What age did you get into organized fitness?
I started to enjoy athletics and movement from a very early age. I became active in organized sports throughout elementary school – I played baseball, volleyball, track & field and golf among other activities, but my biggest passions were gymnastics and riding horses. Organized fitness and in-the-gym training didn't happen for me until I was in high school and I understood the need for specific strength to hone specific skills. When I was a gymnast, I knew that I needed to build strength in specific areas to support myself, so I started training with movement patterns specific to being a gymnast using my body weight as my resistance. I was always curious and explored all the movement, activity and fitness programs that were available to me, and still enjoy doing so now.
The people! When I'm in a room with or surrounded by people who are connected to what they are doing there's a great energy that exists that everyone benefits from. I feel tremendous value if I am able to create that atmosphere fostering engagement, which not only keeps people coming back to my classes, but inspires me to give even more.
I usually have a smoothie for breakfast that includes fermented protein and greens and MCT oil plus whatever superfoods I choose based on the day and how I feel.
Red. It's such a passionate, hot in-your-face colour and it's also the colour of the root chakra.
Is it healthy to work every day?
Well, I have been working every day for decades and I would consider myself a relatively healthy person, so I would say yes – it's healthy to work every day but it has a lot to do with passion. I consider myself incredibly fortunate to be able to do what I do and earn a living doing so, while it also brings me great joy and fulfillment.
Saturday. And the reason? Simply because there's not much traffic on the road when I drive down the DVP to Mayfair Lakeshore. Following the easy commute, I teach a few Saturday morning classes full of great people committed to their wellness, followed by an afternoon and evening without a schedule for me to practice self-care and spend time outdoors, at the barn and at home.
What are three essential exercises you believe everyone should know how to do and practice?
Can you just teach classes or do you need to do any prep work?
Well, it depends on how we define prep work. I believe that I've been preparing for every class and session for over 30 years. Like with any career, although we keep learning and evolving, some aspects of our work become more natural as we become comfortable with the known, and understand how our actions and efforts result in specific outcomes, so it's easier to deliver. Having said this, I still spend time at a desk, I still schedule and reschedule my heavily programmed days, and my commutes are not twice a day, but all day long between private clients and various health clubs – this does allow me the opportunity to reset and prep in terms of mindset and mode to leave my last class behind and set myself up for the next series. When I go into studio, I have a large enough repertoire of sequencing, moves and movement patterns that I can draw on to be able to teach freestyle, and I draw on the energy in the room to choose which to teach at any given time. The Group power class that I teach at Mayfair is an interesting program because every beat of all 10 songs is choreographed, so there is accountability to a specific format. This kind of prep work is challenging but very welcome as it keeps everything fresh and gives me the opportunity to keep my mind sharp. Click here for my weekly schedule at Mayfair.
What do you wish someone had told you as a child?
I guess it's not just what I wish that I had been told, but what I wish for every child to be told – that anything is possible, and that we shouldn't allow our performance in any one specific activity or place to define us. We are all strong and gifted in one or many ways, and we should be fostered and encouraged to find out what that is, and where we connect and thrive rather than where we might struggle.
Is there a magic formula for losing weight?
No. There is no magic formula for losing weight – long-term healthy weight loss is a very individual pursuit. I have my diverse strong theories about weight loss and in a nutshell it has to do with our inflammatory response to food so I believe that if we become connected to the way our body responds to food and act and live accordingly, then our bodies will feel good and be of normal weight. Fitness and movement are critical components, but I think we have to recognize that fitness can also cause stresses that can cause the body to retain weight and we see this often when someone is working really hard and they put their body into a state of a fight or flight – the body then ends up hanging onto the weight that it is supposed to be shedding. We have to be very careful about fitness and weight loss because if done correctly it can enhance but if it's done incorrectly it can actually sabotage our goals.
Why do you spend so much time with horses?
Having grown up on a horse farm, I was drawn to their energy and power of movement. As an adult, my return to spending time with horses after 30+ years, my connection is much more spiritual. I find my time at the barn to be very peaceful and I believe that horses have much to teach us as human beings.
How long should a meditation be?
Ideally, meditation is a daily practice and a significant one, however, any moment of quiet connection is better than none. Not having time is likely an indication that you really need to start making the time for meditation in your life. Start anywhere.
Watching Heartland and red wine, not necessarily in that order.
What worries you the most about aging?
I think what worries me the most about aging is knowing that I've lived more than half my life. But what is interesting is that I still feel like I'm learning new movement patterns and I'm understanding the body more and more… so I still feel like I'm growing. I think about what might be when I get to a point whereby I can actually see myself going into a state of decline – whether it be movement pattern or mental activity or sickness and how that might affect me. But, the truth is that I'm becoming more and more at ease and more comfortable with myself as I live in my aging body.
How much of what you have accomplished is luck and how much is hard work?
Well, I don't see myself as being lucky or unlucky, I just see myself as being successful because I've worked with passion and dedication to be successful. I think when you connect yourself with being lucky or unlucky, this gets in the way – if your feeling is that you are having an unlucky day, you are going to go with it and it might cause you to miss opportunities because you're not seeing clearly or using an open mind. I also think if you feel lucky, that this doesn't have foundation. I believe that when you take responsibility for your success or lack thereof, then you are connected to your work, your choices, your goals and the journey in reaching them. Everything is possible with hope, good intention, a healthy mindset and of course, hard work.


LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -- 13 businesses are taking a fun and unique approach to small business Saturday.
"If you start off at Golden Rod Bakery they will give you a punch card and anytime you shop at any of the local businesses over there, they'll punch your card, and then you'll be entered into drawing for prizes, raffles, all sorts of fun things," said Diane Cooper, owner of Cooper & Co. and The Basket Bunch.
Customers aren't required to buy anything, just do something silly in each store. This includes taking a selfie with the neon sign at Golden Rod Bakery and smelling a candle at The Basket Bunch.
Diane's stores are run by three generations of women, Diane, her mother and her two daughters.
Her youngest daughter Natalie is the manager of Cooper & Co. and her older daughter Shane manages The Basket Bunch.
Friday was Anne Marie Rye's first time in Cooper & Co.
"We love all the boutique shopping it gives back to that small business back to the community and they always have great deals too and it's such a cute store," she said.
Diane's daughter's said she started off gift wrapping in their basement. But, she ran out of space quickly so she opened The Basket Bunch in 1999. But, then she ran out of space there and wanted to expand her business to home decor so she opened Cooper and Co.
"She actually started making baskets at the farmer's market and I would go down every Saturday to the farmer's market with her," said Natalie.


I have a problem with the field mapping for native uuid fields on PostgreSQL (9.5).
We use UseUnicode=True and UnknownAsString=True, but the field is mapped as TStringField, it should be TWideStringField.
When set to True all character data is stored as WideStrings and TStringField is replaced with TWideStringFiled.
If True, fields of unknown data types are mapped to TStringField or TWideStringField depending on the value of the UseUnicode option.
We are migrating the database fields from character(38) to native uuid fields and we expect the field mappings to be the same (or compatible).
I don't see any reason why the uuid fields would be mapped as TStringField on a Unicode database. It looks like a bug.
if anyone knows a way to workaround this, we'll apreciate it.
*A coworker already sent this problem to the support a week ago, but they don't answer.
Please describe in more detail the reason of the UUID value mapping to WideString.


Control and Suppression of Laminar Vortex Shedding off Two-Dimensional Bluff Bodies, Stanford University, December 2012.
A p-multigrid spectral difference method for two-dimensional unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (with Liang, C. and Jameson, A.), Computers & Fluids, doi:10.1016/j.compfluid.2011.08.006, August 16, 2011.
Vortex suppresion and drag reduction in the wake of counter-rotating cylinders (with Dewey, P., Jameson, A., Liang, C. and Smits, A.), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, doi:10.1017/jfm.2011.134, May 12, 2011 (also in Volume 679, July 2011, pp. 343-382).
An Artificial Compressibility Method for the Spectral Difference Solution of Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations on Multiple Grids (with C. Liang, X. Liu, and A. Jameson), AIAA Paper 2011-48, 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Orlando, Florida, January 4-7, 2011.
Suppression of the unsteady vortex wakes of a circular cylinder pair by a doublet-like counter-rotation (with A. Jameson), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, doi:10.1002/fld.2075, May 26, 2009, Volume 63, Issue 1, pp. 22-39, 2010.
A. S. Chan & A. Jameson, Suppression of the unsteady vortex wakes of a circular cylinder pair by a doublet-like counter-rotation, ACL Report 2008-1, Aerospace Computing Laboratory, Stanford University, March 2008.
A. S. Chan & A. Jameson, Suppression of Vortex-Induced Forces on a Two-Dimensional Circular Cylinder by a Short and Thin Splitter Plate Interference, ACL Report 2007-5, Aerospace Computing Laboratory, Stanford University, December 2007.


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Vert émeraude (titre original : ) est un film fantastique allemand, réalisé par Felix Fuchssteiner et Katharina Schöde, sorti en 2016.

Il s'agit de la troisième adaptation cinématographique du roman éponyme de la Trilogie des gemmes de Kerstin Gier.

Le film fait suite à Rouge rubis sorti en 2013 et Bleu saphir sorti en 2014.

Synopsis
 Gwendoline se retrouve au milieu d'un complot historique. Elle va tenter de le déjouer avec l'aide de sa cousine, Charlotte. Cette fois-ci Gideon servira t'il les intérêts du Comte ou aidera t'il Gwendoline dans sa quête de la vérité ?

Fiche technique
 Titre original :
 Titre français : Vert émeraude
 Titre international :
 Réalisation : Felix Fuchssteiner et Katharina Schöde
 Scénario : Felix Fuchssteiner, Katharina Schöde et Barry Thomson, d'après le roman de Kerstin Gier
 Musique : Philipp Fabian Kölmel
 Direction artistique : Bettina Lessnig
 Décors : Ralf Schreck
 Costumes : Alexander Beck
 Photographie : Florian Emmerich et Ralf H. Schlotter
 Son : Ansgar Frerich, Florian Holzner, Florian Beck
 Montage : Nicole Kortlüke
 Production : Hans W. Geißendörfer, Markus Zimmer, Tom Blieninger, Philipp Budweg, Felix Fuchssteiner et Katharina Schöde
 Production exécutive : Tom Blieninger et Andreas Habermaier
 Production déléguée : Herbert G. Kloiber
 Production associée : Robert Marciniak
 Production junior : Nathalie Bouteiller-Marin
 Sociétés de production : Lieblingsfilm, mem-film, Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion (GFF) et Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (TMG)
 Société de distribution :
 Allemagne : Concorde Filmverleih GmbH
 France : Condor Entertainment (DVD et Blu-ray)
 Budget : n/a
 Pays d'origine :
 Langue originale : allemand
 Format : couleur / N & B - 2,35:1 (Cinémascope)
 Genre : fantastique, aventures, drame, romance
 Durée :
 Dates de sortie :
 Allemagne :  (Festival du film de Munich) ;  (sortie nationale)
 France :  (sortie directement en DVD et Blu-ray)
 Classification :
  : Interdit aux moins de  (FSK 12).
  : Tous publics (Conseillé à partir de ).

Distribution
 Maria Ehrich (V. F. : Jennifer Fauveau) : Gwendolyn Shepherd
 Jannis Niewöhner (V. F. :Adrien Solis) : Gideon de Villiers
 Peter Simonischek  (V. F. : Robert Guilmard) : Comte de Saint-Germain
 Josefine Preuß (V. F. : Laetitia Lienart) : Lucy Montrose
  (V. F. : Thibaut Delmothe) : Paul de Villiers
 Laura Berlin (V. F. : Mélanie Dermont) : Charlotte Montrose
 Katharina Thalbach (V. F. : Denise Metmer) : Madeleine « Maddy » Montrose
 Johannes Silberschneider (V. F. : Laurent Jacquet) : Mr. Bernhard, le majordome
  (V. F. :Julie Basezq) : Leslie Hay
  (V.F. : David Manet) : Raphael de  Villiers
  (V. F. : Franck Dacquin) : Mr. Whitman
  (V. F. : Marie-Madeleine Burguet-Le Doze) : Madame Rossini

Sources et légende : Génerique de fin du film

Production

Tournage
 Lieux de tournage : Allemagne

Accueil

Distinctions
En 2017, Vert émeraude a remporté  récompense.

Récompenses
 Prix Jupiter 2017 : Prix Jupiter du Meilleur acteur allemand décerné à Jannis Niewöhner.

Editions en vidéo
 Vert émeraude est sorti en :
 DVD le ,
 Blu-ray le ,
 VOD le .

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Liens externes

Film fantastique allemand
Film d'aventure allemand
Film dramatique allemand
Film romantique allemand
Film fantastique sur le voyage dans le temps
Adaptation d'un roman allemand au cinéma
Film allemand sorti en 2016
Trilogie des gemmes

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Fuzzy Logix is an advanced analytics software solution and services company headquartered in Charlotte North Carolina, with offices in Cupertino California, Richmond, Virginia and distribution channels throughout the world. Fuzzy Logix provides an in-database analytics solution, supporting both in-database model construction and in-database scoring. They also offer in-GPU solutions, which allow users to access potentially hundreds of cores of graphics processing unit power. Fuzzy Logix offers consulting services related to the use of analytics; from helping companies adopt the use of analytics for the first time to custom model development for experienced teams.
DB Lytixs™, the Fuzzy Logix analytics engine, allows analytics to be deployed into various databases and data warehouses. The core of the product is a collection of 800+ algorithms written in C/C++ that can be embedded into a database kernel. These algorithms cover data mining, simulation, prediction, distributions and more. Fuzzy Logix also offers FIN Lytix, a library of models that can be used by financial services companies to model risk and pricing for equities, fixed income and foreign exchange and also for portfolio optimization.
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Their Tanay GPU appliance and related software, GPU Lytix, allow companies to leverage the extreme calculation power of graphics processing units. The Tanay appliance comes with 2 or 4 GPU cards with each card having 448 cores (larger units are available). Using GPUs for processing usually means that users must learn CUDA; a parallel programming language for hardware, so Fuzzy engineered the models so they could be called via .NET or .DLL; making GPU processing more accessible.
The in-database models can be embedded into stored procedures and invoked using ODBC calls. The in-GPU models are invoked via .net or .dll. The functions take advantage of the parallelism inherit in the each platform so they are fast and enable take advantage of the infrastructure already purchased, saving costs. For DB Lytix, the analytics run in the same processing thread as the SQL query. This means the analytics are processed in the database and only the results are moved.
Fuzzy Logix also offers an in-database Scoring and Model Development Engine that supports aggregation and summarization of data, imputation of missing values, outlier identification, transformations and computation of predicted values and probabilities. There is also an Excel add-in to allow analysts who may not expert with writing SQL to set up and involve the algorithms on the tables or views in the database. The add-in builds the SQL dynamically, performs the analysis in-database and presents only the computed results in Excel.
Fuzzy Logix targets four distinct communities with business analytics. First the "quant" or analytic expert community can use the algorithms to rapidly create, iterate and deploy models. They can also use them as building blocks for more advanced algorithms. End users and analysts using dashboards and ad-hoc query tools are also potential users of the routines. Thanks to the integration with SQL, anyone writing SQL statements can use the algorithms and display the results alongside their standard data, integrate it with their graphs etc. Companies that would like to embed analytics into their products can work with Fuzzy Logix via OEM relationships to leverage their existing library. Finally Fuzzy Logix is working with companies who build databases and database appliances to pre-integrate their algorithms and so make it easier for users of those systems to deploy data mining and predictive analytics.
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Fuzzy Logix is one of the vendors listed in our Decision Management Systems Platform Technologies report.


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Jomonte Suviseshangal teaser: Dulquer Salmaan is mischievous and quirky, watch video
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He had even said that getting the opportunity to work in this film, directed by veteran director Sathyan Anthikad, is a "dream come true moment for him."
The teaser gives a sneak peek at Jomon's character, who seems to be a misfit. "So here is a teaser for a film I'm very excited about(sic)! Dulquer oozes boyish charm and freshness, hinting that it will be a good family entertainer and has a lot of scope for situation comedy. Written by Manoj Kumar R
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Published:November 27, 2016 10:42 am
Jomonte Suviseshangal is Dulquer Salman's much-awaited film
Quite an interesting line-up of Malayalam films is waiting to hit the screens this December. The makers of superstar Mohanlal's Munthirivallikal Thalirkkumbol, Prithviraj's Ezra and Dulquer Salmaan's much-awaited film Jomonte Suviseshangal are planning to release the films during the Christmas holidays. While he looks like a father who is extremely fond of his son, he finds it very hard to stomach his mischief. He also wrote that he was very excited about his upcoming film. Jomonte Suvisheshangal !."
Dulquer had been looking forward to this project from the beginning. A little more than a minute-long teaser of Jomonte Suviseshangal was shared by Dulquer on his Twitter account. The teaser also introduces Mukesh, who plays Dulquer's father.
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The Advertising Standard Authority's remit will shortly cover Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA). The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has extended the CAP Code to cover this increasingly developed form of targeted advertising with a new series of Rules. OBA involves the collaboration of advertising networks and third parties to deliver customised advertising based upon deep analysis of a user's web browsing activity. From 4 February 2013, the ASA will require advertisers and other 'third parties' to provide notice to web users, in or around online display advertisements that OBA is taking place. This notice must then link to a mechanism whereby users can opt out of receiving OBA from that third party. The third parties themselves must provide a notice on their website that they use data for OBA and the understanding is that most third parties will then link to an industry-wide website whereby users can choose the type of third parties which can target them with advertisements. Not only this but third parties will be required to gain explicit consent from users before using forms of OBA and they will be prohibited from targeting children aged 12 and under. CAP's rules on OBA do not apply to contextual advertising, web analytics, ad reporting or the use of OBA in rich media, in-stream videos online or on mobile devices but once these regulations begin operating, we may see further extension.
CAP and the ASA have stated that they hope to resolve any breaches of the Code quickly between the parties but failing this the ASA will carry out a formal investigation and publish an adjudication where necessary and so again as soon as these regulations begin to be enforced we may have a better idea of their application and consequence in practice. CAP has published a Help Note on this new development, available here.


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The OIE Veterinary Education Twinning Programme between the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) began in January 2015 with funding for an initial period of 3 years. It is one of the first education twinning programmes endorsed by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The aim of the program is to establish a knowledge exchange platform to share best educational and research practice in the broad field of Veterinary Public Health and to use this platform to facilitate the long term engagement of RVC and JUST in Veterinary Public Health training and research in the Middle East and the Arab region. To achieve this overall aim we will pursue a number of specific objectives in relation to three focus areas: undergraduate education, postgraduate education and continuous professional development.
RVC ranked top UK and European vet school and third in the world!
The Royal Veterinary College, University of London (RVC) has been ranked as one of the top three veterinary schools in the world by the prestigious QS World University Rankings.
The winners received their awards during the 3-day OIE Global Conference on Biological Threat Reduction.
The OIE is delighted to present you their posters.
Paris, 17 July 2015 – Launched in the framework of the OIE Global Conference on Biological Threat Reduction (celebrated in Paris from 30 June to 2 July), the posters competition was aimed to present results-based activities, from different countries and regions, which seek or have been shown to reduce biological threats from animal pathogens (including zoonoses).
In addition to the 63 speakers of the Conference, more than 30 participants, including experts, policy makers and researchers, had the opportunity to display their work during the conference, specially works linked to the activities that show new national regulatory approaches and capacity building (technical, legislative or governance-focused), research, simulation exercises, networking, novel trainings, policy development, public-private partnerships, and inter-sectoral cooperation (particularly between animal health, public health and security sectors).
The competition was highly welcomed by the participants in the conference and the quality of the content of the posters received was outstanding, and with three prizes, the judges were spoilt for choice.
The goal of the poster awarded with the 1st prize, "Animals as Sentinels for Agents of Bioterrorism: A Retrospective Analysis of the West Nile Virus and Rift Valley Fever Outbreaks of 2009 to 2011 in South Africa" (by B.A. Lubisi and M. Romito), is to train animal health investigators and law enforcement to work as a cohesive team, from the start, to determine the outbreak origin and mitigate the spread of the zoonotic, emerging, and/or foreign animal disease before it spills over into the human population.
The 2nd prize, "Building capacity for biological threat reduction in the Middle East: RVC & JUST – an OIE educational twinning initiative" (by P.M. Holloway, I.I. Mussallam, M.C. Whiting, E.A. Abu-Basha, M.M. Ababneh, and J. Guitian) explains the current OIE twinning initiative between the Royal Veterinary College, London (RVC) and Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid (JUST) by representing one of the very first examples of such a relationship, and seeks to establish the provision of state-of-the-art veterinary public health training in the Middle East and Arab World.
"The Exercise SAMBIO 2013: Lessons learned and follow up project" (by A. Tubbin and R. Knutsson), awarded with the 3rd prize, shows how this pilot exercise was the first time organisations responsible for coordination, law enforcement authorities, and authorities responsible for prevention of communicable diseases on a national level trained together during an exercise.


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M.Goodall, A.Tagg British Aircraft before the Great War (Schiffer)
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PASSAT monoplane Seagull
Although lacking confirmation, it seems likely that Passat converted the ornithopter into a monoplane with variable incidence wings, as illustrated in Flight 3 February 1912 (p.109). Reportedly fitted with a 15hp Anzani engine, it suffered from engine problems, but may have been the machine with which flights of 100-150 yards were achieved on Wimbledon Common in 1912.
Passat became a naturalized Englishman and, much later, made further attempts with flapping wings at Surbiton, on a machine he termed a 'Helithopter.'
Flight, January 27, 1916.
A Direct-Lift Aeroplane
MANY of our readers will doubtless remember the experiments with an ornithopter, or flapping-wing, machine, which were made by M. Passat in 1910, and they will be interested to hear that, not having obtained the results anticipated, chiefly owing to mechanical difficulties in obtaining the wing movements, he has been working for some time on entirely different lines. With his latest machine, which may be described as being of the orthopter type # having revolving wings # he has obtained results which are distinctly encouraging. It is of course impossible to give full details of the invention, but it may be said that, instead of air-screws and planes as usually fitted, M. Passat employs a series of revolving wings, arranged in pairs and moving in opposite directions, so that the blades descend on the outward half of their path. By means of an ingenious cam arrangement each blade on its down stroke presents its full surface to the air, thus producing a lifting effect, while on the upstroke it is turned edgeways, i.e., "feathers," so that it offers a minimum resistance during its upward passage through the air. With the object of demonstrating his theories, M. Passat has built a model, which he will gladly show to anyone who is interested if they will communicate with hm at 106, Durham Road, Wimbledon.
Flight, August 17, 1916.
AIRISMS FROM THE FOUR WINDS,
THERE appears to be something in the Passat wing-flapping machine, and since its original debut it has passed quite beyond the wild freak machine stage. Only shows what solid conviction and consistent perseverance will do. It is only at present a decent sized crude model, but the lift is there, the power of forward motion appears to be, whilst after a short demonstration controllability and the ability to glide seem not impossible.
Mons. Passat has for a number of years been experimenting quietly with wing-flapping machines, and has now succeeded in getting some quite promising results. In our photograph he is seen at the handle of his latest hand-operated model. Crude as it is, Mons. Passat demonstrated to us recently that he can lift with this model a weight of 80 lbs. This weight, it is true, is only lifted momentarily and not sustained for any prolonged period, but in view of the primitive arrangement even this is not bad for efficiency. Assuming that a man can develop for a short period one-fifth of a horsepower, this would give a lift, if driven by a petrol engine, of 400 lbs. per h.p., which is a somewhat startling figure. It would appear that the research authorities might not be ill-advised in granting Mons. Passat's method of imitating the flight of a bird a trial under more favourable conditions and with a mechanically improved model.
M. Passat with one of early experimental machines.
M. B. Passat and his monoplane "Sea-gull," which was tried at Brooklands last summer, and since then, owing to engine trouble, experiments have been delayed. He expects to take the machine to Brooklands again soon to resume his attempts at flight. The wings can be closed in five minutes ready for transit. M. Passat's ambition Is to bring out a machine which will hover for long distances with the engine stopped.
Mons. Passat and his hand-operated flapping-wing model to which reference was made in "FLIGHT" some weeks ago.


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Show #11/5911. Carve Out Your Own Piece Of Paradise
How Steve Started Gardening
This garden looks fantastic and Eric wants to know how STEVE GOT STARTED as a gardener. He started as an estate manager for a large estate on the Gold Coast area of Long island. It was owned by a not for profit and the budget was really small. He enjoyed the gardening aspects but as well enjoyed the research part of the job. He found it especially fascinating that 2 plants could be the same plant but be such different varieties and look totally different.
Overview Of Steve's Garden
Eric asks Steve for an OVERVIEW OF HIS GARDEN. How many plants are in this garden and how long has he been gardening this space and how did he approach the design? This is about 1/6 of an acre, so it's a small lot. When he 1st came here the yard and garden had very straight lines. He tried to create a lot of curves and tried to shape the garden in ways that pull you in.
Steve thinks about the plants he wants together, he thinks about COMBINATIONS. What plant would look good with another plant? For example, one plant may have a little gold coloration on its rim and another plant really bright gold foliage, then another plant next to it might be kind of grassy and textured and another might have purple foliage and provide a great contrast with the gold.
Plants That Play Well Together
As discussed, one of the challenges of a collectors garden is making the PLANTS PLAY WELL TOGETHER. Eric asks Steve to share some of the pleasant surprises, some things that worked well by design. Steve likes combining Butterfly Bush and Bleeding Heart. The reason is the Bleeding Heart comes into its glory in early spring, just around the same time that he's pruning back the Butterfly Bush.
Go Vertical
Succession planting is especially effective in gardens that don't have a lot of space but there is another way to maximize our space and increase our views. And that is by using VERTICAL ELEMENTS. Steve has done a great job of that with a number of interesting standards. Steve enjoys making standards out of vines or shrubs that would normally not be grown as a small tree.
2nd Garden
When they started they jumped in with both feet, they went big. They were standing on their back deck and overlooking a yard that had truly grown in. The English Ivy was taking over. They got the idea of 3 DIFFERENT GARDEN AREAS. Skip has a friend that is a builder and expert bobcat operator and they cut in some key features like the stream that leads down to a waterfall and into a pond.
The GROTTO is certainly one of the most interesting garden rooms and must have been a place that required a lot of energy. Skip is proud of the grotto and it did take a lot of work. Skip needed a way to get to the upper level, thus came up with this idea. He prowled the internet and found a guy in Pennsylvania with a wide selection of rocks.
Theme Gardens
Skip has THEME GARDENS throughout. The huchera garden is whimsical. Around every turn and corner there is a nice display and that's intentional. Skip loves hucheras and they thrive in this spot, which has partial sunlight. There are also quite a few perennials on the property. He has a fern garden next to an antique fence and pergola.
But the punctuation point of the whole garden is the POND. It was one of the oldest and original features in this garden. Now it's grown in and mature and looks great. Skip feels this whole garden has been an evolution. It started with a lot of water lilies from native areas and now it's changed to a lot of yellow flag iris and arrowhead which is a delight.
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Whether your garden is a small, intimate courtyard or a giant historic mansion the goal is the same, to carve out your own little piece of paradise. In this Episode GardenSMART looks at the handy work of 2 gardeners who have done just that on Long Island, New York.
Long Island, New York is a mere 180 miles long and 23 miles wide yet it houses a population of over 7.5 million people. It once was called the Gold Coast due to its tremendous wealth and opulence. It's residents have over time included the Vanderbilt's and Guggenheim's as well as famous entertainers such as Groucho Marx and today Jennifer Lopez. One of the premier manors on Long Island is Glen Cove Mansion. It was the estate of Charles Pratt and typified the amazing residences that inspired the Great Gadsby. Today Long Island is still well known for its beauty and charm as well as its love of gardens. In this Episode we explore 2 of Long Island's hidden gems.
Eric feels that one of the best parts of this job is finding the tucked away, diamonds in the rough gardens that most folks will never get to see. In many cases there is a rich story that accompanies these gardens and chronicles the passion and determination of the men and women behind these amazing places. In this Episode we visit Steve Young and Skip Lowell, both learned how to garden by starting small and seeing what works. Over the years their gardens have evolved into their own versions of paradise and reflect their personalities. We discuss what it takes to build a beautiful garden and how to work with dynamic plant combinations. Skip and Steve give us behind the scenes tours and discuss how they overcame the challenges they encountered as well as the many unanticipated surprises they found along the way.
Eric next meets Steve Young. Steve is an avid home gardener as well as a consummate plant collector. Eric welcomes Steve to GardenSMART. Steve in turn welcomes Eric to his garden. This garden looks fantastic and Eric wants to know how STEVE GOT STARTED as a gardener. He started as an estate manager for a large estate on the Gold Coast area of Long island. It was owned by a not for profit and the budget was really small. He enjoyed the gardening aspects but as well enjoyed the research part of the job. He found it especially fascinating that 2 plants could be the same plant but be such different varieties and look totally different. That piqued his interest in collecting plants, growing a collection and watching them develop. The design aspect developed from that. Some of Eric's favorite gardens are those designed and developed effectively by folks who don't have a garden design degree but instead look at what the plant is doing and then figure out how they would work together. That is a lot of what Steve did as an estate manager and what he is doing here in the front yard. The estate manager job provided Steve a lot of time for practice, experimentation and research. Now when he designs in his yard he takes into consideration textures of the plants and colors of foliage as opposed to flower colors and when they bloom. When they bloom then becomes the icing on the cake. It's always important to remember we will be looking at the foliage of the plant through the lions share of the season and the bloom is just the occasional sneeze.
Eric asks Steve for an OVERVIEW OF HIS GARDEN. How many plants are in this garden and how long has he been gardening this space and how did he approach the design? This is about 1/6 of an acre, so it's a small lot. When he 1st came here the yard and garden had very straight lines. He tried to create a lot of curves and tried to shape the garden in ways that pull you in. He has about 300 varieties, so its quite a collection. And it's been fun to collect. Steve has tried to take in a lot of information from catalogues, gardening books, gardening magazines and design books. But he is always asking himself if he wants to use that information. Just because it says he should or shouldn't do this, should he? He's constantly asking himself what do I really want to create, what do I want this garden to be? He wants his garden to be what he wants. And he thinks he's done that and continues to do that as the garden develops and matures. He finds it enjoyable to see the plants develop and grow and mature. Eric feels that every individual garden we visit evokes a very different experience. What we're getting is a little piece of the gardeners personality. And collectors gardens are particularly interesting because it's a smattering of plants that gardener finds interesting as they go through catalogues and visit nurseries. Eric finds it interesting to see how gardeners incorporate that input into their gardens.
Steve has winding rows lined with grass and really interesting plants and Eric wonders the process Steve goes through after he finds the perfect plant, then brings it home. How does he determine where he wants that plant to go? Steve thinks about the plants he wants together, he thinks about COMBINATIONS. What plant would look good with another plant? For example, one plant may have a little gold coloration on its rim and another plant really bright gold foliage, then another plant next to it might be kind of grassy and textured and another might have purple foliage and provide a great contrast with the gold. So he thinks of groupings as he goes along and decides how he wants each individual area to look. Eric wonders if Steve is the type gardener that comes in later with a shovel and moves a plant that didn't work in one particular area. Yes, Steve is guilty as charged, absolutely. Sometimes something just doesn't look right or sometimes a plant just doesn't grow in an area like he wanted, so it might just be happier in another area. He will move it and there it will do what it was supposed to do, it comes in to its full glory and seems happy and Steve is then glad he moved it so will then move another plant and experiment. And that's an important thing to remember when gardening. Gardening is often a progression and oftentimes the 1st space we pick for a plant is not where it's ultimately going to end up. Having the flexibility and creativity to make sure the right plant ends up in the right space can be a fun part of gardening.
As discussed, one of the challenges of a collectors garden is making the PLANTS PLAY WELL TOGETHER. Eric asks Steve to share some of the pleasant surprises, some things that worked well by design. Steve likes combining Butterfly Bush and Bleeding Heart. The reason is the Bleeding Heart comes into its glory in early spring, just around the same time that he's pruning back the Butterfly Bush. So instead of having an empty space, the Bleeding Heart is the star. Then as the Bleeding Heart is starting to decline the Butterfly Bush is coming on and filling the space. Thus Steve finds them to be great partners especially for a garden that has limited space. And, that's a good point, particularly in tight gardens, have plants that perform at different times of the year. It's a great tip to have plants occupy the same footprint knowing that as one is declining the other is coming on. And that is a tip often employed with spring bulbs. Most bulbs are going to bloom early in spring, then their foliage declines throughout the mid part of the season. That's not always the most attractive thing to look at but we do need to leave the foliage on so that the energy produced in those leaves is able to be returned to the bulbs enabling the bulbs to have nice blooms again the next season. Eric has often seen annuals planted with spring bulbs, Steve has geraniums coming through his tulips and in time will completely cover the bulbs foliage. This provides the luxury of allowing that foliage to stay but not look unsightly. Steve thinks they work well together. He also likes to combine ornamental grasses with Quince. We cut the grasses in early spring, leaving an empty space. The Quince is beautiful in spring, so planting it behind the ornamental grass shows off the Quince. Then as the Quince declines the grass is coming up which then hides the Quince which doesn't look so great in the off season. Eric noticed another great combination. The Deutzia Chardonay Perls, one of Eric's favorite shrubs, with its wonderful chartreuse foliage and mountains of white flowers has been paired with some neat hostas. Steve is picking up some of the color characteristics that are very compatible with these two plants. Steve likes doing this, he feels it's fun and playful and he likes to have a playful garden.
Succession planting is especially effective in gardens that don't have a lot of space but there is another way to maximize our space and increase our views. And that is by using VERTICAL ELEMENTS. Steve has done a great job of that with a number of interesting standards. Steve enjoys making standards out of vines or shrubs that would normally not be grown as a small tree. He enjoys the process of taking a plant like Hydrangea paniculata, weeping beech or Catinis or certain types of Crepe Myrtle and from year to year pruning off side branches and getting it to the height he wants and then letting it do its thing. It's fun. He typically starts them off as small plants. The hydrangea started very small, the same with the Wisteria which is in its 2nd season. Eventually it will be about 6 feet tall. And that's a good tip for gardeners. Start with small plants, often times it can be tempting to plant something large. By starting with something small your relationship with that plant is one of the biggest advantages. They are allowed to integrate into the native soil better when you start small and with younger, smaller plants one typically doesn't end up with circling roots that can oftentimes occur with older container plants. And it gives you time to figure out how that plant will integrate into your landscape. Steve enjoys that part of the process.
Eric is enjoying Steve's garden but there is another garden to visit. So, he thanks Steve. Steve has done an amazing job of taking these rare and unusual, crazy, variegated plants with different foliage and textures and married them together into a wonderful design that feels intimate and is beautiful. Thanks for sharing your time with us Steve.
The 2nd stop on our tour is the home of Skip and Linda. Skip tells us a little about himself. He is retired now but started at Syracuse University, College of Forestry. He majored in wood and chemistry but it was later in life that he learned about plants, their structure and habits and found that interesting. He didn't start really gardening until about 20 years ago after he and Linda returned from France. They visited Giverny and Monets Garden and were so thrilled by it they wanted their own. They both thought maybe they could do something like that. Maybe. That is one of the things about wonderful public gardens they inspire folks to get involved in gardening. So they decided to dig in.
When they started they jumped in with both feet, they went big. They were standing on their back deck and overlooking a yard that had truly grown in. The English Ivy was taking over. They got the idea of 3 DIFFERENT GARDEN AREAS. Skip has a friend that is a builder and expert bobcat operator and they cut in some key features like the stream that leads down to a waterfall and into a pond. He carved some depressions out, made some berms and used logs to back up the berms. They scraped off all the ivy resulting in a lot of brown dirt. They went back in with beautiful flowering shrubs initially. They found closeout garden centers which had rhododendrons that were small at the time. Skip has kept them pruned back over the years. They also purchased Andromeda's and Azaleas, many at close out prices. These bigger plants have provided the bones of this landscape.
They next talk about the hardscape. Skip has used a lot of stonework for the walls and the beautiful patio. Many of these rocks came from an art center and were used for curbs. One can still see some of the yellow curb marks on the blocks. The grotto is another area with a lot of stonework as does the waterfall inside the grotto. The waterfalls are made out of Pennsylvania fieldstone. It's easy to lay up. As well rocks line a 30 foot stream that feeds the main pond.
The GROTTO is certainly one of the most interesting garden rooms and must have been a place that required a lot of energy. Skip is proud of the grotto and it did take a lot of work. Skip needed a way to get to the upper level, thus came up with this idea. He prowled the internet and found a guy in Pennsylvania with a wide selection of rocks. Skip told him he needed many different types of stones. He didn't want regular skids, instead 16 skids with steps, big stones, flat ones, everything he could think of. And that's what he did. A big flatbed truck arrived with 16 skids of stones. It works, the grotto transports one into something that feels very old world Europe. And, it's grown in nicely, he has Leucothoe, willow leaf cotoneaster, silver edge fern, yellow flag iris and wants to add caladiums.
Skip has THEME GARDENS throughout. The huchera garden is whimsical. Around every turn and corner there is a nice display and that's intentional. Skip loves hucheras and they thrive in this spot, which has partial sunlight. There are also quite a few perennials on the property. He has a fern garden next to an antique fence and pergola. Another path has a great stand of hostas, including many rare hostas. There is something lush and tropical about the foliage of hostas, it's one of the gentlest plants in Skip's mind. It's leaves are so large and they seem to thrive underneath the Yew trees and in the shade.
But the punctuation point of the whole garden is the POND. It was one of the oldest and original features in this garden. Now it's grown in and mature and looks great. Skip feels this whole garden has been an evolution. It started with a lot of water lilies from native areas and now it's changed to a lot of yellow flag iris and arrowhead which is a delight. Unfortunately duckweed has found its way into this garden. The moss stands out to Eric. Many gardeners hate moss, others want it, Skip has encouraged it. This looks like a soft, woodland carpet. How did he establish the moss? It grows naturally here because the soil has a relatively acidic PH. He's learned that if he puts acidic fertilizer it promotes new moss growth. He likes moss because he doesn't need to mow, it's low maintenance and looks very natural.
Skip comments on the partition at the back of his garden, basically a wall with lovely bamboo. It started with 1 inch canes and now gets 40 or so canes every year, many are 40 feet tall and 2 inches in diameter. He likes the noise of it swaying in the breeze, he can hear it all the way up on the deck. But it will spread and Skip is mindful of controlling its expansion into the rest of the garden.
Our time has come to a close. Eric thanks Skip for joining us today and for showing us his garden. It's obvious this has been a labor of love. Skip notices Linda and tells us he would be remiss if he didn't acknowledge her help with this garden. She is his partner and brings the garden inside with lovely cuttings each day. And that's a thrill.
Few things are more special than spending the day with a gardener and their garden. They share with us their passion for their plants as well as the many lessons they've learned over the years. Thanks Steve, Skip and Linda. You have wonderful gardens.


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No Springtime for Palestinians?
By Sol Stern • Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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In his May 19 speech celebrating the Arab Spring, President Obama expressed enthusiasm for the "movements for change" that have been unseating tyrants previously supported or tolerated by the United States. In language echoing that of his despised rival George W. Bush, he adopted as his own the idea of promoting democracy in the Middle East, not only as a bedrock principle of American foreign policy but as an approach that will actually increase the chances for peace and stability.
In outlining his new vision, an abrupt if unacknowledged departure from his earlier policy, the President propounded six "principles" that will henceforth guide the American response to the region: opposition to repressive government combined with support for the rights of free speech, freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of religion, equality of men and women under the law, and "the right to choose your own leaders." It "will be the policy of the United States," he summed up, "to promote reform across the region, and to support transitions to democracy."
Among those commentators otherwise gratified by the President's turnabout, some focused on conspicuous omissions from his list of regional problem areas, notably Saudi Arabia. Many more focused on the last third of his speech, where he illogically and unhelpfully pivoted from the issue of democracy to the stalled Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations. Less noticed but even more striking is that in doing so, he tossed overboard his own major theme: the transformative power of Arab democracy.
Do not the Palestinians themselves, at least as much as any of the other peoples of the Middle East, need a new beginning of consensual government? And might not a springtime of freedom among them blossom into a force for peace and reconciliation in the Holy Land? Either the thought never occurred to the President or his advisers—a sign of criminal negligence—or it occurred and was, correctly, dismissed as fatal to their misbegotten plans for a rapid "solution" of the conflict with Israel.
Consider Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians suffer under a regime so repressive that Mubarak's Egypt seems like a bastion of liberty by comparison. How did this regime come about? In August 2005, the Israeli government led by Ariel Sharon went beyond what the President is now pressuring Benjamin Netanyahu to do: namely, accept as a negotiating principle the return to the pre-June 1967 lines with "land swaps."
Six years ago in Gaza, Israel voluntarily withdrew its forces all the way back to the pre-1967 lines, without even asking for land swaps that would have preserved the Jewish settlements there. Not only did the withdrawal from Gaza make possible the birth of a Palestinian mini-state, but, in an added bonus, Israel turned over to the Palestinians a thriving flower industry to help jumpstart the local economy. Their response: first they destroyed the donated greenhouses, then they systematically destroyed any semblance of democracy or civil rights in their "liberated" territory.
Following the practice of the Muslim Brotherhood, itself consciously modeled on the practice of 20th-century European fascism, the Hamas terrorist organization participated in one election, one time. In its lightning coup, leaders of the rival Fatah party were murdered in their offices and thrown from the roof of the parliament building.
Hamas's official 1988 charter calls explicitly for the replacement of Israel by a Palestinian Islamic state. Through its indiscriminate rocketing of Israeli towns, Gaza's ruling party has made clear that it means what it says. For Hamas, the 1967 line is of little interest; the struggle has always been, and remains, over the 1947 lines, set by the UN in the partition plan calling for a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian Arab one. To ensure that all Palestinians remain steadfast in that armed struggle, Hamas rapidly stamped out the last vestiges of freedom of speech, press, and religion, and consolidated its control over independent civic institutions.
And yet, despite its horrific human-rights record, the Hamas regime in Gaza has received nothing like the disapprobation and pressure for democratic reform directed by Washington against the far more moderate governments of Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain. Nor has President Obama ever suggested to its leader, Ismael Haniya, that he either move toward reform or move out. To the contrary: even as the administration hectors Israel to loosen its economic and military sanctions, it props up radical Islamist rule in Gaza by contributing hundreds of millions of dollars toward the salaries of Hamas officials. When it comes to the region's most totalitarian and war-obsessed regime, the President's newfound grasp of the linkage between political freedom and a more peaceful Middle East is nowhere to be seen.
Then there are the Palestinians living on the West Bank under the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA). There, the picture is undeniably somewhat brighter. President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to build, with the generous help of outside donors, some of the economic and political infrastructure of a future independent state have brought an expansion of civic institutions and the emergence of a Westernized entrepreneurial and professional class. To that extent, the prospect of further and genuinely democratic reforms has been enhanced.
But only to that extent. The ruling Fatah party, for instance, has still not relaxed its near-absolute control of political speech, the very touchstone of a free society. Not only are supporters of Hamas regularly imprisoned without any judicial process but, more significantly, there are no independent media and certainly no public debate regarding peace negotiations and future relations with a Jewish state.
On the problem of the 1948 Arab refugees and their descendants, the single most important issue affecting the future of all Palestinians, the West Bank under President Abbas might as well be a one-party state. No dissent is tolerated from the official line, promulgated by Abbas time and again: the absolute "right of return" to Israel of the surviving refugees and their millions of descendants. To the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians confined to camps in the West Bank itself, the PA's propaganda apparatus continues to pledge an imminent day of deliverance—as if Abbas did not have it within his writ to tear down the walls of those camps tomorrow and help their wretched inmates integrate themselves into the surrounding society.
On May 15 of this year, commemorating the Palestinian nakba (the "catastrophe" of Israel's independence), PA television played songs and presented pageants about the imminent return of the refugees to Jaffa and Haifa. The following day, just prior to the Obama-Netanyahu meeting, Abbas published an op-ed in the New York Times repeating the lie at the heart of the nakba "narrative": that in 1947-48, the Jews of Palestine launched unprovoked attacks against defenseless Arabs, forcing them to flee their own country, and that not until after these acts of aggression did five foreign Arab armies intervene to save what could be saved.
No one living under Palestinian rule dares publicly question this lie. No historian dares offer his people a balanced account of the 1948 war, of who attacked whom, and of the reasons for the flight of the refugees. As long as this remains the case, the "right of return," far more than any question of borders, will remain the principal roadblock to successful peace negotiations.
Open debate in Israel's vibrant political democracy has led to significant reconsiderations of its policies in the territories won in the 1967 Six-Day war, culminating in a consensus for a two-state solution to the conflict with the Palestinians. We will know that Israel has a partner for peace negotiations when, with or without his help, President Obama's six principles will have struck roots among the Palestinians themselves and drawn them into the light of freedom.
Sol Stern is a contributing editor of City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute.
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Mark Goldberg on May 25, 2011 at 7:45 am (Reply)
Your correspondent has clearly not read Benny Morris's account of 1948, nor James Wostenholme's of post-occupation Gaza.
Neither men could be called leftists, yet both offer a much more nuanced account than this very skewed and somewhat tired rhetoric.
Ellen on May 25, 2011 at 9:09 am (Reply)
Good piece, Mr. Stern. You should send a copy to Thomas Friedman at the NYT Editorial page, whose quality is now well beneath even a second-tier journal (except the occasional Maureen Dowd bitter fruits piece). Bibi Netanyahu is right on target in all of his demands. They are minimum demands. It's Friedman himself who is the dinosaur, not Bibi.
Friedman ignores the inconvenient fact that everything he recommends was already tried at Oslo and disastrously failed, or offered to the Palestinians and turned down before. There is no peace partner for Israel on the Palestinian side, and never has been. They want to role back the clock to 1947, and it's not going to happen. The Oslo segment of Israeli public opinion has disappeared, in the meantime, and the Israeli electorate is now a center-right electorate, unlikely to move left again. He is very out-of-data in his understanding of Israel.
The Palestinian leadership can't allow self-criticism because if they did, the truth of how badly they have led their imprisoned constituency would lead to their permanent banishment, just like Ben Ali and Mubarak. So, they will continue to peddle lies, and Israel will continue to build settlements. This is the absolutely preordained outcome of their policies. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Jacob Arnon on May 26, 2011 at 10:15 am (Reply)
Mark Goldberg "Your correspondent has clearly not read Benny Morris's account of 1948..."
Mark I read Morris' "1948" and his book supports Sol Stern's view not yours.
Morris is very clear that the Arabs in Mandate Palestine launched attacks on the Jewish communities and started the first Arab war against the Jews who fought to defend themselves.
David Kruse on June 7, 2011 at 6:44 am (Reply)
As with many of Sol Stern's articles, this one is a mixed bag. Here are some points to consider, some of which I already covered in my reply to his City Journal article 'The Nakba Obsession':
1. Sharon's withdrawal was a ploy to stall the peace process and avoid any political process with the Palestinians. As Dov Weissglass, Sharon's lawyer, told Ha'aretz: 'The disengagement is formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians...And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion about the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem.' Basically, Sharon wanted the Palestinians to 'turn into Finns.'
2. 'Al-Naqba' is a perfectly appropriate way for Palestinians to describe Israel's birth. Because of Israel the Palestinians were expelled from their homes and had their land taken from them. The Haganah used terror to rid the land of Palestinians. As early as 1936 Ben-Gurion wrote to his son 'The Arabs must make room for the Jews of Eretz Yisrael...if they resist, we will remove them by force.' Who 'started' the '48 war is a moot point; the Zionists wanted the land, and Israel dispossessed a nation of its territory and fragmented a whole society to get it.
3. No, Obama is not going the wrong way about dealing with Hamas and Israel. Obviously Israel has to loosen its already crushing occupation: Palestinians can't think about peace if Israel chokes off their livelihood or keeps stealing more of their land and giving it to settlers. How are the Palestinians supposed to make a land-for-peace deal if Israel steals the very land it's supposed to be giving away? Or how can there be hope for Palestinian sovereignty if Israel's won't even allow Palestinians to move around freely in their own land?
Yes, Hamas is a gaggle of terrorist thugs, but they should not be excluded from any future negotiations. Shlomo Ben-ami, who negotiated with Arafat and Clinton in 2000, points out that Hamas is going through the same dialectic Fatah went through in the '80s before it recognised Israel's right to exist. An exaggeration? Ismail Abu Shnab, a Hamas spokesman, said, 'What is the point in speaking rhetoric? Let's be frank, we cannot destroy Israel. The practical solution is for us to have a state alongside Israel...When we build a Palestinian state, we will not need these militias; all the needs for attack will stop. Everything will change into a civil life' Hamas is disciplined and honours its ceasefires (it's Israel which violates the ceasefires!) It's only a matter of time before Hamas recognises Israel. It has to if it wants to be relevant; Palestinians will not long support a group that holds up the peace process.
4. Stern is right to say Israel currently has no peace partner in the Palestinians - for the moment. Not much headway can be made during civil war. Obviously the Palestinians will have to sort out their own mess before they can deal with their occupiers.
5. Stern is right to castigate the right of return as an obstacle to peace. Palestinians ostensibly recognise a two-state solution, yet insist on a demand that will end the Jewish state through demographic pressure - creating one state wholly under Palestine. It doesn't take a genius to see that Palestinian motives are at best questionable.
Theoretically, the right of return is a just demand. Practically, it is an impossible demand, and would cause a greater injustice than the one it aims to resolve. Maxime Rodinson, no friend to Israel, eloquently touched on this point: 'If the consequences of pressing a just claim are liable to be calamitous or unjust, and too fraught with practical difficulties, there may be grounds for suggesting that it be renounced.'
Moshe Sharrett, Israel's second Prime Minister, said in June 1948: "[the Arabs] must get used to the fact that [their wish to return] is a lost cause." Those words have divided Palestinians and Israelis for over sixty years. These words must now be repeated to bring them together.
Mo on June 8, 2011 at 6:08 am (Reply)
Mr. Kruse: No. 2 of your list is bunk. Most Palestinian Arabs left because of fear of war, their own leadership prompted them to go...read Ephraim Karsh's painstaking work on what happened, "Palestine Betrayed".
I don't deny there were instances of Arabs being forced out by Israeli troops, but these were few in size and number. The vast majority were terrorized by their own leadership. Benny Morris, who earlier in his career would have agreed with you, has changed and now believes that it was not the Jews that deliberately engaged in "ethnic cleansing, while we know that Jews were being murdered in 1921 and 1929 because they were JEWS and living in then-Palestine
Palestinian suffering? Ramallah is booming economically. Even Gaza is improving, and what holds them back is the emphasis on the 'struggle', the internecine fighting between Hamas and Fatah, and Hamas and other orthodox Muslim opposition.
A few seconds of a search engine will back up these assertions.
Finally, this bit of risible nonsense: "Let's be frank, we cannot destroy Israel. The practical solution is for us to have a state alongside Israel...When we build a Palestinian state, we will not need these militias; all the needs for attack will stop. Everything will change into a civil life' Hamas is disciplined and honours its ceasefires".
If true, then why doesn't Hamas rewrite the charter calling for Israel's destruction? Hamas honors its unilateral cease-fires when it hunkers down after murdering 15 year old school children on a bus; the Hamas leadership lost a great many to IAF missiles; so after perpetrating a terrorist act, Hamas immediately calls for a cease-fire to try to keep Israel from targeting its leaders as before, i.e. these cease-fires are a LIE, a cynical ploy to get away, literally, with murder.
It is not, either, that Israel would never negotiate with Hamas, but won't with a Hamas dedicated to murdering Jewish Israelis and officially keeping its goal of the destruction of Israel. Hamas takes that out, says what YOU wrote above, follows through on it (though the militia question is another lie, as the different militias exist because of disparate political views and rivalries. Do they really NEED these many militia groups as...defense against Israel? Hilarious.
Dear Mo,
I didn't say Hamas will change overnight. I said it is showing signs of gradual change. I should have made this clearer, and that's my fault.
Hamas, having now been drawn into the political process, is now finding that it has to 'normalise' itself to accommodate its altered status. As a political organisation it has to deal with the inevitable compromises and dialogues that politics entails. Khaled Mashal, head of Hamas' political bureau, told an Egyptian magazine that the elections forced Hamas to acquire a legal status in the territories. This, he said, could only mean that Hamas would become part of the political fabric of the Palestinian leadership, which would inevitably mean she would have to conduct negotiations with Israel.
But, as Shlomo Ben-ami says, 'It would of course be wrong and misleading to present Hamas' political transformation as a smooth and peaceful affair. As has always been the case with similar movements in the past, the transition to the realm of pragmatic politics is bound to be torturous and ridden with ambivalence.'
Yes, Hamas is still committed to destroying Israel. But it can change. Hamas is more practical than religious; Muhammas Gazal, a Hamas leader, said, "Hamas' charter is not the Qur'an...we are talking about reality, about political solutions.' It behoves Israel to be wary of Hamas, but neither can she ignore her.
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Luna Kafé interview
US - California - Full Moon 78 - 02/16/03
The Mountain Goats
- an interview with
The Other Side Of Florida
- John Darnielle talks
The Mountain Goats are not only currently on their first band tour of Europe in more than six years, they have also released what might as well be the first essential album of the year 2003. Tallahassee is a huge step forward for John Darnielle and his gang, as it's the first album recorded entirely at a professional studio (Tarbox Road, with Tony Doogan producing) and the first on well-known british label 4AD. Some might miss the charm of the cassette-only boombox experiments of the earlier Mountain Goats recordings, but if you like anything between Nick Drake and Neutral Milk Hotel, Tallahassee is an album you can't afford to miss. John Darnielle was kind enough to answer some of our questions.
Lunka Kafé: What's it like to be in the the Mountain Goats at the start of 2003? (and is it any different compared to, say, 1996?)
John: "I feel like I'm about to get to the sweet center of things: don't know if this is clear. But I've been writing songs for some time now and I feel like I've gotten past some of my older, weaker points (overromanticizing things, substituting my own voice for that of my characters) and gained the ability to do what I've always wanted to do (sketch accurate & believable pictures of situations, let my characters speak for themselves). For me it's always about the writing and the singing -- musical trends don't have a whole lot of effect on what I do."
LK: Was using a well-known studio and producer sort of the masterplan behind the album from the start, or did the deal with 4AD just meant you had a bigger budget that you could put to work?
John: "I thought that after All Hail West Texas, my first all-home-recorded album since Zopilote Machine, it was time to try new things. So when I thought about that, I thought: "if I went into a big studio, what kind of songs would I want to sing?" And immediately it was like the Alpha couple, these two people who used to haunt my songs a few years back, were there, sort of jumping up and down and saying: "We're still here! Hello hello!" And I wanted to give them a kind of dignified place in which to drink & fight & try to learn to love each other right."
LK: Did you set yourself different goals than usual?
John: "I usually don't work with goals - maybe small goals, like "here's a song with a mean title, let's try to make the song a mean cruel thing too" but nothing more ambitious than that."
LK: What do you find inspiring these days?
John: "It's always new records and books! And also horror movies, which I watched while writing Tallahassee: Dario Argento movies & documentaries about women serving life sentences in prison. Also I take inspiration from biographies of people - recently Bruckner for example. There is something so sad in the way he always revised, revised, revised his works in the hopes that they'd be received well by the rich Austrian society-people - Bruckner himself coming from a poorer background. The melancholy mood of real life stories like that one tends to put me in a songwriting mood."
LK: Do you feel a different kind of (for a lack of a better word) "responsibility" for your band and music now that your records are widely available through 4AD? Is your approach the same regardless if it's an album on an established label like 4AD or a limited edition of 300 vinyl only single?
John: "Oh, I feel the same responsibility if it's an edition of 25 or 25,000 - my obligation is to my listeners, whether there are lots of them or only a few. I know this sounds very cliché but I mean it - I am thankful in my heart that people take the time to hear my songs and so I always do my best to write songs that will somehow reward my listeners. Sometimes that means writing songs that may confound them (like the very obscure 3" CD On Juhu Beach) but I put the same amount of work into a tiny release as I do into a big one."
LK: Do you notice a shift in the dynamics within the band with every new record/"phase" or are the roles within the group pretty much set by now?
John: "I don't think there are really any set roles outside of the obvious: I'm the singer & I write the stuff, you know, and so on. Insofar as the band is more or less a dictatorship run by me, no, there isn't much change in the dynamic." :-)
LK: You obviously like concept records a lot - most people would probably think it's harder to work within a conceptual framework - is that different for you or do you just like the challenge?
John: "Working with bigger concepts gives me more freedom - the characters get more complicated & do more exciting things, and surprise me sometimes, and I get really emotional about them. I don't know that big-concept versus "normal" songs (single miniature song-events) is really a harder vs. easier thing though: just different. I really enjoy putting flesh onto my characters' bones and for me the best way to do that is by giving them a number of songs to live in."
LK: Do you still work quite fast these days or does it take you hours and days to figure out what you want to do with a song and how it will fit into the bigger concept?
John: "Both! Some songs take me a long time to write, especially when the lyric structure is a somewhat complicated one ("Oceanographer's Choice" for example took me all day), others just invade my body like a fever. But the germ of the song usually comes the same way it always has: in a quick, quiet second, not a flash of inspiration but a sort of mute half-second where I get an image that seems to hold more than it's telling me. And I write down the image (or the phrase, or place-name) and it starts to unwrap itself."
LK: As far as the "Alpha couple" [two characters that often pop up on Mountain Goats records] is concerned - did you intent that they would become recurring characters all along or is that something that just took a life of it's own?
John: "They kind of barge into my head from time to time - when I first started writing about them it was for a very specifically limited series of poems but once they got into the songs they got harder to control. I love it when characters sort of start gate-crashing their way into my songs, though, it's hilarious to be working on a song and then suddenly say to myself "Wait a minute...whose song is this? Oh Christ it's those awful Alpha people again, I hope they haven't gone and hurt anybody yet."
LK: As I'm sure that for quite a few of our readers Tallahassee will be the first Mountain Goats album they get to hear. So which of your previous records would you consider a good "starting point" for someone wanting to seek out more stuff by TMG?
John: "I'd say The Coroner's Gambit might be a safe after-Tallahassee choice: it's part small studio, part home-recording. But I'm really quite partial to All Hail West Texas, which is very very raw, all home-recordings. I guess it depends on what they'd liked about Tallahassee - if the love story & the hard drinking, then All Hail West Texas is the way to go. The Coroner's Gambit is an album about death and so if somebody wanted the darker stuff that'd be where they could get it."
LK: Was there a turning point, where you realised that this band would probably last longer/be bigger than you would've ever imagined? And do you think of the band as "a career" now more than before?
John: "I try not to think about "career" any more than I absolutely have to; I like to focus as much as I can just on the songs, and on singing the songs, and on getting to know the people who like the songs. I do remember playing a show in Berlin once and thinking "I want to keep singing until I grow old and die, I want to sing forever" and after the show thinking that writing & singing songs wasn't a phase but something I was into for the long run."
LK: Do you plan to make your upcoming concerts a "concept" show to tie in with the album? I'm told you have over 300 songs, so there's obviously a lot of material to chose from? How dod you come up with a setlist?
John: "I plot the setlists well in advance of leaving on tour - I get out my records and listen to them and see which songs work for me, and Peter and I talk about what we want to play. But then usually I am most excited about the brand-new songs, the ones nobody's heard yet. "Concept" show? Well, we play stuff from more or less all the albums; most sets have a sort of loose narrative motion to them but we're not just going to play the new album - we haven't been to Europe together since '96 and there've been several songs I've been dying to play for old friends out there for a long time."
LK: I guess the 4AD graphics dept. is responsible for the lovely cover artwork - how important is the packaging to you and much much input did yopu have this time around?
John: "Packaging's really important to me but since v23 is such a great designer I just told 'em to do what they liked. We talked about what mood to strike & what sorts of images I had in mind, and then they e-mailed me the images and I was completely blown away. Vaughan Oliver and Chris Bigg, who did the cover, are such great visionary people - I can't even describe how totally ecstatic I was when I first saw the whole cover-package."
LK: Last question - would you be willing and able to recommed five underrated records, or maybe five records that played a crucial role in making Tallahassee?
John: "Lifter Puller's Fiestas and Fiascos; The Stockholm Monsters' Alma Mater; Jean-Luc Guillonet's Axene; Kataklysm's Epic: the Poetry of War; the complete recorded works of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons... People always think I'm trying to be funny by liking such different kinds of music but I'm not."
Copyright © 2003 Carsten Wohlfeld
You may also want to check out our Mountain Goats articles/reviews: - another interview with John Darnielle, Tallahasse, The Life Of The World To Come.


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Police: Confrontation between students sparked Northern Arizona University shooting
Posted: Oct 9, 2015 / 04:45 AM MDT / Updated: Oct 9, 2015 / 04:45 AM MDT
A shooting at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff killed one person on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A confrontation between students in a parking lot at Northern Arizona University turned deadly overnight Friday when, police say, a freshman pulled a gun and shot four male students — killing one.
What led the suspect, identified by university police as Steven Jones, 18 — to open fire around 1:20 a.m. Friday remained unclear. University police Chief Gregory T. Fowler said Jones was cooperating with investigators.
The identities of the slain and injured students have not been released, and it was not immediately clear what the condition of the injured was. They are being treated at Flagstaff Medical Center.
Fowler said it appeared the victims had been shot multiple times.
Delta Chi fraternity said Friday that some members of its Northern Arizona University chapter were involved in the shooting, but that it did not have details about their conditions. The shooting, the fraternity said, "was not a chapter-related incident."
University President Rita Cheng said the school had experienced "a terrible tragedy."
"This is not going to be a normal day at NAU," Cheng told reporters. "Our hearts are heavy."
Students, appearing weary and shocked, attended the news conference on the shooting. Some questioned why it took more than an hour after the shooting for text notifications warning of danger to go out to the university community.
Junior Megan Aardahl said she awoke to text messages from the school and her family checking to see if she was OK. She and other students are rattled by the incident, she said.
"There's a huge sense of community here, so everyone's just trying to like reach out and make sure everyone's OK, but it's a little anxious not knowing who's involved," she said.
Fowler said he couldn't immediately explain the messaging delays but said officers sent initial alerts out of an abundance of caution even though the situation was under control and there was no danger to students.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, issued a statement on the shooting Friday morning.
"My thoughts and prayers are with families of the person who was killed and the three others who were wounded in the horrific shooting on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff early this morning," McCain said. "I appreciate the efforts of all state and local law enforcement officials, first-responders and school administrators, and continue to pray for the recovery of the injured, as well as all those in the NAU community who have been impacted by this terrible tragedy."
Family Assistance Center has been set up in the ballroom of 1899 Bar & Grill, 307 W Dupont Ave. Long distance parents may call 928-523-0007.
— NAU (@NAU) October 9, 2015
The shooting comes the same day President Barack Obama is set to visit Roseburg, Oregon, and the families of those slain in the October 1 massacre at Umpqua Community College.
The gunman in that case, Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, killed nine people before killing himself, according to police.
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Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
Neuroscience of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Illness
Sleep, Circadian Rhythms and Lifelong Health
Sleep, Circadian Rhythms and Society
How we engage the public
Sleep and you
Knockdown of SMN by RNA interference induces apoptosis in differentiated P19 neural stem cells.
Trülzsch B., Garnett C., Davies K., Wood M.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common neurodegenerative disease that is caused by mutations in the survival of motor neuron gene (SMN), leading to reduced levels of the SMN protein in affected individuals. In SMA, motor neurons selectively degenerate, however, the mechanism of cell death and the precise role of SMN in this process are not completely understood. In this study, we apply RNA interference (RNAi) to knockdown Smn gene expression in the murine embryonal carcinoma stem cell line P19, which can be differentiated into neuronal cells. A direct effect of Smn loss on apoptotic cell death in differentiated P19 neuronal cells, and to a lesser extent in undifferentiated cells was observed. Apoptosis could be partly reversed by expression of an SMN rescue construct, was reversible by the addition of the caspase-inhibitor ZVAD-fmk and involved the cytochrome c pathway. This study shows for the first time that knockdown of SMN results in apoptosis in mammalian neuronal cells and has implications for understanding the cause of motor neuron-specific cell loss in SMA, and for identifying novel therapeutic targets for this disease.
10.1016/j.brainres.2007.09.025
Brain Res
Acridine Orange, Animals, Apoptosis, Carcinoma, Embryonal, Caspase Inhibitors, Cell Differentiation, Cell Line, Cell Line, Tumor, Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein, Cytochromes c, Enzyme Inhibitors, Fluorescent Dyes, Immunohistochemistry, Mice, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Neurons, Plasmids, RNA Interference, RNA-Binding Proteins, SMN Complex Proteins, Stem Cells
Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute
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Training and Fellowships
Neuroscience of Sleep
Vision Science
Genetics and Population Health
Neuroscience of Circadian Rhythms
Role of Light
Sleep in Historical Perspective
Adolescent sleep
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Evan Davis and Russell Foster
Victorian and modern sleep researchers
Sleep Medicine Team
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia Masterclass


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President - Father Mark Wedig, O.P.
Vice President and Academic Dean - Father Michael Mascari, O.P.
Vice President of Institutional Advancement
Executive Director of Business Affairs
Dominican Father Mark Wedig serves as the 10th President of Aquinas Institute of Theology. Fr. Mark is a member of the Province of St. Martin de Porres (Southern USA). A seasoned academic administrator, he comes to Aquinas Institute from Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, where he served as Chair of the Department of Theology and Philosophy for nineteen years. In addition Fr. Mark served as professor of theology and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies.
Fr. Mark holds the PhD in Liturgical Studies from the Catholic University of America, the MDiv from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA; the MA in Systematic Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; and the BA in history (medieval studies) from Southern Methodist University. A widely published scholar, frequent visiting lecturer and keynote speaker, Fr. Mark has scholarly interests in the intersection between culture studies, liturgy, and the hermeneutics of the visual arts.
Dominican Father Michael Mascari serves as Academic Dean and Vice President of Aquinas Institute, from which he graduated in 1987 with an M.Div and an M.A. in Theology. He was a member of the faculty from 1996 until 2003, when he was elected as Prior Provincial of the Dominican Province of Saint Albert the Great. During his tenure as Prior Provincial from 2003 until 2011, he was chair of the Members of the Corporation and a member of the Aquinas Institute Board of Trustees.
In 2012, the Master of the Order, Fr. Bruno Cadoré, O.P., called him to Rome to serve the universal Order as the Socius for the Intellectual Life. In this capacity he resided for six years at Santa Sabina in Rome, where he served as President of the Board of Directors of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome (Angelicum), as a member of the Conseil scientifique, École biblique et archéologique française (Jerusalem), and as President of the Order's Permanent Commission for the Promotion of Studies.
In addition to his academic degrees from Aquinas Institute of Theology, Fr. Michael holds a Ph.D. in Early Christian Studies from the Catholic University of America (1996), a J.D. from DePaul University School of Law (1978), and an A.B. degree in history from Georgetown University (1975).
As a member of the Executive Team of Aquinas, the VP for Institutional Advancement will serve with the President to oversee the school's advancement and external relations as especially reflected in our development plan and through strategies for outreach carried out through the Center for Community Engagement and Evangelization. The VP for Institutional Advancement will serve as the Director of the Center for Community Engagement and Evangelization to ensure its development and expansion, and to maintain the Center's partnership with the Western Province of the Congregation of the Mission [Vincentians].
Donna Thro serves as the Executive Director of Business Affairs. She comes to Aquinas Institute with extensive educational background and professional experience in non-profit management.


Samsung has silently launched a new Galaxy A-series smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy A20. It is a mid-range handset and offers some decent specs such as a dual camera setup and 4000 mAh battery.
The Samsung Galaxy 20 is driven by the Exynos 7884 processor paired with 3GB RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The storage supports expansion via a microSD card slot up to 512GB. The South Korean tech giant has used the Infinity-V Super AMOLED display of 6.4-inch size with HD+ resolution.
Bing a mid-range device, the Galaxy A20 has a combination of glass and plastic as its build material and 3D Glasstic design. The dual cameras at the rear include a 13MP sensor with aperture f/1.9 and a 5MP sensor with f/2.2 aperture.
On the front, the smartphone houses an 8MP selfie shooter f/2.0 aperture. You also get a fingerprint sensor at the rear and a 4,000 mAh battery.
Currently, the Galaxy A20 is available only in Russia a price tag of RUB13,990 (around INR 15,000). There is no information if/when the handset will make its way to the global markets.