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Dr. James Farquhar
Travis Swaim February 15, 2012 Archive
By Wynne Anderson
A closer look into James Farquhar's scientific career path might suggest either a series of well-timed coincidences or some larger destiny. His interest in geology started in college, but wasn't solidified until his parents happened to move to France.
"I stuck with it completely by chance," Farquhar said about his degree in geology from Washington and Lee University.
"I was flying back and forth between France to visit my parents and I saw all of these features I had learned about, and all of a sudden it seemed as though it was something I wanted to learn more about. I could see the stuff all around me and it had so much information trapped inside of it."
He stuck with it through a master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1990, moving towards the field of geochemistry studying areas like temperature history and pressure history, showing how rocks are buried and then brought back to the surface over a period of time.
Like his undergrad studies, Farquhar was interested in the information inside the features that surrounded him on a daily basis.
"I moved to geochemistry for the same reasons," he said. "I went to grad school and became very interested in how one could use the chemical composition to understand how they were formed."
From Chicago, Farquhar received his PhD from the University of Alberta in 1995. From there, he was selected as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institute, working in Washington until 1997.
Around this time, a speaker came through while he was in his post-doctoral position and discussed the ways to apply geo-chemical research to real life issues. Farquhar began to question his pursuits in geochemistry, wrestling with the idea of studying rocks or doing something that was relevant, he said.
In 1997, Farquhar wrote a proposal to a fellowship concerning Martian meteorites. The timing, yet another coincidence in Farquhar's career, was perfect. He wrote a proposal at the same time that NASA had a conference in which they thought they had found life on Mars, propelling his application to the top of the pool.
His proposal was accepted, and he began work on meteorites at the University of California, San Diego as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Chemist. He spent his time there working on something new.
"I wanted to try something different," Farquhar said. "I decided to look for signatures of life on some of Earth's oldest rocks."
Chance struck yet again: his results were not what he had expected. He has seen similar results on Martian rocks, but didn't think that these were possible on Earth.
"I actually thought I'd broken the instrument," Farquhar said. "I came back the next day, redid the chemistry, and got the same result. I inadvertently found the possibility of the atmospheric signals trapped in a rock on earth."
This was chemistry that would have only occurred in our earliest and most primitive atmosphere, he said, a signature that was there for the first two billion years of earth history and then disappeared.
In fact, Farquhar had discovered significant oxygen and sulfur isotopes in several meteorites from Mars. He was awarded the F. W. Clark Medal of the Geochemical Society and, in 2001, made the move to the University of Maryland.
"It was because of that lucky discovery that I got the job here and could continue doing research here," Farquhar said, speaking about the university. "And the reason why I came to Maryland was because of ESSIC. A lot of my other options didn't have the earth systems side and the geology/chemistry side."
He was actually one of the initial hires to the Department of Geology, and spends half of his time as a Professor of Geology and half of his time at the university's Earth System Sciences University center (ESSIC).
"My background is strongly geological and I've been spending the last years trying to work around earth system questions that try to trace wither chemistry or chemical biological signals between the atmosphere and the oceans," Farquhar said.
His work ties well in to the research done at ESSIC. Over the past three or four years, Farquhar has studied ways to understand how organic sulfur compounds are formed by organisms in the oceans. These compounds then get released in to the sea water then the atmosphere, eventually playing a role in cloud formation.
So far, his research has only gotten him as far as the second step of the process, release from the organisms. He's currently working on a way to track the compounds, which could take ten or twenty years. For Farquhar, and many other geologists, this isn't a particularly long period of time.
"The difference between me and a lot of other people in ESSIC is the time scales in which we look at changes are over hundreds of millions to few billions of years, so that's long compared to other people," he said.
Farquhar's work deals with chemical transformations that occurred in the early atmosphere, a very different time frame from many of the modern earth system models created at ESSIC.
"I would love to be able to work on something that was both modern, in the present day time frame, and also of regional and global significance," he said. "Whether I can do that, or whether we can do that, or not is going to depend on whether we can find ways to make more measurements than we usually make or whether we can find a key signal that only requires a few measurements."
Farquhar's studies, however, do sometimes have significant modern impacts. He and his team have just started conducting a study on how the deeper waters in the Chesapeake Bay become sulfidic, and as a result become toxic to larger bottom dwelling organisms.
"We are studying how much sulfide is produced, how much is released in to the water, and if there are things that control it, like the temperature of the water in the main stem or some of the smaller rivers that come off it," he said. "That is the kind of thing that could be useful, seeing how the Bay will respond if there are changes in things like weather or runoff."
Between his research, field work, and time spent teaching at the university, Farquhar has received a flurry of other awards and appointments. In 2007, he became the Professeur Invité at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and has spoken at UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences; the Tokyo Institute of Technology; the Lunar and Planetary Institute, a NASA-funded institute in Houston, Texas; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; LGGE Grenoble and many other institutions.
He has also been a Visiting Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany; a Fellow of the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany; and Guest Investigator at the Biological Institute of the University of Southern Denmark.
In 2004, he received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his research on "Earth System Science Perspective on the Sulfur Cycle." He received the F. W. Clark Medal of the Geochemical Society in 2000, and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2008.
Most recently, Farquhar has been named as a Fellow of the Geochemical Society, an honorary title for outstanding scientists for major contributions to the field of geochemistry. According to the Geochemical Society website, the fellowship and other awards are given "as part of our mission to encourage the application of chemistry to the solution of geological and cosmological problems."
The Fellowship will take Farquhar to Australia in June and August, where he will have access a special instrument called an IN probe to measure the composition and abundance of the isotopes in a particular atom.
The instrument can measure the abundances of different types of sulfur, which Farquhar works with specifically, so he plans to work on measuring abundances of the rarest form of sulfur, he said.
"These are the ones that are of early atmospheric significance," Farquhar said. "It's basically what we do here but they can work on much smaller samples. One of the things that we'll be doing is we'll be working at sulfides and seeing if it's consistent with tests done before it."
Farquhar's appointment to the Fellowship once again came down to coincidence. While others of this type of instrument exist in Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Japan, China, Sweden and France, Farquhar already had connections to the one in Australia.
"It just so happened that there was a fellowship program in Australia with people who I had spoken with and worked with there," Farquhar said. "I went to give a conference, spoke with them and learned about their interests, and I'd been an advocate of all of the labs using these types of instruments. It was clear that I had some ideas for projects and they were interested in developing techniques to measure the early earth."
The fellowship doubles as a research opportunity and an opportunity to connect with other scientists in the same field. For Farquhar, each fellowship position means a new experience.
"It's always a little bit scary because you don't know what to expect. I teach a masters class, interact with people there, and they do expect research results," he said. "It's international collaboration."
Farquhar has had many other international experiences, as well as travel experience within the United States. Geochemical field work varies a lot, he said, but there are numerous projects that take them out in the field.
Last year he worked on projects in Yellowstone, trying to study how sulfur was transformed by either organisms or normal chemical processes. There are also more local projects, which include collecting samples from marshes in Delaware.
Farquhar travels internationally for conferences and teaching, and will be in Holland for a conference in biology in April.
"As a result of a lot of the work that we've done we spend time in Denmark and in Northern Germany and in France," he said. "We have moved around, a lot of my moving has been to different labs to learn new techniques and to teach new techniques."
Farquhar teaches when he is at home as well. It's perhaps one of the few positions he didn't land by chance.
"You do a post doc and you get a teaching position," said Farquhar. To him, being a professor is the most difficult aspect of this career, but also the most rewarding.
"I learn so much from these guys because they find out something new, they come tell me, and sometimes it's completely the opposite of what I thought it was going to be," he said. For a scientist as accomplished as Farquhar, this means a lot.
"I learn so much teaching; I learn so much from the students."
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New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20th century.
Most technologies described as "new media" are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulatable, networkable, dense, compressible, and impartial
Until the 1980s media relied primarily upon print and art analog broadcast models, such as those of television and radio. The last twenty-five years have seen the rapid transformation into media which are predicated upon the use of digital computers, such as the Internet and computer games. However, these examples are only a small representation of new media. The use of digital computers has transformed the remaining 'old' media, as suggested by the advent of digital television and online publications. Even traditional media forms such as the printing press have been transformed through the application of technologies such as image manipulation software like Adobe Photoshop and desktop publishing tools.
Andrew L. Shapiro (1999) argues that the "emergence of new, digital technologies signals "a potentially radical shift of who is in control of information, experience and resources" (Shapiro cited in Croteau and Hoynes 2003: 322). W. Russell Neuman (1991) suggests that whilst the "new media" have technical capabilities to pull in one direction, economic and social forces pull back in the opposite direction. According to Neuman, "We are witnessing the evolution of a universal interconnected network of audio, video, and electronic text communications that will blur the distinction between interpersonal and mass communication and between public and private communication" (Neuman cited in Croteau and Hoynes 2003: 322). Neuman argues that New Media:
Will alter the meaning of geographic distance.
Allow for a huge increase in the volume of communication.
Provide the possibility of increasing the speed of communication.
Provide opportunities for interactive communication.
Allow forms of communication that were previously separate to overlap and interconnect.
Consequently it has been the contention of scholars such as Douglas Kellner and James Bohman that new media, and particularly the Internet, provides the potential for a democratic postmodern public sphere, in which citizens can participate in well informed, non-hierarchical debate pertaining to their social structures. Contradicting these positive appraisals of the potential social impacts of new media are scholars such as Ed Herman and Robert McChesney who have suggested that the transition to new media has seen a handful of powerful transnational telecommunications corporations who achieve a level of global influence which was hitherto unimaginable.
Recent contributions to the field such as Lister et al. (2003) and Friedman (2005) have highlighted both the positive and negative potential and actual implications of new media technologies, suggesting that some of the early work into new media studies was guilty of technological determinism – whereby the effects of media were determined by the technology themselves, rather than through tracing the complex social networks which governed the development, funding, implementation and future development of any technology.
Globalization and new media
Flew (2002) stated that as a result of the evolution of new media technologies, globalisation occurs. Globalisation is generally stated as "more than expansion of activities beyond the boundaries of particular nation states". Globalisation shortens the distance between people all over the world by the electronic communication (Carely 1992 in Flew 2002) and Cairncross (1998) expresses this great development as the "death of distance". New media "radically break the connection between physical place and social place, making physical location much less significant for our social relationships" (Croteau and Hoynes 2003: 311).
However, the changes in the new media environment create a series of tensions in the concept of "public sphere". According to Ingrid Volkmer, "public sphere" is defined as a process through which public communication becomes restructured and partly disembedded from national political and cultural institutions. This trend of the globalized public sphere is not only as a geographical expansion form a nation to worldwide, but also changes the relationship between the public, the media and state (Volkmer, 1999:123).
"Virtual communities" are being established online and transcend geographical boundaries, eliminating social restrictions. Howard Rheingold (2000) describes these globalised societies as self-defined networks, which resemble what we do in real life. "People in virtual communities use words on screens to exchange pleasantries and argue, engage in intellectual discourse, conduct commerce, make plans, brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, create a little high art and a lot of idle talk" (Rheingold cited in Slevin 2000: 91). For Sherry Turkle "making the computer into a second self, finding a soul in the machine, can substitute for human relationships" (Holmes 2005: 184). New media has the ability to connect like-minded others worldwide.
While this perspective suggests that the technology drives – and therefore is a determining factor – in the process of globalisation, arguments involving technological determinism are generally frowned upon by mainstream media studies. [4][5][6] Instead academics focus on the multiplicity of processes by which technology is funded, researched and produced, forming a feedback loop when the technologies are used and often transformed by their users, which then feeds into the process of guiding their future development.
While commentators such as Castells espouse a 'soft determinism' whereby they contend that 'Technology does not determine society. Nor does society script the course of technological change, since many factors, including individual inventiveness and entrpreneurialism, intervene in the process of scientific discovery, technical innovation and social applications, so the final outcome depends on a complex pattern of interaction. Indeed the dilemma of technological determinism is probably a false problem, since technology is society and society cannot be understood without its technological tools.' (Castells 1996:5) This however is still distinct from stating that societal changes are instigated by technological develoment, which recalls the theses of Marshall McLuhan
Manovich and Castells have argued that whereas mass media 'corresponded to the logic of industrial mass society, which values conformity over individuality,' (Manovich 2001:41) new media follows the logic of the postindustrial or globalised society whereby 'every citizen can construct her own custom lifestyle and select her ideology from a large number of choices. Rather than pushing the same objects to a mass audience, marketing now tries to target each individual separately.' (Manovich 2001:42).
New media as a tool for social change
Social Movement Media has a rich and storied history that has changed at a rapid rate since New Media became widely used. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation of Chiapas, Mexico were the first major movement to make widely recognized and effective use of New Media for communiques and organizing in 1994. Since then, New Media has been used extensively by social movements to educate, organize, share cultural products of movements, communicate, coalition build, and more. The WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity was another landmark in the use of New Media as a tool for social change. The WTO protests used media to organize the original action, communicate with and educate participants, and was used an alternative media source.[15] The Indymedia movement also developed out of this action, and has been a great tool in the democratization of information, which is another widely discussed aspect of new media movement. Some scholars even view this democratization as an indication of the creation of a "radical, socio-technical paradigm to challenge the dominant, neoliberal and technologically determinist model of information and communication technologies." A less radical view along these same lines is that people are taking advantage of the internet to produce a grassroots globalization, one that is anti-neoliberal and centered on people rather than the flow of capital. Of course, some are also skeptical of the role of New Media in Social Movements. Many scholars point out unequal access to new media as a hindrance to broad-based movements, sometimes even oppressing some within a movement. Others are skeptical about how democratic or useful it really is for social movements, even for those with access. There are also many New Media components that activists cite as tools for change that have not been widely discussed as such by academics.
New Media has also found a use with less radical social movements such as the Free Hugs Campaign. Using websites, blogs, and online videos to demonstrate the effectiveness of the movement itself. Along with this example the use of high volume blogs has allowed numerous views and practices to be more widespread and gain more public attention. Another example is the on-going Free Tibet Campaign, which has been seen on numerous websites as well as having a slight tie-in with the band Gorillaz in their Gorillaz Bitez clip featuring the lead singer 2D sitting with protesters at a Free Tibet protest. Another social change seen coming from New Media is trends in fashion and the emergence of subcultures such as Text Speak, Cyberpunk, and various others.
Security concerns over new media have increased due to the growing number of cybercrimes. Adam Lockyer, an analyst for The Terrorism Intelligence Centre, states that 'insurgent terrorist organizations use the media as a conduit for their political message to be heard by the target audience' (Lockyer, Adam 2003). By now, nearly every federal agency within the U.S. government has some department or division responsible for computer security. National security experts reach out to computer hackers and train internal operatives in the field of computer security with the need to intercept and interpret digital communications. Some of these methods go against the intent of new media and contribute to the debate about net neutrality.
Interactivity and new media
Interactivity has become a key term for number of new media use options evolving from the rapid dissemination of Internet access point, the digitalization of the media, and media convergence. In 1984, Rice defined the new media as communication technologies that enable or facilitate user-to-user interactivity and interactivity between user and information. Such as Internet replaces the "one-to-many" model of traditional mass communication with the possibility of a "many-to-many" web of communication. Any individual with the appropriate technology can now produce his or her online media and include images, text, and sound about whatever he or she chooses. So the new media with technology convergence shifts the model of mass communication, and radically shapes the ways we interact and communicate with one another. Vin Crosbie described three communications media in "What is new media?". He saw Interpersonal media as "one to one", Mass media as "one to many" and, finally New Media as Individuation Media or "many to many".
When we think of interactivity and its meaning, we assume that it is only prominent in the conversational dynamics of individuals who are face-to-face. This restriction of opinion does not allow us to see its existence in mediated communication forums. Interactivity is present in some programming work, such as video games. It's also viable in the operation of traditional media. Other settings of interactivity include radio and television talk shows, letters to the editor, listener participation in such programs, and computer and technological programming.
Interactivity can be considered as a central concept in understanding new media, but different media forms possess different degree of interactivity, even some forms of digitized and converged media are not in fact interactive at all. Tony Feldman considers digital satellite television as an example of a new media technology that uses digital compression to dramatically increase the number of television channels that can be delivered, and which changes the nature of what can be offered through the service, but does not transform the experience of television from the user's point of view, as it lacks a more fully interactive dimension. It remains the case that interactivity is not an inherent characteristic of all new media technologies, unlike digitization and convergence.
Terry Flew (2005) argues that "the global interactive games industry is large and growing, and is at the forefront of many of the most significant innovations in new media" (Flew 2005: 101). Interactivity is prominent in these online computer games such as World of Warcraft and The Sims Online. These games, developments of "new media", allow for users to establish relationships and experience a sense of belonging, despite temporal and spatial boundaries. These games can be used as an escape or to act out a desired life. Will Wright, creator of The Sims, "is fascinated by the way gamers have become so attached to his invention-with some even living their lives through it" [26]. New media have created virtual realities that are becoming mere extensions of the world we live in.
New Media changes continuously due to the fact that it is constantly modified and redefined by the interaction between the creative use of the masses, emerging technology, cultural changes, etc.
The new media industry shares a close association with many market segments in areas such as software/video game design, television, radio, and particularly movies, advertising and marketing, which seeks to gain from the advantages of two-way dialogue with consumers primarily through the internet. The advertising industry has capitalized on the proliferation of new media with large agencies running multi-million dollar interactive advertising subsidiaries. Interactive websites and kiosks have become popular. In a number of cases advertising agencies have also set up new divisions to study new media. Public relations firms are taking advantage of the opportunities in new media through interactive PR practices.
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Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, In Art
"Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco" by Colin Campbell Cooper depicts the monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition to exhibit artworks.
This painting shows the original structure before it was completely rebuilt from 1964 to 1974. It is one of only a few surviving structures from the Exposition. A renovation of the lagoon, walkways, and a seismic retrofit were completed in early 2009.
The most prominent building of the complex, a 162 feet (49 m) high open rotunda, is enclosed by a lagoon on one side and is neighboring a large, curved exhibition center on the other side, separated from the lagoon by colonnades.
Conceived to evoke a decaying ruin of ancient Rome, the Palace of Fine Arts became one of San Francisco's most recognizable landmarks.
The 1915 Exposition featured the largest collection of art that the city had seen with hundreds of examples of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism art styles.
Colin Campbell Cooper, who was nearly 60, had long embraced Impressionism. In this painting, he applies the color and brushwork of Impressionism to a nocturnal depiction of the buildings under a sky with stars.
Cooper taught at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, between 1895 and 1898. He then moved to New York City, where he painted the city's new skyscrapers. Cooper's first trip to California was to visit the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Cooper exhibited in the Exposition of 1915, winning the gold medal for oil and the silver medal for watercolor. He created a series of paintings depicting the exposition's buildings, including the Palace of Fine Arts.
He also participated in the Panama–California Exposition in San Diego in 1916. The Coopers spent the winter of 1915–16 in Los Angeles and later decided to move there permanently.
Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. (1856 – 1937) was an American Impressionist painter, renowned for his architectural paintings, especially skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
Cooper was an avid traveler; he was also known for his paintings of European and Asian landmarks and natural landscapes, portraits, florals, and interiors.
Cooper moved to Santa Barbara, California, in 1921, which became his home base for the rest of his life. He also became Dean of Painting at the Santa Barbara Community School of Arts.
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Title: Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Artist: Colin Campbell Cooper
Dimensions: 40 7/16 in. x 50 7/16 in. (102.71 cm x 128.11 cm).
Museum: Crocker Art Museum
Name: Colin Campbell Cooper
Birth: 1856, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died: 1937 (aged 81), Santa Barbara, California
Movement: American Impressionism
Notable work:
"Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon" by Edwin Deakin
"Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon" by Edwin Deakin depicts the pergola around a central rotunda situated by the artificial lagoon. The lagoon was intended to echo those found in classical settings in Europe.
The expanse of water provides a mirror surface to reflect the grand buildings and an undisturbed vista to appreciate the structures from a distance. At seventy-seven, Deakin found inspiration in this view, which he painted several times after the exposition's close.
Today, Australian eucalyptus trees fringe the eastern shore of the lagoon. Many forms of wildlife have made their home there, including swans, ducks, geese, turtles, frogs, and raccoons.
Edwin Deakin
Edwin Deakin (1838 – 1923) was an artist best known for his romantic landscapes and his architectural studies, especially the Spanish colonial missions of California.
His sensitive and highly publicized depictions of the deteriorating missions drew public attention to the necessity of restoring these historically important monuments.
His still lifes are considered to be some of the finest of the genre. Deakin is one of the artists who popularized scenes of San Francisco's Chinatown.
Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon
Title: Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon
Artist: Edwin Deakin
Dimensions: 32 3/8 × 48 3/8 in; 82.2 × 122.9 cm
Name: Edwin Deakin
Birth: 1838, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Died: 1923 (aged 84), Berkeley, California, United States
Nationality: British-American
The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco was conceived to evoke a decaying ruin of ancient Rome and has become one of San Francisco's most recognizable landmarks
The Palace of Fine Arts has been depicted in many popular films and TV shows. It also influenced the city of Theed on Naboo as it appears in the film Star Wars: Episode I.
The structure was also featured in computer games, and a smaller replica of the Palace of Fine Arts's rotunda was built in Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim.
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"San Francisco has only one drawback – it is hard to leave."
– Rudyard Kipling
Photo Credit: Colin Campbell Cooper / Public domain; Edwin Deakin / Public domain


Executive leaders, take note. The number one skill that companies and Boards of Directors seek in senior executives is the ability to motivate and lead others, according to a survey of 1,270 business leaders from around the world by IIC Partners, one of the top 10 executive search organizations globally.
By a margin of 3:1, 68 percent of top leaders said they preferred a senior executive who could motivate and inspire others more than they desired an executive who consistently performed well (mentioned by 26 percent).
"The price of entry to the corner office remains competency," said Paul Dinte, chairman of IIC Partners. "But once there, a leader's success is more about inspiring and motivating others to perform, rather than what he or she does individually.
After motivational ability, the senior executive traits most valued by organizations were: strong ability to manage change (51 percent); ability to identify and develop talent (46 percent); innovative thinking (30 percent); and consistent high performance (26 percent).
The survey also uncovered additional characteristics of senior executives and senior executive teams around the globe.
Companies that were more likely to rely heavily on internal, rather than external, talent were those with fewer than 500 employees, energy andutility companies, and financial services firms.
Organizations around the world have different expectations of how long a senior executive will remain with an organization, but the average is seven years. In the Americas, the expectation was slightly longer (7.9 years), while in Asia-Pacific, it was shorter (5.9 years).
Length of service also differed by industry. Professional services tend to retain senior executives the longest (8.1 years), while the pharmaceutical (5.7 years) and consumer products (6.1 years) industries hold them for shorter periods of time.
"Corporate expectations for length of service may have to be managed when Gen-X employees reach the C-suite, given how much more frequently they tend to change jobs," noted Dinte.
Those based in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) rated gender composition more important (62 percent) than the overall global response. Respondents from Asia-Pacific were below the average, with only 48 percent saying gender composition was important to their organization.
A total of 1,270 senior-level executives completed an online survey during a six-week period in late 2013.
Sixty-two percent of respondents were at the C-suite or Managing Director level.
520 were from the Americas, 383 were from EMEA and 347 were from Asia-Pacific.
Respondents came from 18 different industries.
Thirty-eight percent were from publicly held organizations, 43 percent were from privately-held firms, eight percent were family-owned, five percent were not-for-profit, and three percent were from other types of firms.
The survey was administered by Amarach Research of Dublin, Ireland.
IIC Partners (www.iicpartners.com) is one of the top 10 executive search organizations in the world. The network of "Independent International Consultants" is made up of 40 independently owned and managed executive search firms representing 48 offices in 34 countries, all considered to be leaders in the geographic and industry markets they serve.


statuses. How could've we allowed our love reduce to this?
Profound sentiments. I like and liked it!
Another good one. I'd love to hear about your process writing these. Are they ever part of a bigger piece, or do you write each one to be this concise? By the way, I nominated you for the Sunshine Blogger Award. It doesn't seem like you do that kind of thing, but I'm definitely a fan of your stuff. Honestly these little posts really add a bright spot to my day.
Thank you very much. I like to think that I'm creating a jigsaw puzzle of sorts. Some pieces fit with ideas and emotion I've recorded in the past while others exist on their own. I never really plan for pieces to be long or short, I do however aim to make sure that there are layers of meaning and openness of interpretation in each. I'm not a fan of dragging out a story for the purpose of filling up a blank page, that's exactly how to lose a person's barely undivided attention.
I've viewed it as a jigsaw puzzle of sorts as well – this piece setting nicely with that, but never forced – and some being solely their own. Always with layers for the curious to unfold and enjoy.
Your post, always stimulates my thoughts!
This was really beautiful. I loved the imagery. I had to read it a few times just to drink in all of it.


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[Alcohol, Death, and the Devil]
Title: [Alcohol, Death, and the Devil] / Geo. Cruikshank.
Creator(s): Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
Date Created/Published: [between 1830 and 1840]
Medium: 1 drawing : gouache over graphite underdrawing, color ; 13 x 14 cm (sheet)
Summary: Drawing shows a macabre Medusa with a skeletal head, dressed in a tunic, holding aloft a goblet of wine and exhorting a crowd of people. Behind her stands a devil who joins in the exhortation. Cruikshank was a popular illustrator and satirist who began campaigning against alcohol, especially gin, in the 1830s. In 1847, he renounced alcohol and became an enthusiastic supporter of the Temperance Movement in Great Britain.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-03349 (digital file from original drawing)
Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 [item] [P&P]
Title from exhibit checklist.
Caption label from exhibit Cartoon America: This image depicting a skeletal Medusa raising a cup of alcohol to the crowd, while the Devil enjoins them to imbibe, is a humorous yet biting commentary on the dangers of alcohol consumption. George Cruikshank, one of the most prolific illustrators and satirists working in England, began his career during the Golden Age of English Satire (1770-1820). In the 1820s, he successfully shifted to book illustration, including a collaboration with Charles Dickens. In 1847 he renounced alcohol and became an enthusiastic supporter of the temperance movement.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon.
Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
Unprocessed in WOOD.Cruikshank.08
Temperance--Great Britain--1830-1840.
Demons--1830-1860.
Death's head--1830-1840.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1830-1840.
Drawings--1830-1840.
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Pre-Christmas Storm: These Areas Expected To See Accumulating Snow, Poor Travel Conditions
12/19/2022 7:48 a.m.
A look at areas (marked in red) where poor travel conditions are expected on Friday, Dec. 23. Photo Credit: AccuWeather.com
Areas expected to see accumulating snowfall Thursday, Dec. 22, and Friday, Dec. 23 are shown in blue. Blizzard conditions are possible in areas shown in royal blue. Photo Credit: AccuWeather.com
Snow Drought: Here Are Next Chances For White Stuff In Northeast
Major Storm Taking Aim On Region Will Be Packed With Heavy Rain…
Timing Shifts For Cross-Country Winter Storm On Track For North…
A storm system packed with a wide swath of snow, rain, and strong winds is expected to cause poor travel conditions and bring accumulating snowfall to some spots in the days leading up to Christmas.
The system is due to arrive on Thursday, Dec. 22, the National Weather Service said. The first image above shows a look at areas (marked in red) where poor travel conditions are expected on Friday, Dec. 23.
Areas expected to see accumulating snowfall Thursday and Friday are shown in blue in the second image above. Blizzard conditions are possible in areas shown in royal blue.
Current models show the chance for potentially significant snowfall in some areas, with rain and gusty winds elsewhere, on Friday, Dec. 23 into Christmas Eve on Saturday, Dec. 24.
AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter said that "the exact track of the storm will dictate which areas receive heavy snow versus heavy rain and the most significant impacts, but people and businesses in the eastern US, especially those traveling, should be extra alert."
Currently, projections have the system winding down sometime on Saturday, with dry conditions expected on Christmas Day, which could be one of the coldest Christmases in years in some spots. High temperatures on Christmas could struggle to reach the mid 20s.
There's still uncertainty surrounding the precise projected timing, track, and potential strength of the system.
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Tourette Fishing Guides Outfitted with Predator Fly Gear in Gabon and Sudan!
Predator Fly Gear is proud to announce that we have outfitted the Tourette Fishing Guide Teams on the Red Sea's Nubian Flats in Sudan and in Sette Cama in Gabon, Africa. Both destinations offer world class predator fly fishing opportunities in settings found nowhere else on the globe! Keith and Rob at Tourette, based in South Africa have put together a portfolio of life-changing predator fly fishing opportunities and we are pumped to be joining forces with them.
Nubian Flats: The sight fishing for tailing triggerfish on the flats is exceptional, along with good numbers of bluefin, bohar, GTs, Barracuda and grouper species. Bonefish, permit, bumpies and milkfish are present and a normal week presents a few opportunities to target these iconic flats species. Teasing produces exceptional exciting fishing, and the offshore potential is huge for Dogtooth and GTs. This is an area previously unexplored by fly fishermen. The Nubian Flats offer a World-Class Flats Fishing Experience in a setting like nowhere else on The Planet. Guides here will be wearing our Geet/ GT outfits.
Sette Cama: Gabon is without a doubt the pinnacle of rock, surf and estuary fishing. There are very few places where you can target giant tarpon off the beach, and only one where you do it in the company of forest elephants, buffalo and gorillas. This is the longest and wildest stretch of coastline left on the African continent, and it is hard to put into words how special and unique this destination is. Guides here will be wearing our Toad/ Tarpon outfits.
Book your trip of a lifetime to one of these untouched locations at Tourette Fishing or call Keith or Rob at +27 33 342 2793. More write ups on these over the top destinations at Vagabond Fly.


Fundamental to the creation of real-time games is establishing how parameters within the game will behave in response to player input. The challenge for designers is that they must bridge the gap between the physical nature of the input device and the procedurally generated virtual simulation. Complexities arise in the modulation of position and rotation parameters when attempting to provide appealing physical simulations while maintaining instantaneous response. The challenge for the designer is to match the player's preconception of how an object should behave within the physical simulation while maintaining the systems ability to respond in a timely manner.
This paper provides the results of a practice-led study that investigates how parameters of movement can be measured and modulated over time while maintaining system responsiveness. This is achieved by examining how signals from the input device can be mapped to changes in position and rotation within a selection of case studies. Findings from these case studies are then applied in the development of third person character action game.
The paper concludes by presenting an approach for measuring and analysing position and rotation parameters in relation to responsiveness during production phases of development.


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package org.dasein.cloud.util.requester.fluent;

import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.dasein.cloud.CloudException;
import org.dasein.cloud.CloudProvider;
import org.dasein.cloud.util.requester.*;
import org.dasein.cloud.util.requester.streamprocessors.*;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;

/**
 * DaseinRequest class is a wrapper for Apache HTTP client. It unifies Dasein's REST calls to the clouds APIs.
 *
 *

 *
 *     String result = new DaseinRequest(cloudProvider, httpClientBuilder, httpUriRequestBuilder).execute();
 *     Document resultAsDocument = new DaseinRequest(cloudProvider, httpClientBuilder, httpUriRequestBuilder).withDocumentProcessor().execute();
 *
 *

 *
 * @author Vlad Munthiu
* */

public class DaseinRequest implements CompositeRequester {

    private CloudProvider provider;
    private HttpClientBuilder httpClientBuilder;
    private HttpUriRequest httpUriRequestBuilder;

    /**
     * Constructs a new DaseinRequest instance, ready to execute http calls to a specified Uri.
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     * @param provider the current CloudProvider instance
     * @param httpClientBuilder
     * @param httpUriRequestBuilder
    **/
    public DaseinRequest(CloudProvider provider, HttpClientBuilder httpClientBuilder, HttpUriRequest httpUriRequestBuilder){
        this.provider = provider;
        this.httpClientBuilder = httpClientBuilder;
        this.httpUriRequestBuilder = httpUriRequestBuilder;
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a instance of a DaseinRequestExecutor with a XML stream processor that, once the HTTP request has been
     * finished, will perform a deserialization of the XML response into the specified type T.
     *
     *
     *     DaseinDriverType result = new DaseinRequest(cloudProvider, httpClientBuilder, httpUriRequestBuilder).withXmlProcessor(DaseinDriverType.class).execute();
     *
     *
     * @param classType the type of the expected model
     * @return an instance of the classType type representing the response XML
    **/
    @Override
    public <T> Requester<T> withXmlProcessor(Class<T> classType) {
        return new DaseinRequestExecutor<T>(this.provider, this.httpClientBuilder, this.httpUriRequestBuilder,
                new DaseinResponseHandler<T>(new XmlStreamToObjectProcessor(), classType));
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a instance of a DaseinRequestExecutor with a XML stream processor that, once the HTTP request has been
     * finished, will perform a deserialization of the XML response into the specified type T. A valid instance of a
     * DriverToCoreMapper should be passed in, so that a mapping from a driver model type ( T ) to a Dasein Core
     * model( V ) to be performed after the response is received.
     *
     *
     *     DaseinCoreType result = new DaseinRequest(cloudProvider, httpClientBuilder, httpUriRequestBuilder)
     *                  .withXmlProcessor(new DriverToCoreMapper<DaseinDriverType, DaseinCoreType>() {
     *                           @Override
     *                           public DaseinCoreType mapFrom(DaseinDriverType entity) {
     *                                  //map entity to a new instance of DaseinCoreType
     *                           }
     *                      DaseinDriverType.class).execute();
     *
     *
     * @param mapper an implementation of DriverToCoreMapper<T, V> interface
     * @param classType the type of the expected model
     * @return an instance of the V type which should be a Dasien Core type.
     **/
    @Override
    public <T, V> Requester<V> withXmlProcessor(DriverToCoreMapper<T, V> mapper, Class<T> classType) {
        return new DaseinRequestExecutor<V>(this.provider, this.httpClientBuilder, this.httpUriRequestBuilder,
                new DaseinResponseHandlerWithMapper<T, V>(new XmlStreamToObjectProcessor(), mapper, classType));
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a instance of a DaseinRequestExecutor with a JSON stream processor that, once the HTTP request has been
     * finished will perform a deserialization of the JSON response into the specified type T.
     *
     *
     *     DaseinDriverType result = new DaseinRequest(cloudProvider, httpClientBuilder, httpUriRequestBuilder).withJsonProcessor(DaseinDriverType.class).execute();
     *
     *
     * @param classType the type of the expected model
     * @return an instance of the classType type representing the response JSON
     **/
    @Override
    public <T> Requester<T> withJsonProcessor(Class<T> classType) {
        return new DaseinRequestExecutor<T>(this.provider, this.httpClientBuilder, this.httpUriRequestBuilder,
                new DaseinResponseHandler<T>(new JsonStreamToObjectProcessor(), classType));
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a instance of a DaseinRequestExecutor with a JSON stream processor that, once the HTTP request has been
     * finished, will perform a deserialization of the JSON response into the specified type T. A valid instance of a
     * DriverToCoreMapper should be passed in, so that a mapping from a driver model type ( T ) to a Dasein Core
     * model( V ) to be performed after the response is received.
     *
     *
     *     DaseinCoreType result = new DaseinRequest(cloudProvider, httpClientBuilder, httpUriRequestBuilder)
     *                  .withJsonProcessor(new DriverToCoreMapper<DaseinDriverType, DaseinCoreType>() {
     *                           @Override
     *                           public DaseinCoreType mapFrom(DaseinDriverType entity) {
     *                                  //map entity to a new instance of DaseinCoreType
     *                           }
     *                      DaseinDriverType.class).execute();
     *
     *
     * @param mapper an implementation of DriverToCoreMapper<T, V> interface
     * @param classType the type of the expected model
     * @return an instance of the V type which should be a Dasien Core type.
     **/
    @Override
    public <T, V> Requester<V> withJsonProcessor(DriverToCoreMapper<T, V> mapper, Class<T> classType) {
        return new DaseinRequestExecutor<V>(this.provider, this.httpClientBuilder, this.httpUriRequestBuilder,
                new DaseinResponseHandlerWithMapper<T, V>(new JsonStreamToObjectProcessor(), mapper, classType));
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a instance of a DaseinRequestExecutor with a stream processor that, once the HTTP request has been
     * finished, will try to parse the response stream into a valid XML Document object.
     *
     *
     *     Document documentResult = new DaseinRequest(cloudProvider, httpClientBuilder, httpUriRequestBuilder).withDocumentProcessor().execute();
     *
    **/
    @Override
    public <T> DaseinRequestExecutor<Document> withDocumentProcessor() {
        return new DaseinRequestExecutor<Document>(this.provider, this.httpClientBuilder, this.httpUriRequestBuilder,
                new DaseinResponseHandler<Document>(new StreamToDocumentProcessor(), Document.class));
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a instance of a DaseinRequestExecutor with a stream processor that, once the HTTP request has been
     * finished, will try to parse the response stream into a valid JSONObject object.
     *
     *
     *     JSONObject jsonResult = new DaseinRequest(cloudProvider, httpClientBuilder, httpUriRequestBuilder).withJSONObjectProcessor().execute();
     *
     **/
    @Override
    public <T> DaseinRequestExecutor<JSONObject> withJSONObjectProcessor() {
        return new DaseinRequestExecutor<JSONObject>(this.provider, this.httpClientBuilder, this.httpUriRequestBuilder,
                new DaseinResponseHandler<JSONObject>(new StreamToJSONObjectProcessor(), JSONObject.class));
    }

    /**
     * Executes a HTTP request using a string processor for the response.
     *
     *
     *     String result = new DaseinRequest(cloudProvider, httpClientBuilder, httpUriRequestBuilder).execute();
     *
     *
     * @return a string representing the response of the current HTTP call.
    **/
    @Override
    public String execute() throws CloudException {
        return new DaseinRequestExecutor<String>(this.provider, this.httpClientBuilder, this.httpUriRequestBuilder,
                new DaseinResponseHandler<String>(new StreamToStringProcessor(), String.class)).execute();
    }
}


Many of the old plat books contained not only the township maps but also other interesting information. In this particular issue there was a written brief history of Dane County and our six individual townships.
We have reproduced the information in these two web pages.
The images are from the Wisconsin Historical collection.


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S. Korea worries about market volatilities amid geopolitical risks
Source:Xinhua Published: 2013-3-8 17:33:59
South Korea worried about a possible expansion in financial market volatilities amid mounting geopolitical risks after the United Nations Security Council's new sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
"We cannot rule out the possibility of growing volatilities in the financial market and escalating geopolitical risks on the Korean Peninsula if North Korea (DPRK) makes additional provocation and, as a result, major nations such as the US and Japan take strong sanctions," the Financial Services Commission ( FSC), South Korea's financial regulator, said in a statement on Friday.
The statement came after the UN Security Council toughened sanctions against the DPRK. The 15-member UN body unanimously approved newly expanded sanctions that dictate UN member states inspect DPRK ship and air cargo suspected of carrying banned materials and tighten scrutiny of DPRK officials and institutions engaged in illicit activities.
The DPRK said it would sever a military hotline with South Korea and nullify non-aggression agreements between the two countries, a response to the new sanctions. South Korean President Park Geun-hye vowed to "sternly deal with" any future provocation by the DPRK.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula mounted after the DPRK's underground nuclear last month, a follow-up to the controversial December rocket launch largely seen as a disguised missile test.
The financial regulator warned that possibilities were raised for the DPRK to take further provocation as the UN sanctions were strengthened compared with the past, saying that it would more closely monitor risk factors that may arise from geopolitical risks.
Global financial markets showed stable picture, with the US Dow Jones Industrial Average setting new records for three straight days. The cost to hedge against losses on sovereign debt of South Korea, traded at 64 basis points, up 1 basis point from the previous session.
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Foreign Shores
Indie Gaze
Is "Kong: Skull Island" In Trouble?
Oscar Winner Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead
Jesse Eisenberg is Lex Luthor and Jeremy Irons is Alfred in Batman vs Superman film
Review: 'The Last Jedi' is a Flawed Entertaining Disappointment
Review: '99 Homes' is a brutally honest tension filled experience
"Inside Out" and the Art of Looking Outward
From the Vault: Beowulf (2007)
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)
Freeze Frame: The Lovely Bones (2009)
Paolo Sorrentino's This Must Be the Place: Finding Grace on the Road
Director vs. Script: The LIMEY
The Joys of a Mid-Career Mel Gibson
Official 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Poster Revealed
So Bad it's Horrible
New Avenger's Poster reveals new Super Hero
Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin in Trailer for 'Sicario 2: Soldado'
Sandra Bullock assembles her team in FIRST TRAILER for 'Ocean's 8'.
Final Trailer for Liam Neeson Train Thriller 'The Commuter'
New Clips from Tree of Life
John May 29, 2011
Terrence Malick's films is still doing the rounds at 4 theaters in America. The new film Tree of Life is something of a marvel and we will be catching it soon. It will be a film we will like to catch couple of times in the coming weeks. The film requires multiple viewing to bask in all the glory of it.
RopeofSilicon has gotten hold of 4 new clips from the film. The film is said to tackle the big question of the cosmos and why we are here. These clips gives us a window into the relationship between the father and the son in Tree of Life. Hunter McCracken is also an actor to look out for in the next couple of years. There is also some footage of Sean Penn from the film.
The Tree of life will open in New York and Los Angeles on May 27 th, and will continue to expand through June and July. Tell us what you think of the clips above.
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John has a keen sense of what ticks in the world of film. He can also be seen in three distinct short film titled Woken Shell, The Tea Shop in the Moon and The Waiting. Cinema has been the basic diet he has been on for the last 10 years. His personality can be judged by the choices of his films.
Killing them Softly Review
John November 27, 2012
Cogan's Trade has been retitled Killing Them Softly
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Mergers always create some uncertainty in the supply chain. When two suppliers come together, such as NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) and Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd., it's usually a positive for buyers. Instead of dealing with two vendors, purchasing is now dealing with one. The same is true for distribution partners – most of the time.
The consolidation of semiconductor vendors Freescale and NXP is so far being greeted positively by the companies' distributors. Richard Clemmer, NXP's Chief Executive Officer, yesterday said he had already heard from several of NXP's channel partners. "They are really excited by the opportunity created and how we can work together to even grow faster," he told analysts during a conference call. Both companies have been increasing their presence in the channel and the combination will make for an even stronger distribution partner, Clemmer added.
The merged entity – a $40 billion company -- will become the market leader in automotive semiconductor solutions and the market leader in general purpose microcontroller (MCU) products, executives said. NXP and Freescale plan to cross-sell their product portfolios as soon as the deal is done. One exception to that plan will be NXP's high-performance RF products: NXP said it will divest that business in order to avoid product overlap and possible regulatory issues. And it doesn't appear that chip production will suffer any hiccups: the merged companies don't foresee any plant closures as a result of the consolidation.
Most of the industry's leading distributors carry both Freescale and NXP. Historically, if a distributor did not carry both lines several things could happen. The distributor could gain access to all products under the existing franchise. The other possibility is the entire relationship could be terminated. This used to happen in the case of a conflict: when one supplier refused to be sold alongside another. This practice of not sharing shelf has largely gone by the wayside.
Avnet Inc., which carries both lines, anticipates a number of benefits from the merger. "From a product portfolio standpoint, it looks like there's a lot of synergies in the microcontroller world: NXP brings standard products to the party and Freescale—which was spun out of Motorola – they were the higher-end player," said Alex Iuorio, senior vice president, supplier management and business development for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. "The combination manifests itself in some really cool powerful processor products. There is some overlap as it relates to their ARM products and MCUs as well as peripherals – I would love to be the architect of selecting the best of the best [of that offering]. The one thing that first jumped out at me was how to rationalize the power business—the announcement that they intend to sell the NXP portion and rely on Freescale's product portfolio – hit that right from the outset."
Like their semiconductor vendors, distributors benefit from economies of scale. Establishing and maintaining relationships with suppliers require investment by distributors. Distributors train their sales staff on products; purchase and maintain inventory; break down lots and build kits; market their suppliers' products and often manage customers' logistics. Now, distributors can expect to consolidate purchases from Freescale and NXP; generate savings associated with high-volume purchases; and sell a broader product line through their existing salesforce. "I don't see any downside," said Iuorio. "They'll represent a broader product portfolio and when you balance that against the customer base and the continual move toward consolidated vendors—that fulfills the customer charter as well. Nothing leads me to believe this [merger] won't be anything except a really cool deal."
In particular, the product portfolio targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) – or as NXP calls it, the Smarter World—is compelling. "The combination of NXP and Freescale creates an industry powerhouse focused on the high growth opportunities in the Smarter World. We fully expect to continue to significantly out-grow the overall market, drive world-class profitability and generate even more cash, which taken together will maximize value for both Freescale and NXP shareholders," said Clemmer.
"Our combined scale, size and global reach will position our new company to deliver sustainable above market growth," said Gregg Lowe, Freescale Semiconductor President and Chief Executive Officer. NXP anticipates achieving cost savings of $200 million in the first full year after closing the transaction, with a clear path to $500 million of annual cost synergies.
Under the terms of the agreement, Freescale shareholders will receive $6.25 in cash and 0.3521 of an NXP ordinary share for each Freescale common share held at the close of the transaction. The purchase price implies a total equity value for Freescale of approximately $11.8 billion (based on NXP's closing stock price as of February 27, 2015) and a total enterprise value of approximately $16.7 billion including Freescale's net debt.
The transaction has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies and is subject to regulatory approvals in various jurisdictions and customary closing conditions, as well as the approval of NXP and Freescale shareholders.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of calendar 2015.
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Q: angular2-google-login trying to connect to google I am trying to login with google but when i press the button i get an error , i print the error from AuthService Class and the error i get is: "Could not attach click handler to the element. Reason: element not found"
this is my code:
import { Component, Injectable} from '@angular/core';

import { AuthService, AppGlobals } from 'angular2-google-login';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AfterViewInit } from '@angular/core';

@Injectable()
class User {
    email: string;
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    selector: 'cv-login',
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    styleUrls: ['./login.component.css'],
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})

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What are the exact reasons why one cannot take a bottle of water on the plane?
So what exactly are the reasons:
policy by the airlines?
slowing down security?
What if it's 100mL of water filled in one of those tiny travel bottles that people use to downsize their toiletries?
I was just discussing this topic with a friend & then realized while I know of the rule I would like to know all the aspects as to why.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot it's a security theater, basically – JonathanReez♦ Feb 17 '15 at 9:52
AFAIK you can take a bottle of water on the plane, just not through security. You could for instance take an empty bottle through security and then fill it up at the gate. – drat Feb 17 '15 at 9:56
@Jonas: In various places, such "bottle-filling stations" are commonly known as "taps" :) – O. R. Mapper Feb 17 '15 at 14:10
Just as a note, while the comments so far are correct that you can usually buy or fill a water bottle in the terminal and take it on with you, this is not always the case. In particular, some international flights actually confiscate water bottles at the gate or even inside the boarding bridge. See this question and this question. – reirab Feb 17 '15 at 16:25
I once read (source: the internet!) about a guy who tried to bring a bottle frozen water through security, claiming that, hell, "it's not liquid!"! – Pierre Arlaud Feb 18 '15 at 10:28
Because it's difficult to tell apart a bottle full water from a bottle full of a chemical like hydrogen peroxide that could be used to make liquid explosives. There was one hare-brained terrorist plot that apparently tried this in 2006, and because "passenger convenience" will always lose out to "bureaucratic ass-covering" when it comes to security theater, all liquids of all kinds were banned by the TSA. (Unless they're under 100ml, so yes, you can take a 100ml bottle of water on board... if you can find one!)
In Japan, they've already got bottle scanners that can identify suspect liquids. These are increasingly being adopted by other countries, and once they're widespread enough, the liquid silliness will hopefully end.
Note that while you can't take a partly or completely filled >100ml water bottle through security, it's perfectly fine to take an empty bottle through security, and fill it up before you board the plane. Or you can buy a bottle once you've passed security.
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Are 100ml of hydrogen peroxide not sufficient to make liquid explosive? Or is it just that the explosion might not kill everyone on the plane? Ah you gotta love security theatre. – JoErNanO♦ Feb 17 '15 at 11:16
@JonStory For maximum security, you could live in a bunker and never fly! Discussions on if the current rules are actually in any way sensible or proportional probably belong on Skeptics.SE though – Gagravarr Feb 17 '15 at 12:37
I like how, having confiscated what could be a bottle full of explosive, they (often) throw it into a box containing a lot of other previously confiscated potential explosives. – bye Feb 17 '15 at 17:11
This is getting a bit off-topic. Perhaps someone should post the question, "Ways of blowing up a plane with at most 100ml of liquid". – Cary Swoveland Feb 17 '15 at 23:36
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tl;dr: Airports like to sell drinks (and it may increase security)
As described by @jpatokal it is indeed possible to make explosives out of some liquids, and thus airlines used security as a reason to ban all liquids.
Though the amount of terrorist attacks prevented by this is probably in the range of 0-1 (which could of course make it worth the effort), there is a side effect that is easily noticeable:
Since it is harder for people to arrange their own drinks, the number of drinks purchased at an airport increases. I have been unable to find a citation for this but can attest to this from personal experience.
So, preventing people from taking bottles may increase security, but it will definitely increase revenue. And this is at least part of the reason why the rule got enough support to be implemented.
This is skeptical, but anyhow the revenue increase is a positive side effect and wasn't the original plan. – Nean Der Thal Feb 17 '15 at 13:47
In general we can of course never know why certain things are done. But the economical benefits here are clear, and those tend to result in support. Therefore I think the economical angle should not be overlooked when someone asks about all aspects leading to the current situation. – Dennis Feb 17 '15 at 14:13
What is really annoying is that, even though once you are past the check in stuff is tax-free, a bottle of water will cost you more than double the "external" price... – algiogia Feb 17 '15 at 15:21
You should put some emphasis (italics) on "may" in the bold header. – Cole Johnson Feb 17 '15 at 17:31
@MeNoTalk did you mean "cynical", rather than "skeptical"? – Andrew Grimm Feb 18 '15 at 0:10
The policy is actually fairly reasonable, and the base reason is that they can't run an analytical chemistry laboratory at the checkpoints (nor find staff that can both understand the results and work for a government salary).
The hydrogen peroxide mentioned in another answer is one possibility. Looks just like water. The stuff you buy at the drug store makes a great antiseptic or toothpaste, stronger mixes make good rocket fuel. Gasoline looks a lot like apple juice - light up 500ml of Regular Unleaded and ask yourself if you want that happening in the window seat. 100ml bottles of apple juice are rather rare and will attract attention. Other chemicals not mentioned here can start roaring blazes on contact with air - you just have to open the cap.
Sales were certainly not a consideration - every airport I've been to charged market rate for drinks after security, one openly advertises (since the 1990s) that prices after security are exactly the same. And I've had no problems at all bringing a freshly rinsed thermos through. It gets a quick glance to see if its empty.
If your explanation should hold, there has to be a complete ban on bringing liquids through security. If five terrorist buddies are allowed to bring 500ml of unleaded petrol through security and it is a real problem, we have an immense security risk. – Tor-Einar Jarnbjo Feb 17 '15 at 18:05
I always thought they could just do the trick I've seen done at many non-corporate music festivals: You say it's just water in that bottle? Shake it up then swallow two fingers' worth of the bottle in one gulp while the security guard watches, and keep it down. No need for a chemistry lab - the person's stomach will very quickly let you know if it was hydrogen peroxide. – user56reinstatemonica8 Feb 17 '15 at 19:38
@user568458 - that's exactly what happens if you bring through water in a baby's bottle - one of the few exceptions to the liquid rule. – paj28 Feb 18 '15 at 11:01
@paj28: best comment ever on this topic: "fresh milk for infants: no limit when transported in the original containers" – paul Feb 18 '15 at 12:57
If this was really about terrorism, then there would be just a limit on the total amount of liquid you are allowed to bring. The wired rule that liquids have to be in max 100 ml containers (even though you are allowed several of them, so if you split the forbidden 500 ml bottle among 5 smaller bottles its suddenly fine), leads to the conclusion that the official reasons are bullshit, and its just about increasing revenue from overpriced drinks. A dangerous 500 ml doesn't suddenly become safe by splitting among 5 bottles, Especially that you can combine it back once on the plane. – yannn Jul 28 '16 at 1:59
If you ask them, it's to prevent terrorist attacks in the form of bombings. Apparently several people posting agree. I would answer that it is to appear to prevent terrorist attacks. I say that because tsa is slightly more effective than mall cops.
Could there be bombs created through that nefarious methods that get caught by the liquid limitations? Maybe. Probably not. TSA got caught missing something like 95% of things getting past them by homeland security. So hope it's that 5%. It isn't like multiple people couldn't pool together small bottles of liquid.
The purpose is to appear busy and to make people feel safe by being very intrusive. The reason we haven't seen more attacks is because of increased intelligence operations, and because we reinforced the cockpit door. Without the ability crash the plane into something, we're back to the pre-911 days, where they can attack the plane, but it's not nearly as good a target.
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The reinforced cockpit door was the cause of one of the worst attacks of 2015, that security measure clearly backfired. And increased intelligence hasn't helped much. Terrorists still fly (and many that aren't are incorrectly banned). What has helped to some extend is increased security. Many reports show prevented attacks and captured terrorists at the gates. But as the 'underwear bomber' showed, the intrusive checks in the airport are not foolproof yet. – Abel Jan 6 '17 at 21:06
Why do people always say "you can just get 5 people to get together and..." - when even trying to make software in teams like that leads to squabbling and fighting. The more people need to team up to attack, the more likely the plot will collapse or be discovered in advance. – Kate Gregory Jul 2 '17 at 13:14
Nitrated alcohol looks so like water. One good shake can blow all away.
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This was already given in an answer and it is only a part of the answer to the question. – Willeke♦ Jul 3 '17 at 18:41
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