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France obsessing over Turkey's rising regional profile, scholar
March 24 2012 00:01:00
ISTANBUL-Hürriyet Daily News
The stormy nature of Turkish - French relations are not enough to disturb Müslüm, the cat of Cezayir restonarnt in Beyoğlu, where Dorothee Scmid explains to Daily News French outlook towards Turkey. DAILY NEWS photos, Emrah GÜREL
France is having difficulty grappling with a Turkey that is increasingly moving into areas that Paris has long viewed as its sphere of influence, according to a French scholar of international relations. "The French Foreign Ministry is obsessed by Turkey's rising profile in the region," said Dorothée Schmid of the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI).
"Turkey is an indispensable country, but one that we don't know how to cope with," she recently told the Hürriyet Daily News, noting that it had been "unbearable" for France to see Turkey calling itself a natural player in Syria and Lebanon amid the tumult of the Arab Spring.
Does French President Nicolas Sarkozy have a personal obsession with Turkey?
Many in Turkey believe that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has a personal obsession with Turkey.
He is not obsessed with Turkey, but he is negative; he does not want to change his mind. This is one of the fixed points in his political concepts: Turkey is not a European country, it is not exactly an easy partner, and it is not always a friendly country.
I think it is very much to do with the relationship of competition between the two countries and between the two leaders as well. The two [Sarkozy and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan] have met very rarely but don't like each other. They both have this sort of authoritarian type. They like to show that they are the boss, and they want to show that they can be in command.
Turkey has become
increasingly popular
among Arab people,
while France is sort of a
declining figure. Turks
sided with the people
quite firmly.
Where do Turkey and France compete?
In terms of diplomacy, in the Middle East. Sarkozy is not obsessed with Turkey. But the French Foreign Ministry is obsessed by Turkey's rising profile in the region. That's for sure. French diplomats [are more likely] to work with the Turks; they take Turkey seriously. They see Turkey as an indispensable partner but also a potential spoiler in the region. For the French, [Turkey] is a spoiler because they are in the French backyard. It has become increasingly popular among Arab people and part of the Arab elite, while France is sort of a declining figure and has had to face few incidents during the Arab Spring. Our first reactions did not exactly assess the importance of the course of the Arab revolts in due time.
Turks sided with the people quite firmly, and they have been [engaging in] communication quite well ever since. But the French were not that brave. In an effort to rehabilitate the image of France in the region, France had to go to Libya to sort of make up for past mistakes like getting closer to [former Libyan leader Moammar] Gadhafi and for not understanding what was going on in Tunisia.
But France is still an important player in the Middle East and Turkey is seen as a spoiler because it interferes with French affairs. To say that Turkey is a natural player in Syria and Lebanon is really unbearable for the French. But also in multilateral frames, when you have to make up solutions with NATO or as in the case of Syria with the Arab League, Turkey seems to be working … to play its own line and does not seem to be extremely eager to find an agreement with its partners.
France does not consider Turkey as a reliable ally in terms of crises in the Middle East. Turkey is an indispensable country, but one that we don't know how to cope with.
What do you mean when you said Turkey interferes in French affairs?
An example would be when Erdoğan did his Middle East tour last September and when Sarkozy managed to go to Libya before him.
The French view was that Erdoğan's initiative was misplaced. He wanted to reap the benefits of the whole operation when he was not in a leading position.
Turkey was not a combatant in the Libyan crisis; it was unfair for Turkey to reap the political profit of the whole Libya operation.
I think there was an agreement actually on this particular issue between the French and British that the leading profile would be a Franco-British [coalition] with the U.S. in the background; Turks would not have the right to show off too much.
We should actually question the idea that Turkey is that wanted in the Middle East. What we see from France is that there is a blurred vision of what Turks have in mind on Syria at the moment.
The French believe that Turks are not ready to be fully in charge and have difficulties living up to expectations.
Turks have a veto
psychology. When they
come together with
allies, they say, "I want
to have a say because
I can say 'no.'" That's
porblemic for consensus
Is there a change in French public opinion toward Turkey?
The French public is not anti-Turkish. When you look at the polls, Turkey has a better image in France that it has in Germany. The French have sympathy for Turkish culture and history. So in a way, Sarkozy is a bit at odds with the public. I was amazed to see how Turks receive the negative signals emitted by Sarkozy and how strongly they reacted to it. Reaction to the Armenian law [which would have criminalized denials of the 1915 events as genocide until it was recently struck down by the country's Constitutional Council] was massive. Turkey is a hot-blooded country. This is something our diplomats have difficulty [in understanding]. They think this is a phase, that Turks are experimenting, that it is searching for a style and a place where it has leverage, but that it is sometimes overplaying its hand.
The Turks, however, think that it was their strong reaction that led to the cancelation of the law. What do you think about this whole controversy about the motion?
I was amazed to see how the whole thing backfired on the president. He was not in control of his majority. There were divergences. What looks strange to me is how Turks managed to appear to look like victims. It's paradoxical; the objective was to bring up the Armenian issue and have it discussed publicly, even if it was in an awkward way. This is not the best way to raise the debate on the issue. It was interesting to see that Turks showed their weaknesses more than their strengths. They appeared as a victim of the Armenian lobby, which is a very small community [in which few of the associations are radical]. But the mainstream is not anti-Turkish. There is a lot to be done for Turks to understand what goes on in the mind of the Armenian diaspora.
There is more evolution in the diaspora toward dialogue, but you also have organizations that think the right tactic is to hit the Turks hard. But [the latest developments] have shown the limits of the tactic inside France.
What will happen to bilateral ties if Sarkozy is re-elected?
It will go through a new period of strain. It will have the same background: flourishing economic relations with lots of French investment in Turkey – this [French] business community is becoming more vocal. Even if the president remains anti-Turkish, French diplomats and business elite are pro-Turkish and the public is rather sympathetic to Turkey. That context should normally prevent big damage from happening, except if Turks turn anti-French themselves.
And what will happen if Socialist challenger François Hollande becomes president?
Hollande is a very consensual type. He has been delivering rather contradictory messages on Turkey. He said he would deal with the Armenian issue in a spirit of appeasement, but he made promises to Armenians saying he would go for the law again. He says he is not against Turkish accession in the EU but there are conditions. The community-based constituents who are biased against Turkey, Kurds and Armenians, have had traditionally good relations with the Socialist Party, and they are marginally affecting the Socialists' discourse.
Hollande would do more team work. Other Socialists who are more favorable to Turkey will also have a say.
Will diplomatic issues remain a challenging area in the future, too?
It will be difficult for Turkey and the EU to carve out common positions. I don't see easy cooperation between the EU and Turkey on Middle Eastern affairs. Turks have a veto psychology. When they come together with allies, they say, "I want to have a say because I can say 'no.'"
This is a big problem when you have difficulties in building a large consensus. Turkey prefers being in the leading position rather than adopting [itself to the larger] consensus.
'Candidates can't ignite racist sentiments'
The recent killings of Jews and French soldiers in Toulouse will bring the issues of security and immigration to the forefront of France's presidential race, scholar Dorothée Schmid said, but added that the candidates could not afford to ignite racist sentiments. Immigration, religion and the theme of the foreigner as a threat to the homogeneity of French society have provided a tool for right-wing leader to present a message of the need for French unity, said Schmid, an international relations specialist. The classical right has been testing the waters to determine whether it can siphon off the votes of the far-right Front National, as this has increasingly become an obsession of the classical right as it moves further toward the extremes, she said. The Toulouse incident should end these arguments on immigration and security issues, she said. "More serious issues should now be discussed during the electoral campaign."
WHO IS DOROTHÉE SCHMID
Dorothée Schmid heads the Turkey program at the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI), France's most important think tank dealing with international relations.
She graduated from Sciences Po Paris with a specialization in economics and holds a Ph.D. in political science from Paris-II University (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
As an expert on EU policies in Mediterranean countries and the Middle East, Schmid has worked closely with European institutions on several Euro-Mediterranean research projects and contributed to the debate on political reform and democratization in the region.
Her current work focuses on French-Turkish relations, internal political developments in Turkey and Turkey's new diplomatic ambitions, especially in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
Her recent publications include the report "Les Élites françaises et la Turquie : une relation dans l'attente" (French Elites and Turkey: A Pending Relationship), published with the Turkish think tank EDAM (2010).
She recently edited a book on Turkey's policies in the Middle East, "La Turquie au Moyen-Orient : le retour d'une puissance régionale?" (Turkey and the Middle East: Return of a Regional Power?), CNRS éditions (2011).
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Doing the Dirty Work
A first for the region, Schmelly's Dirt Farm's compost collection is rapidly expanding to serve local restaurants, hotels, farmers and growers.
Photos by Sara Essex Bradley, Ashley McLellan,
Owner, founder and company administrator Nicola Krebill launched Schmelly's Dirt Farm in 2014. A unique social enterprise, the organization provides farmers and gardeners with high-quality soil by composting waste from local businesses.
Nicola Krebill doesn't mind getting dirty. After years of boots-on-the-ground nonprofit work in Louisiana, Krebill saw the need to combine efforts with the New Orleans Food & Farm Network—which addresses the issue of food deserts and fresh-food access by establishing free backyard vegetable gardens—with the need for healthy soil for farmers and growers.
The seed of Schmelly's Dirt Farm was planted. Since its launch in 2014, the company has been picking up commercial food waste and compost, transforming it into rich composted soil, and then selling it to farms, growers and gardeners across the area.
Krebill—who acts as owner, founder and administrator—and operations manager Susan Sakash, now helm a team of five part-time haulers who man the pick-up routes and perform on-site processing at the company's headquarters in St. Bernard Parish. For the team, the inspiration to create and work at Schmelly's is more than just a job, it's about improving the community.
"Growers know the benefits and importance of compost: It enables water and nutrient retention for healthier and more productive plants," Sakash says. "Compost directly supports bioremediation, and is a way to clean toxic environments. Compost suppresses or stops erosion and land loss, and compost collection and processing could build jobs. Nicola knew that if someone could start a local compost production company, growers could fill their empty garden beds and address crucial environmental issues facing Southern Louisiana."
As more attention is being paid to "sustainable materials management" over traditional "solid waste management" at both the local and national level, Schmelly's Dirt Farm is on the forefront of finding new ways to create businesses that are profitable but also create much-needed jobs at a fair wage while providing a valuable service for farmers and growers, and supporting the recycling and reuse of organic materials in a targeted way.
"The cornerstones of our business philosophy are healthy soil and meaningful jobs, both of which support a healthy, vibrant community," Krebill says. "For the past four years, we have been taking our time to build and offer waste-management services that never existed for businesses in New Orleans. Composting is also called 'organics recycling,' which describes exactly what we help our clients do: recycle organic material. Since our start, Schmelly's has diverted over4 million pounds of organic material from landfills and converted this material into healthy soil amendments for farmers and gardeners."
Schmelly's compost pick-up list currently consists of 40 businesses from a range of commercial enterprises throughout Orleans and Jefferson parishes. This fall the company will be expanding its services to St. Bernard Parish.
"Initially, we were mostly serving small businesses like restaurants, coffee shops and grocery stores, but in the past year we've taken on bigger clients like hotels, offices and event venues," says Sakash. "There is definitely a trend in the business community around sustainability and waste reduction goals, and we are excited that Schmelly's can be part of the sustainability solution for area businesses."
Pick-up fees vary from business to business, depending upon volume and frequency, and determining pricing has been a unique challenge for Krebill and Sakash, with Schmelly's forging the way into unchartered business territory.
"Our pricing is based on volume and frequency of pickup, while also factoring in transportation miles and other overhead costs," Krebill says. "Starting a small composting company is literally starting an anomaly of a business: There's nothing else like it."
For Schmelly's, part of the job is to educate businesses and potential clients on several misconceptions about composting.
"The two areas of concern we hear of most are that food scrap compost is extra work and that it's smelly and attracts pests," Krebill says. "These are issues that concern garbage in general, so I always try to highlight that the problem is not coming from compost, but rather poor material handling and being thoughtless about our waste. First, food loss and waste should be avoided at all costs. This happens through proper planning and careful management of our food resources."
Krebill has witnessed some great best practices by local grocery stores and restaurants to reduce their food loss, create efficient work practices around waste management, and improve waste separation and isolation therefore creating cleaner waste management areas.
"Together we can make handling our waste lighter, cleaner, and much more sustainable," Krebill says.
While Schmelly's does not currently provide compost pick-up to residential clients—it's on the "to-do" list for the future—the company partners with the New Orleans Public Library and Compost N.O.W, which together provide a compost drop-off program at nine public library branches.
After composting the materials, Schmelly's provides enriched soil to community gardens and local farms. A retail product currently in development.
"We're hoping to begin offering Schmelly's products in bulk and wholesale under trial contracts in the fall and a complete line of retail products in the spring of 2020," says Sakash.
This past April, Schmelly's was awarded $40,000 in cash and over $43,000 of in-kind services by taking home the top prize at StartUp St. Bernard, a program of St Bernard Economic Development Fund (SBEDF) and the Meraux Foundation. The goal is to use the funds to increase the size and reach of the company. An expansion into St. Bernard Parish is expected to be underway later this summer.
With the winnings, Schmelly's is also hoping to tick off a few items from the company's "wish list" of ideas.
"The incredible in-kind services package is propelling conversations around developing a new organic waste MRF (materials recovery facility) in St. Bernard Parish," says Sakash. "We have begun an initial feasibility analysis around a potential site. The cash award is being split between site development and equipment costs, hiring on a new part-time operations manager, and facilitated trainings around job safety and workplace diversity, equity and inclusiveness."
Sustainable materials management is defined by the EPA as "a systemic approach to using and reusing materials more productively over their entire life cycles."
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According to Krebill, Schmelly's high-quality, composted soil provides essential "water and nutrient retention for healthier and more productive plants." Currently, the organization provides soil to community gardens and farms, but is in development for a retail product.
For this company, it's a family thing.
"Nicola's great-great aunt, Elloise Schmelly, immigrated to the states with all of her possessions contained in two trunks," says Susan Sakash, operations manager at Schmelly's Dirt Farm. "She packed a crock pot full of worms and soil from her garden, rich with compost that had been made on her family's farm for generations. To this day, billions of microorganisms thrive in our compost piles from the legacy of Aunt Ellie, continuing the decomposition and regeneration of life that has happened since the beginning of time."

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# CommonMark.NET

Implementation of [CommonMark] [1] specification (passes tests from version 0.20) in C# for converting Markdown documents to HTML.

The current version of the library is also [available on NuGet] [nuget].

## Usage

To convert Markdown data in a stream or file:
```C#
using (var reader = new System.IO.StreamReader("source.md"))
using (var writer = new System.IO.StreamWriter("result.html"))
{
  CommonMark.CommonMarkConverter.Convert(reader, writer);
}
```

To convert data stored in a string:
```C#
var result = CommonMark.CommonMarkConverter.Convert("**Hello world!**");
```

See [wiki] [extensibility] for an example how the parser can be extended with additional logic.

**Important:** The converter [does not include any HTML sanitizing][XSS].

## Compatibility

The library uses no references except for `System` - it has no external dependencies. It is cross compiled to:

* .NET Framework 2.0
* .NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile
* .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile
* .NET 4.0 Portable Class Library
    * .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile
    * Silverlight 5
    * Windows 8
    * Windows Phone 8.1
    * Windows Phone Silverlight 8
    * Xamarin.Android
    * Xamarin.iOS
* .NET Framework 4.5
* .NET Framework 5.0 Core (also known as ASP.NET vNext Core CLR)

For working with the source code you will need Visual Studio 2013.3 or newer (Community edition is supported)
except for the .NET Core project which requires Visual Studio 2015.

## Performance

Using a [simple tool][3] to compare the performance of various Markdown implementations for .NET yields the
following results:

     CommonMark.NET 0.4.1      4 ms   7%

    CommonMarkSharp 0.3.2     30 ms   46%
       MarkdownSharp 1.13     55 ms   84%     (might not conform to CommonMark specification)
         MarkdownDeep 1.5      7 ms   11%     (might not conform to CommonMark specification)
	  MoonShine (sundown)      3 ms    6%     (wrapper for a native x86 .dll)
                 Baseline     65 ms   100%    (used to compare results on different machines)

This benchmark is very simple and tests the processing of the CommonMark specification document itself (a
115 KB file). The results are provided just for a high-level comparison.

## Reliability

The parser uses algorithms that completely avoid recursion so even specifically crafted input documents
will not cause exceptions and will be rendered correctly. This is important because a `StackOverflowException`
cannot be caught and will bring down the entire process.

## References

This library is based on a port of the reference implementation in C, available on [jgm/stdm repo] [2].
It follows the same approach - the source is parsed into a syntax tree that can be used to add custom
processing if the application needs it and then formatted into HTML.

## Running tests

All tests from `spec.txt` are merged into the unit testing project and can be executed from within Visual Studio.

The project also includes a slightly modified version of `runtests.pl` for compatibility with the original
implementation. Use `CommonMark.Console.exe --perltest` as the argument to `runtests.pl` so that the
application can correctly handle input from the Perl script.

[1]: http://spec.commonmark.org/
[2]: https://github.com/jgm/stmd/commit/2cf0750a7a507eded4cf3c9a48fd1f924d0ce538
[3]: https://github.com/Knagis/CommonMarkBenchmark
[extensibility]: https://github.com/Knagis/CommonMark.NET/wiki
[XSS]: http://talk.commonmark.org/t/cross-site-scripting-issue-in-standard-markdown-example-at-try-standardmarkdown-com/55
[nuget]: https://www.nuget.org/packages/CommonMark.NET/


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These 48 vintage indoor malls were so dazzling, you'll want to hop in a time machine and shop 'til you drop
Indoor malls might be fading, but what hasn't faded is our fondness for this vintage relic. Take a nostalgia trip back with us to some of the best indoor malls of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Vintage card catalogs at the library – and how we used them
If you need a book, you used to need to look for the most important item in the library — the vintage card catalog.
What did a typical 1950s suburban house look like? Feast your eyes on this fab prefab home built in 1958
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Go over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Meet the daredevil who did it first
Mrs Annie Edson Taylor, 50 years old, went over Niagara Falls on the Canadian side this afternoon and survived, a feat never before accomplished and indeed never attempted.
16 beautiful Victorian homes & mansions in old Detroit from the early 1900s
After years of growth, Detroit became a major transportation hub, and many gorgeous Victorian mansions were built for wealthy residents.
See 200 vintage license plates for all the American states & beyond
Look back at more than 200 vintage license plates issued through the 20th century – including ones for every American state & territory – plus some special plates, too.
Time travel & romance lit up the 1980 movie 'Somewhere in Time,' starring Christopher Reeve & Jane Seymour
Technically superior, if overly sentimental, 'Somewhere in Time' stars Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, and takes viewers back in time to 1912.
25 amazing old US post office buildings from the early 1900s
As these pictures of old post office buildings show, a lot of architecture from around 1900 was beautiful, ornate and built on a grand scale. Take a look!
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Everything for the home in the 1963 Gold Bell gift stamp catalog
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Charles Lindbergh's life story, to age 25 (1927)
How Charles Lindbergh rose from working on a farm to become a worldwide hero for his flight across the Atlantic Ocean.


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The Rouen School (L'École de Rouen) is a term used for artists or artisans born or working in Rouen, or for all artistic products from Rouen, such as Rouen faience of the 16th to 18th centuries.

The term was first used in 1902 by Arsène Alexandre in his catalogue to an exhibition by Joseph Delattre in the galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris. Alexandre used it to refer to Joseph Delattre, Léon-Jules Lemaître, Charles Angrand and Charles Frechon, four Post-Impressionist artists interested in Neo-Impressionism (and particularly Seurat's pointillism) towards the end of the 1880s. Alexandre also used the term for a second generation of l'École de Rouen, including Robert Antoine Pinchon and Pierre Dumont among others, in relation to Fauvism and Cubism.

Works

Representatives

Charles Angrand
Édouard de Bergevin
Léonard Bordes
Georges Bradberry
Marcel Couchaux
Georges Cyr
Joseph Delattre
Gaston Duhamel
Pierre Dumont
Alfred Dunet
Charles Frechon
Michel Frechon
Isabelle de Ganay
Narcisse Guilbert
Narcisse Hénocque
Madelaine Hippolyte
Pierre Hodé
Magdeleine Hue
Albert Lebourg
Raimond Lecourt
Léon-Jules Lemaître
Suzanne Léon
Maurice Louvrier
Pierre Le Trividic
Gaston Loir
Maurice Louvrier
Hyppolite Madelaine
Albert Malet
Paul Mascart
Robert Antoine Pinchon
Raymond Quibel
René Sautin
Adrien Segers
Jean Thieulin
Eugène Tirvert
Maurice Vaumousse
Henri Vignet
Jean Charles Contel

Bibliography
L'École de Rouen, Rouen, BDS, coll. « La Vie de Rouen », 1972, 236 p.
L'École de Rouen, in abc antiquités beaux-arts curiosités, no 188, June 1980
François Lespinasse (preface by François Bergot), L'École de Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Rouen-Offset, 1980, 221 p.
Caroline Larroche, 7 peintres de l'école de Rouen, Paris, Galerie Alain Letailleur, 1990, broché, 184 p.
François Lespinasse, L'École de Rouen, Lecerf, Rouen, 1995 ()
François Lespinasse, La Normandie vue par les peintres, Edita, Lausanne, 1988
L'École de Rouen de l'impressionnisme à Marcel Duchamp 1878-1914, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, 1996 ()
François Lespinasse, Rouen, paradis des peintres, 2003 ()
François Lespinasse, Journal de l'École de Rouen 1877-1945, 2006 ()
L'École de Rouen, de l'impressionnisme au cubisme, soixante ans de modernité en Normandie, Pont-Audemer, Musée Canel, 2008

See also
Société Normande de Peinture Moderne
Section d'Or

Notes

External links
Exhibition on the School
 Une ville pour l'impressionnisme : Monet, Pissarro et Gauguin à Rouen. Dossier pédagogique, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2010.
 Wally Findlay Galleries International
 Site of the Amis de l'École de Rouen
 Agence photographique de la réunion des Musées nationaux

School
French art movements
Post-Impressionism
French artist groups and collectives

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Manifest Destiny: What It Meant for American Expansion
What the Term Meant and How It Impacted 19th Century America
America Moves Westward
Important Historical Figures
Crimes & Disasters
The Most Important Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
History Expert
Robert J. McNamara is a history expert and former magazine journalist. He was Amazon.com's first-ever history editor and has bylines in New York, the Chicago Tribune, and other national outlets.
Manifest Destiny was a term that came to describe a widespread belief in the middle of the 19th century that the United States had a special mission to expand westward.
The specific phrase was originally used in print by a journalist, John L. O'Sullivan, when writing about the proposed annexation of Texas.
O'Sullivan, writing in the Democratic Review newspaper in July 1845, asserted "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." He was essentially saying the United States possessed a right granted by God to take territory in the West and install its values and system of government.
That concept was not especially new, as Americans had already been exploring and settling westward, first across the Appalachian Mountains in the late 1700s, and then, in the early 1800s, beyond the Mississippi River. But by presenting the concept of westward expansion as something of a religious mission, the idea of manifest destiny struck a chord.
Though the phrase manifest destiny may seem to have captured the public mood of the mid-19th century, it was not viewed with universal approval. Some at the time thought it was simply putting pseudo-religious polish on blatant avarice and conquest.
Writing in the late 19th century, future president Theodore Roosevelt, referred to the concept of taking property in furtherance of manifest destiny as having been "belligerent, or more properly speaking, piratical."
The Push Westward
The idea of expanding into the West had always been attractive, since settlers including Daniel Boone moved inland, across the Appalachians, in the 1700s. Boone had been instrumental in the establishment of what became known as the Wilderness Road, which led through the Cumberland Gap into the lands of Kentucky.
And American politicians in the early 19th century, such as Henry Clay of Kentucky, eloquently made the case that the future of America lay westward.
A severe financial crisis in 1837 emphasized the notion that the United States needed to expand its economy. And political figures such as Senator Thomas H. Benton of Missouri, made the case that settling along the Pacific would greatly enable trade with India and China.
The Polk Administration
The president most associated with the concept of manifest destiny is James K. Polk, whose single term in the White House was focused on the acquisition of California and Texas. It's worth nothing that Polk had been nominated by the Democratic Party, which was generally closely associated with expansionist ideas in the decades before the Civil War.
And a Polk campaign slogan in the 1844 campaign, "Fifty-four forty or fight," was a specific reference to expanding into the Northwest. What was meant by the slogan was that the border between the United States and British territory to the north would be at north latitude 54 degrees and 40 minutes.
Polk got the votes of the expansionists by threatening to go to war with Britain to acquire territory. But after he was elected he negotiated the border at 49 degrees north latitude. Polk thus secured the territory that today is the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Wyoming and Montana.
The American desire to expand into the Southwest was also satisfied during Polk's term in office as the Mexican War resulted in the United States acquiring Texas and California.
By pursuing a policy of manifest destiny, Polk could be considered the most successful president of the seven men who struggled in the office in the two decades before the Civil War. In that period between 1840 and 1860, when most occupants of the White House couldn't point to any real achievements, Polk had managed to greatly increase the territory of the nation.
Controversy of Manifest Destiny
Though no serious opposition to westward expansion developed, the policies of Polk and the expansionists were criticized in some quarters. Abraham Lincoln, for instance, while serving as a one-term Congressman in the late 1840s, was opposed to the Mexican War, which he believed was a pretext for expansion.
And in the decades following the acquisition of western territory, the concept of manifest destiny has been continually analyzed and debated. In modern times, the concept has often been viewed in terms of what it meant to the native populations of the American West, which were, of course, displaced or even eliminated by expansionist policies of the United States government.
The lofty tone which John L. O'Sullivan intended when he used the term has not carried into the modern era.
McNamara, Robert. "Manifest Destiny: What It Meant for American Expansion." ThoughtCo, Aug. 25, 2020, thoughtco.com/what-is-manifest-destiny-1773604. McNamara, Robert. (2020, August 25). Manifest Destiny: What It Meant for American Expansion. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-manifest-destiny-1773604 McNamara, Robert. "Manifest Destiny: What It Meant for American Expansion." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-manifest-destiny-1773604 (accessed January 31, 2023).
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Nick Grillo, as a boy in Italy, dreamed of America and its opportunity, Southington, Connecticut. He saved enough money for boat passage to this country. Today, after 22 years, he is one of the world's outstanding flori-culturists, developer of the famous "Thornless Rose," an age-old dream of his craft
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Title: Nick Grillo, as a boy in Italy, dreamed of America and its opportunity, Southington, Connecticut. He saved enough money for boat passage to this country. Today, after 22 years, he is one of the world's outstanding flori-culturists, developer of the famous "Thornless Rose," an age-old dream of his craft
Creator(s): Jacobs, Fenno, 1904-1975, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1942 May
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Kappa Omega Tau's (KOT) performance of The Ghosts' Call is the No. 1 Lariat pick for its daring choreography, acrobatics and great vocals. This act was the Lariat favorite. Matt Hellman | Lariat Photo Editor
Kappa Omega Tau's (KOT) performance of The Ghosts' Call is the No. 1 Lariat pick for its daring choreography, acrobatics and great vocals. This act was the Lariat favorite.
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I've seen a lot of Sing acts — 6 or 7 years' worth of them to be precise. I have a very strong idea about what makes a "good" Sing act. I look at song choice, creativity, story, execution and, to an extent, cleverness. I appreciate novelty and new-ness, as well as risk-taking. I'm going to try to reward acts when they are good, but I'm not going to hesitate to criticize them when they miss opportunities (or notes during a solo). This year, we will be working on a 5-point-scale. A 5 is near perfection and a 1 is barely showing up. Since Chamber is actually competing this year, no zeroes will be given.
Phi Kappa Chi
When the Lights Go Out
Phi Kappa Chi took the audience on an above average rehash of the "Night at the Museum" film series.
Above average seems the best way to describe this group. The vocals were solid, the choreography was okay, but there wasn't enough "pop" to really set the group apart. On top of that, the funk song mid-way trough was a little odd. On the whole, the biggest disappointment though was that the high level of performance they had during the final song, Party Rock Anthem, didn't really show up in the rest of the act.
Going for the Gold
I'm going to use this time to state one of my biggest beefs with Sing performances — only using the front part of the stage to sing.
With a theme like the Olympics, the ladies of Kappa Alpha Theta could have been a lot more creative in their staging.
The tumblers do, however, deserve the lion's share of credit for making this act stand out. Apart from that, nothing really set them out from the pack. Also, it was difficult to keep an accurate count, but I'm pretty sure only about 6 people sang in the whole thing. Although there weren't too many problems, the whole thing felt average. Better luck next year.
Until I saw Delta Tau Delta's performance, I had no idea that "The Final Countdown" had words. Now I know there's a reason nobody ever sings the words.
I'm also not sure if the astronaut with his collar unbuttoned was supposed to look drunk, but if he was, the illusion was perfect.
The scant moments of humor were appreciated, but on the whole the act took itself to seriously and was too rough around the edges to be very good.
Also "We Can Work It Out" is a pretty transparent song choice for a scene about reconciliation. I did enjoy the "Rocket Man" bit, though.
Tacky Tourists
This act started as well as any act like this can.
I actually briefly enjoyed the incredibly unenjoyable experience of being crammed on a tour bus full of tacky people.
But unfortunately it lagged after the first song. I thought the beginning harmonies were good, but after that nothing really wowed me until "Land of 1000 Dances."
The choreography there was great, and the solo dancer was the most memorable part of the act.
On the songs before that, however, the dancing was a little sloppy. That would be forgivable if the choreography look particularly complex, but — even if it was — it didn't. Nothing that I saw made me think that this was anything other than an average Sing Act.
"Flirtin" with Disaster
ATO's act is an act of contradictions. I don't think they know what the song "Poker Face" is actually about, but I thought they nailed "Ballroom Blitz." I didn't like most of the singing, but I thought everything fit well. Sometimes the dancing was absolute chaos and sometimes they nailed it. I have to give it an average score because I'm convinced that it could have been better, but I'm not sure it would have felt right if it were flawless. Either way, piano-man and barrel-dude deserve some mad props. Also I hope that one guy's nose gets better. Keep rockin' ATO!
Kappa Chi Alpha/Beta Upsilon Chi
Road to the Races
If my judging was based on the first minute of each act, Kappa Chi Alpha and Beta Upsilon Chi would be my favorite. I thought the opening was great, definitely the best harmonies out of the whole show.
Unfortunately it seems like those people had an unfortunate accident after their part in the act and couldn't return to stage for the rest of it. This is, as I said, very unfortunate because if the act had continued from that high note or gotten better it would have been among the top acts.
Congratulations to the BYX on their first sing, though. You guys looked sharp, just don't go to Derby Day without a hat or jacket next time.
Chi Omega/Phi Gamma Delta
This act is basically what I mean whenever I say creativity.
The opening song choice was absolutely stellar, and it wasn't even the high point of the show.
The act loses points on execution in the middle, and the "You Really Got Me" crossover didn't quite work like it was intended, but it was a bold choice.
What really made the act was the final song "Footloose," which is quite a thing for me to say since I hate Kevin Bacon. However, it had some dynamite choreography and probably the best trio of the night. I cannot say enough how much I enjoyed the vocals on the last number.
The Secret Service
With SAE, it's all about the little things.
The fact that they're all wearing Baylor socks with their suits and short shorts, the giant, crying Bald Eagle with an American flag painted in it's eyes, the presidential fight scene and the two-stepping were all just perfect.
That's even before the act starts to get really funny. The act is supremely weird and just about the funniest thing I've seen all year. The whole time I didn't know whether or not to laugh or shout "MURICA" at the top of my lungs. To quote the poet "It's like George Washington marching down your throat to fight the Redcoats and the British."
These five stars are essentially meaningless, but here you go.
Workin' For the Honey
Really Chamber? Really? I'm a "B?" That's the best you could come up with? Did you think it was clever? It wasn't. The sad part is that that was probably the best dancing in the whole act right there. The two best parts of the show were the fact that we didn't have to suffer through another rendition of "Welcome to All-University Sing" and the fact that everyone died at the end. No, honestly I thought that was a clever touch. It was also very satisfying, but it was a clever touch. If you want to compete with the big dogs, Chamber, you should expect to get bitten every now and then.
Topsy Turvy Day
I liked this act, but I'm not going to pretend I understood it. If I had to guess I'd have to say that it was about Diadeloso, but I can't be sure. Other than that, the vocals were good, the choreography was fantastic, and I really enjoyed the performances by the two head clowns. My only issue was that I had no idea what was going on, but I have a feeling that it was kind of meant to be that way.
Ultimate Grand Supreme
I cannot lie, this is the most competitive I've see ADPi in a long time. Between the little cowgirl with the massive voice and the girl that sang "Dancing Queen," they had some of the finest vocals of the entire night. If it had maintained that level of excellence the whole time, it would have been one of the best acts. As it stand, they will have to settle for top of the middle.
Kappa Omega Tau
The Ghosts' Call
This act absolutely blew me away. From the first second it's mesmerizing.
The spot on choreography, the consistently good male vocals and the daring acrobatics really put the whole act together for me.
When I first saw the makeup, I was excited for perhaps a similar act to last year's "Zombies" act by Pi Kapp. What I got was both completely different and infinitely better. It had nearly everything I look for in a great Sing act.
Congratulations KOT, if there is any justice in this world you're set for a top spot.
Tri-Delta's chess-themed act was incredibly colorful, in spite of the fact that everyone was wearing black and white. The song choice was solid, the choreography was sharp and the act brought out a lot of the inherent drama that often escapes casual observers of chess matches. I especially liked the big, instrumental dance number and the vocalists on "Black Horse and Cherry Tree." Unfortunately, all of this act's strength centered on group talent and sometimes a strong individual performance is what makes an act truly great.
I was a little disappointed with Pi Kapp's performance this year. Instead of something original and exciting, it was standard and poorly executed. It felt like the guys on stage spent more time at the gym preparing for the act than in rehearsal. Most of them looked the part, but the whole thing wasn't sharp enough. Also, in a singing and dancing competition you cannot blow the intro on a song and expect not to get a point deducted. I didn't entirely hate it, but it could have been a lot better.
"Old Familiar Places"
Zeta's performance was absolutely heartwarming. When you do these sorts of obvious plays to the heart-strings of every alum in the audience, there's a danger that you will overdo it and cross the border into sappiness. Zeta didn't, fortunately. Instead it was a charming tribute to all the memories we will collect at Baylor and beyond. The choreography was also very sharp when I was watching, but to be honest I didn't watch it the whole time because I was so engrossed with the actress who played the old woman. She was fantastic. Great job Zeta.
Sing Alliance
"A Class of Their Own"
If I said anyone else had the best choreography of the entire night, it was only because I hadn't seen Sing Alliance yet. It was fantastic, especially during the "Saved by the Bell" bit. Also the vocals were consistently high quality. The one part that I didn't like was the middle when the "bullies" came out. It didn't read well and nothing happened with them. As the theater kids I recognized in the cast will remember, conflict breeds excitement. There wasn't enough of either to make this act great.
"Bound by Midnight"
This act opened very well. The free-form ballet dance was beautiful and really fit the magical forest theme. Additionally, the first two vocalists were phenomenal, especially the girl in green. Queen's "Don't Stop Me Know" was a powerful song choice for the finale and it paid off. The one glaring unfortunate part was in the middle when the fairies in black came out to dance. It was a poor song choice for the act, considering the vocal range of the participants. Apart from that one point the act was stellar, but that one point sticks out.
Kappa Sig, I'll forgive you once, just this once, for singing a Civil War song in an act about the Revolutionary War. I'm doing this solely because "I'll Make a Man Out of You" was so incredibly awesome. I also found it delightful that a woman in soldier's clothing was dancing in the front while the song from Mulan was playing. The choreography was sharp and the acrobatics were spot-on. There were some minor vocal and execution issues that kept you out of the top spot, but if you sharpen up there's no reason you can't be on top.
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By the time this edition of ENS News reaches you across the ether you may already be warming yourself on a sandy beach or chilling out by a pool in some exotic location. Yes, it's that time of year again, when thoughts switch from all things nuclear to other, more relaxed ways of creating and consuming energy – or saving it as the case may be. Well, before the ENS News team reaches for the sun tan lotion and the Immodium (where's that on Mendeleyev's table?), here is the last news offering before the summer break.
Issue N° 9 reaches far across time and space, from World War II Chicago, via Gabon, to when our planet was created around 2 million years ago. ENS President, Bertrand Barré, travels back in time and across continents to trace the history of fission and provides some 21st Century answers to questions that are rooted in the mists of time.
Bertrand's journey starts in 1942 Chicago, when Enrico Fermi succeeded in sustaining the first ever fission chain reaction in the first ever man-made nuclear reactor, the CPI. For decades after Fermi's ground-breaking achievement, it was believed that the CPI was not just the first ever man-made reactor, but the first ever nuclear reactor – full stop. Bertrand turns the clock back over 2 million years to the time when algae first released enough oxygen into the atmosphere for surface waters to become oxidizing. Once this happened the uranium diluted in granite was leached out and concentrated to form rich uranium oxide deposits. And the rest, as the saying goes, is history. Geological and chemical research has revealed that the first nuclear reaction took place when our planet first saw the light of day. So, the CPI was not the first nuclear reactor, Mother Nature was.
We then move forward, at the speed of light, to the 1970s, when large uranium deposits were first mined at Oklo, in Gabon, West Africa? But this is when the detective story begins. Bertrand's editorial examines why the uranium found in Oklo was different from natural uranium everywhere else. Was the Oklo mine a "natural" nuclear reactor that enriched uranium spontaneously? He provides his answers to the mystery and sheds light on whether or not Oklo was a natural phenomenon that Fermi could never have dreamt of.
Our "Tapping Unusual Quarters" article this time focuses on the issue of sustainability and whether this modern buzz-word that so preoccupies economists, politicians, scientists and environmentalists alike stand sup to scrutiny. Is it just a trendy cliché or is it a genuinely sustainable concept?
The ENS News Events section provides updated information on all the ENS-organized conferences that are looming large in the rear-view mirror.
First up is more news about ETRAP, which takes place in Brussels from 23-25 November 2005 and we end the year with the ENC (Versailles, 11-14 December). The 2006 calendar features four main highlights, starting with PIME, in Vienna, from 12-16 February. The RRFM 2006 conference will take place from 30 April-3 May, in Sofia, Bulgaria. Full details are available on the dedicated web pages.
The Member Societies and Corporate Members section features reports from our friends at the German and Romanian Nuclear Societies. CEZ, the Czech Republic's primary nuclear operator then takes the spotlight with the 20th anniversary of the operation of the Dukovany NPP.
The European Institutions section features reports on COWAM 2 (the European Commission-funded "Community Waste Management" programme) and on the work of a special FORATOM Task Force on the Baltic Sea Region, which involved the participation of a number of European Members of Parliament, European Commission officials and national politicians and experts from the Baltic countries, Sweden and Finland.
How often does a co-founder of Greenpeace publicly nail his newly-found pro-nuclear colours to the mast? About as often as a total eclipse of the sun occurs? Well, you'd be surprised; the World News section of ENS News reveals all. "Green light for Monju" puts the spotlight on the latest developments in Japan and the section ends with the traditional NucNet news round-up.
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The nuclear Reactors of Oklo: 2 billion Years before Fermi !
1. The Italian Navigator has landed in the New World.
On December 2, 1942, this cryptic message announced that the team gathered around Enrico Fermi in Chicago had managed to sustain a fission chain reaction in the first ever man made nuclear reactor, CP1. This was the climax of a decade long search, starting with the discovery by Chadwick in 1932 of the neutron, a particle able to interact with the nuclei without being hampered by their electric charges, the series of experiments by Fermi sending "moderated" neutrons against every nucleus of the Mendeleyev Table, the discovery of the fission of uranium by Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in 1938.
Quite frankly, if there are two words I cannot stand, they are the ubiquitous "sustainable" and "sustainability". Every report and every newspaper or magazine article that purports to deal with the future of our planet is peppered with references to these two words. They have acquired such a capacity for triggering positive knee-jerk reactions from any audience that no issue, however loosely connected to the environment, can be discussed without invoking them. Even the nuclear industry has fallen prey to their fashionable appeal. They have become the ultimate paradigm of politically correct thinking.
ETRAP2005 promises to be this year's key event for all professionals in the field of radiation protection education and training, offering a stimulating flux of ideas and initiatives.
ENC 2005 – The next European Nuclear Conference will be a highlight in the world nuclear scientific and technical community for the year 2005.
Bringing together nuclear communications specialists from around the world to share experiences, exchange views and promote communications excellence – that is the aim of PIME, the annual Public Information Materials Exchange.
Mark your diary for the next Research Reactor Fuel Management Conference (RRFM), to be held from 30 April to 3 May 2006 at the Kempinski Hotel Zografski in Sofia (Bulgaria).