ that does exactly >> this. It allows people, with very little technical experience, to start >> creating vocabularies (entirely through the web-interface). Not only that, >> but different users can then join and comment, and add new vocabulary >> terms. 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I keep encountering moments with friends and colleagues when someone is struck suddenly with a very unhappy tummy, and is in need of quick digestive aid, for a little help when — oops! someone ate wheat bread and shouldn't have, to help with gas troubles, some weird food combination that left a tummy churning, you name it. The digestive system is of course extremely important to our overall health and well-being, and when there is imbalance, one can even develop depression or anxiety troubles. But right now I am just going to address a group of herbs called carminatives. Essentially, a carminative is an herb that helps expel gas. So using a carminative is more of an acute treatment, though it can be part a long-term strategy to help with chronic digestive woes of any kind. Maybe that sounds icky, the thought that – gasp – your body might in fact have moments when gas is produced, but let's face it, we all have "moments" and certainly our children too. At those times, carminatives can be of great assistance, and should always be in your herbal arsenal. I will list some wonderful carminatives to have on hand in the space below, but I also want to point out two ready-made tinctures (alcohol or glycerite extracts) that are fabulous for kids and/or adults.
1. Chamomile. Yes! it's also a nervine, and therefore great for calming your nervous system, but this delicate apple-spiced tisane (water infusion) has a time-honored tradition of soothing the digestive system. It is especially frequently used for children with its mild, sweet taste, gentle action, and comforting aroma. Chamomile is easily incorporated into a regular routine for adults and children alike and one can include other tasty nervine-carminatives to this blend such as lavender.
2. Lemon Balm. Like many other mints, lemon balm contains a high quantity of volatile oils that work to ease digestive woes. Lemon Balm, with its bright, lemony fragrance, also helps lift the spirits, so if Seasonal Affective Disorder AND tummy complaints are your bane, this is a great herb for you. It is worth noting that fresh lemon balm works best for the nervous system support but dried will help with digestive woes just as well as the fresh herb.
3. Fennel. Known for its mild anise or licorice flavor, all parts of the fennel plant are edible and provide digestive relief. I often keep the seeds on hand with this purpose in mind, and as it is also a great galactagogue (helps promote milk flow in breast feeding women), this is a wonderful herb of choice for women who are pregnant, post-partum, or nursing and experiencing both tummy trouble and the desire to support their milk flow. IT also soothes colic (because of the digestive connection) and so it is great to impart to baby via breast milk or as a water-infusion via spoon or eye dropper.
4. Cinnamon / Cassia. Usually what we think of as cinnamon is actually cassia, a close cousin. True cinnamon is sweeter than cassia, which can have a notably hot taste. The volatile oils are what usually give carminatives their power and both cinnamon and cassia have them in spades, so both are useful for digestion. Cinnamon & cassia are also energetically warming and can work as a 'catalyst' to enable other herbs to work better, and to stimulate digestion when food choices have been energetically damp or someone is convalescing. It is worth noting that cinnamon has also shown quite a bit of promise for people with diabetes, as it appears to stimulate insulin activity, helping the body to process sugar more efficiently.
5. Peppermint. I can't neglect the power of menthol, the source of peppermint's unmistakeable flavor. Spearmint is a milder mint that can be used almost interchangeably with peppermint, but if you source good quality dried peppermint, you will be astounded by how intense the flavor is. Mint is very easy to grow and root. I actually picked some from my garden this January, as there was still some (amazingly!) hanging on, and rooted it in my kitchen where it is now happily growing in a sunny window. Peppermint is stimulating and can perk up the mind and the senses, making this a good herb to use to start your day, get your brain in gear, and forge on to new adventures.
Naturally I have many other carminative loves, but for now, I'll just leave you with those top choices. I would also be remiss in not pointing out Herbalist & Alchemist's Kid's Tummy Relief, an absolutely wonderful glycerite formula that tastes delicious and can really help out a kid's tummy in a pinch. Okay, I keep some in strategic places for myself too, but grown-ups deserve tasty too, right? Another must? Ginger extract (alcohol): I always always always keep a bottle of this in my office, my car, and my home, as it is essentially herbal first aid for myriad complaints.
Feel free to share some of your carminative loves and natural digestive aids!


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One thing I've learned since quitting my job as a first grade teacher and serving my family full time, is that you should surround yourself and your family with things you love. Decor that represents who you are! So many times I have bought something just to fill a space on the wall….picking something out that was nice, not because I loved it….not because it made me feel a certain way…but just because I needed something right there. But what ends up happening is that you take it down, store it in the garage for, ohhhhh 8 months and finally give it away:0) I promised myself in this house and attempting to make a cozy and warm place for us, I would use decor that I loved, that represented our family, and also told a story:0)
When Reggie and I had our first little guy Kel, he couldn't wait to take us to his hometown, San Juan, Puerto Rico to visit his dad,aunt, uncles, cousins and his Mimi…
*Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States. It's citizens have all the voting rights and benefits of American citizens. So YES Reggie is an American citizen. :0) You wouldn't believe how many people don't know that! lol!
She cooked us lots of yummy food, spent sometime with her 4th great grandchild and we all made some special moments:0) But about 5 months later Reggie's Mimi passed away. Reggie was so heart broken as so was the rest of his family. While he was out there to lay her to rest he was able to pick up some things from her house to remember her by. One of the things he ended up taking was her set of keys. He told me that he remembered visiting his grandmother every summer and her shuffling to the gate to open it up for them. He could remember the jingle along with her smile as she greeted them at the door. I remember him telling me this story and being in awe of the love he had for her.
So the other day while I was cleaning out the kitchen drawers I found her keys. I knew I couldn't just toss them because they meant so much to Reggie, but it was such a shame to keep them in a drawer for another year, so I decided to put them on display in our home and gift them to him as a special Father's Day gift. And if anyone every asked what they were or what "this" was, Reggie could proudly tell the story of his Mimi and how special she was to him.
I order some vinyl lettering from Miss Shelley , used some 1×3's from a left over project, some brass hooks, paint and went to work!
I had know idea what the keys were from so I just imagined what she must have used them for. In the bunch of bronze keys there was one big silver key….I imagined it was a key she left for us all…..the key to HEAVEN…always attainable…always available. All we have to do is accept Jesus into our hearts, pick up the cross and follow him!
I am still looking for the perfect spot to display her keys but for now it hangs in our living room for all to see! Reggie stared at it for awhile reminiscing about his childhood and the Puerto Rico summers with his Mimi:0)
Happy Father's Day, to a man that is such an inspiration to me and my biggest fan, an amazing father and a man who is after God's own heart…love you babe:0)


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Bellator Fighting Championships has unveiled one of its most star-studded preliminary cards to date for Saturday's Bellator 37 event.
While the night's MTV2-broadcast main card features the opening round of the eight-man featherweight tournament, the local crowd will be treated to some other notables.
They include UFC vets Jake Rosholt and Roli Delgado, as well as WEC vet Jameel Massouh.
Bellator 37 takes place at Lucky Star Casino in Concho, Okla.
The featured preliminary-card attraction pits Rosholt (8-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC), a three-time NCAA Division I national champion at Oklahoma State University who went 2-2 in the WEC and UFC, against fellow middleweight John Bryant (4-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC), a Kansas-based fighter who makes his Bellator debut.
In a lightweight bout, undefeated Oklahoman Jeremy Spoon (8-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC), who owns eight stoppage victories (seven via submission), meets Jerrod Sanders (2-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC), a fellow Bellator newcomer.
In a lightweight matchup, Brandon Shelton (15-5 MMA, 0-0 BFC), who went 11-1 from 2006 to 2009, looks to snap out of a 1-3 skid when he meets Adam Snook (2-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC), who's won via first-round rear-naked choke in his past two fights.
Kicking off the night's action are two well-established fighters: "The Ultimate Fighter 8" cast member and three-time UFC fighter Roli Delagado (9-5-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and three-time WEC fighter Jameel Massouh (25-7 MMA, 1-0 BFC), who owns a four-fight win streak that includes a Bellator 29 submission win over Nick Mamalis.
The full Bellator 37 card now includes:
- Patricio "Pitbull Freire vs. Georgi Karakhanyan (featherweight-tourney quarterfinal)
- Zac George vs. Wilson Reis (featherweight-tourney quarterfinal)
- Kenny Foster vs. Eric Larkin (featherweight-tourney quarterfinal)
- Nazareno Malegarie vs. Daniel Straus (featherweight-tourney quarterfinal)
- John Bryant vs. Jake Rosholt
- Jerrod Sanders vs. Jeremy Spoon
- Brandon Shelton vs. Adam Snook
- Roli Delgado vs. Jameel Massouh
For more on Bellator 37, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
(Pictured: Jake Rosholt)


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Hurtling Toward the Climate Cliff
Forecast the Facts just sent me this email, and I have to post it in its entirety:
Someone finally said it. It seems like all anyone can talk about lately is the 'fiscal cliff,' a manufactured crisis that Congress could end in an instant. Meanwhile, no one has been talking about the real cliff we're hurtling towards: the threat of unabated fossil fuel pollution to our global climate.
I guess Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) finally decided he'd heard enough. He decried his climate change-denying colleagues in a rousing speech on Wednesday, and you just have to see what he said:
Certainly not the the first time Sen. Whitehouse has called out the fossil-fueled GOP's deliberate campaign of deception on the issue.
The email goes on to say:
Senator Whitehouse's words ring true: in the face of deafening climate silence, it's bizarre and sad to hear our leaders express concern for our children and grandchildren, then watch them ignore the climate crisis. John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and other prominent politicians want us to think the fiscal cliff is about saving future generations from economic ruin, but they never hesitate to push us ever closer to the climate cliff.
Congress created the 'fiscal cliff' through a budgetary maneuver last year, and they can avoid it just as easily.
By contrast, we have been hurtling toward the climate cliff for a long time now. Scientists have warned for decades that the rogue fossil fuel industry risks rendering the world hostile to human civilization. If we don't act immediately, as Senator Whitehouse said, the greatest cost will be on future generations, but the shame will be on us.
Tell Congress to join Sen. Whitehouse and turn away from the climate cliff
The email from Forecast the Facts also included a link to the full text of Sen. Whitehouse's speech. I've pasted that transcript below (emphasis mine):
Sheldon Calls Out Climate Deniers in Senate Speech
Mr. President, last week I spoke about our nation's military and intelligence leaders acknowledging, along with our nation's scientific leaders, the clear evidence that carbon pollution is changing our climate.
Unfortunately, there is confusion among many Americans regarding this scientific consensus, confusion caused by deliberate and coordinated attempts to mislead the American people.
For more than two decades the climate denial movement has been well organized and funded by the fossil fuel industry and conservative ideologues and foundations. The mission of these paid-for deniers is to 'manufacture uncertainty,' to manufacture doubt, so the polluters can keep polluting.
This isn't new. We've seen self-serving strategies like this one before: they questioned the merits of requiring seatbelts; they questioned CFCs causing the deterioration of the ozone layer; they questioned the toxic effects of lead exposure; and they questioned whether tobacco was bad for you—same strategy to manufacture doubt; often the same cast of characters.
While the Congress of the United State has been distracted and deceived by these ploys, climate change marches on. Precious time is wasting. In the balance hang lives and jobs. This nonsense has gone on long enough.
The public is being misled. Special interest dollars pull the strings of sophisticated campaigns to give the public the impression that there is a real scientific debate regarding whether or not climate change is happening. There isn't. The scientific debate is about how bad the changes will be.
To manufacture the doubt, skeptics with little training in climate science are promoted as 'experts.' Front groups such as the Global Climate Coalition, Information Council for the Environment, Heartland Institute, Annapolis Center, and Cooler Heads Coalition are created or enlisted to propagate the message of doubt. They question the motives and engage in harassment of the real, credentialed climate scientists.
For the record, there has been scientific debate regarding climate change. Ideas have been tested, theories have been ventured, and the evidence keeps coming back to the same conclusion: increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from human-related sources is strengthening the greenhouse effect, adding to recent warming, and acidifying the oceans. Actually, the evidence coming in tends to confirm the worst and most dangerous projections.
Claims that solar activity is causing recent global warming, and about whether the atmosphere is really warming, have been settled.
When the scientific research doesn't work out for the skeptics, they turn to straw man arguments. One straw man is that extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and droughts, aren't proof of climate change. Let's be clear. No credible source is arguing that extreme events are proof that our climate is changing. But they are associated with what has been staring us in the face for years: the average global temperature is increasing; average sea level is rising; and average ocean acidity is increasing. When averages change extremes usually change with them; the warming climate 'loads the dice' for extreme weather.
One gimmick they have reverted to is the observation that there has been no warming trend in the last ten years. In 2010 a Republican Senator said 'I don't think that anyone disagrees with the fact that we actually are in a cold period that started about nine years ago.' Let's look at the facts. [Show chart with fitted trend] The green line is the global surface temperature data. The red line shows the trend. The trend line is the product of basic and undeniable mathematics, by the way. [Show chart with stepped line] But here's how the deniers manipulate the same data: the last step is the cold period my Republican colleague mentioned.
This is only a recent portion of the temperature record. When skeptics look deeper into the past, they find even more straw men: the earth's climate always changes; it's been warmer in the past. Yes, the earth has seen different climates in the past, not ones we'd want to live in necessarily! The reason we know about these climates is because of the excellent work done by scientists, the same scientists who tell us recent climate change can only be explained by increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
And then there is this classic: more carbon in the atmosphere is good because it provides more food for plants. Ah, the Plant Food Theory.
The fact is that we have changed the composition of our atmosphere, pushing the concentration of carbon dioxide beyond where it has been for 8000 centuries. To give you a timescale of 8000 centuries: the practice of agriculture has been around for 100 centuries; modern humans began to migrate out of Africa about 600 centuries ago; Homo sapiens have been around about 2000 centuries. 8000 centuries. For all that time, we never reached carbon dioxide concentrations like what we've caused now, through human activity.
Deniers tend to ignore facts they can't explain away. For example, the increasing acidification of the oceans is simple to measure and undeniably, chemically linked to carbon concentrations in the atmosphere. So we hear nothing about ocean acidification from the deniers.
Ocean acidification is possibly the most disastrous consequence of carbon pollution. The rate of change in acidity of our oceans is already thought to be faster than any time in the past 50 million years. A paper published this March in Science concluded that the current rate of carbon dioxide emissions could drive chemical changes in the ocean unparalleled in the last 300 million years. When you consider the implications for food security, biodiversity, and ocean-based industries, we cannot ignore these changes in our oceans. Just last Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proposed listing 66 species of coral as endangered or threatened — and cited climate change as driving three key threats: disease, warmer seas and more acidic seas.
Here's what I think is worth reminding the deniers, in the words of NASA:
On global temperature rise: 'All three major global surface temperature reconstructions show that Earth has warmed since 1880. Most of this warming has occurred since the 1970s, with the 20 warmest years having occurred since 1981 and with all 10 of the warmest years occurring in the past 12 years. Even though the 2000s witnessed a solar output decline resulting in an unusually deep solar minimum in 2007-2009, surface temperatures continue to increase.'
On ocean temperature and sea level rise: 'The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 2,300 feet… showing warming of 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969. Global sea level rose about 6.7 inches in the last century. The rate in the last decade, however, is nearly double that of the last century.'
On ocean acidification: 'Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent. This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere… The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is increasing by about 2 billion tons per year.'
NASA scientists put a man on moon and a rover on Mars. They're not the quacks. Our nation's best and brightest minds accept the evidence of climate change, and are urging us to act. Yet still for some in this body, the deniers carry the day.
Why? Well, in a weekend editorial titled Flight from Facts, my home-state Providence Journal said: '[The] GOP is winning the race to avoid evidence – some of this escapism based on a desire to hold on to what had been comforting, if error-based, traditional beliefs, and some of it to avoid policies that might be economically and otherwise inconvenient.' And the price of our folly will be very, very high for future generations.
When it is a question of putting the cost on our children and grandchildren of taking care of their grandparents, how the Republican crocodile tears of intergenerational equity flow! In one of their attacks on Medicare and Social Security, which the Republicans like to call 'entitlements,' we heard this: 'We have got a serious spending problem here… And we need to have an impact on entitlements…If we're going to have entitlements for our children and grandchildren when they reach retirement age, we have got to change the trajectory.'
The Minority Leader has also spoken about what appears to be the health care bill, and worried about it 'creating a more precarious future for our children.'
He's said about the stimulus effort to get our economy back on its feet: 'This needs to stop for the future of our country and for our children and for our grandchildren.'
When it's the deficit, he's urged us 'to make sure that we have the same kind of country for our children and our grandchildren that our parents left for us.' He's even talked about, and I quote, 'the Europeanization of America,' and as a result of that Europeanization of America 'our children and grandchildren could no longer expect to have the same opportunities that we've had.'
On virtually every traditional anti-Obama Republican Tea Party bugbear – Medicare, Obamacare, the stimulus, the deficit – even this Europeanization of America – out come the children and grandchildren. Let's assume they are sincere; let's assume they have a sincere concern for what is left for our children and grandchildren.
So, when it comes to big corporate polluters of today leaving our children and grandchildren a damaged and more dangerous world, where then is the concern for those children and grandchildren? To have children and grandchildren pay for the care of their grandparents through Medicare and Social Security is a sin and an outrage. To force on them the untold costs and consequences of the harms done by today's corporate polluters? For that, the future generations' interests receive nothing from the Republicans but stony silence, or phony and calculated denial.
But the cost will be on them; and the shame will be on us.
I yield the floor.


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As far as I'm concerned, there is only one true Spider-Man, and that is Alrugo Entertainment's Italian Spiderman.
In this 40-minute, pitch-perfect parody of 1960s action flicks like Danger: Diabolik and bootleg superhero flicks like 3 Dev Adam and Indian Superman, the Italian Spiderman (a superhero with absolutely no arachnid powers or relationship to Peter Parker) must drink, smoke, womanize, and murder his way to justice. If he fails at his mission, the villainous Captain Maximum will conquer the globe with a mysterious asteroid!
Italian Spiderman was initially released in 2007 as a series of web shorts, but Will Spartalis, the film's co-writer and composer, has recently posted the full-length, unedited cut on the internet. If you've never seen Italian Spiderman, you really owe it to yourself.
This film is filthy with surfing contests, dance parties, psychedelic freak-outs, no-budget special effects, and invented-on-the-spot superpowers. The folks behind Italian Spiderman later worked on Danger 5, a pulpy World War II send-up for Australian television that is also worth checking out.
Semi-related: Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man go on an unauthorized adventure with the Indian superhero Nagraj.
[Spotted on Dangerous Minds]