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Friends . . . I'm in a Lymie Fog this week, so I have placed myself in receiving mode. I love receiving mode. When I'm in receiving mode it means I have let myself off the hook. I'm not creating anything new – I'm just reading and breathing and listening and taking it all in. Deep Inhales.
Last night I watched the news. Sigh. All of the not-working-together and trying- to-be-right-instead-of-helpful was tiring. It made me want to put something different out into the polarized world today. Remember this? Progress is possible. It's harder than arguing, but it's possible. Miss you, Tim.
On Thursday morning, Chase and I returned from a mommy/ son overnight date. It was really a let's get the hell away from the girls who will never ever, ever stop fighting date. It was awesome. We played and talked and talked and talked. We splurged on donuts for breakfast and snuggled in bed at night and woke up early for walks on the beach and dolphin sightings. I got to say yes, yes, yes instead of no, no, no all day. We dreamed up a book we're going to write together. It was perfect. It kind of made me wish I could raise my kids one at a time.
Exhausted and happy, we boarded the plane for the flight home. Since I just had Chase- no girls- I was envisioning a relaxing, blissful flight. I would not be breaking up fights or crawling around on the cabin floor trying to find tiny plastic toys the size of my fingernail that someone who really, really hates parents created. It was just Chase and me, happy and relaxed after our trip, ready to curl up with our brand new books.
But the Universe decided that I had had quite enough relaxing, thank you very much.
I wedged myself in the seat next to an older, furious, panicked man who was having trouble sending an email. He was huffing, puffing, moaning, and cursing. He was making all the noises that beg the person next to you to say, "what's wrong?" But I didn't say "what's wrong?" No way, Jose. All I could do was think about how this man's state of being was a lesson to me. Nothing that can be done over a computer is worth that much angst and stress. Unless one is trying to reach a dying friend, one should not allow a two hour loss of technology to work him up that way. Not healthy. This man's level of stress was so high that I could FEEL it radiating off of him. Killing my vacay buzz. I wanted none of it. I kept leaning closer and closer to Chase's side until half of my body was in his seat. What are youdoing? Chase said. I just love you, I responded. He gave me his "I'm practicing to be a teenager" eye roll.
The man finally shut his laptop. Then he started taking huge, deep breaths. Loud, angry, breaths. But his deep breaths were interrupted by deep, repetitive coughs. Smoker coughs. Loud, jarring coughs that wracked his whole body. I tried to discreetly cover my face with my Monkee sweat shirt. By now I was basically sitting IN Chase's lap.
We take off. I start reading.
And he starts.
He starts talking to me, in monologue form, and it is clear right away that he plans to get a few things off of his croupy chest. To me. He is grizzly. He is angry. He is, how shall we say…not my type. Something tells me to close my book and listen anyway. I resent that Something. But I do. I close my book and look at my new teacher and listen.
This man talked for a full hour before I spoke at all. During this hour I learned that he was a small company owner on his way to DC to tell his employees that he was moving his headquarters out of the country because, according to him, the Obama administration's new rules had made it impossible for him to stay in the US.
Then, during the next hour, He talked about the poor in sweeping generalizations. He discussed any sort of service program workers or supporters as foolish enablers. He repeated the word fools twenty times. He proclaimed all non-profits to be corrupt money grubbers who hire hookers and buy drugs with donations. He said that liberals would be the ruin of our country. He talked more about his own company, and how liberals hated him and were always trying to put him a box and make him the bad guy. He explained that he'd fight his way out of that box any way he had to. He was a fighter, he said. He spoke loudly and peppered his sentences with curse words.
As God is my witness, I am not making any of this up. Every single thing he said was something that makes my fists clench and heart want to jump out of my throat and onto my lap. Even my beloved Mitchum stopped working. But something told me to stay open. Ride this out. I kept listening.
Once Chase leaned over and said, "Why are you arguing?"
Our new friend said, "Son, we're not arguing, we're just stating very different opinions in a tense way." (I still hadn't said a word.)
"Isn't that the definition of arguing?" Chase said.
I shot him my best, "I've got this and respect your elders even when they think differently than anyone you've ever met" look.
I took inward deep breaths and shot a twitter prayer up to the G-O-D.
Not subtle with this one, huh? What am I supposed to do with this? Politics? Politics? There are two things I avoid like the plague- politics and real ticks.
Then in the back of my head, I hear. "It has been said to love your friends. But don't even jerks do that? I say – Love your enemies and those who think differently than you."
In the middle of describing various tax codes he looked at me and said, "Are you following me, here?"
I said, Well, I'm a writer, so I'm not familiar with a lot of this, but I think I'm with you. I'm learning as you talk.
He said, "Oh, a writer. I tried that road once. I tried to do nothing, because my doctor and wife told me I was going to die if I didn't slow down. So I stopped working and sat on the couch all day. But how much Jerry Springer can you watch, right?"
Right. Well, maybe your doctor didn't mean for you to go from 100 to 0. Maybe she just wanted you to cruise at 50. Also, as a writer, I don't do nothing. But you're right, I have found a way to live without so much stress.
"Right, right, that's not what I meant," he said.
I know, I said. Stay open, the Something said. Stay open. Ride this out.
At one point the man took a breath, looked sideways at me and said, "You're a liberal, aren't you."
I said, I try not to label myself, because I don't want to shut down conversations. Right now I'm just a person trying to understand you.
"Oh you're definitely a liberal," he said.
When he started back in on non-profits and how they were all money grubbing thieves, I said,You know, I run a group like a non-profit, and we give back 100 percent of what we raise. No overhead. We all work for free.
He raised his eyebrow and didn't respond for a minute.
He looked out the airplane window. He was remembering something. His tirade stopped. His voice changed a little.
Then he turned back and said, "I haven't given a penny away for fifteen years. I used to. Every Christmas I used to buy ten turkeys and deliver them to the homeless shelter myself. But I don't do that anymore. I don't give anything away anymore."
What changed? I said.
He looked out the window again and I thought- HERE we go. HERE we go- here comes the real stuff. Here politics die and the person behind them introduces himself.
Scruffy angry man said, "When my daughter was little, we left a candle burning in our house and the whole house burned down. With all of our things. We had nothing. We lived in our car for seven months with our daughter and no one reached out to help us. Not our neighbors, not our families, friends. Not even our church. No one."
God. That must have been awful.
"It was. But I eventually found work and I pulled us out of there on my own."
That's amazing. Still. Don't you wish someone had reached out to you?
"Well, they didn't."
I know, but doesn't a part of you really wish they had?
"No. We're fine. I pulled us out of there and I turned out perfectly fine."
Here is where I couldn't help but stop the conversation and give scruffy angry man my face. I can't describe it so here it is. I used to be able to appear much more skeptical but you know, all the Botox.
"What??" He said defensively. Then he laughed. "What?"
You're perfectly fine? Not a teeny bit hard hearted, friend?
Scruffy man laughed again. Hard this time. Hard enough that his whole body shook again.Thank you. baby Jesus, I thought.
"Maybe a little," he said, "Maybe a little."
I walked through this heavenly door of laughter and I told him that I was glad he'd told me his story. I told him that I usually did lean to the left and so I didn't often have a chance to hear the stories of folks on the other side. I told him I understood a lot of where he was coming from, and I do. Being a small business owner, from my friend Tim's point of view, is a very tough gig these days, and maybe always.
"I'm not a bad guy.They are always making me out to be a bad guy. I'm not."
I know, I said. I'm one of the "theys," most days, and I don't think you're a bad guy.
Then I asked if he'd do me a favor. I told him that I'd keep his story in my head and heart if he'd consider changing one teeny part of the way he spoke. The alls. The mosts. I told him the generalizations were killing me. All the poor, Most of the non-profits, all the democrats, every single liberal. It discredits you a little, I said. Weakens your arguments.
Then I told him about the poor people who were the parents of the kids at the school where I taught. How many of them worked 24 hours straight and then came into my classroom, blurry-eyed, to hear about the children for whom they'd sacrificed everything.
Illegals? He said.
No, friend. Or maybe so. But do you understand what I'm saying? We can't say all or most. We just can't.
He nodded. "I hear you. I'll stop saying all. But I might stick with most."
Okay, I said. A compromise. I love compromises.
Then he said, "Give me the name of your non-profit. I'll look it up."
I squealed and clapped like a seal. He rolled his eyes and stuck his finger down his throat like he was gagging. But it was definitely an affectionate gag.
As I wrote our website on his work folder, I told him about our Love Flash Mobs. About how we send money to hurting people to let them know we care.
He said, "Why the hell do you send them money? Why money?"
It's not about the money. It's about what the money represents- love, care for a stranger, sacrifice.
More gagging. "How much you send them?"
Last time we raised 80 thousand dollars in six hours. All kinds of people gave. Conservatives, liberals. People like you. Actually, I don't know if there are any other people like you.
Laughter and huge eyes. "80k? And you gave it all away??
Yep. I know.
"Well, if it's not about the money, you should just send them a card. Have all your "people" sign it and send a goddamn card. I'll even give you $2.50 for the card. I wouldnta done that before this conversation, I'll tell you that. I don't get you, but the world needs people like you and your monks or whatever the hell you call them."
I looked at him and said – I wish we were around when you were stuck in your car.
"Well you weren't, and we were fine."
I know, I still wish though.
Then I went in for the love kill.
Look at us, friend. We did it. We made it through two hours. I learned a little about you, you learned a little about me. The rightiest and the leftiest. Maybe in the whole WORLD. We didn't yell, You taught me a lot.
"You taught me a little."
I'll take it. Tim, can I get a picture?
"No. hell no. You're just gonna put it on that Mama's Tree of yours."
True. That's what I was going to do. Well let me at least shoot this, so I can prove this really happened. That the rightest right man and the leftiest left girl sat together on a plane and said all of our things and learned from each other. And made friends.
Tim said – "I've never made friends with a goddamn liberal before."
I am proud to be your first goddamn liberal friend, Tim. And I want you to know that I can see how upset you are about your company, and this upcoming meeting, and the country, and I'm rooting for you. Just treat them like people, not issues, Tim. And you must start sleeping more. And you gotta quit smoking, Tim. We've gotta take you down 6 million notches.
"I know. You're right," he said."Good luck with your book and all of your giving people's hard earned money away."
Thank you Tim, I appreciate it.
"Write down your book's name too. I'm going to order it as soon as it comes out."
Thank you, Tim. I hope you like it.
And then we HUGGED. We HUGGED.
On the cab ride home I thought: our world views usually come from the world we've experienced, not from the goodness of our hearts. If you've experienced the world as loving and generous – that is how you will live, in abundance. But if you've experienced the world as uncaring and cold, then it only makes sense that you will continue to live with that world view.
It's really why we need to take care of each other. Listen to each other. Undig our heels. Surprise each other. We really do.
Tim- thank you for teaching me so much. You are in my prayers. For real. Not just saying that.
Love and Peace,
Glennon- the goddamn liberal from Mama's Tree
Post Script: Tim reached out to me and we've exchanged emails. He wasn't sure whether he liked this article or not, but his wife loved it and laughed her way through it. She said she couldn't believe he told me about their house fire, because he'd never told anyone before. Tim asked for my address so he could send Monkee See -Monkee Do some cash. It was his first donation since the fire. I still send Twitter prayers for Tim daily.
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Rep. Tom Price of Georgia has decided not to run for leadership in the wake of Eric Cantor's pending resignation as majority leader.
Price said Thursday he's focused on succeeding Rep. Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., atop the Budget Committee.
"The encouragement I've received from colleagues over these past couple of days has been humbling," he said. "My position has always been that I'm ready to serve in whatever capacity might best help unify our team, promote our conservative principles and, above all, pursue positive solutions on behalf of our constituents. To that end, at this time, my focus is on the opportunity to serve as the next chairman of the House Budget Committee."
Cantor's resignation has set off a massive leadership scramble for power ahead of a June 19 vote to replace him.
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Don't forget we are in this together
Since the 1980s we have heard much about 'leadership'; its impact on organizations and being a valued and rare quality. Countless numbers of books, articles, research projects, seminars and papers have been devoted to this subject. A Google search of the term leadership will yield 147 million hits. Must be important!
A lesser known area related to leadership is followership, which is simply defined as the willingness of people to follow a leader. A Google search will yield 767,000 hits, which suggests that not too many people get excited about the notion of followership.
There is another even lesser known area related to leadership, which is communityship. A Google search will yield 4,860 hits for the term communityship.
Communityship is a term coined by Henry Mintzberg, a professor, McGill University in Quebec, in his work during the mid-2000s. Communityship views organizations as communities, social communities that require respect, trust, integrity and more from management to be successful.
Unfortunately, according to Mintzberg, leadership has somehow become separate from or superior to management. This view creates an artificial distinction that companies cannot afford.
Companies succeed, fail or muddle along as a team of people, a social entity, not as a resource pool waiting for wisdom from high, i.e. the 'leader'.
Leaders must be engaged, authentic, trustworthy and respectful of people on their team, as part of the work community, and not as a separate part in their role as leader. They must convey the credibility of their position through their actions and words. Leaders must work as part of and not over the community at work.
Employees will engage and give the extra measure when they sense sincerity on the part of higher management. Simply put, they perceive that "we are in this together." Yes, vision and guidance are needed; decisions have to be made.
The balance between guiding, being part of the work community, versus overseeing, from afar, is especially challenging in today's era of management by spreadsheet.
It is easy to defer to spreadsheet math to drive decision making. Employees know this and can sense when management is part of their community or conveying decisions driven by a spreadsheet. Leadership is not an individual; it is a collective. Today's leaders must act from being within the organization not above it.
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Popular tuna brands recalled for improperly sealed cans
- Contamination is possible
- Consumers are advised to discard the tuna
- Companies welcome calls from consumers
If you have stocked up on canned tuna in the past couple of months, check your cupboards: Some cans of Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea tuna have been recalled because the cans were improperly sealed, manufacturers say.
Update:Tuna recall expands to more than 3 million cans
No illnesses have been reported, the companies say. But "loose seals or seams could result in product contamination by spoilage organisms or pathogens and lead to illness if consumed," according to a statement from Bumble Bee Foods posted by the Food and Drug Administration. Tri-Union Seafoods, which makes Chicken of the Sea, released a nearly identical statement.
The Bumble Bee recall includes 5-ounce cans of chunk white albacore and chunk light tuna. The cans carry specific codes, included in the news release. Some were sold under the Brunswick brand. All were distributed to retailers nationwide between Jan. 17 and Feb. 28 and carry best-by dates ranging from Jan. 16, 2016, to Jan. 18, 2016.
The recall covers about 22,500 cases of tuna packed in Bumble Bee's California plant, the company says.
The Chicken of the Sea recall covers certain lots of 5-ounce chunk white albacore sold at retailers nationwide between Feb. 4 and Feb. 27. Code numbers are in the company's press release. The best-by date on all the cans is Jan. 18, 2017.
Both companies say consumers should discard the recalled tuna and can call them with questions. The number for Chicken of the Sea is (800) 597-5898. The Bumble Bee number is (800) 800-8572.


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We offer a variety of options for students interested in teaching a world language (WLT), including initial WLT certification, a cross-endorsement program for certification in WLT, a graduate WLT certification program for students holding bachelor's degrees, and a WLT certification program for individuals currently employed in Connecticut with a Durational Shortage Application Permit (DSAPs).
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As April- Autism Awareness Month- draws to a close, I wanted to share a presentation I made this weekend in Florida at NOVA Southeastern University, sponsored by the Florida DOE and the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD). The focus of the presentation was technology resources (web-based and iOS) that are dedicated to or can be "re-purposed" for use with the population of students with autism at various levels of functioning. One goal of the presentation was to place technology resources in context of intervention programs helpful for this population. Along with Dr. Robin Parker and Dr. Marlene Sotelo, we also ran an informal "App Smackdown" in which participants shared apps that they have found helpful for students with autism. The presentation is embedded below, and a link to a supporting weblist is here, and the apps shared during the smackdown here. I hope you find it helpful!
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Sean J. Sweeney, M.S., M.Ed., CCC-SLP, an SLP, instructional technology specialist and consultant, works in private practice at The Ely Center in Newton, Massachusetts. He is the author of the blog SpeechTechie, a contributor to the ASHA Leader, and recently took on a role as Product Development Manager for Smarty Ears Apps.


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The University also encourages participation by the community in its programs and activities. To the extent that space is available and subject to reasonable charges and procedures for reservations, the University welcomes organizations to campus for their meetings when their work is compatible with or supplementary to this educational outreach of differing ideas and issues. The University further recognizes the benefits of an orderly process of inquiry and discussion of differing ideas and issues. Contact Student Development for additional information.


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The Getty Research Institute Announces 1999-2000 Getty Scholars
September 7, 1999
LOS ANGELES--This month, the Getty Research Institute welcomes another outstanding group of scholars and artists from around the world to the Getty Center. These Getty Scholars have been invited based upon the significance of their work in relation to the 1999-2000 research theme, "Humanities in Comparative, Historical Perspective," which focuses on the development of art history as a discipline in the context of the humanities. Individual research projects range from the study of Vasari's art-historical writings in the 16th century to the 20th-century writings of Edgar Wind on the Sistine Ceiling; from early German interpretations of Raphael to 20th-century discourses on Jewish art; from medieval church architecture to avant-garde art.
"We look forward to welcoming the new Getty Scholars this year," says Deborah Marrow, interim director of the Getty Research Institute. "Their presence at the Getty Center, combined with their interaction with Getty staff and local colleagues, will contribute a vital and dynamic dimension to our examination of the history of art history in its humanistic context."
Adds Michael S. Roth, associate director of the Research Institute, "In this scholar year, we will be thinking about how research on the visual arts has proceeded in the past and how it has been enriched--or not--by work in the humanities generally. We expect that what we find will bear upon ongoing debates about the purpose and value of the visual arts and of the humanities."
Joining the Getty Scholars at the Research Institute will be six predoctoral and postdoctoral Fellows--now in the second year of their fellowships--and 27 Visiting Scholars who will be in residence for shorter periods of time. This year's residential scholars are from Europe, North America, and Asia; the majority of them are art historians, but other disciplines represented include archaeology, history, literature, and philosophy.
Scholars in residence at the Research Institute will pursue their individual projects while sharing their ideas with one another in a weekly seminar. Throughout the year there will be frequent public lectures and events--creating opportunities for interaction among resident scholars, Getty staff, and the Los Angeles community.
In addition, Getty Scholars will have an opportunity to interact with other scholars who have received Getty Library Research Grants. These grants provide short-term support to scholars whose independent projects, which need not relate to the research theme of the year, would benefit from material in the collections at the Getty Research Library. Approximately 20 grants will be awarded throughout the academic year.
Scholars and Fellows will utilize the Getty Research Library, one of the largest art and architecture libraries in the world with nearly 800,000 volumes in its general collections. Special collections include manuscripts, rare books, prints, photographs, and archival materials, with particular strength in the history of art history. Other research materials are available at neighboring institutions, including the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, and the Los Angeles Public Library.
Since 1985, more than 300 scholars, artists, architects, composers, filmmakers, and writers have been in residence at the Getty Research Institute. They have come from two dozen countries and include many of the world's most dynamic and respected cultural experts. Themes of past scholar years include "Time and Ritual in Antiquity," "Perspectives on Los Angeles: Narratives, Images, History," and "Representing the Passions."
The theme of academic year 2000-2001 will be "Reproductions and Originals." For the first time since the residential scholar program began, Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants as well as predoctoral and postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded through an open application process. Applications are welcome from scholars whose projects look at the study and experience of art from any part of the world in relation to technologies of reproduction--from the casting of bronzes in antiquity to photography in the last century and digitization today.
For more information, visit http://www.getty.edu/research/scholars/index.html, or call (310) 440-7392.
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David Carrier is a professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He has written numerous publications in aesthetics and art history, including Artwriting (1987), Principles of Art History Writing (1991), Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology (1993), and High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernism (1996). He will study how the changing nature of museums and art history departments has affected art historical arguments.
Timothy James Clark is a professor in the department of history of art at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-51 (1973), Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (1973), The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (1985), and Farewell to an Idea (1999). He will conduct research on avant-garde art in New York and Paris from the late 1950s.
Heinrich Dilly is a professor of art history at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. His publications include Kunstgeschichte als Institution: Studien zur Geschichte einer Disziplin (1979), (edited) Altmeister moderner Kunstgeschichte (1989), and Ging Cézanne ins Kino? (1996). He is working on a bio-bibliography of art historians and studying the international and interdisciplinary development of art historiography in the early 20th century.
Lydia Goehr is a professor of philosophy at Columbia University. Her books include The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (1992) and The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy (1998). She is currently writing Unresolved Endings: Saying, Showing, and Singing in Modern Opera, a set of philosophical essays on modernist operas.
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is a professor in the department of art at Princeton University. His books include The School of Prague: Painting at the Court of Rudolf II (1988), The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance (1993), and Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800 (1995). He will write about the geography of art, a book on art-historical writings before Winckelmann, and a study of art in the Low Countries in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
Donata Levi is an associate professor of art history at the Università di Pisa in Italy. Her published work includes Giovan Battista Cavalcaselle: Il pioniere della conservazione dell'arte italiana (1988), (edited) L. Lanzi, Il taccuino veneto 1793-94 (1988); and, written with P. Tucker, Ruskin didatta. Il disegno tra disciplina e diletto (1997). She will continue writing her book provisionally titled The "Art of the Past" and its Uses: The Art Market and Museums in Great Britain and Italy in the Nineteenth Century.
Robert S. Nelson is a professor in the department of art history and chair of the Committee on the History of Culture at the University of Chicago. His publications include Theodore Hagiopetrites, A Late Byzantine Scribe and Illuminator (1991); (co-edited) Critical Terms for Art History (1996); "The Map of Art History," Art Bulletin (1997); and "Taxation with Representation: Visual Narrative and the Political Field of the Kariye Camii," Art History (1999). He will pursue his work on Byzantine art and the history and practice of art history—focusing in particular on the church of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople.
Margaret R. Olin is an associate professor at the department of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her publications include Forms of Representation in Alois Riegl's Theory of Art (1992); "Lanzmann's Shoah and the Topography of the Holocaust Film," Representations 57 (1997); and "From Bezal'el to Max Liebermann: Jewish Art in Nineteenth Century Art Historical Texts," in Jewish Identity in Art History: Ethnicity and Discourse (1999). Her current work focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of art making and the art historical discipline. She will complete a study of discourses about the concept of Jewish art in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Ernst Osterkamp is a professor at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Among his publications are Lucifer: Stationen eines Motivs (1979), Im Buchstabenbilde: Studien zum Verfahren Goethescher Bildbeschreibungen (1991), and Rudolf Borchardt und seine Zeitgenossen (1997). His current project focuses on the German cult of Raphael: its emergence and course, its effect on art, literature, and philosophy, its cultural and historical manifestations, and its cultural and ideological functions.
Erika Rummel is an associate professor at the department of history at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. She is the author of many publications, among them Erasmus and His Catholic Critics (1989), The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation (1995), and (edited) Erasmus on Women (1996). She will be studying Renaissance controversies resulting from conflicting cultural assumptions and biases, such as anti-Semitism and colonialism.
Elizabeth Sears is an associate professor at the department of history of art at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle (1986), "The Iconography of Auditory Perception in the Early Middle Ages" (1990), and "Ivory and Ivory Works in Medieval Paris" (1997). Her current projects include an edition of the published and unpublished writings of Edgar Wind about the Sistine Ceiling, a co-edited anthology titled Reading Medieval Images: The Art Historian and the Object, and several articles.
Catherine M. Soussloff is a professor of art history and Patricia and Rowland Rebele Chair in Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among her publications are The Absolute Artist: The Historiography of a Concept (1997) and Jewish Identity in Modern Art History (1999). Currently she is preparing a book titled After Aesthetics: Visual Representation in the Late Twentieth Century, an investigation of the history of some of the discursive conditions pertaining to the interpretation of visual culture today: media theory, feminism, and Jewish identity. Other projects include Gianlorenzo Bernini: The Lives of the Artist and Their Histories and several articles.
Completing the second year of their two-year residencies are six predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows:
Elspeth Brown, a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Department at Yale University, is studying the uses of photographic technology in rationalizing modern subjectivity in America. In her dissertation "Taylorized Bodies: Work, Photography, and Consumer Culture in America, 1890-1930" she is exploring how photography was used at the turn of the century by scientific managers and industrial psychologists to manufacture or control certain emotions in the work force. She is also investigating the role of the photographic image in advertising and the emerging mass consumer culture.
Francesco de Angelis of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Rome studies the representation of myths in classical art. He is currently focusing on the significance of mythological images in the funerary art of Hellenistic Northern Etruria. He received his degree in classics from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa with a thesis titled "La Periegesi di Pausania: il viaggio in Grecia e la fruizione delle opere d'arte nel II sec. d.C."
Otniel E. Dror received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. His dissertation, "Modernity and the Scientific Study of Emotions, 1880-1950," studies the transformation of emotions into biomedical objects of knowledge in late 19th- through mid-20th-century Anglo-American science. He plans to expand his history of the science of passion and explore further associations between emotions, science, technology, and art.
Stefan Jonsson, an independent scholar and writer from Stockholm, Sweden, received his Ph.D. from Duke University with a dissertation "Subject Without Nation: Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity." He has written numerous works about German literature, cultural theory, and postcolonial literature and culture. He will be revising his dissertation for publication and beginning a project titled "The Passions of the Crowd: Theories of Fascism and Mass Insanity Between the Wars."
Juliet Koss is a Ph.D. candidate in art history in the department of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She will be completing her dissertation "Empathy and Estrangement in German and Russian Modernism," a project in the history of aesthetic theory which touches upon architecture, the visual arts, and theater. She is interested in the founding in 1908 of the Munich Artists' Theater on the basis of empathy theory and the views of Mikhail Bakhtin and Bertolt Brecht on empathy and estrangement. By focusing upon these quintessential emotions of modernism she will construct a history of shifting models of spectatorship in early 20th-century aesthetics.
Yue Meng is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation, "The Invention of Shanghai: Passages of Cultural Enterprises from Jiangnan, 1860-1930," reflects her long-term interest in 19th- and early 20th-century urban culture in China--—especially scientific, literary, theatrical, material, and print cultures in Jingnan and Shanghai. She is particularly interested in the theatrical culture of China from 1750 to 1930 and in the rise of Chinese opera theaters.
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BioWare Responds To Mass Effect 3 Endings
[Update] Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson has issued the following statement on Mass Effect 3's endings:
There's been a lot of discussion and debate about the conclusion of Mass Effect 3, so I thought I'd share my perspective with you here. I'll avoid outright spoilers, but I'd still recommend finishing the game and experiencing it for yourself before reading this.
For the last eight years, Mass Effect has been a labor of love for our team; love for the characters we've created, for the medium of video games, and for the fans that have supported us. For us and for you, Mass Effect 3 had to live up to a lot of expectations, not only for a great gaming experience, but for a resolution to the countless storylines and decisions you've made as a player since the journey began in 2007. So we designed Mass Effect 3 to be a series of endings to key plots and storylines, each culminating in scenes that show you the consequences of your actions. You then carry the knowledge of these consequences with you as you complete the final moments of your journey.
We always intended that the scale of the conflict and the underlying theme of sacrifice would lead to a bittersweet ending—to do otherwise would betray the agonizing decisions Shepard had to make along the way. Still, we wanted to give players the chance to experience an inspiring and uplifting ending; in a story where you face a hopeless struggle for basic survival, we see the final moments and imagery as offering victory and hope in the context of sacrifice and reflection.
We've had some incredibly positive reactions to Mass Effect 3, from the New York Times declaring it "a gripping, coherent triumph", to Penny Arcade calling it "an amazing accomplishment", to emails and tweets from players who have given us the most profound words of appreciation we've ever received.
But we also recognize that some of our most passionate fans needed more closure, more answers, and more time to say goodbye to their stories—and these comments are equally valid. Player feedback such as this has always been an essential ingredient in the development of the series.
I am extremely proud of what this team has accomplished, from the first art concepts for the Mass Effect universe to the final moments of Mass Effect 3. But we didn't do it on our own. Over the course of the series, Mass Effect has been a shared experience between the development team and our fans—not just a shared experience in playing the games, but in designing and developing them. An outpouring of love for Garrus and Tali led to their inclusion as love interests in Mass Effect 2. A request for deeper RPG systems led to key design changes in Mass Effect 3. Your feedback has always mattered. Mass Effect is a collaboration between developers and players, and we continue to listen.
So where do we go from here? Throughout the next year, we will support Mass Effect 3 by working on new content. And we'll keep listening, because your insights and constructive feedback will help determine what that content should be. This is not the last you'll hear of Commander Shepard.
We look forward to your continued support and involvement as we work together to shape the remaining experiences in the story of the Mass Effect trilogy.
Thanks for taking this journey with us.
Casey Hudson
[Original Story] Following fan outrage and a number of online petitions, BioWare said today it will discuss the endings to Mass Effect 3 in due time.
BioWare said its listening to what fans are saying and are waiting until more people finish the game. "We appreciate everyone's feedback about Mass Effect 3 and want you to know that we are listening," BioWare community manager Chris Priestly wrote on the official forums.
"Active discussions about the ending are more than welcome here, and the team will be reviewing it for feedback and responding when we can. Please note, we want to give people time to experience the game so while we can't get into specifics right now, we will be able to address some of your questions once more people have had time to complete the game.
"In the meantime, we'd like to ask that you keep the non-spoiler areas of our forums and our social media channels spoiler free. We understand there is a lot of debate on the Mass Effect 3 ending and we will be more than happy to engage in healthy discussions once more people get to experience the game.
"We are listening to all of your feedback."
[Source: BioWare]


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The Louisiana Natural Heritage Program is the lead state program for the identification, ranking, and conservation of Louisiana's rare species and native natural communities. Since the program's inception in 1984, our staff botanists have compiled data for the list of rare plant species from various sources such as herbarium specimens, scientific literature, reports from expert and amateur botanists, and extensive surveys conducted by program staff. While this database is quite extensive, there are still many natural areas in Louisiana that have not been surveyed. New plant records are continuously being added to the database, and current records are updated as new information becomes available. Over the past two decades, rare plant identification and mapping by the Louisiana Natural Heritage Program has been instrumental in the creation of numerous conservation areas around Louisiana such as the Lake Ramsey and Tunica Hills Wildlife Management Areas and the CC Road Savanna Preserve owned by The Nature Conservancy of Louisiana, to name just a few.
Our listing of the Rare Plant Species of Louisiana, identifies those native plant species that are currently considered among Louisiana's rarest and most in need of conservation efforts. The purpose of this report is to provide the public with a listing of the rare plant species in Louisiana and their current rarity status, to solicit further information and input concerning these species, and to promote conservation of these species.
The list is arranged alphabetically by scientific name with associated common name. The state and global rarity ranks are listed in the third and fourth columns, respectively, with the fifth column containing wetland code. Explanations of these rankings and codes may be found following the listing of species. The sixth column provides a listing of parishes where each plant species is currently found, and the final column describes the natural community types for each species.
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In the Concourse Gallery, don't miss two works from the permanent collection which were installed in conjunction with the exhibition Fiberart International.
Nofreelunch Basket (2000), woven from willow and waxed string, is by American artist John McQueen, who has been credited with the contemporary revival of basketry. Stop and pick out the text that he has incorporated into the work, which director Grant Holcomb includes in his cell phone tour of the collection. Listen and learn
Not far away hangs Umbra 18 (1932) by distinguished Colombian fiber artist Olga de Amaral. In this work (pictured at right) she has pieced together thousands of tiny gessoed cloth tiles covered in gold leaf. Writes the artist, "Fiber is just fiber. Gold can show blood, pain, patriotism, mysticism, things that fiber alone cannot express."


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Glimpses of the World of Mathematics
The Möbius Band and Other Topological Surfaces
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Graph Theory and the Bridges of Königsberg
Orbits and Fixed Points
The Square Root of 2 and Other Irrational Numbers
Symmetries in Geometry
The Chaos Game
Complex Numbers
Operations from Another World
Population Models: Periodicity and Chaos
What Can I Do with Math?
Julia Sets
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Logic, Truth and Language
Continued Fractions
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Jamie Dimon's Pay Cut Worse Than Expected, But He Still Gets $11.5 Million
As J.P. Morgan prepared in recent weeks to release reports detailing internal failures that led to its $6.2 billion 'London Whale' trading losses and the bank's response, numbers circulated about how much CEO James Dimon's pay would be cut.
Rumors had it at 25-30%, or a cut to about $15 million from $23 million, and those numbers turned up in some publications.
So when the board announced early Wednesday that the pay cut was actually 50% to $11.5 million, it sure seemed severe.
Still, Dimon is getting a $1.5 million salary and a $10 million bonus.For what it's worth the bank did report record 2012 earnings.
On a conference call with media members, Dimon said little about his pay other than he "respects" the board's decision and that it was their call.


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The FBI probed a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee that involved drinking, numerous GOP freshmen lawmakers, top leadership staff — and one nude member of Congress, according to more than a dozen sources, including eyewitnesses.
During a fact-finding congressional trip to the Holy Land last summer, Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) took off his clothes and jumped into the sea, joining a number of members, their families and GOP staff during a night out in Israel, the sources told POLITICO. Other participants, including the daughter of another congressman, swam fully clothed, while some lawmakers partially disrobed. More than 20 people took part in the late-night dip in the sea, according to sources who were participants in the trip.Continue Reading
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"A year ago, my wife, Brooke, and I joined colleagues for dinner at the Sea of Galilee in Israel. After dinner I followed some Members of Congress in a spontaneous and very brief dive into the sea and regrettably I jumped into the water without a swimsuit," Yoder said in a statement to POLITICO. "It is my greatest honor to represent the people of Kansas in Congress and [for] any embarrassment I have caused for my colleagues and constituents, I apologize."
Travis Smith, Yoder's chief of staff, told POLITICO "Neither Congressman Yoder, nor his staff, have been interviewed by the FBI."
These GOP sources confirmed the following freshmen lawmakers also went swimming that night: Rep. Steve Southerland (R-Fla.) and his daughter; Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) and his wife; Reps. Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.), Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) and Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.). Many of the lawmakers who ventured into the lake said they did so because of the religious significance of the waters. Others said they were simply cooling off after a long day. Several privately admitted that alcohol may have played a role in why some of those present decided to jump in.
(PHOTOS: When congressmen go wild)
The Sea of Galilee, a Christian holy site, is where Jesus is said in the Bible to have walked on water.
The FBI looked into whether any inappropriate behavior occurred, but the interviews do not appear to have resulted in any formal allegations of wrongdoing.
But Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who was the senior most GOP lawmaker in Israel on the trip, was so upset about the antics that he rebuked the 30 lawmakers the morning after the Aug. 18, 2011, incident, saying they were distracting from the mission of the trip.
Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was also on the privately funded excursion, which means two of the three top House Republicans were a part of this trip. Neither Cantor nor McCarthy went swimming that night, the sources said. Some of their staff did.
The account of that August 2011 night in Israel was pieced together for the first time by POLITICO based on interviews with more than a dozen sources, including eyewitnesses, as well as public records of the trip.
A Cantor spokesman confirmed that the majority leader dressed down his Republican colleagues and that a staffer was later interviewed by FBI agents.
"Twelve months ago, [Cantor] dealt with this immediately and effectively to ensure such activities would not take place in the future," said Doug Heye, Cantor's deputy chief of staff.Continue Reading
Heye added: "Last year, a staffer was contacted by the Bureau [FBI], which had several questions, the staffer answered those questions and that appears to have been the end of it."


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"On the River" - Mixed Media - 9 1/4" x 10 1/4"
This post is purely selfish. It's been four years now since I lost my Dad and I think about him every day. He taught me how to work hard, what it means to be honest and loyal, how to have faith, never said I shouldn't be an artist and he taught me how to fish. On our numerous trips to Montana or wherever, he would put me in the "best hole on the river" while he headed up stream or down, invariably returning with a creel full of trout. He would be dismayed if I hadn't caught a fish or two of my own and would casually throw in a line and hook one right under my nose. Of course this never failed to upset me. Once, as we arrived at a fresh hole together, he had a worm in the water before I could cross the fence. Exasperated, I complained that he "always did that to me" and "why can't you ever let me catch one first". He laughed, reeled in, and coached me where to toss my worm in. Sure enough, I felt a nibble, then a tug and the fight was on. After quite a battle Dad deftly scooped my trophy brown trout into the net. I was all smiles and Dad got a tickle out of seeing me with that nearly a five pounder, so fat with a big hook jaw. It was the biggest brown I had ever caught- before or since.
I am grateful Dad that you let me catch that fish. I am sure you would have caught it if I hadn't said something, so someday, when I get to that big fishing hole in the sky, please have a pole waiting for me. 'Till then, keep your hook wet- I love you Dad.


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Docter was an All-Ivy League second team and Academic All-Ivy selection in 2011 (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Rising senior Taylor Docter has been voted by her teammates as captain of the women's volleyball team for the 2012 season.
Docter was an All-Ivy League second team honoree in 2011 after ranking eighth in the conference in kills per set (3.05), and seventh in both aces (0.27) and points per set (3.52). Docter also averaged 1.72 dps on the defensive side of the net and recorded three double-doubles, finishing her year with career-highs in kills, attempts, hitting percentage and digs. Earlier this week Docter was named to the Academic All-Ivy League team.
"Taylor has been an impact player since her freshmen season," Head Coach Jen Weiss commented. "She came in this preseason in great shape and ready to work hard. As a second team All-Ivy outside hitter, she led our team in points scored and kills per set. She has a natural ability to lead and her peers respect her on and off the court. Taylor's composure on court has been tremendous this year and I look forward to her leading the team."
Docter is the 59th captain in program history, and the first individual to serve as captain since current assistant Suzie Trimble '08 did so in 2007. She replaces seniors Sandra Lynne-Fryhofer and Christine Wu who served as co-captains for the 2011 season.


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Kitchen Witch Table Talks,
Episode 8: Spend Time in Nature
Advice for Beginners Series
In this episode, I discuss the importance of getting out in nature and spending time in nature a part of your regular practice.
Nature is an eloquent teacher and connecting to nature is monumental to gaining an understanding of your Pagan path. There are a variety of ways you can get yourself connected to nature. You don't have to live in a rural area or near large parks. Find a location that resonates with you and spend as much time there as you can.
Perhaps your area for connecting to nature is a short trail behind your office, or in a small local park. Maybe it is sitting under your favorite tree listening to the birds sing. Perhaps you are fortunate enough to live in a rural area, and you have access to a forest you can explore. Look around for your resources and make an effort to spend time in nature every day.
There is a world of knowledge out there for you to explore and absorb. Take it slowly and make it fun.
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I love food and everything that goes with it. I have spent more than 35 years in the kitchen, enjoying every minute of it. Okay… well, enjoying nearly every minute of it.
In addition, I have disbursed nearly as many years studying Wicca, Witchcraft, and Paganism. Combining these two interests has created a Magickal path where food, spirituality play brilliantly together.
My love of whole healthy foods, and unique recipes has also lead me to help run a local teen cooking program, where I teach kids valuable life skills in the kitchen. In addition, I teach different cooking classes for adults on subjects of making the time spent in the kitchen more enjoyable and efficient, recipe creation, and how to make cooking a part of your Magickal and spiritual practice.
From this, The Magick Kitchen was born. My journey with you is about developing a spiritual experience with food, far beyond the dull habit of consumption. We have a marvelous opportunity here to take a most basic-mundane task and make it Magickal!
Please enjoy the recipes, article, and content here on The Magick Kitchen. If you have questions or suggestions, I'm listening.
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Peter Bjorn and John formed in 1999 in Stockholm, Sweden, comprising members Peter Morén on vocals, guitar, and harmonica; Björn Yttling on vocals, bass, and keyboards; and John Eriksson on drums, percussion, and vocals. Although influenced by the sounds of classic '60s baroque pop, power pop, and new wave, the band shunned the "revivalist" tag and, instead, created some of the most exciting and original indie rock of the mid-2000s.
Peter Bjorn and John began playing gigs soon after forming and eventually found themselves on music compilations alongside artists like Sahara Hotnights, Badly Drawn Boy, and Holiday for Strings. After releasing the Forbidden Chords EP and a pair of singles ("Failing and Passing" and "I Don't Know What I Want Us to Do"), the band released its self-titled first album in 2002 on the tiny Beat That! label. After more shows, more EPs (People They Know, 100m of Hurdles), and another single ("See Through"), the group jumped to the Planekonomi label in 2004 and released the Beats, Traps & Backgrounds EP. It was soon followed by the 2004 album Falling Out, which was picked up for American release by Hidden Agenda in late 2005. The record placed them -- along with the Concretes, the Shout Out Louds (both of whom Yttling has produced records for), and the Legends -- at the forefront of the sparkling wave of promising pop bands coming from Sweden.
The band's third album, Writer's Block, followed a year later and became a minor international hit, buoyed by the catchy single "Young Folks." The song's video also boosted the band's profile, gently propelling Peter Bjorn and John into a very 2000s kind of fame that culminated in them playing the tune with Kanye West at the 2007 Way Out West Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden. After completing various tours in support of Writer's Block, the band focused on other projects (including Yttling's production work and Morén's 2008 solo album, The Last Tycoon) before coming together to record and release a largely instrumental album, Seaside Rock, in the autumn of 2008. Living Thing, the band's darker, more experimental fourth full-length album, was released several months later in early 2009. In 2011, Peter Bjorn and John returned to their melodic pop roots with the decidedly more accessible Gimme Some.
After that album's release, the trio members once again went their separate way and worked on a wide variety of projects. Morén released a solo album in 2012, the Swedish-language Pyramiden; Yttling maintained his busy production career, working with Chrissie Hynde and Lykke Li most notably; and Eriksson released two albums under the name Hortlax Cobra. Inevitably, the trio regrouped and went into the studio to record its seventh album, calling in collaborators like Patrik Berger (Icona Pop, Robyn), Paul Epworth (Florence + the Machine, U2), Greg Kurstin (Sia, Adele), Emile Haynie (Lana Del Rey, Kanye West), and Pontus Winnberg (Miike Snow) to help out. Breakin' Point was released by INGRID in June of 2016. ~ Tim Sendra
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The chemical study of archaeological materials
Archaeological Chemistry, Second Edition is about the application of the chemical sciences to the study of ancient man and his material activities. The text of the book centers on the use of chemical methods, but also refers to the contributions of physics, biology, and genetics to archaeological research.
Subjects discussed in the book include the determination of the nature of ancient materials, their provenance and age, the technologies used for the production of man–made materials, and the analysis of ancient human and animal remains (such as bone, dried blood, and coprolites), which yields information on ancient diets, kinship, habitancy, and migratory patterns.
New developments in analytical chemistry and in related disciplines, which have contributed to archaeological research since the first edition of the book was published, are dealt with in this edition, which also includes:
Updated information on the study of the nature, age, and provenance of ancient materials
New sections on organic, biological and genetic studies
Extensive bibliography
The book is intended primarily for archaeologists, physical anthropologists and students of archaeology and physical anthropology, but will also be of use to conservators, curators, and art historians. Natural scientists reading it will become acquainted with advances in archaeological research which were made possible only by the application of chemical, physical, and biological methods and techniques.
a. The chemical elements.
b. Minerals and mineraloids.
c. Rock and stone.
d. The study of archaeological stone.
e. The chemical analysis of archaeological materials.
f. The provenance of archaeological materials.
g. The chronology of archaeological materials.
h. Pigments.
i. Abrasives.
j. Gemstones.
i. Cutting and polishing gemstones.
2. Lithics: Flint and obsidian.
a. Quartz and flint.
b. Obsidian.
c. Use wear analysis.
3. Sand: glass, glaze, enamel.
a. Glass, glaze and enamel.
b. Glass.
c. Glassmaking.
d. Ancient glass studies.
e. The decay of glass.
4. Secondary rocks: building stone, brick, cement, mortar.
a. Building stone.
b. Cement.
c. The study of ancient cements.
5. Ores: metals and alloys.
a. Native metals.
b. Metalliferous ores.
c. Mining.
d. Ore dressing.
e. Smelting.
f. Metal refining.
g. Alloys.
h. The metals and alloys of antiquity.
i. The deterioration of metals and alloys – Corrosion.
j. The study of archaeological metals and alloys.
6. Sediments and soils.
a. Sediments, oxygen isotopes and ancient temperatures.
b. Soil.
7. Clay: Pottery and other ceramic materials.
a. Primary clay.
b. Secondary clay.
c. Clay and ceramic materials.
d. Ceramic materials.
e. Making ceramics.
f. Common ceramic materials .
g. The study of ancient pottery.
8. The biosphere: Organic and biological substances.
a. Living organisms and cells.
b. Biological matter: organic and bioinorganic substances.
c. Ancient biological materials.
d. Dating organic materials.
9. Carbohydrates: wood, gums, resins.
a. Wood.
b. Gums.
c. Resins.
d. Carbohydrates, isotopes and the study of ancient diets.
10. Lipids: oils, fats and waxes.
a. Oils.
b. Fats.
c. Waxes.
d. Soap.
e. Ancient lipids.
11. Proteins: skin and hide, leather, glue.
a. Animal skin.
b. Skin and hide.
c. Leather.
d. Glue.
e. Dating ancient proteins – amino acid racemization dating.
12. The nucleic acids: Human traits; genetics and evolution.
a. DNA after death.
b. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
c. Ancient DNA studies.
13. Fibers: yarn, textiles and cordage; writing materials.
a. Fibers.
b. Textile and cordage fibers.
c. Vegetable fibers.
d. Animal fibers.
e. Inorganic fibers.
f. The study of archaeological fibers.
g. Writing materials.
14. Dyes and dyeing.
a. Stains and staining.
b. The dyeing process.
c. Mordants.
d. The nature of dyes.
e. Ancient dyes.
f. The identification and characterization of ancient dyes and mordants.
15. Bioinorganic materials; bone, ivory, shell, phytoliths.
a. Bone.
b. Teeth.
c. Ivory.
d. Horn.
e. Antler.
f. Shell.
g. Archaeological bone.
h. Bone, stable isotopes and ancient diets.
16. Some ancient remains: mummies, fossils, coprolites.
a. Mummies and mummification.
b. Embalming.
c. Fossils and fossilization.
d. Animal excretions, coprolites.
17. The environment and the decay of archaeological materials.
a. Air and the atmosphere.
b. The composition of the atmosphere.
c. Water and the hydrosphere.
d. Pollution.
e. Air pollutants.
f. Water pollutants.
g. The interaction of materials with the environment.
h. Temperature effects.
i. Sunlight.
j. Oxygen and ozone.
k. Water.
l. Air pollutants.
m. The deterioration of some archaeological materials.
18. The authentication of antiquities.
a. Technical and scientific and methods of authentication.
b. Some authentication studies.
Appendix I. The Chemical Elements.
Appendix II. Chronometric Dating Methods: Selection criteria.
Appendix III. Symbols, constants, units and equivalencies.


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Hulbert: The 'What, Me Worry?' Stock Market
Do you really believe the outlook for corporate earnings suddenly became much brighter just because Larry Summers is no longer in the running to succeed Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke? If so, Marketwatch's Mark Hulbert has a bridge he wants to sell you. Photo: AP.
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... you really believe the outlook ... for earnings suddenly became much brighter defeat Larry Summers is no longer the running to succeed Fed chairman Ben burn Anqi ... BP deal MarketWatch call columnist Mark Hulbert at the bridge to sell you ... can see right there it's one of the famous one in Brooklyn ... Mark joins us to not from Brooklyn but from the beautiful state of North Carolina ... to talk about the markets silly season you know why I've called same thing to Sunday night you can see all the futures everything jumping soon as this summer's news came out you thought ... you did anything really change anything really change ... he I think so me I needed one of the more telling contrast you can try here is ... what happened last Friday before the market open here ... there is a story or cousin is one a Japanese newspaper had supposedly inside scoop from ... I'm a bottom in the station official that they were ... going to go ahead and nominate Summers to be the next Fed chairman ... so in thinking that the market was thinking and ... Summers chairmanship of the Fed was on what you should of seen on Friday with the one to go down as much as ... it went up on Monday when he withdrew but of course ... that is what happened in market action was ... a little bit of the open Friday and actually continued up for the balance of the rest of Friday ... so this is the market is shrugging off the news but it ... probably is bad news but when that bad news is withdrawal of the market with a shoot what happened this is that ... the cases are the rather fertile and economists that as I plenty of view is it's ... it's basically a nice well last but that's not certain sentiment condition you'd normally associate ... with the market it's based on strong fundamentals ... are on track again in your PC latest piece on this is that ... there is a certain sentiment on on right in the market right now ... Nielsen's while August or so ... and is one of these things where ... it's at the bye bye bye you bye bye I'd get by with and I just keep buying until something changes ... what is right and it's hard to know what is it that that will change in the region is good and investor Moody's and investor sentiment is very vocal ... and in the area will be something that comes out of left fielder ... and say we don't ... know when or what it will be of core ... issues that has drawn great we've been tracking investor sentiment now for over three decades ... we found that when it's a little like we're seeing right now that the market to is a very high risk zone ... not only that he knows he noted that piece ... sentiment has rebounded sharply in quickly ... that's right not only are we looking at absolute levels of retro looking at how quickly ... people that job back on their bandwagon when they can turn a piece of the market a couple weeks ago when it was quite a bit of ... bearishness out there among the people that we track to ... a job back on the blog bandwagon with that with abandon and that is usually not associated ... with the rally that sustainable ... MarketWatch five of the Brooklyn Bridge for you when you throw in the Manhattan Bridge for half the fall ... just for it yes ... excellent think you're a much more good stuff as always thanks for coming on today ... month ...


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It will compute the expected range between two points based on a number of factors, including number of people in the car.
seems like 4 x 75 Kg passenger is 7% less range vs 1 passenger
Great site. doesn't have temperature factor other than rolling resistance
Does anyone have any input as to whether the luggage being placed in the back or the frunk having much of an impact on range?
The more passengers, the lower the cost per passenger-mile!
The more passengers the more $ you can make from their fares. ;)
Expected range is greater in Europe and Asia vs USA
Please explain.
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And they count km, not miles.
I think you refer to average passenger weight in Asia and Europe vs. US? Haha, good one.
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Chinese Buyers Snapping Up U.S. Real Estate
Chinese buyers are pouring more money into the U.S. real-estate market. Sotheby's Angela Wong tells the WSJ's Deborah Kan who these Chinese property buyers are and where their money is going.
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I ... the the ... the activity you as ... you might get making purchases from San Francisco to New York and ever con ... joining me now is Angelo Longhua is vice president marketing at some of these joining us from Los Angeles ... by Angela ... on ... who exactly is your typical Chinese buyer today ... while most of them unto partners most of them have substantial business in China and ... around long enough from some high-end beat seem ... a little bit hundreds of these things in ... can how much it is business picking up any way mean a lot about Adamson at the Wall Street Journal we have had stories ... I that Chinese making some pretty big acquisitions in the US ... on in San Francisco for example of my new Chinese money is investing in ... treasure Island development um ... but is it is it really IVZ individual buyers are you seeing a lot ... of money going into big projects in the US ... I think this will ... on the New Year buyers most of the times deeper into them read something here because of the school ... under the incoming foreign be a move by years ... end ... into the mining projects most of the mind downtown projects with intellectual property ... ok and ... what what type sad and SSA for those individuals coming and at what types of properties are they looking at them which say these are the most popular ... of for for investment ... yesterday and using your interest in the ancient city in ... the first one is in the Reno which is the son of the ... current Chinese government military and ... those who ran third number one the ninth entrance ... and most of those homes on older homes ... in the second group of people as in people who once knew on Wednesday he did in the midteens McCallum taxes ... and with the awesome painted in his wooden spools who is very important advance ... and then I think if someone cannot entry into the batter into Neena ... and build up in the high end clients when I hear added to the beach fuels the fire one-third by the lean and another one forty two in the ... week ... the cash I Howley de transacting I mean ... I'm you know for example here and honk on how to wean her Daddy you know all cash ... transactions from Chinese buyers is at the same ... way ... when they are actually purchasing property in the U S or or are they actually taking out mortgages ... many countries and own cash by its ... end and the other countries and the intense heat the maintenance team during the period Christie foreigner who ran ... and gave the be ... all you can stream Union and Seattle opened more and more on the Chinese ... he and he didn't even move now ... and what type of a wet wet and now are you talking about what range ... has added some to be sold to Chinese buyers ... the region through one point line underweight is setting on the muni donors hadn't seen ... ok and and in the near experiencing heat you've been there all how would you say how much it is an investment increasing ... it will ... retire ... he is up fifteen percent or eighty compared with the scheme ... and cake thanks Fran much Angelo won joining us from Los Angeles ... for more EPI Mr. a big added any estate dot com I'm Deborah con


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The cultural sites along Charleston, SC's Museum Mile have come together for the third annual Museum Mile Weekend on Sept. 23-25, 2011. This year, Friday has been added to what has been a two-day weekend, so now pass holders have even more time to enjoy the Mile. A single pass allows visitors complimentary admission to thirteen sites along and around Meeting Street in historic downtown Charleston. Many of the cultural institutions will also offer special programs during Museum Mile Weekend. The Weekend Pass is only $25 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. If purchased separately, adult admission for the participating sites would cost over $100 for adults and more than $50 for children.
Museum Mile Weekend passes are available at (www.charlestonsmuseummile.org) and at all Charleston Visitor Center locations including the downtown location at 375 Meeting Street and in Mt. Pleasant at 99 Harry Hallman Blvd. Online purchasers will receive their passes in the mail.
Launched in 2008 as a cooperative marketing effort among non-profit organizations, Charleston's Museum Mile features the richest concentration of cultural sites open to visitors in downtown Charleston. Along and around the one-mile section of Meeting Street, visitors can discover six museums, five nationally important historic houses, four scenic parks and a Revolutionary War powder magazine.
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Participating Sites on Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
(special programming and any special Museum Mile Weekend hours are noted in bold)
Aiken-Rhett House – 48 Elizabeth Street
Built in 1820 and greatly expanded by Gov. and Mrs. William Aiken, Jr. in the 1830s, this house and its outbuildings have survived as a time capsule virtually unaltered since 1858. Children are invited to enjoy a scavenger hunt throughout the weekend as they explore the house, grounds and outbuildings and learn more about the people who lived and worked on the property.
The Charleston Museum – 360 Meeting Street
America's first museum showcases the cultural and natural history of South Carolina's Lowcountry. On Friday, a series of curator-led collection tours: 10:00 a.m. Silver, 11:00 a.m. Charleston maps, 2:00 p.m. Natural History hall, & 3:00 Threads of War. Children's crafts and scavenger hunt Saturday 10:00 a.m. – noon.
Children's Museum of the Lowcountry – 25 Ann Street
The Children's Museum of the Lowcountry offers eight hands-on interactive learning environments for children 3 months to 10 years.
Joseph Manigault House – 350 Meeting Street
"Charleston's Huguenot House" was built in 1803 and is a premier example of Adam-style, or Federal, architecture. Friday, Saturday & Sunday (4:00pm), focus tours at the Joseph Manigault House will give a glimpse of the house's fascinating World War II history, in addition to regular house tours.
Confederate Museum – 188 Meeting Street (closed Sundays)
Since 1898, the Daughters of the Confederacy have operated the Confederate Museum, which contains flags, uniforms, swords and other Confederate memorabilia. This museum is closed on Sundays.
Powder Magazine – 79 Cumberland Street
South Carolina's oldest public building, The Powder Magazine (circa 1713) served as an arsenal within the old walled city and was utilized through the American Revolution. Note hours of operation change: visitation each day 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Pirate storytelling with period-dressed Eric Lavender and his parrot on Friday at 1:30 p.m. (additional fee may be required for the pirate program; for more information, call 843-722-9350 or visit http://www.PowderMag.org). Revolutionary drum and fife presentations and musket cartridge rolling for kids Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Lecture – The Stono Rebellion with historian Michael Coker on Sunday at 12:00 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. (recommended for adults).
Gibbes Museum of Art – 135 Meeting Street
Experience Charleston's history through art! Explore stories of the Lowcountry as seen through painting, miniature portraiture, sculpture, photographs and more. Exhibitions on view include The Charleston Story, The Creative Spirit: Vernacular Art from the Gadsden Arts Center Permanent Collection, and In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans. Docent-led tours of the museum will be offered at 2:30pm on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
South Carolina Historical Society -100 Meeting Street (closed Friday)
The Historical Society is the state's oldest repository of letters, maps, and images. The Society's exhibit, "Know Your State's History," will be followed by a fun trivia game to test your knowledge of South Carolina's past. Tours of the exhibit will be given at the top of the hour. Hours are 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on Saturday and 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. on Sunday. SCHS is not open on Friday.
Old Slave Mart Museum – 6 Chalmers Street (closed Sundays)
The Museum's exhibits focus on the domestic slave trade from the perspectives of historically-documented slaveowners, slave traders and enslaved African Americans, and speak to their stories, contributions and legacies. On Friday and Saturday at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m., the director will conduct connoisseur tours of the museum and share the stories of several individuals who passed through this auction complex. Children are invited to enjoy a scavenger hunt throughout the weekend. This museum is closed Sundays.
The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon – 122 East Bay Street
Completed in 1771 as the New Exchange and Custom House, visitors can explore Charleston's colonial, Revolutionary and Civil War past while retracing the steps of presidents, patriots and pirates!
Heyward-Washington House – 87 Church Street
Built in 1772, "Charleston's Revolutionary War House" was the townhome of Thomas Heyward, Jr., Revolutionary War patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence. In addition to regular house tours, special Revolutionary War focus tours are offered Friday, Saturday & Sunday at 4:00 pm at the Heyward-Washington House.
Nathaniel Russell House – 51 Meeting Street
Visitors are invited to admire the grand Federal style townhouse of Charleston merchant Nathaniel Russell, built in 1808. Children are invited to enjoy a scavenger hunt and family-focused guided tours throughout the weekend to learn more about the house and garden as well as all of the people who lived and worked on the property.
Edmondston-Alston House – 21 East Battery
The Edmondston-Alston House was one of the first dwellings built on Charleston's High Battery in 1825. View a fine collection of family furnishings, books, silver and paintings. Guided tours discuss Secessionists, Soldiers, and Slaves: The Alston Family's Civil War. Eye-Spy game available for children.


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Wearing hunter, or "blaze," orange clothing makes it much easier for other hunters to see you and therefore much less likely that they will mistake you for a target!
In Montana, the law requires that all big game hunters and anyone accompanying a hunter must have at least 400 square inches of hunter orange material above the waist visible at all times. That's 20 x 20 inches, or roughly four times the size of this sheet of paper. It's a good idea for bird hunters to wear hunter orange as well.
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