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Rescued Wright House for Soap King Crowns Buffalo Rebirth
By Martin HouseOctober 2, 2012April 22nd, 2021No Comments
This article originally appeared in Bloomberg on October 2, 2012.
When Larkin Soap magnate Darwin D. Martin was ready to build his dream house in Buffalo, New York, he called on the country's hottest young architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Finished in 1905, the 15,000-square-foot residence in the tony Parkside section of town, cost what was then a staggering $175,000 (about $4.32 million today). Wright called it his "domestic symphony."
I first visited the Martin house nearly 20 years ago, when it was beginning its facelift. News that the work was finally nearing completion and that the house had opened to the public brought me back to Buffalo, which is also dusting itself off after a few sad decades.
"You get a sense of a city on the move," I was told by native son A. R. Gurney, author of "The Dining Room" and other celebrated plays. "For young people there is a lot of life, lots of little theaters all over town are doing exciting work now."
This was a prosperous port city at the turn of the 19th century, a commercial gateway between the East Coast and the Midwest.
Central Park visionary Frederick Law Olmsted designed gracefully landscaped parks, boulevards and circles. Street lighting came early to the city with enterprising use of hydro- electric power courtesy of Niagara Falls. Now Buffalo is getting a cultural recharge.
National Landmark
Following Wright's original drawings and plans, the Martin House Complex is a landscaped grouping of five interconnected buildings. The $50 million restoration began in 1996 and is overseen by the nonprofit Martin House Restoration Corporation.
My guide through the designated National Historic Landmark was the MHRC's executive director, Mary Roberts.
Our first stop was the Barton House, named for Martin's sister and brother-in-law and built in 1903 as a "test." It cost more than twice the estimated budget of $5,000. Even so, Martin was delighted with the results, expressed in a prolific exchange of letters with Wright.
We then went next door to the main residence. Wright designed the sprawling house in his signature Prairie style, with a facade that features yellow brick with a cantilevered glaze-tiled roof, imposing chimneys and massive urns cascading with plants.
A harmonious and elegant 100-foot pergola radiates from the building, connecting to a glowing, glass-roofed conservatory and a carriage house, all faithfully rebuilt (the original structures were razed in 1962).
The warm interior features oak woodwork, custom-made furniture and earth-colored textiles. Art glass windows, doors and skylights fill the house with natural light. A central double-sided hearth will soon be reclad with glass mosaics depicting wisteria vines.
During my visit, a master carpenter was constructing and replacing intricate wood elements throughout the house.
After Martin's death in 1935, the house, adjacent buildings and gardens were eventually abandoned. Roberts said "the MHRC has taken the Complex from a once- neglected eyesore to a symbol and rallying point for preservation, cultural tourism and the reinvention of a Rust Belt city."
Graycliff Estate
From here I headed to Graycliff, finished in 1931, the summer retreat Wright designed for Martin's wife, Isabelle. Sited high on a bluff overlooking Lake Erie, the estate is an easy 20-minute car ride from Buffalo in Derby, New York.
It is being restored by the Graycliff Conservancy, and also is open to the public. Reine Hauser, the executive director of the nonprofit, led me through the house and gardens. She pointed out recurring design themes, notably the diamond shapes seen in window casements and carried over to light fixtures.
Joined, corner glass panes anticipate the sophisticated windows Wright created in 1935 for his iconic Fallingwater, outside Pittsburgh.
The Graycliff restoration is not at the same stage of completion as the Martin House Complex, but I get a strong sense that it's well along the way.
Architectural Riches
Frank Lloyd Wright wasn't the only prominent architect at work in Buffalo. A whirlwind afternoon tour brings me to Eliel and Eero Saarinen's Kleinhans Music Hall, home to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. That was followed by Louis Sullivan's terra-cotta-ornamented Prudential (Guaranty) Building, another National Historic Landmark.
We also pass H.H. Richardson's romanesque Buffalo State Hospital, with its imposing double towers, shuttered behind a chain-link fence and sorely in need of its perennially planned rescue.
My last stop is at one of Buffalo's most famous buildings, the neo-classical-meets-modernist museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo architect Gordon Bunshaft designed the 1962 addition to house the modern collection.
In addition to major paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Pollock, the museum, celebrating its 150th anniversary, has acquired over the last decade nearly 1,200 works by more than 450 artists, including Matthew Barney, Jim Hodges, Catherine Opie and Cindy Sherman.
Downtown, a stately 110-year hotel has been carefully restored to its former glory. Completed at the cost of $43 million ($14 million coming from N.Y. State tax credits), with elegant shops, ballrooms, bars — the Hotel at the Lafayette has anchored the once-dodgy neighborhood.
At the hotel I had dinner at Mike A's, run by James Beard Foundation-honored chef Mike Andrzejewski. Order the onion soup croquette as a first course.
Another sign of the economic re-birth is evident in a hip emerging area called Larkinville. It's named for Darwin Martin's Larkin Soap Company.
Sadly, no rescue awaits Larkin's business headquarters. The company is long gone and so is its administration building. The fact that it, too, had been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright wasn't enough to protect it from the wrecker's ball in 1950.


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National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) said on Sunday it signed a deal with Arab Petroleum Investments Corp. (Apicorp) to launch a $1.5 billion investment fund that could buy up to 15 very large crude carriers (VLCCs).
Aramco, Bahri reach agreement on merger terms
The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) and state oil giant Saudi Aramco have reached an agreement on the terms and conditions of Bahri's merger with Aramco's Vela International Marine unit, the firm said in a bourse statem
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State oil giant Saudi Aramco said its shipping subsidiary Vela International Marine had started to operate a new Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC). Matar Star, which is the third of four VLCCs Vela ordered from South Korea's Daewoo Ship
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This camera has a quick trigger time, enabling it to clearly capture movements along its path. This prevents object from being out of frame. This camera is also user friendly and easy to set-up.
One excellent thing about this camera is that it comes with an "Invisi-Flash." It has no a no glow flash which makes it undetectable. Because of this, wildlife will not be scared away at night. Aside from this benefit, this feature of the Big Game Eyecon Black Widow trail camera can also be used for security purposes. If you don't require an invisible flash, I recommend you check out my Browing Strike Force review.
This camera has a good enough battery life so that you will not miss opportunities. It takes good quality daytime photos, although sometimes the wind and brush may affect its result.
Any problems I should know about?
However, the night photos are not as good as the daytime ones. This can be expected, though, as lighting takes a vital role in the quality of the photos taken. Also, there is no time lapse option available in this camera, something that may be disappointing to some.
All in all, the Big Game Eyecon Black Widow is a strong functional trail camera. However, you may also want to view other options available in the market before settling for this as you may find something else that will suit you more.
For my personal favourite check out the Moultrie M1100i review.


Incontinence seems to be a reccurent motive throughout the whole book. This observation surely is no big deal, I wonder why nobody has brought it up yet. Spoiler! "Poor Tony Krause, half of the Shattuck Shelter For Homeless Males, Mario, some AFRs" - they all suffer from it. Or perhaps, don't suffer, in case reading incontinence as openness is not too simplistic. Any thoughts?
So is the concavity evidence of an incontinent continent?
There's a reason most of the action takes place in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment.
More to the point, we get a lot of infants, adults acting like infants, and feral infants in this book, and scatology is just a big part of thinking about the distinction between infantile and adult.


I seem to have influence on people… Take this two Czech Hunter 384 guys. I met them on their way to a new job. They were in a hurry but still they tried to help me find a way.
I kept pretending I was lost and then invited them for tea. They wanted to work like responsible adults and I convinced them to ditch the work for easy money. I felt bad for postponing their career prospects but then I heard that one of the boys was a student of physiotherapy.


Nearly 30 years after first forming, The Cranberries have returned with the first single from their eighth and final album, In The End.
The song, Wake Me When It's Over, comes a year on from the unexpected passing of singer Dolores O'Riordan.
Speaking about the song, lead guitarist Noel Hogan said it was a demo recorded by Dolores before her passing.
You can stream the new single here.


If you enjoy the Summer Art Walks then you'll really enjoy the Winter Art Walk and they are having the last Art Walk of the year on Friday, December 14th. Bundle up and be ready to enjoy art in downtown Bozeman.
As you stroll through downtown Bozeman and enjoy the festive Christmas Spiders you can also enjoy business displaying artwork and view galleries. Art will also be at the Emerson Center. The Art Walk gets underway at 6 p.m. with artist openings and reception as well as hors d'oeuvres and complimentary refreshments.


Key identification features : A medium-sized mangrove and littoral tree attaining the height of up to 30 m. Leaves are large (up to 30 cm. long), dark green, silvery-white beneath. Flowers are small and green. The fruits are about 7 cm. long. Bark is whitish-grey, cracked, shaggy in appearance.
Comments : Fruits have a prominent ridge or keel on one side. When the seed is floating, this keel acts as a sail, probably aiding dispersal.


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In Praise of the Mundane
Yesterday I was talking about game labor, or the increasing onerousness of electronic entertainment. Game labor-- or what Steven Poole calls the "employment paradigm"-- is a big problem in modern game design. If you ask me, the prevalence of game labor is the main reason why that Nintendo Wii is outselling every damn system on the market right now. Normal human beings aren't willing to work for their fun, and they shouldn't have to. I don't mean to demean delayed gratification, but what passes for delayed gratification in most modern games is just drudgery.
Today I wanted to talk about another aspect of the employment paradigm: the simulation of labor. That is, not hacking fourty-six boars to death so you can get your next sword, but driving a simulated forklift. There are whole video game subcultures oriented around the performance of virtual jobs: men and women who are safely and efficiently piloting 747s from Sanfrancisco to Denver in Microsoft Flight Simulator, where they are guided in by other men and women who are staffing Denver's air traffic control. There are people running functional investment banks in the popular MMO EVE online, and embezzling money from them. I'm talking about bus driving simulations, which are currently on the market.
One could see in this the death of pleasure. Surely Adorno would say that simulated employment represents the total surrender of the imagination to capital, a degredation so total that we've come to take pleasure in our enslavement to the capitalist system. But surely this goes to far. (This is, remember, a man who though that Jazz was enslavement to the capitalist system.) I can't help but find this wholehearted commitment to normality endearing. Maybe this just betrays my midwestern roots, but it's utterly heartwarming to see people out there whose free time revolves around preventing simulated air disaster. And I'm hopeless as a critical theorist, 'cause I have a hard time with the false consciousness concept-- can't bring myself to declare others' quaint diversions a form of pathology. Apparently, some folks like a routine, and I can understand that.
I think there's deeper point here that goes beyond labor: to me, there's something enchanting about simulating the mundane. Games usually turn on shooting the next guy in the head and watching the world burn. I'm so inured to being thrust into violent, death-defying scenarios that the quotidian has a paradoxical charm.
In the very beginning of Indigo Prophecy there's a brief episode that goes like this: you've just come back from a disturbing scene in the restaurant. You get back to your apartment in the next scene, and spend about 20 minutes engaging in these unremarkable activities: you watch TV for a little while, have a drink, practice your guitar, have an awkward conversation with your ex. From that point on the game gets goes down the rabbit hole, but for that one scene it succeeds in communicating this idea that your protagonist is a regular human being who's trying to cope with the bizarre events that just transpired. It's the most successful sequence in the entire game.
Injecting these moments of normalcy into the unremitting stream ludicrous heroism has this way of transfiguring the everyday. I've been playing Yakuza 2 this week, and the really interesting moments don't come when you're fending off hallwayfulls of well-tailored thugs. They're when the game sets you free to roam the packed streets of Osaka and you to get lost in the commonplace events that unfold in every corner of the world-- the man trying to win a robot out of the crane machine in the arcade, or the restaurant owner who asks your help tracking down a dine-and-dash customer. Aside from the fact that these scenarios are essential to creating a believable world, they also serve to mitigate the alienation that comes with making your hero an all-crushing god-king every time he fights some dudes. Fumbling with the crane machine makes your protagonist a person, and that's essential to the fiction.
While the mundane may have a special charm to me, I'm not calling for every game to be Animal Crossing or The Sims. You can capture the texture and rhythm of real life without disposing of the heroism. It's the juxtaposition of the mundane and extraordinary that fascinates me. Few games take advantage of the possibilities when it comes to using quotidian detail and, yes, quotidian labor to create an authentic sense of world and character. (Well, No More Heroes apparently does something along these lines but I'm led to believe it's some kind of cruel joke.) Games are meant to pull us out of our lives and transport us into different worlds, but the funny thing is that they're often best at this transport when they take our world with them. And this is just what good art does: it reveals our everyday world under a new aspect.
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Aler said...
My favourite quest in World fo Warcraft falls into this category.
During the Children's Week event, you take an orphan sightseeing, visiting a waterfall or a dam or a lighthouse. Each time you visit one of these locations, the child thanks you.
At the end of the quest, the orphan says that when he grows up, he wants to be a hero just like you.
This quest, more than slaying any monster, makes me feel like a real hero, and it's because it turns me into a person, rather than a boar-killing machine.
Plisken's "In Praise of the Mundane" aka, "The Year of Being There Redux." You're tastes in games are consisetent, to say the least, if the regularity of open world/mundane events gameplay articles is to be trusted. (And I like that: GTA4 is my go to game when I have nothing to do and just want to relax - to exist and observe - drive off into the sunset as it were). I'd love to hear your thoughts on how this mundane game world relates to game heroes. i.e. I heard your description of what you liked about Yakuza 2 and was reminded of "The Everyman". Is The Everyman as hero an ideal character trope for you, and does this person sound as much like an Indiana Jones to you as they do to me?
Shenmue!
Steve gaynor said...
In environment design, it's common practice to create ancillary spaces that the player can see but can't reach, which create the illusion of the gameworld extending further than the critical path the player is confined within.
The point you raise extends the theory to systems-- the player can't only do what must be done to progress forward (shoot guns, jump, press buttons) but may also interact with the secondary, mundane elements that fill out a truly believable gameworld, off the mainline of the game's core interactions.
L.B. Jeffries said...
Tim Stone had a great NGJ on recreating a flight across the Atlantic on Microsoft Simulator. He talked about how there was good boredom and bad boredom. The good kind comes from the actions being inherently boring, a weird pleasure of going through the motions of the act. The bad kind is just tedious or unnecessary.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/04/10/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-simmer/
Ben Abraham said...
"You can capture the texture and rhythm of real life without disposing of the heroism. It's the juxtaposition of the mundane and extraordinary that fascinates me."
I know everyone who knows me is going to just groan and say "here he goes again" but I absolutely LOVE when Far Cry 2 does this. You KNOCK on a god damn door before opening it! And then, a minute later, you're blasting faces with an AK! That's juxtaposition!
(Also that Tim Stone RPS article on the long distance Flight simmer is awesome)
@aler: that's pretty great. It's good to know that WoW transcends the fetch-quest structure on occasion.
@mack: Ha! to be honest, this piece is more like a "it's all in the details redux." same idea from a different angle. And I do think that incorporating these small mundane elements is more important for the open-world genre. If you're looking to simulate the world than it fits to simulate the more mundane details. (I thought GTAIV did some interesting things this front.)
As for the heroism bit-- I don't know if your hero has to be an everyman. I think there's something appealing about the idea of a regular human having greatness thust upon them, but the same juxtaposition I'm talking about here could apply to the stock-heroic characters that populate gaming.
@steve gaynor: I hadn't thought of this in terms of gameplay. If I understand what you're saying, your point is that there should be a variety of (possibly mundane) interactions built into the system beyond the core jumping, running, etc. So: if there's a lightswitch on the wall of this zombie-filled psych ward, maybe you should be able to turn it on and off, right? And flush the toilets and turn on the water. Is this what you have in mind?
@L.B: sweet link, and I like the idea of good boredom. Why do I find this insane commitment to a boring task more admirable than the guy who spends 16 straight hours playing WoW?
@ben: actually, as much as I love many of FC2's touches, I think that it doesn't create the feeling of normalcy all that well. Everybody's trying to kill you, there's no civilians. You can't talk with people except when they offer you missions. Stuff like that. It nails all the other immersive details, but I don't think it tries to capture the mundane. It's only in the conversations between the mercenaries that you get glimpses of the everyday: boredom, drinking.
I guess stuff like light switches and toilet handles are sort of unconnected peripheral interactivity, but I was thinking of stuff one level deeper-- something like the crane machine example from Yakuza 2. It exists in the world and the player can interact with it; an NPC acknowledges it and encourages you to interface with it skillfully; when you do so, it feeds into the XP system and adds an item to your inventory. It shows that interactions outside of kicking and punching can be meaningful to the gameworld.
The fake internet in GTA4 is a good example as well, wherein you can browse personal ads and send e-mails which feed back into the NPC relationship and quest systems, eventually resulting in gameplay bonuses. Things other than shooting and driving can have an impact on the gameworld.
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My research focuses on the study of the properties of compressible turbulence in the presence of shock waves. I am currently addressing this subject by investigating the two specific configurations described below.
This part is related to the study of the fundamental mechanisms underlying the interaction of isotropic or sheared turbulence with a normal shock wave far from walls. This is done by means of direct numerical simulations (see the video on the left) and theoretical analysis (Linear Interaction Theory).
The second part of the research is conducted in partnership with the french Nuclear Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique - CEA) and deals with the study of the compressible turbulent mixing of two fluids of different densities arising from the late development of a Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. This instability occurs when a shock wave impulsively accelerates a perturbed density interface. The approach here relies on experiments conducted in a shock-tube and is based on time-resolved Schlieren visualizations (see the video on the left) and LDV/PIV measurements.


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Welcome to my Metazoic site! This site discusses the existence of the creatures to come along after humans will be extinct. I first became interested in a world after man when I acquired my first copy of Dougal Dixon's After Man: A Zoology of the Future in 1992. However, I unwittingly created creatures that did not exist from the time I was about 8 years old. But it was after I obtained a copy of that book (now a collector's item) that I decided to take these same creatures I created as a child and make them more realistic in an evolutionary sense. Though it may be hard for a lot of us to grasp, humans will soon become extinct. One of the biggest factors of how this will happen is the current overpopulation rate. Which is why I don't contribute to the population. I created this world with little more than mammals fulfilling all ecological niches with the help of some friends. I even gave the era of the age after man a name, I called it the Metazoic, derived from the words for "After-era" (Meta, meaning after, and zoic meaning era). We are now in the Cenozoic era. To view all the animals I have created since I began this project, you can go to the "Meet the Mammals" section of this site. To discuss your own ideas about what you think will happen in the future world, and share your ideas with others, please feel free to leave a comment.
One more thing, some of you may find this site quite offensive, and you have a right to your own opinion. But please respect my right to have an opinion too. I'm not saying there is no GOD, I believe it was HIM who got the ball rolling. But I believe after that, evolution took over. There is so much more evidence of evolution than there is of creation. Even that going on right under our noses. Other than that, enjoy yourself and visit our many links.
Family of the Week: The Feather-Footed Shrews
This is a group of very interesting insectivores that descend from true shrews, I call them the feather-footed shrews. It is the family Harundopedidae, and all species have oddly-shaped toes on the feet. Most species are found in, or near water, and the toes are flat and feather-shaped. Some species, like Aquambulus, also have long, stiff, whisker-like hairs between the toes that enables them to walk over the surface of the water without sinking in. Most species have long necks, long, sharp muzzles, and large eyes. The ears are relatively small and shrew-like. A few varieties have large, pointy ears, such as Proboscisuncus, Carnosuncus and Platyceps. But despite the size of the ears, all species have very acute hearing. The sense of smell is relatively poor in the aquatic species as it is not needed. Most species hunt by using sight and hearing. The hearing is so acute, that some species are able to hear a fish breathing underwater. The neck is long and flexible, especially in the fishing species, who must dart their head underwater to capture fish. Most species are small and shrewlike, but the largest species stands about 4-feet tall. Most have a tail that is at least as long as the head and body, in some longer than the head and body. Harundopes is the only species that is tailless. The nostrils of these fishing species are placed high up on the muzzle, instead of at the tip, like in the less aquatic species. The nostrils are also able to close shut to keep out the water as they dart their heads in. The diet is primarily insectivorous, but some of the larger species feed also on small vertebrates, eggs, fish, crustaceans, and snails. Most species live near freshwater lakes, rivers and streams, but there are some species that probe the ocean sand, and even one desert-dwelling variety, which the hairs on their feet and the flattened toes allow them to literally skate smoothly over a sandy surface, acting somewhat like snowshoes.
The smallest species in this family is Aquambulus. This is perhaps also the smallest Metazoic mammal. Overall length, including the tail, is less than 4 inches, with the tail being as long as the head and body, and the muzzle being almost 1/3 as long as the head and body. The bone structure is almost entirely made up of air sacs, making this animal incredibly light and bouyant. The feet are club-shaped and the toes are flat and feather-shaped and they have a series of long, stiff hairs between the toes. These stiff hairs, coupled with very soft, fine, downy hair that also grows between the toes, traps in an air bubble, which enables this animal to skim the water's surface without the threat of sinking in or drowning. Just in case, the fur is also fine, profuse and silky, and waterproof, enabling this animal to float back to the surface should they somehow be taken under. This animal has such small ears, that they are almost not visible underneath the thick fur on the head. The fur around the eyes and on the muzzle is the shortest on the animal, and is black in color. This allows them to see through the water for tiny minnows and insects, and possibly for underwater predators. When necessary, these animals can move very quickly over the water's surface to escape danger. Usually retreating to land if need be.
The largest animal in this family is the species of Harundopes. Though they are tailless, they can stand up to 4 feet tall, and weigh about 50 pounds. The legs are long and slender, and the neck is longer than the body, and highly flexible. This animal inhabits areas of a lake where reeds grow abundant, and their unique coloring allows them to stay hidden. The legs are slender enough to resemble the reeds themselves. So, this animal would be almost impossible to detect by potential prey, or even by predators. They are very slow-moving when on the hunt, quietly and patiently stalking underwater prey, and then quickly darting their head into the water to snatch a passing fish. Fish make up most of this animal's diet, but they may also prey on young birds and smaller aquatic mammals, including Aquambulus. The closely related Hemiardea shares much the same hunting features and techniques as Harundopes, but is smaller and has a long tail.
The most remarkable species in this family is Penacodas. This animal is born hairless, blind and deaf, as most species in this family are. But a remarkable thing happens as they mature. They grow large, stiff, whisker-like hairs on their tail, coupled with interwoven soft and silky downy-like fur. These hairs grow backwards, instead of toward the tip of the tail. Once this shrew is ready to leave the nest, much like young spiders do now, they go to a bare branch, tree stump, or anything else that they can capture the wind from with little or no obstacles, and allow the breeze to capture the fur on their tail and carry them off. The long, whiskery hairs hold the downy fur steady and makes a sort of built-in parachute. This can carry these animals for many miles. Once these animals have reached a certain age, these hairs fall completely off. Mature adults are basically featureless. Much like Aquambulus, Penacodas is very small and very light, the bone structure is almost completely made up of air sacs, which allows this animal to weigh less than the wind it's self. Though this species is somewhat larger than Aquambulus.
Because of their smaller size, these animals have many predators. Small species may be eaten by the larger species, or snatched by predatory fish, snakes, lizards and other carnivorous mammals. Larger species may fall prey to Deinognathids, mongooses and predatory bats. Whenever necessary, these animals can move fast and hide quickly. Some shelter in burrows, while others shelter in reed beds, or some in tree hollows. If caught, these animals can bite very hard. Carnosuncus especially has powerful jaws, used for crushing snail shells. They can deliver a very nasty bite! Though that does not always deter a hungry Spathodon or Tamanoa.
Well, tomorrow is my sis's birthday and I will be out all day long. Enjoy your week!
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Aspects of physical biology : biological water, protein solutions, transport and replication / edited by G. Franzese, M. Rubi, (eds).
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Summary: The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific community. It has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field, called Physical Biology, with the aim of reaching a better understanding of the biological mechanisms at molecular and cellular levels. Statistical Mechanics in particular plays an important role in the development of this new field. For this reason, the XXth session of the famous Sitges Conference on Statistical Physics was dedicated to "Physical Biology: from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior". As is by now tradition, a number of lectures were subsequently selected, expanded and updated for publication as lecture notes, so as to provide both a state-of-the-art introduction and overview to a number of subjects of broader interest and to favor the interchange and cross-fertilization of ideas between biologists and physicists. The present volume focuses on three main subtopics (biological water, protein solutions as well as transport and replication), presenting for each of the them the on-going debates on recent results. The role of water in biological processes, the mechanisms of protein folding, the phases and cooperative effects in biological solutions, the thermodynamic description of replication, transport and neural activity, all are subjects that are revised in this volume, based on new experiments and new theoretical interpretations.
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The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific community. It has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field, called Physical Biology, with the aim of reaching a better understanding of the biological mechanisms at molecular and cellular levels. Statistical Mechanics in particular plays an important role in the development of this new field. For this reason, the XXth session of the famous Sitges Conference on Statistical Physics was dedicated to "Physical Biology: from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior". As is by now tradition, a number of lectures were subsequently selected, expanded and updated for publication as lecture notes, so as to provide both a state-of-the-art introduction and overview to a number of subjects of broader interest and to favor the interchange and cross-fertilization of ideas between biologists and physicists. The present volume focuses on three main subtopics (biological water, protein solutions as well as transport and replication), presenting for each of the them the on-going debates on recent results. The role of water in biological processes, the mechanisms of protein folding, the phases and cooperative effects in biological solutions, the thermodynamic description of replication, transport and neural activity, all are subjects that are revised in this volume, based on new experiments and new theoretical interpretations.


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The world's most expensive Cavas
By Margaret Rand
Forget about France and that other sparkling wine beginning with C, and forget about that cheap fizz you had on your last Spanish holiday. This is fancy Cava, says Margaret Rand, after visiting three producers whose flagship wines live up to their surprisingly high price tags.
(From the archive: Originally published on June 2013 issue of Decanter magazine)
Decanter Fine Wine Encounter: Cava tasting
The problem with expensive Cava is that, for most of us, it's an expensive version of a cheap wine. in other words, however good it is, it tastes recognisably similar to the wines of which you might not have happy memories. (For bordeaux and Champagne it's the other way round: here the expensive wines are the norm, and it's the cheap wines, however grim, that are still recognisably similar.) So in trying to convince you of the virtues of a number of resonant and desirable Cavas – and in trying to persuade you that they're characterful and complex enough to be worth your curiosity – i'm probably on a hiding to nothing. if you want to stop reading now, feel free.
There are two things to erase from your memory when approaching these wines. one is the taste of Champagne. Yes, these Cavas have similarities – some yeast autolysis flavours, though never a lot – and often a bit of pinot Noir or Chardonnay added to the blend – but they're not meant to taste like Champagne; they're meant to taste like Cava. And the second thing to forget? The taste of cheap Cava.
Forget coarseness; forget that bitterness on the finish; forget the shortness of the finish. Think instead of parsley, coriander and lemon zest; think of relatively low acidity, but a firm structure. The structure, usually, is the Xarel-lo speaking.
Xarel-lo is a terrific grape. of the three traditional Cava grapes it's Xarel-lo that gives backbone, macabeo that gives flesh and parellada that gives prettiness. but what we're not used to finding in Cava is terroir expression. Cava producer Codorníu, however, has a huge project on the go: it iincludes trials to find specific yeasts for specific terroirs, and satellite mapping of the vineyards to allow precision viticulture. parcels of vines are rigorously filleted, and graded A, b, C or D according to quality. From this, Codorníu has found superb sites, like the la Nansa vineyard for Xarel-lo, or la pleta for Chardonnay: the difference is equivalent to that between a Champagne from le mesnil or Aÿ, compared to one from nowhere in particular. 'This is certainly a 10-year project, and we're six years in,' says head of group winemaking, Arthur o'Connor.
There are other winemaking changes, too: Codorníu has rediscovered a traditional Catalan technique called capes, which involves adding fresh must to the fermentation each day. The must transforms the traditional trio of Cava grapes, making them more expressive and purer-flavoured, though for Chardonnay and pinot Noir, standard cold fermentation is best. The results of the work with capes will start appearing on the shelves in the next few years, but the satellite mapping of the vineyards and the precision it allows is already affecting every wine in the Codorníu portfolio.
Terroir expression
it has led to the Gran Crew project: a boxed set of three wines called Codorníu Gran Reserva. There's a Xarel-lo, a Chardonnay and a Pinot Noir: the first release is of the 2007 vintage, disgorged in September 2012. 'Until we started this project,' says Bruno Colomer Martí, head winemaker, 'we thought Cava couldn't last more than four or five years.'
That would have come as a surprise to another Cava producer, Gramona, whose Celler Batlle Gran Reserva from the 2000 vintage, in 2012, tasted of coffee, cream and smoke – very rich and complex. Gramona started giving wine long ageing because, explains Xavier Gramona: 'A Champagne house bought stocks here after World War II, and my father realised that what they wanted was aged wines. He decided that our Cava should be aged for at least 10 years.' Gramona launched its first aged wine in 1961, from the 1951 vintage; 10 years came down to seven, and now four is the average. Even so, that would be a lot for most Cavas. 'We use more Xarel-lo than most,' says Gramona. 'It's structured, not so fresh, and when it's young it's simple: it doesn't show its potential early. It doesn't make sense to use Xarel-lo for young wines. But after a few years it's very different, and becomes complex.'
As ever, the vineyard work is key. They're moving towards organics and biodynamics, and have hired Claude Bourguignon and Nicolas Joly as consultants: the first is a soil specialist who will tell you more about the internal surfaces of clay molecules than you ever thought was possible; the second is the eccentric high priest of biodynamics. 'I confess that we didn't care much about the subsoil until the last few years,' says Xavier, 'but we have learnt a lot about the capacity of roots to take up minerality.'
But while they're learning in one area they're looking slightly nervously at another: they have, of all things, a 100-year-old solera system for the liqueur de dosage. Most of their Cavas are bone dry, but they have a few customers who like a bit of sweetness in their wine. The solera contains mistela – grape juice with a shot of brandy – and only Xavier's grandfather knows the secret.
Dosage is one of the complexities of Cava: Catalans like it Brut Nature, or with no dosage at all; export markets tend to prefer it brut, dry or semi-dry. Remember that the acidity is usually fairly low; Catalans, who drink it throughout a meal, probably have the best idea.
Disgorgement and dosage
The other point of complexity is vintages. All Cava, effectively, is vintage; there are very few non- vintage blends. Not all state the vintage on the label, however, or at least not the front label: for Catalan customers (and Catalonia is the main market) a vintage date isn't the same quality cue as it would be for Champagne drinkers. Vintages don't differ that much, either; what counts is the length of time the wine spends on its lees (dead yeast cells), and thus the date of disgorgement.
After disgorgement Cava should be drunk, say Catalans: Champagne-style discussions about the perfect ageing period after disgorgement have no place here. It's not a wine to age at home – though there are, as always, exceptions. But if you want to buy old wines Gramona can oblige: it can disgorge old stocks to order, within reason and providing it has them.
At Recaredo there's no dosage. None. Even the entry-level wine, Brut Nature, has about four years on the lees, and is considered almost frivolous because it has 12% of the gentle, creamy variety Parellada. For older wines there is just the fleshier, rounder Macabeo and, naturally, Xarel-lo. 'We trust Xarel-lo very much for ageing,' says Recaredo's export director Alex Bautista. The top wine, Turó d'en Mota is 100% Xarel-lo, from vines planted in 1940, and aged for about nine years on the lees; finding old vineyards can be difficult, says Bautista. 'There's a lot of potential in Penedès, but we need to preserve what we have. The terroir for many more great wines exists here. The challenge is to believe in what we can do.'
Preserving what they have, for Recaredo, means biodynamics. Its first fully certified vintage was 2010, and it grows many of its own plants, like valerian, chickpeas and dandelion, and intends to make its own preparations. Like Codorníu, it's researching yeasts, and is close to finding some favourites, out of about 50 under trial. 'We'd like several yeasts for different vineyards and different vines,' says Bautista. They'll then have to test them all over again for the second fermentation. 'The more doors open, the more possibilities there are.'
All this Xarel-lo can make for quite a tannic wine. But tannins, even in white wine, even in sparkling wine, can balance the relatively soft acidity; and they're good with food. Turó d'en Mota goes a treat with guinea fowl, and Recaredo's Brut de Brut Gran Reserva was terrific with a dish of octopus, smoked ricotta, black garlic and liquorice. 'The bubbles are not the main point of the wine,' says Bautista. A statement which top Champagne producers would certainly echo. D
Margaret Rand is a wine writer, author and general editor of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book
Translated by ICY
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Pork is a trick meat to cook and many people more often than not, will opt for something easier such as chicken or fish. However, if you're in the mood to try something new check out a cool dinner recipe that is sure to please you and your entire family.
It's always fun trying new and interesting recipes to add to your list. After all, why does dinner always have to be chicken and beef? Its time to try something new for a change and today we'll show you how.
Combine the coriander seeds, peppercorns and cloves in a coffee grinder or mortar and pestle. Grind coarsely and combine with the salt, bay leaves, rosemary and garlic.
Spread half the mixture in the bottom of a glass or non-corrodible pan and place the pork on top. Cover with the remaining mixture. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Preheat the oven to 250°F. Wash the pork and pat dry. Place fat side up in a baking pan and bake for 6 hours- that's right, 6 hours. Let rest for 15 minutes before slicing. The carb count is actually negligible because the spices are washed off.
Your meal is not complete without a great bottle of wine to really take this dish to another level. Try pairing this Slow Roasted Herb and Spice Cured Pork Shoulder with a Chardonnay.
This Classic Sonoma 2007 Clos Du Bois Chardonnay is a medium bodied wine which is 70% barrel-fermented. It exhibits ripe fruity flavors of crisp green apple, apple, vanilla and you'll notice the toasty caramel too.
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Started this pepper indoors. Transplanted outside but the weather was cold, hot, then cold again so it took a while to get going. The plants were very sturdy and compact with lush leaf canopy, even with several weeks over 100 degrees we didn't have any sun scald. The peppers were mostly about 4 inches and very blocky with thick walls. This is such a colorful pepper, starting out green, then purple with green flesh, then chocolate with tan flesh, then it developed flame like colors of brown, orange and red, finally at full maturity the pepper is totally red and sweet. It was never a lilac color, more of a dark eggplant color. The taste was similar to other peppers and yields were not exactly high but certainly above average. For people who complained about size, color or flavor--be patient, don't pick too early. In my zone 5 garden this is a keeper.
This plant took awhile to bear fruit but the deep lilac color was worth the wait!
These taste essentially like a very green bell pepper, could not eat any. extremely bitter. They say that unripe green pepper taste is actually a natural toxin to stop it from being eatin ontill ripe. peppers still taste best red.
I grew white, yellow, green, orange, red and these purple bell peppers. While they were a little small, I thought the taste was fine and they added a lovely color to a mixture of peppers in a salad, stir fry or veggie taco. I will definitely grow them again. Took little or no care after transplanting outside. Minimal water. Just easy and still producing in October in Ohio. I would give them a chance. Variety is so important.


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Activism comes naturally to Brianna Mims, a graduating senior at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance.
Raised in the south, Mims grew up watching her family members stand up against injustice.
"I realized I learned about my great grandparents who were really prominent during the Civil Rights era in terms of petitioning for the desegregation of schools in Savannah, Georgia and doing a lot of work with the NAACP and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," Mims said.
How Mims brought movement to the problem
Mims has been dancing since she was a little girl. She has dabbled in many styles including ballet, tap, jazz, modern and hip-hop. Over the last four years, Mims has received intensive training in all styles at USC Kaufman.
For her senior project, Mims is combining her talents of art and activism to shed light on an important social issue – incarceration. In collaboration with other artists and designers, Mims will be hosting an art exhibition that asks audiences to consider the intention behind incarceration.
"My indirect question is if we have proof that the systems are perpetuating recidivism, homelessness, mental health issues, what are our actual intentions and why are we neglecting the root problems of crime?" she asked.
At the performance, there will be an installation containing a jail bed as well as items collected from people who have been affected by incarceration. Using the jail bed and items as props, Mims will choreograph a movement piece that will further communicate the effects of incarceration to her audience. People will also be able to walk through the installation, interact with the items, and sit on the jail bed.
In addition to her work on her senior project, Mims also teaches movement and mindfulness classes at Santa Fe Springs Correctional Facility through USC's Prison Education Project.
Collaborating across campus
Collaborators for Mims' senior project include USC Architecture students, Georgina Grkikian and Mihn-Han Vu, who are building a dome and a room for the exhibit. Bindhu Swaminathan, who is studying Psychology with a minor in Substance Abuse at USC, will be performing with Mims. Adam Drazan, who is majoring in Gerontology with a minor in Entrepreneurship at USC, is creating the soundscape. USC students Azani Creeks and Jose Gutierrez are also on Mims' planning team.
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Mims has seen the effects of incarceration first-hand. As a young girl, she remembers receiving drawings for her birthday from an uncle who is currently incarcerated. Some of those drawings will be featured in the installation. Mims has also reached out to others with similar experiences to acquire additional items. The process of collecting items from those in prison has been another opportunity for her to examine the effects of incarceration.
"It's nice because I'm sitting down with people that I don't know and talking to them about the significance of the item," Mims said. "So when I'm placing it in the room, I know why I'm placing it in the room."
Mims' senior project is a continuation of an ongoing series called Jail Bed Drop, a project started by fellow USC student and activist, Patrisse Cullors. Cullors is also well-known for co-founding Black Lives Matter. Mims participated in a Jail Bed drop event in 2017. She is looking forward to bringing the project to the USC community.
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Prosecutors in The Hague filed an indictment against Hashim Thaci for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Kosovo's 1998-99 war with Serbia.
Addressing the nation, Thaci rejected the accusations against him.
"My heart is hurt, but not broken. My mind weighs heavy, but is not bleary. My blood is heated, but clean," he said, adding "there has not been and could not be even a single piece of evidence" against him.
He also vowed to consult with Kosovo's political leaders in the following days to discuss the next steps.
The indictment alleges that "Thaci and other suspects are criminally responsible for almost 100 murders. The victims of the criminal acts are hundreds of persons whose identities are known, among whom are Kosovo Albanians, Serbs, Roma and persons of other nationalities as well as political opponents," said a statement from the Specialized Chambers.
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Because love is love, y'all! The Southernism-fueled musings of author Eden Winters.
Novels in English
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The Angel of 13th Street mentioned.
Naughty Boys in the Backseat posted an interesting article today about the theme of "taking home strays" in m/m fiction, and gave The Angel of 13th Street as an example:
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Publish Dates Announced
I've already mentioned that Settling the Score, a m/m contemporary romance novel, releases March 9, but I've two other publish dates to look forward to as well:
Fanning the Flames, the sequel to The Match Before Christmas, releases May 7. It's approximately 14,000 words, and will be released as a Torquere Press Single Shot.
Highway Man, a m/m contemporary, not-quite-romance will also publish in May from Dreamspinner Press. It's the story I mentioned a few weeks ago, inspired by the song, "Papa was a Rodeo." It's around 10,000 words.
Next up will be a fantasy/shapeshifter tale that started life as a 20,000 word story, but keeps growing and growing. Folks, I think we have a novel in the works. It's loosely set in the same world as Flame, and revisits the idea of gay men being cast out of the village to "feed the wolves." I hope to have the draft complete by mid-May.
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Lovely Review for The Match Before Christmas
Not only did Val Kovalin over at Obsidian Bookshelf give The Match Before Christmas a glowing review, she's also including it in the All Romance Ebooks newsletter as a recommended read.
Here's the review link:
Thank you, Val, and all you other folks who've been so supportive.
Now I'm waiting for a publish date for the sequel, Fanning the Flames.
I love flash fiction contests, and recently entered one on the Torquere Press Social Group. The prompts were: chickadee, sausage, and flame, and the story couldn't exceed 200 words. At exactly 200 words, here's what I came up with:
"Weeeeelllll, if it isn't my little chickadee!" Red-rouged lips blew a kiss into the mirror. "And what have I done to earn the attention of Sin City's finest?"
I stared at the reflection of a man applying makeup, wearing a long wig in a color not found in nature. Glittery false eyelashes fluttered in my direction as the man swiveled his chair to face me. "Is that a sausage in your pocket, or are you glad to see me!" Could Ted be any campier? His flame burned brightly and he didn't care who knew.
I glanced around the dressing room, noticing curious gazes trained on us. "Could we get some privacy here?" I asked in my best cop voice, flashing my badge.
One performer after the other shot out the door, to hissed questions of "What did Teddy do?"
Once we were alone, I turned to the strip's most notorious drag queen. "You have the right to remain silent…"
My prepared speech was cut off by, "But of course, darling, for how else will I kiss you?"
I grinned, lips crushed to my lover's. "I brought my cuffs this time," I managed to say before his tongue invaded my mouth.
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Every Thursday Cryselle over at Cryselle's Craziness posts a plot-inducing picture. If you write and submit a ficlet, based on the picture, she'll post your story, along with your site and book information. It's free, it's fun! I fell in love with last week's pic, and sent in a story.
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One Thousand Word Thursdays at Cryselle's Craziness
Every Thursday at Cryselle's Craziness a new, plot-bunny inspiring picture will be posted. Last week's really hit me hard, and within a few hours, a story was born. Cryelle's was nice enough to post my little ficlet, and here's the link:
Settling the Score - Publishing March 9 from Torquere Press
The blurb is not yet official, not having been blessed by my editor, but the cover is. I think it's absolutely fabulous, created by the awesome Skylar Sinclair, the talent behind the cover of The Match Before Christmas. Folks, I give you Settling the Score, due out March 9 from Torquere Press.
For closeted Georgia mechanic Joey Nichols, life is good. His boyfriend landed a major Hollywood role and is now well on the way to superstardom. Joey's bags are packed and soon he'll leave small town life behind to join the man of his dreams in California, where they can live out, proud, and together. Days before his planned departure, however, his lover not only outs Joey during a televised interview, but announces that they've broken up. Devastated, Joey attempts to pick up the pieces and face the bigotry of the locals alone.
Bestselling author Troy Steele knows all about having one's life turned upside down by a tabloid. Now he lives a reclusive existence, shunning Hollywood parties and the fame that comes with writing blockbuster movies. He spends most of his time exacting revenge on a former flame via his novels and hiding out in rural South Carolina, watching celebrity gossip shows at his assistant's urging. Joey's fifteen minutes of unwanted fame bears an eerie similarity to the plot of Troy's latest work in progress, Settling the Score. What if the jilted lover were transformed into everything the fickle ex wanted, as Troy's written for his book's hero, and secretly wishes for himself? Once polished, could a diamond-in-the-rough good ole boy confront the one who'd caused so much misery and then walk away? Those are burning questions for Troy, and he's counting on Joey for answers.
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Writing Update
Fanning the Flames, a short story sequel (about 15,000 words) to The Match Before Christmas has been accepted at Torquere, and I'm waiting for a publish date, which I'll pass along as soon as I can. This story is for the readers, who asked for more.
In just a little over a month, Settling the Score, my latest full length novel will become available. Basically, it's a novel about writing a novel, with hot man-loving thrown in.
The story that sprang to life on Eyre's site, A Reader's Journey, has been accepted by Dreamspinner. As it's the first time I've submitted a story to Dreamspinner, I'm not really sure when I can expect it to publish. Highway Man is based on the lovely, haunting song, "Papa Was a Rodeo," by Magnetic Fields. The story isn't a sweet romance, and the happy ever after has yet to be seen, but once the story lodged in my head, it wrote itself very quickly. I'd like to share with you the inspiration for that short story.
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What You Can't Live Without
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As my eager fingers reaches out for a new title in a book shoppe, I often hear Granny say "Souviens toi, ne juge pas un livre par la couverture!" (Remember, do not judge a book by its cover!). But I cannot always resist! Visuality is very appealing, particularly for the appetite!
And when I first heard of 13, Rue Therese and actually saw the website I simply found its appeal irresistible!
As the story progresses these items will help the reader to unravel the compelling but mysterious puzzle of Louise Brunet's life through two World Wars, leading us and the soon smitten Professor, into her very intimate world of love, passion, regrets and countless memories.
You cannot but feel drawn in the story due to its novelty approach of course. I will add it is a sensual experience in itself discovering Louise's thoughts and actions through Trevor Stratton, the Professor and his increasing attraction to his lovely secretary, Josianne another protagonist in this story.
There are some instances of deep emotional rawness in Shapiro's description of Louise and Trevor Stratton's imaginations which might not make it acceptable by everyone.
However this well written narrative can only be experienced through the intensity of Louise's feelings as the author described it, sometime sad, sometime hopeful and at times even naughty.
As a first novel and with such an intriguing story Elena Mauli Shapiro's 13, Rue Therese is bound to captivate many readers!
I received this book free from Hachette Book Group as part of their Blogger Review program. I was not asked to write a positive review and the opinions expressed are entirely my own.


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benin update: president and coming elections
COTONOU, March 19 (Reuters) – Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi has said he believes an attack by gunmen on his convoy last week was an assassination bid by enemies opposed to his campaign to stamp out corruption in the small West African state.
Yayi, a technocrat banker who was elected last year on a platform promising change, escaped unhurt when unidentified attackers opened fire on Thursday while he was campaigning in the north for parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday.
Yayi, who will seek to consolidate his political position in Sunday's legislative elections, told church pastors he met in northern Benin at the weekend that he believed the attack was in response to his declared policy to eliminate graft.
"Some people are interested in assassinating me to discourage me in my battle against corruption," the president said at the meeting, which was attended by a Reuters reporter.
"We will not rest in this fight against the corruption which is eating away at our country," Yayi said.
Yayi's election a year ago marked the end of three decades of domineering rule by a small political elite in the former French colony, where a third of the population live below the poverty line and unemployment is rife.
A former head of the West African Development Bank and a political newcomer, Yayi replaced ex-army major Mathieu Kerekou, who had led the small cotton-producing country for all but five of the previous 33 years.
Having won more than 74 percent of votes in the second round of the presidential election, Yayi will be seeking in Sunday's polls to win control of the National Assembly, which has been dominated by allies of Kerekou.
Until Thursday's shooting, campaigning for the March 25 parliamentary elections had gone smoothly in a country seen as one of the more politically stable in turbulent West Africa.
By Samuel Elijah
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At the annual Climate Strategies Forum in Washington, D.C. in mid-July, I participated in a panel exploring what's next after the Paris Climate Agreement. Between us, the panelists possess over a century of climate strategy experience, and I asked what our moon shot climate action wish should entail during the next five years.
The diversity of our institutions belies several unifying elements of our respective backgrounds – including (Tyndall) Duke Energy Corporation; (Friedman) ASF Associates; (Walker) Swiss RE and Ernst & Young, Sustainability and Cleantech Services; (Coffee) Edelman and MWH.
· Bill Tyndall CEO Center for Clean Air Policy: With 15 years as a leader in the energy field, I've witnessed the amazing progress that other countries such as Denmark have made in solar power and distributed energy. We have the tools to pivot the trillions invested in energy to make breathtaking progress in the next five years.
· Shari Friedman Senior Strategy Officer, Climate Change at IFC - International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group: what we need is a commercially viable way to scrub carbon out of our existing energy producing infrastructure or take it out of the atmosphere. Right now, we have CCS for the former, and trees for the latter. However, neither are currently commercially viable on a large scale. Most analyses show that without CCS, we are not likely to reduce atmospheric CO2 to a point that avoids the worst impacts of climate change. We either need to find a way to solve the market barriers for CCS or find another solution that deals with the carbon from our fossil-based energy system—that which exists and that which continues to be built.
· Chris Walker, Director, North America World Business Council for Sustainable Development: While corporate commitments on climate change have grown more robust, there has not been a corresponding look at how corporate leaders should align other activities such as investments in their retirement benefit plans. This should change, for sustainability values-based firms, their investment vehicles should align with their values. If it does not, it is a potential violation of their fiduciary responsibility. The impact could be huge with $23 trillion invested in US retirement plans alone.
· Joyce Coffee, President of Climate Resilience Consulting: In the next five years, the time frame for investment should be brought into equilibrium. Currently, with corporates aiming for the quarter, insurers aiming for a year-to-18-month policy issuance, credit rating agencies aiming for 5-7 years and an infrastructure asset owner planning for 30 years at the least, little room exists for private sector investment in long term resilience. One lever – thought not the only – is the insurance industry issuing policies with 10-to-30 years in mind.


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The Museum of the Creative Process is excited to welcome the community to a weekend of events celebrating the launching of its new gallery, the Moral Science Project. Located in the center of Manchester Village, the Moral Science Project presents the Museum's oil painting collection, including the Henry Gorski Retrospective, and a network of exhibits exploring global traditional art. The Project also features an interactive learning space, welcoming individuals and groups to learn about themselves through the creativity.
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Pond Farm Cemetery is een Britse militaire begraafplaats met gesneuvelden uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog, gelegen in het Belgisch dorp Wulvergem, een deelgemeente van Heuvelland.
De begraafplaats ligt achter een boerderij zo'n 1,2 kilometer ten noordwesten van Wulvergem en is bereikbaar langs een pad van 350 m. Ze werd ontworpen door Charles Holden met assistentie van William Cowlishaw. Het terrein is 2.125 m² groot en wordt omgeven door een lage natuurstenen muur. Het Cross of Sacrifice staat rechts tegen de noordelijke hoek. De begraafplaats wordt onderhouden door de Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Er liggen 301 doden begraven.

Geschiedenis
De begraafplaats lag dicht bij een boerderij die door de Britten Pond Farm werd genoemd. Ze werd gestart in juli 1916 door eenheden van de 3rd Rifle Brigade en de 8th Buffs. Ze werd ook gebruikt door veldhospitalen die er tot oktober 1917 hun overleden gekwetsten begroeven. Wulvergem werd door de Duitsers op 14 april 1918 veroverd tijdens hun lenteoffensief maar werd op 2 september 1918 door de 30th Division heroverd. In april en september 1918 werden als gevolg van deze offensieven nog gesneuvelden bijgezet.

Er liggen 296 Britten (waarvan 4 niet konden geïdentificeerd worden) en 5 Duitsers begraven. Voor 3 Britten werden Special Memorials opgericht omdat hun graven niet meer teruggevonden werden, maar men vermoedt dat ze onder naamloze grafzerken liggen.

In 2009 werd de begraafplaats als monument beschermd.

Onderscheiden militairen
 D.J. Baily, luitenant bij de Royal Munster Fusiliers werd onderscheiden met het Military Cross (MC).
 Ernest Laverick, sergeant bij het King's Royal Rifle Corps werd onderscheiden met de Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM).
 sergeant Edgar Butler en korporaal James Quinn werden onderscheiden met de Military Medal (MM).

Externe links
 Pond Farm Cemetery op de website van de CWGC.
 Pond Farm Cemetery op de website van WO1.be

Begraafplaats in Heuvelland
Begraafplaats van de Eerste Wereldoorlog
Begraafplaats van de CWGC in België
Onroerend erfgoed in Heuvelland
Beschermd monument in Vlaanderen

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Google Hands Free Sounds Like Android Pay Sans Android
By JC Torres/Updated: June 7, 2015 9:29 pm EST
Google has just formally announced Android Pay over at I/O 2015, so imagine our surprise and bewilderment when it rather revealed another wireless payment scheme simply called "Hands Free". While it does sound like something you'd associate with cars, but this mobile payment system is more about keeping your hands free even from your smartphone. With Google Hands Free, all you need is to say is that you'd like to pay with Google and the deed is done. You don't even have to pull out your smartphone.
This pretty much sounds like the promise of Android Pay except for one crucial point. With Android Pay, in theory you still have to pull out your device and place it near the contactless PoS. Not even that simple gesture is needed here. Everything works through the magic of Bluetooth, though an app is, of course, implied. The merchant terminal will utilize Bluetooth to verify that the buyer has the app installed and will the process the transaction. The buyer can optionally check the smartphone for a notification of the purchase.
Unlike Android Pay, Google hasn't fleshed out details of Hands Free, which is not surprising considering it's still supposed to be a prototype. Aside from the rather eerie scenario of two people staring at each other, making a purchase moving only one's lips, the systems leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Like how will the system handle authentication and verification of multiple customers within Bluetooth range? In the same vein, how will it handle security?
Google has a lot of time to prepare answers to those questions since, unlike Android Pay, there is no definite timeline for this novel yet odd idea. Hands Free is still in an invite-only testing phase which will be limited to McDonald's and Papa Johns chains in the Bay Area. No mention of Android is made anywhere, which could imply that Hands Free could be available multiple mobile platforms.
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CLIVAR is a very wide-ranging research project. It comprises research activities that are funded mostly from national sources. The Initial Implementation Plan established a set of Principal Research Areas (PRAs) and overarching themes to guide CLIVAR activities but recognised that CLIVAR would evolve. CLIVAR has established a number of panels and Working Groups (WGs) that oversee and attempt to promote CLIVAR research in these PRA and overarching theme areas.
CLIVAR's Panels and WGs have generated a range of activities which receive formal endorsement through the normal course of CLIVAR business. Information on these can be found on the individual Panel and WG pages. From time to time, however, the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) is asked to endorse research (and other activities such as conferences and workshops) and to consider including new research foci in its portfolio which have grown up externally from its Panels and WGs as independent national or international efforts. The objectives of these requests are varied but include:
Helping a project/activity to obtain national recognition and funding;
Establishing a formal mechanism to enable the representatives of a project/activity to engage discussions with a CLIVAR panel or WG, or the ICPO to assist co-ordination; and
Broadening CLIVAR's scientific remit into include a new emerging research area.
If you would like to submit a request to the SSG for CLIVAR endorsement, please follow the instructions provided here.
A list of CLIVAR endorsed projects and activities can be viewed via the following links:
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Q: "Differential element" looking object in General Relativity I am currently a 3rd year undergraduate electronic engineering student and I am very interested in physics. I have completed a course in dynamics, calculus I, calculus II and calculus III.
I have often read articles on general relativity and in the mathematics, specifically associated with integration, I have seen a "differential element" looking object; ds^2. What is this object?
I would also appreciate it if anyone could explain what a metric in mathematics/physics is and in what topics of these subjects is it used.
I have no knowledge in general relativity or tensor calculus other than what I read and have only self studied very basic special relativity.
All answers regarding this would be greatly appreciated.

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Majority Of U.S. Employees With College Degrees Are Over-Educated
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According to the Economist, two thirds of degree-holders are doing work that was done by high school grads 50 years ago.
American high school students have been pushed to head to college following graduation for many years now, and that push has resulted in an interesting but troubling fact: the majority of U.S. degree-holders work in jobs that require no college degree.
Most college grads are over-educated.
From the Economist:
Analysis by The Economist of American census data finds that between 1970 and 2015 the share of workers aged 25-64 with at least a bachelor's degree increased in 256 out of 265 occupations. Some of these are intellectually demanding jobs that changed a lot over that period, such as aerospace engineer or statistician. Others are non-graduate jobs such as waiting tables. Sixteen percent of waiters now have degrees—presumably, in most cases, because they could not find a graduate job. But other jobs that are mostly done by graduates, such as journalism, nursing and teaching in primary schools, used to require only shorter training, often received while working. Today, having a degree is usually an entry requirement.
If so many jobs now regularly require a degree, one might be tempted to think that most degree-holders are in such jobs. But one would be mistaken.
The Economist has produced a measure of over-education by defining a graduate job as one which was staffed mostly by degree-holders in 1970. We find that just 35% of graduates work in such occupations today, down from 51% 45 years ago. Judging by job titles alone, 26.5m workers in America—two-thirds of those with degrees—are doing work that was mostly done by non-graduates a half-century ago.
Hence, most college graduates are over-educated for the jobs they end up doing. The Economist also found that having more graduates in any given occupation does not necessarily translate to higher wages for that occupation:
We find only a weak link between higher shares of graduates in an occupation and higher salaries. For around half of the occupations that employ higher shares of graduates now than a half-century ago, real wages have fallen.
Andreas Schleicher, the head of education research at the OECD, sees the problem in terms of "skills shortages" as opposed to "degree shortages" - and that might very well be true. But as the Economist notes, until higher education adapts to changing times, a college degree likely remains the wisest way to go.
In the meantime the decision not to go to university remains risky, even though many graduates will end up doing work that used to be done by non-graduates—or struggle to find a job at all.
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People can never be overeducated. It is clear that we need to new approach to education and work. I am sure there is plenty of work to be done, but a lot of it may need to be public service, since manufacturing has been outsourced. We need modernized infrastructure, but as long as Republicans are running things, we will waste time on just taking care of the already massively wealthy and won't have time for anything else.


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