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The Space Age began in earnest fifty years ago, with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957. After that day, no one could think of the earth, and of space, in quite the same way again — though it took a long while for all the implications of the Soviet breakthrough to sink in.
The story of Sputnik is now a familiar one. In the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union pushed hard for an intercontinental missile in order to make up for the country's inability to mount a credible bomber threat against the United States. Because Soviet nuclear warheads were bulky, engineers made their new missile stronger than it needed to be. Sergey Korolev, the leader of the Russian missile team, knew such a rocket could also launch a satellite; Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was interested — but only after the weapon work was completed. By contrast, in the United States, missile research took a backseat to work on long-range bombers, and design teams — including one run by Wernher von Braun, the father of Nazi Germany's V-2 missile in World War II — were not given high priority, even though President Dwight D. Eisenhower had announced that America intended to launch a scientific satellite (using non-weaponized rockets) as part of an international scientific program.
After two successful long-range tests in August 1957, the Soviet military missile project was stopped in its tracks by the failure of the dummy warheads to survive fiery reentry into the atmosphere. Seizing the moment, Korolev's team hurriedly inserted a satellite mission with a simple and quickly assembled payload: Sputnik, a metal sphere about two feet in diameter, housing a radio transmitter. Even though the satellite's radio frequencies were announced in advance, the actual launch of this first man-made satellite came as a tremendous shock to complacent Westerners.
This story has been told many times in many ways, but perhaps never quite as dramatically as in Matthew Brzezinski's new book, Red Moon Rising. Written to mark the anniversary, and to bring the gripping scientific, political, and historical tale to life for a new generation, the book shows both the power and the limits of historical narratives about technical subjects. Compared with books published much closer to the event (my own Red Star in Orbit came out in 1981), Brzezinski's book is much richer in delightful detail, especially about the individuals involved in the earliest Soviet (and American) space efforts. But some crucial details — both political and scientific — are badly obscured in the telling, while others may be nothing more than dramatic reconstructions to set the mood for readers.
Because Sputnik was a milestone in the Cold War — a global clash between two political systems that, in turn, caused tremendous domestic political division in the United States — it should come as no surprise that Brzezinski's book is far from apolitical. Obligatory from-the-left slams at McCarthy pop up again and again. And sometimes, by amalgamating first-person narratives from space pioneers, Brzezinski — an accomplished newspaper correspondent and the nephew of Cold Warrior Zbigniew Brzezinski — adopts bizarre and inappropriate sympathies.
Take, for instance, the case of Khrushchev. Brzezinski, as omniscient narrator, makes Khrushchev a sympathetic character and comes to portray the world in Khrushchev's terms. "Khrushchev was unsettled by the rise to power of the Republican Party," Brzezinski writes, apparently disagreeing with the many historians who believe that the Soviet leaders saw the two U.S. political parties as Tweedledee and Tweedledum of the ruling classes. "John Foster Dulles," Brzezinski writes, "lurked dangerously behind the kind, grandfatherly façade of President Dwight D. Eisenhower." Brzezinski's relativism about American-Soviet cultural differences leads to a grating terminological irony when he describes how "Dulles purged the State Department of suspected liberals" — using the word purge as a slap not at the brutal masters of that art in all its bloodiest forms, but at their Cold War opponents, his own countrymen. Brzezinski engages in similar semantic dodging and weaving elsewhere: the North Koreans don't invade South Korea in 1950, they merely "cross the thirty-eighth parallel," (presumptively in some northeast-Asian wanderlust-inspired "walkabout") and there's no mention of the Americans the North Koreans killed in so doing.
Brzezinski's Khrushchev, stunned by the uprising in Hungary in October 1956, hesitates — and considers granting the nation's popular demand for freedom. But then, Brzezinski continues, came news of "the orgy of revenge" of "lynch mobs" roaming the streets of Budapest. Khrushchev "reversed course," issuing orders that led to the deaths of more than 30,000 Hungarians. This is a death toll several times that caused by the Nazi's V-2 rockets (not even counting the degree to which the V-2 project may have helped shorten the war by bankrupting German industry), a blood debt for which the author does not forgive von Braun. But for Khrushchev, the deaths in Hungary were water under the bridge — just the "cost of doing business," you might say — and Brzezinski drops the subject.
Political slants aside, Red Moon Rising dazzles with its intimate portraits of key events in the American-Soviet race for space. But for those familiar with the dramatic story of those years, the book also raises nagging questions and doubts about accuracy. Take this captivating depiction of a Soviet commission meeting in the summer of 1957:
One after another, Korolev fixed the commission members with long, livid looks. Fools, his eyes blazed, you stupid, shortsighted fools. Thirteen hard and hostile faces returned his angry gaze. From behind the thick stacks of telemetry readings and mission reports in front of each representative, a few smug and barely concealed smirks swirled amid the cigarette smoke and steaming glasses of sweet tea. For once, their satisfied expressions seemed to say, the arrogant Chief Designer wouldn't get his way. This time, he wasn't going to steamroll over anyone.
This is historical storytelling at its best. But on the very next page, Brzezinski makes passing mention of "the sparse historical record" of this meeting. And thereupon rises a specter of doubt — whence came the details, the revelations of inner thoughts and facial expressions, the minutiae that create so vivid a picture of that meeting half a century ago? How did the author find out such things? He does list one book (of unclear reliability) and alludes to a series of interviews, but still a reader might grow suspicious of how much is research, how much creative dramatization.
Elsewhere, in his description of the events surrounding both countries' announcement of satellite projects for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) beginning in mid-1957, Brzezinski does not handle the historical record carefully, misreporting the basic chronology of events, and conjuring up personal motivations he imagines must explain actions he has misrepresented or misunderstood. "A few weeks prior to the IGY's 1955 convention in Rome," he writes, "Radio Moscow announced that the Soviet Union would launch scientific instruments into space….In response, the National Academy of Sciences promptly declared that the United States would also send up a satellite to study the earth's protective cocoon."
That Radio Moscow broadcast, if it existed at all, seems to only be talking about "sounding rockets" — a research technique both the United States and the Soviet Union had already been using. As for the sequence of announcements of a satellite launching, Brzezinski got it completely backwards, as chronicled by space historian Asif Siddiqi:
The chain of events was set off on 29 July 1955 by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Press Secretary James C. Hagerty who announced at the White House that the United States would launch "small Earth-circling satellites" as part of its participation in the IGY. It was at this same time that the International Astronautical Federation was holding its Sixth International Astronautical Congress at Copenhagen, Denmark. Heading the Soviet delegation was [Leonid] Sedov and Kirill F. Ogorodnikov, the editor of a respected astronomy journal in the U.S.S.R. The two were called into action by an announcement on 2 August by Fred C. Durant III, the President of the congress, who reported the Eisenhower administration's intentions of launching a satellite during the IGY. Not to be outdone, Sedov convened a press conference the same day at the Soviet embassy in Copenhagen for about fifty journalists during which he announced that, "In my opinion, it will be possible to launch an artificial Earth satellite within the next two years." He added that "The realization of the Soviet project can be expected in the near future."
In other words, the American satellite announcement came first, and it was the Soviet side that, "not to be outdone," responded with an impromptu me-too claim. Brzezinski's tale may be dramatic, but it isn't true.
Throughout the book, such vivid yet dubious details keep popping up. Brzezinski writes floridly about the "shifting dunes" (later, the "windswept dunes") surrounding Tyura Tam, the desert rocket base from which Sputnik was launched — but I've been there numerous times and I can't recall any dunes: it's a dry steppe area with enough hardy brush cover to hold the ground in place quite securely. He tells of a missile crash that dramatically spreads debris "over a 250-mile radius" — except the report of that crash actually described a radius of 250 meters.
Although the book's vast notes section fully documents the impressive breadth of Brzezinski's research, his imagination seems to fill in the gaps in what he was able to learn from memoirs and interviews about the events leading up to the launch of Sputnik — the dramatic core of the book. And this causes him to make crucial errors in his technical descriptions. "Swaddled in a black velvet diaper" in the hangar, Brzezinski writes, "the little orb had spring-loaded antennae that dangled over the sides like electronic umbilical cords" — but Oleg Ivanovskiy, the engineer directly in charge of preparing Sputnik for launch, told me recently that the antennae were attached only after the sphere was mounted on the launch vehicle (a famous photo of Sputnik on a test stand, with antennae, was taken during initial assembly in Moscow). "The rocket was rolled out the following morning," Brzezinski continues — but according to Ivanovskiy, it was rolled out in the middle of the night, to avoid being seen by American spy planes. Once the rocket reached the launch pad, Brzezinski writes, a flaw was discovered with one of Sputnik's batteries, and the needed corrections were made there on the pad — but Ivanovskiy told me in detail how the power flaw was detected in ground checks inside the assembly building, and fixed there, since once it reached the pad, Sputnik was covered by its nose cone and was inaccessible. Perhaps such discrepancies are to be expected — eyewitnesses will differ in their half-century-old recollections, no doubt — but in such cases, a chronicler needs to describe contending versions, not pick one and assert it with narrative certainty.
Of course, the launch was dramatic, and some measure of artistic license can be forgiven. (I am certainly never entirely rational when up close and personal with big rocket launches.) But nonetheless, the limits of Brzezinski's understanding of spaceflight — and the shallowness of the technical editing of his book — are disappointing. At one point in his account of the launch, he describes a 19.9 second period during which "momentum had carried the missile…another one hundred miles higher." But at an orbital speed of five miles per second, Sputnik was moving not vertically higher, but horizontally farther to the east — its actual altitude hardly changing at all in that interval. Would such a speed harm the satellite, Brzezinski asks, "succumbing to the friction of slamming through the dense lower atmosphere at nearly 25,000 feet per second?" But the rocket actually first rose vertically to clear the thicker layers of the atmosphere before then pitching over to the horizontal flight path on which it accelerated to its final speed — well above the threat of air friction.
These many factual infelicities raise questions about the technical credibility of Red Moon Rising. Still, the book's truly magnificent narrative style and the otherwise impressive research that clearly went into it are surely sufficient to merit a respectful reception. Perhaps the book is best seen as a poetical rendition of historical fact — something akin to the Iliad's rendering of the historical Trojan War: a tale with gods and demons and friendships and enmities, an explanatory creation myth for the Space Age. It may not be a definitive history, but its literary value, providing us with a common myth, can unite and inspire, and help us appreciate the human dimensions of this literally highest-ever expression of human creativity.
Beyond Earth
James E. Oberg is a writer and consultant in Houston. A 22-year veteran of NASA mission control, he is the author of numerous books on space, the most recent of which is Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside the U.S.-Russian Space Alliance (2001).
James E. Oberg, "Launching the Space Age," The New Atlantis, Number 18, Fall 2007, pp. 81-86.


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Exploring the effects of population change on the costs of physician services
Denton, Frank T.
Spencer, Byron G.
Frank Trevor Denton
Byron Grant Spencer
The effects of population aging on future health care costs are an important public policy concern in many countries. We focus in this paper on physician services and investigate how changes in the size and age distribution of a population can affect the aggregate and per capita costs of such services. The principal data set (unpublished, for Ontario) provides information about payments to physicians, by age and sex of patients. Using it, we derive age/cost profiles for 19 categories of physicians. Adopting an index-theoretic framework, we then use the profiles to analyse the "pure" effects of population change (historical or projected) on physician costs, and to decompose the effects into population growth effects and population aging effects. We present calculations for Ontario, for the populations of 15 industrialized countries, and for four theoretical populations.
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Denton, Frank T. & Gafni, Amiram & Spencer, Byron G., 2002. "Exploring the effects of population change on the costs of physician services," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 21(5), pages 781-803, September.
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EDWARDS: Judging 'The Australian of the 1990s'
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As flagged earlier this week, The Public Apology editors have decided that it is time to crown THE Australian of the 1990s. We have deemed two contenders – cricket legend Shane Warne and INXS frontman Michael Hutchence – worthy of dueling it out for the honour. In this piece, TPA founder Dave Edwards provides a comparative analysis of the two icons, awarding each individual a score (out of 100) for their impact across a range of categories. Read on to find out who he believes is THE Australian of the 1990s…
MASTERY OF CRAFT:
Warne's dominance is well-known among cricket aficionados. As legendary cricket/business writer Gideon Haigh wrote in his brilliant tome, On Warne, the leg-spinner was "for two decades, the best at something there has ever been." Put simply, he made the ball sing, while maintaining the control of a symphonic conductor.
It is perhaps appropriate, given the comparative analysis with one of Australia's finest musicians, to consider Warne in the same way. I doubt that Warne is at all musically inclined; in fact, I'd strongly wager that he has never picked up a musical instrument in his life.
But in any event, were we to consider him within that musical paradigm, Warne would likely be a self-taught virtuoso. He would have no idea how to read sheet music, nor would he have any knowledge of basic musical theory. Indeed, formal music training would only stifle his creativity and individuality – and he would likely sneer at anyone who indulged in such a thirst for knowledge.
He would be, in short, a modern-day Guiliani – the 18th Century guitar virtuoso who dabbled in both flute and violin on his way to composing some 300 works for both guitar and instrumental combinations.
Beethoven, the great composer himself, was taken aback by Guiliani's ability to simultaneously play both harmony and counterpoint, in essence transforming the guitar – a singular instrument – into "a mini orchestra." Many former leg-spinners have, too, marveled in disbelief at Warne's virtuosity; his ability to make the ball sing a cacophony of sounds.
Guiliani, a self-taught virtuoso
Hutchence, on the other hand, was less of a craftsman and more of a performer. He did not play an instrument, but he was certainly, singularly, the true representation of 'INXS'. Vocally, in this writer's opinion, he had excellent control and a smooth, energetic, funk-driven delivery. But it was on the stage where he truly excelled. Jagger-like swagger.
Hutchence was a "package deal" – the sum of his parts. Unlike Warne, whose spin-bowling, with its loop, spin and autistic-like accuracy, set him apart from his contemporaries and marked him as the Greatest Ever, Hutchence just put everything together. The look, the vocals, the lyrics, the hair, the magnetic sexuality.
Warne had a "look", too, but it rarely screamed sexuality – well, not in a good way, anyway. I mean, he certainly liked sex, perhaps needed it, and was not afraid to beg for it. But that's not the same.
With Hutchence, the sex came to him, usually served on a silver platter with a few neatly chopped lines of coke on the side. Delicioso.
SCORE: WARNE 95, HUTCHENCE 80
GLOBAL APPEAL:
Hutchence was a global phenomenon. Warne was too, but, tellingly, he never made it in America.
Obviously there is no market for Warne's craft – spin bowling – in the Americas. And it's not like he invested his time and money in trying to crack the North American market, like Robbie Williams, for example. He was more like the British band Blur, in that he never really tried to.
But in the colonial footprint that is the international cricketing market, however, he was nothing short of a deity.
Blur, part of the 90s Brit Pop explosion
When INXS exploded onto the international stage, having skipped foreplay on its way to fiercely penetrating the American market, they were shiny and new – part of the emerging, status-quo-challenging New Wave movement. This "new-ness" seemed almost frighteningly modern. The eclectic, angular sounds and sexually charged lyrics dared listeners to either embrace it or fuck off.
Warne's own international breakthrough smash hit, of course, came in the form of his Gatting Ball. Before this delivery, Warne was simply a bloated, bleached-haired youngster with a shit-tonne of potential. Upon his bamboozlement of arguably England's finest batsman – during a pretty bleak era for England, admittedly – Warne transcended. He became an international phenomenon, much like INXS did upon releasing the 1987 album Kick.
But in terms of true global penetration, figuratively and sexually, you cannot go past Hutch.
COMMERCIAL SUCCESS AND DOMINANCE:
If we're going to judge these two individuals by their impact in the 1990s, then we should quickly look at their respective achievements during that period.
It must be noted that INXS was at their commercial peak from 1984's The Swing to 1987's Kick. The latter album is possibly my favourite of all time, with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon perhaps coming in a close second. It was ridiculously slick; an album comprised of smash-hit singles, four of which reached the top 10 in the States. The album itself was number one in Australia and number three in the US.
Commercially speaking, however, the 1990s was not as successful a period for INXS. The album 'X', which was released in October 1990, peaked at number 3 in Australia and number 5 in the US; subsequent releases did even worse. This lack of obvious chart success lent itself to a more intense focus on front man Hutchence, who had somewhat escaped such scrutiny during the 1980s, possibly thanks to the band's relentless overseas touring schedule.
Hutchence did release one solo album, albeit posthumously. It is difficult to rate the album given that it was released without his consent, two years after his death, and therefore he was unable to put the finishing garnishes on the end product.
Sunglasses were popular among lead singers and ODI cricketers in the early 90s
Warne's dominance can be looked at in terms of raw statistics, sure. From the 1992-2007 he played 145 tests, taking 708 wickets at an average of 25.41. In One Dayers, he played 194 matches and took 293 scalps at a similar average. Warne's elegant, loping leg-spin earned him a spot in Wisden's All-Time XI. He was really fucking good at bowling leggies, basically.
But despite being a spin bowler, Warne had an alpha-ness about him. A rock-star quality, if you will. He didn't let the fact that he was sending down 76km/h leggies take away from the fact that he was going to get inside your head. He was, in fact, a psychological master. His dominance was as much to do with the quality of his bowling as it was to do with his entire mythology. He scared batsmen into taking risks.
Both served as tabloid fodder for much of the 1990s, with Hutchence in particular grabbing headlines for his myriad high-profile relationships and suspected drug use. Warne was a tabloid staple for different reasons – basically, he kept fucking up. But his on-field performance rarely waivered – he always remained dominant.
JE NE SAIS QUOI:
To look at Warne's dominance in terms of raw data would be to tell only half the story. It helps to first understand the decade itself. Australian cricket had just emerged from its terrible quagmire during the 1980s. It needed something fresh and shiny, invigorating. It came in the form of Shane Keith Warne.
But while he certainly had that little something something on the field, Warne's off-field je ne sais quoi is perhaps less obvious. To be blunt, he was the classic nouveau riche. Greedy by nature and ill-refined, Warne chose to indulge – nay, gorge! – on his deepest, most bogan desires. Fast food, women, gambling, cigarettes, etc. For all his subtlety with ball in hand, he lacked the same deft touch off the field.
Hutchence, meanwhile, had a bit going on, in terms of je ne sais quoi. In particular, he had a very individual and eclectic fashion sense, which set him apart from his beer-swilling Australian-born contemporaries, which made him seem more global. While overtly macho and hyper-(hetero) sexual, he could also emit an androgynous vibe.
He looked like a bloke who wouldn't mind kissing other blokes, if the situation required. Sadly, I have my doubts that Warne could perform such an act, even if pressed at gun-point.
Not quite sure what Warney's up to here…
Also, Hutchence acted in a number of cult indie films during his career, including the acclaimed Dogs in Space – a trippy account of what it was like to live in a druggy share house in Melbourne in the late-1970s. I watched this, as an impressionable youngster, and like David Bowie's 1986 movie Labyrinth, it bemused and confused me entirely. I have re-watched it since, now that I am familiar with Melbourne's "little band scene," and now enjoy the absurd level of debauchery it strived to depict. It serves as a nice footnote to Hutchence's career.
Warne and Hutchence were, indeed, showmen. Hutchence exuded a raw sexuality on stage that has not been seen since; Warne, meanwhile, exuded an incredible level of self-belief that firstly enabled him to get inside the heads of his opponents before dismissing him with clinical precision.
But there is no denying that underneath his confident, languidly sexual exterior, Hutchence was a troubled man. His childhood was difficult and involved living in various different international cities due to his parents' tumultuous relationship.
Warne's childhood, on the other hand, was idyllic. He grew up alongside his siblings in the middle-class Melbourne suburbs and attended the prestigious Mentone Grammar on a sports scholarship. His summers were spent rising up through the grades at the St Kilda Cricket Club; his winters spent chasing the dream to represent that same club in the VFL competition.
So while it is somewhat easy to trace Hutchence's emotional torment and sexual impropriety back to his adolescence, Warne remains more of an enigmatic figure. Why was he so prone to misjudgement?
Fresh-faced legends
Constantly led into temptation, yet time and time again, on the basis of his stunning craftsmanship, Warne was always delivered from evil. Amen.
SEXUAL NOTORIETY, RELATIONSHIPS
Following the intense rise to fame brought on by Kick, Hutchence, now famous and perhaps with a bit more downtime, embarked on a number of high-profile relationships, starting with Australia's favourite songstress Kylie Minogue. He later dated supermodel Helena Christensen for a number of years before having a child with UK TV presenter Paula Yates, formerly known as Mrs Bob Geldof. High-profile and international.
However, the INXS mini-series, Never Tear Us Apart, probably only scratched the surface as to the amount of action Hutchence was getting off-stage. In this interview in 1993, Hutchence talked about how he had experienced "everything" during his career – group sex, S&M bondage, conventional "one-to-one sex," voyeurism, psychological sex games, "exchange women" (not quite sure what that one means), etc.
In the same interview, later, Hutchence laments "the other side" of touring, challenging the myth that the life of a rock & roll icon is simply "one big travelling orgy."
"When you're getting older, you stop liking mechanical sex with cheap girls who you don't even know. I'm not a saint, but I have grown up, calmed down a bit. I've slowed down, really. The reality is that after a 70,000 people gig, there is no one waiting for you backstage, you leave for your hotel room, where the TV even makes you feel more lonely."
INXS was on the road for 15 years, possibly longer – and it is no surprise that, ultimately, conventional masturbatory methods proved too mundane for him.
Them 'bedroom eyes'
Warney went about things a different way. He married young and had a number of children before his caddish ways saw the marriage fall apart.
To be fair, most of Warney's rooting probably occurred post-1999. Indeed, from his test debut in 1992 to the 1999 World Cup, it is hard to verify how much, if any, rooting Warne did outside of his marriage.
It was only until 2000 that Warne would be caught for his "text message" scandal with British nurse Donna Wright. Indeed, Warne certainly leveraged the text messaging function to full-effect, once mobile phones became somewhat ubiquitous.
And for mine, that's one of the more disappointing aspects of Warne's alleged affairs – the heavy reliance on mobile technology. Because Hutchence wouldn't have needed a mobile phone to make shit happen.
In his unauthorised and widely criticised 2006 biography of Shane Warne, Paul Barry suggested that the leg-spinner had slept with "1,000 women." I'd say that Hutchence would have had that many women on the European leg of his 1991 tour alone.
In terms of sexual notoriety, you simply cannot beat death by auto-erotic asphyxiation.
In terms of legacy, there exists an obvious imbalance, given that Warne is alive and Hutchence is dead.
Popular music is a truly global business. And INXS, for a period, was the biggest band in the world – with Hutchence killing it at the helm. The Kick album will live on forever, as will the band's famous 1991 appearance at Wembley stadium – possibly the concert of the 1990s.
INXS remains Australia's most internationally successful band – and it's not a stretch to think that, in this post-analogue era, this could be their lasting legacy. And really, it couldn't have been achieved without the dynamic Michael Hutchence as front man and lyricist.
By all accounts, a 'fucking good gig'
Warne, meanwhile, is widely viewed as the greatest bowler to ever play test cricket – an international sport with a history spanning some 200 years. Warne clones are still seen today in junior cricket competitions; indeed, his bowling approach – measured, rhythmic, symphonic – has served as the template for youngsters across the world.
Before Warne, leg-spinners employed the frenetic run-up and round-arm style of Clarrie Grimmett – no aesthete, it must be said.
Warne made leg-spin into an art. Much like how Jackson Pollock's technique of splattering paint over a blank canvas served to provide his inner vision of reality – and in turn gave way to a new movement known as Abstract Expressionism – Warne created his own movement and served as its chief curator for the 1990s and beyond. If leg-spin was studied at universities, Warne-ism would be a thing.
FINAL TALLY: WARNE 521/600. HUTCHENCE 536/600
WINNER: HUTCHENCE
By Dave Edwards
Posted in: Opinion
Tagged: Clarrie Grimmett, Gideon Haigh 'On Warne', Guiliani the guitarist, Helena Christensen, Kylie Minogue and Michael Hutchence, Michael Hutchence INXS never tear us apart, Paula Yates, Shane Warne the best cricketer ever, Wisden Cricket
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It highlights North America's iconic sagebrush steppe — a vast wilderness spanning 250,000 square miles and brimming with hardy life. The film tracks sage grouse, golden eagles, mule deer, pronghorn, badgers, hawks and other animals through the seasons as they struggle to survive in the rugged and changing landscape.
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"The Sagebrush Sea" was originally aired nationally in May on the PBS series NATURE.
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Lost & Found: The ancient Aitape Skull may be from the oldest known tsunami victim
Tsunami are among the most destructive natural events that happen on our planet. From the Japanese term meaning "harbor wave", tsunami occur when large volumes of water are quickly moved about in the ocean, which can be driven by events like earthquakes and glacial calving (when pieces of a glacier break off and fall into the ocean). For instance, earthquakes caused the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed over 220,000 people as well as the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami that caused over 14,000 deaths in Japan (and triggered the cooling system failure at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant).
Given the prevalence of human populations in coastal areas over time, it's not surprising that tsunami have impacted human societies so greatly. However, little record has existed for the impact of tsunami to human populations in prehistory (before the development of written records). Now, new research from Professor James Goff, of the University of New South Wales, and colleagues published in the journal PLOS One suggests that an old fragment of a human skull might represent the oldest known tsunami victim on Earth.
The skull in question is known as the Aitape Skull. It was discovered in 1929 near the village of Aitape in Papua New Guinea. Originally believed to be of Lower Pleistocene age (~2.6 to 0.8 million years ago), further examination of the skull fragment in the 1960s showed that the remains were likely only several thousand years old (for instance, see this article by Arthur Durband and Jody Creel from Archaeology in Oceania). However, 50 years after the known age of the skull fragment was updated, James Goff and colleagues realized the environment in which it was found had not been reconsidered.
Originally, the Aitape Skull fragment was proposed to have come from an environment that was once a mangrove swamp that occasionally was covered with water at high tide. However, this new research used more modern methods to study the geology and chemistry of the rocks and soil where the skull was found and analyzed the glassy cell walls of microscopic marine organisms known as diatoms that were preserved in these ancient materials. The new results show that the environment where the Aitape Skull was found was much more likely a coastal lake setting that was hit at least once by a tsunami.
James Goff and his colleagues consider a few possibilities for the presence of the skull in these materials. They infer that the skull fragment either came from a burial in the area before the tsunami event in question, or the skull may be derived from an individual who was impacted by the tsunami. Although they can't say for sure if this skull fragment really did come from what would now be the earliest tsunami victim, their new findings suggest that other archaeological sites in ancient coastal regions might benefit from a re-analysis of their geological setting. Tsunami may have been more important, and more devastating, to earlier peoples than has been previously considered.
This picture shows the location of Papua New Guinea (a), the study site on the island (b), a close-up view of the region where the skull was found (c), and the Aitape Skull bone fragment itself (the small scale bar is 2 cm). See the image in the paper by James Goff and colleagues for more information and detail on the maps.
You can also read more about this intriguing re-interpretation here and here.
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The public politicking over the chairmanship of the Jewish Agency has picked up today, as the organization's board of governors meetings get underway.
The agency has been caught in the crossfire between Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, who essentially wants to appoint his political ally Natan Sharansky as its head, and U.S. Jewish philanthropists who want to see the organization de-politicized and be able to appoint its own leadership.
The two sides have gone head to head in recent days as the agency's board is set to vote on a new set of governance rules this week that would go towards placing the right to pick its own leaders squarely in the hands of its funders.
Leaders of the federation system who ply the agency with more than $140 million per year have quietly been pushing for the organization to reform, less the system face increasing pressure to end its exclusive funding relationship with the organization; meanwhile, high-ranking Knesset members have been trying to push Sharansky into the post that Ze'ev Bielsky vacated when he was elected to the Knesset this winter.
American philanthropists say that the legitimacy of Sharansky is not the issue.
With all this as backdrop … two mega-wealthy philanthropists are speaking out about the agency. Michael Steinhardt, who told the Fundermentalist on Friday that he was approached by Sharansky in recent weeks looking for support, has a piece in the Jerusalem Post favoring the former Soviet dissident. And Leonid Nevzlin, the Russian oligarch who is now an ex-pat living in Israel, has a piece in Ha'aretz calling for reform of the agency.
In just a day or two, the Jewish Agency will hold elections to determine its new chairman. It has the opportunity to elect an eminent statesman of the Jewish people, Natan Sharansky, who has been nominated by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. In more ways than we can count, he is the perfect man for the job. Sharansky would bring a level of integrity, expertise and gravitas to this position that has been all but unseen in the annals of the Jewish Agency.
Sharansky cut his Jewish organizational teeth in the stone dungeons of the Gulag. He later made aliya, and eventually became deputy prime minister of the State of Israel. He is a man of bold vision and extraordinary leadership ability. He, perhaps more than any other man alive, symbolizes the link between Israel and the Diaspora, which the Jewish Agency itself aspires to represent at the institutional level. It is a link that, I fear, is in danger of fading over time.
No other body unites the representatives of all Jewish communities and groups in collective thinking and activity. The Jewish Agency's major mission and the key to its future success is the realizing of "Jewish Peoplehood."
To achieve this, the Jewish Agency needs to change its structure and relinquish its current functional divisions (education, aliyah, partnerships) – a vestige of past assignments or political considerations. It must establish two main operational frameworks: the first for the Jewish communities around the world, the second for Israel.
The first of these will include cultivating ties between Jewish communities, advancing Jewish education in communities around the world, developing a new generation of Jewish leaders, strengthening ties with Israel and encouraging aliyah. The second will deal with Israel's specific needs, which Jewish people around the world are interested in supporting, in full coordination with the Israeli government.
Within both these frameworks, the Jewish Agency must minimize its direct activities and become an initiator, catalyst, planner and facilitator, while professional organizations and nonprofit associations implement the activities on the ground.
This proposed structure will let the Jewish Agency focus on true needs to become more professional in strategic planning, and to adapt its activities to today's and tomorrow's needs, not yesterday's. It will also enhance cooperation between Israel and Jews around the world and prevent an unnecessary and costly duplication of the Jewish Agency's activities.


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Billow was introduced to golf as a caddy at Racine Country Club in the late 1920s. He obviously learned a lot about the game. Billow would go on to become one of the greatest amateur golfers in history. The legendary Byron Nelson once called Billow the best long iron player, amateur or pro, in the world. Billow, who played a prominent role in helping Park High School win the 1931 State Championship, won an unprecedented seven New York State Golf Association Men's Amateur Championships. His glittering resume also consists of three runner-up finishes in the United States Men's Amateur Championship and two selections to the prestigious United States Walker Cup team, representing his country in matches at St. Andrews in 1938 and Winged Foot in 1949.


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3-D Acoustic Tracking of Fish, Sediment-Laden Ice and Large Wood Debris in the Minas Passage of the Bay of Fundy
October 2009 – December 2011
Researchers used VEMCO animal tracking technology to complete in-situ testing of the path, depth and velocity of fish and objects passing through the Minas Passage.
Physics of the Interaction between a Crab and a Seismic Test Pulse – Development of a Mathematical Model and Testing of Model via Simulation
June 2009 – September 2011
Experimental attempts to establish whether seismic testing has any impact on crabs and the crab fishery have been hampered by a lack of theoretical work on the subject.
Feasibility of a Marine Vibroseis System to Minimize Potential Impacts of Seismic Surveying on Commercial Marine Invertebrates
May 2010 – May 2011
Marine vibroseis (a sound generating system that uses a large oscillating mass to emit a range of frequencies) offers an alternative to air-gun seismic sources and may have fewer environmental effects on marine biota.
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OERA-funded projects: Piston Coring Geochemistry Program and Morocco-Nova Scotia Conjugate Margin Program
A chance encounter at a summer job during his studies toward a BSc in chemistry and geochemistry helped Martin Fowler find the exact intersection of chemistry and geology best suited to him.
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Growing up, Cameroon native Jordan Kamga longed to know more about the inner workings of the stuff he encountered in his daily life. It's a desire that helped set him on the path he's on today.


I gave my wife a compact digicam for Valentine's Day. She loved it. So do I. Fujifilm FinePix F31fd is one unique digicam that delivers clear grain-free images at high ISO. I am usually a supporter for Canon Powershot, and I still believe in Canon's image quality. However, at high ISO, Canon is no different from other digicams out there. Fuji created a unique selling factor that makes this model one of the most sellable digicam in the market. And to make the buy irresistible, it's a mere S$500++.
To finance this camera, I sold off one of my precious Nikon lens, which is fine coz anyway I spent some cash on a Tamron lens a few weeks back.
We spent V'day doing facials at our skin care centre, followed by a deluxe meal at Yoshinoya. I pampered myself by buying some clothes at G2000. The rest of the evening was glued to the TV watching HEROES and American Idol before retiring after the ever-exciting CSI Miami. I also caught a glimpse of 'A Simple Life', the first time I saw it, and I was like "Did they actually do those ridiculous things like washing clothes in a swimming pool and cooking breakfast using irons"? Amazing.


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Univision has purchased a minority stake in Onion Inc. -- the company behind the satirical news site The Onion, according to a Univision release.
Univision is one of the top Spanish-language media companies with a loyal following among Latinos in the U.S. The investment is an attempt to help the network diversify its content and broaden its appeal to Millennials.
"The Onion has been, and continues to be, a leading force of this phenomenon of intellectual, social, cultural and satirical commentary online," the statement said, by way of explaining the investment.
Onion Inc. has more than 25 million unique visitors a month, according to the release. The company also produces the pop culture website The A.V. Club and the humorous social media site Clickhole.
"Comedy is playing an expanding role in our culture as a vehicle for audiences to explore, debate, and understand the important ideas of our time," said Isaac Lee, Chief News and Digital Officer of Univision and CEO of Fusion, which is also owned by Univision.
Onion Inc. will continue to run independently but will be able to take advantage of Univision's resources to increase its digital offerings with more multicultural- and Millennial-focused content.
Onion staff members were informed of the partnership in an email from CEO Mike McAvoy.
This new investment is just the company's latest attempt to broaden its audience.
In 2013, Univision partnered with Disney to launch Fusion, which features 24-hour English-language news and lifestyle programming that's aimed at English-speaking Hispanics in the U.S.
In 2015, Univision acquired The Root, a news and culture website geared toward African Americans. The Root was co-founded in 2008 by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
With its investments in both The Root and Onion Inc., Univision has stressed that the smaller companies will maintain their editorial independence while benefiting from Univision's size.


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Today In History, April 17
Today In History, April 17 | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports
Published: 04/17/14 05:03 am EDT
Updated: 04/17/14 05:05 am EDT
Today is Thursday, April 17, the 107th day of 2014. There are 258 days left in the year.
Today's Highlights in History:
On April 17, 1964, Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock became the first woman to complete a solo airplane trip around the world, returning to Columbus, Ohio, after 29 1/2 days and 21 stopovers in her Cessna 180. Ford Motor Co. unveiled its new Mustang model at the New York World's Fair, five days before the fair's official opening. The first game was played at New York's Shea Stadium; the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Mets, 4-3.
In 1492, a contract was signed by Christopher Columbus and a representative of Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, giving Columbus a commission to seek a westward ocean passage to Asia.
In 1521, Martin Luther went before the Diet of Worms (vohrms) to face charges stemming from his religious writings. (He was later declared an outlaw by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.)
In 1861, the Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union.
In 1924, the motion picture studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was founded, the result of a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Co.
In 1937, the animated cartoon character Daffy Duck made his debut in the Warner Bros. cartoon "Porky's Duck Hunt," directed by Tex Avery.
In 1941, Yugoslavia surrendered to Germany during World War II.
In 1961, some 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion by the third day.
In 1969, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The First Secretary of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party, Alexander Dubcek (DOOB'-chek), was deposed.
In 1970, Apollo 13 astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert splashed down safely in the Pacific, four days after a ruptured oxygen tank crippled their spacecraft while en route to the moon.
In 1984, an 11-day police siege began at Libya's embassy in London when an unidentified shooter inside the building fired on a crowd of protesters, killing police officer Yvonne Fletcher. (The Libyans in the embassy were eventually allowed to leave the country as Britain and Libya severed relations.)
In 1986, at London's Heathrow Airport, a bomb was discovered in the bag of a pregnant Irishwoman about to board an El Al jetliner to Israel; she'd been tricked into carrying the bomb by her Jordanian fiance.
In 1993, a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King; two other officers were acquitted. Turkish President Turgut Ozal died at age 66.
Ten years ago: Searchers found the body of missing North Dakota college student Dru Sjodin (droo shoh-DEEN'). (Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. is under federal sentence of death for kidnapping and killing Sjodin.) Israel assassinated Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi (AHB'-duhl ah-ZEEZ' rahn-TEE'-see) with a missile strike on his car.
Five years ago: A day after U.N. inspectors left North Korea, U.S. experts monitoring the communist country's nuclear program also departed after Pyongyang expelled them and threatened to restart its reactor in anger over U.N. criticism of its recent rocket launch. Richard Phillips, the cargo ship captain rescued by Navy snipers from the clutches of Somali pirates, made a triumphant return to his home state of Vermont, insisting, "I'm not a hero, the military is."
One year ago: Fifteen people were killed by a fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. Sports returned to Boston two days after the deadly Marathon bombing as the Buffalo Sabres defeated the Bruins in a 3-2 shootout (players on both teams wore "Boston Strong" decals on their helmets). Senate Republicans backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats scuttled the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., who'd helped write President Barack Obama's health care law, stunned administration officials during a budget hearing by saying he thought it was headed for a "train wreck" because of bumbling implementation. A Mississippi man was arrested, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for poisonous ricin (however, charges against Paul Kevin Curtis were later dropped and leveled against James Everett Dutschke (DUHS'-kee) instead; prosecutors said Dutschke, who ended up pleading guilty to sending the letters, had tried to frame Curtis).
Today's Birthdays: Actor David Bradley is 72. Composer-musician Jan Hammer (yahn HAH'-mur) is 66. Actress Olivia Hussey is 63. Actor Clarke Peters is 62. Rock singer-musician Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks) is 59. Actor Sean Bean is 55. Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason is 53. Actor Joel Murray is 52. Rock singer Maynard James Keenan is 50. Actress Lela Rochon (LEE'-lah rohn-SHAHN') is 50. Actor William Mapother is 49. Actress Leslie Bega is 47. Actor Henry Ian Cusick is 47. Actress Kimberly Elise is 47. Singer Liz Phair is 47. Rapper-actor Redman is 44. Actress Jennifer Garner is 42. Country musician Craig Anderson (Heartland) is 41. Singer Victoria Adams Beckham is 40. Actress-singer Lindsay Korman is 36. Actress Rooney Mara is 29. Actress Jacqueline MacInnes Wood is 27. Actor Paulie Litt is 19. Actress Dee Dee Davis is 18.
Thought for Today: "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin (born 1706, died this date in 1790).


Doing a lot of fitness and health related reading this year over the web and magazines I've heard a lot of people talking about the benefits of "Intermittent Fasting". For those that don't know, fasting is going without food for a certain period of time. Intermittent Fasting is going without food for a certain time period, usually 24 hours or less.
One of the so called experts of Intermittent Fasting I've been following is Dr John Berardi who has gone into a lot of detail about fasting on his blog based on research and experiments with himself and his clients.
The benefits of fasting from food include reducing blood pressure, inflammation, risk of cancer, oxidative stress, increase fat burning, cell repair, growth hormone release, improve appetite control, and blood sugar control.
There are two main ways to fast that are supposedly safe and beneficial for your health. The first is a periodic fast where you will be fasting once per week or LESS for 24 hours. An example would be to eat your last meal on Saturday night for example at 10pm, you would then fast until 10pm Sunday night, where you would then have a small meal before bed and return to normal on Monday. The second type of fasting is a daily fast, in which you eat for 8 hours during the day and fast for the other 16. An example of this would be eating from noon until 8, and then fasting from 8 on to noon the next day.
Berardi also recommends Greens+, Green Tea, and BCAA powder during workouts while you are fasting, and of course lots of water.
Personally I just tried fasting for my first time yesterday with a bit of success. I wanted to ease into it as I am going to try and do it once per week for the next three months. I planned on fasting Monday while still training in the early afternoon so I allowed myself one ISO-100 whey protein shake with water, ice, and a banana (in a blender) during the 24 hour "fast". My last meal was on Sunday at around 9:30 pm, and then I woke up had a Greens shake, went to the gym a few hours later, had my one protein shake after my workout to allow my body to recover, and then didn't eat until 7:00 pm. I lasted about 22 hours, and although I didn't hit my goal of 24 hours I was happy with how my first intermittent fast went.
I also took it a step further and fasted again from last night until about 2:oo pm today, with a protein shake and meal after my workout late this morning.
My plan is to now fast every Monday from Sunday late until Monday late where I will eat just one meal. I think I am going to continue to train on Mondays and will probably keep it to just a protein shake after my workout, the Greens drink as I want throughout the day as recommended, and the BCAA while working out.
One of the main benefits that is talked about with fasting is learning to control your hunger, which I already noticed in my first day of fasting. Hunger is usually in your head and the more you think about the more you will feel hungry. I was able to shut that off most of yesterday, and felt like it really helped being able to control my appetite.
Another benefit is the fact that your body is getting additional rest while fasting. Roughly 70% of energy your body uses during the day goes to digestion and conversion of food into energy. That is pretty crazy and something I didn't even think about. Fasting should help you sleep better and wake up earlier feeling refreshed. I noticed that this morning as I felt pretty good when I woke up earlier than normal.
Anyways, I am going to continue to test out fasting every Monday and see how it goes for me. I will post updates here as I go along with it. If you've tried fasting before or are inspired by this post let me know in the comments below how you like it.


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