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Art and the Earth: One Gallery's Effort to Make a Difference
Lorna Crichton's office tells me almost as much as she does about her work. The space is tucked back into a larger office area on the second story of a building that was once an elementary school. On the wall over her desk is a green chalkboard; to the right is a blackboard. The room is colorful, comfortable, and visually appealing, with small artworks and plants scattered here and there.
Ms. Crichton herself is friendly and welcoming, with the quiet authority of a person in charge. She and her husband, Alan Crichton, are the owners of Waterfall Arts in Belfast. Waterfall Arts is a name which in two words describes the fusion of creativity and nature that characterizes the business. And their upcoming gallery opening, The Earth Show, seems like a perfect example of what they do.
"Artists, because they are looking – artists are always in the process of observing their environment," Ms. Crichton tells me. "There's an awareness that an artist has because it's to be communicated."
The show, scheduled to open April 5th, will showcase the artwork of any local artists who submit. There is no juried selection process, and only two requirements – the artwork must be able to be displayed, and must be centered around the theme 'earth'.
Waterfall Arts, a business that serves as an art gallery, art school, and venue for performances, was started in 2000 by the Crichtons, who originally offered all classes at their studios in Montville, on a picturesque area of land that included woods and a waterfall. That location is called Kingdom Falls, and is referred to by Ms. Crichton simply as 'the kingdom'.
It was not until 2006 that Kingdom Falls and its focus on "art plus nature" moved to Belfast. Their current mission statement is "creating community in harmony with nature through the transformative power of the arts", and they do this from what was once the Anderson school, an old brick building whose original purpose was made obsolete when the new Captain Albert Stevens elementary school was built in town.
There is an open call for art submissions annually, but the theme is different every year. This year, 'earth' can be interpreted freely. "I don't know – what does it mean? It could be as materials," says Ms. Crichton. But earth could just as easily be the theme without actually being present in the piece.
Waterfall Arts has released an eclectic list of earth-related words and phrases to inspire artists. The list includes words like "dirtball", "humus", "clay", "worms", "globe," "soil," and "mother".
"A lot of people don't observe that much," says Ms. Crichton. "(But) a lot of artists read and hear a lot and react to it…artists are in a unique place to bring awareness." She says of The Earth Show, "Certainly one of the things is to bring awareness; attention to the issues of the environment, which are many. If the awareness of people is raised, that would be good."
When I speak with Martha Piscuskas, Director of Programming at Waterfall Arts, a few days later, she expresses a similar thought. "Art can have a huge impact on how people become more aware," she says.
"Waterfall Arts takes its role very seriously," says Ms. Piscuskas. "(Art) can showcase new ideas to a community that doesn't have access to them any other way." She also tells me briefly about a new program that Waterfall Arts is collaborating on with Maine Artists and supporters, including Unity College, the purpose of which is "applying art and design to the creation of elegant environmental solutions." Artists finding ways to help the environment.
Belfast is a place very ready to raise awareness. "People in the community really like to express," observes Ms. Crichton. The open call for The Earth Show is an answer to that desire. And the Earth theme is a natural subject for a place whose mission was, from the beginning, to do with nature.
As I am leaving the building, I ask if I can look at some of the artwork submissions for the Earth Show. The artworks I see are mostly paintings – some abstract, some depicting people farming, Some of rocks and shells, some of woods and trees. Some, with bright and beautiful colors and stripes, don't seem to obviously communicate 'nature' or 'earth'.
But, as Ms. Crichton points out to me, "All art has something to do with nature since people are nature."
Glee: Evolving for a Broader Audience
The TV phenomenon Glee returned last Thursday night, September 13th, with its fourth season with new characters, locations, and music. It is half set in Lima, Ohio at McKinley High school and half set in New York City. The show has evolved in the fact that it now is following certain characters like Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel post-graduation. This would be in addition to the familiar high school setting with the Glee club led by teacher Will Schuester. The remaining Glee members that didn't graduate include Sam, Blaine, Artie, Joe, Tina, Brittany, and Sugar. Glee is also incorporating more real life situations, having started with last season's examples of a text related car crash, a suicide attempt, and bullying. Now in season four there is a college setting with hard teachers, new surroundings, bad roommates, dorm living, and finding oneself after high school.
Right off the bat, new characters are introduced. The first scene opens on Rachel Berry's dance class at NYADA, where we meet her dance teacher Cassandra, played by Kate Hudson. From the get-go Cassandra is tough on all her students, especially Rachel. Viewers can sense that this pair will be at odds with each other for a while. We meet a possible new love interest for Rachel, a junior at NYADA named Brody. The initial sparks seen between them create an intriguing idea for future episodes for all of those viewers sick of "Finchel" (Finn and Rachel), though Brody states too have no intention on breaking up that long-lasting relationship. Rachel's voice teacher, played by guest star Whoopi Goldberg, looks to have a more substantial role in this new season. We had last seen her as the one Rachel had to audition too for NYADA.
As for new people at McKinley High School, we have Marley, Kitty, Jake and returning for a more solid role, Wade. Wade had a guest role as a member of another rival glee club but has moved to join New Directions to the displeasure of some of the returning folks. With the competition of a new lead star at stake, Wade is just seen as more competition for the spot. Also seen as talented competition is auditioner Marley, a sophomore looking for a place for her to fit in. Another auditioner is Jake Puckerman, younger half-brother to graduate Noah Puckerman, who is not allowed into the Glee club initially due to his bad attitude and angry behavior. He was given a chance to join but refused because he didn't want to lose his bad boy side. Kitty is a new cheerleader who has filled in the role of popular mean girl and assistant to Coach Sue, whose baby we see for a minute or two. After the premiere of this season, it is clear that there is a strong, exciting crop of new cast members with lots of talent to show for it.
Musical numbers typically are highlights of the episodes and this one was no exception, although there was maybe one hit and miss. The song in that case was Glee's rendition of "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen. It didn't live up to the expectations of at least being as good as the original. Everything else though was up to par and sometimes just right out outstanding and genius. These include Cassandra's (Kate Hudson) sexy mash up of Lady Gaga's "Americano" and Jennifer Lopez's "Dance Again", upbeat "It's Time" by Imagine Dragons sung by Blaine (Darren Criss), and a stunning "Never Say Never" by the Fray sung by newcomer Jake (Jacob Artist) at his audition. These three numbers had beautiful vocals, great energy, and keeps viewers glued to the TV with their eyes and ears. Newcomer Marley (Melissa Benoist) started her glee repertoire with her audition piece "New York State of Mind" which was a split song between her and Rachel at her NYADA voice class. It was beautiful mix of new and veteran voices. Marley also closes the episode with a solid lead vocal in the group number of "Chasing Pavements" by Adele.
Glee has been the show that underdogs can watch and relate to unlike shows such as True Blood or Once Upon a Time which are more fantasy than realistic. Now that it's expanding its cast and adding more realism to the mix of musical numbers and comedic one-liners, there is room for more viewers to relate to the show than was possible when it first came out in 2009. The new cast members help with the expansion, giving new characters to root for, crush on, love to hate, hate to love, or admire and relate to. New voices are refreshing after three seasons, as are new actors and storylines. Comedy is still present in the show but no longer in such a satirical way as it was in season one. It's still the only show on right now that has musical episodes every time compared to shows that will have a random musical episode for fun once. Glee is a phenomenon for a reason. At least five or six new songs per episode, adding to the growing list of covers, sometimes having artist themed episodes, and new guest celebrity stars are just some of the qualities that Glee possesses. Viewers can be in a car and be listening to the radio and more often than not, can say "Glee did that" as song after song plays.
Just like it is hard to stop watching a show when you have watched it from season one like The Secret Life of the American Teenager or Pretty Little Liars or Psych, the same thing goes for Glee. Viewers get hooked one way or another no matter how hard they may try not to. They will remain curious as to what will happen next to a certain character or couple or who will get the next solo or if a character will join the Glee club or not. Teens, young adults, and even their parents are watching this entertaining, relatable, and sometimes silly show. With new cast members who are seasoned actors such as Whoopi Goldberg and Kate Hudson, they bring in those older adults who have watched them on screen multiple times and are curious about their role on glee and what new side they can get to see from that actor. As long as Glee keeps bringing in new people, covering new music, continue to be relatable and keep its comedic side as it heads to more realistic situations, it will continue to shine amongst today's current top TV shows, and continue to keep and increase its viewer population, young and old alike.
Cast: Lea Michelle, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, Heather Morris, Darren Criss, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Chord Overstreet, Samuel Larsen, Vanessa Lengies, Chris Colfer, Melissa Benoist, Becca Tobin, Jacob Artist, Dean Geyer, Kate Hudson, Whoopi Goldberg
Airtime: Fox, Thursdays at 9 p.m.
-Sarah McCoy
Revolution: The Pilot
Have you ever wondered what the world would be like without electricity? No cars, no lights, no TV and even the batteries don't work. The electricity has suddenly been turned off for forever. That's what is being depicted in the new show Revolution on NBC. The 17th century lifestyle comes alive through the TV with a modern twist. The flaw is that the Amish live today without electricity and they seem to be doing well. So how is Revolution going to make it more interesting; by adding in the family drama, lots of killing and the mystery of how to get the power back on. From the pilot you can gather that the producers would be more than happy to kill off some other "important" characters.
The Revolution Pilot was directed by John Favreau and has many strong leads (Tracy Spiridakos, Giancarlo Esposito, Billy Burke, Tim Guinee and Graham Rogers). What's more, the show has a good positive message, family always comes first. Put the Hunger Games, Lord of the Rings, and Walking Dead (without the blood sucking zombies) together and you have Revolution.
The show opens with a regular family suddenly shut down in darkness. What seems to be suspicious is that the dad seems to know that this was going to happen and tries to warn his wife. What is he hiding? Well you find out some truth at the end of the Pilot, so you do not have to wonder what he was hiding through all the five seasons that are bound to come from this show. A good way to open the show? Sure mine as well start out with a bang.
Within the first half hour of the movie many people have died, which I'm not surprised, but the problem is that in order to gain a plot the producers had to kill off some important people. By killing off these awesome actors the producers (Bonanza Productions) are setting up a theme that they will be doing this to you all season. So be choosy as to who you pick as your favorite character. When killing off people there has to be a breakout star and that is where Charlie comes into play. Charlie is the daughter of a family that is being torn apart by this blackout. Randomly the family is confronted with a situation where Charlie's brother Danny has been kidnapped. This is where the start of the main plot comes in. Charlie has to go rescue her brother and of course figure out the mystery of the how the power went out; there is no way the producers could leave that part out of the plot.
Charlie seems to be like a Katniss from the movie Hunger Games. Katniss and Charlie have similar outfits, which seem to be very clean, and choice of weapons (bow and arrow). Katniss also was the main character and did not die, so we can assume Charlie will survive almost all the seasons, unlike her followers. Yes, Charlie has two people who decided to help her on her journey to find her brother. These people are a woman named Maggie (Anna Lise Phillips) whom her dad was seeing and a man named Aaron (Zak Orth) who was apparently really rich and seems to be pretty dorky. Although rooting for him will be a good idea cause he seems like a character everyone will come to love. Before finding her brother, Charlie has to go get help from her uncle. Charlie's uncle will apparently help her find her brother; the uncle's name is Miles. By surprise Miles is an awesome fighter and can kick some ass. A really cool fighting scene is show and you can clearly tell Miles will be the one doing all the fighting for the team. By the time they actually find Danny he will probably be dead or suddenly turned badass. The badass part doesn't seem like it would happen, he seems to be ignorant, but you never know what a little torture will do to him. The producers will definitely make him go through some well needed torture first.
Revolution is what would happen to the world if it was the 17th century again. Predictable, but entertaining the producers knew what they were doing. Finding why the power went off should be a huge priority for the characters and will be eventually. Right now in the show a lot of self-discovery and fighting will happen. Charlie will probably have a lot of tough decisions to make and have to encounter dangerous situations. The direction the producers are going seems to be pretty intense. Having her uncle around will help and her followers might even do some good. Entertaining and predictable, Revolution will be a show to keep up with and to see if people can survive without their precious electricity.
-Liz Fonseca
Strength & Art: A Dancing Combination
From the haunting violin strings of Remo Giazotto's, Adagio in G Minor, to the raunchy dubstep styling of District 78's, Like a Criminal, the artistic musicality that threads itself through Fox's weekly competitive dance darling, So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD), is never on short supply. As the weeks progress throughout the competition we see fewer and fewer contestants, each one voted off by the television audience, sometimes four at a time. That is, of course, if they're unlucky enough to dance "for their lives" in a fashion unable to dazzle the panel of judges sitting pretty, ready to save them. Season 9's performance finale this week, no trend breaker to the eclectic musical tendencies of the past 8 seasons, also brought with it a vivacious concoction of choreographed drama tempered with comedy, and a precise declaration of what it means to set the bar higher.
The physical expressions of all that seems good in the musical world, those of which the seasoned contestants make look easy, came to a close this week with a thunderous bang and a brow wiping gasp, the likes of which was brought on by the night's burlesque-style pole dancing number. Was the season capped as successfully as it began? If ever there were a resounding yes to be had, this would be one.
From the Tyce Diorio number choreographed to showcase the four remaining contestants coming alive from a sheet of music, twisting, turning and pirouetting to every nuanced beat like the good little musical notes they were dressed to be, to the inspired hip hop number performed by one-legged, non-contestant, John Sok, the bar steadily rose. Even Cyrus, the self-taught, dubstep animator who people either love to love, or love to hate, appeared to hold his own dancing alongside the season's classically trained male ballet aficionado, Chehon. Both dancers displayed not only a strong commitment to partnering but with it an unwavering dedication to staying in character during the relentless jazz number they performed together.
Of course, as many people will complain, Cyrus, who did not spend his life toiling away at dance class after dance class, like the majority of SYTYCD contestants do, left some things to be desired, such as cart wheels with straight legs, and leaps that leave the floor. What Cyrus lacked in technique, however, he more than made up for in stage presence, as evidenced by the sheer intensity of the penetrating gaze he let fall on his Paso Doble partner, fan favorite, Eliana. During their number together where becoming a raging bull trying to subdue his pompadour left Cyrus supporting his partner every step of the way, there was not for an instant any question on character or strength. In keeping with this consistency, Cyrus continued to show unyielding presence during his and resident hip hop dance star, Twitch's metamorphosis from human incarnate to dubstep robot. This number began by both dancers smashing through a thick glass door and continued on by owning the beat and demanding attention through clean and finely synchronized animation.
The highly emotional ribbon tying itself through the choreography of the entire episode gave each dancer a moment to shine. After an emotive Sonya Teyah jazz routine set to the backdrop of Moloko's haunting and slightly quirky, "The Time is Now," Tiffany, the tiniest dancer in the competition, was praised for displaying lines so long she lent the illusion of being a woman twice her own height. This much deserved and graciously accepted compliment was given by Nigel Lythgoe, one of the show's resident judges and executive producers, also known by most as the show's toughest critic.
SYTYCD, unlike its singing counterpart, American Idol strives to build contestants up rather than break them down through a system of constructive critique rather than through blatant insult. Viewers of SYTYCD often feel uplifted by the artistic expression exuded in not only the choreography and dance but also through the meticulous set designs and elaborate costume choices. This is in sharp contrast to American Idol,which easily leaves audience members feeling ravaged from harsh judgments from panel judges. Tonight's performance finale of SYTYCD however left nothing more intact than the utmost respect for each contestant's sense of self, and for the audience's desire to be emotionally tapped. From the lighthearted pole dancing number to a triumphant and first ever ballet number in a SYTYCD finale, performed by Eliana and Chehon, the judges remained supportive, honest and constructive. The contestants, all four of them, capped the season off just right – artistic and strong, bringing their absolute best to every single performance.
Alanis Morissette's New Album: Celebrates Wife and Motherhood with an Edge
Strange things are going on as it appears that Alanis Morissette sounds more level headed and happier than ever. Since it has been four years since her last record release, which for me has been way too long, it was time for a reawakening; which her new album Havoc and Bright Lights clearly represents. The opening song, "Guardian" is sheer illustration of this. It is not hard to figure out that this is a song about being a wife and mother and to think we all thought she'd still be singing about lost love and heartache.
No need for panic though, because this is still an Alanis record. Her stimulating raw voice is the foundation of the album; which gives her usual poetic lyrics that extra push they don't really need, but always tend to gain. A soft harmony has brushed over her music, while embracing her typical role as an irritated feminist with every song consisting of a powerful chorus. Slight arrogance does not appear all that often, which I guess happens after becoming a mother. Her lyrics often look jumbled to me on paper yet seem to flow effortlessly with the music. The album may be lacking those "You Oughta Know" vibes, but definitely pack the same punch.
-Katie Lowery-Graziano
Tennis: Young & Old/ Fat Possum Records
Nineties indie rock, that's where I live. Reminiscent of MTV music videos from artists like The Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, Alanis Mourisette, Audioslave, The Wallflowers, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Incubus. As a 20-something college student I consider myself a veteran Indie-kid, a 90's trooper that waded through the rage that was Indie-pop-punk rock. Naturally, music has changed and I now find myself exploring a new kind of Indie, one with lighter tones and poetic lyrics that seems to cradle a broken heart rather than manifesting heart ache into inexplicable rage. So, when I picked up my ear-buds to give Tennis' new album "Young & Old" a listen, I approached it with an open mind hoping to widen my perspective on music in general, and possibly add to my senseless iPhone shuffle sessions.
Tennis certainly seems to capture the essence of what today's youth is craving; heart thumping bass cords, with a symphony of sounds from other arbitrary instruments, including the tambourine, xylophone, violin, and even a flute. My favorite track, "My Better Self," carries a droned melody, with hypnotic vocals by Shady Babes, punctuated by piano cords that act as the thread that brings everything together into a trans-like musical experience.
The entire album is filled with words rather than repetitive chorus lines and loud drum hooks like other alternative tracks have been in the past. Each melody has its own identity that separates it from the rest and brings you along on a trip through emotion in an "above the clouds" kind of way only Tennis can really accomplish.
Holding true to alternative roots, Tennis grasps the idea of contemporary music and adds a sense of design to it with a steady flow of melancholy lyrics sure to wind down even the most stressful of days.
-Ivonne Romero
No Doubt: A Distinctive Homecoming
Gwen Stefani sings, "You push and shove, I take the bait … It's a risky business, gonna play it anyway" off No Doubt's eighth studio album, "Push and Shove," proving to fans that their electric, pop rock, ruthless sound is here to stay. Ten years since their last record, No Doubt shares "Push and Shove", a looking glass to their solid captivating sounds that, to say the least, consumes this record. Island beats still run the background to their funky party soundtracks, while melodies overflow with catchy choruses showing fans that even a decade later they have no reason to conform. Their style has only grown into an established sound that sets them apart from any other artist; most importantly influential and glitzy Gwen Stefani still has her dominant free from care attitude.
-Meg Joy
DMX: Back On Tracks
Eyes closed, ears on the beat, and lyrics overpower everything. X has made me cry, laugh, and jam. The industry really doesn't deserve to pocket as much as they do off an amazing poet, storytelling genius like DMX. We all have pain in our lives, beliefs that scream out from us even in silence, and if we're unafraid, then usually we stay real to ourselves no matter the circumstance.
If you've listened to DMX before then you know he always hits us with a mix of fast and slow beats on his albums. His latest release, "Undisputed", which hit shelves September 11th 2012, is no different. The beats and lyrics are new but he hasn't caved into the industry that make only what sells, bullshit. He sticks to his beliefs and themes we see all the time in his songs; that there is a god out there he holds in his heart, that we must stay real and true with ourselves and people, and that we always know who the realists are. Those of course are themes I have found. Any listener might find a multitude of their own which I haven't mentioned. That however is just another mark of a great artist.
On the album, X pulls in up-and-coming artists; Kashmere and Rachel Taylor, among others. One must feel like he does this to stay true to his ideas about the industry which we know well enough through most of his songs, but is said most bluntly here… "The industry don't give a fuck about you, but the industry don't make a dime without you!" –The industry (Def. Jam Poetry performance)
"Fuck what you say, fuck what you do, I'm gonna be the dog all day." From the title, Already, kills it like nothing else. DMX is letting listeners know no matter what anyone else thinks he's going to stay himself. Mix that with a softer somewhat slower song like, Slippin Again, where he says "Money ain't the answer, it's just another form of cancer," and you're bound to be blown away. X is making a throw back to his song Slippin. Except this time around he is talking about trying so hard to keep himself up and clean from his crack addiction, and how he doesn't want to give up but it is just so hard sometimes. Addiction is just the package he mails us the information in. Life and yourself are included in that box.
You don't have to grow up in Bed Stuy to feel his pain and joy to even relate it to your own life. DMX is the man "with the master plan" as Biggie once said, and nope he's not on his way to Maryland just on his way to the top again.
-Brittany Groat


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Kevin Anderson pulls out of Chennai Open
Kevin Anderson, the second seed at the ongoing Chennai Open, has pulled out of the tournament citing a knee injury, a day ahead of his first match. He was scheduled to play Ramkumar Ramanthan in a second-round tie on Thursday.
Tanay Apte Abhishek Mukherjee
Chennai 06 January, 2016 17:34 IST
Kevin Anderson of South Africa during the practise sesion at the Aircel Chennai Open Tennis Tournament on Monday. - R. Ragu
Kevin Anderson, the second seed at the ongoing Chennai Open, has pulled out of the tournament citing a knee injury, a day ahead of his first match. He was scheduled to play Ramkumar Ramanthan in a second-round tie on Thursday. The big-serving South African will be replaced by Alexander Kudryavstev.
Anderson said the knee 'niggle' had been a recurrent trouble for him, but he had learnt to deal with it well in his career. "I've been having a niggle in my knee for a number of years. But I have always managed it well. My December training (in Florida) took a toll on my knee. The knee itself is fine, but it just aggravated. So, I thought I won't risk it."
He is planning to participate in the upcoming ATP 250 event in Auckland, provided his knee heals sufficiently. "Pulling out right now gives me a few days to rest and hopefully I'll get to play in Auckland." The tournament begins on January 11, and ends a day before the Australian Open begins, on January 17.
"It comes at a tricky time of the year. I'm very disappointed to be missing out on this tournament. This was my first time in Chennai, and the first tournament of the year so I was looking forward to playing."
The first Slam of the year, to get prepared for which he had arrived in Chennai, was the consideration in his decision to pull out as well. "My fitness team and I have taken this decision with the Australian Open in mind. The Chennai Open is obviously a very important tournament. So, not just keeping in mind the Australian Open, but tournaments after that as well, to avoid long-term injury

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Frederick Douglass is a man unparalelled by most men of his time and a further many by ours. It might suffice to say that he overcame seemingly insurmountable odds, truthfully, however he exceeds, where others merely succeed. The question is he perceived as a hero. And a resounding yes, the answer. His critics, in an attempt to silence his voice which still reverberrates, say it is not he, but another who wrote his best works. Believing, in such a time it was justifiable to take a man from his homeland and family, it was felt equally just to take credit for his in place of his name.
Where he could have been a slave owner, he was an abolitionist. Where he could have been silenced, he chose oration. He actually had a captive audience in Abraham Lincoln, and as a friend, advised him. When he wasnt' in full view spearheading a movement away from chains, he was working diligently with the Underground Railroad. He is generally felt to be a hero, not just to Blacks but to any who can find it in them to admire a man who, once could not read, and learned to speak beautifully.
In a generation that speaks so highly of today's hero, Obama, we remember the tremendous tribulations hoist upon, not only Frederick Douglass, but blacks of all shades, of his generation. "His newspaper notoriety made him a lightning rod for the abolitionist cause, and he became one of the first truly nationally known black abolitionists. " Ever more the predecessor of great men speaking to a need for great change. In the words of Douglass himself, "Friends and fellow citizens, the story of our presence here is soon and easily told.
We are here in the District of Columbia, here in the city of Washington, the most luminous point of American territory; a city recently transformed and made beautiful in its body and in its spirit; we are here in the place where the ablest and best men of the country are sent to devise the policy, enact the laws, and shape the destiny of the Republic; we are here, with the stately pillars and majestic dome of the Capitol of the nation looking down upon us; we are here, with the broad earth freshly adorned with the foliage and flowers of spring for our church, and all races, colors, and conditions of men for our congregation – in a word, we are here to express, as best we may, by appropriate forms and ceremonies, our grateful sense of the vast, high, and pre-eminent services rendered to ourselves, to our race, to our country, and to the whole world by Abraham Lincoln. " With a world wide appeal and approval rating held by Obama, during these relatively peaceful times, a hero a mammoth porportions existed in Douglass. Again, heroic in his accomplishment in the face of unquestionable brutalities. Author, William S Connery is pleased to remind a generation of its seeds of greatness, planted in the soil of a dark oppression. "We're celebrating my great-great- grandfather's escape from slavery–on September 3, 1838–by taking what we think is a vital message to America's young people," said Douglass.
"We tell them that if Frederick Douglass could come into this world as a totally impoverished slave and transform himself into an orator, author, member of the middle class, and confidant of presidents, then their potential–in an era of free access to public education–is unlimited. But they must begin charting their successful futures today. Many late to Frederick Douglass choose to further attest to his greatness. Byline: John E. Carey, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES 2 Many feel Douglass is a hero of his Autobiography, simply because it is an epic journey, where at its height his voice rang clear with inspiration. He became iconography for unfathomnable success, in spite a system that nurtured failure. Once immersed in his writing, " "My soul was set on fire," Douglass stated.
A passion for living and life when mere survival was a luxury, this is the making of a hero. Blacks, Women, Jews, many groups suffered to varying degrees. But voices that refused to utter silence, are the stuff of heroism and the making of great iterature. He said, now in the face of opposition that he could have avoided facing, ""Agitate, agitate, agitate! " With these words, Frederick Douglass exhorted a wman's suffrage meeting on February 20, 1895. After returning to Cedar Hill, he was dramatizing his speech to his second wife, Helen, when he suffered a fatal eart attack. It was just a week past his seventy-seventh birthday, or maybe it was his seventy-eighth. He wasn't quite sure. " This is drama, this is literature.
"THE 1845 NARRATIVE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS REMAINS THE BEST KNOWN of the self-representations in which he chronicles his experiences as a slave, bscures his escape to freedom, and sketches the formation of his early identity as child and man. His unforgettable opening declaration, "I was born in Tuckahoe, ear Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland" (12), situates the text within the narrative context of mid-nineteenth century first-person literary productions–Poe's fictional narrators; the persona of Emerson's essays; Thoreau's journals; Whitman's Song of Myself, Melville's Ishmael; Hawthorne's Coverdale.
Identity and origin are the subjects of this essay, which will examine the essential circularity inherent in the exchange between white and lack social identity in the South–particularly as it bears on the phenomenon of "respect. " And this, in all its glory, is why critics feel Frederick Douglass was, and still is, a hero. 3 Works Cited Brewton, Vince. ""Bold Defiance Took Its Place"-"Respect" and Self-Making in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. " The Mississippi Quarterly 58. 3-4 (2005): 703+. Questia. 26 Apr. 2009 <http://www. questia. com/PM. qst? a=o&d=5019433248>. Chesebrough, David B. Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Questia. 26 Apr. 2009 <http://www. questia. com/PM. qst? a=o&d=112042627>. Connery, William S. "Proud Lion of Baltimore – the Life and Legacy of Frederick Douglass. " World and I Feb. 2003: 156. Questia. 26 Apr. 2009 <http://www. questia. com/PM. qst? a=o&d=5002514243>. "Critical Points in Frederick Douglass' Life; Confronted Lincoln on Issue of Slavery. " The Washington Times 25 Feb. 2006: D05. Questia. 26 Apr. 2009 <http://www. questia. com/PM. qst? a=o&d=5013930216>. Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
New York: Dover Publications, 1995. Questia. 26 Apr. 2009 <http://www. questia. com/PM. qst a=o&d=97002080>. King, Lovalerie. "Counter-Discourses on the Racialization of Theft and Ethics in Douglass's Narrative and Jacobs's Incidents. " MELUS 28. 4 (2003): 55+. Questia. 26 Apr. 2009 <http://www. questia. com/PM. qst? a=o&d=5006442160>. Levine, Robert S. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Questia. 26 Apr. 2009 <http://www. questia. com/PM. qst? a=o&d=54804308>. Martin, Waldo E. The Mind of Frederick Douglass. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Questia. 26 Apr. 2009 <http://www. questia. com/PM. qst? a=o&d=54886760>.


A nuclear programme that was abandoned two decades ago has emerged as a possible 11th-hour solution to Britain's plutonium-waste headache, which the Government has to decide on within weeks.
Government officials are looking again at the possibility of using nuclear "fast reactors", which were dropped by Britain in 1994, to dispose of more than 100 tonnes of waste plutonium stored at Sellafield in Cumbria.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and senior advisers within the Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) have asked for technical and financial details of an American-designed fast reactor that can burn up the plutonium waste as nuclear fuel.
Within weeks of the Government's expected response to a public consultation on plutonium waste, led by energy minister Chris Huhne, officials appear to be having second thoughts about their preferred solution to the problem, the building of a second plutonium-uranium oxides fuel plant at Sellafield.
Previously, Decc and the NDA have said that the plutonium waste stockpile should be first converted into mixed oxide (Mox) fuel by a new £3bn plant at Sellafield, then burned in conventional "thermal" reactors being considered as part of the UK's nuclear re-building programme.
As recently as last February, the NDA said that is has "screened out" the option of using a new generation of fast reactors to deal with the waste stockpile on the grounds that a commerical fast reactor will not be ready for decades.
But both the NDA and the chief scientist at Decc, Professor David MacKay, are understood to be investigating the possible disposal of plutonium using a nuclear fast reactor designed by the US Department of Energy and built by General Electric and Hitachi.
The NDA has asked General Electric to come up with a detailed proposal, including costings, of how to licence and build a nuclear fast reactor on the Sellafield site to burn the plutonium stockpile without the need to first convert it to Mox fuel.
If the Government decides on the fast-reactor route it will represent a radical departure from its stated policy of first converting the plutonium into Mox fuel before burning it in conventional pressurised-water reactors.
Some industry insiders believe that Britain, which has the largest civilian stockpile of plutonium in the world, is in a unique position to take the bold decision of building a next-generation fast reactor now rather than leaving it for 30 or 40 years.
General Electric's fast reactor, called Prism, comes out of the US energy department's integral fast reactor programme, itself abandoned by President Bill Clinton in 1994, just before Britain abandoned is own fast-reactor programme at Dounreay in Scotland. Nuclear scientists believe Clinton's decision was purely political and not based on a rational analysis of the technical merits of the fast reactor, which is said to be inherently safer than conventional thermal reactors, producing less waste in addition to being capable of burning plutonium and other nuclear waste.
Tom Blees, an American environmentalist and author who has written extensively on the merits of nuclear fast reactors, met Professor MacKay last week to lobby on behalf of the integral fast reactor, which General Electric insists it can build at Sellafield.
"I suggested some meetings with other people who are technically proficient on the integral fast reactor, which he intends to set up," said Mr Blees, who is on the judging panel of the Global Energy Prize. "From everything I've seen from David he fully intends to give it the consideration it deserves. He seemed very interested and is planning on some follow-up meetings. I don't think people here were aware of just quite how far the technology of fast reactors has progressed."
The proponents of fast reactors believe that Britain's plutonium consultation has been hijacked by the French nuclear company Areva, which is offering to build the proposed Sellafield Mox plant as well as the pressurised water reactors that will burn the fuel.
"One of the reasons I came to the UK was that [the fast reactor] hadn't got the consideration it deserved," Mr Blees added. "Reading the [government's] Plutonium Consultation it was clear that Areva had gotten to these people.
"The consultation seems to accept the premise that fast reactors cannot be built for 30 or 40 years which is the standard Areva company line, but that is simply not true because General Electric would happily start building one tomorrow."
A spokesman for Decc said: "David MacKay's remit is to look a bit further afield. It seems a sensible thing to do. In the long term, fast reactors seem highly desirable."
General Electric's fast reactor design is based on using plutonium metal, rather than oxide, as a fuel, which means that it would be technically easier and cheaper to convert the existing plutonium stockpile to a metal fuel using standard electrolysis rather than the technically complex task of making it into Mox fuel rods.
Instead of using water as a coolant and moderator, the fast reactor uses sodium metal in liquid form and because it operates at near-atmospheric pressure instead of the high pressures of water-cooled reactors, the reactor is simpler and therefore cheaper to build and operate as well as being protected by "passive" safety features.
Ironically, the reason why Britain has such a large plutonium stockpile was because in the 1960s the Government decided to reprocess spent fuel and separate out the plutonium for a fast-breeder reactor programme at Dounreay.
But Dounreay ran into technical difficulties, which General Electric claims to have resolved with its own design, Mr Blees said. "The world has gone round the sun a few times since Dounreay."
The energy used by nuclear power stations to generate electricity comes from nuclear fission, the splitting of atoms. The fission occurs when an atom of fissile material, normally uranium-235, is hit by a neutron particle, which releases more high-energy neutrons.
Conventional "thermal" reactors deliberately slow the high-energy neutrons using a moderator, usually water. Fast reactors have no moderator and the superfast neutrons interact with the other isotope of uranium, uranium 238, most of the uranium fuel.
This means that fast reactors can produce 60 times more energy than conventional thermal reactors for a similar amount of uranium fuel. And fast reactors can burn plutonium. In effect, a fast reactor acts like a nuclear-waste incinerator that also generates electrical power.


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Robert Walser's Walk
Marc Caellas & Feune de Colombi
S22May | S23May
/S22 12am 4pm | S23 12am /Santiago de Compostela /Itinerant, through the streets of Santiago de Compostela
A small group of people walk around the city, following the Swiss writer Robert Walser, interpreted by Esteban Feune de Colombi. It is a theatrical work on foot, inspired in the universe of the Swiss writer of the first half of the 20th century and his universe, which are increasingly admired today.
The walk results in meetings that may be improvised or not, appearances, passing figures that make participants observe the everyday landscape in a different way. The act of walking as another way of exercising the sight and of living time, open, also, to the unexpected.
With more than one hundred performances behind it, Robert Walser's Walk has already walked around many cities on both sides of the Atlantic.
Esteban Feune de Colombi
Born in Buenos Aires He has lived in Paris and Geneva and works around the world. He is a poet, actor, photographer and performer.
Marc Caellas
He was born in Barcelona. He has lived in London, Sao Paolo, Miami, Caracas, Bogota and Buenos Aires. He is a writer, stage director and curator of cultural projects that mix literature, theatre and contemporary art. Marc and Esteban created the Compañía La Soledad in Bogota in 2011, focused on travelling scenic productions, performances and site-specific productions. The two share divide the ideas and production of each project between them: Caellas directs and Feune de Colombi acts.
They turned the novel The Walk by the Swiss writer Robert Walser into a theatrical work on foot, which they have been performing since 2012 in the streets of Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Bogota, Sao Paulo, Havana, Mexico City, Madrid, Barcelona, Terrassa and Majorca, in festivals like Fringe (Madrid), TNT (Terrassa), Filba (Buenos Aires) and Kosmópolis (Barcelona), working with institutions such as the University Museum of Chopo (Mexico), É Baluard (Spain) and the Fine Arts Museum (Argentina).
The last project they premiered is Bolaño, vuelve a casa, an apocryphal walk around the Raval neighbourhood, a walk through literature, an homage to the poet Bolaño in the Barcelona of the late 1970s.
Theatrical walk
The meeting point: First Door University of Chemistry (USC) | Avda. das Ciencias.
Interpreter: Esteban Feune de Colombi
Creators: Marc Caellas & Esteban Feune de Colombi
Galician premiere
Robert Walser's Walk S22May | S23May, S22 12am 4pm | S23 12am Santiago de Compostela Itinerant, through the streets of Santiago de Compostela


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What type of prints are they and what paper do you print on?
Our designs are just over 8"x10" on heavy A4 card.
How are our items packaged?
Each of our prints is individually wrapped in a clear protective re-seal sleeve. To prevent bending in transit, each print is also laid onto a heavy duty straw board backing.
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The "Shit Volcano" Will End
A lot of words spilled in two posts:
Slushy Glut Slog: Why The Self-Publishing Shit Volcano Is A Problem — which the people who are the problem will never think they're the problem.
Why the self-publishing shit volcano isn't going to stop erupting any time soon — which the people who are the problem will never read to the end because they can't understand it.
The glut is something I've raised in past posts that I am now too damn lazy to look up because fuck it.
But I do want to go on record — again, because I've done it before but only on Twitter — about how I see the "shit volcano" ending.
Someone at Amazon, maybe even Bezos, will some day notice the jillions of not-selling Kindle books taking up space on their servers and wonder why.
Why are we keeping these things that don't sell?
Why are we allowing them to fuck up the ability of people to find the Kindle books that do sell?
Why are we dealing with the administrative costs of these non-selling Kindle books?
Why should we ever have to X-ray these Kindle books that aren't selling?
And those are the two key words: "Aren't selling."
Amazon isn't a damn charity. They want to make money.
And Amazon, especially, above all other companies, likes to make money efficiently. (If you don't believe Amazon has an efficiency fetish, go look up the system they have for the shelves in their warehouses.)
Having jillions of non-selling Kindle books clogging up the arteries of Amazon search is inefficient.
So, as I've said on Twitter and am now repeating here, Amazon will begin to purge those non-selling Kindle books.
"Dear Author" emails will be sent out to inform all those so-called writers (the ones who are the problem and who actually aren't writers) that their time is up. They've had X years to prove they could make a buck — for themselves, but most of all for Amazon — with their shit and the free ride is over. Amazon wants its server space back and its search capability back.
The way I hope Amazon goes about that is to record the IP addresses of those non-selling "writers" and ban further submissions from them.
Extreme, yes?
But getting hit with a banhammer might be the only way to go.
The people who are the problem are thick. This is why they are the problem.
And if Amazon finds that such an extreme measure isn't enough to keep out the NaNoWriMo and assorted other never-will-bes, I can foresee — as Wendig does — a listing fee of some sort being applied. That would truly be unfortunate. Because it'd scream Vanity Publishing, a smear many fine future self-publishing writers wouldn't deserve.
But truthfully, I think the banhammer would work.
It'd be a slap in the face to wake them up, to puncture the bubble of their self-delusion. At the very least it would get them the hell off Amazon. Let them go clog the places that specialize in being the World's Largest Slush Pile.
Amazon should be reserved for writers who are actually writers and are there to make money — for themselves and for Amazon.
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But really it doesn't even effing matter. Everything is vanity.
Yes, but if you base your life on the Book of Ecclesiastes — possibly the most depression-inducing book in the Bible — why even bother to live?
Maybe it won't stop, or not anytime soon. Nearly all self-publishers are in it to make money, and Amazon is probably making money on it too – and if their goal is to corner the market, they'd have no interest in backing out of it. It's not like a real gold rush where the gold runs out. This racket is based on illusion and hype, fed by the occasional breakout story that makes every writer feel like a potential lottery winner. What makes the volcano "shit" is the same snobbiness about culture and taste and quality that's always defined the publishing industry. The whining about typos and grammar and such is like complaints about how amateur porn has ruined that "industry". Publishing has aways been more about money than artistic standards, which have always been more of a facade than substance, and self-publishing is no different in that regard. "Quality" writing has long been a loss leader, a show pony, the vanity of that game. It's not where the money is. It's not what most people really want.
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More good rants about the self pub slushy mess. But does it even matter? There are thirty million guitar players in America but who's complaining about that? Oh no, there are too many books, I can't find anything to read? Suck it up, people. Everything is vanity.
Mike, I think you make some points that the very authors who need to at won't, because they don't think they are the problem, and are unlikely to read or comprehend anything that lays out just how they are the problem.
And I wish you were right about Amazon, but I fear you are not, for several reasons.
1. Amazon is not a rational actor. At least, not in any way that you or I might consider rational. It's pretty much the only company I can think of that can consistently not make a profit and not be punished by Wall Street. In the past, we've seen that it only takes action when it is cornered, and then it takes the smallest action it can get away with.
Take the bestiality/rape/incest/pseudoincest furore of last year. Amazon only acted when it felt cornered, and even then it did as little as it could get away with. There's still plenty of dodgy porn on Amazon and will continue to be, because Amazon has no interest in really properly clearing it up.
Same with the sockpuppet review affair. And when Amazon did take action, it was to put in place stupid and ill-considered rules about whether Kindle authors could review or not. It has done nothing substantial about improving the quality of reviews, even though that would be something that you'd think would affect their bottom line quite substantially. After all, if you can't trust the reviews on Amazon, how do you know whether to buy or not?
So at the moment, there is no force pushing Amazon to act, nothing making it whip out the banhammer. Yes, the shite clogs up Amazon's arteries, but they have shown no interest in dealing with anything else that does the same in other areas of their business, because clearly having heart disease isn't producing any painful symptoms for them. Yet.
2. Storage is cheap and getting cheaper. Amazon has turned cloud storage into a business, and book files are small, so there's no real reason for them to worry about how much space the long tale of self-published dross is taking up.
If your average ebook file takes up 500kb, then you can fit 2,147,483 in a single terabyte. Amazon charges $0.010 per GB per month for its "Glacier" storage. So if you're hiring Amazon's cloud directly, you can store 2097 averagely-sized files for a month for a cent. You could store 5 million books for just $2384 per month, a figure certainly higher than it actually costs Amazon, because they obviously mark up their commercial cloud storage offerings.
It is almost certainly cheaper for Amazon to just store all the ebooks uploaded than it is for them to pay someone to figure out how best to get rid of the ones that don't sell AND are badly written, and then deal with the resultant backlash from offended authors.
3. That offended backlash. If there's one thing Amazon isn't interested in, it's alienating hundreds of thousands of self-published authors. A few hundred noisy gasbags it can, and does, ignore. But if you consider that most books don't sell, and there is probably more than half a million self-published ebooks getting uploaded each year and growing, that's a lot of shit and a lot of angry authors they'd have to deal with.
Whether there would be enough angry authors to hurt Amazon's overall sales in any meaningful manner is something I couldn't say. But it's certainly enough to hurt Amazon's brand (even more than they do themselves – they don't seem to give a crap about brand), and hurt ebook and possibly paper book sales. Not to mention the deluge of angry email that would likely cripple their customer support department.
So whilst I would love Amazon to take a long, hard look at their self-publishing platform, I have absolutely no confidence that they will, because I cannot see any motivator big enough to push them to action.
I've more to say, but this comment is already ridiculously long, so I think I'll continue with a new blog post!!
Yes, I admit it could be my mistake in expecting Amazon to act rationally. I disagree with their warehouse shelving system, which I think is actually inefficient (But is efficient if you look at it through the lens of Amazon).
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How about this scenario?
All those non-selling Kindle books probably aren't costing Amazon much of anything, either in server or admin costs. OTOH, they are making search inefficient, but that's easy to fix: just show those books last. Problem solved. It may actually be cheaper than trying to purge all the dross from the store and the associated hassle.
Hmmmm. Interesting. That's how Google deprecated old blogs in search.
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"And Amazon, especially, above all other companies, likes to make money efficiently."
Well, except that Amazon *doesn't* make money. It posts a loss, a HUGE loss, year after year after year.
Personally, I wish they'd start charging "authors" to upload their books. Not a lot, mind you, just *enough* that some people might think twice about uploading that written-in-two-days "masterpiece." Because right now, the big problem is, there's no downside to uploading book after book after book, hoping someone will accidentally buy a few copies before any reviews are posted. And the *better* self-pubbers will merely see it as a reasonable cost of doing business, like hiring a copy editor and purchasing cover art. The truth is, the better self-pubbers would benefit greatly from anything that might reduce the size of the shit volcano they're all drowning in.
In the meantime, I blame the loudmouth self-pub gurus (I think we all know who they are), who've realized they could make MUCH more money selling the Dream of Self-Publishing to special snowflakes than they ever used to make selling average traditionally published genre novels. Those are the people at the top of the Ponzi scheme convincing endless naive newcomers to enter the fray (and, oh yeah, buy Mr Guru's ADP books while they're at it, because Mr Guru really "cares" about every one of you aspiring authorpreneurs, honest!)


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Golden retriever nurses miniature horse back to health
By Steve Daniels
WINGATE, NC (WTVD) -- Molly and Sammy are an unlikely duo that are getting international attention.
Sammy is a miniature horse and a Molly is a Golden Retriever. Molly has been nursing the ailing horse back to health at the Carolina Equine Rescue and Assistance in Wingate, North Carolina.
Darlene Kindle posted a video of their friendship and it's gone viral. People have viewed it nearly 300,000 times on Facebook.
"Molly truly has an exceptional sense of knowing when one of the animals doesn't feel good or sad," said Kindle. "So she very gently introduces herself. This is her job and she is very good at it."
Kindle said Sammy was nothing but "skin and bones and scared" when he was discovered roaming the streets of South Carolina.
She said she was initially told that Sammy should be euthanized but that Sammy continues to improve, thanks to Molly's kindness.
His appetite is growing for food and water and his personality as a "love bug" is emerging.
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Sitting at home watching Australian Ninja Warrior last year, Jett Kenny wanted in.
Not content unless he's challenging himself, the accomplished young surf lifesaver and model sees Australian Ninja Warrior as a chance to put his body to the test to find out its limits and capabilities.
The youngest child of Australia's former sporting golden couple Lisa Curry and Grant Kenny, Jett's sporting pedigree is second to none. Both parents are former Olympians - Grant a 1984 Bronze medallist - and international medal winners in swimming, kayaking and Iron Man competitions.
Jett competes in surf life saving at a national level and says he loves the ocean best when it's rough and wild. He's at home doing extreme activities – if he's not training he gets bored.
Mum Lisa is incredibly proud of Jett and will be cheering him on from the sidelines. She says she's given Jett some training and diet tips and says she wishes she could turn the clock back 25 years so she could give the course her all.
Having grown up in such a fitness-focussed family, Jett is ultra competitive and not happy with a race unless he has won. It's this focus and sheer determination to succeed that he believes will set him apart on the Ninja Warrior course.


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CIO at London CIV resigns
Paulina Pielichata
Mark Thompson resigned as CIO of London CIV due to personal reasons, a spokeswoman said. It is effective immediately.
Mr. Thompson joined London CIV at the start of September. Mr. Thompson replaced Michael Pratten, who has been acting as interim CIO.
The £19 billion ($23.7 billion) London CIV, a pool of 32 local government pension schemes, will focus on finding both an interim and permanent CIO following Mr. Thompson's departure, the spokeswoman said.
"I am not ready for a return to a full-time and demanding role and I cannot therefore commit fully to the London CIV," Mr. Thompson said in a news release. "I currently intend to follow a path away from a full-time executive role to spend more time with my family. In no way is this a reflection of London CIV and its objectives. In my short time at the London CIV, I have been impressed by the talented and hardworking individuals, who share a common goal of meeting the company's objectives for its clients."
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A Telescope that Gives India a New Place in the Sun
Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.
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An attempt to make sense of anything in the Solar System cannot happen without first acknowledging the presence, and effects, of the Sun at its centre. And in an effort to expand this understanding, the Udaipur Solar Observatory, Rajasthan, recently added a versatile telescope to its line-up.
The USO is part of a network of six observatories on Earth, a network that continuously monitors activities on the Sun's surface to determine why solar flares occur and what their impacts are. Flares are violent ejections of particles, heat and magnetic energy by the Sun. Even if Earth's magnetic field constantly keeps the particles from coming too close, satellites are constantly under threat of being struck by them, disrupting electronic communications. Flares also intensify auroras around latitudes close to the poles.
On June 16, the new Multi Application Solar Telescope was flagged off. According to ISRO, it significantly expands the observatory's capabilities and makes for a versatile tool with which to study the Sun's complex magnetic fields. Its setup was funded by the Department of Space under the Ministry of Science and Technology. In addition to helping astronomers study solar eruptions, MAST will also complement the existing GREGOR and SOLAR B telescopes, both also studying the Sun. GREGOR is located on the Canary Islands and is operated by Germany while SOLAR B, now called Hinode, is in a sun-synchronous orbit in space and was launched by the Japanese space agency in 2006.
MAST is a Gregorian-Coude telescope with an aperture of 50 cm. The Gregorian in its genus alludes to the use of a combination of lenses and mirrors in a telescope in which the final image is not upside-down but upright. The coude – French for elbow – is a structural arrangement where the observation deck doesn't move when the telescope does.
A proposal for MAST was first pitched by USO in 2004, the optical elements were fabricated in 2008 and the telescope was installed in 2012 following which it underwent testing. USO itself is situated in the middle of Lake Fatehsagar in Udaipur, and its location proved apt for MAST as well. When a telescope on land makes an observation, the light it receives will be distorted by the hot air it passes through. The hotter the air is, often because of the surface underneath, the more the distortion. But in the middle of a lake, the distortion is minimised because air above the lake is relatively cooler and less prone to 'dancing' around.
In the next five years, MAST hopes to help obtain a 3D image of the Sun's atmosphere during times of increased activity. When particles are accelerated to high energies, solar spots form, and magnetic fields whip through in strange patterns. Even if these patterns are recognisable, many of their causes and effects are unknown while periodic shifts in their intensity and distribution are known to be associated with different phases of a star's life of billions of years.
Images taken by MAST during tests. Top row: Chromospheric (left) and photospheric (right) images of a sunspot taken in H-alpha and G-band wavelengths. The sunspot is part of an active region, taken on June 5, 2015 Bottom row: Chromospheric (left) image of a prominence seen off the solar limb in H-alpha and the corresponding photospheric (right) image in G-band wavelengths taken on June 5, 2015. Credit: ISRO
Researchers working on telescopes like MAST, GREGOR, BBSO, Hinode, the Solar Dynamics Observatory and others hope to collaborate and resolve these mysteries. The USO in particular hopes to use MAST to chart the directions of magnetic fields that move through the Sun's photosphere – its outermost layer from which sunlight emerges – and the chromosphere – the atmospheric layer right above the photosphere.
The observations it will make will also be beneficial to the ISRO's plans – for research as well as, and leading up to, space exploration. Effects of events that play out on the Sun's surface have consequences that reach well beyond the orbit of Pluto, shaping the composition and atmospheres of all planets on the way. In fact, it was thanks to a solar flare in March 2012 that humankind found out the Voyager 1 probe had exited the Solar System. So plans to chart the interplanetary oceans must accommodate the Sun's tantrums.
At the time of the GSLV Mk-III launcher's first test flight in December 2014, K. Radhakrishnan, who headed ISRO at the time, had said that the agency was envisaging a human spaceflight programme commencing in 2021, at the cost of Rs.12,400 crore. And to manufacture a space-borne capsule that is 'human-ready', it must just as well be 'Sun-proof'. The knowledge necessary for such engineering will siphon data from MAST as well as ADITYA and the NASA STEREO telescopes.
Note: This article was updated to include that heightened solar activity intensifies auroras not just in the northern latitudes but in the southern latitudes as well.
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Less cloak and dagger and more a young, energetic, global representative for American values and freedom, Steinem leveraged her underwriting to attend international youth festivals organized and otherwise ideologically dominated by America's adversaries.
Strange as it may seem, Steinem's personal views and CIA political goals aligned. Her brand of social revolution, promoted by American tax dollars, was meant to counter Soviet-sponsored revolutionary messaging. Public funds were intended to slow the Soviet scourge while showing America's alternative democratic face.
Drone-launched bombs carry a less subtle American message to today's targets. Given global challenges and threats, the CIA is put into a more difficult and militarized role than in the past. The Agency's own overreach and mistakes have created a new vulnerability, further exacerbated by the publishing of Edward Snowden's stolen files.
Perhaps, Steinem's 1960s characterization of a "liberal, nonviolent and honorable" CIA was idealistic and self-serving, but there is no question that today's Agency is still necessary and wildly different. The 6,700 page U.S. Senate torture report is a good place to start when seeking to understand how different.
Agency problems do not end with enhanced interrogation techniques and spying on Senator Dianne Feinstein's Intelligence Committee's computers, or former CIA Director David Petraeus' personal mistakes and failed WMD analyses.
Heaped on to all the evidence of misdeeds are popular entertainment programs like "Homeland" which reveal the moral complexity and actionable ambiguity of intelligence operations and analysis.
It is no wonder that the CIA has detractors at home and abroad. The public is keenly aware of CIA missteps. The CIA itself is also aware. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell recently apologized publicly for the WMD debacle, and last year CIA Director John Brennan told senators he was sorry.
It is easy to focus on failures and forget the dangers and drudgery of intelligence gathering, or to take time to celebrate the varied, but mostly secret victories of a service working hard to defend America.
It is rare for the public to see a dramatic success like "Operation Neptune Spear," the codename for the Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
The world is in a dire period of greater global instability and conflict, with threats and challenges from Southeast Asia to Syria to borderless crime syndicates. In this environment, America needs more credible, analytic, insightful, accessible, high level and grassroots deep intelligence.
The American public may prefer to criticize or ignore the CIA's work, but it is better served by understanding the labor and limits of intelligence.
Political leaders need to support foreign intelligence activities, but assure they are checked and controlled. Mistakes will be made, and made worse by cover-ups or reactionary calls for excessive restraint.
She is celebrated anew for her personal and professional achievements, and she deserves recognition for her unapologetic service. Steinem doesn't regret her time as a spook, saying, "If I had a choice I would do it again." Would today's CIA have a place for someone like Gloria Steinem?
Markos Kounalakis is a research fellow at Central European University and visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. Contact him at markosstanford.edu and follow him on Twitter KounalakisM. He wrote this for the Sacramento Bee.


1994 Myrina, Lemnos, Pantelidio Megaro.
2001 Nicosia Cyprus, Opus 39 Gallery.
2010 Kontias, Lemnos, National Gallery of contemporary Balkan art (retrospective).
2012 Barcelona, Corretger 5 Gallery.
He has participated in numerous group shows in Greece and internationally.


The stock market... and maybe even the entire global economy, is due for a possible correction.
"..the most broadly overvalued moment in market history."
Now that we've established that a correction might be in our near future, what will people do if a stock market crash happens? The answer: Sell, sell, sell.
Where Do People Put Their Cash After Selling Off Stocks?
Does it shock you to see farmland? If you think about it, it's almost a perfect hedge against currencies changing value; farmland will always have value, and will usually retain or increase its value over time at a steady pace. The utility of farmland is what sets it apart from any speculative value associated with other types of real estate.
Of the choices in the above list, almost all pundits agree that gold and other precious metals are the "gold standard" when it comes to moving your money to a safe haven.
I've been trading and investing in crypto-currencies since 2013. Here's my observation about the people that were posting on discussion forums; a lot of them were previously enthusiastic about gold and silver and now they were investigating crypto-currencies as a possible alternative to fiat-backed currency.
Understand that these are just my own labels, and it's done only with respect for the reasoning behind each one of these camps.
The "Libertarian" gold and silver fans were the ones I saw posting on crypto-currency chat forums, and they were very much interested in the possibility of having a currency that was not subject to the political whims of a government. It was (and is) a noble viewpoint for motivating a person to investigate crypto-currency, and that crowd still dominates more than one online forum.
The "Financial Defense" fans were more pragmatic, and were interested in whether a crypto-currency could somehow be tied to gold, silver, or other precious metal prices, represent bullion, or otherwise serve as a mechanism for efficient buying and selling of these hedge assets outside the mainstream regulated market channels.
Sometimes individuals were both - they were interested in crypto-currency for its own sake, and also for the possibility of trading in gold or silver.
Why is Gold Considered the Best Safe Haven Historically?
To answer this question, and also understand why some investors are reluctant to look at US treasury bills or the US dollar as a defense against an economic downturn, you have to understand a little about the history of money itself.
Money was originally established sometime around 2500 BC, and most money was denominated in precious-metal based coins that contained an inherent value of gold, silver, or copper.
Counter-party money is a recent phenomenon. The term "counter party" means that one person is handing you a paper IOU that says that "I owe you this amount."
Then things started to change. Banks began issuing bank notes instead of coins in the 1600's in Europe; and in colonial America, the new government was the first to issue paper money as IOUs.
1933: No More Gold Standard. To stimulate the economy in the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt cut the dollar's guarantee of gold redemption. 10 While economic historians give this decision credit for getting the US out of the Great Depression, it also ushered in an era where paper dollars were no longer viewed as "credit" extended by the populace to the government, but instead as a currency backed by the full faith and taxing authority of the federal government.
What If Something Happens to US Credit?
That's the whole point of gold. While safe haven assets protect against economic downturn, gold also has the ability to protect against governmental collapse. In the United States, we don't think about this possibility; but in other third-world countries, the collapse of a national currency can be a very real threat.
Can XRP Serve the Same Purpose as Gold?
Gold has no counter-party risk. Once you own it, it has an inherent value and utility to others. There is a demand for it, and there is a market for it.
XRP has no counter-party risk. Once you own it, it has a market value ascribed by those that trade in crypto-currencies, and by those that use it for its utility.
There is a limited supply of gold in the world.
Is XRP Better than Gold?
You have to decide that for yourself. It's a store of value. XRP's scalability, transactions per second, banking adoption numbers, and network utility dwarf anything else that crypto-currency has to offer. 12 It can be traded instantly across the world and converted into other world currencies.
Once purchased, it can be stored securely and accessed only by the owner via a cryptographic key.
XRP is not dependent on the world economy or on the continued existence of a specific government; it exists in a distributed network that doesn't rely on any one person or organization.
And it might just be the best new safe haven asset.


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First days in Indonesia!
Monday, September 8th, 2014 by Mike Thaison
Indonesia has so far been nothing but fantastic. We were picked up at the airport, served food and had some beers. The toughest part so far has been trying to get used to the climate. It´s around 30 degrees Celsius and the humidity is comparable to a waterfall.
Even though communicating is quite hard sometimes we´ve had our fair share of laughter and language lessons. Some of us have reached the level of saying hi and thank you. Some still struggle.
Loudly Loud have been awesome at taking care of us. They have welcomed us in their houses, they have served us homecooked meals and so great at taking care of us. But they are nothing compared to the audience that took us in. Together we dance, mosh, yelled obscenities and have a great effin time! All in the heat.
There is really no way to describe how warm it is down here, we did the first two shows in small venues without AC filled to the brim with metal and metallovers. Once the gig was over we were literary soaked. It was as if someone thrown us in to a swimming pool and beat the shit out of us.
Afterwards when we were trying to get our breaths back the fans flocked. Everyone wanted to take a picture, talk about the mind-blowing experience of seeing a band that play music with their bodies for the first time.
It was also really fun to see all the other bands playing, before us 29 acts had been playing. Most of them only played two songs and were quite inexperienced. But it´s great to see that there is a venue where small up-and-coming bands can get stage time. The metal scene in Indonesia is quite brutal already and I think that in a few years we will see an explosion in great bands!
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HCO Bs are Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins. They document the "tech" of Scientology - procedures for auditing and training.
August 3, 1956: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Organizational Health Chart '.
August 20, 1956: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'HGC Procedure of Aug. 20 '.
September 24, 1956: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Organizational Indoctrination '.
September 26, 1956: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Registrar '.
October 4, 1956: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'High School Indoctrination'.
October 15, 1956: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Summary Research Project'.
October 26, 1956: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'HPA/HCA Training Processes '.
November 9, 1956: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Activities of Legal Department '.
November 9, 1956: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Accounting Department, Washington '.
November 15, 1956: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'HGC Preclear Complaints '.


Addition designed to complement 2-year-olds, offer variety to buyers.
Keeneland has expanded the April Sale, which traditionally features only 2-year-olds in training, to include horses of racing age this year, the Lexington operation announced Jan. 30.
The April Sale is scheduled for April 9, immediately following the spring meet opening weekend that kicks off April 4. Headlining the nine stakes that weekend are the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2) and $500,000 Central Bank Ashland Stakes (G1), both classic prep races.
Entry deadline for the online horses of racing age catalog is March 15, and entries for the 2-year-olds in training catalog close Feb. 1. Supplemental entries will be accepted after both deadlines.
Keeneland conducted the April 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale from 1993-2014. At the 2014 April Sale, the auction house sold 38 head for a total of $8,769,000 and an average of $230,763, including future champions Lady Eli and Roy H. The sale topper, a Malibu Moon colt out of Tap Your Heels, the dam of Tapit , brought $1 million. The sale has been on hiatus since then.