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SaLuSa, February 28, 2011
At present the picture in the Middle East is not pretty, and many souls are so eager to bring peace to their region that they risk their lives. Be assured that they are subconsciously aware that they agreed to do so, and their sacrifice will elevate them into the higher Light. Fortunately it will not be in vain and the dark Ones will be dispelled in one way or another. It has been apparent for some time that unrest would escalate and bring about their downfall. Once people power is recognized as able to achieve changes of great magnitude, no government will feel safe. The Light gathers momentum all of the time, and it is going to achieve the goals that people desire. There is therefore every reason to keep relentlessly aiming for total victory, because it will be yours to celebrate. We are tempted to tell you to expect one thing at the time, but a number of events are reaching completion together. So it is quite possible that there will be a whole string of happenings in a relatively short time. Things are turning in your way and it will certainly be a year of surprises, and they will more than compensate for the unwelcome ones. Of course there are upheavals to come, and that is the price of your freedom. Concentrate on the benefits of the changes, and accept that they cannot come without a major effect upon your lives. We watch over you and are active where we can help to ease situations for you. Remember that your thoughts and prayers are received, and your consciousness levels collectively recorded. It enables us to check your progress and respond to your petitions for help. We cannot always give you exactly what you want, as there is a greater plan that we work to and obey. However, together we are a force to be reckoned with, and yet our only weapon is that of Love and Light. It is the one thing the dark Ones have no answer to although they will try to take you off your focus, through fear and intimidation. By now you should have learnt enough about their methods to ignore them, and not in any way lose your energy to them. They are not yet a spent force, but time is running out for them very quickly. As always we are aware of their intentions, so they cannot pull any surprises on us. They might as well surrender now and allow the future to be molded by the plans for your Ascension, as nothing can prevent it from taking place. The Forces of Light have never gathered together on Earth in such numbers for millennia of time. This is of course in accordance with the Divine Plan, and as you know by now many young people are here with quite advanced understanding and abilities. They are spiritually prepared and wise in many ways, and they will lead you out of the lower vibrations. They do not find it easy to fit in with the old ways, and in fact they are with you to help change them. Listen carefully to them as they have much to say and teach you. Nature is a victim of the upheaval on Earth, and over a long period many species have become extinct. However, there is no total loss as we can transfer them to other planets to continue their evolution. Genetic modification can be carried out if necessary to suit the new planetary conditions they are introduced into. In some cases animals have completed their cycle on Earth, and are released such as happened with the Dinosaurs. Although it is not often noticed, species come and go quite regularly according to needs of the Earth and Humankind. It is also the same for you who were only introduced to Earth as Homo Sapiens quite recently, and that was to accommodate a different type of Man. These matters will be explained in more detail as time passes, and you will learn of your true connection to us. It is far more involved than you might imagine, going back thousands of years. As you move into and through the higher dimensions, you will appreciate the beauty of creation that has been your potential all along. In some respects you have had visions of what has been possible, and attempted to introduce into your present dimension. You have experimented and achieved some success and the soul within has "felt" the idea, but been unable to fully express it. Yet when you rise up it will all become so much easier, and your creations will be of the Light. Nothing will be beyond your capabilities, and all will depict the absolute harmony that exists within the higher dimensions. Furthermore, everything is alive with levels of consciousness that will give you the experience of talking with not just animals, but also any living creation such as for example plants. On Earth they have consciousness, and do respond to the energies around them. It is not unknown for people to talk to their plants, and find that as a result they become more beautiful and healthy. Life will become entirely different to what it is now, and one continuously happy and joyful event. The demands made upon you now will cease and there will be no place for drudgery or boredom. Everything is exciting and continually filling you with Light and Love. Most importantly you are always totally energized, and do not experience the tiredness and fatigue that is a normal part of your day-to-day life at present. Because you replenish your energy as you go along, there is no need for long sleep periods as necessary on Earth. You may rest and relax but your body is of a higher vibration, and does not need long regular re-energizing. So Dear Ones, you have so much to look forward to, which makes any efforts you need to make in readiness for Ascension so worthwhile. Allow for great changes to come with Ascension, clearly not all at once but as a process of evolution that is always taking place. Duality is simply the result of being in the lower vibrations, where matter is so solid and dense that it can attract what you might call the impurities. These are in the form of disease that cannot exist in the higher vibrations. The lower they become the greater the possibility exists of more deadly diseases. Conditions are not helped of course by Man's insistence on introducing chemicals into agriculture, and into the food chain. Your body is very resilient and adaptable, but will eventually become poisoned as a result. I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and hope you understand what a wonderful opportunity to rise up is coming with Ascension. Thank you SaLuSa. Mike Quinsey. Website: Tree of the Golden Light Comment from one of our readers: "Thank you, I enjoy reading your messages. 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Mr Bandarin warmly welcomed the participants of the Coordination meeting. He highlighted important points to be taken into account by the Committee for the Reflection Year in 2007, for which funds were allocated. The discussion focused on the links between the Berlin meeting to discuss the European Action Plan and Regional Programme (7-11 November 2005) and the Reflection Meeting Mr Bandarin referred to for a selected group of experts from all parts of the world. It was agreed that ideally it could be scheduled after the Berlin meeting.
Mr Bandarin also emphasized on lessons learnt from all regions, inputs for a system to be used by all other parts of the world, benefits of Periodic Reporting and links with reactive monitoring.

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CONFIRMED: BEHEMOTH Live In India
Polish extreme metal icons, BEHEMOTH, have confirmed that they'll be performing in Bengaluru, India on November 3rd at the upcoming IMC (Indian Music Conference) events at Clarks Exotica in Karnataka.
Tickets go on sale October 3rd. For more information visit the IMC website or Facebook page.
Tickets go on sale October 3rd. For more information visit the IMC website or Facebook page.
Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader, Decapitated, Vesania and Hate. Over the years Behemoth has moved from traditional black metal into blackened death metal and then into modern death metal with each consecutive release. They have released 9 full length albums so far.
The band was formed in 1991 as a trio, starting with raw and primitive black metal rehearsal tapes (Endless Damnation) and demos (The Return of the Northern Moon), the most significant of which was the second one—…From the Pagan Vastlands (1993)—showing the growing potential of the then teenage Nergal. Tomasz Wróblewski likes to announce that his metal influences sprung from Black Sabbath for giving him his ideas of "demonic" chords.
This tape was released by Polish label Pagan Records and later on by the American Wild Rags. Signing with a little-known black metal bands from mid-eastern Europe with enormous potential. Consequently, stepping forward, the band (as the three piece with Nergal, Baal, and Les) recorded their second album Grom.
At the same time they recorded Grom, Behemoth finally got a chance to play live shows in its native country and finally tour around Europe, gaining stage experience as well as positive feedback from the audience. Two years later, the band recorded a third album, titled Pandemonic Incantations which was a "breakthrough moment" in Behemoth's short career. The reactions of their ever-increasing fanbase and metal media set a new standard for them. However, due to a lack of promotion, the album was not well-publicized. After another extensive tour, Behemoth signed a two-album deal with Italy's Avantgarde Music in the fall of 1998. The first result of this new collaboration was the successful album Satanica, on which the black metal sound had evolved into blackened death metal.
The label also secured two European tours for the band in support of Deicide and Satyricon respectively. During that period, Behemoth had to go through some line-up changes and problems with their ex-Polish label. The new members then were Novy (formerly known from Devilyn, now in Vader, Dies Irae) who handled the bass duties and Havok who became the band's guitarist. The new line-up resulted in Behemoth signing with Mystic, a Polish label. The next follow-up release to Satanica was Thelema.6. Massive guitar parts and precise drumming, with influences from different sources, showed that Behemoth were there to offer something really varied and innovative once again[citation needed], complete with characteristic fierce brutality and speed. Arrangements and technical invention on individual compositions made the album an ultimate one for the blackened death metal genre.
Thelema.6 has been supported by the worldwide press and media[citation needed], including having their album being officially released in Russia and Brazil for the first time. Continuing the support for Thelema.6, Behemoth appeared in several prestigious live events like Wacken Open Air, With Full Force, Inferno Metal Festival, Mystic Festival, and Mind Over Matter Autumn. They started first headlining tour alongside with Carpathian Forest and Khold, followed by festival tour in Poland (Thrash em All Fest. with Vader and Krisiun, among others).
In 2001, Behemoth focused on writing new material for a sixth studio album. Meantime, they completed their second headlining tour in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Having completed the recording of their new songs, Behemoth entered Hendrix Studio for the second time, with help of their friend and sound engineer Arkadiusz Malczewski, and produced Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond). The result was impressive and overwhelming for their detractors who thought that the band couldn't reach newer heights following Thelema.6.
In February 2003, the band started their first tour in Norway, playing in cities such as Bergen, Oslo and Stavanger. On March 11, 2003, the American premiere, scheduled by Century Media Records, headlined Behemoth's first appearance in the US continent. The tour started on the 9th of March at the New Jersey's Metalfest and continued with a decent amount[citation needed] of shows across America and Canada, with the company of Deicide, Revenge, Vehemence and Amon Amarth. Shortly after doing their first US tour the band was invited to join the Blackest of the Black Tour by Glenn Danzig. The already legendary festival included acts like Danzig, Superjoint Ritual, Nile, and Opeth. In the fall of 2003, Behemoth flew over to US to complete their third tour with Six Feet Under, Skinless and Black Dahlia Murder. The band did their Finnish debut appearance on the famous Tuska Festival with Ministry, Soulfly, among others. At that time, due to some line up difficulties, Nergal parted his ways with Havok and Novy, who decided to focus on activities with their own bands. Eventually, the band resumed touring in the UK and Europe.
In 2004, their seventh studio album, Demigod was released to good critical response. Recorded at the Hendrix Studios, the album debuted at number 15 on the national Polish album charts. Music videos for the songs "Conquer All" and "Slaves Shall Serve" were also shot. In fall 2005 the band headlined the Demigod supremacy Canadian tour 2005 with Necronomicon
In 2007, the band toured Europe alongside Napalm Death, Moonspell and Dew-Scented. Behemoth released their eighth studio album The Apostasy in July of that year. It was recorded at Radio Gdańsk studio in December, 2006. Shortly after the release of The Apostasy, the band was featured as one of Ozzfest 2007's second stage headliners, one of the four non-US bands playing that year. In October/November 2007, they played their first US headlining tour alongside Job For A Cowboy, Gojira, and Beneath The Massacre. In October/November 2007 the band toured Europe alongside Canadian death metal combo Kataklysm and Belgium's Aborted.
In February 2008 Behemoth toured Europe headlining over Suicide Silence. In April/May 2008 the band toured North America as part of "The Invaluable Darkness" tour with Keep of Kalessin and headliner Dimmu Borgir. Behemoth spent the summer playing a number of prominent festivals all over Europe.
In October 2008, Behemoth released their first live album, At the Arena ov Aion – Live Apostasy. Also, an EP called Ezkaton was released featuring a re-recorded version of Chant for Eschaton 2000, one new song, two covers, and three live songs. The EP has been released in North America on November 11.
In August 2009, the band released their newest effort "Evangelion". The album received positive reviews from the metal press.


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To reach Nubra Valley from Leh, One has to cross Khardung La - The highest Motorable road in the world.
When we left Leh, the snow was still far away.
And closer. Till the road was like a black snake slithering through masses of snow.
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Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Alfredo Camisa 1927–2007
- Original title
- Alfabeto Urbano O
- Medium
- Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
- Dimensions
- Unconfirmed: 405 × 305 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Massimo Prelz Oltramonti and allocated to Tate 2015
- Reference
Urban Alphabet comprises sixteen black and white photographs that were taken by Italian photographer Alfredo Camisa between 1955 and 1961 (Tate P13644–P13659). Each one depicts a letter of the alphabet that Camisa found in signage in the urban or suburban landscape. Some are shot straight-on – with all extraneous details and clues to context removed – while in others Camisa allowed more information into the frame, such as propped-up bicycles, or stacks of building materials piled next to buildings. While people do appear in some of the images, their presence is secondary to the form of the letter. The clearest example of this can be seen in Urban Alphabet S 1959 (Tate P13657), in which a man has paused to look directly into the camera, confronting it head-on, but Camisa has shifted the camera's focus away from him and onto the large letter S behind him. The high contrast and strong tones of the images in Urban Alphabet are typical of Camisa's practice.
Urban Alphabet is also characteristic of Camisa's preference for working in series and focusing on a single subject. He treated the project as a game, describing it in his notes as 'a hobby … that has accompanied me on my photographic journey'. He did not keep a record of the precise locations he shot in, but in his notes on the series he explained the common thread in the places he chose to photograph and the appeal they had for him:
the attraction to the suburbs for the 'squalor' (in pictorial sense at least) … the sense of desolation, cold and sadness they emanate, for that aura of 'old' they bring with them … the places I've always loved: the suburbs, the desolate interiors, the old signboards, and those crafts doomed to extinction. If I had continued to take pictures, I would have certainly given great space to the so-called 'industrial archeology'.
(Alfredo Camisa, 'Project for Urban Alphabet', unpublished, date unknown, translated by Marta Camisa, the artist's granddaughter 2014.)
This interest in the neglected and overlooked is evident in the details that he chose to focus on in the images, such as hand-painted signs, creeping weeds or broken windows. Each photograph can thus be seen as the result of a different formal exercise, in which the photographer experimented with cropping and use of contrast to draw attention to these details.
Camisa finished making Urban Alphabet in 1961, the year that he made the decision to withdraw from photography altogether on the basis that to pursue it any further he would need to become professional and work on commission, something that he was not willing to do. Although he made a very small number of test prints of Urban Alphabet at the time he took the photographs, it wasn't until 2005 that he returned to his contact sheets of the project to select the best images, which he then printed properly for the first time. Despite only being active as a photographer between 1953 and 1961, Camisa was central to the development of photography in Italy in the period following the Second World War. Like many others, he was self-taught, having trained as a chemical engineer. He purchased his first camera upon graduating but his real involvement in photography began in 1955 in Milan, where he moved to take a job at Agip, an oil company, and began to take photographs in his free time while on trips to locations including Europe and North Africa that he undertook as part of his work. Among his best-known bodies of work are a series on market stalls taken in Sicily, and portraits of actors backstage in Piccolo Teatro, a theatre in Milan. Like Piergiorgio Branzi (born 1928), also represented in Tate's collection (see Tate P13639–P13643), Camisa was accepted into the formalist avant-garde photography group La Bussola in 1956 but became more fully involved with its later incarnation La Misa, a group more moderate in its approach whose members tended to balance formal concerns with vernacular subject matter. Camisa was careful to avoid labelling his work and particularly wished to distance it from associations with realism or neorealism, preferring instead the terms 'formalist-realist' or 'lyrical-realist' to describe it. In 1959 he wrote, 'I search for subjects with strong tones and I like to emphasise these when printing … This search for strength in tones is not a passing whim. For me it has the precise function of a personal interpretation of a subject and in demanding this I am well aware that it robs my pictures of reportage.' (Quoted in Norman Hall, British Photography Yearbook, London 1960, p.41.)
From 1955 Camisa's work was included in exhibitions across Italy within the context of photography groups and prizes, as well as in solo shows (beginning with Impressions of Sicily in 1955), and the weekly magazine Il Mondo regularly ran his images (albeit uncredited). In 1959 his work was included in two important exhibitions overseas: Photography at Mid-Century, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, and the third of the three seminal Subjectif Fotografie exhibitions curated by Otto Steinert that toured from Germany. Camisa's contribution also existed in the form of critical essays and correspondence and he was a keen writer and vocal presence in the photography community.
The photographs in Tate's collection were purchased directly from the artist by Massimo Prelz Oltramonti, one of the foremost collectors of twentieth and twenty-first century Italian photography, from whose collection they have been gifted to Tate.
Further reading
Germano Celant (ed.), The Italian Metamorphosis 1943–1968, exhibition catalogue, Guggenheim Museum, New York 1994.
Viewpoints: Italy in Black and White, exhibition catalogue, The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London 2005.
Italian Photography 1930–1970s, exhibition catalogue, Manezh Central Exhibition Centre, Moscow 2007.
Emma Lewis
November 2014
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Tours of WILL at Campbell Hall
Tours Contact:
Elizabeth Weathers at 217-244-2625
We'd love to show you around our new state-of-the art facility, including our radio and television studios, editing and master control rooms. Because we get so many requests, we've developed the following guidelines.
Times available
Tours are given Monday through Friday between 9 am-5 pm, and Thursday evenings between 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm.
Tours for children
Children and parents as well as school, daycare and day camp groups are welcome. Children must be a mature eight years old and older. One parent/teacher/guardian or group leader should be present for every five children.
Tour size
Ideal tour size is seven per WILL staff member, but groups of up to 30 may be accommodated provided additional WILL staff can be scheduled. Groups of more than 30 can be split into smaller groups and scheduled at different times or one right after the other.
Scheduling a tour
Tours should be scheduled no less than two weeks in advance by contacting Elizabeth Weathers at 217-244-2625. We cannot accommodate unscheduled, drop-in requests for tours.
Special Needs
If your group has special needs, please make this known at the time you schedule your tour so we can best fills those needs. For example, when we've had guests with visual impairments, we've tailored our tours to focus more heavily on radio than television.
Metered parking at $.25/20 minutes (some meters take quarters only) is available on Clark and Main Streets on either side of the building. Parking in university Lot B22 on Clark Street between Goodwin and Harvey is free for Thursday evening tours.


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Frankenstein Bundle (Digital)
This Frankenstein bundle has been created with both the teacher and students in mind.
It contains the teacher lesson plans, two different workbooks (to suit different learning needs or to use with different groups), all evaluations for the unit, and comprehensive answer keys for all work.
Check out the individual bundle previews for more information.
FRANKENSTEIN UNIT – Complete with no prep for you.
This unit is created using the 1831 edition of the novel.
This unit has been created with the teacher in mind. The material is geared toward senior students with a focus on the construction of arguments. It also teaches the importance of historical context as well as literary allusions in the development of themes.
I am a strong believer that when students work with a specific purpose in mind, they become better learners. That's why my units contain only quality and worth-while activities. You will find no busy work here. Every lesson focuses on teaching students analytical and essay writing skills.
All of the thinking and planning are done for you. The lesson plans are detailed and comprehensive. The student guide is visually appealing, and so the teacher put efforts where they need to be. The answer key is complete and detailed. All you need to do is to purchase this unit and photocopy it.
Take a look at the preview for more information.
The unit includes:
1) The Teacher Package
❒ contains 23 detailed lessons (60-90 minute lessons)
❒ leading discussion questions and skill-building activities (with detailed instructions for the teacher)
❒ important chapter notes on analysis
❒ the teacher package helps the teacher stay on task and stay organized because the planning has been done for you.
2) The Student Package (19 pages)
❒ pre-reading activity
❒ study guide questions (*improved with more thinking questions for students)
❒ a fact sheet regarding the Prometheus myth
❒ activity on the use of nature in romantic literature
❒ an activity based on the symbols in the novel
❒ several activities that teach argument development
❒ activity on theme development
❒ an activity on characterization to bring about themes
3) A comprehensive answer key (32 pages)
❒ detailed answers to ALL student activities and work
❒ an annotated copy of the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and activity answer key.
4) Also included:
❒ a PowerPoint introducing the novel's historical context and the author
❒ a copy of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
5) Various evaluations are also included: ALL EVALUATIONS ARE IN WORD DOCUMENTS to MODIFY FOR CLASSROOM NEEDS.
❒ Test on letters 1-4 and chapters 1-10 (choice between multiple choice OR development questions)
❒ Test on chapters 11-18 (choice between multiple choice OR development questions)
❒ Unit evaluation (Choice between an essay (several different versions), a debate, a unit test – all work process is included)
*As a bonus, I have included two automatic comment generators for Word documents (with drop-down boxes.)
Documents are downloaded as PDF files (except for evaluations)
The Frankenstein Workbook was created as a different way to learn from Mary Shelley's novel. (1831 edition)
The Student Workbook has 30 pages that focus on themes, symbols, important quotes, characterization, romantic and gothic literature, biblical and literary allusions, and elements of the plot.
The format includes symbols to help guide students in theme development and allow them to build on characterization, symbolism, and meaningful allusions in the novel in a clear and more visual way.
Student Workbook x1 (30 pages)
Answer Key x1
Copy of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner x1
Annotated copy of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner x1
Please note that this is a digital download in PDF format and that the pages are not editable.
❒ Background information
❒ Anticipation Guide and Introductory Activity
❒ Letters 1-4
❒ Chapters 1&2
❒ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (allusion in the novel)
❒ Chapters 3, 4 & 5
❒ Chapters 6, 7 & 8
❒ Chapters 9 & 10
❒ Chapters 11 & 12
❒ An activity
❒ Supplementary activity – Nature in Romantic Literature
❒ Chapter 13 (activity)
❒ Chapters 14 & 15
❒ Chapter 16
❒ Chapters 17 & 18
❒ Chapter 19
❒ Chapters 20 &21
❒ Chapter 22
❒ Chapters 23 & 24`
❒ Activity on symbolism
❒ Activity on theme development
Paragraph Writing Activity in conjunction with Frankenstein
Very often, students have difficulty with the analysis process involved in literature. Where they not only have to analyse but now have to apply their newfound skills to a well-developed paragraph, some students become overwhelmed with the process.
This particular activity will focus on both the analysis and writing a paragraph using the PEEL method.
Paragraph writing and analysis are two essential components in essay writing. To facilitate this process, I have created a lesson where students can become more comfortable with the revision process by modelling the proper steps from beginning to end. The lesson includes modelling of the writing process from understanding the topic to the final draft. See preview for details
This lesson can only be used after students have read chapter 19 from the novel Frankenstein.
You may also be interested in the following products:
❒Thematic Poetry Unit: Editable
❒Brave New World Student Notebook
❒Death of a Salesman No Prep Unit
❒Lord of the Flies No Prep Unit
❒Poetry Unit for Senior Students
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"One must always think the worst, even of your own kin," advises wise boat builder Floki (Gustaf Skarsgård) in the opening moments of Vikings' Season 2 premiere. It's a warning Norse leader Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) must heed when his army faces off against that of his brother Rollo (Clive Standen) in a violent melee that has the 8th-century warriors fighting for their lives. "There's going to be...
"One must always think the worst, even of your own kin," advises wise boat builder Floki (Gustaf Skarsgård) in the opening moments of Vikings' Season 2 premiere. It's a warning Norse leader Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) must heed when his army faces off against that of his brother Rollo (Clive Standen) in a violent melee that has the 8th-century warriors fighting for their lives.
"There's going to be devastation," Standen teases during a break on set, deep in the Irish countryside. "This battle is the craziest thing that any of us has ever done on TV."
The bloody clash of kin was shot over four blazing-hot days last summer in an abandoned quarry with 236 extras and 105 stuntmen. And that's just a small taste of how much bigger the hit cable drama gets in Season 2. "The show knows what it is now," says executive producer Michael Hirst. "It's full of confidence, vigor and passion."
The History channel is feeling so confident about Vikings, in fact, that it is moving the series from its successful Sunday-night time slot to hypercompetitive Thursdays, beginning with the Feb. 27 opener. "With a lead-in of Pawn Stars, we know several million people are going to be poised to come into Vikings," says History's executive vice president of development and programming, Dirk Hoogstra.
If viewers aren't hooked by the big-budget battles, which intensify as the season continues, or the massive replica Viking dragon boats (the fleet has grown from three to eight and for the first time has sailed the open ocean), then the themes of romance, family and friendship should do the trick.
"Ragnar's got a lot of personal drama," Fimmel says. Topping that list is the love triangle featuring Ragnar, his shield-maiden wife, Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick), and Princess Aslaug (Alyssa Sutherland), who arrives unannounced, with a baby bump, courtesy of her affair with Ragnar in Season 1. Insulted and humiliated, Lagertha leaves the village until a major crisis forces her return. "She comes back stronger, better, fiercer," Winnick says. "She has power in her own right. I do much more battle work [this season]."
By Episode 3, the show has leaped ahead four years and we meet Ragnar and Lagertha's now-grown-up son Bjorn (The Hunger Games'Alexander Ludwig), who's intent on following in his father's heroic footsteps.
On set, the strapping Ludwig is even taller and more muscular than the formidable Fimmel. As they shoot a scene in which Ragnar tells Bjorn about a gruesome Viking execution method soon to be used on a traitor, the tension between father and son recalls Floki's warning to think the worst of your kin.
"Ragnar wants to take Bjorn under his wing and train him," Ludwig, 21, explains, "but he's a little threatened by the cub lion growing up and taking over the kingdom."
Bjorn isn't the only offspring who may be gunning for power. Four more Lothbrok boys are born this season, and although they are still babes, Ragnar already senses risk. He visits the Seer (John Kavanagh), hoping to hear that his children will be famous and accomplished — but that they won't outdo him.
For Fimmel, getting some on-screen dad time is a welcome relief from Ragnar's usual bloody fare. "My favorite scenes are the ones with the kids," he says. Later that day, he playfully coaches two toddler actors who are chasing each other around the set with wooden toy swords and shields. "Hey, Monkey Face!" he calls out, sending the tots — and Sutherland — into fits of giggles.
Ensuring that each Viking home is as happy and thriving as his own drives Ragnar to raid English territories ruled by King Ecbert (Law & Order: SVU'sLinus Roache), who, like most of the show's characters, is based on a historical figure, a progressive who studied at the court of Charlemagne.
"Ecbert's a free thinker, and that makes him a real foe to Ragnar because he's not doing things by the book," Roache says. "They're two sides of the same coin. They've got an eye on the future and lead with vision."
Sharp as Ragnar's vision is, it might not be clear enough to see what's going on with his ally King Horik (Donal Logue), the rich and powerful man funding his raids. "Horik pits people against each other," Logue says. "Ragnar's a superstar — and ambitious. But Horik's a king — and cutthroat. There's not enough room for both of them."
Things may be crowded at the top, but the world of Vikings keeps expanding, with storylines about English politics (hint: We haven't seen the last of Ragnar's Season 1 nemesis King Aelle), religious cruelty and mortal danger for Ragnar's village.
Through it all, the onetime farmer excels at war, strategy and forging his own destiny. "By the end of Season 2," Fimmel says, "Ragnar gets a lot more control than what he had earlier, when he was fighting everybody all the time [without focus]."
Yet nothing is without a cost: "Ragnar helps his country," Fimmel says. "But he makes huge personal sacrifices."
Vikings returns Thursday, Feb.27 at 10/9c on History.


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WASHINGTON -- Requiring that antiseptic skin preparation products be sterile -- a standard not currently mandated by the FDA -- is unnecessary and wouldn't produce a dramatic drop in infections, manufacturers, clinicians, and policy analysts told the FDA Wednesday.
The requirement would instead cause undue burden for companies, manufacturers said at a public hearing on the issue hosted by the FDA.
Topical antiseptic products are used before surgery, before an injection, or to reduce the risk of skin infection, but some have been recalled recently because of microbial contamination. There have been roughly 40 reports of contaminated antiseptic products submitted to the FDA, noted Joyce Ryan, DNP, director of clinical affairs at Sage Products in Cary, Ill., which makes antiseptic products.
To address the issue, the FDA is examining ways to reduce the risk of contamination and the patient complications and infections that could follow.
But it's hard to trace the source of a surgical site infection, if not impossible. For example, patients' skin carries a large number of bacteria that hold a great risk of causing infection.
"We live in a bacterial world," said John Thomas, PhD, pathology professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown. "Bug presence in a solution doesn't mean it's going to be a problem downstream for the patient."
There is also no data suggesting non-sterile products have resulted in an infection or that sterile products have proven safer, said Ryan.
"It's important to note that nonsterile doesn't imply contaminated," Ryan said, adding that the product is still clean.
The FDA noted Wednesday that the lack of studies on sterile antiseptic products shouldn't translate to them not being safer.
Bhaveen Kapadia, MD, from Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Md., presented data from a study the hospital did internally that found no infections in patients who were treated with chlorhexidine cloths before an operation compared with six infections among patients who didn't receive the skin prep. Their prospective, randomized trial involved 180 patients.
Forcing more stringent standards on antiseptics would cause more disruption for providers and manufacturers than it would bring in patient benefit, several speakers said. For example, Sage said it would have to completely redesign its facilities to properly manufacture sterile products, a costly requirement for the company.
Instead, providers and clinicians need to focus on education and proper use of antiseptic products, said Hudson Garrett, PhD, senior director of clinical affairs at Professional Disposables, an antiseptic products maker in Orangeburg, N.Y. Too often, products aren't used as directed or intended, he noted.
"It doesn't matter who the provider is," Garrett said. "We need to focus more on the appropriate use of these products."
Clinicians who want to reduce infections can focus on a number of areas they can control -- such as patient nutrition and prolonged hospital stays, he added.
Michelle Stevens, MD, medical director of the 3M Company's infection prevention division, said the FDA needs to enforce its current manufacturing regulations to better prevent product contamination.
Jennifer Yttri, PhD, senior fellow at the National Research Center for Women & Families in Washington, noted there's a general lack of awareness from providers that these types of products aren't sterile.
"We need to have better communication that a product is not sterile," Yttri said, adding that could come from product labeling.
The biggest problem comes from multi-use solutions used outside of the operating room, the FDA said Wednesday.
In that instance, contamination can be passed from one patient to another. "You're creating an additional route for contamination," Garrett said.
This week isn't the first time in recent history the FDA has tried to address this issue.
In August 2009, an FDA advisory committee discussed whether products used on non-intact skin should be required to be produced in sterile conditions. Committee members looked at cost, effects on the active drug ingredients and the product packaging, and uncertainties about the scope of the problem, but did not make a final determination.


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Pulp Fiction: Collector's Edition
Oliver Stone once boasted that the sixties belonged to him, but Quentin Tarantino, the boistrous boy from the video store, actually earned the nineties for himself with just two ultra-cool crime films, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Tarantino impressed the neo-noir crowd with his first lowbudget caper film, but put the world in his pocket with this long, brassy and breathless ode to sleazy crime fiction. With crackling dialogue, nerve-jangling violence, a brace of actors giving career-best performances, indulgent thrills, and a wonderful sense of cultural teasing, Pulp Fiction is a great movie.
A rather blurry, flat-letterboxed edition came out early after the introduction of DVDs; this new Collector's Edition actually offers a rebate for purchasers of the old copy!
It took five years for the buzz about Pulp Fiction to even begin to die down: the film inaugurated a spate of imitators churning out humorous-hip odes to criminal mayhem, as well as serving as the core inspiration for countless Tarantino wanna-bes. Savant can't begin to fully cover the phenomenon of the show or the impact of Mr. QT, the Auteur Who Can Do No Wrong. The show works not because it's so cool, but because it's so fundamentally entertaining, and like everyone, I didn't even try to 'read' it much, even on a second viewing. But I do have a few thoughts to share before evaluating the disc as a whole.
Tarantino's dialogue writing is superior because he combines a keen ear for character shadings, with a love of small-talk. None of his hired killers, dating mobsters, female taxicab drivers, pushers, and stickup punks are silent types. Everybody has an agenda to promote, a point to press home, or a yearning to express. Everyone's glib, and the hipness comes in their attitudes, not because they say clever lines. Other American kid directors raised on TV have a keen appreciation of cinematic forms, but most ape them or spoof them or snuggle up to them in the Spielberg mode; Tarantino somehow turned himself into a combo Jim Thompson and Preston Sturges. It's delicious fun to see the verbal and physical sparks fly when his characters rub together - everyone in Pulp Fiction has 'chemistry' of the kind you look for between the leads in a romantic movie. Quentin didn't find these smarts behind the counter of a video store - he's a plain brilliant writer.
Tarantino is more than willing to Walk the Walk. Pulp Fiction has some very violent material, and what he doesn't show in gross detail, such as the splattered brains hanging from Jules' hair, he suggests. 50 sophomoric imitations (Savant once had to work for a week with 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag) can't take the horror or hilarity out of the plight of 'The Gimp' locked away in Zed and Maynard's basement cage - his predicament, and the thought (shudder) of what he's been going through, are just too over the top - especially when Butch simply leaves him there after doing the honorable thing re: Marsellus.
Tarantino also dives headlong into the drug culture, downplayed by Hollywood since soon after the days of Cheech 'n Chong. The drug-users here are pretty darned glamorous, and the miraculous retrieval of Mia from OD doom is beyond funny. There's not a smidge of social responsibility here; Tarantino has taken the existential exploitation amorality of the Jack Hill potboilers he admires, and cut right through MPAA preferences.
Life is a killer short story to Tarantino, who does for cheap crime what Stephen King did for Horror. All of his people take a risk and make their play. Vince needs to be on his best behavior for his date with Marsellus' irresistable Mia, yet when he shows up, he's still strung out on Lance's Heroin. Every time Vince gets in trouble, it's because he dawdles in the bathroom. 1 The ultra-tough Butch takes the gamble that the whole underworld underestimates him as a boxer and an operator, and makes his play. He's introduced in a bizarre flashback to a life-changing episode in his childhood. Everything that happens is believable, yet infused with the high melodrama of pulp fiction conventions.
There's almost not a single moment in Pulp Fiction that's not suspenseful. The element of chance isn't avoided, and anybody seeking to criticize the story on the basis of its coincidences will find the ammo they need. But you can see the smile of the director in every scene - this is Pulp Fiction, after all, not Masterpiece Theater - and there's a diabolically clever time-twist to his storytelling. Events could have been separated into two or three free-standing episodes. Tarantino doesn't bother with a fate-driven flashback structure, but goes instead for an existentially splintered form, right from a Jim Thompson book. He even cuts a scene clean in two, returning to it over an hour later, something you don't see much this side of Alain Resnais. To our surprise, the conceit is not off-putting or confusing, because it enables Tarantino to pace and regulate his content to balance horror and humor, and to more or less bookend the forceful bibilical orations of Samuel L. Jackson. Tarantino's already had the nerve to bounce culturally from Elvis to Saturday Night Live to Travolta's Batusi Twist in the overweight nineties. Now, after two hours of amorally gleeful wickedness, he lets Jackson go moral on us, questioning all and summoning the resolve to quit the life and 'walk the Earth' seeking a higher destiny. And he gets away with it - it's exhilarating.
I've got a feeling that Tarantino will succeed at anything he truly commits himself to. Should he want to pull a stylistic reversal, and do a morally sanctimonious film, he's got what it takes to sell me on his artistic sincerity. After Pulp Fiction, we really want to see if Quentin is just kidding about Jules the Hitman's commitment to following the Lord's way. If he's not kidding, I think he owes us one uplifting masterpiece about Jules 'walking the Earth.'
Miramax left no extra unexploited in its effort to insure that their Collector's Edition of Pulp Fiction would attract the faithful. The list below isn't complete - when the (fairly resilient) card and plastic case opens, a mini-menu for Jack Rabbit Slim's falls out. Savant watched the deleted scenes, most of which are excess blab, like the extemporaneous Tarantino on-screen intros that run on and on. The very-interesting Behind the Scenes Montages are a collection of 'b' roll on the Jack Rabbit Slim set, with Quentin twisting along with his actors, and a breakdown of the action where Bruce Willis runs over pedestrian Ving Rhames. The documentary is intensely detailed on the story of Tarantino's rise to genius, and is very thorough in its documentation of the movie. Presold fans are going to eat it up.
The transfer looks really spiffy, with those true dark colors and a sharp image, as opposed to the frankly abominable earlier release. Nobody's going to be upset with anything technical about the disc. The only negative I detected was a a petty one: the layer change, freezing Christopher Walken right in the middle of his soliloquoy, was awkward in the extreme. The two-disc set has audio encoded both Dolby Digital and DTS, and added DVD-Rom features, including a trivia game and a 'screenplay viewer', which may or may not mean that the disc contains the screenplay that sold so well when published.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor, Pulp Fiction Collector's Edition rates:
Movie: Excellent
Video: Excellent
Sound: Excellent
Supplements: Production notes, Deleted Scenes, Pulp Fiction: The Facts Docu, Still Gallery, Behind-The-Scenes Montages, Production Design Featurette, Siskel & Ebert At The Movies - The Tarantino Generation, Cannes Film Festival - Palm d'Or Acceptance Speech, Charlie Rose Interview with Quentin Tarantino, Theatrical Trailers, 13 TV Spots, Reviews and Articles, rebate info, DVD Rom features
Packaging: Folding card stock & plastic case
Reviewed: August 15, 2002
1. Vince is twice reading a Modesty Blaise book in the john. It's one of only two cultural references the film, outside of the wall-to-wall references in Jackrabbit Slim's. The other is a really bizarre visual link to the Great Whatzit of Kiss Me Deadly.
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A new issue of Revista de Historia de la Psychología is now available online. Articles in this issue explore the work of Charles Richet (right), Gustav Ichheiser, José Ingenieros, and Rudolf Allers, as well as the history of pedology in Russia and Bulgaria. Titles, authors, and English-language abstracts follow below.
"El concepto de inteligencia inconsciente en la obra de Charles Richet (1850-1935)," by Manuel Sánchez de Miguel, Carlos Mª Alcover, and Izarne Lizaso. The abstract reads,
The phenomenon known as spiritualism reached its maximum popularity and expansion in the period from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The French physician and physiologist Charles Richet, Nobel Prize in physiology (1913) represents the attempt to consolidate a new experimental science known as metaphysics dedicated to the study of unknown phenomena as an alternative to spiritualistic theories. This multifaceted researcher advocates the rigorous study of the strange phenomena based on their knowledge of physiological psychology, a middle course of study located between the spiritualist called scientific medicine and scientific psychology. This paper analyses his biography and his work, the controversies raised by spiritualist current and orthodox medicine on the phenomenon of mediums, linking to the historical study of the genesis and evolution of the concept proposed by Richet, the unconscious intelligence, misunderstood term and relegated to historical oblivion.
"No hay nada malo en ser diferente: notas sobre la psicología crítica de Gustav Ichheiser," by Eduardo Crespo. The abstract reads, Continue reading New Issue of Revista de Historia de la Psychología


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Let's send 3D printers TO THE MOON
Sci-Fi fuelled big ideas group wants "moonshot ecosystem"
Science Fiction author Neal Stephenson has inspired the creation of a new project, dubbed Hieroglyph, which aims to promote discussion about big ideas humanity will actually build.
The group is a response to Stephenson's essay Innovation Starvation in which he bemoans the world's "inability as a society to execute on the big stuff" like moon landings. Instead, the essay says, the nature of modern society mean big projects become impossible to execute thanks to a combination of inertia, politics and vested interests. The combined effects of those forces, he writes, mean that in Stephenson's home city of Seattle " … a 35-year-old plan to run a light rail line across Lake Washington is now being blocked by a citizen initiative. Thwarted or endlessly delayed in its efforts to build things, the city plods ahead with a project to paint bicycle lanes on the pavement of thoroughfares."
Hieroglyph aims to cut through that mentality by encouraging "writers, scientists, engineers, technologists, industrialists and other creative, synoptic thinkers to collaborate on bold ideas in a protected space for creative play, science, and imagination."
The hoped-for outcome is ideas as compelling as Arthur Clarke's communications satellite, Robert Heinlein's rocket ship that lands on its fins, Issac Asimov's robot or William Gibson's cyberspace* because they can capture the imagination, as did the idea of landing humans on the moon. Big, recognisable ideas that encourage action, Stephenson says in the essay, are "Hieroglyphs".
"What science fiction stories—and the symbols that they engender—can do better than almost anything else is to provide not just an idea for some specific technical innovation, but also to supply a coherent picture of that innovation being integrated into a society, into an economy, and into people's lives," the group's site says. "Often, this is the missing element that scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs need in order to actually take the first real steps towards realizing some novel idea."
The site's forum offers registered users the chance to advance just such ideas, and one already posted suggests "Remote Stereolunagraphy" as an idea worth considering.
"Space is cool, but it's a hard place to live because of cramped quarters and radiation," the post reads. "Why not send robot 3D printers to the moon and have them build places for us to live?"
Why not indeed? ®
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Grand Gulf
Battle Name: | Grand Gulf |
Other Names: | None |
State: | Mississippi |
Location: | Claiborne County |
Campaign: | Grant's Operations against Vicksburg (1863) |
Dates: | April 29, 1863 |
Principal Commanders: | Rear Adm. David D. Porter [US]; Brig. Gen. John S. Bowen [CS] |
Forces Engaged: | Mississippi Squadron and Companies A,B,D,F,G,H,K, 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment [US]; Bowen's Division and attached troops [CS] |
Estimated Casualties: | Total unknown (US 80; CS unknown) |
Description: | Rear Adm. David D. Porter led seven ironclads in an attack on the fortifications and batteries at Grand Gulf, with the intention of silencing the Confederate guns and then securing the area with troops of McClernand's XIII Army Corps who were on the accompanying transports and barges. The attack by the seven ironclads began at 8:00 am and continued until about 1:30 pm. During the fight, the ironclads moved within 100 yards of the Rebel guns and silenced the lower batteries of Fort Wade; the Confederate upper batteries at Fort Cobun remained out of reach and continued to fire. The Union ironclads (one of which, the Tuscumbia, had been put out of action) and the transports drew off. After dark, however, the ironclads engaged the Rebel guns again while the steamboats and barges ran the gauntlet. Grant marched his men overland across Coffee Point to below the Gulf. After the transports had passed Grand Gulf, they embarked the troops at Disharoon's plantation and disembarked them on the Mississippi shore at Bruinsburg, below Grand Gulf. The men immediately began marching overland towards Port Gibson. The Confederates had won a hollow victory; the loss at Grand Gulf caused just a slight change in Grant's offensive. |
Results: | Confederate victory |


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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes
Aboard Air Force One
En Route Phnom Penh, Cambodia
MR. CARNEY: All right. Thanks for joining us as we make our way from Burma to Cambodia. I have joining me Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, who is here to give you an update on the President's meetings in Rangoon and other matters.
MR. RHODES: Okay, I'll try to be as quick as I can. But the President just concluded a very, I think, exciting and consequential visit to Burma. Just to run through, I think, some of the areas that we think are the most important steps that have been taken around the visit: We welcome the Burmese government providing access to the International Committee of the Red Cross to prisoners. We also welcome their decision to establish a process to adjudicate the remaining prisoners of conscience that we believe are being held within the country. And we'll work with them to provide names of people that we think should be a part of that process.
Their decision to bring in the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights will both help strengthen the monitoring capacity in the country and help build the capacity of Burma to deal with human rights issues. They've reiterated a commitment to pursue a ceasefire in Kachin State, which is the one remaining ethnic insurgency that they're confronting. And with regards to the Rohingya in the Rakhine State, they reiterated their commitment to not just calm the situation, but to address the underlying issues including returning displaced people to their home and addressing the issue of citizenship for the Rohingya.
On nonproliferation, they came into the additional protocol of the IAEA, which submits them to additional safeguards and brings them into a nonproliferation regime that is important to the United States and the world. And they came in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1874, which further commits them to end the military relationship with North Korea.
To go through the President's meetings quickly, he began --
Q That was all put down on paper ahead of time. Did he talk about each of those things in the bilat?
MR. RHODES: Yes. So getting to the bilats, every one of those issues actually came up in the bilateral meeting with President Thein Sein. Just a couple of notes of color: At the beginning, the President commented to both President Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi how much the people and the landscape of the country reminded him of Jakarta and Indonesia as a child. The President was struck by that, how similar it was as a setting. Thein Sein also went out of his way not just to welcome the President, but also to note what he'd learned about the President's grandfather spending time in the country during World War II.
In their bilateral meeting, they addressed all of the issues that I just went through. The general message from President Obama was that they've taken bold steps that have set the country on a path to reform, but now they have to continue down that path so that it's irreversible, and that the more they do to demonstrate that they're implementing a reform agenda, the more we can do to assist them -- with our USAID mission that has begun again; with U.S. businesses and other international companies getting into the Burmese market; with military-to-military engagement to lift up the professionalism of the Burmese military.
So on a host of matters the President's core message was, the more you do to continue down the path of reform, the more we will be able to do to help bring greater economic development to your country and to help consolidate the democratic progress that we've seen.
So it was a very positive discussion atmospherically. I think President Thein Sein went out of his way to signal his commitment to address issues like democracy and human rights. He understood that the ethnic challenges that remain are fundamental to continuing the process of reform, and he very much signaled how much he wants the United States to be engaged within Burma going forward. And we can get into any additional questions you have in a moment.
With Aung San Suu Kyi, the President -- his opening message was simply how much he admires what she's done and that her, just as Thein Sein and the Burmese government's, decisions have helped begin a process of reform. None of that would have been possible without the extraordinary sacrifices that Aung San Suu Kyi made over so many years. And the President reiterated how much he believes that the reform process needs to include, as he said in his speech, clear checks and balances so the legislative branch that Aung San Suu Kyi is a part of, again, is a key player in the Burmese system and that they're addressing issues like constitutional reform, which are going to be necessary to consolidate the reform process.
Aung San Suu Kyi spoke about her work in the legislature, laws that she's introduced, including the law to reopen the university that the President spoke at today, but also, again, the need to continue moving forward with issues such as constitutional reform and a full transition to civilian control going forward -- or a completion of that transition.
So those were the main issues discussed. They obviously discussed the broader reform agenda as well. I'd note that the President was very pleased to see in Aung San Suu Kyi's house -- he had enjoyed introducing her to Bo, and he was very pleased to see that the stuffed Bo that we gave her was displayed in the -- where she was, in the room where the meeting was.
Q -- Aung San Suu Kyi talked about the full transition to civilian control? Did he talk about that with the president?
MR. RHODES: Yes. And what I mean by that, to be clear, is there's been a transition to civilian leadership, but they're on a path to an election in 2015, and so that as a part of that transition they're going to be addressing how to make sure that's a free and fair election, what amendments need to be considered for the constitution as they look to consolidate their democracy.
So again, they've transitioned to civilian leadership, yet this needs to -- for that to be irreversible they need to make sure that the types of reforms that they've begun are consolidated within the political system. So that was the gist of it.
He discussed both -- a similar set of issues with both leaders. Again, the reforms that have been taken, the reforms that need to be done on issues like rule of law, ethic -- the need for national reconciliation, the -- again, the -- and then the role the U.S. can play in supporting Burmese development going forward with the easing of our sanctions, with the USAID mission, and with our increased diplomatic engagement with the country.
Before I take questions I just want to give you an update on what we've been doing on Gaza, because I know there's been some interest in that. First of all, basically the President has been updated regularly by both Tom Donilon and Secretary Clinton, who are traveling with him. Secretary Clinton has spoken to a number of world leaders in the last couple of days. She spoke to the French foreign minister and to Bank Ki-moon before they went to the region. She spoke to the Egyptian prime minister after he left Gaza. And she spoke to both the Qatari and the Turkish foreign ministers. So she is speaking to those nations in the region and those leaders who are going to the region about our efforts to achieve a de-escalation of the conflict that includes an end to rocket fire from Gaza.
In addition to that, Tom Donilon has spoken to the Israeli national security advisor on a more-than-daily basis. And then both Secretary Clinton and Tom Donilon have been speaking to our ambassadors in Israel and Egypt. In fact, Secretary Clinton and Tom Donilon had a conference call with our ambassador in Israel on the flight into Burma. And then at lunch, at the embassy, Tom Donilon and Secretary Clinton briefed the President on their discussions on Gaza. So Tom provided an update in the morning, and then at the embassy, Secretary Clinton and Tom were able to give him an additional update.
Q Has the President reached out to any foreign leaders?
MR. RHODES: He has not yet today. We'll let you know if he does later tonight or tomorrow.
Q -- if he's already?
MR. RHODES: He's not yet reached out to any -- the President has not spoken to any foreign leaders today. We'll keep you updated if he does. Again, basically Secretary Clinton is speaking to a number of her counterparts, Tom is as well, and then our ambassadors in Egypt and Israel have been in frequent contact with both of them and they're able to update the President on it.
Q What is the U.S. strategy in all these discussions? I mean, what points are you making? What are you trying to get each side to do? And how are you doing that?
MR. RHODES: Again, I think what -- our position continues to be that those nations in the region, particularly nations that have influence over Hamas, and that's principally Egypt and Turkey, also Qatar -- as I said, the Secretary spoke to the Qatari prime minister -- that those nations need to use that influence to de-escalate the conflict. And de-escalation has to begin with, again, an end to rocket fire from Gaza.
We are also speaking to the Israelis on a regular basis to update them about our contacts with these various countries. The Israelis are having their own conversations I'm sure. But the general goal here is de-escalation, because as the President said -- as you heard him in the press conference say, Israel has a right to defend itself. The best way to make sure that Israel is secure and the situation doesn't escalate is for there to be a peaceful resolution and de-escalation rather than a military -- a continued military conflict.
Q Ben, you've touched on this a little bit, but did the President have any sort of impressions or kind of reaction to just the scene, all the people lining the streets, waving flags?
MR. RHODES: The President was very moved by the outpouring of people lining the streets. Actually I should have added, too, that the President -- we had originally not thought we had enough time to go to Shwedagon. And the President basically decided in the motorcade to the first meeting with Thein Sein that he was going to go to Shwedagon no matter whether there was time or not.
Q When we were going to the airport -- to the parliament?
MR. RHODES: Yes. So, I mean, because of the beauty of the site and the importance of it to the Burmese people. But I think he was struck by the reception he received. And then I'd say, look, in each meeting, the leaders could not have been more positive and gracious. And President Thein Sein went out of his way; multiple times in the meeting he used the President's campaign slogan. You heard him do it in his public comments, but he did -- multiple times in the bilat he said, "I want to do what you've been talking about, I want to move forward."
Q Was there an exclamation point?
MR. RHODES: I think there was an exclamation point. But in terms of with these -- with the reforms that he's launched -- and he knew the issues we were interested in and was ready to make commitments to move forward on them, understanding that they're going to have to follow through and that there's going to be hard work in the follow-through.
So I think he was struck by the welcome he received from the people. He had a very positive meeting with the president in terms of the warmth with which he was received.
Then, with Aung San Suu Kyi, he commented about how moving it was to visit her in her home where she had previously been imprisoned, and now to visit her as a member of parliament is a remarkable testament to her and also to the progress that's been made. And I think when you meet with Aung San Suu Kyi in her home, you're sitting around a very small, round table, and it's very intimate, and they were able to have a very free-flowing discussion.
And the point that she made to him is that she's now a political figure in the country, and she's been a symbol and a leader of a movement, but she's also now a member of parliament. And so they discussed things on her agenda, like how can they create better opportunity for the Burmese people; how can they expand access to education and health care; again, how can we move forward with reforms to the constitution and laws that, again, make the progress that's taken place irreversible.
And the President then, I think, at the speech site, was able to have this clutch, this brief meeting backstage with a number of people who have made extraordinary sacrifices -- the leader of the Saffron Revolution, political prisoners who have been released after many years in jail, representatives of ethnic minorities. And the President commented how struck he was by the sacrifices that these people had made and the perspective that gives you about, well, all the challenges that we're dealing with. In some respects, these people have made extraordinary sacrifices in their own lives that are an inspiration to him as well.
And when he left he said -- he commented on how much he'd like to -- again, would have liked to have spent even more time in this country if he could. So I think all in all he was quite moved by the day.
Q Was his decision to go to the temple related to his reaction of seeing the people on the streets? You said them together, I wasn't sure whether those two were related.
MR. RHODES: I think he actually saw the temple as we flew in and was discussing with us how important it was to this country as a symbol of national unity and something that they're very proud of. And he just felt it was important to make sure that we took the time to do that, again, to send a signal of both respect for the culture of the country and also to be able to take in a remarkable site. And he very much enjoyed it.
Q What did he say? Did he say anything afterwards, like dousing the flames of anger, hatred?
MR. RHODES: Aung San Suu Kyi made sure that he poured water on his birthday. And she asked him what day of the week it was, and he said Friday. And she said, well, make sure you did it on a Friday, and he said yes, I did. And he described to her how he hit the gong and had gone through this very moving --
Q Did he hit the gong today?
MR. RHODES: Let me check that actually. I'm not sure. I wasn't there. You guys were closer to it than I was. But he was describing the process.
But so, again, I think that given the importance of it to this country, he felt it was important to go to the site.
Q In the Thein Sein meeting he referenced Myanmar instead of Burma. Was that just a slipup or is it kind of a sign that you guys are sort of easing your references to the name?
MR. RHODES: The President felt that given the fact that -- the government obviously goes by Myanmar; it's still a disputed issue. The United States government position is still Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi still refers to Burma. But then in his meeting with Thein Sein and his comment that he would refer to Myanmar, that that was a diplomatic courtesy to do, doesn't change the fact that the U.S. government position is still Burma.
But we've said we recognize that different people call this country by different names, and we obviously accept that. We certainly accept that that's the view of President Thein Sein.
So our view is that this is something we can continue to discuss moving forward, and it's a symbol of how this country, again, is working through issues that in the past stood in the way of progress but now can be addressed through dialogue.
Q Did he just decide that on the spot? Because the guidance we had gotten ahead of time was that he was likely not to use either name.
MR. RHODES: Well, I think that was in reference to the speech when you asked me that question. No, I think in diplomatic meetings, it is often customary that when you're meeting with certain government officials you use Myanmar; when you're meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi and others who use Burma, you use Burma. So I think within the meeting it was the diplomatic practice to use Myanmar, and then he used it in his public comment, and then --
Q What are the historical analogies for that, when you had -- what does that diplomatic custom derive from?
MR. RHODES: Well, it derives from the -- well, it's -- I'm only speaking uniquely to this country.
Q Oh, yes.
MR. RHODES: This is what our diplomats do. So --
Q Okay.
MR. RHODES: Yes.
Q I'm just saying, is there some historical example?
MR. RHODES: No, no, I was referring to that that's basically the practice of our diplomats in Burma.
Thanks, guys.
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And remember, you can never underestimate the impact of someone's silence, someone's indifference. That can be so much hurt! Even most ;)
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CITICAR and COMUTACAR HISTORY
According to what I have been able to piece together, the Vanguard
Citicar was started in 1974 by a man from Connecticut who set up a
factory in Florida. About 3500 VANGUARD Citicars were built from 1974
to 1976, most being built in 1975. The selling price in 1975 was
about $4500. This was considerably more then the average gas powered
car at that time.
The required safety and bumper crash standards had increased
since 1974, he had to redesign the bumper and other safety systems on
the car in order to be certified by the National Transportation The ComutaCar company continued to sell used ComutaCars, parts and new cars (for non-road uses such as airports, warehouses and prisons). I had the opportunity to speak with Mr. Flowers a number of times between 1986 and 1988, the year he passed away.
In 1986 or 87 he offered to sell the ComutaCar company for
$150,000 plus various other provisions. Seabring auto-cycle purchased
the company and started to build a new three wheel vehicle called the
Zzipper which did not require such strict NOTE: A book entitled "The Lost Cord" was published several years ago which covers the period of time between 1973 and 1976. Mr. Robert Beaumont, the founder of the Vanguard Company (builders of the CitiCar), gives a complete and detailed history of the vehicle from his perspective. It is an excellent book and should be read by all electric vehicles enthusiasts. February 1999 Frank Didik. |
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First-Hand:Electrical Power Conversion
Electrical Power Conversion
Submitted by Harold T. Adkins
Soon after graduation in 1950 I joined the Army Research and Development Command and formed and ran a laboratory that had the job of introducing electronics, servo mechanisms, computers, pulsed light rangefinder's (Optar—Lidar), stabilized tank turrets, infrared detectors and suppression, gun fire control systems, nuclear science and weapons, etc. into a comparatively non technical military operation. One of the biggest problems I found was the low efficiency and power level of servo mechanisms and power circuits. I developed a new technology of bang- bang (full on, off and reverse) switching circuits and presented a paper to IEEE on that subject. Previously all most all electrical and electronic circuits were low power, Class A and had an efficiency of about 50% since all they had was low power transistors, vacuum tubes or ignitrons which could not switch fast enough. With full on full off switching of a high enough frequency or pulse width modulation you could achieve proportional control at close to 100% efficiency and a high power level. Developing Tank Stabilization so that you could aim the main guns while traveling at full speed across country involved a lot of finely controlled high power and the opportunity to apply the higher efficiency servos really paid off.
When I later went to Curtiss Wright on the Dart missile as chief engineer I had the opportunity to apply this technology to the missile and ground control equipment and later as head of new product development I developed and patented high-speed alternators directly connected to gas turbines. It was desirable to produce normal 60 or 400 cycle power at high efficiencies from variable speeds drives and high frequencies with small high speed, lightweight generators. High efficiency electrical switching power conversion was developed for military equipment and has provided the background for all almost all power conversion and switching power supplies to the present day. The highest power solid state devices at the time were the new silicon controlled rectifiers (SCRs) which had multiple kilowatt capability and low power loss. I switched pulses of the high-frequency power(at least 10 times of power output frequency desired) and the cycles or parts of cycles were added until the integrated (filtered) power were of the desired power waveform and frequency. This design concept permits a very high-efficiency circuit in that switches are all on or off thus dissipate very little power and the high frequency allows small, light, efficient components. Presently almost all power conversion uses a high-frequency transformation and control to the desired voltages which means a small transformers and small chokes and capacitors for filtering. Switching a DC voltage on and off with pulse width modulation or by choosing the number of on pulses to get a sine wave is usually used to efficiently generate an efficient power sine wave today.
High efficiency electrical power transmission systems use DC, especially in undersea cables where the distributed inductance and capacitance would cause extreme losses for alternating current. They also use switching power conversion systems to get back to AC from the DC. The DC is converted to a high-frequency and high-voltage AC and pulse width or pulse selection convert the power back to 60 cycle power line frequencies. Electric car power converters use semiconductors to convert battery voltage to variable frequency AC feeding an induction motor drive system using the same conversion system. This allows a very high-efficiency, high power density converter system.
I regret it is that I did not follow-up on the power switching, pulse width and cycle selection advanced technology power conversion systems that I developed and predominates today. It would be many years before this advanced technology was applied in industry. It is now the standard design from milliwatt to megawatt power supplies and inverters. Electrical power grid DC transmission systems convert dc back to ac with high efficiency by this technique.
Class A power amplifiers use a plus and minus bus and let proportional valves carry proportional current off the bus to the output resulting in about 50% efficiency. The concept of integration or filtering the output of electrical power circuits is good engineering and it allows full on-off high-efficiency switching to achieve a sine wave output or regulated DC from DC or high frequency AC power. It is also used in analog computers which essentially consist of integrators and differentiators. We also developed the last powerful analog computers for designing and optimizing tank suspension and gun stabilization systems for military tanks. Most system functions can be simulated by analog differentiators, integrators, addition and subtraction.
It was really wonderful to be part of the new technology world opened up by electronics, the transistor and solid state physics opened up by quantum mechanics, by integrated circuits, computers, data communications, servo mechanisms, automation and the systems concept. It was an exciting challenge and interesting world. I now look forward to being a part of the new energy world called Quantum Energy, Atomic Transmutation Energy (ATE) or LENR.
The new switching power amplifiers and power supplies have efficiencies of 98% and involve class D and switching with IGBTs and SCRs and usually involve high frequencies to keep transformers and filters small, lightweight, low cost and efficient. As far as I know this idea was first used in equipment covered by my patent 3,173,076 filed in1960 and granted in 1965 and patents 3,187,188 and 3,157,793. They converted a 10 to 60 Khz power frequency to 50 to 400 Hz output power or dc using selected one half cycles or parts of cycles using efficient, small, light weigh, low cost components. Silicon controlled rectifiers are shown in the drawings but IGBTs could also be used. The equipment was extremely small, lightweight and efficient and delivered up to several megawatts. One of the uses was to clear ocean magnetic mines which recognized and were triggered by the magnetic signatures of large ships passing over the mine and not small ships. Clearing required high power and a waveform at a fraction of a cps. The power was generated by gas turbines driving high frequency alternators aboard minesweepers and the circuitry could generate any desired waveform down to direct current. The power fed a towed magnetic field device fed by the conversion circuitry. By using the high frequency output of the high speed flux switch generators ran at turbine speed the systems were small, light and efficient. These flux switch generators ran at speeds up to 100,000 rpm, generated up to 15 Kw per pound, generated frequencies up to 60khz and were ideal power for switching power converters. The generation and electrical power converters weight, size, efficiency and cost are directly proportional to the frequency which can be several megahertz. Later many more uses were found for the power conversion system and it is ideal for variable speed drive systems such as vehicle drives.
Further Reading
- Control design & engineering
- Control equipment
- Switching circuits
- Thyristor circuits
- Circuitry
- Filtering
- Power engineering education
- Electromagnetics
- Government
- Power control
- Voltage control
- Energy
- Power electronics
- Converters
- Inverters
- Phase control
- Power engineering
- Power generation
- Generators
- Power distribution
- Turbomachinery
- Power systems
- Electric power systems
- Power transmission
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US Justice torture memo for CIA: Application of USC SS2340-2340A to the Combined Use of Certain Techniques in the Interrogation of High Value al Qaeda Detainees, 10 May 2005
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This 10 May 2005 formally TOP SECRET/codeword/NOFORN memo from Steven G. Bradbury Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Assistant Attorney General, US Dep artment of Justice, to Counsel for the CIA, John A. Rizzo, provides a legal justification for the use of the combined use of abusive interrogation techniques on " High Value Detainees" held by the United States:
- Nudity
- Man-handling ("Attention crasp")
- Smashing detainee into a wall ("walling")
- Facial hold
- Face slap
- Abdominal backhand
- Cramped confinement in a dark narrow box
- Stress positions
- sitting, arms forcibly raised
- kneeling, back bent at 45 degrees
- leaning at substantial angle, head into wall, handcuffed
- Doused with cold water from container or hose until 2/3rd of the time for hypothermia have elapsed
- Water flicking
- Sleep deprivation upto 180 hours
- Waterboarding
See the other 10 May 2005 memo in this series from the DoJ OLC for a dicussion in the individual techniques.
The document, lightly redacted, was released today by the Department of Justice, and serves as a followup and confirmation of earlier SERE documents obained by Wikileaks.
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Apple is taking full advantage of the recent layoffs at Texas Instruments in Israel.
In November, Texas Instruments laid off about 250 employees in Israel as part of a worldwide effort to reduce its workforce by 1,700 people.
Now Apple is poaching those employees to beef up its engineering staff at its research and development centers in Hertezliya and Haifa, Matt Brian of The Next Web reports.
The engineers from Texas Instruments will focus on chip development, analogue, and hardware testing and verification.
As The Next Web reports, those engineers will likely work under Bob Mansfield, who recently started overseeing Apple's new Technologies group.


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Studio etiquette applies to before, during and after a session as well. In part one, we'll look at what's expected before the red light is turned on.
These points come from The Studio Musician's Handbook, but most apply to everyone connected with a recording session as well as the musicians.
Before the session begins:
- On any session, always know who your point of contact is.
- ALWAYS SHOW UP EARLY. To be early is to be on time. To be on time is to be late. To be late is almost like not showing up at all! If the downbeat is for 2PM, show up at least a half-hour early at 1:30!
- Let the powers that be know you've arrived. Make your presence known at a session as soon you roll up on the studio property. If you're there and no one knows it, you can cause the session to start late if you're hanging out in the lounge instead of the studio while everyone is waiting for you because they're unaware that you've already arrived.
- Load your gear in quickly and quietly. Accept help with this if it's offered. If it's your first time there, introduce yourself to those you make contact with, and find out what the plan for the session is.
- You may be immediately welcomed in the studio or control room, or you may not. You may be asked to wait in the lounge instead. While you're waiting, use those people skills and find out what's going on. Be friendly and respectful but don't be overly formal.
- After you're set up and ready to play, keep your warm-ups and noodling to an absolute minimum. Get your sound and follow the producer's or engineer's direction "to the t". If you're playing an electric instrument, it's totally cool to turn your volume all the way down and do your warm-ups.
- If there are headphones in use, try putting them on with the volume all the way down (studio headphones are capable of being loud enough to cause hearing damage, so don't hurt yourself), and slowly turn them up to see what's happening with the mix. If there are other people in the room, you might want to "keep one ear on, one ear off" until recording begins in case someone talks to you. Always keep your focus on the music and what's right here, right now.
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Two suicide bombers penetrated a government compound in the country's south Sunday, killing five people, Afghan officials said. There were no reports of foreign troops or civilians at the site.
The attack was in the district of Spin Boldak in Kandahar province. The district is a major infiltration corridor for Taliban fighters from Pakistan as well as a smuggling route for weapons and narcotics and Kandahar is one of Afghanistan's most violent provinces.
District chief of Spin Boldak said the two militants were targeting a meeting of local officials at a compound in a district of Kandahar province near the Pakistani border. Mohammad Hashim said the two attackers arrived in a car, killed a guard and entered the facility firing weapons before blowing themselves up along with their vehicle. The compound houses offices of the district chief and district council as well as other government buildings.
The head of the provincial council, Hafiz Abdul Haleem, said five people died including one policeman and four civilians. Fifteen were wounded.


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Lionel Messi is not for sale, says Barcelona president
Josep Maria Bartomeu assumed control at Barca last week
Bartomeu says the club will begin negotiations with Messi over a new contract
Former president Sandro Rosell stepped down last week
Lionel Messi is not for sale.
That was the defiant message from Barcelona's new president, who is adamant that the club's all-time leading goalscorer is going nowhere amid reports French club Paris St Germain want to sign the Argentine.
Josep Maria Bartomeu will sit down with the four-time World Player of the Year to thrash out a new contract which will see him remain as most highly-paid at the Camp Nou.
"We want to sit down, without any rush, with Leo's father – it's not something that's happening tomorrow, we have plenty of time, but we will do what we have to to ensure he's the best paid player," said Josep Maria Bartomeu, who assumed control at Barca after Sandro Rosell's resignation last week.
Messi arrived at Barca in 2000 , graduating through the club's youth system before going on to establish himself as the best player on the planet.
Since making his first team debut in 2004, Messi has helped the team win six Spanish league titles, two Spanish Cups and three European Champions League crowns.
Blog: Is Ronaldo really the best?
The club's determination to keep hold of Messi will be sweet relief to Barca fans after a turbulent few weeks.
Former president Rosell stepped down after a Spanish judge's decision to investigate the deal which saw Neymar move to Catalonia from Brazilian team Santos last June.
The club initially announced the deal was worth $78 million, but the breakdown of the agreement was never revealed.
A Barcelona member launched a case against Rosell for not disclosing the full details and the club was asked by Spanish authorities to hand over documentation, as well as accounts for the past three years.
Bartomeu, who will continue as president until the end of the current term, which finishes in 2016, explained that he spoke with senior players at the club before discussing details of Neymar's contract at a previous press conference.
"I explained to the captains that we would be showing details of Neymar's contract," said the former vice president. "We have to be grateful to Neymar that he came here, when he could have earned more money at other clubs."


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