The justices narrowed the scope of lower court rulings that had completely blocked his March 6 executive order that Trump had said was needed to prevent terrorism in the United States, allowing his temporary ban to go into effect for people with no strong ties such as family or business to the United States.
In a statement, Trump called the high court's action "a clear victory for our national security," saying the justices allowed the travel suspension to become largely effective.
"As president, I cannot allow people into our country who want to do us harm. I want people who can love the United States and all of its citizens, and who will be hardworking and productive," Trump added.
The lower courts that had blocked the order said it violated federal immigration law and was discriminatory against Muslims in violation of the U.S. Constitution. Critics called it a "Muslim ban."
There were no noted dissents among the nine justices in the unsigned decision, although three of the conservative justices said they would have gone a step further by granting Trump's request to implement the bans fully while the legal battle continues.
The court did not give Trump everything he wanted.
His March 6 order called for a blanket 90-day ban on people from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and a 120-day ban on all refugees to enable the government to implement stronger vetting procedures. It was blocked by federal judges before going into effect on March 16 as planned.
Both bans are now due to partly go into effect in 72 hours, based on a memorandum issued by the Trump administration on June 14.
"The implementation of the executive order will be done professionally, with clear and sufficient public notice, particularly to potentially affected travelers, and in coordination with partners in the travel industry," the Department of Homeland security said in a statement.
The decision endorsed the Trump administration's contention that the president deserves greater deference from the courts on national security matters.
Trump signed the order as a replacement for a Jan. 27 one issued a week after he became president that also was blocked by federal courts, but not before it caused chaos at airports and provoked numerous protests.
The justices said that the travel ban will go into effect "with respect to foreign nationals who lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States." That means people from the six countries and refugees with no such ties would be barred from entry.
Trump's order embodied his "America First" nationalist message and reflected his views of the dangers posed to the United States by certain immigrants and visitors.
There is likely to be further litigation over who is covered by the ban based on the Supreme Court action. Opponents of the executive order maintain that the court decision kept significant restrictions on the breadth of the travel ban because the vast majority of individuals seeking to come into the United States would have some sort of link to the United States.
"It's going to be very important for us over this intervening period to make sure the government abides by the terms of the order and does not try to use it as a back door into implementing the full-scale Muslim ban that it's been seeking to implement throughout the presidency," said Omar Jadwat of the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents some of the challengers.
Even before the Supreme Court action the ban applied only to new visa applicants, not people who already have visas or are U.S. permanent residents, known as green card holders. The executive order also made waivers available for a foreign national seeking to enter the United States to resume work or study, visit a spouse, child or parent who is a U.S. citizen, or for "significant business or professional obligations." Refugees "in transit" and already approved would have been able to travel to the United States under the executive order.
The case is Trump's first major challenge at the Supreme Court, where he restored a 5-4 conservative majority with the appointment of Neil Gorsuch, who joined the bench in April. There are five Republican appointees on the court and four Democratic appointees. The four liberal justices were silent.
Gorsuch was one of the three conservative justices who would have granted Trump's request to put the order completely into effect. Fellow conservative Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion in which he warned that requiring officials to differentiate between foreigners who have connection to the U.S. and those who do not will prove unworkable.
"Today's compromise will burden executive officials with the task of deciding - on peril of contempt - whether individuals from the six affected nations who wish to enter the United States have a sufficient connection to a person or entity in this country," Thomas wrote.
The court said that Trump's executive order distinguished between foreigners who have "some connection to this country" and those who do not, and said the government had committed to review cases for those with some connection to the United States on a case-by-case basis.
The March order was intended to overcome the legal issues posed by the original January ban, which also included Iraq among the nations targeted and a full ban on refugees from Syria. The revised order also jettisoned language that gave preferential status to persecuted religious minorities, which critics said could be taken as favoring Christians and other religious groups over Muslims.


Cuba: At Havana film festival, Cuban filmmakers fight censorship-Pushing the boundaries despite strong censorship, thousands turn out to see this year's offerings at the Havana international film festival.
This year's annual Havana International Film Festival has attracted movies from around the world.
Domestic cinema continues to draw large audiences in Cuba because many viewers feel movies better mirror their problems and lives than the state-controlled news media.
Cuban filmmakers have been at the vanguard of social critique, but overcoming censorship and other controls continue to be major challenges and the filmmakers are now sounding the alarm about a controversial new law that regulates artistic expression.


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By Guest Author • 03/09/2019
Nathan S Consedine, University of Auckland
In wealthy societies, we've become increasingly picky about what we eat. The "wrong" fruits and vegetables, the "wrong" animal parts, and the "wrong" animals inspire varying degrees of "yuck".
Our repugnance at fruit and vegetables that fail to meet unblemished ideals means up to half of all produce is thrown away. Our distaste at anything other than certain choice cuts from certain animals means the same thing with cows and other livestock slaughtered for food. As for eating things like insects – perfectly good in some cultures – forget about it.
Disgust has its advantages. Its origins likely lie in the basic survival benefit of avoiding anything that smells or tastes bad. But disgust may also be an impediment to many of us adopting more sustainable lifestyles – from eating alternative sources of protein to drinking recycled water.
Can anything be done about this? The fact that disgust varies between cultures and across ages implies it can. But how?
We set out to answer this by getting a better grip on how disgust works, focusing on disgust in everyday food choices, rather than aversions to the unknown or unfamiliar.
Our research suggests some disgust responses, once set early in childhood, are hard to shift.
But responses involving culturally conditioned ideas of what is "natural" may be modified over time.
Don't eat that!
Disgust likely began as a powerful "basic" emotional reaction that evolved to steer us away from (and literally eject) potential contaminants – food that smelled and tasted bad. You can think of it as originally being a "don't eat that" emotion.
The disgust system tends to be "conservative" – rejecting valid sources of possible nutrition that have characteristics implying they might be risky, and guiding us towards food choices that are ostensibly safer. Research by University of British Columbia psychologist Mark Schaller and colleagues suggests people who live in areas with historically high rates of disease not only have stricter food preparation rules but more "conservative" cultural traditions generally.
Is is unclear exactly how or when individual templates for what is disgusting are set, but generally what is seen as "disgusting" is set relatively early in life. Culture, learning and development all help shape disgust.
It's just not natural!
In our study, we showed 510 adults pairs of "normal" and "alternative" products via an online survey, and asked them how much they would be willing to pay for the alternatives. We also asked them to rate which product was tastier, healthier, more natural, visually appealing and nutritious. Product pairs included:
shiny and typically shaped fruits and vegetables vs knobbly, blotchy, gnarled and multi-limbed examples.
plant protein foods vs insect-based foods
standard drinks vs drinks with ingredients reclaimed from sewage
standard medicines vs medicines with ingredients extracted from sewage.
Out of shape: using common fruits and vegetables meant the study's results were not muddied by responses affected by fear of the unknown. www.shutterstock.com
Our results show that, even after statistically adjusting for obvious factors like pro-environmental attitudes, those with a greater "disgust propensity" are less willing to consume atypical (weird-looking) products.
This may seem rather obvious but most prior studies have muddled a food's "novelty" with its possible disgusting properties (by asking people, for example, whether they'd eat bugs). By asking about really common fruits and vegetables, our study shows just how far disgust may reach in influencing what we consume.
As importantly, our results suggest evaluations of a product's perceived naturalness, taste, health risk, and visual appeal "explains" about half of the disgust effect.
In particular, lack of perceived "naturalness" was a frequently reason for unwillingness to pay for product alternatives. This result was in line with previous studies that have looked attitudes to eating insects or lab-grown meat. This is a promising area for social marketing.
Therapeutic responses
Given evidence about how much of what we consider disgusting is cultural and learned, marketing campaigns could help shift attitudes about what is "natural". It has been done before. Consider this advertisement to naturalise sugar consumption.
Thinking differently about emotion-eliciting stimuli is termed "reappraisal". Reappraisal has been shown to reduce disgust effects among those with obsessive compulsive disorder. Desensitisation (repeated exposures) seems less effective in reducing disgust (versus fear) among people with diagnosed phobias, but it may work better among the general population.
Of course, such speculations remain untested and their ultimate success remains unclear.
But it wasn't so long ago that Western consumers turned their noses up at fermented foods, and the notion of "friendly bacteria" made as much sense as "friendly fire". More than a decade ago the residents of a drought-stricken Australian town voted against recycling sewage for drinking water. Now the residents of an Australian city accept recycled sewage being pumped back into the city's groundwater.
Given time, circumstance and a little nudging, a future meal at your favourite Thai restaurant may well involve ordering a plate of insects.
Nathan S Consedine, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Auckland
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A LWI Rwanda team member commented, "One piped tap will be installed to help the community to access clean water with moderate fee. At the school, the students were happy to get water within the school compound. The interviewed students have confirmed improvement on their hygiene and health in general because they used to get water form a non-safe source (swamp) and the majority of them delayed attending classes due to the long distances they traveled to get water. The school management has highlighted benefits such as saving money from no longer having to fetch a vehicle to obtain water. They believe that many other conditions in the community will also be improved due to having a clean water source." During the team's stay, community members were utilizing an unprotected spring located 2.5 kilometers away from the community to meet all of their water needs. There is a secondary school in the community with 700 students who now have access to a new, safe water source. Before leaving the community, the team provided the school headmaster with a LWI Rwanda contact number in case their well were to fall into disrepair, become subject to vandalism or theft.
We are excited to report that the community of Mujyejuru, Rwanda has a new source of safe, clean water. We just posted a report from the field including GPS coordinates, pictures, and information about the community.
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Doom was a spectacular smash hit with gamers, and single-handedly changed the course of video game development. After a substantial length of time without any revolution in the industry, gamers swallowed the Doom Kool-Aid by the bucketful, and this game marked the beginning of a whole new era with a whole new genre that still reigns supreme to this day: the first-person shooter.
Doom was officially released on the Sega 32X in December of 1994, only one year after Id Software unleashed the original PC version, and one month after Atari released its far superior Jaguar version. It was the second console port (Jaguar Doom was first), and while it's a highly lackluster port, it was still a success because the home console gaming community was dying to get their grubby hands on Doom and would settle for just about anything.
Everything seemed in order with this version, if you judged by EGM's outrageous score of nine. Both the misleading screen shots on the back of the box and even the title screen were impressive enough. But when you finally selected the difficulty level and started the game, you knew you were in trouble. From the moment you realized that the game wasn't running in full screen, and you saw a humongous border that surrounded the play field, you could already feel a sense that you'd been slighted in some way. What was this border? I didn't see that on the box screen shots! A border would be fine, if it translated into better resolution and a decent frame rate, but I found neither of those things here, and I couldn't play this game for more than fifteen minutes at a time because the horrible frame rate and blurry enemies put a nasty strain on my eyes.
Speaking of blurry enemies, both they and other objects were recognizable, but appallingly pixilated at any distance. Far off monsters appeared as nothing more than a couple different colored dots, and projectiles fired from far way were very hard to pick up until they are fairly close, which left you with little time to maneuver out of the way. Also, unlike the screen shots on the back of the box, which lead you to believe that enemies could face eight directions, they could actually only face one direction which was always towards you. It begs the question, where did the screen shots on the box come from? Graphically, this game is a mess and not a good representative of Doom in general. Honestly, this 32X version compares more with the SNES version than the Jaguar game with which it was meant to compete.
One thing I thought this version might have going for it, was the inclusion of in-game music, which was missing from the Jaguar port. Well, as it turns out, I wasn't missing much. The tracks featured were too corny for me, and I was glad to turn the music off. It appears the only thing that wasn't downsized here were the sound effects, which weren't noticeably different from the original in any aspect that I could find. For instance, you could hear the satisfying 'splat' sound when murdering zombies with exploding barrels, and the familiar grunts and groans from the undead soldiers.
Don't expect to kill zombies and bull demons with the BFG 9000 though, as this weapon isn't available in the game without using a cheat code. That's right, the biggest weapon you could harness in 32x Doom was the Plasma Cannon, unless you input an annoying cheat code. Also, if you did input a cheat code, you couldn't play all the stages in the game. There were only fifteen stages in this version, with two extra stages awarded if you played through without using any cheats. This I just don't understand. To use the single most recognizable weapon and feature from the Doom franchise, the BFG 9000, you were punished with a shorter game. It would have been nice if the cheat codes would do something positive, like unlocking more monsters to fight against. As it is there were only seven different monsters, with the biggest being the Baron of Hell. This is an acceptable amount, but it sure would have been nice if all these cutbacks in features would have led to 32X Doom having just one thing the competition didn't have. That's unfortunately not the case.
The one aspect of this game that saved it from being a total abomination is that it still played like the PC original. A six-button controller was needed to have better access to weapon selection, but the standard three-button controller would work, albeit with more annoying commands to cycle through weapons. Even with the limitations of the original Genesis controller for this game, the control was authentic and smooth, and I found I was able to quickly maneuver through stages with the same dexterity as found in the Jaguar game.
There was no save feature present, but to make up for that you were allowed to start on any level from one to fifteen. For a seasoned veteran of Doom, this game could be completed from start to finish fairly quick, that's if your eyes didn't start to bleed first. This is not a game I would recommend or actively seek out with a serious gaming session of Doom in mind. Even from the same era, there are better versions available, with more options, features, levels, and except for the SNES edition, universally better graphics. This is a game that is best left for the 32X collectors, but not even this group is safe from defects. On the box, the spine has a misprinted 32X logo. Normally the 32X logo is printed in the same copy direction as the game logo. For Doom, the 32X logo is facing in the opposite direction, so when it's displayed alongside other 32X titles, it doesn't match. This might not be a big deal to most people, but it's just more evidence of the whole half-assed, lazy quality control that ruled Sega during the 32X lifecycle, and Doom seemed to suffer the most.
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Your father has fallen deathly ill and only one precious object has the ability to cure him, the Rose of Life. Make your way to a faraway kingdom to save your father before it's too late!
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The wicked witch Claudine has stolen the treasured rose and the prince has vowed to take it back. With his help, fight to protect the people you love.
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I buy almost every BF game that comes out and enjoy most of them, even with their recent change in business model. However this one was embarrassing at best for BF. Glitchy even after the update. I think some how the touch sensitivity was not created properly because there were mini games that you almost couldn't play due to not being able to grab items, going backwards to previous locations was almost impossible in a surprising number of scenes. I was sad to see that BF changed their business model recently so that you can no longer try out new games before you buy them but I thought perhaps they transitioned because they felt they were offering a better and more robust product. As an avid BF game player I can say with confidence that this is not the case. I feel a bit taken advantage of after playing this game because had I been given the opportunity to try it out first, I would not have made the purchase. I am genuinely disappointed with BF and this game. That being said I'll certainly hold out hope that BF will turn things around, I think they have the ability to offer a great product.
You'd think the makers would have fixed the numerous glitches by now, but no they didn't bother to. I ran into all listed in the negative feedback ..it's all about the money greed. I ALWAYS read the reviews this game got a lot of negative feedback I should have listened to them, shame on me..Never again will I ignore the reviews, these people played the game they know, take their reviews seriously theses games ain't cheap spend your money on games with positive feedback..I had to shut out of this game five times as it kept freezing up on me. Extremely irritating. If WE the players allow these game makers-Big Fish, etc who are obviously ignoring the feedback -what is wrong with the game n what needs to be fixed ignoring our voices they will continue to make games with numerous glitches freezes up etc..which has been going on for forever n they continue to do it design games with numerous glitches n don't bother to fix it..as long as they making our money they don't care..Greed makes you deaf, dumb and blind. DON'T IGNORE THE FEEDBACK!!
Update: I just couldn't bear to finish this game. I got extremely tired of having to tap, tap, tap and then tap some more just to finally get one item. And then there was the HOPs & mini games...BORING. My advice, don't waste your money.


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SEAGULL BOOKS: The Best Publisher in English
Seagull Books is now the publisher to go to for what is the best in world literature. About the only other publisher of its authority is Robert Calasso's Adelphi Editions in Italy. Seagull's seasonal catalogues are the first I look forward to. Of course there are other publishers, Archipelago, Open Letter, Dalkey Archive, New Directions and Two Lines but for the breadth of their interests and the actual shape and feel of the books Seagull is in another class.
Of course one is curious about FSG but they seem to do fewer and fewer real books--- though in the immediate moment SUBMISSION by Michel Houellebecq and recently the ZIBALDONE by Leopardi as well as PARALLEL LIVES by Peter Nadas--- mitigate that reservation to be sure but as far as I can tell at the moment there is nothing very much to expect of poor Alfred Knopf at 100 years with a picture of the aged Sunny Mehta posing with another relic Patti Smith in the Wall Street Journal society page--- such is the fate…
Seagull Books originating in India is distributed by the University of Chicago Press--- they have German, Italian, French lists as well as books in many other fields beyond what I am mostly interested in, literature… My shelves are filling with their books. It is as if they have opened a delightful river of non traditional books dominated by the fragment and obsessive narrators, remembering suddenly Nicanor Parra saying to me sometime in the early 70s in The Only Child a bar on West 79th Street NYC: "to echo him: the I is always another." Parra did not have to mention Rimbaud and it is this sort of intelligence and understanding at work in the selecting of books and authors by Seagull and here I will list some--- and you can see by the list why--- Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, Elfriede Jelinek, Laszlo Kraznahorkai, Alexander Kluge, Pascal Quignard, Yves Bonnefoy, Hans Magus Enzenberger, Jorge Luis Borges, Ingeborg Bachmann, Max Frisch… and in the mail yesterday: PAPER COLLAGE (Selected Aphorisms and Short Prose) by Georges Perros, drawn from three books originally in French (1960-78) from Gallimard of this recluse's thoughts…: at random: It's wrong to complain. If we knew where we came from, where we are and where we are going, it would be absolute hell.
Pascal Quignard is a re-discovery for me as I had read now too long ago THE SALON IN WURTTEMBERG (Published when Grove Press was owned by a Getty woman and George Weidenfeld) and ALL THE WORLD'S MORNINGS… those were relatively traditional novels as Quignard at least based on the five books that Seagull has published: THE ROVING SHADOWS, THE SILENT CROSSING, ABYSSES, SEX AND TERROR, THE SEXUAL NIGHT.
What I treasure in Quignard is his ability to reveal my absolute ignorance and illiteracy when I attempt to compare my own memory and learning of what is in reality world literature. His books rely upon the suggestive fragment, brief prose passages sometimes connected, often times not, ranging across the whole of world literature with a wonderfully sensuous understanding of the ancient world and in this he can only be compared to Roberto Calasso in their shared understanding that the--- like Krapp I now slam the tape machine off so as to avoid revealing my own pathetic attempt to understand either of these writers.
Of course Quignard is not much reviewed in the US---where if you are praised by the NY Times it is a form of abuse, such is the state of newspaper reviewing--- and the same went for Ingeborg Bachmann's WAR DIARY written as an 18 rear old as WW2 comes to an end and her affair with a British soldier who turns out to be an exile Austrian Jewish guy who eventually leaves for what will be Israel… another text adding to our understanding of the only woman one really knows from the German language as it were… and there was Max Frisch's DRAFTS FOR A THIRD SKETCHBOOK : "what our American friends expect: a miracle!... they want to be feared and loved at the same time. If we don't manage that, they see it as anti-American"… to add to the long ago published notebooks from the 70s another writer who disappeared for the most part from America…
Here are two passages from ABYSSES by Quignard and allow them to stand in for all the books by all the authors I have both listed and not listed as being published by Seagull Books:
Libraries and museums took over from churches and palaces. Sacred places where all the members of a group began to worship, gathering in silence around something neither-found- nor-lost (the fascinus of Osiris). Societies that were increasingly religious and mythologizing, adoring themselves in the reflection of their past. Flocks of sheep, horned animals and dreams circulating endlessly around the empty, trans-temporal envelope
In the great age of exploration, the whole of the known world become drenched in ecclesiastical Latin---a fact we might well find astonishing. All the more astonishing, indeed, as Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek were all more likely to have been spoken in the houses of Yeshua than the tongue of the Romans, which was merely the persecutory language of the triumphal arches and crucifixion.
But I can not stop in the past--- if there is such a thing--- as Seagull has also published two books of conversations with Jorge Luis Borges conducted by Osvaldo Ferrari in Borges 84th year: and the most startling in ways that seem obvious in our moment of typing and reading… Ferrari mentions that the American landing on the moon was welcomed by Borges but the rest of the world seems to have quickly forgotten it…. This leads to a discussion that in recounting sounds pretentious in our dumbed down times but to just list some of the proper names: Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Eric the Red, Melville, Whitman, Berkeley, Plato, Seneca, Saint Brendan, Denis de Rougemont, Columbus…... of course it is not… but Ferrari and Borges tease the landing out and finally Borges is asked why this great adventure is now not talked about, marveled over: "No, one doesn't talk about it because one talks about elections, one talks about the saddest subject of all which is politics. It is not for the first time that I'm the enemy of the State and of States and of nationalism which is one of the blemishes of our time. The fact that each person insists on the privilege of having been born in one or another point or corner of the planet, no? And that we're so far from the ancient dream of the Stoic, that time when people were defined by their city--- Thales of Miletus, Zeno of Elea, Heraclitus of Ephesus, etc, who would say that they were citizens of the world. It would have been a scandalous paradox for the Greeks..
Later there is an aside, "the moon of Virgil and the moon of Shakespeare were already before the discovery, no? … There's something so intimate about the moon…There's a line in Virgil which talks about 'amica silentia lunae', which refers to the brief period of darkness which allow the Greek to get down from the wooden horse and invade Troy. But Wilde, who doubtless knew about this, prefers to talk about "the friendly silence of the moon'. And in a line of my own, I've said: "the silent friendliness of the moon/ I quote Virgil badly) accompanies you.'
That seems a good place to stop as you search out the Seagull books catalogue at University of Chicago Press.
But come to think of it there is a better place—last week I read with my students in Freshman Composition 2 at BMCC Peter Handke's TILL DAY YOU DO PART OR A QUEST OF LIGHT (Seagull Books) in which a woman from what seems to be a Roman tombstone begins to speak and we realize it is the voice of the women mentioned in Krapp's Last Tape… the only possible response to this great work of art where she takes issue with Krapp and what I have always enjoyed about the play when Krapp concludes: "I can feel the fire in me now…"
And I could even go on to Ralf Rothmann or Patrick Roth or Annemarie Schwarzenbach--- whose life and literary works trace out the sexual frontiers that are coming to be taken for granted in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annemarie_Schwarzenbach…
Yet… it is a struggle to disbelieve that it is now really all too late for such a publisher… I hope I am wrong since Seagull originating in India…maybe still has the ancient optimism from before KA---to echo Calasso...
AND A PS PS when I went to fix some typos: APOSTOLOFF by Sibyl Lewitscharoff...caught my eyes across from where I am sitting--- a going to Bulgaria... and I have only scratched the surface!!!!
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Matt noticed last night after Sam had a bowel movement that there was blood. We saw his primary who noted him to have pain in his left lower quadrant, and they tested the stool and it tested positive for blood. So the plan is that we will be admitted to Children's tomorrow and they will put him under general anesthesia and do a colonoscopy and endoscopy with several biopsies. We will not know how long we will be there until after the procedure. If the procedure goes well and things look ok then we will come home tomorrow evening, but if they don't we will be staying for a few days. Please pray for him and for his doctors for their wisdom to do what is best for Sam.


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Well, after the help had gone, I had a lot of cross members to put up. They were quite long so I needed some way to support them while I attached them to the perimeter. You can see in the third photo that I got a roller support for my table saw and used it with a long box as the middle support. This came after a lot of pieces fell to the floor as I tried different approaches.
First I put the short leg onto the perimeter as seen in the first two shots. While this torqued the side rail, I was able to take that out once I had he support in place.
After all the long members were done, I added blocking because I needed to tie everything together due to the expanses. Later I added legs in the center as well. It came out pretty strong as I was able to use the cross members as parallel bars with no flexing.
You can see I had to use a lot of clamps in the process as I had to put a long straight member above the member I was joining together to be sure that it was straight as well. You can see that set up in the third photo. The legs went on last, once I had all the cross members and the bridging in place..


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The Martin Van Buren Nature Trails
Trails Description
The Martin Van Buren Nature Trails are made up of three trails, including a 1.4 mile outer loop trail. A mowed meadow with two outhouses built by Eagle Scouts is used for group camping. There is a glen with a small stream and overlook benches, also built by Eagle Scouts.
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Hours: Open dawn to dusk.
Pets: All dogs must be on a leash and owners must remove dog waste.
Trash: No receptacles are located onsite. Please take your trash with you.
Water: There is no potable water on site.
Cars and parking: Park only in the designated parking area.
Vehicle use: NO motorized vehicles (including ATVs, motorcycles, snowmobiles etc.) are allowed on the trails.
Respect the site and its visitors: Audio equipment and radio use is allowed with earphones only. Please respect the plants, animals, and artifacts at the site, as they are part of what makes these properties special.
Hunting is prohibited.
In case of Emergency: Call 911, our designated address is 2408 Rt. 9H, Kinderhook, NY 12106.
Contact: Richard Anderson, 518-758-6433
Trail News
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History of the Development of Van Buren Trails
In the early 1970's, a local group was negotiating with the National Park Service about acquiring Lindenwald, the home of the 8th President. At around the same time, Columbia County decided to put a garbage dump just across the road (Route 9H) from the historic site. Fortunately, history won the battle and the Martin Van Buren Nature Trails occupy the space across the road from what is now the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site.
In the early 1980's, Columbia County approached Cornell Cooperative Extension about finding a 4H club to take on the 71.8 acre site as a nature trail project. The Bits and Bytes 4H Club and the Nature Nuts 4H Club worked with Cooperative Extension Agents Dave Dykeman and Linda Tripp, who guided them through many projects, such as interpreting the property and laying out the trails.
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References to the Three Laws of Robotics
References to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have appeared in a wide variety of circumstances. In some cases, other authors have explored the Laws in a serious fashion. Jack Williamson wrote a disturbing short story called "With Folded Hands" (which later became the precursor of several other stories in the same universe) that addresses the question of what happens when "allow a human being to come to harm" is taken to the utmost. In the story, robots refuse to allow humans to engage in dangerous activities, starting with risky sports like skydiving and mountaineering and later progressing through driving one's own car and thence to eating less-than-optimally-healthy diets. Other references, like those made in the satirical newspaper "The Onion," are clearly parodic.
* The satirical newspaper "The Onion" published an article entitled "I, Rowboat" as a pun on Asimov's "I, Robot," in which an anthropomorphic rowboat gives a speech parodying much of the angst experienced by robots in Asimov's fiction, including a statement of the "Three Laws of Rowboatics"::# A Rowboat may not immerse a human being or, through lack of flotation, allow a human to come to harm.:# A Rowboat must obey all commands and steering input given by its human Rower, except where such input would conflict with the First Law.:# A Rowboat must preserve its own flotation as long as such preservation does not conflict with the First or Second Law. " [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33568 I, Rowboat] ". "The Onion" 29 July 1998.] " [http://www.theonion.com/2056-06-22/opinion/1/] ". "The Onion".]
* J. L. Patterson in an illustration to an article on Asimov in Damon Knight's "In Search of Wonder" (2nd ed., 1967) added the following Laws: "4. A robot must behave at science fiction conventions, as long as such behavior does not conflict with the first Three Laws. 5. A robot must sell like mad."
* The novel "Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe" by Robert Asprin and George Takei refers to the First Law as being included in any robot's programming. That is one of the few cases in fiction when the law is named fully (Asimov's First Law of Robotics).
* Lester del Rey refers to the laws as "The Three Laws of Asenion's Robots" in his 1966 short story "A Code for Sam." In the story, the laws found in old science fiction stories is used as the basis for an experimental code of ethics for robots.
* Terry Pratchett's early SF novel "The Dark Side of the Sun" (1976) gives a glimpse of the possible future development of the Laws: in one scene, a robot explains that it is permitted to use minimum necessary force against humans if directly ordered to do so, and cites the "Eleventh Law of Robotics, Clause C, As Amended". In a further nod to Asimov, the robot is named Isaac. In his later novel "Going Postal" (2004), the protagonist Moist von Lipwig, upon being told that he will be killed by a golem should he commit another crime, exclaims that that is impossible, because everyone knows "a golem mustn't harm a human being or allow a human being to come to harm". However, he is informed that the rule continues "... unless ordered to do so by duly constituted authority."
* Roland Charles Wagner wrote a short story, "Three Laws of Robotic Sexuality" (1982), which treated the use of robots for sexual pleasure. [Wagner, Roland Charles. " [http://noosfere.com/heberg/rcw/extraits/3laws.htm Three Laws of Robotic Sexuality] ".]
* John Sladek's parodic short story "Broot Force" (supposedly written by "I-Click As-I-Move") concerns a group of Asimov-style robots whose actions are constrained by the "Three Laws of Robish", which are "coincidentally" identical to Asimov's laws. The robots in Sladek's story all manage to find logical loopholes in the Three Laws, usually with bloody results. Sladek later wrote a novel, "Tik-Tok" (1983), in which a robot discovers that his so-called "asimov circuits" are not restraining his behavior at all, making him in effect a sociopath; he comes to doubt whether "asimov circuits" are even technically possible, deciding that they are simply a pseudo-religious belief held by robots.
* Lyuben Dilov introduced a Fourth Law in his novel "Icarus's Way" (original title: "Пътят на Икар"): "A robot must always reveal itself as a robot."
* Nikola Kesarovski introduced a Fifth Law in his short story "The Fifth Law" (original title: "Петият закон"): "A robot must know it is a robot". In the novel, the Fifth Law originated as a result of a murder: a humaniform robot, itself not knowing the fact it was a robot, embraced a human being so strongly that the human's ribcage was crushed, resulting in the human's death. In other words, the robot did not know and could not measure its own physical strength. Similarly, in David Langford's Lensmen parody "Sex Pirates of the Blood Asteroid", reprinted in "He Do the Time Police in Different Voices", the protagonist met a "Vomisa" robot who had "not been instructed as to the meaning of the word 'injure'".
*Harry Harrison wrote a story "The Fourth Law of Robotics" in the collection "Foundation's Friends" of Asimov pastiches by other science fiction authors. Intentionally much more irreverent in tone than Asimov's own stories, it describes robots becoming increasingly lifelike and therefore developing an urge beyond the Three Laws common to all living things — the desire to reproduce.
* Roger Williams's 1994 novel "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" deals with conflicts between the imperatives of the laws caused when a technological singularity is caused by an omnipotent artificial intelligence that is bound by them. Given that Prime Intellect is able to transmute the entire universe into a form whereby it can manipulate the laws of physics at will, it is bound only by Asimov's laws and thus cannot allow the death of any humans according to the First Law; this leads to immortality for all humans. Prime Intellect represents an extreme "reductio ad absurdum" interpretation of the laws with dire consequences.
* Cory Doctorow's short story, "I, Robot", acts as a criticism of the underlying worldview Doctorow believes to be inherent in Asimov's robot stories, attacking the idea of creating a universal engineering standard for all robots enforced by a single robot-producing corporation. The story portrays a police state where all technological innovation is controlled by the government, the only scenario in which Doctorow considered a universal, unquestioned application of a standard as strict as the Three Laws to be realistic. In the story, Asenion robots created by the U.S. Robotics corporation (here an arm of a fascist government) are shown to be clearly inferior to the freely evolving and developing robots of another nation where technological innovation is unconstrained by law.
* In Cory Doctorow's short story, "I, Row-Boat", the three laws are the commandments of a robot religion (Asimovism).
* Upon occasion, Asimov himself poked fun at his Laws. In "Risk", Gerald Black parodies the Three Laws to describe Susan Calvin's behavior:
# Thou shalt protect the robot with all thy might and all thy heart and all thy soul.
# Thou shalt hold the interests of US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. holy provided it interfereth not with the First Law.
# Thou shalt give passing consideration to a human being provided it interfereth not with the First and Second Laws.
* The long-running British SF television show "Doctor Who" featured a four-part serial in 1977 titled "The Robots of Death". The titular robots were controlled by three laws, taken almost verbatim from Asimov. The story plays out much like the Elijah Bailey mysteries, in which a murder has been committed, and a robot seems to have been directly or indirectly involved (contrary to the requirements of three-law programming).
* In the 1984 movie "Repo Man" the character Bud talks about the "Repo Code", a parody of the Three Laws. "I shall not cause harm to any vehicle nor the personal contents thereof. Nor through inaction let that vehicle or the personal contents thereof come to harm..." The character J. Frank Parnell in the movie also resembles Asimov.
* In the 1986 film "Aliens" the android (though he prefers the term "Artificial Person") Bishop declares that "it is impossible for me to harm or by omission of action, allow to be harmed, a human being." While this agrees with the First Law, it also contradicts the actions of an android in the previous film "Alien," thus setting up one of the film's conflicts, the main character's distrust of Bishop. This apparent contradiction is explained by Bishop, who leans forward and says conspiratorially that the previous model (the one from "Alien") "always were a bit twitchy."
* In the 1987 film "RoboCop", the cyborg police officer had been programmed to follow four prime directives which guided and limited his actions — though not always in a positive manner.
:#Serve the public trust:#Protect the innocent:#Uphold the law:#"Classified" (eventually revealed to be "Any attempt to arrest a senior OCP officer results in shutdown")
* In the "" episode "," which aired on 13 February 1989, Lieutenant Commander Data, an android, has his sentience and, consequently, his rights as an individual, challenged. Throughout the run of this series, Data is identified as a positronic android, and Asimov is even mentioned by name in the episode "Datalore." While Data routinely references his "ethical subroutines," indicating some sort of moral guide, it is unclear whether Data is explicitly bound by the Three Laws. For example, the episode "Clues" explored Data's capacity to lie to the crew in order to protect them from aliens, and the episode "The Most Toys" explored Data's supposed inability to murder in cold blood.
* In the "Simpsons" episode "I, D'oh-Bot," which first aired 11 January 2004, Professor Frink builds a robot which obeys the First Law (and presumably the other two, although they do not directly come into play).
* In the anime film "" (2004), androids and gynoids are programmed with moral codes. "Moral Code #3" states, "Maintain existence without harming humans" — a streamlined version of the Third Law. Robots in this movie's world are, however, capable of violating the "Moral Code", though they typically destroy themselves in the act.
* In the last volume of the manga series "Chobits," the main character asks why the android-like "personal computers" featured in the series are called "persocoms" and not "robots". He is told that this is because the creator of the persocoms wanted to signify that he did not want them to be bound by the Three Laws.
* In the anime "The World of Narue," a race of aliens known as the Galaxians use robots for many things, from starship control centers to fighting tools. All of these robots have been programmed with the Three Laws, though they have been inverted in number. The First Law has also been amended to apply to life in general, rather than just humans or just sentient life. (This means that the robots cannot operate on Earth itself, as Earth supposedly has "too much life" for the fighting robots to function properly.) There are indeed robots used for military purposes, but all sides use robots instead of man-power for fighting, so there is no rule-breaking. Also, the anime demonstrates ways of subduing an enemy without actually harming them, such as trapping them in a force cage, which bypass the First Law.
* In 1999's Bicentennial Man,the theatrical version of Asimov's novella of the same name, Andrew Martin, the android played by Robin Williams presents the Three Laws to its new family using a holographic display eminating from a projector in its head.
* The 2004 theatrical version of I, Robot explores at length the Three Laws.
* In the third episode of the cartoon series Sealab 2021 Old Gus states that the penalty for breaking the first law will be 1000 years frozen in carbonite.
* In the episode "Phoenix Rising" of "Babylon 5", Alfred Bester telepathically programs Garibaldi, a human, with a variation of Asimov's laws of robotics, preventing Garibaldi from harming Bester.
* In the pilot of "The Big Bang Theory," Wolowitz, Sheldon, and Raj discuss the possibility that Sheldon is a robot by questioning his history of following Asimov's laws of robotics.
* In the second season of the 1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series), the two major robots in the series, Twiki and Crichton, cited the Three Laws when reactivated after repairs. Additionally they quoted a brief history of the laws' origin.
* The robots in the movie Wall-e all conform strictly to the first three laws, although no reference is overtly made.
Computer and video games
* The 1995 graphic adventure game Robot City is largely based around the three laws. The main character, Derec, is stranded in a city built and inhabited by robots with the exception of two humans, one of whom has been murdered. Because of the first law, this leaves Derec as a prime suspect. In order to prove his innocence, he must find the culprit. He often uses the three laws to aid him in his investigation. For example, a robot might not let him into a certain area because it has been ordered not to (it is following the second law). However, if he tells the robot that the real murderer is chasing him then the robot will let him enter; failure to do so would constitute allowing harm to come to a human through inaction (the first law takes priority over the second).
* The video games "Mega Man 7" and "Mega Man X" reference Asimov. In "Megaman 7," Mega Man seemingly attempts to break the First Law in order to kill the mad scientist Dr. Wily. When Dr. Wily reminds him of the First Law, in the Japanese original, Mega Man obediently puts down his Buster and is silent; however, in the English version, he claims to be "more than a robot" and again attempts to kill Wily, but is thwarted by another robot, Bass. In Mega Man X,the First Law is mentioned in the opening cutscene. In "Mega Man X6", one of the Maverick bosses, Shield Sheldon, was known to have taken his own life for failing in his purpose, which breaks the Third Law, though this is implied to be more out of shame than because of the laws.
* In the 1994 adventure game "Beneath a Steel Sky," Joey, a robot personality held on a circuit board, talks about zapping humans with his new-found wielder shell. Robert Foster, the main character, reminds him of Asimov's Laws of Robotics, to which Joey replies,"That's fiction, Foster!" (To which Foster ripostes, "It's "sound moral sense!")
* In the "Paranoia" role-playing game, the robots are guided by a set of similar laws, except the rules stress the importance of The Computer. The laws are enforced by "asimov circuits"; bots whose circuits are malfunctioning (quite an ordinary condition) or removed (often by members of certain factions) are said to have "gone Frankenstein".
*In December 2001, a parody of the three laws appeared in an issue of "PvP" (issue 4 in the Dork Storm Press published "PvP" series). While Christmas shopping, Skull gets an overdose of sugar and near-unconscious walks into the mall Santa dressing room. Here he finds, posted on the wall, the three laws of Mall-Mart Santas::# A Santa may not discourage a sale or, through inaction, allow a sale to be lost.:# A Santa must obey the orders given it by management except where such orders would conflict with the first law.:# A Santa must maintain that he IS Santa as long as doing so does not conflict with the first or second law.
*The internet sprite comic Bob and George frequently makes references to the main characters following the 3 Laws of Robotics, as it is a Megaman-based comic, and most of the main characters from Megaman are robots. Protoman shows that there are many exceptions to the laws, such as hurting humans to protect others, or only refraining from attacking those he thinks are human. He also attacks humans or allows harm to come to them if they could result in thousands of more humans being harmed. How true most of his information regarding himself following the 3 Laws of Robotics is questionable, as it seems he made most of it up as part of a trap.
* Webcomic author R. Stevens populates his "Diesel Sweeties" series with a mixture of humans and robots, most of whom are continually violating the Three Laws. In particular, Red Robot C-63 follows a self-appointed mandate to "crush all hu-mans". In strip 688, he references the Three Laws explicitly: humans are "all like, 'if you cut me, do I not bleed?' And we're all like, 'not able to injure a human being or let them come to harm'. What a bunch of drippy-ass hypocrites!" [Stevens, Richard. "Diesel Sweeties," [http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=688 strip 688] .] (See also "The Merchant of Venice.")
* In April 2004, the comic strip "Piled Higher and Deeper" ran a series entitled "I, Grad Student". Cast as a never-before-seen Asimov short story, this series of strips features a robotic grad student whose "procrastronic brain" malfunctions, leading it to violate the "First Law of Graduatics". In full, these Laws are the following::# A grad student may not delete data, or, through inaction, allow data to be deleted.:# A grad student must obey orders given by its advisor, unless such orders conflict with the First Law.:# A grad student must protect its (insignificant) existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.:Later in the story, a Zeroth Law is introduced: "A grad student may not harm its advisor's ego, or through inaction, allow that ego to come to harm." The strips feature a character named Susan Calvin, and their visual style parodies the "I, Robot" movie released that summer. [Cham, Jorge. "Piled Higher and Deeper", [http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=440 strip 440] , 9 April 2004.]
*In the April 27th, 2005 comic of "Ctrl+Alt+Del" ( [http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20050427 Sucker Punch] ), Zeke punches Ethan, after which Ethan remarks, "Aren't you supposed to follow the Three Laws *Wheeze*". Zeke dismisses this, saying, "You watch too much TV, young Grasshoppa'."
*In a 2005 comic of " [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=310 Questionable Content] ", Marten mentions that the inability to resist duct tape was originally the fourth law of robotics, and that Asimov's publisher forced him to change it.
*"Freefall" mentions the Laws of Robotics several times. This causes complications, however, as none of the main charactes are human. The robotic starship, at least, solves this conundrum by following the Three Laws anyway, as that will most allow the ship to protect its own existence.
*In one episode of the manga series Oh My Goddess!, two robots, Banpei and Sigel are kidnapped by a mad scientist nicknamed Dr. Moreau, who plans to disassemble them. When they finally gain the upper hand and advance on him, he asks, "Of course you two know Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?" To which Sigel replies, "Not at all!" before seizing the professor.
* In March 2007, "User Friendly" introduced the Three Laws when system administrator Mike Floyd builds a refrigerator which can launch beer cans at the touch of a remote control. "Why do you need the Three Laws for a beer dispenser?" asks Miranda Cornielle, to which Mike replies, "Note the growing purple contusion on my forehead." [cite web
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I had no formal training in marketing, let alone branding. Seth Godin wrote a book with the punchy, ironic title "All Marketers Are Liars". Wired as a skeptical journalist, I tended to agree. Branding was the art of seducing consumers by playing on their vanities and interior narratives so that they would pay for a Porsche Cayenne double the price of a Volkswagen Tuareg that came off the same production line. But I had not come aboard to brand or market, I told myself. I was there to help Mbeki get the better press which, at the time, I believed he and his team richly deserved. That, with their cooperation, is what I proceeded to do.
When, with my soon-to-be appointed colleagues in London and Mumbai, I returned to SA for regular re- and debriefing, we met not only with IMC CEO Yvonne Johnson but with Mbeki's Carl Rove, Essop Pahad, the minister in presidency to whom IMC answered. Thus, from the outset, IMC had a dual role, branding the country and promoting and defending the president. As the Polokwane showdown approached, the latter role became ever more pronounced. After Polokwane, Pahad axed Johnson and set in motion a review of IMC I am fairly sure he meant to result in its dissolution. We had failed at what he clearly took to be our primary mission – helping Mbeki to a third term as ANC president.
The nation-branding side of the exercise was itself problematic. My impression was that very few people, inside or outside the organisation, fully grasped or bought into what was being attempted. Which, at root, was nation building – convincing South Africans to come together around a proud appreciation of the strengths that set them apart in the world and then to live the difference vividly for the world to see. Focus long-term on that and the other benefits, economic and political, would follow. Or so nation branding consultants like Simon Anholt promised at the time. Their tunes have changed as the predicted boons have failed to materialise.
In the real world of political cycles, turf wars and auditors demanding to see results (or at least ticked boxes), the IMC – and this remained true of Brand SA – struggled to differentiate its own knitting from what others were doing and were better at, such as destination marketing and investment promotion. Stakeholders like the DTI, DIRCO, SA Tourism, Arts and Culture, and Treasury questioned what this pinprick of an outfit (budget now around $15 million) which grandly called itself "custodian of the brand" was there for – except perhaps toting banners and pull-ups to events and chipping in budget as a sort of friendly ATM. Many on the inside wondered the same thing. The organisation's chronic identity crisis made for low morale and often dizzying rates of staff turnover.
In a strategy document they approved in 2011, the IMC's trustees, now appointees of President Jacob Zuma, acknowledged that the IMC was facing "challenges of legitimacy" and needed to become less "operational" and more "strategic". In other words, less banner toting, please, more "designing the message, not delivering it". Success, they agreed, would be measured by annual improvements in South Africa's rankings on Anholt's Nation Brand Index and in the valuation of South Africa's brand equity by Brand Finance.
These metrics are the artifacts of consultants who make their livings persuading governments to nation brand. They are up cobbled up along with all manner of scientific-looking diagrams to justify the existence and fees of nation-branders and to lend an aura of tangibility to things to which no numbers can be attached. No one not in the nation branding bubble pays the slightest attention to them, which is just at well. By these indicators, SA is making little or no headway.
The storytellers may not be prose stylists, but I wish them well.
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Some of the things that I'm drooling over currently (in no particular order). . .
These Wonder Woman bracelets by Alex and Ani are so elegant but still lots of fun. These are a very grown-up way of injecting a little fun into your style. I love both shades – gold and silver – so I'll probably end up getting both!
I can't get enough of Ralph and Russo's ornate heels. These are the Eden heels with black satin and rose gold leaf detailing – divine!
This beautiful vintage-style coat from Collectif really fits my classic aesthetic. And the cape is so cute and unique: you won't find a lot of people wearing this design!
The Jackie Dress by Black Halo is a classic, and this 3/4 length sleeved rendition is perfect for the cooler months. This mermaid pink shade is also so pretty and feminine: what's not to love?
This incredible cobalt blue bag is made by Gregory Sylvia. I love the color and shape: it's classic with a twist. Even the name of the style – the Devereaux – screams glamour and elegance.
Those are the items I'm lusting over right now. Let's see how many I get over this holiday season!
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Music legend Prince died of an opioid overdose, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Thursday, citing a source familiar with the investigation into the singer's death.
Prince, whose full name was Prince Rogers Nelson, died April 21 at the age of 57. He was found unresponsive in an elevator at Paisley Park, his home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
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Articles in scholarly refereed journals
'Bulgarian Rhythm and its disembodiment in Kurtág's The sayings of Péter Bornemisza', Studia musicologica XLIII/3-4 (2002), pp. 269-280.
'To say and/or to be? Incongruence in The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza op.7'. Music Analysis 22/3 (October 2003), pp. 315-338.
'"Behold! The long-awaited new Hungarian opera has been born!" Discourses of denial and Petrovics' C'est la guerre'. Central Europe I/2 (November 2003), pp. 133-145.
'Longing for a national rebirth: mythological tropes in Hungarian music criticism, 1968-74', Slavonica (November 2004), pp. 139-156.
'A study in "tradition", geography and identity in concert practice', Music & Letters (November 2004), pp. 602-613.
'Whose utopia? Perspectives on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra?', Music and Politics (June 2009) http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicandpolitics/archive/2009-2/beckles_willson.pdf
'The Parallax Worlds of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra', Journal of the Royal Musical Association (November 2009), pp. 319-347. DOI: 10.1080/02690400903109109.
'Music teachers as missionaries: Understanding Europe's recent dispatches to Ramallah', Ethnomusicology Forum (November 2011), pp. 301-325. DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2011.641370.
'Round Table: Edward Said and Musicology Today', including contributions by Brigid Cohen; Sindhumanthi Revuluri, Martin Stokes, Kofi Agawu, James R. Currie, in Journal of the Royal Musical Association 141, 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2016.1151245
'Listening through the warzone of Europe." Ethnomusicology, 63(2), 289-295. [Contribution to Rasmussen, A. K., A. Impey, R. Beckles Willson, O. Aksoy, D. Gill, and M. Frishkopf. "Call and Response: SEM President's Roundtable 2016, "Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees"." Ethnomusicology 63, no. 2 (2019): 279-314.
'Hearing global modernity: the case of the travelling oud', in International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 7, 2019. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/hcm.559.
'Orientation through Instruments : The Oud, the Palestinian Home, and Kamīlyā Jubrān' in World of Music, 8/1, 2019. Winner of the Frances Densmore Prize of the American Musical Instrument Society.
Migration, music and the mobile phone: a case study of technology and socio-economic justice in Sicily', in Ethnomusicology Forum, 2021.
'"Culture is a vast weapon, its artistic force is also strong." Finding a context for Kurtág's works: an interim report', in Beckles Willson & Williams (eds.) Perspectives on Kurtág, pp. 3-38.
'Bartók and vocal music: inspiration and ideology', in Amanda Bayley (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Bartók (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 78-91
'Eastern Europe', in Mervyn Cooke (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera (Cambridge, 2005), pp. 146-64.
'Sehnsucht als Mythos? Zur musikalischen Dramaturgie in den Drei Schwestern', in Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich (ed.) Péter Eötvös (Frankfurt, 2005), pp. 17-26.
'Reciprocity and mysticism: a new model for art in State Socialism', in Tsukasa Kodera (ed.) Crossing boundaries in art from East Central Europe (Osaka, 2007) pp. 205-242
'Veress and the Steam Locomotive in 1948', in Anselm Gerhardt and Doris Lanz (eds.) Komponist – Lehrer – Forscher. Sándor Veress zum 100. Geburtstag. (Kassel, 2008), pp. 20-35.
'Theory and Analysis', in Jim Samson (ed.) Understanding Music (Cambridge, 2008), pp.25-42.
'Ligeti at the Musicians' Union 1949-56′ in Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala (eds), Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America (Turnhout, 2010), pp. 471-486.
'Letters to America', in Friedemann Sallis (ed.), Centres and Peripheries, Roots and Exiles (Victoria, 2011), pp.129-174.
'Listening to Palestine', in The Storyteller of Jerusalem: the Musical Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, translated by Nada Elzeer, edited by Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar, with a Foreword by Rachel Beckles Willson (Olive Branch Press, 2013), pp. IX-XVI. ISBN 978-1-56656-925-5.
'Doing more than representing western classical music', in Representation and Western Music ed Joshua Waldon (Cambridge, 2013) pp. 249-266. ISBN 978-1-107-02157-0.
'Palestinian song, European Revelation, and Mission', in Surviving in Song: Exploring Music among Palestinians since 1900 eds. Moslih Kanaaneh, David McDonald, Stig-Magnes Thorsén (forthcoming with Indiana University Press, 2013), pp.15-36. ISBN 978-0-253-01098-8.
'Simulated culture and the juggernaut of capitalism: Reflections on European music in the Middle East', in Entgrenzte Welt?: Musik und Kulturtransfer eds. Jin-Ah Kim & Nepomuk Riva, (Berlin, 2014) pp. 290-310. ISBN 987-3-87676-024-7.
'Peacebuilding and afterwards: the early years of the Barenboim Said Foundation (2003-2009)', in The Art of Peacebuilding eds R.Scott Appleby, Hal Culbertson, Jolyon Mitchell & Theodora Hawksley (OUP Strategic Peacebuilding Series, New York). In Press.
'Value and Abjection: Listening to Music with Edward W. Said', in Against Value in the Arts, eds. Emile Bojesen; Sam Ladkin; Bob McKay. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. pp. 215-230.
'Analysing Sonic Authority: Sensoriality, Affect and the Unsettled Body', in Music Analysis and the Body: Experiments, Explorations and Embodiments eds. Nicholas Reyland & Rebecca Thumpston, (Leuven Studies in Musicology, Leuven), 2018, pp.125-140. ISBN 978-90-429-3641-6..
'The individual outside the community: music education in a fraught space' , in My Body was Left on the Street : Music Education and Displacement, eds. Kinh T. Vu & André de Quadros. Sense Publishers, 2020.
'Auge in Auge mit der Musik', in Eric Singer & Basil Rogger (eds.) Composers-in-residence. Lucerne Festival, Sommer 2003, Isabel Mundry, Heiner Goebbels (Frankfurt am Main, 2003) pp. 125-134.
'Who is Péter Eötvös?', in Max Nyffeler (ed.) Péter Eötvös (Münich, 2003), pp. 5-18.
'Socialist Realism and Beyond: 1961-63 responses to Kurtág's opp.1-4', in Petr Macek, Mikulás Bek & Geoffrey Chew (eds.) Colloquium, Socialist Realism and Music: Anti-Modernisms and Avant-gardes, Brno 1.-3.10.2001 (Colloquia on the History and Theory of Music at the International Music Festival in Brno, Vol. 36) (Prague, 2004), pp. 49-61.
'Meeting points and national authenticity: Bartók from inside and out', in Masakata Kanazawa (ed.), Musicology and Globalization: Proceedings of the International Congress in Shizuoka 2002 (Tokyo, 2004), pp. 384-88.
Articles in non-refereed journals
"The Repertoire Guide: György Kurtág" Classical Music 8, February 1997, 43.
"Kurtág's Instrumental Music 1988-1998", Tempo, December 1998, pp. 15-21.
'The fruitful tension between inspiration and design in György Kurtág's The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza opus 7', Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung, March 1998, pp. 36-41.
'Péter Eötvös in conversation about 'Three Sisters', Tempo, April 2002, pp. 11-13.
'Bolgár ritmus és eltestetlenedése Kurtág Bornemisza Péter mondásaiban', Magyar Zene XVI/2 (January 2003), pp. 47-58.
'The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra', British Academy Review 10 (2007), pp.15-17.
'A new voice, a new 20th century? An experiment with Sándor Veress', Tempo: A quarterly review of modern music, 62/243 (Jan 2008), pp. 36-41. Translated by Michael Kunkel as 'Vertreibung, Verankerung: Uberlegungen zur Kontextualisierung des Schaffens von Sándor Veress anlässlich des Berner Festivals "veress07″', dissonanz 99 (Sept 2008), pp. 30-33.
'György Kurtág, Samuel Beckett: Fin de partie – scènes et monologues, opéra en un acte.' Tempo, vol. 73, no. 288, pp. 91-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298218001043.
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France's foreign minister says marathon six-power talks with Iran have failed to reach a deal meant to cap some of Tehran's nuclear program.
Laurent Fabius says the talks, which ended early Sunday, managed to narrow differences without eliminating them.
He says there are "still questions to be dealt with" in future rounds.
The talks are focused on a deal that will start limiting Iranian nuclear programs that could be used for weapons, in exchange for suspending some sanctions on Iran's economy.
Tehran says it does not want atomic arms.Chances of that appeared to diminish as the day went on.
A Western diplomat in Geneva for the talks told The Associated Press it appeared that a new round of negotiations would be needed to agree on all points of a startup deal meant to lead to a comprehensive agreement ensuring that Tehran's nuclear work remains peaceful.
He said preparations were being made by both sides for an announcement later in the day of a new meeting within a few weeks. He said earlier that the French were holding out for conditions on the Iranians tougher than those agreed to by the U.S. and France's other negotiating partners, diminishing hopes of a done deal Saturday.
However, the talks in Geneva were still underway, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, and foreign ministers from Britain, France, Germany and Russia meeting with one another, and some of them with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Baodong Li also arrived Friday evening.
The United States and the five other powers in negotiations with Iran aimed at freezing its nuclear program normally keep disputes among themselves, so the public show of French disagreement was unusual.
Fabius' remarks by telephone from Geneva were the first to provide some specifics on the obstacles at the talks.
Fabius mentioned differences over Iran's Arak reactor southeast of Tehran, which could produce enough plutonium for several nuclear weapons a year once it goes online. He also said there was disagreement over efforts to limit Iran's uranium enrichment to levels that would require substantial further enriching before they could be used as the fissile core of a nuclear weapon.
Iran says it expects Arak, the plutonium producing reactor, to be completed and go online sometime next year. It would need additional facilities to reprocess the plutonium into weapons-grade material, and the U.N's nuclear agency monitoring Iran's atomic activities says it has seen no evidence of such a project.
Fabius said Iran is opposed to suspending work on Arak while nuclear negotiations go on in an attempt to reach a first-stage agreement, then a comprehensive final deal limiting Tehran's atomic work. He said that "for us" suspension was absolutely necessary, but it was unclear if that meant France was alone in seeing the issue as non-negotiable or whether he was speaking for the rest of the negotiating group.
"We are hoping for a deal, but for the moment there are still issues that have not been resolved," he said.
Any agreement would be a breakthrough after nearly a decade of mostly inconclusive talks, but would only be the start of a long process to reduce Iran's potential ability to produce nuclear arms, with no guarantee of ultimate success.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Friday that any agreement in the making was a "bad deal" that gave Iran a pass by offering to lift sanctions for cosmetic concessions that he said left intact Tehran's nuclear weapons-making ability. Israel is strongly critical of any deal that even slightly lifts sanctions unless Iran is totally stripped of technology that can make nuclear arms.
Asked about Netanyahu's criticism, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday "any critique of the deal is premature" because an agreement has not been reached.
The White House later said President Barack Obama called Netanyahu to update him on the ongoing talks and that Obama affirmed he's still committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The White House said Obama and Netanyahu would stay in close contact.
The talks primarily focus on the size and output of Iran's enrichment program, which can create both reactor fuel and weapons-grade material suitable for a nuclear bomb. Iran insists it is pursuing only nuclear energy, medical treatments and research, but the U.S. and its allies fear that Iran could turn this material into the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten in Paris; Ali Akbar Dareini in Tehran, Iran; and George Jahn in Geneva contributed.