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On Friday night, the Columbus Symphony, music director Rossen Milanov and soprano soloist Dawn Upshaw journeyed with the audience in a profound exploration of life and death in music by Johann Strauss, Osvaldo Golijov and Mahler in the opening concert of the orchestra's two-weekend Vienna 1900: Tradition and Modernism Festival.
On Friday night, the Columbus Symphony, music director Rossen Milanov and soprano soloist Dawn Upshaw journeyed with the audience in a profound exploration of life and death in music by Johann Strauss, Osvaldo Golijov and Mahler in the opening concert of the orchestra�s two-weekend Vienna 1900: Tradition and Modernism Festival.
The temperate spring night and gilded opulence of the Ohio Theatre formed the backdrop for "Voices of Spring" by Johann Strauss Jr. In the opening section, melodies swirled atop springy pulses in the lower strings. The orchestra floated and tiptoed through the Magyar-inspired middle section before whisking the piece to its finish.
Composed for Upshaw, Osvaldo Golijov�s "Three Songs" (2002) give voice to the universal questions of death and transcendence. In the first of these songs, the Yiddish-texted �Lullaby,� Upshaw brought a Yiddish folk quality to her tone of voice to sing a poem which asks a child to close her eyes and go to the sweet land of sleep.
The orchestra depicted that land in a tender performance of Golijov�s sparse orchestration. So often a metaphor for death, sleep turned into a harrowing frenzy midway through the extended orchestral postlude, a furious dance of death to the end.
The metaphorical death in the first song became a longing for actual death in the second �Lua descolorida.� Upshaw�s voice sailed at climactic sections and hid exquisitely at more intimate moments, all the while poised over the orchestra�s sensitive colorations.
The third song, �How Slow the Wind,� to the eponymous poem by Emily Dickinson, is a lament beyond laments. Upshaw�s delivery conveyed bereaved wonderment, becoming a fierce keening with a Yiddish flavor that echoed the sleep of the first movement.
All of the themes of Golijov�s work returned in the concert�s second half with Mahler�s Symphony No. 4. In Milanov�s hands, the orchestra became a protean chamber ensemble achieving Haydnesque clarity of sound.
The second movement took us into the ossuary, with violin solos a la Danse macabre and piccolo trills that rattled like dry bones. The musicians achieved a beautiful sense of repose in the movement�s middle section before jeering clarinets and blaring horn and trumpet brought us back to the world of memento mori.


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Yi Wan Group Flagship Hotel Expands
PRNewswire-FirstCall NEW YORK Dec. 2 :
The Hotel Division of the Yi Wan Group, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: YIWA) , a
China-based company located in the People`s Republic of China, announced
today that the Company`s flagship hotel, located in Jiaozuo City of the
Henan Province, is installing an expanded, full-service spa center as part
of its luxury conference and entertainment facilities.
The new spa at the Jiaozuo Yi Wan Hotel, expected to open by the end of
November 2003, will increase capacity by 150 percent over the previous spa
facility. Its luxury accommodations are designed to serve 390 men and 90
women, compared to a capacity of 180 persons for the old facility. In
addition, a new food court will be included.
"Spas are extremely popular in China, as well as internationally, and our
spa business has grown substantially in the past year. This new center
will help meet the demand. In addition, the emphasis on quality will add
to the prominence of the Jiaozuo Yi Wan Hotel, which already holds the
region`s highest rating for a hotel and entertainment facility," declared
Cheng Wan Ming, Yi Wan Group President and Chairman of the Board.
The Yi Wan Hotel Division has invested RMB 8 million (about $1 million) in
the spa center, which will offer expanded "VIP" massage rooms and locker
rooms for men and for women, a hot spring, separate pools for men and
women, steam rooms and saunas, a beauty salon, exercise rooms,
restaurants, bars, game rooms, table tennis and pool tables.
The Hotel Division of the Yi Wan Group, Inc. owns and manages the Jiaozuo
Yi Wan Hotel and the Qinyang Yi Wan Hotel, a smaller luxury hotel in
Qinyang City in Henan Province. The Company is a Foreign Invested
Enterprise Joint Venture and the Hotel Division holds a business license
in China that extends to December 2027.
About Yi Wan Group, Inc.
Yi Wan Group, Inc. was incorporated to explore the feasibility of
acquiring interests in several businesses located in China in which its
President, Mr. Cheng Wan Ming, had an ownership interest. On January 1,
2000, the Company acquired controlling equity interests in certain
China-registered companies, which have ongoing business operations in the
hotel and communications industries in China. The Company`s website
(http://www.yiwangroup.com/) as well as its periodic filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commision (available at http://www.sec.gov/),
contain descriptive information regarding the Company and its management.
Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual
results, performance or achievements of Yi Wan Group, Inc. ("the
Company"), or industry results, to be materially different from any future
results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements, including that the Company`s expanded spa
center is not necessarily indicative of increased revenues or future
financial performance. The Company`s future operating results are
dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to the Company`s
ability to: (i) obtain sufficient capital or a strategic business
arrangement to fund its expansion plans; (ii) build the management and
human resources and infrastructure necessary to support the growth of its
business; (iii) competitive factors and developments beyond the Company`s
control; and (iv) other risk factors discussed in the Company`s periodic
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission which are available
for review at http://www.sec.gov/ under "Search for Company Filings."

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Driving home from Helen's apartment, I had no idea what had just happened and what it meant. Well, that's not right--I knew what had just happened: I asked her for a blowjob and she gave me one. And she seemed to get into it, too.
But what it meant, and what was going to happen next--that's where I was confused. Did I want to start having sex with her again? Did I even want to see her again?
I put it out of my mind and got on with my life, wondering idly whether the weekly food deliveries would stop. But on the following Tuesday, there was a casserole dish with Helen's chicken cacciatore in it--one of my favorites, as I'm sure she remembered. I made a big pot of rice and had it for three straight dinners.
I still didn't know what to say to her, though, so I left my thanks in a voice message as usual, during the day while she was out. The week after that she left me a pasta salad.
In the meantime I was busy with work, and with politics at work. A new desk sergeant had transferred into the precinct--he was a total pain in the ass, an arrogant jerk, and he seemed to take an instant dislike to Jim.
This was proof that the guy was an asshole; there wasn't a man or woman on earth who didn't like Jim, a gentle, cheerful and totally dependable guy. There's no one I ever knew in the department I'd rather have as a partner, and more than once other guys told me the same thing.
But this sergeant, Buster Rheedon, had it in for Jim for some reason--he even tried to get him docked a day's pay because his time-sheets were supposedly fucked-up. This crap went on for a couple of weeks, until 18 of us went to the captain and said that if Rheedon didn't transfer out, there were going to be some "Blue flu" days starting soon.
The captain was a good guy, and he'd already heard complaints about Rheedon. He gave a big sigh, pushed his cap back on his head, and said he'd take care of it. A week later we heard that Rheedon was moving to the 26th--and good riddance, was how we all felt.
Jim was genuinely touched by how all the guys stood up for him, and he arranged a big bowling night one Friday night for all of us at the local lanes--his treat, beer and all. We had a great time, bowling and drinking and just busting on each other, the usual way cops let down with other cops.
There was a cute waitress who kept bringing our beers and cleaning up our empties--in her mid-30s, with straight blonde hair and a cute figure--and it seemed like she smiled at me each time she passed by.
I wasn't too sure, though, having had a fair amount to drink by then, so I asked my buddy Simon if he noticed it. He just laughed and said, "sure, Rob, she's hot for you. In fact, most women are--you're just about God's gift, you know it?" And he laughed again. Half in the bag, just like me--he was no use.
But the next day, when I was raking leaves in the yard and trying to get over my hangover, I thought of her again, and decided she was attractive enough to be worth a shot. So I showered and cleaned myself up a little, and after dinner I went back to the bowling alley for a beer or two.
Her name was Alice, Alice Maynard. At first I couldn't tell whether her friendly manner, her willingness to laugh and joke around with me in between customers, was just a way of getting good tips. But when I was getting ready to leave and I asked whether I could take her out for dinner and a movie, she beamed at me and said she'd love to.
Was Alice going to be the one? I was a bit old to really believe in "the one," especially after what happened with Helen. But for a while it was all too good to be true. Alice was lively and fun, she loved to dance, and she certainly liked me.
And, it turned out after our second date, she liked to fuck. When I dropped her off after our first date she thanked me warmly and gave me a long kiss before slipping inside her apartment. But the next time she invited me in, and "coffee" turned into a couple of hours of wonderful screwing, and some more the next morning.
Alice had never married, but she'd had a couple of long-term relationships that she thought were going to lead to marriage. The first guy cheated on her: after four years of living together she caught him hammering away at his secretary, right on top of his desk, when she dropped in to surprise him for lunch. And the second guy bailed after she learned she couldn't have kids. (For some reason they'd decided to get pregnant before getting married; and after a year of trying they'd been tested and she turned up infertile.)
So Alice knew all about living with a man, and about pleasing one. Her preference was for a lot of foreplay, lots of touching and licking and stroking before getting down to the fucking. It was what I'd always been starved for with Helen, and I was happy to take my time. Alice loved to have her pussy licked and fingered--that first time I made her cum three straight times that way, while she groaned and cried and jerked around on the bed. And she was also a damn good cocksucker.
Her specialty was lots of licking, up and down my cock like it was an ice-cream cone. She'd suck for a minute or two, get me really worked-up, then back away and lick me for a while, then suck some more. After about twenty minutes of that I was groaning at her, desperate to come, but she eased back off me again and then we finally fucked.
Once I got inside her she was happy to go fast--a damn good thing, as I was ready to blow my nuts. We pounded each other until I shot my cum far up inside her. It was an unbelievable relief, after all that playing around.
The next morning she woke me by spooning up against me, pushing her cute butt back against my dick. It was asleep, but it woke up in no time, and we had a gentle fuck right like that, me slipping into her from behind and quietly rocking in and out, while I held her breasts and pulled on her nipples.
For a couple of months we saw each other at least twice a week, almost always staying the night, whether at her place or mine. She told me about her life--her family and her job, her previous boyfriends--and I told her about Helen and the girls, and my life on the force.
She liked the idea of dating a cop--a man with a gun, a guy who knew how to take care of things. I was more than ten years older but that didn't seem to bother her. I expressed a little concern about that once, as we were lying in bed, and she turned playful.
"You know what they say, right Rob? Age is just a number. You're as old as you feel. And you--" she said with a grin, fondling my half-erect cock, "feel damn good to me."
The sex those first few months was really great. With a new person there's so much excitement, so much eagerness to do everything. It made me remember how things had been when Helen and I first got married, before she turned into ... whatever she turned into.
I wanted to lick Alice everywhere, kiss and touch every part of her. We spent an afternoon stroking each other's legs and arms. I liked to kiss her armpits, run my tongue in there as she giggled. I had never found 69 all that satisfying in the past--too distracting, getting your joint sucked while you're trying to lick a pussy--but we did it often, going slow, no hurry to come or to make the other one come, just enjoying the feelings.
It wasn't just good sex, either. I'd had that with Melinda. In fact, it had probably been a little hotter with Melinda--not only because she was wild (and had those fantastic tits) but because it was only sex, no romance, just the wildest fucking we could manage.
But I liked Alice. She wasn't the cook Helen was, but she was lively and spunky and had a great, optimistic outlook on life. She'd had two broken relationships, and had to nurse her mom through more than a year of dying of cancer, and worked a pretty uninteresting job as a waitress in a bowling alley, but she was cheerful. She thought each day was going to bring something good, and I liked being around that attitude.
We used to get together with Jim and Patty every couple of weeks, and it was clear that they liked Alice too. I was in the kitchen once, helping Patty with the plates while Alice and Jim were outside, and she said, "how's it going with Alice, Rob?"
I said that we were having a good time, and she replied, "this one's a keeper, I think."
I glanced at her and she smiled. "Jim thinks so too. She's smart, cute, has a good head on her shoulders. And she seems to like you, for whatever crazy reason!"
"Thanks, Patty--I appreciate that. Your opinion and Jim's mean a lot to me."
So things were good. Alice and I made a nice couple, the sex was good and the company was good--no complaints. For about five months.
During that time I thought about Helen less and less. She was still leaving me dinners once a week, and I was still calling her machine to thank her. We didn't see each other, though, or even talk on the phone. Linda and Ronnie kept me up to date, letting me know that Helen was doing okay, the catering business was picking up.
I wondered occasionally about the blowjob she'd given me--what made me go over there, why she agreed to do it, what it meant to her. But I didn't think about it a lot, and Alice was keeping me too busy and too satisfied to worry about it.
Until Ted came back into town.
Ted was the asshole ex-boyfriend she'd caught cheating with his secretary. That had been eight years earlier, and he'd moved away to North Carolina at some point. Now he was back, although I didn't hear about it right away.
Alice and I came back to my house on Saturday night from the movies. We'd gone out for a couple of beers afterwards, and I was feeling relaxed and horny. I put my arm around her and started for the stairs, but she stopped me and said, "babe, can we sit in the kitchen for a minute?"
Her look was serious, even concerned, and it stopped me in my tracks. We sat at the kitchen table and she said, "I've got to tell you about ... about something. I haven't said anything until now because there wasn't really anything to say, but ... but now I..."
"Alice," I said, a little impatient, "can you get to the fuckin' point? What do you want to tell me?" I was eager to get this over with and go on up to bed.
"You remember Ted, right? My ex-boyfriend?"
I nodded.
"I've been emailing with him, a little, for a couple of weeks. He wrote to tell me he was moving back here, and would I be willing to have lunch with him.
"So I thought about it, and finally said okay. And last Wednesday we had lunch, over at the Benton Grill."
I certainly didn't like the sound of this--and I had a sinking feeling that we weren't going to be headed on up to the bedroom any time soon.
"Okay," I said, "and...?"
She ducked her head, then looked back at me. "And he ... he wants to get back together. He knows he fucked up when he cheated on me. He married that bitch, that secretary of his, but it didn't last more than a couple of years before she was playing around behind his back.
"And he's dated some other people, but he says he realized that I'm the love of his life. So he took a job downtown and asked me whether there's any way I could forgive him--any way I'd be willing to give him another chance."
"And I'm guessing," I said finally, "that you didn't tell him to take a hike."
"No," she said, "I told him I'd think about it."
My face tightened, and she said, "Rob, look. I am very fond of you, and you've been real good to me. The last few months have been terrific.
"But it's just ... I don't know, exactly... I was in love with Ted. Completely. And he broke my heart with what he did. I hated him for it. But all these years I've ... I don't know, wondered about it. Because I really did think he was the one.
"And now he's back, and he wants me again. And it feels like the right thing to give it another try."
"With a guy who cheated on you like that?" My voice sounded gruff to me. I wasn't angry, exactly--but my throat was tight.
"That's the thing," she said, "I can tell he's changed. It's been nearly nine years. He's quieter--more thoughtful. He's grown up a lot from when he did what he did to me."
There were tears in her eyes. "Listen, Rob, I don't know if it's gonna work out. It might be crazy, what I'm doing. But the fact is, it feels to me like I still love him--in a way I've never loved anyone else."
More silence. She looked at the table, I looked at her.
"Okay," I said. "Should I give you a lift home?"
She raised her face to me, and there were tears on her cheeks. "Rob, I'm so sorry. But I would never ever do this behind your back. You've been so sweet to me, and ..." She never finished the sentence, and started to cry instead.
After a minute she said, "I know this may not work out, with Ted; it may be the dumbest thing I've ever done. But as great as things have been with you, it's not...."
"I get it, Alice. I'm not the love of your life. That's okay," I said. "I never really thought I was." I was unhappy, but what was the point of making her feel worse? Alice was a nice person, and she was being straight with me.
So I drove her to her apartment--nice and slow, because of the beers--and she hugged me for a long time, and gave me a tender kiss, and said thank you and I'm so sorry and a few other nice things, and then she went inside and I drove home again.
I spent a couple of weeks without dating anybody, or even thinking of dating anybody. I worked my shift with Jim, and came home and ate and watched TV, or went out for a couple of beers at the bar the cops hang out in. Once each week I found my dinner on the porch waiting for me, and I left Helen a message the next day saying thanks.
My daughter Linda called to catch up a bit, and she asked how Alice was. They'd met a couple of times and my girls liked her.
"She's fine, I guess, but she's not with me," and I told her the story.
"Oh, daddy, I'm sorry! You deserve to be with someone nice."
I laughed. "I don't disagree with that, honey! But I'm not mad at her--she was honest with me about it, and this guy is her one true love, or at least that's what she thinks."
We got off the phone and I went back to the game. I was watching a car ad a couple of innings later and suddenly thought to myself, "and who's YOUR one true love, Rob?"
I knew what the answer was, but it didn't make me feel any better.
Helen always brought me a dinner on Tuesdays--it was waiting on the porch when I came home from work. One Monday night Jim and I had to work late for back-up on a drug arrest that got complicated, and they wanted every extra car. I didn't get home until after 3 am, so the next day I clocked out at lunch time and went home for a nap. All that middle of the night stuff gets pretty tiring for a guy approaching 50.
I woke up around 4:30, had a shower and got dressed, then went downstairs to read the paper. When I heard Helen's car stop in the driveway I opened the front door and watched her approach, carrying a big bowl covered with tin foil.
She was surprised to see me--shocked really. "Rob! I, uh--I didn't expect to see you. I was just..."
"It's fine, Helen. I was on duty late last night so I took this afternoon off. Would you like to come in for a minute?"
"I, um--thanks, Rob, that would be nice." I held the door for her as she passed by me into the kitchen. She looked nice--hair brushed, a pretty blouse--and she smelled good too.
Turning to me, she said, "it's a paella, with shrimp and chicken and sausage."
"Sounds great," I said, taking the bowl from her and putting it on the table. "Can I get you some coffee?"
Unlike me, Helen had always been able to drink coffee at any time of day. Me, it kept me up half the night if I drank it in the afternoon.
Warily, she said, "yes, thank you." I brought her a cup and got the milk and sugar, remembering how she took it. She watched me the entire time, not saying a word, just following me with her eyes.
I kind of wondered how strange this must be for her--the two of us back in our kitchen again, like we'd been thousands of times--just not in the last couple of years. Not since I'd found about her cheating and thrown her out of the house.
I began talking to her about the kids: about Linda and the latest with her boyfriend, about Ronnie's plans for after college, and she gradually relaxed. Ronnie was finishing a degree in accounting and wanted to move to a big city--either to Chicago to be near Linda, or maybe LA or San Francisco. I figured she was a big girl, she could choose. Helen didn't disagree, exactly, but she worried about Ronnie all alone out on the West coast.
I couldn't stop looking at Helen, while we sat there calmly and talked about our daughters. How great she looked. How weird it was to be sitting here like this, as if our family hadn't been torn apart. As if she hadn't torn it apart.
"Helen, would you like to fuck?" I said it quietly, without getting up or moving towards her. Her eyes went wide and she looked at me for a long moment--a bit frightened, I thought.
"Rob, I--" She stopped. "What ... what would this mean?"
I shrugged. "I don't know. Nothing, maybe. I want to have sex with you, if you want to. If not, you're welcome to say no. I'll still thank you for the food, and enjoy it."
She looked at the table, her cheeks flushing a little.
"I'd like to have sex with you, Rob." Looking into my eyes. "But ... can I ask you to be gentle? It's been nearly two years since ... since anything has been inside me besides a vibrator."
I raised my eyebrows but said nothing. That was a surprise.
"I won't hurt you," I said. After a minute I stood up and offered her my hand. She got up and we walked together up the stairs.
I don't know what I was expecting, but the sex wasn't all that great, or at least not at first. Maybe I was thinking that I'd get "slut Helen," the one who'd been spreading 'em for half the town all those years, rather than "wife Helen," but it didn't work out that way.
Or maybe it was just that it was too emotional, especially for her. But fucking her--I won't say "making love," because it certainly wasn't that--started off pretty disappointing. Helen was very shy; she went into the bathroom, took off her clothes, then came out and went straight for the bed, pulling the covers up over herself.
I wanted to just yank them off and make her let me look at her--but I didn't want to punish her. It was obvious she was nervous.
So I took off my clothes and got into bed, and Helen just rolled towards me and hugged me, burying her head against my neck. We held one another and kissed a little, and after a while I started caressing her back while she worked on my cock with her hands; and then after that her mouth. She absolutely knew how to blow me, though thinking about where she'd learned it still pissed me off.
When she had me nice and hard she looked up and said, almost shyly, "do you want to come on top of me, Rob? Or..."
"Why don't you ride me?" I said. I could tell she was reluctant but I didn't really care all that much. She climbed on and I held her hips as I carefully pushed into her. She was really tight, and not that wet yet, and it took her several tries, sliding partway down and then back up, before she was able to relax down on me, her ass resting against my thighs.
I closed my eyes and enjoyed the feelings. I tried not to think about Helen and me and everything that had happened. Instead I thought, "cunt. I'm inside a nice hot tight cunt and it feels good." I gently pushed up with my hips to get every last inch into her, groaning, and she started to move on me.
I lay back then, eyes still closed, and let Helen grind and swivel around on my cock. I liked hearing her breathing, which got faster when I slid my hands up her sides and held her big breasts. God they felt good! And I realized I hadn't seen them or felt them in something like two years.


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There were many great sessions and many great speakers at the PASS Summit this year in Texas, but most of the sessions I went to seemed to have one bad thing in common: too many slides.
Sure, I know it can be tough to gauge how long it will really take you to go through your whole presentation. And unfortunately, as computer geeks, we have a tendency to want to spell everything out, which leads to making a lot more slides than we really need. You can further complicate the situation by deciding to take questions throughout your presentation instead of at the end. Many of the speakers I saw who did not get through their whole slide deck, actually did cover almost all of their material, including items that were on later slides, while they were doing their talk. Unfortunately, because they did not get through their deck, it appeared to many in the audience that they missed out on some information.
So here's my suggestion for any future speaker...use FEWER slides and more commentary. And don't be afraid of getting done early, you can always open the floor for more questions. And honestly, nobody is going to be upset with you if you finish 5 minutes early, but if you go just a minute or two late, you'd be surprised how anxious people can get, especially if it's right before lunch or the last session of the day. Oh sure, if you only used 10 of your allotted 75 minutes, you might have some angry people on your hands, but if you use the majority of your time, you can finish early and keep everyone happy (and you'd be surprised how much better your evaluations would be, too). Remember, you want to leave them wanting more, not wanting to leave.
One way to pare down your slides would be to put some of the additional information in the speaker notes section of your slideshow, and make it available for download. And if you're really worried about finishing too early, then make a note or two for yourself about some "extras" that you can cover if you have the time, but leave them out of the main deck.
Oh, and one more thing...if you're going to be so bold as to open the floor to questions throughout your presentation, then learn how to control the room and keep things moving so you don't get bogged down in Q&A and never get your presentation completed.
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The proposal being floated with members of Congress is another indication of President Barack Obama's struggles to establish his counter-terrorism policies, balancing security concerns against attempts to alter Bush-administration practices he has harshly criticized.
On Wednesday, the president reversed a recent administration decision to release photos showing purported abuse of prisoners at U.S. military facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Obama cited concern that releasing the pictures could endanger U.S. troops. Mr. Obama ordered government lawyers to pull back an earlier court filing promising to release hundreds of photos by month's end as part a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The decision to block the detainee photos contrasts with the administration's release last month of Bush-era Justice Department memorandums outlining the interrogation tactics used on prisoners by the Central Intelligence Agency. The release of the memos set off a heated political fight, with supporters of the Bush administration accusing the Obama White House of endangering the country and some of the current president's supporters calling for criminal probes of those responsible for the interrogation policies.
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Vogelsong broke two bones in his right pinkie area and also dislocated a knuckle in the hand on a swing May 20 and underwent surgery the next day. He had five pins inserted in his hand during the procedure at Stanford, performed by orthopedist Dr. Tim McAdams. He will examine Vogelsong on Tuesday at AT&T Park.
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By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITTER VETERANS TODAY
Democracies make elections, elections don"t make democracies, and as Winston Churchill pointed out, "democracy can easily become just another way of selecting bad or ineffective governments."
Democratic elections usually rest on a few basic principles—a free and fair vote, an un-coerced selection of candidates, and an agreement by all parties to abide by the results. Afghanistan however doesn"t quite qualify for any of these. Evidently the entire troubling pattern of Afghanistan"s presidential election does not offer any hope of improved credibility for the national government or its capacity to govern. Moreover, Afghan politics is not about solving the nation"s crisis: clearly the election is all about ethnic and tribal power struggles. Even though an Afghan national identity does exist, the practical loyalties in everyday life are ethnic and tribal.
Conversely, the neoconservative US policy makers have crafted the argument that if democracy can be spread to Muslim lands, the people of those lands will become better governed, have fewer gripes, and will not be angry enough to consider becoming terrorists. The problem however, is that a significant portion of those policy makers believe in a universal myth; that everyone is a natural liberal democrat, and that the United States should promote the spreading of democracy around the world with an aggressive military spirit. The belief in this myth profoundly translates into policy results that are not only harmful to US interest, but they make effort to win hearts and minds become fruitless.
The Danger
Now that the Afghan presidential decree, crafted in sham, giving precedence that allows the Afghan president to appoint all five members of Afghanistan"s Electoral Complaint Commission (ECC)—specifically engineered to abolish UN body election experts—, all future presidential elections could raise vital legitimacy questions as to continue the existing election processes in a worse turmoil than the last one or change course?
In fact, this recent Afghan presidential decision not only undermines the legitimacy of Afghan governing institutions, it undermines the effectiveness of international electoral assistance as well as the outcome of upcoming parliamentary elections, and severely promotes ethnic tensions that could easily lead to an unmanageable civil strife.
In comparison, Iran (with a 74 million population and 77 percent literacy rate) had a 40 million voter participation in its last presidential election; however, electoral fraud –as in Afghanistan—began before voting had even finished; but the civil contention was comparatively far more chaotic than in Afghanistan"s election. However, Afghanistan still remains a more risky nation due to diverse ethnic feuding, a vastly armed population, and regional players interfering in its internal affairs. Again, the bad news is that; election dynamics and poor election management could exacerbate historic ethnic and North-South tensions, leading to a potentially explosive mix.
The Costs
According to data provided by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), approximately $900 million was spent in fiscal year 2009 to: promote the "rule of law" in Afghanistan, assist in Afghanistan"s election, and aid Afghanistan"s democracy and governance; close to $300 million was allocated just for the election—this is $100 million higher than the 1996 U.S. Presidential primary campaign. Future Afghan elections could cost even higher, and clearly its GDP will not be able to sustain such costs, and thus, the West will have to carry the burden by financing the Afghan election forever.
The Hurdles
The allegations of vote rigging and various ways of fraud; including three million fake voter registration cards, ghost polling stations, combined with the slow pace of vote tabulation and the cumbersome process for investigating complains, all raised political tensions as Afghanistan went through its second presidential election in 2009. This resulted in a second round of election and a runoff.
Currently, there is a deep concern that voter anger could unleash violence along ethnic and regional lines that divide this fragmented society.
Voter intimidation, rocket attacks, finger hackings and 30 related deaths frightened many voters away. Some local election officials and influential local leaders pressed voters to support certain candidates for president and for provincial council seats.
Reportedly, in some 6,202 polling stations approximately 30 percent of Afghanistan"s 15 million registered voters casted their ballots— it turned out to be far less than the 70 percent who voted in 2004. As a result, some analysts have said; a low voter turnout has thrown the results into question.
Additionally, the lack of decent roads in Afghanistan and its craggy and cathedral shaped mountains has led the country to adopt an age-old mode of transport, i.e. ferrying ballots on donkeys to remote regions. Some 3,100 of those animals were obtained to carry the poll materials through towering Hindu Kush range, which severely underscored the logistical difficulties that faced the last election.
With almost a decade of the West"s presence in Afghanistan, the Afghan government and the International Community have failed to embed a robust electoral framework and drive democratization at all levels. Monumental corruption, the financial power of narcotic tradesmen, the dominance of elite tribes in the Afghan government—causing imbalance and feud against other tribes—, and the lack of Pashtun voting have cruelly undermined all reforms.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on what is, essentially, a charade. But that is not the real tragedy of these elections. The lack of anthropological analysis and studies has demonstrated the West"s failure to restore and build on peace in this war torn nation; however, the real tragedy is that Afghans now see democracy as a sham. Trust in these past elections had been very low among Afghans from the outset.
As President Barack Obama said, "No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. That is not democracy… that is tyranny… even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there."
Alternate Solution
In light of the chaotic state of affairs surrounded the last election of the "Head of State" in Afghanistan, we believe the best long range solution for choosing future leaders of Afghanistan comes from Afghanistan"s past.
This initiative is an adopted Afghan tribal method, but with a little touch of Western style democracy; it starts by communicating with Afghan tribal leaders and inviting them to a series of leadership conferences outside of Afghanistan. We should first have them meet in several moderate Islamic capitals prior to inviting them to Western capitals; and finally invite them to come as special guests of the United Nations in New York City.
During this process, we will have time to build good relationships with these leaders while at the same time screening out the really bad blood if necessary; while building up the spirit of unity within the group.
What we would be accomplishing by doing this is bringing these leaders into the 21st century while at the same time addressing the legitimate issues that they will all bring to the table concerning their individual tribal groups or Jirgah (grand assembly).
At first, we may be seen as trying to Westernize Afghan leadership; however, by presenting this process as a listening tour for both sides, much can be accomplished.
And, by recognizing today"s status of facts on the ground as well as yesterdays tribal governing traditions, a bridge between yesterday"s successes and 21st Century needs can be created and strengthened. The real goal is to create a true Afghan democracy based on Afghan consciousness and consensus, while brining Afghanistan"s people into the 21st Century.
From this group a number of things can be accomplished, like having these leaders put forth the names of young people who they see as future leaders that can be trained in the ideas of traditional Afghan values as well as 21st Century concepts that will benefit their nation for generations; always with great respect for the full integrity of Afghanistan"s multi-tribal influences.
In Conclusion
From inception before (1500 BC) the Afghans practiced Jirgah-system with two types of councils; first one was (the summit); comprised of elders and tribal chiefs, and second was (Sabha); a rural council used over time for the selection of rulers and headmen.
From the time of the great Kushan ruler—Kinishka—in first century (CE) to the 1970s –King Zahir Shah"s reign—there were sixteen national loya-jirgahs and hundreds of smaller ones called "shura", or consultative assembly. As evidenced since 1970, none of the heads of state were chosen in the traditional manner. Thus, the sheer drop in "the culture" for choosing the head of state from traditional to Western style democratic election can never be absorbed effectively by Afghans in this swiftness. This is exactly where the policy makers are to step aside, and anthropological expertise placed for attest.
The above introduced proposal; will definitely carry national unity, win hearts and minds, choose the exact candidate –where every day life is ethnic, tribal, and monitored by an elder—and still abide with traditional norms. In addition, it will eliminate chaos, fraud, ethnic strife, cost, and logistical headache to transport ballot boxes, ECC and IEC involvement and many more.
The UN World Commission on Culture and Development Report says, "The relationship between cultural norm and development should be clarified and deepened in constructive and practical ways."
Perhaps it is time for the international community to rethink its position for a traditional Afghan democracy rather than the existing one, where time has shown that Afghans are not satisfied with the status quo, and are on the verge of forcing change themselves.
Khalil Nouri is the cofounder of New World Strategies Coalition Inc., a native think tank for nonmilitary solution studies for Afghanistan. www.nwscinc.org
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Electronic Arts Inc. today announced the robust online and community offerings to The Sims 3 PC and Mac game, the highly-anticipated flagship game from the best-selling PC franchise The Sims. In addition to the town included in the game, a second town, Riverview will be available for download from The Sims 3 product website at launch. TheSims3.com also will allow players to create and share their own movies, manage their online content and purchase additional in-game content. The game is set to launch worldwide on the PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod touch and mobile devices starting June 2, 2009.
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- The Exchange: Building off of The Sims 2 Exchange's success of more than 100M downloads, The Sims 3 Exchange highlights featured items, most popular downloads, powerful search and browse capabilities, along with giving players the ability to see what other players are recommending.
- Create a Movie and Create a Story: New easily accessible tools inspire creativity and allow players to create movies and stories and then show them off or share them with friends. Players can show off their Movies with the Create a Movie Tool by embedding them on external sites or with an email link back to their Movie on TheSims3.com.
- My Page and My Studio: The Sims 3 product site will allow players to maintain their profile pages on their My Page section as well as offering them the new My Studio section to manage all their creations – Movies, Stories, Exchange objects. My Page is also a blog space where players can post news, customize it with a personal avatar, track favorites and more. Users can make friends with other The Sims 3 players and share their content across a number of social network sites.
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I believe in Pancakes
It's amazing how something as simple as pancakes can fix a friendship, even if just for a Saturday morning. If cartoons don't do the trick, you can always count on chocolate chips and scary movies.
Star is my best friend and Saturday mornings are always our time. Rumbling tummies are the worst, and one morning the only thing we could find was pancake mix. Star doesn't like pancakes, but we decided that making them would be a lot more fun than actually eating them. It was true. There was pancake mix everywhere from out several batter fights. It was as though our hair had suddenly grown chocolate chips and we bled pancake batter. We stared at each other, both looking as though we could be cooked up now and served, and burst into laughter.
After cleaning up our battlefield and taking a shower, we plopped down on the couch to watch a movie, a scary one that seemed like it was going to ruin our good mood from our previous batter fight. It was Cabin Fever. As we sat there with the blankets getting ready to cover our faces, throats sore from screaming, suddenly a little blonde boy appeared in the scene and for no particular reason started screaming, "PANCAKES!" We laughed and laughed until we were both in tears.
See, things aren't always sunshine and butterflies with us. We have battles; though not usually pancake batter battles. But when things get bad between us, all we have to do is say, or even think, pancakes. And it's like nothing bad ever happened. We always return to that Saturday morning, even if it's just in our heads, and remember how much fun we had. How we had to wash our clothes three times to get the batter out. How we had to scrub for hours to get the kitchen clean. How we cried from laughing so hard at the boy in the movie. And I swear, it brings a smile to our faces every time. I believe pancakes make everything better.
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|From Manomet, MA. Started fishing with current boat 15 years ago. Was in a bar and someone asked if wanted to go fishing. Became Captain after 7 years. Drawn to fishing by Freedom, after time served with the Marine Corps and had nowhere else to go. Loves to fish Cod on the Back Side of the Cape. Once caught a 22 ft, 3000 lb great white a mile off Nauset. Believes there a lot more fish in the ocean than some activist scientists lead you to believe. He takes good care of the product. He cuts the fish within minutes of it being brought on board and then into slush immediately, to get the core temp of the fish down quicker than just icing them.
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|From Sandwich, MA. Started long line sword fishing at age 18, out of Edgartown with a one-eyed Captain who hurled the harpoon from the pulpit and always got them. Fished out in the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras. Always loved the ocean. Likes to catch scallops and fluke. Once caught a fighter plane's wing with two 50 caliber machine guns still mounted to its underside. He bleeds out his fish in slush ice immediately after they come on board.
Captain Mark V.
|From Beverly, MA. Taught by his father to fish and to appreciate. Drawn to meeting challenges and being outdoors. Likes to fish for striper and giant bluefin tuna. Knows tuna are smart, big, and strong. Once caught a 600 lb bluefin in the middle of the commercial bass fleet off Gloucester, MA. His fish are slushed as soon as they're caught and are never held overnight, and all are caught with rod and reel.
Captain Al
|Born into a Martha's Vineyard fishing family. Started fishing for bass from kayaks, then an 8 ft. zodiac off the beach. Drawn to fishing by freedom and fun. Loves to fish in the canyons. Once was fishing in the middle of a lightning storm that electrified rods in rod holders to vibrate and buzz. He takes incredible care of the fish and constantly tries to improve.
Captain Tom
|From Falmouth, MA. Began fishing in 1970, after serving in the Coast Guard. Has worked for himself all along. Likes to fish in Nantucket Sound, close to home. Once caught a 19th-century corked bottle in the front of Nantucket Harbor that said "to his majesty the king". Still has it. He believes that the level of risk that fishermen put themselves through to make a living would shock people. Now semi-retired with the risk taking. His day-boat product is very marketable.
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On the mend! UK to boost employment with 182,000 new construction jobs in next five years
BRITAIN will be hiring more builders in the next five years as the Government's "Help to Buy" scheme adds a quarter of a million houses to the country each year, a new report says.
The forecast shows work on housing will account for over a third (37 per cent) of the UK's total construction output from now to 2018.
Backers of the report believe the more homes built, the more jobs created but say "measures must be taken now" to ensure long-term employment.
And construction bosses are now urging the need for more and more homes across the UK to " breathe fresh life into infrastructure and industry."
Stewart Baseley, executive chairman of the Home Builders Federation, said: "Help to Buy has addressed the biggest short term constraint on supply and as a result, builders are increasing output and looking to recruit in all areas - as outlined in the report.
"To build the homes the country needs we will need a bigger and suitably skilled workforce and we are working with the industry to put this in place.
"As the economy recovers, and lending conditions improve generally, we look to the future with confidence. "
"As the economy recovers, and lending conditions improve generally, we look to the future with confidence."Stewart Basely, executive chairman of the Home Builders Federation
The report, created by CITB's Construction Skills Network, says private housing will play a huge part in the construction sector's recovery.
CITB, who work with promoting construction careers in the UK, is calling for a big investment in longer industrial projects to maintain this good patch of growth.
James Wates, Chairman of CITB, said: "Clarity and certainty of future projects is an important element of a sustained recovery. That gives employers the confidence to train and to plan.
"The Government's 'Help-to-Buy' scheme has kick-started demand across the housing market.
"But growth needs to be sustainable."
Mr Wates said he is keen for all major housing projects to go ahead as planned to keep the current boom going.
He added: "The CSN report shows that the economy is turning the corner and the UK construction industry will benefit from that."


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An autopsy today determined the death of a 62-year-old Western Springs woman was caused by the cold weather, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
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West Virginia: Energy and Roughing It at Summer Camp
Mark Green
Posted June 9, 2017
Before heading off to the wilds of West Virginia to offload your youngster for a few weeks at summer camp, you glance once more at The Checklist. No odyssey to summer camp launches without The Checklist:
- Warm blanket – check.
- Plastic shower caddy (one that drains) – check.
- Rain jacket/poncho – check.
- Sunscreen, lip balm, bug spray – check, check and check.
And that's just a fraction of the stuff that's headed to camp. They'll need Sherpa porters to haul all of your child's gear from the car to their assigned cabin – much of it fashioned from or with the help of natural gas and oil.
Your kid will be warm and cool, hydrated and clothed, thanks to products derived from them. Everything from toothbrushes to Teva sandals are manufactured with materials made from oil. If Junior comes home sunburned or ravaged by skeeters or chiggers, it'll be his own fault for not applying the lotions and sprays you sent with him – with ingredients made from petroleum. Energy makes "roughing it" outdoors not so rough – and safer, healthier and cleaner than ever before.
This summer some 14 million children and young adults will beat the summertime blues and breathe in the fresh air at one of the nation's 14,000 day and resident summer camps. For many in the Mid-Atlantic, that could be camp in "Wild and Wonderful" West Virginia. Whether high-tech retreats – like the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve near Glen Jean, W.Va., that will host scouting's ginormous National Jamboree in late July – or one of the many Appalachian Mountain camps that are more low tech, products made with natural gas and oil make for a great outdoor experience.
The moment most campers step out of the car or off the bus, they've already benefited from the gasoline or diesel that powered the vehicle to get them there. But that'll be galaxies from their minds as they take in the surroundings and in their eagerness to make new friends. First things first: stowing all that gear.
More than likely, the camp bunkhouse and surrounding grounds are reliably rustic. At the far end of the rustic scale are camps that focus on getting away from it all by not using electricity (like this one). Even so, you're likely to find staffers using lanterns after sunset that run on a naphtha fuel – one of a number of products that refineries make from petroleum – sometimes known as Coleman fuel or, more generically, white gas. Meanwhile, energy is present in nylon and polyester sleeping bags and backpacks, both made with materials produced from petroleum that help make them lightweight and durable.
Energetic Activities
Outside, kids are eager to get the fun started. There's plenty to do, whether the camp is large – like Camp Twin Creeks near Marlinton or Camp Greenbrier at Alderson – or one of the other 70 or so camps across West Virginia's rolling hills and mountains. And energy helps make it happen.
An archery range is set not far away, and bows and arrows wait for each camper to do his or her best William Tell impression (aiming at targets, not an apple on another camper's head). The bowstring is made of Dacron wrapped with a petroleum-based nylon thread, which reinforces the ends and the middle where the arrow and archer's fingers meet during each shot. The children take their shots, not quite bull's-eyes, but they still hit the target.
Excited shouts echo through the camp as campers zoom overhead on a zip line. Kids climb up the tower and they put on a sturdy, plastic helmet – an energy product made either using natural gas liquids or with petroleum through a process known as "cracking." They strap on a harness made with plastic and nylon, both products of natural gas and petroleum, and clip to the zip line, ready to go flying through the air.
Back on the ground everyone hits the water in Hypalon, urethane or PVC rafts and plastic and fiberglass kayaks, all petroleum-based products. And along the shore another group fishes with fiberglass and graphite fishing poles, again, all made with energy, including petroleum-based plastics and resins for binding and natural gas to heat and mold the shape.
Artistic Powers
When it's time for something more serene, campers flock to the arts and crafts building to join a class that paints pictures of some of the native flowers. Some kids decide on a vivid pink rhododendron, the West Virginia state flower. They grab a canvas and some supplies, including a selection of acrylic paints, which use a petroleum-based polymer emulsion binder, to start their masterpiece.
OK, so maybe masterpiece is a bit strong, as the rhododendrons look more like "The Blob," but there's always tomorrow.
The dinner bell rings, it's time to head to the mess hall and eat, with much of the meal prepared on propane stoves, the same natural gas and petroleum fuel that heats the water in the camp showers.
It's been an active first day, and with four more weeks to go, it promises to be an energy-filled West Virginia adventure!
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Natural wood is by right considered to be the most traditional material for making desks. Of course, wooden desks are not made of one certain wood breed, there are dozens of them. You can choose timber, either very hard (for example, oak or hornbeam) or very beautiful (for example, cherry tree). It's possible to choose an expensive breed, as mahogany, or cheap pine-tree. Of course, the harder and more beautiful the wood texture is, the more expensive will be a desk, made of it. Desks, made of natural wood, as a rule, look very respectable and they make a room cosy. To be in use for a long time such desks need special care, they shouldn't be used in a dusty or damp room.
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INTERSTELLAR SPACE SEX?by Ian O'Neill
"They could just... watch TV," quipped Discovery News Tech Producer Tracy Staedter.
Rarely does a single topic invoke such interest, humor and popularity than sex. If you throw space exploration into the mix, you get the "alien" (and genuinely weird) subject of space sex.
What's more, although sex is one of the most basic of human functions, space sex is one of the greatest unknowns in the history of manned spaceflight -- apart from a few hushed rumors, sex in space has never been attempted. However, as we are about to discover, future human sexuality in space -- particularly in interstellar space -- may not be very familiar... or even desirable (for procreation purposes, at least).
SLIDE SHOW: Why is space sex the #1 most scary space horror story?
So, there I was on the phone, with my Discovery News colleagues, discussing an article that appeared in theDaily Mail in the wake of last week's 100 Year Starship Study (100YSS) symposium in Orlando, Fla. Of course sex wasn't the main thrust of the symposium, it was the awesome task facing mankind should we decide to become an interstellar race, sex in zero-G just made a fantastic news hook.
But should we truly become a star-hopping civilization, how would we fill the time between the stars? Well there's Tracy's suggestion, but in the interest of continuing the human race beyond Earth's atmosphere (and gravity), some interesting questions of sex (and, presumably, Karma Sutra poses) will arise.
ANALYSIS: Apollo 12 Playboy Stowaway to be Auctioned
Let's face it, interstellar space travel isn't for wimps, so the first interstellar spaceship will most likely be unmanned. Unless you're an anatomically-correct robot, then I'm thinking space sex won't feature very highly on the interstellar to-do list.
For example, Project Icarus -- headed by regular Discovery News contributor Richard Obousy -- is one such study into sending mankind's influence to a nearby star. Using fusion propulsion, the Icarus starship will need to traverse the light-years to arrive at (or fly by) another star within the time frame of a human lifetime. Let's say 50 years.
The Icarus Interstellar team were present at the symposium, along with a thousand others, to discuss the idea that one day we might reach another star. As mentioned by Discovery News space correspondent Irene Klotz (who was also present at the symposium), the challenges are formidable.
After all, if the Voyager 1 probe -- the fastest-moving man-made object in space -- was aimed at Proxima Centauri (the nearest stellar neighbor), it would take in the ballpark of 100,000 years to get there. Ouch. If you think we humans are naturally quarantined from the rest of the galaxy, you wouldn't be far wrong.
WIDE ANGLE: Project Icarus -- Reaching for Interstellar Space
In terms of cosmic timescales of millions or billions of years, 100,000 years is tiny. But for human experience, this is a horrid situation. Thousands of civilizations have come and gone in that time frame; waiting 100,000 years to reach another star is just plain silly.
No. We need another way. We need new ideas for spacecraft propulsion. We need new concepts for spaceship design. Hell, we need the USS Enterprise! (And I'm not joking.)
Hence why DARPA, with the help of NASA, set up the whole 100 Year Starship Study in the first place. Be sure to keep up with the mind-boggling Icarus Project, a team of scientists and engineers all providing original content to Discovery News, describing every aspect of a 50 year mission to another star. Space may be big, but it doesn't mean we can't think big. Icarus is one of the hopeful contenders for the 100YSS $500,000 prize to further develop their concept.
SLIDE SHOW: Sizing Up the Daedalus Interstellar Spacecraft
But sex wasn't far away from the symposium's agenda, especially when considering that eventually human beings may want to make the trip beyond the solar system -- for what reason, apart from pure exploration-sake, is far from certain at this stage.
"Sex is very difficult in zero gravity, because you have no traction and you keep bumping against the walls," said biologist Athena Andreadis of the University of Massachusetts, who gave a 100YSS talk called "Making Aliens."
Also, giving birth is no picnic either.
"Giving birth in zero gravity is going to be hell because gravity helps you," she said. "You rely on the weight of the baby."
SEE ALSO: What Would an Interstellar Mission Look Like?
But this discussion is moot considering the kind of human-rated vehicle we'd have to build to make the trip. Assuming warp-driven spacecraft won't be a reality for the immediate future, our future interstellar travelers will spend their lives in an interstellar craft. In fact, it's conceivable that generations of people will live out their lives forever gliding through the interstellar void.
These starships wouldn't just be incredible technological feats, they'd also be the grandest social experiment ever attempted!
So these long-duration vehicles will have to address the gravity issue (perhaps with artificial gravity-creating centrifuges) and they will need to be self-sustaining. In short, barring any serious overhauls of the human physiology through technological or genetic means, the starship will need to provide everything we need for an interstellar civilization to thrive. The sex thing will probably come as natural to interstellar humans as it does to their terrestrial counterparts.
But what will we do once we arrive at our first interstellar destination? Will we colonize the first "habitable" planet we come across? What if we need to adapt our destination to make it suitable for human habitation?
Project Icarus: Which Exoplanet to Visit?
"Not only are we bad at terraforming, but we don't have the life span or the attention span to carry it through," said Andreadis. "Terraforming is a failure of the imagination. It's like people who take those expensive trips to Paris and eat at McDonald's."
Alternatively, rather than changing alien environments to suit us, perhaps we can change ourselves to adapt to alien environments.
"We will have to grow up and do self-directed evolution, realizing that what comes out of the other end may not be human," she added. "If we stake our future among the stars, we must change for the journey and the destination."
So, although sex in space will always be a headline-grabber and an excuse to post pictures of Jane Fonda in various famous Barbarella poses (top, sorry, couldn't resist), the bigger picture is whether or not we'd even need a basic human impetus like sex to maintain a human presence throughout the cosmos.
This is especially true if, as Andreadis points out, our interstellar descendants aren't even human.
Interstellar Space Sex, How Feasible is it? Space Sex Has Never Been Tried.
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Tender at the bone : Growing Up at the Table. / Ruth Reichl.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor better or worse, almost all of us grow up at the table. It is in this setting that Ruth Reichl's brilliantly written memoir takes its form. For, at a very early age, Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world . . . if you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Tender at the Bone is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in equal measure by unforgettable people, the love of tales well told, and a passion for food. In other words, the stuff of the best literature. The journey begins with Reichl's mother, the notorious food-poisoner known for-evermore as the Queen of Mold, and moves on to the fabled Mrs. Peavey, onetime Baltimore socialite millionaress, who, for a brief but poignant moment, was retained as the Reichls' maid. Then we are introduced to Monsieur du Croix, the gourmand, who so understood and yet was awed by this prodigious child at his dinner...
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