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Regional Mortality Differences in Germany
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Regional mortality differences are one dimension of health inequalities, but its trends and determinants in Germany are widely unknown. This book examines and illustrates patterns of regional mortality in Germany—with focus on small-area differentials—and their changes over time. It identifies explanatory factors at individual and regional level. Mortality differences between eastern and western Germany exist, but small-area mortality differentials are often greater. Though the main spatial mortality patterns remain, this study provides evidence that some distinct changes in the small-area mortality patterns in Germany—especially among women—occurred within a short period of time. Mortality inequalities at younger ages and in behavior-related causes as well as differences in socioeconomic conditions contribute strongly to regional mortality differences in Germany. The book shows that the complex interplay between individual- and regional-level mortality risk factors requires a multidimensional approach to reduce regional mortality inequalities.


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Caffè Espresso
Overall Rating: 7.550
|Notes: Coffee Sales; Outdoor Seating
|Upscale, Italian-styled espresso café at the base of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel also serves typical breakfast and lunch fare. Attracts better-heeled business types with a good international tourist contingent. One of the few SF places where you can down an espresso Italian-style: standing (or sitting) at dedicated bar space. But beyond this and the Italian pop music, the authenticity ends: the food is merely decent and the espresso machine is French.
Many nicely-surfaced indoor café tables, with several outdoors along the Sutter St. and/or Powell St. sidewalks. Illy to the core - down to the staff wearing black logo shirts. Very social and friendly baristas are more like chummy bartenders. Espresso is served from a two-group UNIC ZR with a direct pour into the cup. The crema varies from a moderate, deep, and very dark brown with some lighter stripes to an even, medium brown layer of decent thickness. Moderate herbal flavor served out of designer IPA Illy cups. Though the body has been thinner since around the spring of 2005 - resulting in a more watery, less flavorful cup. Still, pretty good for imported roasted coffee. And when it comes to milk-based drinks, it is particularly good if you like "dry," frothy cappuccino. [CLOSED: As of Feb 2008 after 14 years in business. By 2009 it was the Sir Francis Drake Starbucks - yet another bit of local color lost to the bland and ubiquitous.]

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Hey all,
I recently bought a GSI 3 cup percolator for making coffee, mostly around my house and when truck camping.
Kept track of how many boils I got per 110g canister of MSR fuel, when using the new MSR PocketRocket 2 stove, so here is a 2 minute video showing everything.
This post first appeared at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/7935418
Thanks for reading,
+John Abela
As of the time of this article being published I am a sponsored hiker of MSR. They sent this stove to me (had no idea it was coming, it just showed up one day) six months before release date so that I could perform pre-release testing & feedback to them (something I do throughout the year for many companies with alpha/beta/prototype products) and with zero expectation of publicly writing about it.


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Glastonbury Festival organisers have been granted a new 10-year license.
The annual event is set to continue for another decade, with the decision meaning it will run until at least 2024.
While the capacity for punters will stay at 135,000, the license allows more staff to be on hand at Worthy Farm in Somerset.
Mendip District Council said they "saw no reason not to grant the festival its new licence", while councillor Nigel Taylor said they had worked closely with organisers "to make this one of the best-run festivals in the world".
The news has been well-received by both fans and those within the festival, with Emily Eavis - the daughter of founder Michael - describing it as "fantastic".
She said: "It's so good to have a plan that will help everything at Worthy Farm move forward.
"I'd just like to say a huge thank you to all the people who have contributed so much to Glastonbury Festival over the last 44 years. I really do believe the best is yet to come."
This year's event is already starting to look stacked, with the likes of Blondie, Lily Allen and Dolly Parton confirmed to appear .


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Bonjour de Kansas City! la journée de vendredi n'est pas tout à fait finie ici alors je passe directement au rendez-vous hebdomadaire avec ma BFF Virginie qui m'attend depuis presque 24H...
listening: to silence, nice after a whole day in the car with 3 people.
reading: nothing except maps but I'm looking forward to learning more about the Santa Fe Trail.
eating: we had Kansas City style bbq tonight.
drinking: my new favorite drink on the road is Mc Donald's unsweetened ice tea.
wearing: bermuda shorts and a silk top
feeling: mad at myself for forgetting my camera cable in Hays, Kansas.
weather: hot & humid, heat index: 113F
needing: not to get too stressed out about things I have no affect on.
enjoying: this last stop in KC
wondering: what I should have done differently in the past so that my 17 yr old does not assume it is okay to scream at her parents, especially in public!
hipstamatic (July 15Th, 2011)
This is where I went to High School.
J'étais contente de retrouver mon école américaine.


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Currently, Bing Ads is testing changes to device bidding since Google decided to revert back to distinct device bidding for desktop, mobile and tablet, which was introduced back in 2013 with Enhanced Campaigns.
Bing Ads always offered more control with a tablet bid adjustment, even during the time that Enhanced Campaigns period, that could range from -20 percent to +300 percent from desktop. But now, tablets are to be completely separated from desktop.
With desktop, bids are able to be set as low as 0 percent. This means that, if you import from AdWords, negative PC bid adjustments set in campaigns will be set to 0 in Bing Ads.
This is the what the updates to bid adjustment ranges look like:
These changes are being tested in pilot now. If you're interested in participating in the pilot, email your request and your Bing Ads account numbber to [email protected], or contact your account manager.


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Content may be King, but I am pretty sure images are Queen in today's online world. It's no secret that quality text-based images are an excellent idea when business owners want to gain attention and encourage engagement via social media. But there is a method-to-the-madness when including them within blog posts. So how many images should be used per blog post? Here's the short answer; at least one, but not too many.
Clear as mud, right? Let me break it down for you:
At the Very Least One
Readers have become very spoiled and expect to see quality images within blog posts these days, specifically images that tell a story and inspires them to want to keep reading. Images can be used at the beginning of the post as an intro of sorts, within the middle of your blog post to as visual proof of an idea, product or concept, and even at the end as a final recap that ties your blog post up in a tidy little bow.
I firmly believe that all bloggers need to include at least one quality image with text per post just to add color and light to the story.
So, how many images do you really need in your post? Find out more…


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How is the OPC different from the Bible Presbyterian Church? What does it mean when your website says that the BP Church is more fundamentalist and evangelical, whereas the OPC is more Reformed?
The Bible Presbyterian Church separated from the OPC in 1937 over the issues of premillennialism and the beverage use of alcohol. Relations are now very cordial. The OPC frequently receives official greetings from the Bible Presbyterian Church, and there have been some moves in recent years toward bringing the two denominations together. For further information contact Dr. George W. Knight, who chairs the Committee on Ecumenicity and Interchurch Relations.
In general, fundamentalists hold to the fundamentals of the faith and may not emphasize so much the distinctives of the Reformed faith: the five points of Calvinism, covenant theology, that "God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are in any thing contrary to His Word; or beside it, if matters of faith or worship" (Westminster Confession of Faith 20:2). The OPC takes no position on the various millennial views, and leaves the issue of the moderate use of beverage alcohol up to the individual conscience.
"Questions and Answers" is a weekly feature of the OPC website. The answers come from individual ministers in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church expressing their own convictions and do not necessarily represent an "official" position of the Church, especially in areas where the Standards of the Church (the Scriptures and the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms) are silent.
The questions come from individuals like yourself. If you have questions about biblical and theological matters, you are invited to send them by e-mail by using the "Pose a Question" link on the OPC home page or by clicking here.
At least one new question is posted each week, so there should always be something new here for you to read. (For those people who would like to look at previous questions and answers, they will continue to be available as well.)
The purpose of the OPC website's "Questions and Answers" is to respond to biblical and theological questions. Matters of church discipline, disputes, or debates go beyond the scope of our work. We recommend that you present your concerns in these areas to the appropriate judicatory. In most cases this will be to a local pastor, elder, or session. We do not want the website to replace personal involvement in, or commitment to, the local, visible church.
While we will respond to every serious questioner, we are not bound to give a substantive answer to every question, should we deem the question to be beyond the scope of our purpose or our own ability to answer.
You will receive an answer by e-mail. Please be patient as many of our respondents are busy pastors. The response to your question may take up to two (2) weeks. Some of the questions submitted will be chosen to be posted here, along with the corresponding answers.
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A Happy, Scary New Day for Design
October 15, 2000
By HERBERT MUSCHAMP
IT is scary to be living at a time when a particular creative field
grips the public imagination as powerfully as design has in recent
years. I can't recall anything like it since the late 60's and
early 70's, when movies and pop music exercised a magnetic hold on
the minds of baby boomers. Today, the vigor pulses through fashion,
furniture, art direction, graphics and product and image design
with a similarly captivating verve. Design has taken on its own
life, and this raises a problem often encountered in consumer
culture. The energy is pure delight. But can we turn it off?
The new economy has been the major stimulus for the design
phenomenon. Its most conspicuous expressions are appliances for
data exchange computers, cell phones, personal organizers,
digital cameras and the software programs and communications
systems to which they are linked. Another stimulus emanates from
the world of medicine: designer drugs, genetic engineering,
cyber-prosthetics and advanced techniques in cosmetic surgery.
As expressions of The New, these products have inherited the myth
of progress, modernity's defining legend. This is not the first
time design has embodied that myth. In the early 20th century, the
old economy (machine age) myth revolved around cars, ships, planes
and other mechanized forms of transportation. But the myth also
reshaped the face of buildings, fashion, decoration, paintings and
other conventional forms. The new economic myth is having a similar
impact. In addition to generating snazzy new shapes for laptops and
hand-helds, this myth is transforming the look of buildings,
interiors, books, landscapes, advertisements and other traditional
forms of design.
Environmentalists use the term ecotone to describe the area where
two adjacent ecosystems a wetland and a forest, say overlap.
The ecotone has an ecology of its own. It can support forms of life
not found in either of the adjacent systems. Today there exists the
cultural equivalent of an ecotone between the old and new
economies, between the culture of industrial production and that of
informational exchange. Design today is flourishing in this region.
Its symbol is the veil, a graphic device that conveys the
conflicting desire to conceal and reveal.
Shadow, translucency, reflection, refraction, dappling, stippling,
blurring, shimmering, vibration, moire, netting, layering,
superimposition: these are some of the visual devices used to
render the veil in contemporary design. Recent examples include the
Apple G4 Power Cube; shadow niches in the walls of the British
architect John Pawson; the spring 2001 collection by the fashion
designer Helmut Lang; curtains by the Dutch designer Petra Blaisse;
a new book, "Life Style," by the Canadian graphics designer Bruce
Mau. His book, which is to be published next month, is an ideal
opportunity to examine the significance of the veil as a
contemporary design motif.
"Life Style" (Phaidon, $69.95) is one long Salome's dance. A
627-page strip tease performed with an endless variety of veils,
the book tantalizes readers with glimpses into the thinking of one
of the most creative minds at work in design today. Book covers,
posters, videos, exhibitions, collaborations with architects,
editors, filmmakers, performance artists and writers: Mau's
projects in these and other media are graphically documented in a
book that presents itself as a manifesto as well as a monograph.
You should not skip over the written portions, for these make
clear that Mau does far more than bombard people with alluring,
decontextualized images. "Life Style" is a designer's celebration
of the book. Mau champions books at a historical moment when print
culture is thought to be vanishing into the new economy's trash
compactor. In this sense, Mau is picking up the threads of his
fellow Canadian, Marshall McLuhan, and weaving them into a
counterargument against McLuhan's prophecies of the book's doom.
While perceived by some as trendy, Mau has a staunchly traditional
attachment to the printed page.
Recently, Mau mentioned to me that graphic design is a young man's
game. Now at 40, perhaps he sees "Life Style" as a summary of his
work in a field he is preparing to quit. More likely, his comment
simply reflected his commitment to working in the present.
Contemporaneity the atmosphere of the present is Mau's product.
It is easy to see him selling it in the many media he has yet to
Mau, who is based in Toronto, is best known to date as Rem
Koolhaas's co-author of "S,M,L,XL," the acclaimed 1998 monograph on
Koolhaas's buildings and ideas. Though the architect's work
provides most of the book's content, Mau gets equal billing for the
project: on the book's cover, the two names appear in type of equal
size. The collaboration sent a message. Form and content are not
fully divisible. A book's design, particularly when its content is
visual art, should match the intelligence of its subject and even
interact with it throughout the course of production. An enriched
sensibility may emerge along the way. This is the message Mau has
been sending from the outset of his career.
His professional present began in 1985 with the publication of
Zone 1/2, a soft-cover anthology of writings on the contemporary
city. He designed a cover of blue and dark blue squares arranged in
a tight mosaic pattern that evoked satellite surveillance
photography. The letters of the title were made from perforated
dots that revealed the flamingo pink of the page beneath.
Zone 1/2 s reprinted in "Life Style" in its entirety, a
book-within-the-book laid out on five double-page spreads. The
print is too small to read. It registers as a series of thumbnail
scrims, periodically punctuated with photographs, maps and other
graphic devices. These create the effect of small explosions in the
text, the visual equivalent of urban events.
Mau's sensibility is resolutely urbane: the artistic quality of
his work is more essential to him than its commercial success. By
the standards of academic publishing, however, Zone 1/2 was quite
successful, and this led to the launching of Zone Books, a
publishing co-venture with MIT Press. Edited by Jonathan Crary,
Michel Fehrer and Sanford Kwinter, the imprint has specialized in
visual art and urban culture, new titles as well as classic studies
in these fields by authors like Panovsky and Batailles.
Since 1990, Mau has designed books in a similar vein for the Getty
Research Institutes Publications Program, under the direction of
Julia Bloomfield. In 1992, he was hired by Chee Perlman to redesign
I.D. magazine, a trade publication that under Perlman's editorial
direction became the leading chronicler of contemporary design.
Mau is now the imprint's imprint. There is a characteristic Bruce
Mau look. It didn't come out of nowhere. Rauschenberg's
silkscreens; color field paintings by Lewis, Frankenthaler and
Olitsky; the pointillism of Seurat: these are some obvious visual
precedents for the superimposed veils of image and text that one
encounters throughout Mau's print work. Too, his approach echoes
the visual/textual collage aesthetic of "The Medium Is the
Massage," the 1966 paperback by McLuhan and the graphic designer
Quentin Fiore. This book has become a classic for the wired
WHAT emerges in the pages of "Life Style," however, is not just a
distinctive aesthetic a Mau brand but the consistently high
level of cultural sophistication represented by his clients. His
roster consists almost exclusively of high-end publishers and
cultural institutions. This focus, as well as the intelligence of
his own work, is responsible for Mau's own lifestyle, the
professional image Mau currently projects.
To put it another way, Mau's reputation rests on the ingenuity
with which he blurs the boundaries between picture and text. He
operates in an ecotone between print and visual culture. From that
position, Mau perceives the distortions that images and words can
separately impose on our view of the world. Mau is powerless to
correct these distortions. But he can call attention to their
presence. And he can provoke us toward skepticism about their
claims to truth. That is the function of Mau's veils.
The veil evokes a universe of metaphors. Religious: maya, the
veils of illusion; the veil of the temple; the glass we now see
darkly through; glory be to God for dappled things.
Political: the deceptions practiced on a grand scale by public
officials, particularly at election time.
Economic: the use of advertising and public relations to screen
consumers from consumerism's unsavory effects.
Philosophical: the shadows in Plato's cave; the borders between
our private worlds and the public realm we share.
Psychological: mental structures denial, desire, dissociation
that enable us to filter, focus or ignore feelings, knowledge and
The veil design motif brings all these connotations into play.
With the Apple Power Cube, we see through a glass, darkly, but on
the Internet we shall see each other virtually face to face. In
advertisements, the Cube is presented as the embodiment of
omnipotence and omniscience, an entity whose name we almost dare
not utter. The inner and outer enclosures create an ecotone of
color, a silver shade generated by the laying of clear plastic over
From the exterior, the Cube is a pure product of what used to be
called industrial design. Even its abstract, geometrical shape
harks back to the Bauhaus-influenced products displayed in the Good
Design shows organized in the 50's by the Museum of Modern Art. The
innards, easily removed by means of a handle, represent the
increasing miniaturization of information-age technology. The
Cube's inner and outer enclosures symbolize an interface between
the old and new economies.
"Silver makes everything disappear," Andy Warhol remarked apropos
the d cor of his 47th Street studio. The tone of the G4 nudges this
technology-packed device toward immateriality. So does the silence
of its fan-less operation. Perhaps this is not, after all, a
machine, but a box of emptiness, a chunk of force-field that has
been captured from the event-horizon of a black hole and returned
to earth, where its power to warp time, space and gravity has been
harnessed to serve consumer needs.
The Cube plays off against the infinite variety of forms in which
other computers come packaged, and the ceaseless abundance of
images that materialize on its dematerialized flat screen. The Cube
is a rounded-off Platonic solid. Its speakers play the music of the
spheres. On the screen a veil of pixels everything is changing,
morphing, mutating, pointillistic. The Cube transcends change.
Helmut Lang's clothes display the rigor, consistency and
playfulness of a philosophical system. But what is the philosophy?
Some garments in his new collection have been compared to bondage
attire. Featuring strips of cloth, tightly woven around the torso,
they could also be seen as resortwear for mummies. Lang himself
said his inspiration came from pictures of insects. Both
interpretations are true. Fashion is a convention for
simultaneously loosening and defining the boundaries between an
individual and the social and natural environments in which she
moves. It is a form of bondage, but one that the wearer is free to
change or discard at any moment. Indeed, part of the bondage of
fashion is that the cut and color of the boundaries must be changed
as often as possible. They have, at most, an insect's life span.
Norbert Elias, author of "The Civilizing Process," used the term
homo clausus, the conventional sociological image of the individual
as a self-contained entity. Just because human organs are contained
within the skin, it does not follow that a self is likewise
circumscribed. On the contrary, a self is in large part an
accumulation of relationships with the world outside the skin, a
set of complex interactions with a rich variety of environments
that began before birth. In the fashion world, society is an
ecotone between a self and the stars. Self- image becomes
tantamount to a world view.
Consider the fashion show. The young woman on the runway is a
walking ecotone. We may identify her personality with her
appearance, but even her appearance embodies cultural expectations
ranging from body type to facial characteristics to the changing
image of fashion projected on her by designers of clothes, hair,
Then of course there are the conventions of the fashion show
itself: lighting, sound, movement, photography, editorial rank and
spectatorship. Where does she stop and we start? Perhaps, if it
weren't for the straps, the model's self would be very nearly
uncontainable. She would dissolve in the glare of flashbulbs, her
corporeal presence dissipating ever outward in reproductions
transmitted by newspapers, magazines and TV.
Petra Blaisse makes Christo look like a hobo. Blaisse wraps walls,
windows and entire buildings with fabrics and landscapes of great
subtlety and strength. Her work, now the subject of a fine show at
Storefront for Art and Architecture on Manhattan's Lower East Side,
includes projects for private houses, theaters, a convention hall
and a men's prison.
Many of Blaisse's projects were designed in collaboration with Rem
Koolhaas. Her curtain for the Nederlands Dans Theater, a
composition of metallic discs on black fabric that repeats the grid
of stage lights behind, has become the logo for the Koolhaas
building in the Hague. For the Rotterdam Kunsthal, Blaisse designed
a diagonal terrace of trees that veils the windows. Inside, she
conceived a spiral curtain track that transforms a two-dimension
wall of fabric into a fluted cloth column.
The Villa Floirac, designed by Koolhaas for a family in Bordeaux,
has become the most celebrated private house of recent times. For
it, Blaisse designed a curtain system that allows fabrics to
envelop the exterior and interior of the building. An inner curtain
of aqua-colored netting covers a plate-glass wall extending the
length of the second-floor living room. On the exterior, the owners
can deploy a metallic thermal sheet. A screen of thin birch trees
extends the effect of veiling into the landscape.
Koolhaas's architecture, designed for a wheelchair-bound man and
his family, is an essay in the interweaving of prospect and refuge.
Blaisse's curtains are the warp to the architect's woof. The
combination of thermal sheeting, plate glass, aqua netting and
birch trees is a vision out of a dream. It reminds us that
architecture arises from the ecotone between material and metaphor.
Apple claims that the Power Cube's minimalist design makes it
suitable for any d cor. Not true. The little gizmo wants to be
enveloped within an environment as basic and translucent as the
Cube itself. Specifically, it wants an interior by John Pawson, our
leading maestro of light, shadow and void. The British architect,
designer of the Calvin Klein store on Madison Avenue, is the
subject of "John Pawson," another monograph published by Phaidon
this month. With an illuminating text by Deyan Sudjic, the book
describes the spiritual underpinnings of Pawson's aesthetic.
In the 1970's, Pawson traveled to Japan, lived for a time in a
Buddhist monastery and briefly considered becoming a monk.
According to Sudjic, Pawson's design work is still informed by
Buddhist beliefs. A central tenet of Japanese Buddhism is the
concept of esho funi. Roughly translated as "the oneness of life
and its environment," esho funi means that living beings and their
surroundings, while different, are two sides of one entity.
Buckminster Fuller exhorted his followers to "Reform the
environment, not man." Fuller's idea would be unacceptable in
Buddhist philosophy.
Yet architects do design environments. Clients hire them to make
agreeable places, not to reform their spiritual lives. The most
architects can hope for is a client whose values are sympathetic to
their own. Even then, the places created by architects are
spatially circumscribed. Even a Buddhist temple may be situated in
an unsympathetic milieu, or why would a religion be needed at all?
(This is the perpetual Utopian problem.)
From a Buddhist perspective, the spiritual and the material are
also aspects of a single entity. This is why there is no
contradiction in the alliance between Pawson and Calvin Klein. The
work of both men is aspirational. Klein makes more explicit links
between aspiration and desire (for sex, money, fame), but neither
is Pawson running a monastery. What links the two, to each other
and to the culture at large, is an appreciation for beauty, and a
talent for creating real and virtual spaces where beauty shines.
Some artists and critics like to think of beauty as an incentive
to reach toward the good and the true. I agree that art can be part
of a philosophical system. But in the consumer society, beauty can
also be a smokescreen a tool for distracting our attention from
the bad and the false, the less savory side of consumerism itself.
What a car! What a body! What a cool computer! Who wants to think
about the sweatshop labor, acid rain, social disruption and disease
that may be caused by the manufacture or use of these products? In
this sense, beauty can be a veil, an invitation to overlook the
ugly that we implicitly accept by buying into the system.
This is the case not only with individual objects. The desire to
overlook the ugly is a major factor behind the present infatuation
with the design medium as a whole. With that infatuation, consumers
what used to be called the public are giving design enormous
authority. Call it a myth, a virus or a mass psychosis. Like any
authority, the design phenomenon derives its power from denial. It
persuades people to leave unpleasant things out of the picture. A
fancy story like this one is an example of denial at work.
Buildings account for 63 percent of energy consumption and 50
percent of so-called greenhouse gases. Yet I make a living writing
about architecture as if it could be separated from this reality.
(Smog as veil?) There are many ways to rationalize this practice:
if buildings are going to be built, they ought to be good. Science
falls outside my sphere of competence. Since my column runs in an
arts section, readers would get bored with continuous commentary on
solar collectors, the violence of urban development, sick building
syndrome and the politics of French social housing.
SOMETIMES I take the unsavory aspects of architecture into
account, the social and cultural as well as the environmental
degradation. But I'm no good as Jeremiah. I write about buildings
because I find the flux of urban life aesthetically appealing. I'll
go on using the Truth is Beauty trick as long as I can get away
with it.
Buildings, being large and expensive, are typically seen, at a
distance, as totems of external authority. In the context of the
new economy, they become emblems of the global operating system,
allied more closely to similar totems in other cities than to their
own towns. The Power Cube, being small and cheap, occupies personal
space. For consumers, the stakes here are higher. One can choose to
buy another computer. One cannot choose to opt out of the global
operating system.
Your oil company is working hard to protect the environment! It's
relatively easy, even accurate, to blame big business for
consumerism's sinister effects. The hard task is to reckon with the
psychological mechanisms that enable consumers to look the other
way. This is the subject tackled by Israel Rosenfield in his
dazzling and uncanny new novel "Freud's Megalomania." In the book's
fictional last testament by the father of psychoanalysis, Freud
argues that the need for self-deception (denial) is far more
powerful than the sex or death drives as a motive for human
At once a satire and a probing philosophical essay, the book
combines a bogus manuscript with footnotes that cite true events
from Freud's life along with references to his writings and other
psychoanalytic texts. These are then framed by other fictional
devices: an introduction by a fictive editor (Prof. Albert J.
Stewart) and a (fictional) postscript by (the real) Anna Freud. The
result is an ecotone between two kinds of reality: (subjective)
fiction and (objective) fact. The book's intellectual texture
resembles a moire: truths about human nature shimmer in the
layering of reporting atop invention. Reading it, the mind swivels
among similarities and differences, between objective and
subjective realities. It occupies a region that cannot be sustained
either by reporting and invention alone.
This is one of the major ideas uncovered by the structure of
Rosenfield's book. The mind is dense with veils that float between
what we see, what we know, what we believe and how, or whether, we
choose to act. What is the value of this? To produce skepticism. To
induce doubt. To propose that seeing is not believing.
Design can perform a similar service. Mau does this. Like
Rosenfield, he rubs together different kinds of information. The
opaque and and the semitransparent. Picture and text. Focused and
blurred. That the mind is given no place to rest. The eye can
momentarily alight here or there, only to be quickly drawn away, to
a different place on the same plane, or toward an implied zone of
great or lesser depth. The effect is equivalent to critical
thinking: a constant oscillation between conviction and doubt.
Pawson, Blaisse and Lang beckon the beholder into a similar frame
of mind. Their work simultaneously expresses a given condition and
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A Course of Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists, Volume 3: Theoretical Mechanics introduces the concepts of virtual work, generalized coordinates and the derivation of generalized forces from the potential energy function.
This book is composed of 10 chapters and begins with the principles of mechanics, plane statistics, virtual work, and continuously distributed forces. The succeeding chapters deal with the motion of a particle and the uniplanar motion of a rigid body, as well as the concept of particle dynamics. These topics are followed by discussions of the motions of interacting particles and the principles of stability. The final chapter describes the impulsive motion of a system of particles and collision between bodies.
This book will be of value to mathematics and engineering students.
Table of Contents
Chapter I. The Foundations of Mechanics
Fundamental Concepts
Newton's Laws of Motion
Chapter II. Plane Statics and Virtual Work
The Equilibrium of a Particle and a Rigid Body
Equivalent Sets of Forces
The Work Done by a Force
The Principle of Virtual Work
Potential Energy
Statically Indeterminate Systems
Chapter III. Continuously Distributed Forces
A Uniform, Flexible, Inelastic String Hanging Under Gravity
Variable Loading - The Suspension Bridge
The Equilibrium of Heavy Elastic Strings
Strings in Contact with Surfaces
Shearing Forces and Bending Moments
The Bending of Thin Elastic Beams
Pure Flexure
The Properties of the Heaviside Unit Function and its Derivative
Macaulay's Method
Clapeyron's Theorem of Three Moments
Chapter IV. Kinematics
Velocity and Acceleration
Special Representations
The Hodograph
Relative Motion
Angular Velocity
Instantaneous Center: Centrodes
Chapter V. Particle Dynamics I: Motion with One Degree of Freedom
Introduction; Conservative Forces
Motion on a Straight Line
Simple Harmonic Motion and Damping
Motion in a Circle
Motion on Other Curves
Chapter VI. Particle Dynamics II: Motion with Two Degrees of Freedom
The Motion of a Projectile in a Resisting Medium
Motion Under a Central Force - General Theorems
The Differential Equations of Central Orbits
The Direct Law of Force
The Inverse Square Law
Newton's Theorem of the Revolving Orbit
Chapter VII. Systems of Particles
The Motion of Two Interacting Particles
The Encounter of Two Interacting Particles
The Motion of Connected Particles
The General Theory of Systems of Particles
The Motion of a Rigid Lamina
Applications of the Principles of Conservation of Linear Momentum, Angular Momentum and Energy to the Motion of Rigid Bodies
Moments and Products of Inertia of a Plane System
Chapter VIII. The Uniplanar Motion of a Rigid Body
The Motion of a Rigid Body about a Fixed Axis
Systems without a Fixed Axis of Rotation
Conservative Systems of Force
Rolling and Sliding Motion
The Use of the Instantaneous Center: Initial Motions
Chapter IX. Stability
The Concept of Stability
Stability of Equilibrium
Oscillations about Stable Equilibrium
Motion on a Rotating Curve
Perturbation of an Orbit
Systems with more than One Degree of Freedom
Chapter X. Impulsive Motion and Variable Mass
The Impulsive Motion of a System of Particles
Collisions between Particles
Collisions between Bodies: Energy Changes
The Motion of a Body with Changing Mass - Rockets
Answers to the Exercises
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You have the choice between the classic crankset and the HXR crankset :
-1- Motor kit (Inside frame motor plate or outside motor plate)
-2- Axle size (for classic version)
-3- Battery pack
-4- chain guide (option)
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-Torque 70N.m to 80 N.m / Sonore level 60db .
The motor specs are exactly the same, that's only the crank who change on the "HXR" modèle than "classic" model.
The V3 HXR have a specific crank from the French brand HXR easy shift, (after market price for this cranck is 449euro):
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-You saves about 250 grams on the kit with the HXR cranks on the V3 HXR.
- The HXR crank is not compatible with DH frame (BB107 or BB83mm).
PRICE for V3 "classic": 999 euro inclued 20% VAT for Europe / 835 euro without VAT (for outside Europe)
PRICE for V3 "HXR": 1250 euro inclued 20% VAT / 1040 euro without VAT (for outside Europe)
Warning: This price does not include the battery !
You must specify if you need.
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- ISCG standard fixation you need . (for more info about ISCG "clic her" )
With the LIFT-MTB system with the "classic" version you will keep your bottom bracket and replace the crank only .
If you want to quickly change your bike from one configuration
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There are 4 versions for classic and dh bike to choose, when you ordering the kit:
-30mm Axle diameter: Rotor, E13, Race face (version with aluminum axle).
-28.99mm Axle diameter:
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-24mm Axle diameter: Race face (steel axle version) and Shimano Hollowtech. (version fat bike available only on this size)
-22mm Axle diameter left side / 24mm right side: SRAM gxp
Warning: The V3 "HXR" with HXR crank is only avaliable with 30mm axle, so we can provide a specifique bottom bracket for adapt it on your frame if you need.
We also made a specific 24mm diameter axles for ELECTRIC FAT BIKE.
-Axle crank In length 179mm (for ELECTRIC FAT BIKE with rear wheel spacing 170mm)
-Axle crank In length 199mm (for ELECTRIC FAT BIKE with rear wheel spacing 190mm).
The batteries we offer are all compatible with the LIFT -MTB kit.
You can place the battery in a backpack or on the frame according to the space available .
Simply define the capacity you need based on your riding type .
- 36volt / Li-ion technologie
-Brand : We used only the PANASONIC or LG cell,
-Capacities: 8.7Ah ( 330Wh ) / 11.6Ah ( 417Wh ) / 14.5Ah ( 522Wh ) or 17.4 Ah ( 626Wh ) .
- Weight: 1.1kg From a 2.9 kg.
- Charger: inclued , charge current 2 Amp, 220 Volt power , taking euro .
- Size : See table .
- Lifetime: 800 cycles (or 16 000 km to 55 000 km according capacity )
- Estimated minimum time to ride: 20 to 70km and 500 to 1750 D + ( See table . )
- Other: Sold with power 1.35 meter cable to connect, and ignifuged bag, battery colors black or blue.
8.7Ah / 313w / 1.6kg : +399euro (330 € without VAT outside Europe)
11.6 Ah / 411.6 W / 2.1Kg : +499euro (415 € without VAT outside Europe)
14.5Ah / 522W / 2.5Kg : +549euro (457 € without VAT outside Europe)
17.4Ah / 626Wh / 2.9kg : +649 euro (540 € without VAT outside Europe)
Personnaly we prefere the batteries on back pack, but for small and light batteries we have developped an aluminum battery cage, black anodized.
You can fix to your frame, and use it for fixed a compact battery of 8.7 Ah / 313 wh or 11.6 Ah / 418 wh on the bottel cage fixation (if you have a space and bolt on your frame for that).
Only works with LIFT-MTB or identical size 7cmx8cmx20cm batteries.
We advise to check the free space in the frame with the compressed suspension, to be on what you support the battery on the ride on your bike.
The free space dimension you need with cage is :
width 95mm x height 90mm x length 240mm / Inside foam padding.
if you want order it you must add it on the comment at the end of order sheet.
Price 59 euro (with VAT for europe / 49 euro for outside europe without VAT)
If you do extreme rides (hard enduro ,DH or freeride...) it is probably better to use an chainguard.
Full aluminium / anodized black.
PRICE : 59 euro
The control panel is an option, so that is not essential to the operation of the kit ..
But it's ideal for those who want accuracy on such things as:
• the energy consumed: 0-6554 W / h (accurate to 0.1 W / h)
• instant discharge current 0 to 130 A (accurate to 0.01 A)
• instantaneous power: 0 to 6554 W (0.1 W precision)
• consumed capacity: 0 to 65 A / h (accuracy 0.001 A / h)
• Battery voltage: 4.8 V to 60 V DC (precision 0.01 V)
This tool allows to know precisely what you consume in real time, the remaining battery, the average consumption on a rise or an exit, etc...
-The Package included the console, the black anodized universal aluminum support, and Anderson connectors.
-The Console can be assembled and disassembled quickly without modifications.
-Warning : No waterproof product !
Price: 59 Euro (49 € without VAT outside Europe)
(Supplied complete with connectors, ready to be mounted with our system)
Our electric bike conversion kit normally works only with a throttle to manage the motor power, because it's easy easier and more natural and efficient as P.A.S / PEDELEC
We can also mount in option a power regulator (pedelec / P.A.S), it work exactly like to cruise contrôle on your car , that's how it works:
The sensor has a 2 positions ON / OFF.
1- OFF position (push the red buttom) :
The pedal sensor is disconnected, in this case the throttel only manage the power of motor as on the basic kit.
-2- ON Position (Pull the red buttom) :
The sensor detects pedal movement, sending power to the engine and assisting you.
You can turn the red buttom for decrease or increase the power as you need from 0% to 100%
Note that the trigger always remains a priority, this means that, if the pedal sensor is in the ON position at 60% of max power for exemple, and if you want 100% of the power for a short time, or if you need to accelerate without pedaling you can accelerate with the throttel.
The connection is simple, there are two plugs , to plug on the original circuit between the hand throttel and the controller, this captor of power regulator is easily compatible with the LIFT-MTB kit produced from 2014.
Price : 99 euro ( 82.5euro outside europe)
For outside Europe customers will paid the VAT and taxes of residence country.


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God's Gift of Forgiveness
A Pastoral Exhortation on the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation
Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ:
"Peace be with you!" With these words, the Risen Lord greeted his frightened Apostles in the Upper Room on the day of His Resurrection. They were troubled, anxious, and fearful-much like each one of us at some point in our lives. Christ repeated these words, "Peace be with you." But then He added, "Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them." (Jn 20:19-23)
What an extraordinary gift! The Risen Lord was proclaiming that all suffering he had just endured was in order to make available the gifts of salvation and forgiveness. He wanted the Apostles to receive these gifts. He wanted them to become apostles of this forgiveness to others…Read more


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August 2001 Volume 19, Number 8
Why Hate Monarchs?Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Widespread panic set in this summer when the party of King Simeon II won a majority in Bulgaria's recent elections. There were ominous warnings about this being the first East European state to take a step toward restoring monarchical figures to power. So many people associate democracy with freedom and monarchy with tyranny that any attempt to revisit pre-democratic systems of government is regarded as evil.
Sheer nonsense. Freedom was nurtured in Europe under the decentralized monarchies of feudalism, which served as the political basis of decentralized federalism in the US. Unlike our own presidents, who are experts in passing the buck, the monarch tends to take personal responsibility for the fate of his domain. Upending a personal tyranny is much easier because you know whom to blame and whom to overthrow. The classical-liberal tradition was never hostile to monarchs as such; it was government power they opposed, and where the monarch restrained the state, he won their favor.
America has never had a monarch. In fact, we were born as a nation in revolt against one, which accounts for Americans' latent suspicion of anyone who calls himself king. The generation that brought us the American revolution against Britain set up, not a democracy, but a republic under the rule of law with a government so small it was barely noticeable. There was no king, but there was no president in the sense in which we know him today.
We've lived with mass democracy so long that the following is easy to forget: the democratic age, as it is known, began only at the turn of the century. It was imposed on Europe by force at the will of Woodrow Wilson. He was a social democrat and an imperialist but not a stupid man. He was caught up in the Progressive Era-fantasy that governments could manage society from the top down with the aid of science and lots of wishful thinking. He railed against monarchy and for democracy because he believed democracy would achieve this goal, which it sadly did.
Democracy in its purest sense should mean nothing but a peaceful transition of political officeholders. That is the sense in which Ludwig von Mises favored the idea: as an alternative to violent revolution. But democracy, as the system has been applied in this century, has come to mean something else. The democratic state is supposed to embody the people's will-or the "general will," in Rousseau's phrase. Hans-Hermann Hoppe calls this democracy "the god that failed."
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority. It has also spawned exactly what Woodrow Wilson desired most: autocratic and centrally consolidated government. It is not a coincidence that government has grown as the franchise has been extended: more and more groups have been given the opportunity to help themselves to the liberty and property of others.
Twentieth_century democracy has made everyone's property vulnerable to public confiscation. Kings of old would have been overthrown in short order if they had tried to grab 40 percent of people's earnings, or told them how big to make their toilet tanks, or determined how schools taught every subject. One reason we put up with it now is the myth that says we are governing ourselves. That is why we turn a blind eye to petty tyrannies in our midst as well as to war atrocities when they are imposed by "our" government.
Given the history of democracy, why are so many alarmed at the idea of the restoration of monarchies in Europe? Surely, the monarchies will serve these countries better than communism has. What's more, democracy since 1990 has meant the dictatorship of the IMF and the World Bank. In Bulgaria, it has meant "painful" transitions that involve increasing taxes and corrupting partial privatization schemes.
What's more, Simeon II is not some ermine-clad despot-in-waiting. He was exiled in 1946 after the communists took over. He has lived in Madrid, working in business during all these dark years; he returned to his country only recently after sensing massive public demand. His advisers on economics are mostly American economists working in investment houses, people who understand that the IMF's advice needs to be taken with a cup of salt.
As an aristocrat who speaks every European language, he is in a position to help solve the deep ethnic troubles that afflict Bulgaria and to begin to provide something like juridical continuity to stabilize the country after decades of chaos. Certainly he may fail. But he is no more likely to fail than another coalition government made of communists, IMF tools, and other looters.
The US government says that every country should have a president and a democracy. In fact, the US might go to war against anyone who disagrees. In response, let me recommend the remarkable new collection of original scholarly articles collected in Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom, edited by John V. Denson. It shows that the reputation of this institution is wildly overblown: every president since Lincoln has exercised despotic power, particularly in wartime. The anti-federalists warned us that this institution was trouble waiting to happen; how right they were.
In so many ways, this book is a history-making volume because it is the first full-scale revision of the executive state. What a contrast with the usual presidential history, which calls the worst of them great and the best of them ineffective. In 800 pages, the authors turn convention on its head and shatter thousands of civics-text myths about our "commander in chief."
Presidents and kings should be feared no less than any government should be feared. But history suggests we often have less to fear from monarchs than we do from democratically elected tyrants or from pillaging multitudes acting in the name of the public interest.
Countries in Eastern Europe have suffered under fascism, communism, and, more recently, rule by the IMF and World Bank in the name of democracy. Restoring their lost kings rectifies a historical wrong and provides a glimmer of hope. In a few years, people will either yell "Hail Simeon II" or "to Hell with Simeon II," but at least the people will know that someone is taking responsibility.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., is president of the Mises Institute and editor of LewRockwell.com (email@example.com).


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Koffee on Rihanna collab: 'I think something is coming'
Koffee (left) and Rihanna
The year 2019 has been a breakout one for Koffee. Last week, she got her first Grammy nomination and this week, the 19-year-old graced the cover of the Get Up Stand Up issue of i-D magazine's Winter 2019 issue.
In the accompanying interview, the Ardenne High school alum revealed that a collaboration with Rihanna might be in the making, although yet still unconfirmed.
"We've been playing around with some stuff. I think something is coming in the near future, but for now, I can't confirm it," Koffee was reported as saying.
Toast, which is Koffee's biggest record to date, was featured in the US box office horror hit, Us, and got a major big up from Rihanna in a viral video that showed Rihanna and her best friend, Melissa Ford, in a car, 'bussing blanks' and asking the driver to 'pull up' the popular track as they sang along.
Rihanna is nearing the end of recording her highly anticipated dancehall album. She enlisted the services of several Jamaican producers and songwriters for the project, but so far there is no release date or title, except that it's tentatively called R9.
In the meantime, Koffee's star continues to rise. Her latest collaboration, 'W', with US rapper Gunna, has racked up over 1.3 million views on YouTube since its release earlier this week.
She recently performed at a sold-out concert alongside Chronixx and his Zinc Fence Redemption Band at the Arena Birmingham on King Edward Road in the city, which has a huge Jamaican population. She was also given a full feature in the November 2019 issue of Essence magazine.


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The Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 14 and wrapped up their official business on April 23. After more than three months in session The 89th General Assembly filed nearly 2,500 bills and passed 61%, which is a pretty efficient conversion of bills to laws. Especially when you compare the state legislature with the United States Congress, which rarely passes more than five percent of the bills introduced. Over the past 25 years the state legislature have averaged passage of 65% of introduced bills (see below).
The Chamber began the session with a modest legislative agenda that focused on its traditional issues of economic development, higher education and transportation. Below is a recap of how issues included on our agenda fared.
Economic Development Issues:
- Support Quick Action Closing Fund - $50 million included in final budget. These funds are used to pay for economic development incentives and are very effective in recruiting and retaining jobs in NW Arkansas.
- Support Regional Economic Development Partnership - led an effort to broaden the reach of regional economic development partnerships, which is a state program that encourages regions to work together to proactively recruit new business and industry.
- Promote Legislation that Supports Entrepreneurs - worked with Accelerate Arkansas to advocate for funding of programs that support high-tech, knowledge based start ups. Nearly $20 million dedicated to related programs intended to promote these "new economy" companies.
- Tax Cuts for Manufacturers - advocated for tax reductions in utilities and repair/replacement parts for manufacturers. The General Assembly approved reduction of both taxes, which will save Arkansas manufacturers nearly $25 million per year thus making them more competitive in an increasingly global marketplace.
Infrastructure Issues:
- Technical Corrections to Regional Mobility Authority - led effort to modify regional mobility authority legislation to clarify issues related to issuance of bonds.
- Increase Flexibility for County/City Turnback - cities and counties receive 15% each from the recently enacted 0.5% temporary highway sales tax. The General Assembly authorized cities and counties to bond these turnback funds if approved by voters.
- Incentives to Attract Low Cost Air Carrier to XNA - a signficiant cost for business in NW Arkansas is continued high cost of airfare. The region sought assistance from the state to develop incentives to recruit a low-cost carrier like Frontier Airlines to XNA. State legislators in the region designated funding to attract a low-cost carrier in an effort to reduce airfares for all NW Arkansas residents.
- FOIA Exemption for Water Systems - supported efforts by water systems to permanently exempt security-related documents from Freedom Of Information Act requirements. Legislation passed by General Assembly.
Higher Education:
- Increased Funding for Higher Education - NWACC increased their general revenue funding by more than $500,000 and received $4.7 million in general improvement funding to pay for needed facility and program improvements.
Other Issues:
- Big River Steel - A new steel mill in Osceola will be the state's first opportunity to land a super-project. BRS creates more than 500 jobs and brings more than $1 billion in investment to the state. The project found support from legislators around the state for this Northeast Arkansas project. The Chamber supported the project and the state's investment of $125 million in incentives. The Chamber thanks all those legislators that supported the Big River Steel project.
- Private Option Healthcare - the major issue heading into the 89th General Assembly was how to deal with possible expansion of Medicaid coverage to 250,000 low-income Arkansans. The likelihood of expanding Medicaid never found much support within the Republican majority of the House or Senate. However, leadership in both parties negotiated an innovative compromise that uses federal Medicaid dollars to pay private insurance premiums for low-income Arkansans. This plan is projected to save Arkansas millions in Medicaid matching funds while reducing uncompensated care losses at Arkansas hospitals and providing insurance coverage to many of the neediest Arkansans. The Private Option plan originally conceived by Republicans John Burris, David Sanders and Jonathan Dismang truly proved to be the best solution to a difficult, complex issue. The Chamber thanks all those legislators that supported this compromise legislation.
Referred Constitutional Amendments:
The General Assembly has the authority to refer up to three Constitutional amendments that will be placed before voters on the 2014 General Election ballot. The year, the legislature picked these three out of a possible 38.
- Issue 1 - Seeks voter approval to authorize the General Assembly to oversee state agency rulemaking. This empowers the legislature at the expense of the executive branch.
- Issue 2 - Seeks voter approval of an ethics, term limit, legislative pay and campaign finance laws. This bill contains a little bit of everything. It would allow state legislators to serve for up to sixteen years in any combination of terms in the House and Senate; eliminates most gifts and free meals for state legislators with a few exceptions; establishes an independent commission to set salaries for elected state officials and legislators; and eliminates corporate contributions to elected officials.
- Issue 3 - Requires citizen petition drives seeking to place questions on statewide ballots have at least 75% valid signatures when they are submitted for the first time. In 2012, many proposed citizen initiatives had 60% or more of their signatures thrown out because they were not from registered voters or in at least one instance were fraudulent. Despite this, these petition efforts still received 30 additional days to collect signatures simply because they turned in petitions. If the proposed amendment is approved by voters any rejection of more than 25% of signatures would immediately eliminate the ballot question from consideration. This would make it more difficult for citizen petition drives to receive enough signatures to be placed on the ballot. A lawsuit has been filed to stop consideration of this issue.
Other Issues Approved by General Assembly:
- Tax Cuts - in addition to the two manufacturing tax cuts, the legislature approved 1) a reduction in the capital gains tax on Arkansas investments and property, 2) a sales tax reduction on utilities for grain dryers and poultry houses, 3) a 0.1% income tax reduction, 4) future reduction in the sales tax on groceries, 5) income tax exemption for active duty military personnel and 6) sales tax reduction on sale of dental appliances and timber harvesting equipment.
- Lottery Scholarships - early in the session, the General Assembly modified the state's lottery scholarship awards so that no matter the institution, qualifying students will receive $2,000 for their freshman year, $3,000 for their sophomore year, $4,000 for their junior year and $5,000 for their senior year. This change places two-year and four-year institutions on the same level and rewards students who complete their degree.
While these are just a handful of the 1,500 bills approved by the General Assembly, they are the ones that the Chamber focused on during the session. Thank you for subscribing to this email. Your engagement in the political process is very important factor in ensuring the business community has a voice in determining bills approved by the General Assembly.
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Arsenal legend Bob Wilson: Chelsea hard-man Chopper Harris said he never got far enough up the pitch to kick me
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It's no exaggeration to call Bob Wilson an Arsenal legend. His image is only one of 32 on the outside of the Emirates and he served the club with distinction for more than a decade including lifting the double in 1970-71 under Bertie Mee in that immortal side. Read on as he shares his League Cup memories with Layth Yousif ahead of Wednesday evening's crucial match with Chelsea in the Carabao Cup.
Arsenal take on Antonio Conte's Blues in the Carabao Cup semi-final second leg as they aim for a place in the League Cup Final at Wembley at the end of next month against Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.
It is the only domestic trophy Arsene Wenger has yet to land as Gunners boss.
But much-loved Bob believes Arsenal have done well to compete with the likes of City and Wednesday's opponents Chelsea and their mega-rich owners.
Bob, who played in the 1969 League Cup Final as Swindon Town produced one of the game's biggest cup shocks, spoke to the Islington Gazette.
He said: "I think I know where the club should be going. You look at how the game changes and if you don't change with the game then the game is going to leave you behind.
"Look at Chelsea, who won one league title 1954/55 – why did they suddenly become capable of doing what they are doing?
"Manchester City have been in the doldrums and always second best to United.
"How did they do it? Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour.
"That will continue and we will be banging our heads against the wall until we can match that spending."
Bob who is loved throughout the land after working as a sports broadcaster for the BBC and ITV for three decades shared an amusing anecdote about bumping into an old Chelsea rival, hard-man Roy 'Chopper' Harris.
The former Arsenal great – who launched the inspirational Willow Foundation and is also an ambassador for The Arsenal Foundation – explained: "We are on the road so much with the charity and Megs wasn't feeling to well so she said she wasn't cooking.
"So we stopped for fish and chips on the way back,
"I walk in the fish and chip shop and standing there is only one other customer. Ron 'Chopper' Harris. I had a big hug with Ron and a chat.
"The guy who owned the fish and chip shop said 'Are you Bob Wilson?' I said 'Yeah, this bloke used to kick me,' to which Ron replied 'I never got far enough up the field to kick him.'
"This bloke fell apart laughing and he said 'I'm an Arsenal fan.'"
Modest Bob's link to the North London giants stretches back more than five decades. He made 308 appearances and spent almost 30 years with the club as a coach as well as his charity and community work.
He was an ever-present in Bertie Mee's double-winning side of 1970-71 and when he was goalkeeping coach he worked with Pat Jennings, John Lukic and of course David Seaman, before turning his attention to charity with the Willow Foundation – set up in memory of his daughter Anna.
The Arsenal Foundation have also helped Bob and his wife Megs charity, The Willow Foundation, the only national charity working with seriously ill young adults aged 16 to 40 to fulfil uplifting and unforgettable Special Days.
He added: "The biggest way I shake my head is every time I arrive at Arsenal as an ambassador for the Arsenal Foundation.
"I drive down the road, facing what is the shop on one side of the ground and there I am, one of 32 players up on the side of The Emirates, linking arms with of all people, Dennis Bergkamp.
"I look at that and I laugh because I'm sure I'll be the first one they take down when there's a few more Thierry Henry's around.
"It does make me laugh that I'm there simply because we went 17 years without a trophy then we had seven years of finishing first or second."
*Bob is also backing the book Glove Story which is a must-read for all those who are fascinated by goalkeepers and the art of keeping. Perfect for young and old alike and backs Bob and Meg's Willow Foundation.
For more on The Arsenal Foundation visit www.arsenal.com/thearsenalfoundation
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Among AP Courses, Geography and Environment Are Hot
Geography may not be particularly known as a hot topic among today's students—even some advocates suggest it suffers from an image problem—but by at least one measure, the subject is starting to come into its own.
Across more than 30 topics covered in the Advanced Placement program, participation in geography is rising faster than any other. It's joined by AP courses like Chinese, environmental science, psychology, and world history that have been gaining ground most rapidly in recent years.
New data show that for the class of 2011, some 45,000 AP exams were taken in geography, more than quadrupling the figure from the graduating class five years earlier. And participation is up 30 percent compared with the class of 2010.
"We've been gratified by the dramatic growth over its young life," said Daniel C. Edelson, the vice president for education at the National Geographic Society, located in Washington. "People have very out-of-date ideas of what [geography] is. They think it's learning trivia for bar contests, so it's a long arduous path to prominence."
The latest "AP Report to the Nation," issued this month by the New York City-based College Board, offers a window into the course preferences of public schools and students, though a variety of factors can influence changes in participation.
Of course, even with the rapid growth of subjects like geography and environmental science, the Big Three in the AP universe—U.S. history, English language and composition, and English literature and composition—are unlikely to be unseated from their dominant position anytime soon. All three exceeded 300,000 tests taken by the class of 2011, and their trend lines continue on a steady, upward tilt.
Meanwhile, even as the overall trend in participation is on the ascent, and most subjects are seeing at least some annual growth, not all are keeping pace. In fact, both the German and French language and culture programs saw test-taking figures decline slightly for the class of 2011 when compared with the prior year's graduating class.
Also, several subjects saw big declines for that class because the tests were recently discontinued, including Computer Science AB, French literature, Latin literature, and Italian language and culture. (Italian, however, was just reinstated for this academic year.)
College Board officials and outside experts say a variety of issues have a bearing on participation levels over time.
"It probably is a combination of things, and it's not the same for every course," said Auditi Chakravarty, the executive director of the College Board's AP curriculum and assessment program. "It's student interest, definitely, but also teacher availability and interest to teach the course."
Other factors, she added, include how new a course is, the extent to which a school or district lays the groundwork by preparing students in prior classes, or even the grade level at which the course is typically offered (and whether it's competing with other AP courses in the same domain, such as social studies).
'Room to Grow'
One thing about AP participation overall is certainly clear: It continues to grow rapidly.
For the class of 2011, about 904,000 students took at least one exam, up roughly 50,000 from the prior class and up more than 250,000 from 2006. Going back 10 years, the number of students taking at least one AP course has more than doubled.
College Board data indicate that 30 percent of 2011 graduates took at least one AP exam.
However, student success in the program is another matter. The national passing rate for the class of 2011 was about the same as for the prior class, rising just 0.1 percent to 56.2 percent. That figure is well down from the 60.8 percent who passed in 2001.
Across subjects areas, there's no obvious pattern. Some passing rates are up, some are down when comparing the class of 2011 with the prior year's graduating class.
For example, in environmental science, the passing rate dipped from 49.3 percent to 47.6 percent. In human geography, it declined from 51 percent to 50.1 percent, well below the 62 percent passing rate for the class of 2006.
On the flip side, in European history, the passing rate rose from 61.2 percent for the class of 2010 to 64.5 percent for this past year's graduating seniors. In English language and composition, it rose from 58 percent to 59.2 percent.
With regard to the dramatic growth in student participation in the geography program, called AP Human Geography, Mr. Edelson credits two main factors.
"It reflects the interest in the subject and the fact that there is still a lot of room to grow across the country," he said. "I don't know if anybody has a projection for how long it will continue at this pace, but we're nowhere near saturation."
He said the growth comes at a time when advocates for geography education have struggled to bring more attention to the subject in schools.
"One thing we've been working on for quite some time is the fact that geography is no longer a required course in a lot of places," he said.
And Mr. Edelson counts himself as a big fan of the AP course.
"It was designed by a really sophisticated group of geographers and geographic educators, so it really reflects the contemporary view of what geography is," he said. "What I like about it is that it focuses a lot on geographic reasoning. It teaches about the models geographers use to explain human migration and urbanization."
Mr. Edelson added: "The stereotype of geography is, 'What is where?,' but geography is really very analytical, and AP geography can be a great introduction to how geographers explain or predict what goes on in the world."
Word of Mouth
The growth in environmental science, meanwhile, has been welcomed by advocates of increased environmental literacy.
The number of tests taken in that subject has more than doubled since the class of 2006, to 79,738 for the class of 2011.
"The growth rate is indeed impressive," said James L. Elder, the director of the nonprofit Campaign for Environmental Literacy, based in Manchester, Mass. "Of course, it's growing from a relatively low base number. But still, it's occurring despite the dampening effect of [the federal] No Child Left Behind [Act] on most subjects, including all forms of science."
Hemalatha Bhaskaran, who teaches three sections of AP environmental science at James M. Bennett High School in Salisbury, Md., said interest has grown as "word spread" among students about the course.
The school added two sections just last school year.
"Students liked the fact that they were studying something that they can really relate to and really affects them," said Ms. Bhaskaran, "and taking field trips, doing hands-on experiments, and all the fun stuff."
Ms. Chakravarty from the College Board said the AP course taps into a convergence of student interest and global awareness.
"Student interest, global attention, national attention in the area of environmental science has really boomed, and I think that's a big piece," she said.
Beyond environmental science, all AP science and math programs (except the discontinued Computer Science AB) have seen fairly steady growth in participation recently.
Some AP language study is also on the rise, including the Chinese and Japanese language and culture programs, both introduced in 2006, as well as Spanish. In addition, while Latin literature was halted in 2009, the Latin: Vergil course—which seeks to help students read, translate, and interpret Latin, with a focus on the Aeneid—has grown rapidly.
The fastest growth by far is in Chinese, where the number of tests taken quadrupled from the class of 2007 to 2011, though it was just 4,126 in all. Spanish remains far and away the most popular of the AP language courses, with 94,240 test-takers in 2011, up from 78,150 five years earlier.
Italian language and culture was eliminated in 2009, but a backlash from Italian-American groups and the Italian government, in concert with a fundraising campaign to pay for its restoration, has revived the program. The exam, first offered in 2006 and last given in 2009, will be offered again this May.
Adieu French?
Meanwhile, the French language and culture program, revised for this school year, has seen participation drop—from 14,028 tests taken for the class of 2010 to 13,558 for the class of 2011. Going back five years, 13,909 tests were taken by the class of 2006.
To be sure, the decline is very small, but it's especially striking at a time when most other AP courses are growing significantly year by year.
Jayne E. Abrate, the executive director of the American Association of Teachers of French, suggests that one factor was the recent action by the College Board to eliminate the AP French literature program, even as she also noted that in recent years some schools have stopped offering French altogether.
Cutting French literature was not exactly well-received among French language and literature educators.
"Outrage is the only word to describe it," Ms. Abrate said of the reaction. "There were letter-writing campaigns, protests. AP literature teachers had their students write letters."
She believes the end of that program may have diminished participation in AP French language and culture, since students studying French now can only earn one AP course credit instead of two. Ms. Abrate said student interest in French is strong, and that it deserves a place in more schools.
"There is a very erroneous belief on the part of some that, for example, Spanish or Chinese is more useful than French," she said. "I don't think it's interest on the part of the students. I think it's the lack of awareness on the part of many decisionmakers."
Vol. 31, Issue 21, Pages 1, 18-19Published in Print: February 22, 2012, as AP Geography, Environmental Science Thrive
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