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A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Psychiatry residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowship programs, Dr. Rohrbaugh has been a member of the Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty since 1988. Early in his career, Dr. Rohrbaugh's clinical, educational and research interests were at the interface of geropsychiatry and medicine. He has been Chief of the Psychiatry Consult service at VA-Connecticut and developed the geropsychiatry service and the psychiatry primary care clinic at VA-Connecticut. He was the Clinical Director for VA-Connecticut Mental Health Service Line before leaving the VA to become the department's residency program director.
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Most recently, Dr. Rohrbaugh has worked to educate Yale medical students and residents in global health and has worked with colleagues at Xiangya School of Medicine in Changsha, Hunan Province, PRC to develop a competency based model for post-graduate (residency) education. This model has heavily influenced the Chinese national model for residency training. He was named the Founding Director of the Yale School of Medicine's Office of International Medical Student Education in 2008. In 2015, having noted the irony that global health education is largely discussed by educators in high income countries, Dr. Rohrbaugh co-founded the Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative with an explicit goal of bringing global health education leaders from high, middle and low income countries together to developed global health curricula that could be implemented world-wide.
Education & Training
|Yale University (1982)
|Franklin and Marshall College, Biology (1978)
|Fellowship in Geropsychiatry
|Yale University
|NIMH Fellowship in Clinical Research
|Yale University
|Yale University
Honors & Recognition
Alvin Feinstein Award for Exemplary Teaching of Clinical SkillsYale School of Medicine (2009)
Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching ResidencyAmerican Psychiatric Association (2005)
Nancy C.A. Roeske Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education in PsychiatryAmerican Psychiatric Association (2002)
Malcolm Bowers Award for Excellence in Teaching PGY II ResidentsDepartment of Psychiatry (2002)
VA National Undersecretary's Award for Innovative Programs Integrating Mental Health, Primary Care and GeriatricsVA (2000)
Steven Fleck Faculty Award as Exemplary Physician and Clinical TeacherDepartment of Psychiatry (2000)
Yale Psychiatric Residents Award for Excellence in Teaching ResidentsPsychiatry Residents Association (1998)
Yale Psychiatric Residents Award for Excellence in Teaching ResidentsPsychiatry Residents Association (1994)
Yale Psychiatric Residents Award for Excellence in Teaching ResidentsPsychiatry Residents Association (1993)
National Psychiatric Endowment Fund FellowLaughlin Foundation (1986)
Laughlin Award for MeritDepartment of Psychiatry (1986)
Sandoz Award for Thesis in Biological PsychiatryYale School of Medicine (1982)
Phi Beta Kappa (1978)
Professional Service
Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative (2015 - Present) Co-Founding Director 2015 - present
Health in Harmony (2015 - Present) Board of Directors
Xiangya School of Medicine (2011 - Present) Visiting Professor
Yale China Association (2009 - Present) Health Committee Member 2009 through Present Trustee, 2009 through 2015
Association of American Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (2005 - Present) Geriatric Caucus Chair
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (2005 - Present) Member, Aging Group
Clinical Elective Site Director Bogotá, Colombia (2012)
Clinical Elective Site Director Lima District, Peru (2011)
Clinical Elective Site Director Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010)
Post graduate medical education Changsha, China (2006)
Education Consultant to Xiangya School of Medicine in development of a hospital system wide residency education program
Undergraduate Medical Education Changsha, China (2006)
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Because the key focus of "Amour" is on the enduring love between this couple — or, as the writer-director has said, "how we cope with the suffering of someone we love very deeply" — casting could not be more critical. The subtle but unstoppable acting here is impossible to improve on.
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The second day in the jury trial of Daniel Aiello, 27, of St. Marys, charged with 134 counts of felony burglary and charges related to camp burglaries that occurred across Elk, Cameron, and McKean counties between 2010 and 2011, saw testimony from investigators as well as the defendant's half-brother, who is also charged in the crimes. Mark Paul Kimes Aiello, 20, of Kane, testified Tuesday that his half-brother Daniel Aiello burglarized over 100 camps in Elk, Cameron, and McKean counties beginning in Benezette Township in November 2010. Kimes Aiello said at the time, he and the defendant would often take leisurely drives along rural backroads while drinking beer. Kimes Aiello testified that on one particular evening as they drove past a group of camps, Aiello noticed items in the window of one and told KImes Aiello to break in and steal them. "He said, 'Go get them,' and I said, 'No,'" Kimes Aiello said. Kimes Aiello testified that Aiello goaded him into doing so and that following Aiello's challenging him to enter the camp, he did so by kicking in the door. He said Aiello then backed up the vehicle, which the two began loading with pilfered goods. Kimes Aiello said that a number of camps in the immediate area were also broken into that first night, adding that he couldn't recall exactly how many, what roads they were on, or what was taken from each. Kimes Aiello said that he and the defendant returned to Benezette a short time later and broke into additional camps, as well as some for the second time. Kimes Aiello said the stolen items were unpacked and stored at Aiello's St. Marys home. Kimes Aiello said the items that he kept he immediately sold on the Pennswoods auction website. As Kimes Aiello is also currently facing charges of burglary, criminal conspiracy, thefts, and has yet to have a trial, Elk County District Attorney Bradley J. Kraus stressed that Kimes Aiello has not been promised any plea bargain or immunity in exchange for his testimony. Pick up a copy of the Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 edition of The Ridgway Record for more.


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Inside Bethlehem Steel The Final Quarter Century is a visual tour of what was once the second-largest steel producer in the United States, and the story of how it struggled to survive in its last 25 years.
Through the photographs of Peter B. Treiber and the text of Elizabeth A. ("Bette") Kovach, the book celebrates the majesty and might of the steelmaker while chronicling the long decline of the company that literally built, transported and defended America for nearly 99 years.
Treiber and Kovach were both employees of Bethlehem Steel's Public Affairs Department, working out of its corporate headquarters in Bethlehem, Pa. Treiber was a staff photographer from 1977 to 1983 and then was contracted to photograph the company's facilities and products for use in marketing.
Kovach worked in corporate and employee communications from 1976 until the company's sale of assets to International Steel Group Inc. in May 2003. She was Bethlehem Steel's last director of corporate communications and spokeswoman.
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The leather-bound book measuring 12 by 9 inches has 92 photographs and accompanying text spanning 140 pages. Nearly all the photographs are full color, and all were taken between 1977 and 2000, when the mill was in full operation.
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- This article is about haptic technology. For the study of touching behaviour in humans, see Haptics. For the biology of sensory receptors, see Somatosensory system.
Haptic, from the Greek αφή (Haphe), means pertaining to the sense of touch (or possibly from the Greek word haptesthai meaning "contact" or "touch").
Haptic technology refers to technology which interfaces the user via the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations and/or motions to the user. This mechanical stimulation is used to create haptic virtual objects. Watch an animated demo of these basic haptic technology concepts here. This emerging technology promises to have wide reaching applications. Although haptic devices are capable of measuring bulk or reactive forces that are applied by the user it should not to be confused with touch or tactile sensors that measure the pressure or force exerted by the user to the interface.
One of the earliest forms of haptic devices is used in large modern aircraft that use servo systems to operate control systems. Such systems tend to be "one-way" in that forces applied aerodynamically to the control surfaces are not perceived at the controls, with the missing normal forces simulated with springs and weights. In earlier, lighter aircraft without servo systems, as the aircraft approached a stall the aerodynamic buffeting was felt in the pilot's controls, a useful warning to the pilot of a dangerous flight condition. This control shake is not felt when servo control systems are used. To replace this missing clue, the angle of attack is measured, and when it approaches the critical stall point a "stick shaker" (an unbalanced rotating mass) is engaged, simulating the effects of a simpler control system. This is known as haptic feedback or force feedback.
Teleoperators and simulatorsEdit
Teleoperators are remote controlled robotic tools, and when contact forces are reproduced to the operator, it is called "haptic teleoperation". The first electrically actuated teleoperators were built in the 1950's at the Argonne National Lab, USA, by Dr. Raymond C. Goertz, to remotely handle radioactive substances. Since then, the use of "force feedback" has become more widespread in all kinds of teleoperators such as underwater exploration devices controlled from a remote location.
When such devices are simulated using a computer (as they are in operator training devices) it is useful to provide the force feedback that would be felt in actual operations. Since the objects being manipulated do not exist in a physical sense, the forces are generated using haptic (force generating) operator controls. Data representing touch sensations may be saved or played back using such haptic technologies.
Haptic simulators are currently used in medical simulators and flight simulators for pilot training (2004).
Some low-end haptic devices are already common. Some joysticks and game controllers provide haptic feedback. The simplest form is the Rumble Pak, which is simply an attachment which vibrates upon command from the software. This is often incorrectly referred to as force feedback. True force feedback involves the feedback of a resisting force to the user. This feature is available in some simulated automobile steering wheels which provide the road "feel" for race car simulations. The ability to change the temperature of a controlling device could also be used. However, the technology may be cost prohibitive in terms of how much power it would need to operate properly.
Novint Technologies recently announced their development of a high-fidelity consumer haptic (3D touch) controller which they plan to introduce in the video game market in 2007. The device, which is called the Novint Falcon, lets users feel weight, shape, texture, dimension, and force effects when playing touch-enabled games. The device, which is designed to retail for under $250 in mass market quantities, performs comparably to commercial devices that cost thousands of dollars, making the technology practical for consumer applications for the first time.
Users hold the interchangeable handle, or end effector of the Novint Falcon as shown in this image.
Haptics in virtual realityEdit
Haptics is gaining widespread acceptance as a key part of Virtual Reality systems, adding the sense of touch to previously visual-only solutions such as 'The Wedge' and more recently in laptop-based VR solutions such as the '3D-Mobile Immersive Workstation'. Most of these solutions use stylus-based haptic rendering, where the user interfaces to the virtual world via a tool or stylus, giving a form of interaction that is computationally realistic on today's hardware
Some research has been done into simulating the different kinds of tactition by means of high-speed vibrations or other stimuli. One device of this type uses a pad array of pins, where the pins vibrate to simulate a surface being touched. While this does not have a realistic feel, it does provide useful feedback, allowing discrimination between various shapes, textures, and resiliencies.
Various haptic interfaces for medical simulation may prove especially useful for training of minimally invasive procedures (laparoscopy/interventional radiology) and remote surgery using teleoperators. In the future, expert surgeons may work from a central workstation, performing operations in various locations, with machine setup and patient preparation performed by local nursing staff. Rather than traveling to an operating room, the surgeon instead becomes a telepresence. A particular advantage of this type of work is that the surgeon can perform many more operations of a similar type, and with less fatigue. It is well documented that a surgeon who performs more procedures of a given kind will have statistically better outcomes for his patients.
In ophthalmology, "haptic" refers to a supporting spring, two of which hold an artificial lens within the lens capsule (after surgical removal of cataracts).
A 'Virtual Haptic Back' (VHB) is being successfully integrated in the curriculum of students at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Research indicates that VHB is a significant teaching aid in palpatory diagnosis (detection of medical problems via touch). The VHB simulates the contour and compliance (reciprocal of stiffness) properties of human backs, which are palpated with two haptic interfaces (SensAble Technologies, PHANToM 3.0). This research is being conducted at the 'Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuromusculoskeletal Research (IINR)'
The use of haptic devices in entertainment appeared in the 1932 futurist fiction book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The author described a future entertainment theater where the arm rests of the seats had positions for the hands to rest that gave haptic stimulation. Rather than "the movies" these theaters and shows were called "the feelies". The programs exhibited were of an erotic nature. Haptic devices, including self-propelled haptics, feature prominently in Vernor Vinge's 2006 novel Rainbows End.
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One envisioned use of haptics is for "teledildonics". Recent developments such as the 'CyberGlove' indicate that this may be plausible and not just an interesting idea. Some sex toys are now available which can be computer controlled; normally this comes in the form of an online movie or Web site which sends commands to the toy at scripted moments.
The Shadow Dextrous Robot Hand uses the sense of touch, pressure, and position to reproduce the human grip in all its strength, delicacy, and complexity. The SDRH was first developed by Richard Greenhill and his team of engineers in Islington, London, as part of The Shadow Project, (now known as the Shadow Robot Company) an ongoing research and development program whose goal is to complete the first convincing humanoid. An early prototype can be seen in NASA's collection of humanoid robots, or robonauts (http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/robonaut.html). The Dextrous Hand has haptic sensors embedded in every joint and in every finger pad which relay information to a central computer for processing and analysis. Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and Bielefeld University in Germany in particular have found The Dextrous Hand is an invaluable tool in progressing our understanding of haptic awareness and are currently involved (2006) in research with wide ranging implications.
Touching is not limited to a feeling, but it allows interactivity in real-time with virtual objects. Thus haptics are commonly used in virtual arts, such as sound synthesis or graphic design/animation. The haptic device allows the artist to have direct contact with a virtual instrument which is able to produce real-time sound or images. We can quote the physical modelling synthesis which is an efficient modelling theory to implement cross-play interaction between sound, image, and physical objects. For instance, the simulation of a violin string produces real-time vibrations of this string under the pressure and expressivity of the bow (haptic device) held by the artist.
- Monkman. G.J. ‑ An Electrorheological Tactile Display ‑ Presence (Journal of Teleoperators and Virtual Environments) ‑ Vol. 1, issue 2, pp. 219-228, MIT Press, July 1992.
- Robles-De-La-Torre G. & Hayward V. Force Can Overcome Object Geometry In the perception of Shape Through Active Touch. Nature 412 (6845):445-8 (2001).
- Hayward V, Astley OR, Cruz-Hernandez M, Grant D, Robles-De-La-Torre G. Haptic interfaces and devices. Sensor Review 24(1), pp. 16-29 (2004).
- Klein. D, D. Rensink, H. Freimuth, G.J. Monkman, S. Egersdörfer, H. Böse & M. Baumann - Modelling the Response of a Tactile Array using an Electrorheological Fluids - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol 37, no. 5, pp794-803, 2004
- Klein. D, H. Freimuth, G.J. Monkman, S. Egersdörfer, A. Meier, H. Böse M. Baumann, H. Ermert & O.T. Bruhns - Electrorheological Tactile Elements - Mechatronics - Vol 15, No 7, pp883-897 - Pergamon, September 2005.
- Robles-De-La-Torre G. The Importance of the Sense of Touch in Virtual and Real Environments. IEEE Multimedia 13(3), Special issue on Haptic User Interfaces for Multimedia Systems, pp. 24-30 (2006).
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External linksEdit
Haptics communitiesEdit
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- The Haptics Community Website Resources for haptics researchers
- The International Society for Haptics
- Haptics-L: The electronic mailing list for the international haptics community
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Open source and other software Edit
- Haptik Library An open-source component-based library for uniform access to haptic devices
- Chai3D Free, open-source library for haptic and graphic rendering
- H3D Free, open-source API for haptics and 3D visualisation programming
- The International Society for Haptics' Software Archive
- Immersion Corp.Immersion develops touch feedback technologies that engage the sense of touch in the digital world for communicating, driving, designing, training, or just for fun
- Force Dimension Provider of high-end haptic devices and solutions for medical, industrial and research applications
- Handshake VR Inc. provider of a haptic and telehaptic development toolkit to empower application developers with little or no haptic experience
- Novint Technologies, Inc. develops, markets, and licenses haptic technology for commercial and consumer applications
- Quanser Inc. manufacturer of high-transparency and robust Haptic systems for education, research, and industrial integration. All of Quanser's Haptic systems are open-architecture and are currently implemented in the heavy equipment, medical, robotic, and didactic industries.
- Haption. Haption provides haptic devices and software solutions for Virtual Reality.
- SensAble Technologies, Inc. provider of 3D touch-enabled digital solutions for commercial software development, academic and commercial research, product design, and digital content creation.
- Reachin Technologies AB provider of high-fidelity 2D and 3D touch-enabled solutions for software development within manufacturing, design, R&D, meditech and entertainment.
- SenseGraphics provides display systems for integrated haptics and graphics. Develops the X3D based open source API, H3D API, used for development of haptic applications. Also provides consulting for development of haptic applications.
- Ergos-Technologies develops n-DOF modular haptic devices for multisensory real-time interaction. Ergos also provides consulting and physical modelling synthesis software for high-bandwidth-loop haptic/sound/image simulations.
- Butterfly Haptics, LLC High performance 6-DOF haptic interaction systems based on Lorentz levitation.
- MPB Technologies Inc. manufactures the Freedom 6S force-feedback hand controller. It features high-accuracy 16-bit sensors, and is capable of rendering precision forces and torques in 6 degrees of freedom.
Haptics research and mediaEdit
- 'Haptics and Applications in Medicine' at Johns Hopkins
- 'Haptics-e: The Electronic Journal of Haptics Research' - Scholarly papers on haptics
- Haptics-L Literature Update The latest papers on haptics and touch research, by Gabriel Robles-De-La-Torre
- Haptics-L Newslog The latest news and views on haptics, by Gabriel Robles-De-La-Torre
- Haptics Bibliography List of haptics papers, made by researcher Margaret Minsky (not updated since 1999)
- Haptics Links List of haptics links, made by researcher Margaret Minsky (not updated since 1999)
- Haptic Spaces Exploration of haptic technologies and touch culture, made by philosopher Mark Paterson
- Haptics: An award-winning humorous and ironic animated film in a future where reality is blurred by the science of Haptics
- The Cutting Edge of Haptics An article in MIT's Technology review by Duncan Graham-Rowe.
- Realistic Multi-Finger Haptics Haptics Research at the University of Reading, UK.
- Design Based Medical Training Learning medical procedural skills through haptics, University College Cork and University of Limerick, Ireland.
- Computer haptics An animated demo explaining basic haptic technology concepts.
- How Touching. An article on haptics in The Economist's Technology Quarterly. Subscription and free versions are online.
- Touch, technology, digital arts and philosophy
- The International Society for Haptics
- The Cutting Edge of Haptics An article in MIT's Technology review by Duncan Graham-Rowe.
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Well, I can't speak for others, but I keep returning to Thoreau because he was the first to teach me that one can have religion without the supernatural and science without scientism. And this is exactly what Robinson's title is all about.
Upon his return from his week-long boating trip on the Concord River with brother John, Thoreau resolved to change the way he lived. He wrote: "Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized but naturalized, on the soil of the earth."
In seeking a "natural life," Thoreau meant to live as part of an organic whole, not separate from nature, not clinging to the divine like a helpless child, but as the sturdy elm about which the vine clings. He shunned talk of immaterial souls, and, like Whitman, stood in awe of the body. "Talk of mysteries! -- Think of our life in nature, -- daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, -- rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact!"
The actual world! The world of common sense and the common senses. The world he could touch, and taste, and see, and hear, and smell. This is where he would encounter the divine -- in the wind on his cheek.
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A History of Philippine-American Relations
Patricio N. Abinales
An enduring resilience characterizes Philippine–American relationship for several reasons. For one, there is an unusual colonial relationship wherein the United States took control of the Philippines from the Spanish and then shared power with an emergent Filipino elite, introduced suffrage, implemented public education, and promised eventual national independence. A shared experience fighting the Japanese in World War II and defeating a postwar communist rebellion further cemented the "special relationship" between the two countries. The United States took advantage of this partnership to compel the Philippines to sign an economic and military treaty that favored American businesses and the military, respectively. Filipino leaders not only accepted the realities of this strategic game and exploited every opening to assert national interests but also benefitted from American largesse. Under the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos, this mutual cadging was at its most brazen. As a result, the military alliance suffered when the Philippines terminated the agreement, and the United States considerably reduced its support to the country. But the estrangement did not last long, and both countries rekindled the "special relationship" in response to the U.S. "Global War on Terror" and, of late, Chinese military aggression in the West Philippine Sea.
The American Antinuclear Movement
Paul Rubinson
Spanning countries across the globe, the antinuclear movement was the combined effort of millions of people to challenge the superpowers' reliance on nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Encompassing an array of tactics, from radical dissent to public protest to opposition within the government, this movement succeeded in constraining the arms race and helping to make the use of nuclear weapons politically unacceptable. Antinuclear activists were critical to the establishment of arms control treaties, although they failed to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons, as anticommunists, national security officials, and proponents of nuclear deterrence within the United States and Soviet Union actively opposed the movement. Opposition to nuclear weapons evolved in tandem with the Cold War and the arms race, leading to a rapid decline in antinuclear activism after the Cold War ended.
American Environmental Diplomacy
Kurk Dorsey
From its inception as a nation in 1789, the United States has engaged in an environmental diplomacy that has included attempts to gain control of resources, as well as formal diplomatic efforts to regulate the use of resources shared with other nations and peoples. American environmental diplomacy has sought to gain control of natural resources, to conserve those resources for the future, and to protect environmental amenities from destruction. As an acquirer of natural resources, the United States has focused on arable land as well as on ocean fisheries, although around 1900, the focus on ocean fisheries turned into a desire to conserve marine resources from unregulated harvesting.
The main 20th-century U.S. goal was to extend beyond its borders its Progressive-era desire to utilize resources efficiently, meaning the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time. For most of the 20th century, the United States was the leader in promoting global environmental protection through the best science, especially emphasizing wildlife. Near the end of the century, U.S. government science policy was increasingly out of step with global environmental thinking, and the United States often found itself on the outside. Most notably, the attempts to address climate change moved ahead with almost every country in the world except the United States.
While a few monographs focus squarely on environmental diplomacy, it is safe to say that historians have not come close to tapping the potential of the intersection of the environmental and diplomatic history of the United States.
The American Experience during World War II
Michael C. C. Adams
On the eve of World War II many Americans were reluctant to see the United States embark on overseas involvements. Yet the Japanese attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, seemingly united the nation in determination to achieve total victory in Asia and Europe. Underutilized industrial plants expanded to full capacity producing war materials for the United States and its allies. Unemployment was sucked up by the armed services and war work. Many Americans' standard of living improved, and the United States became the wealthiest nation in world history.
Over time, this proud record became magnified into the "Good War" myth that has distorted America's very real achievement. As the era of total victories receded and the United States went from leading creditor to debtor nation, the 1940s appeared as a golden age when everything worked better, people were united, and the United States saved the world for democracy (an exaggeration that ignored the huge contributions of America's allies, including the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and China). In fact, during World War II the United States experienced marked class, sex and gender, and racial tensions. Groups such as gays made some social progress, but the poor, especially many African Americans, were left behind. After being welcomed into the work force, women were pressured to go home when veterans returned looking for jobs in late 1945–1946, losing many of the gains they had made during the conflict. Wartime prosperity stunted the development of a welfare state; universal medical care and social security were cast as unnecessary. Combat had been a horrific experience, leaving many casualties with major physical or emotional wounds that took years to heal. Like all major global events, World War II was complex and nuanced, and it requires careful interpretation.
American Foreign Economic Policy
Daniel Sargent
Foreign economic policy involves the mediation and management of economic flows across borders. Over two and a half centuries, the context for U.S. foreign economic policy has transformed. Once a fledgling republic on the periphery of the world economy, the United States has become the world's largest economy, the arbiter of international economic order, and a predominant influence on the global economy. Throughout this transformation, the making of foreign economic policy has entailed delicate tradeoffs between diverse interests—political and material, foreign and domestic, sectional and sectoral, and so on. Ideas and beliefs have also shaped U.S. foreign economic policy—from Enlightenment-era convictions about the pacifying effects of international commerce to late 20th-century convictions about the efficacy of free markets.
American Foreign Policy and the Space Race
Teasel Muir-Harmony
The Soviet Union's successful launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, captured global attention and achieved the initial victory in what would soon become known as the space race. This impressive technological feat and its broader implications for Soviet missile capability rattled the confidence of the American public and challenged the credibility of U.S. leadership abroad. With the U.S.S.R.'s launch of Sputnik, and then later the first human spaceflight in 1961, U.S. policymakers feared that the public and political leaders around the world would view communism as a viable and even more dynamic alternative to capitalism, tilting the global balance of power away from the United States and towards the Soviet Union.
Reactions to Sputnik confirmed what members of the U.S. National Security Council had predicted: the image of scientific and technological superiority had very real, far-reaching geopolitical consequences. By signaling Soviet technological and military prowess, Sputnik solidified the link between space exploration and national prestige, setting a course for nationally funded space exploration for years to come. For over a decade, both the Soviet Union and the United States funneled significant financial and personnel resources into achieving impressive firsts in space, as part of a larger effort to win alliances in the Cold War contest for global influence.
From a U.S. vantage point, the space race culminated in the first Moon landing in July 1969. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed Project Apollo, a lunar exploration program, as a tactic for restoring U.S. prestige in the wake of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight and the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. To achieve Kennedy's goal of sending a man to the Moon and returning him safely back to Earth by the end of the decade, the United States mobilized a workforce in the hundreds of thousands. Project Apollo became the most expensive government funded civilian engineering program in U.S. history, at one point stretching to more than 4 percent of the federal budget. The United States' substantial investment in winning the space race reveals the significant status of soft power in American foreign policy strategy during the Cold War.
American Military Assistance Programs since 1945
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Military assistance programs have been crucial instruments of American foreign policy since World War II, valued by policymakers for combating internal subversion in the "free world," deterring aggression, and protecting overseas interests. The 1958 Draper Committee, consisting of eight members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, concluded that economic and military assistance were interchangeable; as the committee put it, without internal security and the "feeling of confidence engendered by adequate military forces, there is little hope for economic progress." Less explicitly, military assistance was also designed to uphold the U.S. global system of military bases established after World War II, ensure access to raw materials, and help recruit intelligence assets while keeping a light American footprint. Police and military aid was often invited and welcomed by government elites in so-called free world nations for enhancing domestic security or enabling the swift repression of political opponents. It sometimes coincided with an influx of economic aid, as under the Marshall Plan and Alliance for Progress. In cases like Vietnam, the programs contributed to stark human rights abuses owing to political circumstances and prioritizing national security over civil liberties.
American Military Strategy in the Vietnam War, 1965–1973
Gregory A. Daddis
For nearly a decade, American combat soldiers fought in South Vietnam to help sustain an independent, noncommunist nation in Southeast Asia. After U.S. troops departed in 1973, the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975 prompted a lasting search to explain the United States' first lost war. Historians of the conflict and participants alike have since critiqued the ways in which civilian policymakers and uniformed leaders applied—some argued misapplied—military power that led to such an undesirable political outcome. While some claimed U.S. politicians failed to commit their nation's full military might to a limited war, others contended that most officers fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the war they were fighting. Still others argued "winning" was essentially impossible given the true nature of a struggle over Vietnamese national identity in the postcolonial era. On their own, none of these arguments fully satisfy. Contemporary policymakers clearly understood the difficulties of waging a war in Southeast Asia against an enemy committed to national liberation. Yet the faith of these Americans in their power to resolve deep-seated local and regional sociopolitical problems eclipsed the possibility there might be limits to that power. By asking military strategists to simultaneously fight a war and build a nation, senior U.S. policymakers had asked too much of those crafting military strategy to deliver on overly ambitious political objectives. In the end, the Vietnam War exposed the limits of what American military power could achieve in the Cold War era.
Andrew Jackson and US Foreign Relations
J.M. Opal
The foreign relations of the Jacksonian age reflected Andrew Jackson's own sense of the American "nation" as long victimized by non-white enemies and weak politicians. His goal as president from 1829 to 1837 was to restore white Americans' "sovereignty," to empower them against other nations both within and beyond US territory. Three priorities emerged from this conviction.
First, Jackson was determined to deport the roughly 50,000 Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles living in southern states and territories. He saw them as hostile nations who threatened American safety and checked American prosperity. Far from a domestic issue, Indian Removal was an imperial project that set the stage for later expansion over continental and oceanic frontiers.
Second and somewhat paradoxically, Jackson sought better relations with Great Britain. These were necessary because the British Empire was both the main threat to US expansion and the biggest market for slave-grown exports from former Indian lands. Anglo-American détente changed investment patterns and economic development throughout the Western Hemisphere, encouraging American leaders to appease London even when patriotic passions argued otherwise.
Third, Jackson wanted to open markets and secure property rights around the globe, by treaty if possible but by force when necessary. He called for a larger navy, pressed countries from France to Mexico for outstanding debts, and embraced retaliatory strikes on "savages" and "pirates" as far away as Sumatra. Indeed, the Jacksonian age brought a new American presence in the Pacific. By the mid-1840s the United States was the dominant power in the Hawaiian Islands and a growing force in China. The Mexican War that followed made the Union a two-ocean colossus—and pushed its regional tensions to the breaking point.
Robert David Johnson
The birth of the United States through a successful colonial revolution created a unique nation-state in which anti-imperialist sentiment existed from the nation's founding. Three broad points are essential in understanding the relationship between anti-imperialism and U.S. foreign relations. First, the United States obviously has had more than its share of imperialist ventures over the course of its history. Perhaps the better way to address the matter is to remark on—at least in comparison to other major powers—how intense a commitment to anti-imperialism has remained among some quarters of the American public and government. Second, the strength of anti-imperialist sentiment has varied widely and often has depended upon domestic developments, such as the emergence of abolitionism before the Civil War or the changing nature of the Progressive movement following World War I. Third, anti-imperialist policy alternatives have enjoyed considerably more support in Congress than in the executive branch.


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Agricultural analysis leads to vital economic decisions
USDA's NASS collects, summarizes hundreds of data series about the nation's crops, livestock
Think of it as the database for the US Department of Agriculture. Every day, economists, insurers, equipment manufacturers, transportation/logistics experts, textile firms, food producers, regulators, traders, investors, speculators and government leaders rely on the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) for a broad range of information, analyses, forecasts, and other vital data that help them gain a clearer picture of the country's agricultural status.
With a firm commitment to timely, accurate and useful information, NASS conducts hundreds of surveys annually and prepares reports and analyses that cover virtually every aspect of US agriculture – including production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid/received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm finances, chemical usage, and changes in producer demographics.
But there are also hundreds of other sub-estimates, surveys, and data series for dozens of livestock species. For instance, there are semi-annual and monthly cattle reports covering milk cows and feed cows, breeding inventory and marketing inventory. Then there are the estimates for more than 120 different crops, such as cotton, oranges and wheat. A typical cattle survey might see 40,000 ranchers responding to a 20-question survey or answering questions in a 15-minute phone interview.
Given the data intensity of the challenge, the analytical software foundation must deliver exceptional levels of performance and sophisticated functionality. According to Dave Aune, Chief of the Statistical Methods Branch for NASS, SAS® tools have been the basis of the agency's data aggregation and statistical analyses since the mid-1970s.
"We actually may have been among the first SAS customers nearly 35 years ago," he said, "and there could be only one reason why SAS is still at the heart of our statistical processes: It works exceptionally well."
SAS® helps pull it all together
One of the biggest challenges that NASS faces is simply pulling together all of the data. The costs dictate the modes of data collection used, depending on the particular need. Mail-in surveys are least expensive, but necessitate turnaround times that can be challenging for monthly data – sometimes as little as 10 days. Face-to-face interviews by field researchers going out to farms and ranches almost always yield higher-quality data, but are expensive and time-consuming. As a result, cost-effective and time-efficient telephone interviews account for about 75 percent of NASS' data collection.
SAS not only pulls the information together for us, it uncovers the issues we need to address before we release the official USDA estimates to our various consuming audiences. This information is, of course, extremely sensitive and important – it's often a mission-critical indicator for a critical segment of the nation's economy, so we can't allow any errors to slip through.
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"We have 45 field offices conducting these surveys," explained Mark Apodaca, Head of the Commodity Section in Statistical Methods Branch. "We capture that data in Sybase and Redbrick databases. From there, we've built interactive analysis tools in SAS that pull survey responses for review and calculate expansions and ratios.
"This is all collected and performed at the state level, which has access to these prebuilt SAS routines so they can turn things around quickly. We built these routines in the 1990s, and they are still in use. Our staff in the field offices are subject experts in agriculture, not math. They're not required to be SAS experts. Instead, they can point-and-click to view questionnaire-level data quickly and easily to review the responses, make any edits, and prepare for the submission."
Spotting – and correcting – the anomalies
"Here at our central office, we're also heavy users of SAS on the mainframe," said Aune. "Before we consolidate the data from our field offices, we spend a fair bit of time reviewing it to validate its accuracy and finding anomalies. Instead of spending time detecting problems, we can spend more time researching the underlying issues. Once we're satisfied that the data are clean and correct, we aggregate the data and build a national summary. SAS not only pulls the information together for us, it uncovers the issues we need to address before we release the official USDA estimates to our various consuming audiences. This information is, of course, extremely sensitive and important – it's often a mission-critical indicator for a critical segment of the nation's economy, so we can't allow any errors to slip through."
"SAS is just synonymous with the work we're doing here," said Apodaca. "It's part of the skill set we look for when we're hiring. In fact, one small reason why SAS is such a strong presence here is because most of us were immersed in using SAS in college. Today, we're intense users creating summaries, ad hoc analyses, anomaly exploration, data massaging and more. It's an indispensable part of our daily work here."
Capture, edit, summarize and report data for hundreds of data series about crops and livestock across the US; detect anomalies lurking within the data.
With SAS, NASS can more easily aggregate, analyze and review vast volumes of sensitive and critically important data that forms the basis of economic forecasts and far-reaching business and government decisions.


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County of Orange Issues Draft Environmental Impact Report For Proposed Settlement Agreement Amendment Project
On May 23, 2014, the County of Orange, as the owner and operator of John Wayne Airport, issued Draft Environmental Impact Report 617 (Draft EIR) for the John Wayne Airport Settlement Agreement Amendment Project. The Draft EIR was prepared in conformance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to address the potential environmental impacts associated with the proposed modification and extension of the Settlement Agreement.
Two public meetings were held to provide information about the structure and content of the Draft EIR and to explain the process by which the public can access the document and provide input to the County of Orange. The first meeting was held on May 28 and was hosted by Supervisor Todd Spitzer in North Tustin. The second took place on May 29 and was hosted by Supervisor John Moorlach in Costa Mesa. JWA staff and lead consultants from the team that prepared the Draft EIR were on hand and attendees were invited to provide oral or written comments at the meeting.
Comments on the Draft EIR will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. on July 8, 2014, and may be submitted via email to email@example.com or by mail to: Ms. Lea Choum, John Wayne Airport, 3160 Airway Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. Click here for detailed information about how to access and comment on the Draft EIR.
The Draft EIR, including public comments and responses to comments, is scheduled to be presented to the Orange County Airport Commission, Orange County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors for their consideration in late summer 2014.
The Settlement Agreement formalized consensus reached between the County of Orange, the City of Newport Beach, the Airport Working Group (AWG) and Stop Polluting Our Newport (SPON) on the nature and extent of facility and operational improvements that could be implemented at John Wayne Airport. More information about the Settlement Agreement and the environmental review of proposed amendments to the Settlement Agreement is provided at www.ocair.com/settlementagreement.


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Understanding Consumer Trends and Drivers of Behavior in the Indian Savory Snack Market provides an overview of the market, analyzing market data, demographic consumption patterns within the category, and the key consumer trends driving consumption. The report highlights innovative new product development that effectively targets the most pertinent consumer need states, and offers strategic recommendations to capitalize on evolving consumer landscapes.
Key Findings
- Products that meet age-specific needs are driving the Savory Snacks consumption in India
- Consumers demand snacks that are convenient and suitable for on-the-go consumption
- Ethical and environmental issues have little impact on Indian consumers with respect to choosing Savory Snacks
- Health is not a major concern in most Savory Snack categories; however, India's large vegetarian population turn to Nuts & Seeds for their protein needs.
Understanding Consumer Trends and Drivers of Behavior in the Indian Savory Snack Market identifies the key demographic groups driving consumption and what motivates their consumption. The report uses a unique method of quantifying consumer trends to highlight the degree of influence they have on consumption within the category. The report also identifies the most important trends within the market and shows whether beliefs over what influences consumer behavior within the category are accurate.
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- Key consumer demographic groups driving consumption within the Indian market. The figures showcase the number of times consumers of specific ages and gender consume Savory Snacks, as well as identifying whether these demographic groups "over" consume in the category (i.e. they account for a higher proportion of occasions than the proportion of society they represent overall)
- Market value and volumes over 2008–2018 for India and nine other countries to give a global context
- The degree of influence that the 20 key consumer trends identified by Publisher have on Savory Snack consumption volumes, with granular analysis on the extent that degree of influences varies between gender and age group
- Insight into the implications behind the data, and analysis of how the needs of will evolve in the short-to-medium term future
- Examples of international and India-specific product innovation targeting key consumer needs.
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This report brings together consumer analysis and market data to provide actionable insight into the behavior of Indian Savory Snack consumers. This is based on Publisher's unique consumer data, developed from extensive consumption surveys and consumer group tracking, which quantifies the influence of 20 consumption motivations in the Savory Snack sector. This allows product and marketing strategies to be better aligned with the leading trends in the market.
Spanning over 57 pages, "Consumer Trends Analysis - Understanding Consumer Trends and Drivers of Behavior in Indian Savory Snacks Market" report covering Market context, Demographic cohort consumption patterns, Consumer trend analysis, Innovation examples, Recommended actions, Appendix. The report covered companies are - Act II, Creative Land Asia, DeliNut, Garden Snacks, Haldiram's, Intersnack, Ips All Natural, KP Snacks, Lays, Less Evil, Maiyas, Mrs Bector's Food, Nourish Organics, Pepsico, Snacks Lanca Ltd, Snikiddy, Společnost, Tex Mex Salsalito
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Kaleidescope ties. How can this hat not brighten your day?
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Head circumference: 21" / 53 cmIntended to fit with -1 to +2" / -2.5 to +5 cm ease
Yarn: 2 skeins Dragonfly Fibers Traveller (280 yd / 256 m per 4 oz / 113 g skein; 100% Superwash Merino Wool) in Fighting Irish
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Size 7 US / 4.5 mm circular needle 16" / 40 cm long and set of 4 double pointed needles Waste yarn, cable needle, tapestry needle, pom-pom maker
Gauge: 26 ½ sts and 30 rounds = 4" / 10 cm in Cable Pattern, worked in the round, after blocking
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A blog about ... blogs!
Blogging has been around for over fifteen years. It has fallen in and out of favour, but I now think it has found its place.
Blogging: "Never have so many said so little to so few". So went the saying when people first started to blog (in around 1994, according to Wikipedia). In over fifteen years blogging has exploded as noted by Wikipedia: "By 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news services, and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming."
With the rise of social media tools like Facebook and Twitter, questions have arisen around the effectiveness and role of blogs. At the Museum we use blogs to publish more substantial content and Facebook/Twitter to promote these. When we launched our site in June 2009 we started with four blogs, which have since expanded to 16 across a range of subject areas. In this week's post I thought I'd highlight a few.
Rare and Curious is a gem of a blog. Our Archives and Records staff often operate below the radar but both their website and Rare and Curious are full of interesting information and some stunning images from our extensive collections. Fish Bits highlights the week in the fish section and is a clever and easy way to keep up-to-date with goings on in the Fish section. We are starting to re-invigorate Science Bytes to include a broader range of stories which is also complemented by an e-newsletter. Cut the Carbon is written by Parrys Raines, a student who had attended one of our Kids' Colleges and offered to blog for us (and we love her for it). The Life at Lizard blog featured in last week's post and Anne has updated their experience during Cyclone Yasi for those that are interested. Now, I have a wonderful intern, Marloes, who has been bravely posting to the Audience Research and Visitor Voices blogs (and rather well I think) and it is a great way for interns to gain writing experience and for us to add content.
According to our Google stats visits to our blogs account for around 1% of all traffic (although this was still over 87,000 visits to our blogs over the past year). Two of the most popular posts during that time were the controversy over last year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year image and a post about Twitter in the classroom. These highlight both the diversity of our blogs and the interests of our readers.
Blogging is a great way to talk to audiences in a different way, while repurposing content. So, nothing more to say but blog on!


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VANCOUVER -- After getting a reprieve to their season, the Chicago Blackhawks are ready to defend their Stanley Cup championship.
The Hawks face off against the Vancouver Canucks at 9 p.m. Central in Game 1 of the Western Conference quarterfinals and the excitement in the dressing room following Wednesday's morning skate at Rogers Arena was palpable.
"We can't wait to get started," forward Patrick Sharp said. "It's been a long couple of days (after) a pretty emotional day on Sunday, being out of the plaoffs and back in them. We're excited to get things going."
The Hawks seemingly were out of the postseason following Sunday's loss to the Detroit Red Wings, but clung to the final spot in the West when the Minnesota Wild eliminated the Dallas Stars later that night.
"We feel a little bit fortunate to be here but we're excited to go now," defenseman Brian Campbell said. You're playing in the playoffs (so) re-focus and get ready to go. We're just going to go out and have some fun and work hard and see what happens."
Added starting goaltender Corey Crawford: "We're excited. We're a confident bunch. It should be a fun game. This will be a loud building. I'll probably have a little bit of nerves going into the game but I imagine it's going to be a tough game. Both teams are going to be battling hard and it will be a lot of fun."
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Here's another interesting promo released by the Disney Channel to promote Disney's A Christmas Carol. In this minute-long TV spot, kids give their reaction to the film after watching a special 3D preview of the film before it could hit theaters on Nov. 6th. The overall response from these kids has been overwhelmingly positive, and I'm sure the millions of people watching it might feel the same way.
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DIY Kitchen Upgrades
If you're a renter or a homeowner who's on a tight budget, you're probably not going to take on a full kitchen renovation any time soon, but you may want to make some small upgrades. Inexpensive projects—like changing fixtures or making over your kitchen cabinets—can make a huge difference in the way you feel about your home.
- How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets: This is a time-intensive project, but it makes a huge difference for very little money, and it's easier and greener than doing a whole kitchen overhaul.
- How to Make a Pegboard Wall Organizer: If you need more storage space in the kitchen and you'd like to add a shot of color, this is a cheap and simple project.
- How to Store and Organize Plastic Food Containers: This post offers tips on installing roll-out drawers for easily accessible kitchen storage.
- How to Open Up Your Kitchen Shelving and Not Screw It Up: All you have to do is take the doors off your kitchen cabinets. It seems so easy, but with the wrong type of organizational system, it can go awry. This post offers tips for doing it right.
- How to Replace a Kitchen Faucet: Replacing a faucet is a simple project; you don't need a plumber to do it. This post leads you through each step with photos.
RELATED POST: 10 Kitchen Improvements for Renters
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