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Dr. Nabil al-Tasnimi sends me this:
I'm supposed to give a lecture tomorrow on Kant's "Critique of Judgment," but I have a plane to catch and won't have time to read it, so I was wondering if you could provide me with a summary of the work.
Nabil al-Tasnimi
Well, here's what I had time to put together. Hope this helps:
First Book: Analytic of the Beautiful
In his first critique, Critique of Pure Reason (1781), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) lays the empirical foundations for a comprehensive theory of knowledge. In the second critique, Critique of Practical Reason (1788), he presents a moral philosophy built upon the theoretical foundations laid in the first work. The third critique, Critique of (Aesthetic) Judgment (1790), is his critique of the aesthetical, or "judicial," in which he seeks to accomplish two major tasks: first, to bridge the chasm between the theoretical knowledge of the first book and the practical knowledge of the second book through a third, intermediary legislate, which he calls "judgment"; and, second, to reconcile the subjectivity of aesthetic experience with a priori, communal standards of taste (sensus communis), which are based predominately on feelings of pleasure and displeasure. Before we jump into the argument, let me first clarify some of Kant's more important terms.
First, there are the two kinds of judgment: determinant judgment and reflective judgment. Determinant judgment belongs to the understanding, and refers to a given universal concept. Reflective judgment belongs to the faculty of judgment, and refers to no given universal concept. In reflective judgment, the imagination is required to invent any corresponding universal concept.
The latter type, reflective judgment, is further divided into three kinds: systemic (dealing with a priori systems such as mathematics), teleological (dealing with end- and purpose-related judgments), and aesthetical (dealing with purposeless judgments). The aesthetic type is further divided into two kinds, the beautiful and the sublime.
There are also the mental faculties, which Kant divides into knowledge, feeling and desire. The first, knowledge, is regulated by the understanding, which, as mentioned above, is "the faculty of cognition under universal rules." The second type of mental faculty, feeling, is regulated by judgment, which is "the faculty of thinking the particular as subsumed under the universal." The third type is desire, which is regulated by reason. Kant defines desire as "the faculty of determining the particular by the universal."
The terms purpose and purposiveness appear frequently in Kant's argument, and are defined thus: purpose is "the concept of an object so far as it contains the ground for the existence of the object," while purposiveness is "the agreement of an object with the arrangement that is possible only according to purposes."
As stated above, there are two kinds of judgments, determinant and reflexive, the former having a fixed concept to which it refers, the latter having none. Of the reflexive type, there are four possible judgments: the agreeable, the beautiful, the sublime, and the good. The agreeable involves only sensory perception. The good involves ethics, and therefore is limited to moral judgment. The remaining two― the beautiful and the sublime― are the two aesthetic judgments, and exist somewhere in between the two polar coordinates, the agreeable (a posteriori) and the good (a priori). Kant oxymoronically calls these two aesthetic judgments "subjective universals." Because they are neither teleological (i.e., concerned with ends or purposes) nor bound to logical reasoning or fixed aesthetic notions, they are subjective; and because the judgments are formed within the sensus communis (or community of taste), they are, to some extent, universal.
The beautiful has the three following characteristics: a wholeness of design, a creative intent (which is to be distinguished from teleological "purposefulness"), and a "form of finality." By contrast, the sublime, which Kant elaborates on in the second half of this critique, lacks this wholeness, possessing instead an infiniteness of degree. Being infinite, the sublime is therefore beyond the bounds of our finite comprehension, and thus evokes in us a kind of fear or awe that is not experienced through the observation of beauty.
As Raman Selden points out, Kant's argument marked a shift away from the reader's response and subjectivity toward a "concern with the internality of the work itself" (377). To my mind, however, it seems that Kant is more concerned with the experience of art as noumenal phenomenon (i.e. the processes of the perceiving mind) than he is with the internal components and structure of the art itself.
To review, for an object to be beautiful, the following conditions must be met: the work must not have any corresponding concept or preconceived notion; each judgment must be treated as particular and singular (i.e. no logical generalizations); the work is not to be judged "in terms of an external purpose" (though it may have internal purposiveness, or what he calls "purposiveness without purpose"). By this logic, then, Selden concludes, "all neoclassical external canons of beauty are likewise of no value, for they posit an external standard on purpose" (377). In essence, Kant is liberating the work of art from the classical idea of mimesis, which holds that the representation is to be judged, at least in part, by its likeness to the object of imitation. (To be continued . . .)
[For an English translation of Kant's essay see J.H. Bernard's 1931 translation (second edition), which is included in The theory of criticism from Plato to the present : a reader / edited and introduced by Raman Selden. Imprint London ; New York : Longman, 1988.]


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JusticeCorps has been honored with several awards in its 10 years including a Ralph N. Kleps Award for Improvement in the Administration of the Courts in 2006, a National Association of Court Management National Association for Court Management Justice Achievement recognition in 2010, highlighted as one of of 52 of the Most Innovative AmeriCorps Programs in the United States by America's Service Commissions and Innovations in Civic Participation in 2010.
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In many places the existence of automorphism is acknowledged as one of the reasons why fine moduli spaces cannot exist. A typical example is the following.
Consider a curve $C$ with a nontrivial automorphism, for instance a hyperelliptic curve with its involution $\phi$. Now let $B$ be any scheme with a free action of (in this case) $\mathbb{Z}/(2)$.
Let $D$ be the quotient of $B \times C$ by the diagonal action of $\mathbb{Z}/(2)$ and let $B'$ be the quotient of $B$ by the action of $\mathbb{Z}/(2)$.
Consider the map $f \colon D \rightarrow B'$. Then the fibers of $f$ are all isomorphic to $C$, but for a suitable choice of $B$ the family $f$ is not isomorphic to the product $C \times B'$.
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NJ Congressman Rush Holt Is Attempting To Repeal The Patriot Act And FISA Amendments Act
from the incremental-improvement-is-off-the-table dept
Just recently, we discussed Rep. Justin Amash's plan to defund the NSA through an amendment to the defense appropriations bill working its way through the House. At this point, I would normally say "following on the heels of that news," but in this case, Rep.
Steve Rush Holt !!! of New Jersey made his announcement on the 11th, while Amash's arrived on the 15th.
Holt's news? A plan to repeal two laws notorious for their encroachments on civil liberties.
Soon, I will introduce legislation that would repeal the laws that brought us our current "surveillance state": the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act. My bill would restore the probable cause-based warrant requirement for any surveillance against an American citizen being proposed on the basis of an alleged threat to the nation.As a bonus, Holt is also proposing "genuine legal protections" for whistleblowers, a big step up from the current climate in which whistleblowers are persecuted and prosecuted.
Holt's editorial/announcement, which appeared in the Asbury Park Press, details how the NSA collects and retains data without warrants, providing special "dispensation" for those who circumvent the normal routes.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, analyzing how the National Security Agency is apparently utilizing this data, said on its website: "In sum, if you use encryption they'll keep your data forever. If you use Tor, they'll keep your data for at least five years. If an American talks with someone outside the U.S., they'll keep your data for five years. If you're talking to your attorney, you don't have any sense of privacy. And the NSA can hand over your information to the FBI for evidence of any crime, not just terrorism.These two acts have resulted in agencies that are long on data and short on accountability. This situation is a direct result of administrations and legislators in thrall to a calculus of fear that has persuaded them to exchange liberty for safety despite being completely unable to guarantee their end of the bargain. Holt quotes Alexander Hamilton to make this point:
"Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free."And that's where we are today -- more than a decade removed from the event that resulted in the PATRIOT Act and seeing nothing but continual escalation and expansion of government incursion on our rights and privacy. Instead of spending the last 12 years attempting to find a balance, our elected officials (and the agencies under their purview) have chosen to see how far they could push before meeting resistance. Repealing these two laws completely may be excessive (or more negatively, impossible), but finding a balance is much easier when you start from a clean slate, rather than attempting to inch back miles of overreach until the scale settles.
Minor update: Eric Hellman points out that Rush Holt is in the middle of a Senate race, which means NJ voters have a chance to (somewhat indirectly) cast their vote on these two laws.
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HiYou have to copy or extract the files (*.map and *.level) from the "mappack zipfile" to the "LEVELS" folder within your CorsixTH installation.If you are using Windows its propperly something like C:\Programs\CorsixTH\Levels. On Linux something like /usr/share/games/corsix-th :-)After you have copied the files, you just have to start Corsix-TH and select the custom map of your choice :-)
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Our Founders' Supreme Court Litmus Tests
Justice Stevens' forthcoming retirement from the Supreme Court has triggered instant buzz and opposition research in Washington, beginning with the short list passed over for Sonia Sotomayor. But the focus on politics has crowded out almost all discussion of our founders' intent for America and the implications for interpreting the Constitution that Justices pledge to defend.
Fortunately, we have an extensive record of our founders' views. But the purposes and limits they believed in, and the litmus tests they applied, are far different than those being discussed today. Consider some of their words:
Patrick Henry: "[L]iberty ought to be the direct end of your government."
James Wilson: "Government … should be formed to secure and enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government which has not this in view as its principal object is not a government of the legitimate kind."
Thomas Jefferson: "A sound spirit of legislation … banishing all arbitrary and unnecessary restraint on individual action, shall leave us free to do whatever does not violate the equal rights of another."
Benjamin Franklin: "An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to …"
Samuel Adams: "[W]ithout liberty and equality [under the law], there cannot exist that tranquility of mind, which results from the assurance of this to every citizen, that his own personal safety and rights are secure … it is the end and design of all free and lawful Governments."
John Adams: "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free."
John Dickinson: [W]e cannot be free, without being secure in our property … we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away …"
George Washington: "[Government] has no more right to put their hands into my pockets, without my consent, than I have to put my hands into yours …"
Richard Henry Lee: "It must never be forgotten…that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power."
James Madison: "[T]he powers of the federal government are enumerated … it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction."
Joseph Story: "The Constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes for which those powers were conferred."
Thomas Paine: "All power exercised over a nation…must be either delegated, or assumed…All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation."
Alexander Hamilton: "[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid …"
Our founders clearly revealed their central purpose was defending Americans' rights and liberties against encroachment, particularly by an overbearing national government. The Supreme Court's major purpose is preventing such overstepping. That requires following the Constitution as the highest law of the land in fact as well as on paper, because as George Mason put it, "no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by… frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." If we are to be true to our heritage, the coming Supreme Court nomination debate must focus on those principles.


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2014 NAIA Men's Tennis Player of the Week - No. 1
By: Sam Knehans, Communications & Sports Information Intern
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Andy Struble of Aquinas (Mich.) has been named the NAIA Men's Tennis Player of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Struble was selected based on his performances from March 10-16 and was chosen out of a pool of conference, independent and unaffiliated grouping award winners.
Struble, a sophomore from Holt, Mich., went 9-0 over the past week, helping Aquinas win 6-of-7 matches in Florida. He outscored his opponents 60-9 in his five singles matches and 32-2 in his four doubles matches with teammate Brendan Petz. His wins came in matches against St. Francis (Ind.), St. Ambrose (Iowa), NCAA Division II St. Cloud State (Minn.), NCAA Division I Monmouth (N.J.) and NCAA Division III Penn State-Berks (Pa.). On the season, Struble is 9-1 in singles matches and 9-3 in doubles matches.
Struble is the first of seven Men's Tennis Players of the Week for the 2014 season. For the complete Men's Tennis Player of the Week calendar, click here.
Nominees: Fernando Gonzalez, Milligan (Tenn.); Oscar Cornella, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Anders Sandberg, St. Francis (Ill.); Vincenzo Ciccone, Xavier (La.); Matthew Barlow, Ottawa (Kan.); Manuel Raga, Bethany (Kan.); Trent Wallace, Indiana Southeast; Derek Blank, Indiana East; Dan Fraser, Cumberlands (Ky.); Bernardo Pegas, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas); Nick Van Amerom, Mobile (Ala.); Erick Bermudez, Coastal Georgia; Jaime Sanchez-Canamares Ri, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Niklas Kammer, Webber International (Fla.); Josh Rosner, St. Thomas (Fla.); Daniel Spurny, Ave Maria (Fla.); Julian Ramirez-Luna, Warner (Fla.); No Nominee, Northwood (Fla.); Daniel Rueda, Northwestern Ohio; Sam Rogerson, Davenport (Mich.).
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JDBC drivers are Java library files with the extension .jar used by all Java applications to connect to the database. Usually they are provided by the same company which implemented the Orientdb software. DbSchema installation kit already include an Orientdb driver.
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Spanish-speaking counterpart to the legendary Vin Scully, announcer Jaime Jarrin gives lyrical play-by-plays. His fame was belated, and humility is his hallmark.
he ball soared off left fielder Carl Crawford's bat once, then twice, into the dimming blue sky.
And each time, the home runs conjured a familiar call for listeners of Spanish-language radio, one that has made its way onto Dodgers shirts and blended seamlessly with the roaring crowd for generations.
"La pelota se va, se va, se va, y despida la con un beso!" Dodgers announcer Jaime Jarrin exclaimed in a voice that seemed practically iambic in its rhythm. "The ball is going, going, going, and you can tell her goodbye with a kiss."
Vin Scully may be baseball's poet laureate, but the man who has shared the Dodgers airwaves with him for 55 years is no slouch in the lyricism department.
As the Dodgers tried to close out the Atlanta Braves in Game 4 of the National League Division Series, Jarrin described a wicked, arching pitch by Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw as "aristocratic" in its curvature. A swing and a miss accomplished nothing more than "fanning the breeze."
Jarrin, 77, has been a fixture with the Dodgers since joining the organization as a 19-year-old and broadcasting his first game a year later. Once a news reporter, Jarrin covered the Watts riots and the funeral for John F. Kennedy. He has called 25 World Series, the Olympics and the "Thrilla in Manila" boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.
The color blue is the most beautiful color of them all. It is the color of the infinite."
— Jaime Jarrin
Like Scully, he is a Hall of Famer, making the Dodgers the only team with two announcers enshrined in Cooperstown. But in many ways, and perhaps not surprisingly, he inhabits a parallel world that makes him hard to fully appreciate if you're not a Spanish speaker.
"He's kind of like Vin Scully to Spanish-speaking people," Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said before Monday's game. "He's been here so long; he's been through it all."
It's a common comparison. But, strolling through the press box, the 85-year-old Scully protested in a way perhaps only he could.
"He's one of my dearest friends. We go back so many years together," he began. "He's not the Spanish Vin Scully. He is what he is, Jaime Jarrin. He stands on his own two feet. He's a Hall of Fame announcer and a wonderful human being."
Jarrin arrived in the United States from Ecuador on June 24, 1955 — the day Sandy Koufax made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers. When he brought his team to L.A., Walter O'Malley wanted to make inroads with the Spanish-speaking community.
Jarrin was signed to a radio deal in 1958 and was soon told he'd be calling baseball games. But first he had to learn the sport.
Although about a third of Major League Baseball players today are foreign born, with several from Latin America, that was not the case back then. Before the team moved into Dodger Stadium in 1962, they played at the Coliseum, where Jarrin said only about 8% of the fans in attendance were Latino. Now, about 47% of fans attending games are Latinos, according to the Dodgers.
During one inning of Game 4, Gonzalez, Yasiel Puig and Juan Uribe came up to bat for the Dodgers, introduced with music from Latin American singers.
"Vin and Jaime are Hall of Fame bookends," said Mark Langill, the Dodgers' historian. "When they celebrated the 50th anniversary of the stadium, what were the odds the English and Spanish soundtracks for the Dodgers would still be in place?"
But Langill said that in many ways, it took a long time for Jarrin to get the recognition he deserved. Over the decades, there wasn't "necessarily an equal footing between English and Spanish" broadcasters in Major League Baseball, he said.
When Fernando Valenzuela joined the Dodgers, Jarrin was assigned to be the translator of the shy 20-year-old rookie who inspired "Fernandomania" back in 1981.
"I still recall Fernando answering 'Bueno,' and Jaime saying, 'Fernando is so pleased to be here…' I was like, 'Wait a second!'" Langill said with a laugh. "Suddenly they were a pair, and Jaime started really getting his due."
Valenzuela, now a color commentator with Jarrin, said the veteran broadcaster has meant a lot to him.
"I think of when I met Jaime in spring training my first year and he always said, 'If you need anything, just ask,'" Valenzuela said.
Still, there were slights for Jarrin. When one manager in the 1990s decided he didn't want the broadcasters flying in the first-class section of the charter jet with the coaches, the thought of moving Scully would have been sacrilegious. But Jarrin was moved. That lasted only one flight, Jarrin said, emotional from the memory of several players walking past his seat and expressing surprise and anger.
Last year, in Frank McCourt's last season as owner, the Dodgers unveiled 10 bobblehead dolls celebrating Dodgers heroes. Scully, Koufax, Valenzuela, Tom Lasorda, Kirk Gibson and Orel Hershiser were among the figures released. So were more obscure Dodgers such as Joe Beimel. But Jarrin was not among them, a point Times columnist Bill Plaschke criticized.
Jarrin insisted he felt "loved and appreciated" and that he had no complaints. But in May, the team finally released a Jarrin bobblehead doll as the broadcaster threw out the first pitch.
"I'm glad they did it this year, but it wasn't because of a petition from me," said Jarrin, whose dapper clothing, salt-and-pepper hair and metal-framed glasses give him the look of a courtly professor. "I was touched that it meant enough for a lot of people."
Even after more than half a century as the announcer for one of the most storied teams in sports, Jarrin doesn't act like a star.
Before Monday's game, he hesitated to walk into the players clubhouse because he wasn't wearing his credentials. When told it seemed absurd he would need it given his Hall of Fame bona fides and history with the Dodgers, Jarrin said he didn't want to get any worker in trouble.
Eric Karros, a former Dodgers first baseman and broadcaster for Fox, said Jarrin is the kind of guy who will frequently ask about his son or his parents, who traveled with him when he was a player.
"There is no sweeter, kinder man," he said. "To the English-speaking audience, Jaime Jarrin is the Spanish broadcaster of the Dodgers. But when you see who he's rubbed elbows with, he is the Spanish voice, period."
Karros reflected on how fortunate L.A. sports fans have been over the years with Scully and Jarrin doing Dodgers games, Bob Miller doing play-by-play for the Kings and Chick Hearn doing Lakers games for decades before his death in 2002.
"I think those voices are a way of life," Karros said. "We've been blessed and spoiled, and sometimes you don't realize it until you don't have it. It's like anything — you take it for granted."
During Jarrin's first years working for the Dodgers, Scully became a mentor. Among the lessons he learned from Scully was to be impartial and fair, to call a great play as a great play, whether it was done in the service of the Dodgers or a rival team.
"If the shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds makes a great play, why not sing it with the same joy as if the Dodgers shortstop did it?" Jarrin said. "I believe that the obligation of an announcer is to be as impartial as possible. I ask God to illuminate me to see the game not with my heart but with my eyes."
Naturally, he said, some plays might cause him to "sing with more enthusiasm." But he has to be fair and call it like it is.
Which is what he did Monday night. After the promising start, the Dodgers had fallen behind the Braves going into the eighth inning. Jarrin praised the Braves' bullpen. He described the silence the Braves had imposed on the 54,000-strong sea of blue that filled Dodger Stadium. When a speed gun captured a pitch by Dodgers reliever Brian Wilson at 100 mph, Jarrin expressed skepticism.
Then came the bottom of the eighth inning. Right fielder Puig led off with a double. With third baseman Uribe at bat, Jarrin exclaimed, "An interesting game is coming to an end, with two teams battling like dogs, face up."
After two unsuccessful bunts, the count was two balls, two strikes. The Braves pitcher prepared. The crowd chanted, "Let's go Dodgers!"
"The pitch, and a swing deep into left field," Jarrin said, his voice rising. La pelota se va, se va, se va, y despida la con un besooooo!
Uribe rounded the bases and the Dodgers took a one-run lead. An inning later, with the series win on the line, Jarrin channeled the crowd's anticipation: "Ya se ven las casitas de mi pueblo…" "Ladies and gentlemen, now I can see the little houses of my town.... We can almost see the end of this interesting series."
Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen struck out a Brave, the third out exploding in the catcher's mitt. The Dodgers were moving on. In his booth, Jarrin couldn't resist the urge to raise his arms and clench his fists.
And when it was over, as blue streamers slithered from the sky, Jarrin riffed off the words of the poet Pablo Neruda.
"The color blue is the most beautiful color of them all," he said. "It is the color of the infinite."
Jaime Jarrin: An Oct. 11 story in Section A about Dodgers announcer Jaime Jarrin said he was signed by the organization as a 19-year-old. Jarrin arrived in the United States at 19, but started with the Dodgers at age 23. —
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Memphis, Tennessee – As St. Jude Children's Research Hospital celebrates its 50th anniversary and marks September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, investigators are focused on the future.
Although survival rates for childhood cancer have soared to about 80 percent nationally since the hospital opened in 1962, cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease for U.S. children between infancy and age 15. The cause of many childhood cancers remains uncertain. For some cancers, drug development has stalled. For others, successful treatment leaves survivors at increased risk for second cancers and other problems that threaten their health and well-being.
In response to such challenges, St. Jude launched the most ambitious effort yet to identify the causes of some of the most difficult and poorly understood childhood cancers. Known as the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, the three-year endeavor is using 21st century technology to decipher the complete normal and cancer genomes of 600 young patients with some of the toughest cancers. The human genome is stored in the DNA found in nearly all cells and provides the instructions needed to assemble and sustain a person.
"We expect the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project to catalyze global research in childhood cancer and improve our ability to diagnose, monitor and treat young patients with therapies that target the mutations identified as driving their disease," said Dr. William E. Evans, St. Jude director and chief executive officer. The project is designed to complement larger government efforts focused on adult cancers, which are often quite different from the cancers that strike children and adolescents.
To help realize that goal, published and unpublished whole genome sequencing data from the project are now freely available online to the global scientific community. "We hope other researchers will use this rich resource for insight into childhood cancer as well as other diseases of children and adults," said James Downing, M.D., St. Jude scientific director and the project's leader at St. Jude.
The privately funded Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has already yielded remarkable surprises, Downing added. "These discoveries are pointing us toward new therapeutic options for children," he said.
The findings include clues to understanding and possibly improving treatment of several cancers, including an aggressive subtype of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The subtype is known as early T-cell precursor ALL or ETP-ALL. Although overall long-term survival is now 94 percent for ALL patients treated at St. Jude, the prognosis is much worse for patients with ETP-ALL. The new findings suggest patients in this subgroup might benefit from the addition of drugs developed for treatment of the blood cancer acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
In other studies, Pediatric Cancer Genome Project investigators reported evidence that drugs already under development for adult cancers and other diseases might help in fighting certain childhood tumors. The cancers include the eye tumor retinoblastoma as well as subtypes of the most common childhood brain tumor medulloblastoma.
Pediatric Cancer Genome Project researchers have also identified new mutations at work in an aggressive brain tumor as well as in adolescents and young adults with a tumor of the sympathetic nervous system called neuroblastoma. The results are fueling efforts to find new, more selective therapies for these cancers.
Outside of the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, St. Jude investigators made progress on other fronts. Racial disparities in cancer survival are widely recognized among African-American patients of all ages. But an analysis from St. Jude added to evidence that equal access to comprehensive treatment and supportive care typically translates into equally good outcomes for most young African-American and white cancer patients. Researchers found no significant difference in survival rates between African-American and white children treated at St. Jude for virtually all cancers during a 15-year period ending in 2007.
A multicenter trial led by St. Jude researchers reported progress in the quest to reduce the use of radiation in treatment of young Hodgkin lymphoma patients. The study focused on patients without widespread disease or symptoms such as weight loss, fever or night sweats. The results showed that nearly half of young patients with such early stage Hodgkin lymphoma can be cured without undergoing either irradiation or intensive chemotherapy that would leave them at risk for second cancers, fertility and other problems.
"At St. Jude, the goal is to translate the best of basic and clinical research into therapies that combine high cure rates with minimal long-term side effects," said Richard Gilbertson, MD, PhD, director of the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center. St. Jude is the first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children.
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My son wanted a 3DS for his birthday, so I made him 3D 3DS cookies. As you can see, they are 3D! They were by no means perfect, but the boys loved them and the disco dust on the screen added a bit of pop to these gamer cookies. If you would like recipes for the sugar cookies or for the icing, check out this post! For other cookie decorating ideas, look here. If you don't feel like making cookies, I realized after they were made that I had cut them about the same size as a graham cracker, so you could actually use two graham crackers for this cookie project!
I also made some monster pops out of marshmallows dipped in white chocolate and decorated with candy and marshmallows. Boys like monsters, right? Even 11 year old boys. I found a ring of floral form at the dollar store and wrapped it in crepe paper so I could display the pops.
Next were the Ninjabread Men. I love these cookie cutters and so do my boys. I have mentioned before that my boys love ninjas. They have to be included!
Another gamer favorite it Pokemon and so I made some Pokeball cookies to go in the treat bags. Simple and fun! I used red chocolate for the red part and white icing for the white. They really did turn out well and have two different flavors, so they are a bit like a black-and-white cookie. I also found these cute little test tubes filled with flavored sugar. I'm sure the moms appreciated me. Can you say hyper?!? I did have each child put pizza toppings on his own grilled pizza and they ate lunch first. I promise!
I also filled apothocary jars with my son's favorite candies just for some fun color on the "candy bar"...
I asked my son what kind of cake he wanted and he said he wanted "my" chocolate cake with chocolate icing and if I could add some raspberry to that, it would be great, so I made a white chocolate, raspberry ganache for the filling. Fudgy cake and icing with raspberries. He loved it. For the recipe, look on the back of the Hershey Cocoa box! A great recipe I have been making for years and years. For the icing on this cake, I used the Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate Cocoa.
You don't need to print it out, but here is the recipe. It has been on the box forever and for good reason!
and here is the delicious icing also from the Hershey's site...
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
2/3 cup HERSHEY'S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Melt butter, Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. About 2 cups frosting.
For the ganache, I used a recipe I found on http://www.cakecentral.com/ and modified it because I had already gotten some frozen raspberries in sugar liquid.
White Chocolate Strawberry ganache
- 1 12 oz. package white chocolate chips
- 6 oz. heavy whipping cream, scalded
- 1 Tbs. of softened butter
- 2 oz. crushed, frozen rasperries in sugar liquid, thawed
1. Pour white chips into medium-sized bowl and microwave for 1-3 minutes. Check after each minute as each microwave varies.
2. Heat 8 oz. of heavy whipping cream to a simmer.
3. Pour cream over melted chips.
4. Add raspberries. Stir until creamy.
5. Place bowl into refrigerator until cooled and thickened (can be placed in freezer if you are in a hurry.)
6. Whip with mixer until thick and fluffy enough to spread between cake layers if necessary…..
You will love this cake if you haven't made it before. It is a classic!


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Is too much for your busy day
But let me tell you why you're wrong
I promise you this won't take long
Did you know there are chemicals
Hiding out in your disposables
Besides who wants to use all that plastic
all that garbage makes me spastic
And cloth is not as gross as you may think
I rarely even have a stink
All you need is a wet bag
and all that mess is not a drag
But 'sposies are easy you make utter
Cloth is too!- did I stutter?
I can diaper in a park
I can diaper in the dark
I can diaper in the car
I can diaper when afar
I can diaper here or there
I can diaper anywhere!
So take those 'sposies, throw them out
Cloth is easy when your about!
Thus my poem comes to an end
Hope you still want to be my friend.


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The impetus for this modest booklet was fuelled by a mention of Grimsby Beam Station (Tetney) in the book "Spycatcher" by Peter Wright, which was effectively banned by the British Government. Peter Wright is very insistent that the Beam Station was an exceptionally important landmark in the development of a world-wide communications system. This interested and excited me but I found it rather difficult to believe that the modest buildings of the Beam Station could have been the site of such important work and if it was, why didn't local people know more about it?
I decided to investigate further and I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
I have addressed the booklet to the general reader rather than those who have a technical background or interest but in the course of my research I have amassed a considerable amount of information, both technical and general, and a collection of photographs. These are available at Tetney County Primary School for anyone who would like to consult them. (N.B. now in Grimsby Central Library).
Thanks are due to GEC- Marconi, B.T. .Cable & Wireless Ltd and many individuals too numerous to mention.
Paul Hewitt, Headteacher.
December, 1993.
Although the book "Spycatcher" is about the intelligence service its mention of the Beam Station is not connected with spying or any type of intelligence work but because of the technical advances that it represented. When it was opened the Beam Station was the most advanced long-distance communication system available. In modern terminology it was "state of the art".
Before the First World War Britain had long considered changing the cable method of communication with the Empire to a radio system. The idea had first been suggested in 1906, but there was considerable disagreement about the idea and it was not until seven years later that a contract was signed with Marconi. Fortunately or unfortunately the war and additional political disagreements delayed the scheme until 1924. By this time work by Marconi had led to experiments with short-wave radio which he concluded was much more promising than the long-wave system which had been the original idea.
According to "Spycatcher" Marconi offered to build, free of charge, any link across the world, providing the government would suspend development of the long-wave stations until Marconi's short-wave beam system had passed its trials. The government agreed and asked for a link between Grimsby and Sydney. According to the same source the specifications were "awesome" and it astonished "the rest of the communications industry".
Aerial View of Beam Station
What does seem certain is that the announcement by Marconi that short-wave communication seemed to be more promising threw the government into disarray. The great advantages of the new system were that smaller aerials and reflectors could be used and much less power was needed to achieve the same results. According to "Girdle Round the Earth"-" the capital cost of beam stations was a tenth of that of cable and the operating costs lower too. "Agreement by the governments of Canada, South Africa, Australia and India to adopt the system put considerable pressure on the British government who agreed to the adoption of what was known as the Beam System. This was the beginning of the Imperial Wireless Chain - a revolution in world-wide communication.
According to "The History of the Marconi Company" the agreement with the company was "that as the contractor, it should build an initial beam station for communication wih Canada. If this proved successful, the system could be extended to communicate with South Africa, India and Australia".
Although "Spycatcher" emphasises the Grimsby - Sydney link, the first station was in fact the Canadian Beam which was opened at midnight 5/6th October 1926. The other stations followed very shortly with Tetney establishing communication with Australia at 6 a.m. on 8th April 1927 and India at midnight 5/6th September of the same year.
In actual fact it seems that the link was not between Grimsby and Sydney. The transmitting station in Australia was at Ballan, near Ballarat, Victoria about 50 miles N.W. of Melbourne and the receiving station was at Rockbank near Sydenham, 15 miles from Melbourne.
Certainly the link between Australia and Grimsby seems more impressive than the Canadian link because of the greater distances involved. "Wireless World" of March 30th 1927 emphasises the importance of the station at Tetney when it reported the official trials. It stated "The Beam System has thus proved itself over the longest distance that any telegraph service can be called upon to cover". According to The Times "The invention of the wireless beam system has revolutionised overseas communication and made possible the use of telegraphic communication as an everyday necessity rather than a luxury."
Both these facts indicate the significance of the Tetney Station which ensures it a place in the history of international communication.
All the stations were extremely successful. For example the Australian Government had been guaranteed an average traffic capacity of 20,000 words per day. In practice the capacity proved to be over three times this amount.
In a single week in December 1927 the total number of words carried by all the beam stations was at a rate which would total 34,840,000 words per year.
Marconi's great ambition to provide a world-wide system of wireless communication was realised.
The Beam Station must have had a considerable impact on the surrounding area.
There were eight masts and various buildings. In the main the buildings are still there at the time of writing (1993).
The three masts on the Grimsby side of the buildings carried th Australian aerials and were 275 feet tall.
The five masts on the Tetney side carried the Indian traffic and were 285 feet tall.
All the masts had cross arms at the top and these were 90 feet in length.
To imagine the size of the masts it may help to know that the Grimsby Dock Tower is just over 300 feet tall. The masts were supported by stays which were anchored in concrete blocks 14 feet deep. Not surprisingly these blocks still survive either as obstacles to be worked around in the fields or in the squares of trees which have been planted to hide them. Apparently an attempt was made to move the blocks but to no avail.The distance between each mast was 650 feet and the distance between the first and last was approximately one mile.
The aerials themselves looked like curtains of vertical wires hanging from the triatic bearers between the cross-arms at the tops of the masts. Each wire was attached at the lower end to a balance weight arm which kept the wire in tension. The lower end of each pair of aerial wires was connected to a special box and these in turn were connected by a system of copper pipes or feeder tubes to the particular transmitter.
The largest building was the machinery hall and the transmitting room was behind this.
The grounds of the station were by all accounts kept in immaculate condition and sported lawns, a rose garden and a fish pond. The fish pond was the idea of Mr. Jupe the Chief Engineer but the fish disappeared shortly after the construction of the pond. Apparently they were the victims of a hungry heron.
Travellers who passed the station at night would have seen the glow from the large valves shining through the windows and the ruby lights on the masts to warn low flying aircraft.
All in all the station must have been a prominent landmark and made quite an impression on the surroundings until it was finally dismantled in 1940 leaving only the buildings, some concrete blocks and squares of trees to remind us of its previous existence.
The beam stations worked in pairs - one transmitting and the other receiving.
As mentioned previously Tetney transmitted directly to Sydenham near Melbourne in Australia and India. The Indian receiving station was at Dhond about 50 miles east of Poona and the Poona transmitter was at Kirkee about 75 miles south east of Bombay.
Messages from Australia and India were received at Winthorpe which is just north of Skegness.
The other pairs of beam stations, with the transmitting station first were Ongar and Brentwood; Dorchester and Somerton; and Bodmin and Bridgewater.
The system worked in the following way:- if someone wanted to send a telegram from a town in England to another in Australia the message was written out and handed in at the Post Office.
The Message Centre London
It was marked "Via Imperial" and telegraphed to the central telegraph office in London. There the written message was changed into dots and dashes and punched onto a paper tape. This was then put into a transmitting machine which usually operated at 150 words per minute. These signals were sent along land lines to Tetney. These lines were laid alongside the railway from London to Holton-le-Clay Station and then to the Beam Station.
At the Beam Station they passed through a series of valves to the aerials and were then transmitted to their destination. The messages travelled at the speed of light (approx, 3000,000 metres per second) so that to all intents and purposes the reception was simultaneous with the transmission. At the telegraph office they were converted back into words or figures and delivered as a telegram to the recipient.
It is clear that this was an exceptionally important service and to ensure that there were no interruptions to it considerable precautions were taken. Almost all the vital equipment at the station was provided in triplicate and additional spares were kept close to hand.
The power for the station was provided by the Grimsby Electricity Works at 6500 volts and the Beam Station was linked to the Scartho sub-station with the cables being laid alongside the A16 to Holton-le-Clay then under the railway crossing following the road to Tetney. At "The Grange" the line left the road and skirted the farm buildings until reaching the Beam Station.
Who built the station?
Certainly it was designed by the Marconi Company but at the time of writing further information is not available.
Inside the Beam Station
We do know that the buildings at the Bodmin Station were constructed by the Foundation Company of London and that the masts were supplied and erected by The Armstrong Construction Company. The building of these stations must have been quite specialised work, therefore there is a likelihood that the same contractors were involved with all stations.
Precise alignment of the masts was of vital importance and had to be carried out with great care. They had to be at right angles to the shortest great circle route to the destination. As compass bearings were insufficiently accurate, the installation engineers had to be instructed to take fixes from the sun or certain stars to provide the correct orientation.
For transmission to Australia only one wavelength was used - 25.096 metres. Because this wave length is above 20 metres it travels better in the dark. As Australia is roughly half-way round the earth from Britain the beam was directed either eastwards or westwards according to which was the darkest side of the earth's surface. In practice this was west in the morning and east in the evening. The westward path covered approximately 12,000 nautical miles and the eastward path was 9,000 nautical miles.
For transmission to India two wavelengths were used - 35 metres and 16 metres. Again one was used for short path communication and the other for long path.
The call signs of the transmitter were GBH for Australia and GBI for India.
The transmitter used approximately 20kW power as opposed to the lOOOkW required by a similar longwave station.
The station was run by the Cable & Wireless Company. The Chief Engineer was Mr. A. Jupe who was in charge
from 1927 until 1940.
His deputy from 1928 to 1939 was Mr. C.J. Henderson. His daughter, Mrs G. Parrish is at the time of writing (1993) living in Humberston and has provided much information. Mr Henderson was unfortunately killed in a road accident in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1965 when he was in charge of another station which he took over in 1940.
There were 5 or 6 TA's (Technical Assistants) all non local people.
The station had a Morris van with two drivers and this was used to ferry in the staff from the Grimsby area. Transport was essential as of course the station operated for 24 hours per day.
Mr Bonner
There was an outside staff of 4 or 5. They were local people and included Mr Ladds, Walter Stocks, Mr Staves, Gil Robinson and Charlie Lingard. Other names quoted are Pacey and dark but it is not known what their positions were.
Mr G. Bonner who lived in the Brambles, The Lanes, Tetney was the clerk who undertook all the administrative work. His daughter still lives in the village.
Mrs Parrish recalls the visits of a number of students from India who in all probability were being trained for the Indian end of the operation. She also remembers university students who visited and in particular a Mr Milne. His visits were not connected with the technical aspects of the station itself but with monitoring insect life and Mrs Parrish remembers nets being placed at different heights on the masts and the insects found at different levels recorded. The large valves with their glow inside the station attracted many moths and other insects.
All in all the Beam Station does not seem to have provided a large amount of employment for local people. The technical staff were often long-term employees of Cable & Wireless who had worked at other stations. As specialists in a relatively new technology who had moved around the country there was a certain camaraderie among them and they do not seem to have mixed a great deal. To a certain extent they were part of a small self-contained group who kept largely to themselves.
In 1940 the Beam Station was closed and the masts dismantled. A team of men, some local, some from further afield, started to take the masts down in the winter of 1939/40.
The contractors for this work were F.E. Beaumont, Commercial and Ecclesiastical Steeplejacks from Streatham, London.
Dismantling the Masts
The site foreman at that time was Thomas Sanaway Rodwell, who at the time of writing (1993) is living in retirement in Grimsby after a distinguished career with the BBC which was crowned by the award of the British Empire Medal for services to the communication industry.
Another of the workers involved in dismantling the masts was a young Harry Woolf who had cbme from Essex to work on the site. Other men who worked on the site were Bob Jackson, Jimmy Flegg, C. Cuff, Tom Tye, Percy Greenfield and G. and J. Groves or Greaves. Tom Rodwell could not name others. In his own words "being over 50 years ago and being a little over 75 years old, some of my memories may not be 100 accurate as memories fade a little".
Much of the detail about the dismantling has come from Thomas Rodwell or "Snowy" as he was known on the site and Harry Woolf.
The Tetney masts were dismantled and re-assembled at Dorchester and Somerton, Somerset and used for communications during World War 2. The condition of the steelwork was as good as new and was all used again.
The masts were transported by road on lorries and trailers belonging to Dennis & Co. of Epping Forest near London. The mast legs were on a lorry and the cross bracings on the trailer. Each mast needed three lorries and trailers to transport them. All the steelwork was loaded on the Tetney Road. The ground was too soft for the vehicles to go onto the field and the steelwork was moved across the field on wagons which were propelled by hand on a rail track.
The southernmost mast (nearest the present school) was dismantled first. It was winter and at one time the snow was 18 inches deep. Working conditions were very difficult and the men only worked between three and five hours daily. It took two months to dismantle the first mast. The men were only paid for the hours worked. At that time this was between one shilling and four pence and two shillings and nine pence per hour according to the position held. When the weather improved the men worked seven days a week - from 7 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Harry Woolf remembers being paid one shilling and eight pence per hour and being guaranteed 65 hours per week.
After the second tower was dismantled improved weather and experience of working with this type of mast led to the men agreeing to take the remaining six masts down at a price of £160 per mast. Each mast was then dismantled in 10 working days with a team of eight men.
Tetney Beam Station disappeared from the skyline in around six months.
Why did the station close?
I have received a number of intriguing suggestions and leave the reader to draw their own conclusions.
It may be helpful to consider the situation prior to the introduction of the beam service and follow the thread through to the closure of the station.
In broad outline the situation was as follows. Prior to the construction of the beam stations the majority of the traffic was carried by cable but within months of the opening of the beam service it had captured a large proportion of the business. The cable operators began to feel the effects of the competition and revenue dropped quite substantially. For example, the beam service had taken 65 of Eastern Telegraph traffic and more than 50 of Pacific Cable traffic within six months. Dominion governments were also effected because they were subsidising the cable companies. The Post Office beam stations were turning out to be a major threat to cable interests. Cablegrams cost 6d at the ordinary word rate and 2 shillings for full rate while by beam radio the full rate was 4d.
Action was required. A committee was set up under the chairmanship of Sir John Gilmour which led to The Imperial Wireless & Cable Conference at which the companies and governments were represented. The remit of the conference was to review the situation which had arisen and to make recommendations with a view to a common communications policy being adopted by the various governments. In 1928 a report was produced which recommended that the cable and wireless resources of the British Empire be merged into one system.
As a result a new company was formed under the name "Imperial and International Communications Ltd." This name was changed in 1934 to Cable & Wireless Ltd. which is the name still used today. It was recommended that the company would have a revenue target of £1,865,000 and that it would lease the Post Office beam stations for £250,000 p.a. for 25 years until 1953.
In September 1929 the beam stations were transferred to the new company which controlled not only Tetney Beam Station but 164,400 nautical miles of submarine cable, 13 cable ships, 253 cable and wireless stations and offices and a stock of new cable worth £824,000.
Tetney was a key part of a very profitable side of the business. According to the 1928 report the beam services to Australia, South Africa and India yielded a very high profit.
Unfortunately not everything worked to plan. In the 10 years following the agreement there were a number of pressures which made the targets difficult to attain. Among these were the growth of air mail services, competition from foreign wireless services and of course the world economic depression which squeezed the revenue. It became clear that in spite of re-organisation the company would not reach the financial targets.
Another problem for the company was that the Post Office held the monopoly for wireless telephony(the spoken word) and this was clearly the next stage in the development of telecommunications.
In April 1938 a new agreement was reached. Among the results was that the Post Office beam stations were conveyed to the company and this saved over £250,000 per annum. Other concessions were made. These were probably insufficient and therefore financial considerations may have played a part in the closure of the station.
With war approaching there may well have been strategic considerations and the following suggestions have been made:- In war time the station would have been a very prominent landmark for enemy pilots. Due to the proximity of a number of airfields it may have been a danger to low-flying aircraft. It could have caused interference to the system of radar stations which stretched along the eastern side of Britain. The station at Stenigot being the nearest in the chain. Messages would have been vulnerable to interception by the enemy. The position of the station would have made it an easy target for enemy aircraft.
Another possible reason was that radio and cable had never really sat easily side by side . Rationalisation of both services was needed and the approaching war gave an impetus to this which had not been there in more settled times.
It may well be that a number of these possibilities came together to make the case for closure overwhelming, but more research is needed before a definite conclusion can be reached. One thing is certain - in 1939/40 Tetney was one of three stations closed down and the services concentrated at Somerton and Dorchester. We know that the masts went to these places although the buildings remained and have had a number of uses over the years e.g. housing Polish POW's, boat-building, mink farming, food store, craft shop etc.
Tetney Beam Station changed peoples lives.
Harry Woolf, who was mentioned earlier, lodged in Church Lane, Tetney and returned later to marry Jessie Lingard who lived next door but one to his lodging place. At the time of writing (1993) Mr and Mrs Woolf are still living in Church Lane, Tetney.
Mrs Parrish who came to the area as a 13 year old with her family when her father was appointed to be one of the engineers married a local man and settled in the area after the rest of her family had moved on.
Harry Wolf
There were unhappier incidents connected with the station. In the course of either the construction or maintenance of the station one of the workers, who was lodging in Church Lane, was killed on the site.
During the dismantling of the masts in 1940 a young woman was killed, run over by a bus, when she lost control of her bicycle while looking up to wave to the men working on the masts. When the accident occurred all the men hurried down the mast and lifted the bus to remove her and her cycle from beneath it. On removal she was placed in a barn on a tarpaulin covered bench. In the words of Thomas Rodwell who was one of the helpers "it was a terrible sight and state her body was in with blood". The farm concerned was Staves Holding.
For some reason the body was not removed to a mortuary and it also appears that nothing was done to clean the blood from the body. Some recall the young woman's husband who was serving in the army coming to identify the body. The sight was so distressing for him that he was described by one person as entering the barn as a young upright man and leaving as a bent and shattered person.
Rather like the Forth Bridge, maintenance was almost continuous and the wires and shackles constantly maintained. A man was employed to look after the aerial curtains. He used a cage to go across from one mast to the other on the wire supporting the aerials. He spent his working day alone in the cage at approximately 260 feet above ground level. He took his lunch and presumably other creature comforts with him. At the end of each day the cage was often still between masts and he would leave the cage in position and descend by rope after his days work. He was nick-named either Triatic Joe or Triatical Joe after the triatic wires which linked each mast. Clearly this was not a job for the faint-hearted or those who needed the company of others.
One local resident who was a young man at the time recalls his enthusiasm for trying to climb the masts and being offered a packet of cigarettes each week to stay away from them.
After the masts were dismantled there was apparently an attempt to blow up the concrete blocks. An inspection of the site shows that this was clearly unsuccessful. Mention of the station can be found in pre-war magazines, newspapers, reference books and school text-books. Photographs of it appear in histories of Marconi and his company and even in April 1993 a photograph featured in an historical article in the journal "Electronics World + Wireless World".
Probably the most unusual reminder of the station is a cigarette card. It appears as number 50 in the set "Applied Electricity" issued with Ogden's Cigarettes.
The Beam Station was, when it was built, at the forefront of technology.
Marconi was reputed to have risked his company to develop this Beam System.
It is ironic to consider how important Tetney was in the history of world-wide communications and how little the Beam Station is remembered locally. It must have been an exciting time for those working in the newly developing communications industry but that excitement does not seem to have been felt in Tetney.
But the greatest coincidence of all is that not 1/2 mile from the site of the Beam Station there is another radio station – much more modest of course but still capable of world-wide communication.
I refer to the amateur radio station situated at Tetney County Primary School with the call-sign GXOPHA. This in itself is quite unique as it is one of only a handful of primary schools with this facility in Great Britain.
Over the past years many children have experienced the "magic" of communication by radio using the school radio station. If just a few of them are bitten by the "science bug" it will have been worthwhile and a fitting tribute to the great scientist Marconi.
QSL card sent to confirm contact
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Gugliemo Marconi. The Marconi Company 1984.
Bodmin Radio Station-Historical Survey by J.R.McCullum. Updated by J.D.Sharpies, 1983. Unpublished.
Spycatcher by Peter Wright. Viking Penguin 1987.
Electronics World + Wireless World - April 1993. Article entitled "Developing Antennas for Beam Stations".
Radio Year Book 19??. The Marconi Short-Wave Beam System of Wireless Telegraphy by Dr. J.A. Fleming.
Radio Year Book 19?? The Wireless Beam for Imperial Communication by Lt.-Col. Chetwode Crawley.
Grimsby News - Nov.6th. 1936. Article entitled "While Grimsby Sleeps"
Wireless World - March 23rd, 1927. Article in "Current Topics".
Wireless World - March 30th, 1927. Article entitled "Australian Beam Services".
A Century of Service by K.C. Baglehole. Cable & Wireless 1969.
The Daily Chronicle - 19??. Article entitled "Beam Wireless Around Empire".
The Grimsby News - March 28th, 1930. Article entitled "Grimsby on the World Map".
A Short Geography of Lincolnshire by S.B. Vickers. A. Brown & Sons 193?.
A History of Grimsby by E.Gillet. Hull University Press, 1980.
St. Martin's Le-Grand Vol. 37, 1927. Articles entitled "The Imperial Wireless Beam Service" by J.T.T. and "Beam Wireless to India.
Some of the workers who dismantled the masts.


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Interview: Liberia's President Sirleaf
Look, the Nigerian elections are over. I think everybody will agree that the person elected by whatever means, probably represented the best person for continuity
The following interview with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was conducted by National Public Radio's Michel Martin. For more please visit www.npr.org
MARTIN: What is the most important factor in achieving real progress in taking care of these big ticket items? Is it private investment, is it the international lending institutions, is it intergovernmental support? What's the most important factor, in your
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: For now, it's the support we get from partners, you know, like the United States, like the European Commission, like the World Bank. Those are the main ones that are supporting the restoration of these.
MARTIN: But what does that mean? Does that mean direct lending, does it mean canceling the debt? What does that mean?
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: No, Liberia cannot use credit right now because we have a very - a huge external debt, almost $4 billion. That debt has not been serviced for some two decades. So we're not able to borrow.
But we do get grants now, bilateral grants, as well as the World Bank coming in with multilateral grants, still helping us to repair the roads. Um, water. We just brought water into the city, and an increasing number of people in their homes now get waters in the capitol city and in much - in some parts of the suburbs. These are all for now supported through our partnership agreement. Ultimately though, for getting electricity in any significant way, we will have to go private, and we're trying to work on that.
MARTIN: If we could just spend one more minute, though, on the international partners. Now you've been pressuring since your election for help with restructuring that massive debt. Why do you think it's taking so long? Do you see any progress there?
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: Yes, we have had progress. It's taking long because the debt is huge. And, in order to get the multilateral debt, which is not subject to cancellation, it has to be repaid by the bilaterals -- that means the U.S., and other countries that have to put this money up. We've been favored by these institutions; they've come up with some very unique arrangements using some internal resources. But still there's a funding gap that requires our bilateral partners to put up extra money. Good promises are there. We also have, we have to bring the European countries on board. And I tell you, now, the European countries are a little bit reluctant because they say, you know, 'Liberia is America's responsibility,' and 'America should be able to put up the money and clear this debt.' Well, the U.S. has indicated the cancellation of the entire bilateral debt --
MARTIN: Which was how much?
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: -- which was about $390 million, I think, something like that, and now they've also agreed to put up some money to handle the debt of the African Development Bank and some of the World Bank, but still there's a gap. And the gap has to come from either some of our European partners, or our traditional partners like the U.S., the U.K., and others that have agreed to cancel would have to put up more.
MARTIN: Well, what's your best argument to these countries, including to the U.S.? For as much goodwill as you've generated with your election and with your many visits and the warm relationships that you've developed, there are a lot of people in this country who are always very skeptical about foreign aid in general; there are people in
Europe where the economy is not as strong as it could be, who say that this money is better spent at home. What is your best argument to these other governments as to why they should be supportive?
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: Well, first of all, we point out that Liberia is not a poor country; it's just a country that's been poorly managed. That we have enough resources that once we get a head start, once we get past these stumbling blocks, that we are able to support our needs, we are able to have the resources, natural resources, national resources, to respond to the needs of our people. We also point out that much of this debt was accumulated through bad governance, and that much of it is also -- a lot of it is bogus debt. This debt has not been serviced, and resources were given to governments that were known not to be performing. So, it's not fair for our young children to inherit this debt from which they've received very little benefits.
MARTIN: You've gotten a tremendous amount of attention as the first elected female leader, female head of state in Africa. I was wondering if that's ever lonely for you.
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: Well, yes it is because one in certain circumstances has to be restrained. I go to African Union summits, and I'm the only woman there, so I can't huddle. If there were another woman, we would huddle in the corner and take common positions. It's difficult to do that when you're alone.
MARTIN: Why can't you huddle?
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: Well, you can, but with restraint. Don't forget that as a professional where many of the leaders have known me for many years, I'm fully accepted. But at the same time, they are wondering what positions you will take. Will you as a woman bring some strange ideas to the debate and the dialogue or will you be pushing the kinds of things that don't get on the table conventionally? So you find your way, and sometimes you feel a bit lonely and wish that there were two or three others of your kind that could push a common agenda.
MARTIN: Do you ever not push an issue that's important to you? Do you ever hesitate in the international sphere to not push those issues forward because you feel that people just don't want to hear it from
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: Absolutely. There are some subjects that one has to be very careful in how you handle them. Political sensitivities can be high in certain areas; not just relating to ownership. Relating to protecting the African tradition and the African ideals in the midst of globalization require a lot of thoughtfulness as you take positions,
and so one must be careful.
MARTIN: Internally though you have appointed women to positions that they had not previously had before. In the cabinet for example, I think the finance minister, the chief of the national police among other positions. How have the Liberians reacted to these moves?
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: I think with full acceptance, because in each of these cases, these are women that possess the requisite competence and character and courage, so they are fully accepted. As a matter of fact, I think sometimes they intimidate the others. And this isn't just happening in Liberia. If you look across the African continent, you find that women are taking positions that have not been normally traditional women areas so to speak.
MARTIN: What is the thinking, though, in appointing women to these positions that are not traditional for them to have? Are you making a statement?
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: It is definitely a statement. It's to say that women are in these strategic positions. If I had enough women ready to take 50 percent of the positions in the cabinet, I would do that. But also we have certain criteria for the selection of cabinet people. Many women are just not available yet. So the next best thing is to put them in all the strategic positions, sending a message to people that women are going to hold positions like justice and commerce and finance and police and all of those areas that have been traditionally male dominated areas.
MARTIN: I wanted to ask a little bit about some regional issues. Nigeria recently held elections; Human Rights Watch believes the elections were rigged in favor of the incumbent President Obasanjo, and they are concerned that this encourages corruption through the region - at least it could be extended. And I wanted to know if you share that
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF: Look, the Nigerian elections are over. I think everybody will agree that the person elected by whatever means, probably represented the best person for continuity, and for ensuring that the very important development agenda that President Obasanjo has pursued over these years will be carried out. And so, let's accept it for what it is and move on.
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The DC area's only all-youth musical theatre company
Wildwood Summer Theatre was founded in 1965 by a group of students from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland. These theatrically minded students wanted to extend their high school musical experience into the summer. However, they were unable to find an adult sponsor, so they decided to strike out on their own. That summer, on a shoestring budget, and with little in the way of material supplies or support, they put on a production of Bye, Bye Birdie. The show was a rousing success, and WST was born. For the last 51 years, WST has presented at least one, and occasionally two musical productions, with the entire company aged 14 to 25.


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So here we are, well under way with the new year.
Christmas decorations are firmly back in the loft.
The last of the food has been eaten (no more turkey curry or chocolate roulade in the back of the freezer, or perhaps that's just me!)
January's 'Grey Monday', apparently the most depressing day of the year, has been and gone. We've had snow and for once it wasn't enough to stop the trains (probably a first!) – plus, they were already affected by the dispute.
Brexit is on the horizon and, whether you were a 'remainer' or a 'leaver', it must be time to recognise we are where we are, to respect the democratic decision, and move on.
It leaves me wondering, why can't people just talk?
Perhaps I'm too simplistic but a problem shared is a problem halved.
Many have undergone months of difficulty getting to work, hospital appointments and interviews.
Business and jobs have been lost, people have even had to move house and relationships have broken down under the pressure.
There have been terrible family rows, community divisions, and unpleasant comments made.
To say it's been difficult is an understatement.
Perhaps enough talking has been done, and it's now time to listen to what's actually being said?
As I read the descriptions of Jesus' disciples in the Bible, they often seem to be hearing but never listening.
One such example would be when people were bringing their children to Jesus to be blessed but the disciples sent them away because they felt that Jesus needed rest.
As children and mothers were often considered to be of lesser significance, the disciple's believed that Jesus would understand.
That's despite them having heard Jesus, on many occasions, talking about the importance of recognising the needs of all.
They'd even seen countless examples of his encounters with women and children.
Yet they still hadn't completely understood or really listened.
As a Christian, I believe that everybody matters and is valued by God.
So, listening to one another, and recognising each other's pain and difficulties, should be paramount in a society where friendship, trust, respect, and kindness flourish.
Faith Matters
How to read the Bible (without switching off your brain.)
As part of the Year of the Bible, the Chichester Cathedral Friends' 'Book at Breakfast' meeting with the Cathedral Chancellor is looking at Simon Taylor's 'How to Read the Bible (without switching off your brain).' This breakfast meeting is on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th February from 9.00am – 10.00am at 4 Canon Lane, Chichester Cathedral.
Empowering Churches to support people with Dementia
Peace of Mind is holding a training event designed to help support people with dementia. Dementia affects many people. People with dementia struggle in countless ways and those who try to care for them have many different burdens to bear. This training event is designed to help congregations support those living with dementia and their carers.
The venue is St Paul's Church, West Street, BN1 2RQ, on Saturday, 4th February 2017, 10am - 3pm. The course fee is £10 and participants are asked to bring their own lunch. Please contact Rev. Cynthia Park, 28 Peacock Lane, Brighton BN1 6WA. Make cheques payable to "Peace of Mind."
Faith in Healthcare
Faith in Healthcare offers an opportunity for christians involed in healthcare to come together to share, to be inspired, to be encouraged and to pray. The event will be held at Asburnham place near Battle in East Sussex on Thursday 9th February, 7.30pm-9.30pm. The cost is free, or £10 including dinner (6.30pm) and advanced booking is required. For more information, please see www.ashburnham.org.uk


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Should Denver police sergeant be fired?
CBS4's Brian Maass is reporting that "Denver Police Chief Robert White has recommended the firing of veteran police Sgt. Benita Packard over her handling of the Jan. 25 DUI stop of former State Legislator Laura Kay Bradford."
If so – and if Safety Manager Alex Martinez concurs – you have to wonder whether such a firing would be sustained by the Civil Service Commission given recent hearing panel rulings.
In May, for example, a hearing panel blocked the firing of an officer who had driven 143 mph in a 55-mph zone, claiming the safety manager should have taken mitigating factors into account, such as personal stress.
In the current case, Packard ordered an officer who pulled over Bradford on suspicion of drunken driving to keep his mouth shut about the possible drinking as well as a loaded gun in the lawmaker's car.
Packard apparently orchestrated a coverup, in other words, on behalf of a lawmaker who never even asked for such a favor.
A firing offense for a 30-year veteran? I'm not sure, but it's clearly a serious matter. Aggravating the behavior is the fact that Packard failed to come forward and tell the truth even as Bradford was being denounced across Colorado by critics who assumed she'd invoked legislative immunity when cops stopped her – although she hadn't.
Packard's silence while Bradford twisted in the wind was nearly as bad as the coverup itself.


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Nov. 28, 2008
Head Coach Jennifer Mountain
On the team's determination:
"We were down and we battled back. We ran our stuff in the second half and we shut them down offensively. They went eight possessions in a row without scoring and that's what we have to have. I was really proud of the fact that they really stepped it up defensively. In the last two games we've been down and we've been in a position where we could have just held it and we'd come back," said Mountain. "That's indicative that our team is getting better. This win will really help their confidence level."
On Kathy Willinsky's performance:
"Kathy is just the energizer bunny. She's come in the last two games for us and has done some really good things. She brings all this energy onto the court. It's good, positive energy and she played really smart today."
Sophomore Forward Kathy Willinsky
On her goals for the game:
"I wanted to bring a lot of energy, get everyone pumped up and just do the small things well. I think I accomplished that today and I believe that doing those small things really helped our team."
On the win:
"The win will hopefully give us the boost of confidence we need. It showed us what we need to do in order to win and that we need to play with heart and bring energy to all of our games."


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EXCLUSIVE: Anika Noni Rose has been cast in A&E's upcoming Stephen King miniseries "Bag of Bones."
Rose will play Sara Tidwell, a blues singer who haunts a bestselling novelist (Pierce Brosnan) embroiled in a bitter custody battle.
Four-hour mini is set to premiere on A&E in the fourth quarter.
Actress is a Tony Award winner for her role in "Caroline, or Change," had a guest performance as a politician in the most recent season of CBS' "The Good Wife" and co-starred in the bigscreen version of "Dreamgirls."


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Note: this post will also appear on the IGMS blog. You can read the stories on the IGMS web site if you are a subscriber: "Always Here" and "The Postman". There is also an interview of me by the amazing Jamie Todd Rubin in the issue.
I used to only write very long stories. I didn't know how to tell a story in under 5,000 words, much less 1,000. Someone told me that I had to learn to write shorter stories because they were easier to sell. So I resolved to learn the art of flash.
The advice turned out to be very useful, though not for the reason stated above. For a long time, I had much more trouble selling my shorter stories than longer ones because they were so much worse. Terrible really. But somehow practicing the very short form made my longer pieces better. (The way my writing mind works is often still a mystery to me.)
Eventually, I did get flash as a form (I'm thankful that my early attempts will never see the light of day). Both of my stories in Issue 31 began life as entries in the Shock Totem bi-monthly flash fiction contest. Entrants have a week to write a story based on a prompt (a photograph, a news article, etc.). Since the contests are geared towards dark fantasy and horror, my entries, which tend to be science fiction, don't tend to do well. But as my purpose in entering these contests is to learn how to write flash fiction better, I'm very happy with the results.
"The Postman": This was inspired by Karl Bunker's "Overtaken" in the Sep/Oct 2011 issue of F&SF. I enjoy participating in literary dialogs where authors write stories to respond to each other — that's what a literary tradition is: authors talking to each other through stories in a common enterprise, much as scientists converse through papers in their common enterprise. (I consulted Karl ahead of time to be sure that he had no objections with me publishing this story, which picks up on his story's theme and offers a variation.)
There's a long history of anxiety that our creations (robots, AIs, post-humans, etc.) may surpass us someday, leaving us at their mercy as wards or little more than pets. There's also a long tradition of science fiction about explorers on ancient space vessels obsoleted by those on faster, newer vessels before reaching their destinations. The two worries are related to each other as well as to the deep parental anxiety about being surpassed by their children without their children's understanding or appreciation for their sacrifices.
"The Postman" doesn't resolve this anxiety — most anxieties that have literary interest are unresolvable — but it offers a hopeful view of how parents will be seen by their children. Hope is separated only thinly from wishful thinking, but I always prefer to err on the side of hope.
"Always Here": I've been experimenting lately with writing stories that adopt the conventions of science fiction for fantasy and vice versa. This is one example.
I think of fantasy as literature that literalizes a metaphor. "Always Here" is a fantasy story told in the language of science fiction. As we grow older, many (most?) of us lose our sense of wonder, our openness to possibilities, our willingness to hear voices that are unexpected. This story makes that ossification of the mind literally true.
Yet the metaphor is not just a metaphor. There is some biological basis for the common belief that aging reduces our novelty-seeking behavior, makes us less open-minded, causes us to dwell on the past. Our free wills are only as free as their biological foundation.
After writing this, I often imagined what Anna would look like after emerging from the probe. And the truth is that every time I came up with a different answer. Somehow, that makes me happy.


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While polls show GOP took hit on fiscal cliff, party leaders aren't backing down.
The recent fiscal-cliff showdown has left Republicans smarting, putting much of their legislative gamesmanship over the spending and taxes standoff at odds with the public's desire for compromise. A newly-released Pew poll suggests that the messy negotiations benefited the White House: Just 19 percent gave GOP leaders good marks on their handling of the negotiations, while 48 percent did the same for President Obama. No one particularly cared for the final deal, with only 38 percent approving and 41 percent disapproving.
And while House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell live to fight another day, utilizing their next best piece of legislative leverage -- the debt ceiling -- may also come with a political price tag.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called using the debt ceiling as leverage a "dead loser," and said that House Republicans need to find "a totally new strategy."
But Republican strategists believe that even another déjà vu showdown over sequestration and the debt ceiling won't carry the same costs, with party leaders confident that in this next round, the public is more likely to be on their side than they were during the fiscal-cliff negotiations. They argue that Democrats got their tax hikes on the wealthy -- something Obama campaigned on, and something Republicans eventually caved on -- while no spending cuts were enacted.
"A debate driven by tax rates for the wealthy was a much easier debate for [Obama] than a debate about debt limits and deficits and spending," says Kevin Madden, a GOP strategist and former Mitt Romney campaign adviser.
House Republican leadership has cited to its caucus a December poll commissioned by the GOP firm the Winston Group showing the public is largely against raising the debt ceiling, with 60 percent opposed and just 30 percent in favor.
"The Republicans don't have to change their stripes to succeed. They need to leverage public opinion about spending and the deficits," says veteran Republican strategist and former Boehner aide Terry Holt. "The American people are there -- they expect cuts. They anticipate some level of austerity-reform."
The ways things play out in Washington will also have just as much to do with the political implications faced by individual lawmakers as opposed to those faced by the party as a whole.
"At the end of the day, the only poll that matters is the one in people's districts. I'm focused on the people in my district," Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark., said. "National polls include people in Nancy Pelosi's district, Henry Waxman's district.... I don't work for them, and I'm not real worried about the national polls."
For lawmakers such as Griffin, a debt-ceiling debate is one in a series of opportunities to push a broad conversation about the national debt and deficit reduction. "If we communicate effectively, I think we will be able to demonstrate to the American people that the president's talk about a balanced approach was nonsense," Griffin said.
Moving forward, a number of Republicans have signaled a strong stance on the debt ceiling. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has said that when it comes to the upcoming debt-ceiling fight, "I don't think what Washington needs is more compromise, I think what Washington needs is more common sense and more principle." Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania has said that his party needs "to be willing to tolerate a temporary, partial government shutdown."
"The reason why conservative Republicans have been pretty firm in their resolve is they've seen the evolution of the issue," Holt says. In the 1990s, for instance, not many Americans cared about debt as a broad topic, Holt says. Now, the nation's debt is much higher, and it was a top campaign issue.
Even so, it appears that Republican leadership is providing some wiggle room on the debt ceiling and trying to incorporate the issue into a broader conversation about debt reduction, spending cuts, and reform -- which may play better politically. Boehner said in recent Wall Street Journal interview that the debt ceiling is "one point of leverage" but it's "not the ultimate leverage."
"As a party, we have to defend our core fiscal-conservative principles and I think the party as a whole recognizes that no one event is going to result in the reformation for the Republican Party, but it's part of a process," Madden says. "But we'll keep aligning ourselves as the stewards of good fiscal policy."


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Squad players must step up to mark – Walcott
Theo Walcott has challenged Arsenal's squad players to stand up and be counted when their FA Cup dreams are put on the line against Blackburn this weekend.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger could again utilise some of his fringe players when the Championship side come to the Emirates for Saturday's fifth-round tie, with the likes of Jack Wilshere and captain Thomas Vermaelen both injury concerns ahead of next week's Champions League showdown with Bayern Munich.
Walcott, though, maintains that whichever 11 is sent out against Rovers must produce the required display to keep Arsenal on course for Wembley.
"A lot of players are back from international duty and need a bit of a break, so some may be rested for the FA Cup game, but that's just as important as we want to go far in that competition," Walcott said.
The Gunners battled to a 1-0 win at Sunderland, where full-back Carl Jenkinson was sent off for two cautions and he will be suspended against Blackburn. The victory edged Arsenal up into fifth to stay within striking distance of arch-rivals Tottenham, who they face at White Hart Lane in a fortnight.
Walcott feels his team have the strength of character needed to come through the challenges ahead.
"We are very confident (of finishing in the top four). We can battle through any sort of situation," he said. "The teams around us are winning as well, but we have just got to make sure we look after ourselves and try to win as often as we can. We will see where we are at the end of the season, but we have got to show the belief we did at Sunderland. I felt there were a lot of winners in that dressing-room and the boys were fantastic."
Wilshere was withdrawn during the second half at Sunderland as a precaution and the England midfielder is expected to recover from a dead leg in time for the visit of Bayern.
Vermaelen, meanwhile, is understood to have been receiving injections to alleviate an ankle problem which has seen the Belgian miss the last two matches.
Defender Laurent Koscielny pulled out of the warm-up at Sunderland because of a calf problem suffered on international duty with France, and is another who will be closely monitored.
With Jenkinson suspended, Kieran Gibbs still sidelined by a thigh problem and Andre Santos having joined Brazilian side Gremio on loan, Wenger has seen his defensive options stretched.
Ignasi Miquel, the 20-year-old Spaniard, came on for the closing stages at Sunderland and looks set to be involved again this weekend.
Arsenal, meanwhile, reportedly sent a scout to watch Victor Wanyama at Celtic last night where the Bhoys were beaten 3-0 by Juventus in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 clash. Wenger is known to be keen to bring in another defensive midfielder, having failed in a deadline-day move for Etienne Capoue of Toulouse.
Irish Independent