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Whitman's son was in Building 7 on 9/11
simuvac Tue, 06/26/2007 - 11:25am
Christie Todd Whitman
Taylor Whitman
In her testimony today, Christie Todd Whitman revealed that her son was in Building 7 on 9/11:
"Whitman finally boiled over when Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) told her she was obfuscating by bringing up the danger faced by her own family to prove her actions were motivated only by concern.
"My son was in building seven that day," Whitman nearly shouted, stabbing at her desk with her hands after Ellison asked if her calm statements might have been too broad."
I couldn't find anything that says what her son, Taylor, does, or why he was in WTC7. Anyone?
Christie Todd Whitman is currently nominated to be a director at United Technologies:
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) (NYSE: UTX) is an American multinational conglomerate based in Hartford, Connecticut, and is the 20th largest U.S. manufacturer.[1] UTC is a $37 billion company that researches, develops, and manufactures products in numerous areas, including aircraft engines, helicopters, heating and cooling, fuel cells, elevators and escalators, fire and security, building systems, and industrial products, among others.
The core group of United Technologies companies was founded in 1929 as United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, by the merger of Boeing, Chance Vought, Hamilton Standard, Pratt & Whitney, and Sikorsky Aircraft. As a result of the Air Mail Act in 1934, United Aircraft and Transport broke up into three independent companies: Boeing, United Aircraft, and United Airlines. Vought was spun off as an independent business in 1954, but otherwise, United Aircraft maintained its original corporate structure and concentration in the aerospace and defense industries well into the 1970s.
In addition to being married into the Bush family, check out Whitman's other associations with 9/11-related individuals:
During the Nixon administration, Whitman worked in the Office of Economic Opportunity under the leadership of Donald Rumsfeld. She also conducted a national outreach tour for the Republican National Committee, was Deputy Director of the New York State Office in Washington, and worked on aging issues for the Nixon campaign and administration.
From 1988 to 1990 she served as President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities in the cabinet of Gov. Thomas Kean.
Whitman was co-chair, with Bush, of the 1996 Republican National Convention.
She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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I'm guessing she gave him a quick call and told him to get the Hell out and away from "Ground Zero" and stay there and not go back.
Is HE suffering from illnesses and disease from the effects of GZ toxicity and contamination???
I doubt it. And she isn't either.
Her response was a bullshite obfuscation and attempt to get them to quit pressing her on it using "poor little me" misdirection and "how dare you!" counter-attack and "Plain Folks" propaganda.
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doughnut on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 2:06am.
Whitman's son "nearly died" in WTC 7
Couldn't find out any info.
Why was her son "almost killed" in WTC7? Was he near the building when it "collapsed"? Was he in the building when the explosions in the lobby took place? Who knows, I'd like to see more information about it.
I searched for information on this yesterday, but I couldn't really turn up anything. Here's what I found:
Whitman: My son nearly died "My son was in Building 7, congressman, and I almost lost him," she said, at which point Ellison jumped in and said he would not "stand here and allow you to try to obfuscate."
Whitman shot back: "I'm not obfuscating. I have been called a liar even in this room today."
She has long insisted that her statements that the "air is safe" were aimed at those living and working near ground zero, not those who actually toiled on the toxic pile that included asbestos.
"Was it wrong to try get the city back on its feet as quickly as possible in the safest way possible? Absolutely not... We weren't going to let the terrorists win," she said, which led to catcalls from the crowd.
Dozens of activists and Sept. 11 rescue workers came to the hearing, and some in the audience hissed when Whitman defended former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's handling of the health concerns.
No clarifying details are given in this article about her son in WTC 7
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19419913/
Perhaps contacting her son is in order.
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Arabesque on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 2:08pm.
The only stories about her son I could find on the Internet had to do with the 2004 RNC. They talk about him and other young Republican elites, but don't say what he does.
It could be an entirely innocuous story; but we know that many alphabet agencies were in WTC7, so I'd like to know if he worked for one of them.
simuvac on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 2:35pm.
"My son was in Building 7,
"My son was in Building 7, congressman, and I almost lost him."
This could be interesting. Did her son witness the bomb described by Jennings (the LC thing of a few days ago)? How else would she "almost have lost him" unless she just means he was near the Towers? A member of my family was also very near the Towers, but I could not imagine making the same kind of statement she did. To me, her statement 1) either backs up Jennings' account of the bomb in WTC7 BEFORE the Towers fell, or 2) it is pure political sleaze, pulling at people's heart-strings just because her son was in the vicinity of something terrible. If the cause of her statement is the first option, that would be fantastic as it blows the whole OCT wide open. If it is the second option, it shows that she is a slimeball who is willing to use that tragedy to weasel out of her other lies.
If someone gets a chance to speak with her, please zero in on this line of questioning.
It's an emotional thing here, but to me it sounds grotesque to claim "I almost lost him" if he was simply in the vicinity. I know that in part I am motivated by my own family member being very nearby, and I know that he has been traumatized by the event. But none of us would ever even consider saying we "almost lost him" for those reasons. Other people suffered much more than that. Not sure if this is completely clear, but it actually quite pisses me off and I hope someone will make her say exactly what she means by that statement.
JFK on secrecy and the press
Alvin R on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 5:06pm.
Although this is pure speculation, you can't turn down good leads like this. Of course, Whitman could have been just exaggerating about her son's danger.
Arabesque on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 10:14pm.
Looking for info on Whitman's son...
...and I found this:
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Todd_Whitman
"Her maternal grandfather, Reeve Schley, was a member of Wolf's Head Society at Yale, as were his son and a grandson. Schley headed the Wolf's Head alumni association for six years."
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf's_Head_(secret_society)
"Wolf's Head (W.H.S.), founded in 1883, is the third oldest secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. The founding undergraduate members from the Yale Class of 1884 and over 300 Yale alumni sought to help reform a social system and University administration dominated by the societies Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key."
Looks like a "compound." Better send in federal marshals.
Notable Alumni:
Mark Dayton - Senator, Minnesota
Robert Fiske - appointed by Janet Reno as the "special prosecutor" to investigate the Whitewater controversy and the death of White House Counsel Vincent Foster in January 1994
James Bush (1844) - great-great grandfather and great-grandfather, respectively, 43rd and 41st Presidents of the United States
As for Whitman's son:
Taylor Prentice Whitman - NYT wedding announcement September 10, 2006
27, an associate specializing in corporate development and mergers and acquisitions at IDT Corporation, a telecommunications company in Newark. He graduated from Boston College. He is a member of the young professional advisory board of the Mentoring Partnership of New York, a nonprofit organization in New York that recruits young professionals as mentors for children's programs.
His mother is the president of the Whitman Strategy Group, a management consulting and strategic planning partnership in Princeton, N.J. She was the environmental protection administrator from 2001 to 2003 and governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001. The bridegroom's father is the president of Sycamore Ventures, a venture capital firm in Princeton.
The bridegroom's great-grandfather Charles S. Whitman was governor of New York from 1915 to 1918.
Photos of Taylor Whitman here:
US-Korea/Korea-US Business councils Annual Plenary Meeting Recap
Taylor Whitman, VP International Marketing, Gale International
The council members include some of the world's most successful and influential companies from all sectors including Citi, AIG, Time Warner, Applied Materials, Cargill, Chevron, Chubb, Cisco, FedEx, GM, IBM, MetLife, J&J, Merck, Microsoft, Pfizer, Prudential, UPS, Poongsan Corp., SK Telecom, Samsung, LG International, Korean Air, Woori Bank, Hyundai Motor Company, Daewoo Securities, and of course, Gale International to name a few.
http://www.songdo.com/default.aspx?p=1508&d=1437
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It is possible that Christie Todd Whitman's son, Taylor Whitman, was employed by Citigroup, with offices located in 7 World Trade, on September 11, 2001. If the NYT wedding announcement of September 10, 2006 is correct in his being 27 years old then, he could have been a 22 year old Citigroup employee on 9/11. And, at the ripe old age of 25, was hosting a post Republican convention fête with fellow political kids Emma Bloomberg and daughter Emily Pataki on August 30, 2004.
"The invitation, which was sent to a select group of 1,000 young Republicans, describes the event as a "celebration" of "The Next Generation of Leaders." But a more accurate description might be an initiation ceremony for the next generation of movers, shakers and fund-raisers, because many of the gala's guests have been chosen above all for their combination of fund-raising prowess and social and political connections. Some of the invitees are "Mavericks," which is the name given by the Bush camp to the young rainmakers who've managed to raise at least $50,000 for the President's campaign coffers. They are real-estate scions like Harrison LeFrak, liquor-company heirs like Nicole Ruvo and media professionals like Jeff Ballabon. Mr. LeFrak and Ms. Ruvo have raised at least $50,000, Mr. Ballabon at least $100,000.
They are the G.O.P.'s very own cadre of baby bundlers-young professionals who raise or "bundle" large checks for the party-and like their Democratic counterparts, they are being handsomely rewarded for helping stock their candidate's $240 million war chest."
http://www.observer.com/node/49659
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/rnc/9718/
"At the time of its destruction, Building 7 housed documents relating to numerous SEC investigations. The files for approximately three to four thousand cases were destroyed, according to the Los Angeles Times. Among the destroyed documents were ones that may have demonstrated the relationship between Citigroup and the WorldCom bankruptcy."
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/wtc7/index.html
"Whitman's post-9/11 statements are further called into question by "the appearance of a conflict between Whitman's responsibility to the public and her own family's financial affairs," wrote Laura Flanders in her book "Bushwomen." "As the former Governor of New Jersey, Whitman owned bonds worth between $15,000 and $50,000 in the New York/New Jersey Port Authority -- the owner of the World Trade Center site and the major liable party in the affair. Her husband, John R. Whitman, formerly a Citigroup vice-president, manages hundreds of millions of dollars in the banking giant's assets, and Travelers Insurance, a Citigroup subsidiary, stood to lose multiple millions in Manhattan medical claims." Flanders gives the Whitmans' investment in Citigroup as being "up to $250,000 in stock," adding that "John Whitman received a six-figure bonus from Citigroup as recently as 2000.""
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christine_Todd_Whitman
"We're going to have to recognize that there's a next generation of nuclear technology that is a whole lot safer than in the past." - -- Christie Todd Whitman, June 14, 2004, Council on Foreign Relations briefing on "Climate change: What's next for American policy?"
"New technology allows us to do it [produce nuclear power] better and in a safer way. The biggest hurdle obviously is where do you store the spent rods. There's also some research going on as to whether we are actually making maximum use of spent rods, if there isn't more we can get out of them that would render them even safer. We're working, obviously, closely with the Department of Energy on storage facility and what happens for a national facility." - interview with The Hill, published June 13, 2001 as "Interview: EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman"
Can anyone say DU?
"But truthfully, I don't really know. We've had trouble getting a handle on Building No. 7."
~~ Dr. Shyam Sunder - Acting Director Building and Fire Research Laboratory (NIST)
dicktater on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 12:21am.
DU?
I'm sorry I don't understand the reference. Oh -- depleted uranium! I'm not sure I see the connection with the other material on Taylor.
But good finds here. Wow, 22 years old and working for Citigroup. I guess that's one of the benefits of being a Whitman.
So, it's possible that some Citigroup docs were destroyed in WTC7, and Taylor may have been working at a Citigroup office in WTC7.
It's probably innocuous, but I feel like some of these connections among the rich will reveal something about 9/11. Some already have.
simuvac on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 3:30pm.
Did you not see this?
"Her husband, John R. Whitman, formerly a Citigroup vice-president, manages hundreds of millions of dollars in the banking giant's assets, and Travelers Insurance, a Citigroup subsidiary, stood to lose multiple millions in Manhattan medical claims.""
The DU reference by me was in response to CT Whitman's quote copied in my post (serendipity of scanning docs for refs to her son). Here it is again :
"The biggest hurdle obviously is where do you store the spent rods. There's also some research going on as to whether we are actually making maximum use of spent rods..." CT Whitman, June 13, 2001
"Depleted uranium is produced as a byproduct during the process of forming enriched uranium from natural uranium. Enriched uranium is used in nuclear reactors. When the majority of fissile radioactive isotopes of uranium are removed from natural uranium, what remains is called depleted uranium. Another, less common, source of Depleted Uranium is reprocessed spent reactor fuel. DU created by enrichment can be distinguished from DU created in a reactor by the percentage of uranium-236,[6] produced by neutron capture from uranium-235 in nuclear reactors, present in the material."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
dicktater on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 6:26pm.
I didn't know that about depleted uranium.


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7 Lessons from New York's New Affordable Housing Design Guide
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When we think of public housing architecture in the United States, we often think of boxes: big, brick buildings without much aesthetic character. But the implications of standardized, florescent-lit high-rises can be far more than aesthetic for the people who live there. Geographer Rashad Shabazz, for one, recalls in his book Spatializing Blackness how the housing project in Chicago where he grew up—replete with chain link fencing, video surveillance, and metal detectors—felt more like a prison than a home. Accounts of isolation, confinement, and poor maintenance are echoed by public housing residents nationwide.
But American public housing doesn't have to be desolate. A new set of design standards from the New York City Public Design Commission (PDC)—in collaboration with The Fine Arts Federation of New York and the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter—hopes to turn over a new leaf in affordable housing architecture.
Released earlier this month, "Designing New York: Quality Affordable Housing" discusses general best practices in planning affordable housing and provides case studies of successful affordable housing projects already completed in New York, many of which were designed by high-profile firms like Ennead and SHoP Architects.
While the document serves as "a reference for New York City agencies and their applicants seeking guidance on affordable housing design," it's written in language accessible to people outside of design professions and has been publicly released with the goal of empowering "citizens and community organizations to demand design excellence in affordable housing projects in their neighborhoods."
The report comes six months after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in November 2017 that he would build and preserve 300,000 affordable housing units by 2026. His plan—which is an updated version of a 2014 plan set to be finished ahead of schedule—will "preserve the affordability of 180,000 units of existing apartments and build 120,000 new ones."
Architects designing those new units over the next few years will take cues from the design guide. But architects worldwide can learn from the document, too. Here are some key takeaways from Designing New York:
1. Be creative with massing and respectful with scale
Deviating from big-block high-rises that dominated American public housing for decades, Designing New York recommends breaking up massing within a building to allow variation in units and creativity within the zoning code. The Creston Avenue Residence in the Bronx uses unconventional massing to match neighborhood scale (mostly five-story apartments buildings) while maximizing the number of units offered. In that project by Magnusson Architecture & Planning, street frontages "align with adjacent older residences and echo their smaller scale, while the center portion, clad in metal panels, pulls back to create a generously covered entrance."
2. Design with the neighborhood in mind by integrating absent services
When low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets with healthy options and venues for physical activity (like parks and gyms), the consciously-designed public housing can fill in some of these gaps to improve the health of building residents. At Arbor House in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx, wide stairwells are designed with natural light to encourage use; likewise, an on-site hydroponic rooftop garden meets residents' produce needs.
3. Don't make affordable housing "look" like affordable housing
Too often, the divisions between public housing and market-rate housing are made clear by visually differentiated structures. When affordable housing is marked with pejorative architecture, residents can become stigmatized or ostracized from the broader neighborhood. Les Bluestone, an advocate of innovative affordable housing and co-founder of Blue Sea Development Company says, "The best role that design can play is to not define buildings as affordable housing. Anything that we can do to get away from that helps the community."
4. Structural innovation can overcome a difficult site for the benefit of residents
In a city as built-out as New York, many new affordable housing projects occupy odd parcels of city land. Frost Street Apartments in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for example, sits adjacent to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a six-lane highway. In order to mitigate noise disturbance in the apartments, Curtis + Ginsberg Architects employed "high-performance windows and a heavy masonry and concrete structure."
The Schermerhorn in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill offered similarly difficult conditions, sitting atop two subway lines. According to Designing New York, "building…over the two subway lines that run below the site required a truss and cantilever structure that took up the majority of the construction budget." The result of building on a difficult site, though, is 109 units for formerly homeless people and people living with HIV/AIDS.
5. Green building is about more than just sustainability
Reminiscent of the vernacular courtyard apartment, Navy Green employs varied building forms (townhouses and high rises of varying sizes) around a central courtyard. Residents, in turn, have access to fresh air, natural light, and green space outside their window, regardless of their unit's location in the complex.
6. Design won't solve everything
The Designing New York report offers a promising paradigm shift away from confining architecture and towards community-building architecture, but it's important to remember, in all of this, that well-designed public housing will help, not solve New York City's housing crisis. The city continues to struggle with its definition of affordability, which relies on skewed median incomes for the New York area. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development has also come under scrutiny this month for their policy on resident selection. And as low-income New York City residents are pushed out of their homes every day, even a substantial commitment from the city to build new units will likely be unable to keep pace with displacement.
7. Different cities (and countries) need their own design solutions
While we should admire New York City's attempt to provide dignified housing for low-income residents, architectural history shows us that public housing can't follow a one-size-fits-all model. If the success of Le Corbusier's Unité habitation in Marseille, France in contrast with the similar (but failed) Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project in St. Louis, Missouri is any indication, different regions need different kinds of public housing. The Designing New York report is conscious of this fact, encouraging site-specific, resident-specific projects. Let's remember that even if the Frost Street Apartments are great for Brooklyn, they shouldn't be plopped down anywhere in the world. The lessons we learn from these projects' attention to residential needs, however, should be broadly applied.
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Celtic Imbolc: The Adoration Ritual to Goddess Brigid on February 1st
Learn all about the veneration for the goddess of fire (who later became Saint Brigid) which takes place on the 1st of February
by Paul Waits 25/07/2019 14:42h
In the Celtic Pagan Tradition, February 1st marks the celebration of a holiday known as Imbolc. This winter festivity announces the arrival of spring, marks the return of light and solar strength, and is dedicated to Goddess Brigid.
What is Imbolc, the ritual to Goddess Brigid on February 1st
In the great rhythm of seasonal cycles, February 1st pays homage to light and the days that are gaining strength. Imbolc is then dedicated to a Celtic deity, Goddess Brigid. She is the one who brings this cyclical return of light. Her name originates from an Indo-European tribe and it means highness, sublimity.
The etymology of the name Imbolc is also quite revealing: it stems from old Irish and it means "in the womb", referring to a woman's pregnancy, which relates Brigid to fertility and the protection of pregnant women.
Veneration to Brigid in Imbolc is associated to divine protection, medicine, fertility, and prosperity. Livestock was dedicated to her as a sign of abundance. But in popular traditions, Brigid is predominantly a goddess linked to fire. The symbolism of fire connects her to the sun, which incarnates the return from the winter period.
You may be interested in: Celtic Beltane: The Festival of Fire and Fertility on May 1st
Veneration to Brigid, the goddess of Imbolc
Veneration to Brigid was so embedded within the Celtic people that Christianisation never managed to eliminate their devotion. Nonetheless, attempts from the Christians were numerous and similarly to what occurred with other pagan deities, they eventually turned her into Saint Brigid of Ireland, who's commemoration day is, not coincidentally, on February 1st.
Therefore, she hasn't gone down in history as a demon, as it occurred with other goddesses. The Irish had such faith in this deity that they maintained all her characteristics as a Christian saint! According to the legend, Saint Brigid of Ireland was the daughter of a Christian slave and a pagan king, and was baptised by Saint Patrick. She is thought to have lived sometime around the VI century. Later on, the Catholic Church also added the Candlemas festival on February 2nd, which is dedicated to Virgin Mary and is celebrated with candle processions, which once again links these dates to fire.
Brigid inspires the art of smithy and healing, blesses poetry, creativity, prophecy, and the arts. As the Goddess of the Forge, she blesses blacksmiths, jewellers, and other craftsmen of the world. As the Goddess of Healing, she blesses physical and spiritual healing, fertility of the land, fertility of livestock, and the art of midwifery. In terms of prophecies, Goddess Brigid marked the Imbolc celebration, and amongst other traditions, it was believed that this day was good for fortune telling and questioning signals to decipher what the future had to offer to the home.
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Rituals for Celtic Imbolc
Within the rituals practiced during the Celtic Imbolc, those related to cleansing the body as a symbol of purification are of great importance. Hands, feet, and head have to be washed, similarly to Roman traditions taking place in February such as Lupercalia.
Purifying oneself during the Celtic festivity of Imbolc allows individuals to be in complete harmony with the cosmic forces and be prepared for the cyclical return of the solar forces.
In Ireland on the 1st of February, day of the Imbolc, many protect their houses with the cross of Saint Brigid. It consists of a cross made of rushes, and is easily found in souvenir shops. According to Catholics, the cross protects households from bad luck and fire (element which, as previously stated, is linked to Brigid).
To honour Goddess Brigid, another ritual that can be carried out consists of making an altar for Imbolc with eight candles floating in a container filled with water. It is common for women to set up the altars and place white elements in them, as white is the colour of snow, milk, the moon, and the candles which represent Light.
To celebrate Imbolc, since it is a period of transition, it is recommended to finish all the ongoing work from the winter, leaving nothing behind. This is because it was a time of preparation for the new year, in which it was checked that all tools worked correctly and the land had been ploughed. Some households would carry out a thorough spring cleaning. Imbolc brings hope for new beginnings, and healing of internal wounds.
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Imbolc and the Goddess Brigid in Wicca
Wicca is a religion that is inspired in pagan practices and is based on the respect for nature's creative forces, generally symbolised by Goddesses and Gods that represent the feminine and masculine aspect of creation. Those who practice Wicca, just like the Celts did, practice Brigid's festivity on February 1st.
Many of their worshippers welcome the new members in their circle or group during Imbolc. Candidates are initiated, celebrating life and the first fruits of spring, baptisms are carried out, and presentations to the Gods and the elements are conducted.
In the Celtic Imbolc, baptisms and rituals of purification are performed using sacred water, which was originally dew water collected from prairies, after a new moon, at dawn. This water, once filtered, is placed in a crystal jar.
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After months on the market, the free-agent wide receiver has signed a one-year contract with the Saints, NFL Insider Ian Rapoport reported Wednesday, citing sources.
NFL Media notes that Bryant will wear No. 88 in New Orleans and report to the team's facility on Thursday after spending Wednesday in Dallas with his son.
He'll get the opportunity to play against his former team later this month, as the Saints are scheduled to visit the Cowboys in Week 13.


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All Royal Society of Chemistry journals will be free online from Monday, March 2 to Monday, March 30. Access will be for the years 1997 to the present. The Kresge Library subscribes to some, but not all, journals from this publisher, so take this opportunity to check out such titles as: CrystEngComm, Green Chemistry, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Lab on a Chip, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, and Soft Matter.
The Royal Society of Chemistry also has a couple of new introductory journals free online in 2009: Integrative Biology (a journal of quantitative biosciences from nano to macro) and Metallomics (a journal covering the research fields related to biometals).
Please send any comments or questions to the Kresge Library at x4-8705 or helplib@scripps.edu.
Safety Gram Live: "Lessons Learned: Fire! 3 Laboratories @ 3 Campuses"
Environmental Health & Safety is hosting its next Safety Gram Live! seminar, "Lessons Learned: Fire! 3 Laboratories @ 3 Campuses," on Tuesday, March 3 at noon. The event will be held in the Keck amphitheater of the Beckman Building, La Jolla campus. Lunch will be provided and a raffle will be held for those who RSVP and are in attendance. RSVP to Danielle DeLorme at ddelorme@scripps.edu. For more information, please contact Julio Giannotti at julio@scripps.edu or 858-784-8462.
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Ten Tips from the Counseling Department: "Improving Your Sleep"
The Counseling and Psychological Services Department has posted a new article in its "10 Tips" series, "10 Tips for Improving your Sleep" by Scripps Research Counseling Psychologist Daphne Lurie. To read the article, which is presented in a bullet point format for quick reading and easy application to real-life situations, go to the Counseling and Psychological Services website.


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lent his star power to help Google Canada open its new engineering office in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., highlighting his government's promise to invest in innovation, and infrastructure. The space boasts a climbing wall and a secret room. It will host more than 400 engineers working on hardware and software products for the global Internet giant. Google has been in the Kitchener-Waterloo area since 2005.
A group of junior code-makers take part in a virtual reality demonstration during the unveiling of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Jennifer Flanagan, President and CEO of Actua, take part in a virtual reality demonstration at the new Google Canada Development headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.
The library inside Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.
Employees work in one of the many colourful areas of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters.
An employee works on some hardware ideas in the Makers Lab of Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters.
A Google employee walks into a secret room behind the blue library. Google's new office is the major tenant in a glass-and-steel building in downtown Kitchener, part of the redevelopment of a row of factories first built in 1902 and known as the Breithaupt Block.
Google has been in the Kitchener-Waterloo area since 2005 .
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plays a game to officially launch Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.
The U.S.-based company's Canadian arm has signed a 10-year deal to occupy 185,000 square feet of the facility.


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Der Anatolische Mohn (Papaver triniifolium) ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Mohngewächse (Papaveraceae). Er ist in der Türkei beheimatet und ist dem Papaver armeniacum, einer weiteren türkischen Mohnart, sehr ähnlich. Darüber hinaus gibt es noch einen Türkischen Mohn (Papaver orientale).

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Die zweijährige, krautige Pflanze erreicht Wuchshöhen bis 40 Zentimeter.
Im ersten Jahr bildet sich eine grünblaue, bis 30 Zentimeter durchmessende Blattrosette. Sie besteht aus gestielten, lanzettlich fiederspaltigen Laubblättern, die leicht behaart sind und bis zu 20 Zentimeter lang werden. Die einzelnen Blattsegmente sind schmaloval bis elliptisch.

Im zweiten Jahr entwickelt sich ein kahler, verzweigter Blütenstängel, auf dem nickend bis aufrecht die Blüten sitzen.
Die radiärsymmetrische, zwittrige Blüte weist einen Durchmesser von 2,5 bis 4 Zentimeter auf. Die vier freien Kronblätter sind hell- bis scharlachrot.
Um den Fruchtknoten herum sitzen dicht die Staubblätter mit den gelben Staubbeuteln.
Der oberständige Fruchtknoten ist oben mit 4 bis 6 Strahlen versehen. Die Blütezeit verläuft von Mai bis Juni. Die zwittrigen Blüten werden durch Insekten bestäubt, oder sie bestäuben sich selbst.

Aus den Öffnungen unter dem Deckel der schlanken, 8 bis 12 mm langen, glatten, graugrünen Porenkapsel entweichen die sehr kleinen Samen, wenn die Pflanze im Wind schwankt. Nach der Samenreife stirbt die Pflanze ab. Die Verbreitung der Samen geschieht über Windausbreitung.

Die Chromosomenzahl beträgt 2n = 14 oder 28.

Inhaltsstoffe
Der Milchsaft der Kapsel enthält giftige Alkaloide vom Rhoeadin-Typ, wie sie auch im heimischen Klatschmohn vorkommen. Dabei dominiert das Alkaloid OreodinB. Bös: GIFTPFLANZEN.COMpendium Zugriff Februar 2008. Für die Herstellung von Betäubungsmitteln und insbesondere für die Herstellung von Opium hat die Art keine Bedeutung.

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Dort findet man ihn auf Kalkböden und Geröllhalden in Höhenlagen von 2.000 bis 3.400 Metern.

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"Funny On Purpose" Quotes
I recently read "Funny On Purpose: The Definitive Guide To An Unpredictable Career in Comedy" by Joe Randazzo. Below are the quotes I found most interesting. If you like the quotes, click here to buy the book.
"As in all of the arts, fortune favors the persistent much more than the merely talented." -John Hodgman (12)
"I have never been badly served by stopping before typing a word or taking a step on stage and asking myself: Why am I doing this? What do I have to say – need to say – on this specific day, to this group of people? It takes rigor, and a certain brave honesty, because sometimes the answer is small and dumb." -John Hodgman (13)
"In a comedy-saturation era, where every joke you can think of has already been made five times, twelve minutes ago, knowing yourself is not merely essential to being funny, it is more important than being funny." -John Hodgman (13)
"The seven traits of highly successful comedy people: 1. Self-Doubt 2. Excellent Procrastination Skills 3. Fear of the Unknown 4. Laziness 5. Fear of Failure 6. Poor Planning 7. A Need to Express Something to the World" (15)
"A character who innocently and earnestly pushes stupid, even dangerous ideas is infinitely funnier than a character who speaks in wisecracks." -Jack Handey (23)
"It's funnier – and perhaps more sympathetic – if a character doesn't know that he's being mean. If he's oblivious and actually thinks he's nice." -Jack Handey (24)
"The two primary functions of comedy are: to push the bounds of comfort and to challenge authority. Without these two principles – and an important and universal third principle, which is to smear the edges of tragedy with a shared sense of the absurd – one does not have comedy." (38)
"If The Onion is doing its job right, each article should offend at least a thousand people." (40)
"When I'm running a show, I'm really looking for jokes from new writers. It's great if they have story pitches. I mean, we need them, but a great way to contribute is to really listen to want the room and show runner want and pitch within that framework." -Danny Zuker (76)
"The worst thing any writer can do is get married to their ideas. Write a book if you want final say, but in TV it's collaborative. And don't take a rejection of your jokes or stories as a rejection of you. You really need to take it with a smile and keep pitching." (76)
"Cut anything that you wouldn't read aloud in front of the people you hope will hire you. Then go through and do it again. ANd again, and again. I know that less than 1 percent of comedy writers actually do this, but I also know that 97 percent of that 1 percent are currently working on a show somewhere." (79)
"There are five essential building blocks of great comedy performance… Relatability, timing, shamelessness, yelling and vulnerability." (124)
"The job of the comedy performer is to be able to expose the raw inner animal of the human being at a moment's notice – to look like a fool. If there's even a hint of worry or concern about how one will look, the spell is broken and the comedy is dead." (124)
"A good primal yell is equal to thirty-seven solid spit takes or nine pratfalls. It represents the deepest, least-eloquent form of communication, the bottom rung of emotion, hopelessness, the last straw. In other words: comedy itself." (125)
"Liana Maeby said, "In some ways, the best career advice might be to figure out how to get to a place where you can be happy for other people's success." (136)
"Good characters are funny because of who they are and how they act, not necessarily because they tell jokes." (190)
"The key is knowing the intention of the scene. If you know you have to et from A to B, and you have to hit certain emotions and story points to be clear, you can have fun along the way, but the intention of the scene must be the same." -Judd Apatow (215)
"When considering the business of comedy, these are the core questions:
Who will buy it?
What do they want from it?
How does it compare to everything else in the marketplace?" (301)
"Any good show usually starts from character." -Kate Adler (317)
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C&C Restaurant Group
The C&C Restaurant Group owns and operates a number of well-known restaurants in Glasgow's City Centre, West End and Southside. Maguires were brought on board midway through 2021 to provide creative content and brand direction for two of their best-known restaurant brands, plus another exciting venue that was to launch in July.
The first of which was Halloumi, a Greek-Cypriot Mezze restaurant chain with locations in the heart of Glasgow City Centre and the trendy Southside.
The client was keen to retain the existing logo type but felt the brand needed a distinctive tone of voice and a bolder creative positioning across their social channels.
We began by developing an expanded logo marque to incorporate a brand strapline, followed by a fresh graphic style and a wider colour palette. This graphic style took the form of a modern pattern device that referenced traditional mosaics, but featured a minimalist take on various ingredients and Greek iconography. The blocks of the pattern could then be deployed together, or separately, as part of a regular series of short animations designed to bring to life an irreverent new tone of voice, with offers and one-liners.
Regular food photography and short films were also provided on a monthly basis by our in-house team at Maguires, driving increased engagement over the 6-month period to date.
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Not So Welcome
Hostility to Syrian Refugees Rising Along Turkey's Border
Alarm is rising in Turkish border towns like Antakya amid fears that the onslaught of refugees will bring sectarian unrest across the border. Mike Giglio reports.
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Malik Balian thinks he has as good an idea as anyone about the number of Syrians in Antakya these days. Since they began to appear last year, he has sold them mobile phones from his busy Turkcell shop in the center of town. They come as refugees to this city near the Turkish border with Syria, but many are revolutionaries too, looking to continue their work for the uprising at home. Revolutionaries need to stay connected, and they come to Balian for SIM cards and USB Internet sticks.
"From 9 in the morning until 12 at night, the Syrians come in and out," Balian says. He guesses that he's served 3,000 to date—and that thousands more now live in Antakya and the surrounding border province of Hatay. "There are a lot of Syrians here," he says.
Like most Antakya residents, Balian is Alawite, hailing from the same religious sect as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. As in Syria, Turkey's Alawites—an off-shoot of Shiite Islam—are a minority in a predominately Sunni country, and many express solidarity with Assad. But Balian says he's one of the good guys, harboring nothing in the way of sectarian concerns.
Sitting in his shop's basement, where hundreds of chargers and USB cords dangle from hooks on the walls and scores of cell phones await repair, Balian flips through stacks of Turkcell receipts, many bearing the sort of nicknames—Abu Rami, Abu Ramen, Abu Ibrahim—that Syrian activists and rebels use to keep their identities obscured. (Abu translates to "the father of.") Balian then pages through a six-inch stack of the passport scans he takes to issue his SIM cards. Almost all the passports are Syrian. "I could make millions selling all this information to Alawites in Syria," Balian says. "But I wouldn't do it, even if they threatened to cut my head off."
But not all of Balian's clients trust that their information is safe. "He gives it all to the Syrian regime," one of his regular Syrian customers says.
Antakya has become a nerve center for the uprising against Assad. The city buzzes with activists, rebel fighters, and refugees who forgo camps along the border to pile into houses and apartments around town. Syrians of all creeds have joined the uprising, but the bulk are Sunni, while Alawites make up a bastion of Assad support. As the conflict grinds on, the political dialogue in Turkey has become fixated on the idea that sectarian tensions might spread across the border into Hatay—which has resulted in what Ceren Kenar, a Turkish columnist and journalist, calls "a panic among Turkish public opinion."
Politicians from the Turkish opposition have demonized the refugees—one recently claimed Turkey is training terrorists in the camps—and raised the alarm about coming sectarian unrest. The Turkish press, meanwhile, has been filled with accounts from Hatay residents who say they no longer want the Syrians in town. Syrians have been accused of everything from jumping cabs and restaurant bills to making unwanted advances on Turkish women and sowing Islamic extremism. Rumors of big anti-Syrian protests, meanwhile, have become a constant in Antakya of late.
"The media, the opposition parties—everybody is only speaking about Syria. We don't have any other agenda," Kenar says. "Politics has become very polarized around these lines. And the refugee crisis is the new hot-button issue. The language some people are using now is that Hatay is occupied by a foreign army."
As the Turkish worries mount, meanwhile, Syrians are becoming increasingly wary of their hosts. "We're very concerned about an extension of the sectarian problem," says Miral Biroreda, a veteran activist who has been living in Antakya for four months. "This is fertile ground."
Turkey has been one of the Assad regime's most vehement critics. As the number of refugees pouring across its borders has surged amid spiraling violence inside Syria—there are now more than 80,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey, according to the foreign ministry—the government in Ankara has pushed to make the refugee issue an international one. Turkey temporarily closed its borders to Syrian refugees this week, saying it was scrambling to put together new camps, while its foreign minister called on the United Nations to establish a buffer zone to safely house the refugees on Syrian soil. (In a rare interview this week, Assad dismissed such a notion, and insisted his army is winning the civil war.)
Refugees are increasingly becoming a domestic issue for Turkey too—one that seems to have put the government in a difficult spot. "It's a long-standing criticism from the opposition that the Syria policy is creating more problems in Turkey than anything else, and I think it's resonating," says David Pollock, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "The government has gotten itself into a corner, in that it's on one side of the conflict, and it's not winning. And there's no end in sight. The refugees are still knocking on the door. The fighting is still going on."
Some well-known Syrian activists in Antakya say they were summoned to a meeting with local government officials to address the refugee issue Monday night. According to the activists, the officials suggested that all Syrians should leave Antakya and Hatay—either for the refugee camps, or to head deeper into Turkey, away from the border. The officials, they say, painted this as a move for the Syrians' own good—in the camps they could receive more Turkish support. But the Syrians reacted with defiance. "We understood the message," says Amin Ahmed Abid, a schoolteacher and activist from the Syrian city of Latakia. "They want to move all Syrian people away from Hatay."
This account of the meeting was put forward by three Syrians who say they attended—Abid, along with Nasr Adin Ahmah and Abu Mohamed Jablawi—as well as a representative of an international NGO. Abid and the others were convinced the meeting was prompted by Turkey's struggle to respond to the recent outburst of concerns over refugees in Hatay.
"Syrian people have been here for more than a year, and they never thought about this before," Abid says. "They don't have enough space in the camps to accept more people from Syria, and now they want to bring everyone here inside? It doesn't make any sense."
It's unclear whether the Turkish government is considering a push to relocate the refugees or how such a measure would be enforced. "We have no exact information on this topic," a foreign ministry spokesman said, directing questions about the supposed meeting to the local government in Hatay. At the press office inside the government building, meanwhile, a spokesman for the governor said there was nothing he could say. "You heard what you heard," he said of the meeting. He then referred questions to Hatay's director of emergency relief, who referred them back to the foreign ministry.
Many locals, like Balian, insist that any tension is being stirred from the outside, not from the Antakya community that has long welcomed the Syrians as guests. On Tuesday, the governor of Hatay and mayor of Antakya gave a joint news conference that put the same message across. But Ahmah, the local activist, was busy worrying that an already a difficult situation for the Syrians in town was getting worse. Ahmah keeps a house in Antakya for the young activists who tend to turn up without a place to stay—there usually are about 10 living there at a time—that he says he funds largely by "begging my friends for their money," and contributing his own. Rocks recently crashed through the windows on two consecutive nights. No one saw the culprits, but Ahmah is sure who they were. "Supporters of the regime," he said.


Basic Artillery: gives control of the ballista to the hero, allowing one shot with a 50% chance to inflict double damage.
Advanced Artillery: gives control of the ballista to the hero, allowing two shots with a 75% chance to inflict double damage.
Expert Artillery: gives control of the ballista to the hero, allowing two shots which inflict double damage.
Artillery is a secondary skill that gives the hero manual control over war machine Ballista during combat and control over the arrow towers when defending a town during siege. Basic Artillery provides a 50% chance that ballista inflicts double damage. For Advanced Artillery this is a 75% chance and for Expert Artillery a 100% chance. Advanced and Expert Artillery also enable the ballista to shoot twice in a row, instead of once.
Torosar the Alchemist *Does not start with the skill Artillery.
Jeremy the Captain *Cannon instead of Ballista.
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