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Buruma, Ian
Ian Buruma 1951-
Dutch journalist, nonfiction writer, essayist, travel essayist, and novelist.
The following entry presents an overview of Buruma's career through 2002.
A respected journalist and multilingual international traveler, Buruma has earned distinction as an incisive commentator on Asian popular culture and contemporary politics, particularly in Japan. Behind the Mask (1984), published as Japan's booming economy attracted renewed Western interest in Japanese society, was hailed as an insightful study of that nation's gender and cultural archetypes. Likewise, God's Dust (1989), in which Buruma challenged stereotypical views about Western influence on Eastern cultures, was praised for revealing the complexity of Asian self-identity and the impact of Western consumerism on the East. Buruma has also examined the impact of World War II on the national consciousness of Germany and Japan in The Wages of Guilt (1994), European attitudes toward Britain in Anglomania (1999), and the post-Tiananmen Square lives of Chinese dissidents and other South Asian radicals in Bad Elements (2001).
Biographical Information
Buruma was born in The Hague, Netherlands, to Sytze Leonard Buruma, a Dutch attorney, and Gwendolyn Margaret Schlesinger, a Briton whose parents were the children of German-Jewish refugees who immigrated to England in the late nineteenth century. Buruma's childhood in postwar Holland, where the Germans were still vilified as enemies, and his exposure to English culture through his grandparents is recounted in several of his works. Buruma's interest in Japan was piqued as a student when he saw a Japanese theater group performing in the Netherlands. After studying Chinese literature at Leiden University in Holland, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Chinese in 1975, Buruma moved to Japan. He studied Japanese film, performed with a Japanese traveling theater troupe, and worked as a journalist and editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review from 1983 to 1986. He married Sumie Tani in 1981. Buruma's interest in Japanese culture was reflected in the 1984 publication of Behind the Mask, which was published in Britain as A Japanese Mirror. After traveling extensively in several Asian countries, Buruma published God's Dust, essays based on observations made during his travels. Beginning in 1990, after relocating to London, Buruma worked as foreign editor for the news magazine The Spectator, though he resigned from the position the following year. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, the London Observer, and Asia.
Major Works
Buruma's work focuses primarily on Asia, exploring themes of duality and conflict both within Asian societies and between Eastern and Western culture. Much of his nonfiction was originally produced for publication in periodicals, and the style is journalistic rather than academic, characterized by first-hand observation, interviews, and personal anecdotes written in an engaging fashion. In Behind the Mask, Buruma examines recurring motifs in Japanese entertainment, focusing on a key paradox of Japanese society: the polite, proscribed, ritualistic daily life of the Japanese and the prevalence of extreme violence in Japanese popular books, film, and television. Six of the chapters focus on women, five focus on men, and two explore effeminate men and masculine women. According to Buruma, the mother figure—tragic and self-sacrificing—serves as the dominant female icon in Japanese film. Men are either infantilized by women or represented as hardened gangsters to be admired for their personification of Japanese manhood. Buruma contends that this paradox is influenced by Japan's native Shinto religion, which reveres the strong female mother, associated with the masses, and Buddhism, imported centuries ago by the Japanese upper class. God's Dust—based on Buruma's travels in Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan—examines Asia in transition. The conflict stems from the idea that the industrialized, urban West has corrupted the idealized, village-based society of the East. Buruma disputes this simplistic theory, while acknowledging that Western influence has spurred changes in Asia. He argues that the East often embraces aspects of the West while retaining fundamental elements of its native culture. Buruma also draws attention to several Asian dictators, including Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, Ne Win of Burma, and Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, whom Buruma interviewed with his wife, Imelda, and whose former home Buruma visits, noting the deposed Marcos' affinity for Western-style consumption. Playing the Game (1991) is Buruma's only published work of fiction. In this novel, Buruma's preoccupation with cross-cultural conflict is represented by Colonel Sir Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. This character, based on real-life Indian prince Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji who was maharaja of Nawan̄agar from 1907 to 1933, became famous in England and British India as a world-class cricket player and flamboyant man about town. Popularly known as Ranji, he was a progressive ruler who developed seaports, railroads, and irrigation facilities in the city. The title refers both to the game of cricket and Ranji's effort to find acceptance in British society. Written primarily in epistolary form, Buruma reconstructs and reimagines Ranji through the persona of an unidentified narrator who is researching his life. The reader comes to know Ranji through a long letter written by him to his friend, the cricket player C. B. Fry, and through the narrator's encounters with friends and acquaintances.
Buruma again addressed the differences between East and West in The Wages of Guilt, in which he compares the legacy of World War II in Germany and Japan. Both countries suffered defeat and committed atrocities during the war. However, in Japan, Buruma finds a markedly different national zeitgeist concerning the war than he found in Germany. He constructs his argument by traveling through both countries, interviewing public figures and private citizens, visiting memorials and museums devoted to the war, and studying the war through the film and literature of each country. Buruma finds a sense of great national guilt in Germany, whereas Japanese citizens, in contrast, express little or no remorse. Moreover, Buruma notes that the Japanese maintain a prevailing sense of victimhood as a result of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Buruma ultimately proposes two key factors in these disparate responses: Germany's government was totally dismantled and its leaders tried for crimes against humanity, while Japan's emperor was allowed to continue his rule; and Germany's crimes during the Holocaust were much more horrific than Japan's acts of war. The Missionary and the Libertine (1996), a collection of essays—many of which previously appeared in the New York Review of Books—covers an eclectic variety of topics, including the Seoul Olympics, Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Singaporean politics, anti-Japanese racism in Michael Crichton's novel Rising Sun, and the work of Japanese authors Jun'ichuro Tanizaki and Mahoko Yoshimoto. Buruma posits that values currently considered Asian in nature are found in Western literature—and vice versa. The title of Buruma's volume refers to the yin and yang of sexual impulses, the prevalent stereotype of the repressed West and the dissolute East. Anglomania, published in Britain as Voltaire's Coconuts, examines the concept of Anglophilia—an affinity for England and English culture—as manifested by disparate representatives of Continental Europe. Buruma presents biographical sketches of famous Anglophiles who took refuge in England, notably Voltaire; the English title of Buruma's book alludes to Voltaire's notion that English democracy could be transplanted to revolutionary France, as coconuts could be cultivated in non-tropical climates. Along with his own meditations on the nature of Englishness and the German passion for Shakespeare, Buruma provides studies of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Karl Marx, Theodor Herzl, Giuseppe Mazzini, Pierre de Coubertin, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and others. The narrative is interspersed with autobiographic recollections in which Buruma discusses his patriotic English grandparents and his own early Anglophilia, which he shared with other Dutch youths. In Bad Elements, Buruma examines the state of the democracy movement in China more than a decade after the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising. Buruma's investigation, informed by interviews with exiled Chinese political activists and former student leaders, reveals the bitter infighting that persists among Chinese dissidents and juxtaposes the travails of agitators in China with their counterparts in Singapore, Taiwan, and Tibet.
Critical Reception
Buruma has received nearly unanimous praise for his astute, interesting studies of Asian culture and society. Critics have often noted his dual Dutch-British parentage, his facility with various languages, and his expansive knowledge of literature and history as distinguishing features of his unique personal perspective. His intimate understanding of the Far East, acquired through extensive first-hand engagements, has also earned him a reputation as an expert in Asian studies. Reviewers have praised Behind the Mask for providing a Western audience with an accurate portrait of the Japanese cultural psyche. God's Dust has been similarly appreciated for Buruma's insightful commentary on the intersection of Eastern and Western culture in Asia. In these works, as well as The Wages of Guilt, The Missionary and the Libertine, Anglomania, and Bad Elements, Buruma has earned respect for his intelligence, penetrating analysis, and engaging writing. Buruma's effort at fiction in Playing the Game, however, has received mixed reviews, with some critics lauding his historical re-creation and portrayal of cultural conflict and others finding the subject arcane, uninteresting, and unconvincing. Though a journalist rather than an academic, Buruma has been highly regarded for his significant contributions to the study of modern Asia. Reviewers have consistently commended Buruma's effort to dismantle Western misconceptions about the East, as well as his exploration of historical memory and the currents of national identity in both the East and West.
Principal Works
Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters, and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes (nonfiction) 1984; published in the United Kingdom as A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture
God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey (travel essays) 1989
Playing the Game (novel) 1991
The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (nonfiction) 1994
The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West (essays) 1996
Anglomania: A European Love Affair (nonfiction) 1999; published in the United Kingdom as Voltaire's Coconuts:...
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Justin Wintle (review date 17 February 1984)
SOURCE: Wintle, Justin. "A Pinch of Aji No Moto." New Statesman 107, no. 2761 (17 February 1984): 23-4.
[In the following review, Wintle praises A Japanese Mirror, calling it an "engaging, at times disturbing read."]
Much has been made of Japan's isolation. Western commentators, brought up in the meta-community of Christian states, are inevitably impressed by the long periods in Japan's history when, to all intents and purposes, the country had no contact with the outside world. And yet when contact has occurred the effects have been decisive, even traumatic. Buddhism, Confucianism, Chinese and Americo-European culture have each had a critical and...
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Edward Seidensticker (review date 13-20 August 1984)
SOURCE: Seidensticker, Edward. "Japan Kink." New Republic 191, nos. 7-8 (13-20 August 1984): 40-2.
[In the following review, Seidensticker compliments Buruma's commentary on Japanese culture in Behind the Mask.]
Ian Buruma has written a lively book [Behind the Mask] about what we may call the dirty side of Japan, more interesting to some of us than the pretty side that has been so much more widely publicized by the Japanese information services and by those of us who write about Japan. In his preface Buruma says that his book
is an attempt to draw a picture of the Japanese as they imagine themselves to be, and as they...
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Caroline Moorehead (review date 27 October 1989)
SOURCE: Moorehead, Caroline. "Asia's Crisis of Identity." New Statesman and Society 2, no. 73 (27 October 1989): 33.
[In the following review of God's Dust, Moorehead commends Buruma's anecdotal sketches but finds shortcomings in the book's "dense" scholarly passages and Buruma's failure to answer his own guiding questions.]
Do McDonald's hamburgers and Dynasty make the Thais less Thai and the Japanese less Japanese? This question, how a country becomes modern without losing its sense of identity and culture, fascinated Ian Buruma long before he sat down to write this book [God's Dust]. On his many travels round the east he had grown...
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Richard West (review date 11 November 1989)
SOURCE: West, Richard. "Cultural Confusion in the East." Spectator 263, no. 8420 (11 November 1989): 54-5.
[In the following review, West compliments Buruma's writing in God's Dust, though he acknowledges that he disagrees with "almost all Mr Buruma's views and opinions."]
Some four years ago, I read in the New York Review of Books an article on the Philippines of such originality and depth of understanding that I immediately wanted to know some more about its author, Ian Buruma. He turned out to be a young Dutch scholar of oriental languages who had already published what my informants called the best modern book on Japan, and now lived in Hong...
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J. L. Carr (review date 13 April 1991)
SOURCE: Carr, J. L. "Extra Coverage without Being Caught Out." Spectator 266, no. 8492 (13 April 1991): 33-4.
[In the following review, Carr offers a positive assessment of Playing the Game.]
Colonel Sir Shri Ranjitsinhji, Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, Prince of the (Mysterious) East, English folk-hero with diamond tie-pin in I. Zingari tie, a pocketful of Cartier gold eggs and, under his belt, 3000 runs, (av. 87) and a salute of five double-centuries in the Indian-summer of '99. Not Sir Walter Scott, not even Sir Bulwer Lytton opened a novel with more lustrous a hero. Why, even my father had heard of him.
And Mr Buruma's narrator [in Playing the...
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Matthew Engel (review date 19 April 1991)
SOURCE: Engel, Matthew. "A Dandy at the Crease." New Statesman and Society 4, no. 147 (19 April 1991): 36.
[In the following review, Engel criticizes Playing the Game, noting that Buruma is "far more of a journalist than he is a writer of imaginative fiction."]
Consider this: a Rajput princeling, deprived of his rightful inheritance by palace intrigues, emerges into fin-de-siècle English society as the most graceful and exciting cricketer of his time. The stuff of fiction, perhaps? Except that the story is true, or trueish. Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of Cambridge University, Sussex and England (later His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Jam...
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Benny Green (review date 1 September 1991)
SOURCE: Green, Benny. "The Ponce of Players." Los Angeles Times Book Review (1 September 1991): 3, 7.
[In the following review, Green offers a negative assessment of Playing the Game.]
Ian Buruma's Playing the Game, an epistolary biography masquerading as a novel; is a honeyed account of the life of that dazzling orchid in the English imperial garden, His Highness the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, Col. Shri Sir K. S. Ranjitsinhji. The English sporting public, dispensing with the Oriental flummery, dubbed him Ranji, and Ranji he has always remained.
Until he stepped onto the playing fields of Queen Victoria's last years, there had never been any...
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Elizabeth Beverly (review date 20 May 1994)
SOURCE: Beverly, Elizabeth. "A Tale of Two Peoples." Commonweal 121, no. 10 (20 May 1994): 28, 30.
[In the following review, Beverly praises Buruma's intelligence and compelling interests in The Wages of Guilt, but finds flaws with Buruma's lack of focused analysis and reflection.]
Several years ago, Ian Buruma, a Dutch-born journalist and essayist living in England, with well-established ties to Japan, decided to learn more about Japanese memories of World War II, and the relation of these to a resurgence in Japanese nationalism. It appeared that many Japanese, embracing Hiroshima as a symbol, saw themselves most centrally as victims of Allied aggression,...
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Barry Gewen (review date 6-20 June 1994)
SOURCE: Gewen, Barry. "Different Wars, Different Crimes." New Leader 77, no. 6 (6-20 June 1994): 6-8.
[In the following review, Gewen praises Buruma's subtle analysis of Germany and Japan's World War II legacy in The Wages of Guilt.]
[The Wages of Guilt] seems to be a book that the talented journalist Ian Buruma was destined to write. In the Introduction, entitled "The Enemies," he explains how, as a boy growing up in the postwar Netherlands, he learned to view the people who had over-run his nation a few years earlier as the embodiment of evil. Germans had sent his father away to work in their factories; they had tortured and murdered many of his...
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William H. Gass (review date 24 June 1994)
SOURCE: Gass, William H. "Who Is to Blame?" Los Angeles Times Book Review (24 June 1994): 1, 8-9.
[In the following review, Gass offers a positive assessment of The Wages of Guilt.]
The shameful memory market, where Ian Buruma's remarkable book [The Wages of Guilt] takes us, has many stalls. Perhaps there has been in the whole of history no more murderous an age, no period more productive of pain—of death, dislocation and despair—than our own century. Our civilization has found new ways to go mad, contrived fresh methods of mass destruction, gone to wars as if wars were parties, and created several calamities to signal that it has outdone nature's most...
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John Grigg (review date 16 July 1994)
SOURCE: Grigg, John. "Fifty Years On, When Afar and Asunder." Spectator 273, no. 8662 (16 July 1994): 31-2.
[In the following review, Grigg evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of The Wages of Guilt.]
The author of this interesting book [The Wages of Guilt] is of Anglo-Dutch parentage. He was educated in Holland in the 1950s, and was taught there to regard Germans (not just the Nazis) as enemies. In the 1970s and 1980s he spent much time 'in or around Japan,' and Japanese is one of his six languages. Fascinated by Japanese attitudes to the second world war, he was struck by the lingering influence of certain notions from 19th- and early 20th-century...
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Herbert P. Bix (review date 27 July 1994)
SOURCE: Bix, Herbert P. "How Japan and Germany Remember Their Military Pasts." Christian Science Monitor (27 July 1994): 13.
[In the following review, Bix summarizes Buruma's historical perspective in The Wages of Guilt and objects to Buruma's criticism of the Nuremberg and Tokyo war trials.]
In 1990, when George Bush opted for war in the Persian Gulf, the governments of Japan and newly unified Germany were criticized in the United States for hiding behind their peace constitutions and providing money but not troops for the allied effort.
The new economic superpowers (so the argument went) had drawn the wrong lessons from their past...
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Glyn Ford (review date 19 August 1994)
SOURCE: Ford, Glyn. "Unfinished Business." New Statesman and Society 7, no. 316 (19 August 1994): 39-40.
[In the following excerpt, Ford compliments Buruma's central argument in The Wages of Guilt.]
After all but half a century of hegemonic rule, Japan is in a state of rapid flux. The old Liberal Democratic Party, Jiminto—in power since the war apart from a Socialist interlude in 1947-48—is no more. A conjuncture of corruption, the end of the cold war and the passage of time has seen an edifice crumble. After two brief opposition administrations of Socialists, LDP dissidents and the rest, we currently have a Tony Benn-style prime minister kept in power...
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Nader Mousavizadeh (review date 19 June 1995)
SOURCE: Mousavizadeh, Nader. "States of Denial." New Republic 212, no. 25 (19 June 1995): 40-3.
[In the following review, Mousavizadeh praises The Wages of Guilt, though he expresses reservations over Buruma's ironic tone and detached approach to Nazi atrocities.]
For the Germans and the Japanese of the generations after the Second World War, the memories of war and defeat have been internalized as burdens of identity. But they have not been internalized in the same way. And this difference has had as much to do with how the world has projected that burden as with how those societies themselves have sought to cope with it. For the world, as well as for the...
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Martin Vander Weyer (review date 20 April 1996)
SOURCE: Weyer, Martin Vander. "Japan Looking Sexy." Spectator 276, no. 8753 (20 April 1996): 36.
[In the following review of The Missionary and the Libertine, Weyer lauds Buruma's insight and intelligence but concludes that his journalistic essays lack the depth and reflection of his books.]
The last time I bumped into Ian Buruma was at the Tory Party conference in Blackpool, where he was composing an anthropological sketch of the faithful for the benefit of Guardian readers. The first time I came across his name was in the mid-1980s when I was about to move to Tokyo: A Japanese Mirror, his guide to the modern Japanese psyche as revealed by...
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Stephen Howe (review date 17 May 1996)
SOURCE: Howe, Stephen. "Never the Twain?" New Statesman and Society 9, no. 403 (17 May 1996): 39-40.
[In the following excerpt, Howe evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of The Missionary and the Libertine.]
The idea of a fundamental difference between "east" and "west," Europe and Asia, has been one of the most constantly renewed clichés of world history. It is at least as old as the Greek-Persian wars of 2,500 years ago, and as new as the febrile US debates about the "clash of civilisations," the supposed economic threat from East Asia and the political one from Islam.
It has never been clear where Europe ends and Asia starts,...
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Daniel Britten (review date 19 March 1999)
SOURCE: Britten, Daniel. "To England, with Love." New Statesman 129, no. 4428 (19 March 1999): 45-6.
[In the following review, Britten compliments Buruma's appealing writing in Voltaire's Coconuts, but finds the book lacking in serious analysis.]
Why, asks Ian Buruma in [Voltaire's Coconuts,] his study of Anglophilia in Europe, has Britain "managed to achieve its peculiar equilibrium, based on a combination of social stability and inequality, of freedom and dull conformity, tolerance and provincial smugness, civility and greed"? The question presupposes that Britain actually achieved such a state of civility, since there have been and still are...
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Niall Ferguson (review date 17 May 1999)
SOURCE: Ferguson, Niall. "Happy Is England." New Republic 220, no. 4400 (17 May 1999): 48-50.
[In the following review, Ferguson praises Anglomania, though notes minor shortcomings in Buruma's failure to address Scottish Anglophilia.]
The American Anglophile is a recognizable type. It is usually the Harris tweed jacket that gives him away, or the Savile Row suit. Instead of neat buttons on either side, his shirts have those odd cutaway collars that the English favor. His accent may be more Ivy League than Oxbridge, but every now and then he throws in telling Anglicisms, such as Gatsby's "old sport." Come to think of it, Fitzgerald's character is the...
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John Lukacs (review date 6 June 1999)
SOURCE: Lukacs, John. "The Cult of John Bull." Los Angeles Times Book Review (6 June 1999): 2.
[In the following review of Anglomania, Lukacs lauds Buruma's "erudition" and "illuminating" biographical sketches, but asserts that the work represents "a tasty introduction to a vast and profound topic" rather than a definitive history or incisive summary of Anglophilia.]
Anglomania is a book about a truly remarkable—and now historic—phenomenon, which lasted for 200 years or more, and which was a deep seated element in international relations. The accepted use of the term "international relations" is, alas, false: for it deals with the...
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Albert Hobson (review date January 2000)
SOURCE: Hobson, Albert. "How Europeans See England." Contemporary Review 276, no. 1608 (January 2000): 48-9.
[In the following review, Hobson argues that Buruma offers a compelling analysis of English culture in Voltaire's Coconuts, calling the work "worth-while and stimulating."]
I opened this book [Voltaire's Coconuts] with a sinking heart. The title is fashionably silly, in the manner of Flaubert's Parrot, while the subtitle suggests a thesis imperfectly converted into a book. I was, however, delighted to discover that it is urbane, middleweight intellectual fun, which told me a great deal I did not know and ought to have done. It is one...
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Timothy Tung (review date November-December 2001)
SOURCE: Tung, Timothy. "In Search of an Archetype." New Leader 84, no. 6 (November-December 2001): 23-5.
[In the following review, Tung offers a positive assessment of Bad Elements.]
The title of Ian Buruma's new book [Bad Elements] is intriguing. Surely he is aware that "bad elements" (buliangfenzi) is a Chinese Communist term applied to all kinds of social malcontents, from political dissidents to common criminals. But his subtitle suggests a broad range of Chinese "rebels" both inside and outside China. Are we then to equate the politically disfranchised in Singapore and Taiwan with those silenced in China or exiled in the West who command...
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Colin Thubron (review date 18 May 2002)
SOURCE: Thubron, Colin. "A Complicated People." Spectator 288, no. 9067 (18 May 2002): 41-2.
[In the following positive review, Thubron compliments Bad Elements as "a wise and imaginative work."]
The Chinese dissident, by contrast to the Russian, has generally been a remote figure—there is no Solzhenitsyn, no Sakharov or Pasternak—and the atrocious penal labour camps which scatter the Chinese landmass are still less known than the Gulag.
Ian Buruma's Bad Elements helps make amends. The political and cultural questions which rage through it are vested in characterful men and women with shocking pasts and largely unheroic...
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Richard Gott (review date 10 June 2002)
SOURCE: Gott, Richard. "Foreign Affairs Lite, with Added Buruma." New Statesman 131, no. 4591 (10 June 2002): 48-9.
[In the following review, Gott comments that Buruma's prose in Bad Elements is "bland" and less engaging that his previous works.]
The New York art world revives itself periodically by promoting the work of artists from distant locations, from Korea, say, or Japan. These are people who have gone to live in the United States and are familiar with its art practice, yet retain something of the "otherness" of their country of origin. Their work often receives critical acclaim for its "originality."
Ian Buruma is a...
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Further Reading
Adil, Alev. "The Yellow Man's Burden." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4856 (26 April 1996): 36.
Adil offers a positive assessment of The Missionary and the Libertine, though notes that Buruma's commentary on culture is more rewarding than his commentary on politics.
Ascherson, Neal. "Put Out More Flags." New York Review of Books 46, no. 9 (20 May 1999): 12, 14.
Ascherson praises Anglomania, though notes that Buruma does not adequately distinguish between "English" and "British" traits.
Banville, John. "Winners." New York Review of Books 38, no....
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participated in the second-ever U.S.-Colombian High-Level Partnership Dialogue at the Department of State on May 31, 2011. In remarks to participants, Secretary Clinton said:
"...We meet at a time when there is so much going on in our hemisphere and around the world, and we are inspired and greatly admiring of all that Colombia has accomplished.
"For me, it is just a stark comparison. Where citizens once lived in fear to exercise their right to vote, now we have peaceful democratic elections that are really the envy of so many other countries that have not been able to make that transition. We see now not only Colombia consolidating gains internally, but reaching out to help neighbors in so many respects, and I am delighted that we are building on the strong relationship that we've had over the past years. Of course, we're so committed to the passage of the Free Trade Agreement. We know -- which is what President Obama has stated publicly and unequivocally -- that this will bring jobs and growth to both of our countries. It will also help to support the security gains that Colombia has made, and, as our two presidents have agreed, it opens even a broader vista for greater cooperation on the spectrum of our shared challenges and opportunities.
"Many of you have been involved in this conversation for a long time, and today, with the convening of five working groups, three for the first time, we hope there will be even greater contact between officials of our two governments and more creative approaches to cooperation. Human rights have been a focal point in our dialogue, and I am very honored that Vice President Garzon joined with Deputy Secretary Steinberg to continue the conversations which they started last October in Bogota. And we know that this is a high priority for the Santos administration, to improve on human rights, labor rights, and civil rights.
"We also are strongly supportive of your efforts to return families who are displaced by violence to their homes and to end impunity for abuses, and I understand there was agreement to track, on a monthly basis, the progress of important human rights cases. This kind of whole-of-government effort, bringing together experts on security, development, and the rule of law -- all of whom are with us today -- is a way to really focus the attention of us all.
"The Energy Working Group is working to expand our partnership on fossil fuels and clean energy, and the very promising ideas that Colombia has presented for linking electric grids across Latin America. For the first time, the Climate Change and Environmental Protection Working Group was convened. Colombia exercised leadership in Cancun, and we want to deepen our diplomatic cooperation at future climate talks and to find new ways to develop strategies for expanding development without increasing carbon emissions.
"And an issue that is particularly close to my heart is inclusive development, and I am very impressed that the Santos administration has adopted this as a goal. The Social and Economic Working Group discussed Colombia's national development plan, and the United States wants to support this impressive investment in the Colombian people and to look for how we can reach out to all Colombians, in particular indigenous and Afro-Caribbean populations. And I was at the OECD just a few days ago in Paris, and I want to underscore that we want to support Colombia's bid to join the OECD.
"And finally, the Culture and Education Working Group met on how each country can expand access to education, preserve ancient cultures, optimize people-to-people exchanges such as the Fulbright Scholarship that brought President Santos to the United States 31 years ago. We've been working closely together for a long time, but I really believe this dialogue represents a deeper engagement than we've ever had before. Certainly during the '90s, an era that I am somewhat familiar with in American politics, we began a very close working relationship on behalf of security. But now, given the extraordinary gains that Colombia has made, the United States wants to support the priorities that President Santos is able to promote, to build on an environment that does provide more physical security, to move now to human security and all of the issues that go with economic growth, with social and cultural transformation.
"Now, some I know say, well, when people come and talk, what happens? And I think it's too simplistic a question, because one really never knows what can happen through this kind of engagement, through getting to know one another, through building relationships. I'm convinced in the absence of that, the answer is easy: Not much will happen. But given this level of engagement that we saw in action, I'm told, at lunch with so many different people coming from across our government and yours to discuss a way forward on the range of issues that are important, there is an extraordinary opportunity here.
"And I thank you for your hard work on behalf of Colombia, and I thank my colleagues in government for your hard work on behalf of this very important relationship that we have between our two countries. I wanted to come this afternoon to underscore the importance that we place on it and to thank you not only for what you have done, which presents such an extraordinary model for so many others, but for the increasing role that you are playing in the region and the world.
"Just in the last few months, the work that the president and the foreign minister have led on the reintegration of Honduras into the OAS, which we hope and trust occurs tomorrow -- it could not have happened without creative diplomacy and Colombian leadership. The role that Colombia is playing on the Security Council, the strong support for standing against the abusive actions of Qadhafi in Libya, and of looking for ways to hold governments accountable for their mistreatment of their own citizens -- again, Colombia is playing a global leadership role.
"So on so many fronts, this is a relationship that is on a solid foundation but has the opportunity to become so much more for the benefit not only of the people of Colombia, but I would say for our own people in the United States the kind of positive, open relationship that we hope to see even stronger in the future, we think is very much in the interests of the United States as well as Colombia. We actually have a lot to learn from you, and we look forward to the opportunities that this partnership dialogue provides to do just that."
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Today, President Barack Obama called on the Ukrainian Government to show restraint and not to resort to violence. President Obama said, "We hold the Ukrainian government primarily responsible for making sure that it is dealing with peaceful protesters in an appropriate way, that the Ukrainian people are able to assemble and speak freely about their interests without fear of repression."
The President iterated that the United States will continue to engage with all sides in the dispute in Ukraine. After arriving in Mexico for the North American Leaders Summit, he said, "...Ultimately our interest is to make sure the Ukrainian people can express their own desires."
Earlier in the day, Secretary of State John Kerry addressed the situation in Ukraine during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Fabius Laurent in Paris. Secretary Kerry said the United States is deeply disturbed by the violence and that Ukrainian President Yanukovych has the opportunity to make a choice "between protecting the people that he serves, all of the people, and a choice for a compromise and dialogue versus violence and mayhem." The Secretary tweeted, "No one wants Ukraine to descend into chaos; choice is in President Yanukovych's hands." Secretary Kerry said, "Our desire is for Mr. Yanukovych to bring people together, dialogue with the opposition, find the measure of compromise, and put the broad interests of the people of Ukraine out front."
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Both Ike teams, Lady Dragons in D-10 playoffs
Both Eisenhower basketball teams, and Warren's girls basketball team, have District 10 playoff games scheduled for later this week.
With District 10 qualifying three teams from the boys' District 10 Class A playoffs to states, there is a six-team bracket. Kennedy Catholic is the Region 1 champion in an all-Class A region, so it gets a bye at 15-5 overall. Cochranton (14-8) gets the other bye as the top Class A team out of Region 3.
Eisenhower's boys team (8-13) will open against Commodore Perry (5-17), which was in fourth place at 1-7 in the all-Class A Region 1, at 8 p.m. Friday at Oil City High School. The winner will face Cochranton in the semifinals.
Eisenhower has come on of late with three straight wins and Commodore Perry lost to 3-17 Youngsville by 19 points early in the season. A win would guarantee Ike at least a shot at states with a finals appearance or in the third-place game.
The Lady Knights (10-12) made the playoffs as the second Class A seed out of a Class A, AA and AAA Region 3. Eisenhower's girls team will also play Commodore Perry High School (10-12), tied for third in the all-Class A Region 1, at 4 p.m. Saturday at Oil City High School.
The winner will meet Region 1 champion Kennedy Catholic (20-2), which has a quarterfinal round bye, in the semifinal round. The top two teams advance to the PIAA Tournament out of Class A girls.
Like the Class A boys, the Class AAA girls bracket will have three teams advance to states. But it won't be easy.
Warren (15-6), and the third seed out of Region 6, will meet Region 5 second seed Hickory (19-3) at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Kennedy Catholic High School. Warren has been up and down this season, but gets another crack at the team it lost to in overtime in last year's D-10 Class AAA playoffs. Hickory was the D-10 runner-up a year ago, losing to region-rival Franklin in the championship game. The winner likely gets last year's District 10 Class AA champion Villa Maria (20-2) in the semifinals, barring a quarterfinals upset by Grove City (13-9).
Here are the District 10 high school basketball playoff pairings:
District 10 basketball playoffs
Class A
At Oil City High School
VisionQuest (9-13) vs. Rocky Grove (7-15), 6:30 p.m.
Eisenhower (8-13) vs. Commodore Perry (5-17), 8 p.m.
Byes: Kennedy Catholic (15-5), Cochranton (14-8)
Site, time, date to be determined
Kennedy Catholic vs. VisionQuest-Rocky Grove winner
Cochranton vs. Eisenhower-Commodore Perry winner
Class AA
At Farrell High School
Lakeview (19-3) vs. Titusville (17-5), 6:30 p.m.
West Middlesex (19-3) vs. Iroquois (10-12), 8 p.m.
At General McLane High School
Saegertown (18-4) vs. Fairview (14-8), 6:30 p.m.
Mercyhurst Prep (15-7) vs. Sharpsville (12-10), 8 p.m.
Site, times, date to be determined
West Middlesex-Iroquois winner vs. Saegertown-Fairview winner
Mercyhurst Prep-Sharpsville winner vs. Lakeview-Titusville winner
Class AAA
At Slippery Rock University
Meadville (16-6) vs. Strong Vincent (12-10), 6:30 p.m.
Hickory (19-3) vs. East (11-11), 8 p.m.
At Edinboro University
General McLane (17-5) vs. Farrell (14-8), 6:30 p.m.
Girard (18-4) vs. Sharon (12-10), 8 p.m.
Site, times, date to be determined
Hickory-East winner vs. General McLane-Farrell winner
Girard-Sharon winner vs. Meadville-Strong Vincent winner
Class AAAA
At Gannon University
Central Tech (17-5) vs. McDowell (13-9), 7:30 p.m.
Bye: Cathedral Prep (20-2)
Class A
At Oil City High School
Cochranton (14-8) vs. Reynolds (7-15), 1 p.m.
Commodore Perry (10-12) vs. Eisenhower (10-12), 4 p.m.
At Kennedy Catholic High School
Farrell (11-11) vs. Rocky Grove (10-12), noon
Bye: Kennedy Catholic (20-2)
Site, times, date to be determined
Kennedy Catholic vs. Commodore Perry-Eisenhower winner
Cochranton-Reynolds winner vs. Farrell-Rocky Grove winner
Class AA
At Kennedy Catholic High School
Girard (17-5) vs. Mercer (16-6), 1:30 p.m.
Sharpsville (15-7) vs. Seneca (16-6), 3 p.m.
At Gannon University
General McLane (20-2) vs. Saegertown (14-7), 1 p.m.
North East (19-3) vs. Sharon (14-8), 2:30 p.m.
Site, times, date to be determined
Girard-Mercer winner vs. General McLane-Saegertown winner
North East-Sharon winner vs. Sharpsville-Seneca winner
Class AAA
At Gannon University
Villa Maria (20-2) vs. Grove City (13-9), 4 p.m.
At Kennedy Catholic High School
Hickory (19-3) vs. Warren (15-6), 4:30 p.m.
At Oil City High School
Franklin (21-1) vs. Conneaut (19-3), 2:30 p.m.
Mercyhurst Prep (15-7) vs. Slippery Rock (15-7), 5:30 p.m.
Site, times, date to be determined
Villa Maria-Grove City winner vs. Hickory-Warren winner
Franklin-Conneaut winner vs. Mercyhurst Prep-Slippery Rock winner
Class AAAA
At Gannon University
Central Tech (9-13) vs. East (6-15), 6 p.m.
Bye: McDowell (12-10)


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He is survived by his wife, Catherine; three children, Michael (Cheryl Collins), Cathy (Dennis) Hutchison both of Gaylord, and Barb (Richard) Werle of Alpena; 11 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; two sisters; Iris Snyder of Alpena, and Margurite Hampton of Harbor Springs; two sisters-in-law, Patricia Thompson of Ossineke, and Alice Silver of Alpena; and many nieces and nephews.
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Cramer said Citrix Systems (CTXS) is a cloud play with a large short interest. He thinks the stock is headed higher. Cramer was also bullish on the oil stocks, but not on Pioneer Drilling (PXD) , which sold some of its acreage.CTXS closed Thursday up 9.2% whyile PXD was up 1.1%.
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I would be very surprised if the American Metalcraft stone possessed feet. I have seen the product listed numerous (6+) places, and not one of them mentions feet. It's fairly clearly shown that the stone does not rise above the surface it rests on in the following picture: http://www.amnow.com/pizzaSupplies/images/pizzaStonesSTONE13.jpg
Isn't this like trying to decide whether a McLaren or an Enzo Ferrari would make a better 25mph turn? - aba
Nov said "and holding more heat is generally accepted as a good thing for baking stones", although this statement could be debated too. Personally, I'm thinking I'd like my stone to transfer and absorb heat pretty easily too, unless his statement was only with respect to heat capacity.
higher densities can hold more heat that is; and holding more heat is generally accepted as a good thing for baking stones.
When you guys say Cordierite, are you then talking about a natural occuring mineral or an engineered composite material (like FibraMent)? Could I for example get my local stonecutter to cut me a slice of Cordierite to use as a baking stone?


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Was Smokey a pekingese? She reminds me of a dog I had, Molly, who was a peke. What a character she was!ReplyDelete
My mom always made our costumes. It was a point of honor that her children wouldn't wear store-bought costumes which, frankly, were pretty flimsy in the 60's.Replies
Yes. Smokey was a pekingese. I think mom would have liked to make our costumes but as a working single mom with an obsessive need for a clean house buying was easier.Delete
My mom always made my costumes also. The best she made when I was in the fourth grade--It was a Japanese kimono complete with an obi and a black wig. It was great. I always made my kids costumes also-as Teri says, it was a point of pride.ReplyDeleteReplies
I made a few of Jessica's costumes but was usually pulling my hair out by the end of the "ordeal." Maybe next year I'll post some of those. Thank you for coming by.Delete
Great costume Cleopatra! I alawys wanted to dress up as Cleopatra. You even have a septor to command your kingdom. Love your little doggie too! What great memories your photos evoke.ReplyDeleteReplies
I thought that was funny when you wrote about Cleopatra in WIG and that Karen had a photo of her. She would be a fun character but I honestly don't think I had a clue at the time. lolDelete


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|Great hike, past the first part
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2014
|The first part of this trail is covered in horse shit and is disgusting. The guys with horses also follow you and every time you stop bug you to pay for their horse...very pushy. Once you get to the point where they stop following and the crap goes away, it's beautiful and a worthwhile experience.
|Posted Feb 3, 2015 2:56 pm
Date Climbed: Dec 26, 2014
|Today Shaylee and I climbed Volcán Pacaya. It was a pretty easy and popular climb, but it was very scenic. The point we actually reached was Cerro Chino, since the highest summit of the volcano was off limits because of potential activity. There was lots of new lava around, but the volcano was actually quiet, though it was smoking. It hadn't had a real eruption since November 2013.
We got to roast marmallows in the vents of on the volcan. We left super early in the morning (dark) and got back early afternoon.
Obviously climbing an active volcano isn´t enough adventure, so we went bungee jumping, including doing a sling shot bungee jump where they launch you in the air, which is supposedly more thrilling than simply jumping off a bridge. Shaylee did three jumps, but one was enough for me.
The weather was good and it was a spectacular trip.
|Posted Jan 18, 2015 6:35 pm
Date Climbed: Dec 26, 2014
|Posted Jan 10, 2015 7:03 am
|Striking landscape
Date Climbed: May 29, 2014
|Striking landscape that looms into view at the final approach. There is also a mirador about half-way up with a dramatic view of Volcán de Agua, and a few spots to see the caldera lake nearby.
|Posted Aug 13, 2014 1:46 pm
|Near The Top
Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2013
|As close as the weather and lava would let us get.
|Posted Jun 4, 2014 11:12 pm
|Fun Family Hike
Date Climbed: Dec 13, 2010
|We went as far as the local guide said was safe. Is that successful? You tell me. This hike is covered in my trip report Guatemala Tourist Hiking.
|Posted Mar 10, 2013 8:25 pm
|nice views
Date Climbed: Dec 20, 2012
|got to see great views of the other volcanoes, checked out some caverns and several heat spots. Were not allowed to go to the summit, unfortunately.
|Posted Jan 19, 2013 7:04 pm
|Great show
Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2009
|Spent quite a while watching and poking at lava that night. Totally mesmerizing.
|Posted Oct 23, 2011 10:25 am
|Summit inaccesible
Date Climbed: Dec 8, 2010
|Did the cheap tour from Antigua (13$). Walked to the still warm but not glowing lava field.
For the moment summit climbs are not allowed by the park guards. Maybe one can try it illegally but the summit crater is still emitting a large amount of fumes. So enjoy the view from below and wait for a safer time.
|Posted Dec 22, 2010 8:57 pm
|I first climbed Pacaya right up to the top back in November 2005 and it made me feel special doing something most other people didn't. I returned in November 2006 and this time there was lava but we didn't climb up to the top, however I did get very close to a small lava trickle and it was like standing next to a hot oven.
|Posted Mar 13, 2010 10:50 am
|Earthquake :-(
Date Climbed: Apr 4, 2009
|There had been some seismic activity that first week of April, so we weren't allowed get to close to the top nor to any lava. Just saw some lava rolling of the volcano from a distance...
|Posted Jul 27, 2009 7:19 pm
|Climbed up some back way ducking under barbed fences since according to out guide this was where the red hot lava was. There was no one on the mountain we went up at around 3AM and watched the sun come up. The lava was sooooo hot and just standing near it was intense .. but he wind was blowing alot and the girl that I was with couldnt climb up to the summit but still was awesome standing right over lava and burning wood in it. Besides the trip was only like $20!
|Posted Jun 16, 2009 1:11 pm
Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2009
|Took a night hike up to within a few hundred meters of the summit to hang out by the lava flows. Stunning, though remember not to keep your cell phone away from the heat or it may stop working(!) :D
|Posted Jan 13, 2009 10:09 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2008
|Easy climb, amazing lava show at the top!!!
|Posted Dec 23, 2008 5:57 am
|Great hike
Date Climbed: Jan 30, 2006
|Excellent hike! The climb was easy and the smoke seeping from the rocks and lava gurgling in the crater were just incredible to see. Spectacular views of surrounding mountains and the ocean, too.
|Posted Dec 9, 2008 9:16 am
|Awesome lava flows
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2008
|Easy climb up to the higher slopes of Pacaya. An active lava flow made further ascent impossible.
|Posted Oct 12, 2008 6:29 pm
Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2006
|A great, easily accessible volcano near the capital. I have climbed it 4 times. I only reached the summit twice as the other two times it was far too dangerous. Camping out near the flows is great; you can even roast marshmallows over the fresh lava!
|Posted Oct 6, 2008 11:15 pm
|Living Mountain
|Around the world are just a few sites where is possible to see the 4 elements working at the same time. EARTH: being twisted and broken; AIR: Carrying all kind of gases; WATER: clouds & rain; and FIRE rivers and lagoons of burning incandescent lava. Agresive explosions with boiled gases. FU--ING AMAZING PLACE... and easy to climb it.
|Posted Sep 11, 2008 7:30 pm
Date Climbed: Feb 18, 2004
|It was amazing to be that close to an erupting volcano. We could feel the heat and the smell was so intense. A real cool but short "climb."
|Posted Jul 9, 2008 3:01 pm
Date Climbed: Mar 19, 2008
|Did not make the summit due to activity, but did get to roast marshmellows on lava...until it caught on fire...and then the stick caught on fire...and then my knuckles almost caught on fire. Seriously close to the lava, it actually jumped its banks and a large chunk fell not 3 feet from my friend. Scary.
|Posted May 4, 2008 12:31 am


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Vintage 1975, by Fitz and Floyd Inc., Decorative Vase. Sides depict riders atop horses from the east in blue against a repeating brown hexagonal field.
2.2 lbs
6.75" height, 8" diameter (cylindrical)
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Clean item before use. Item exhibits minor wear typical of normal use.
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Those varying voids is something I have been trying to achieve for some time in a poolish recipe - well done, the side on views look great - as well as the pizzas.
Sumeri, It was an headache to cook a pizza properly and I had to use all my skills (using a poor oven, poor mixer etc..). It can be done with one pizza at the time but it is not operational when you have to bake many more pizza. A proper oven will cook properly in 30-45 seconds 5-6 pizza at the time with no effort from the pizzamker/oven worker...
Regarding the topping weight, it is NOT a factor. A proper dough will have those bubbles even with a capricciosa topping.
I was browsing through the pictures I took in US and found the following interesting example of a pizza I cooked at a lower temperature then I like and used an American made fior di latte that has been recently talk about on this forum.The fior di latte itself has a good taste but unfortunately the moisture content is too low and if the oven is not at the optimum temp, the cheese bubbles off
hello... what do you mean the cheese bubbles off... is the fresh mozz not supposed to melt the way they did in that pic, you feel?


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Northern elephant seals spend 90% of their lives in the water in order to feed. During their foraging migrations, they dive into the water repeatedly and continuously to find food, never stopping to rest or sleep for months at a time. Females and males feed separately from each other. Males travel north, remain closer to land, and tend to return to the same locations to feed year after year. Females migrate away from the land, west to the open ocean, and are less accurate in returning to the same places each year. Male foraging behavior is characterized by benthic dives to the sea floor. By contrast, females exhibit pelagic diving while foraging which is defined by a trip to the floor, a partial ascent, another trip to the floor, a partial ascent, etc. There is some speculation as to the reason why male size is so extreme in relation to female size and some suggestions indicate that food type may be a contributing factor. Males are more likely to eat food sources that are dense in mass such as sharks and skates, while females eat foods that are less dense such as squid. These differences in foods is a likely occurence to the different locales in which they are foraging. This resource partitioning is likely to be the result of differences in body size. Males are less vulnerable to predators and are thus safer foraging in areas with more predators. Females are more vulnerable to predators and thus must forage in areas with fewer predators.
While elephant seals are on land they are fasting. They go for extended periods of time without food while they are reproducing and moulting. During this time, all nutrition and energy is broken down from fat that is stored on their bodies as blubber. It is believed that these animals never drink water. Their source of water comes from food sources and broken down fats. In addition they have developed physiological methods to retain water, such as producing a concentrated urine. Another interesting phenomenon about these mammals is the behavior of eating stones before coming ashore. The true purpose of this behavior is not known. The stones are eliminated when they re-enter the water for migration, so it has been suggested that this phenomenon is in response to the long period of fasting.
Foods eaten include: cephalopods, skates, small sharks, and fish. (Bonner, 1990; Le Boeuf et al., 2000)


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Debbie Dauphinais has been settling into her job as the new Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival coordinator, taking over from Christina Whiting. A former volunteer with the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center, Dauphinais took over duties as the shorebird coordinator in August. Dauphinais said Whiting put together "a well-oiled machine" that's helped her learn how to run the May birding festival.
Dauphinais grew up in Wasilla, where she met her husband, Paul Dauphinais, the former chamber director and now head of the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Debbie Dauphinais will split her time between Homer and Wasilla.
Her family had a boat and spent summers in Seward. She learned about sea birds, but is not as familiar with others.
"I bought flashcards so I can start recognizing birds and what they do," she said. "I love watching them."


text: This perennial wildflower is 3-9' tall, forming a central stem that is unbranched, except along the upper one-third of its length, where there may be a few ascending lateral stems. These stems are predominately reddish purple and terete; they are covered with spreading white hairs. Abundant spreading leaves occur along these stems; they are usually opposite below and alternate above. Individual leaves are 3-7' long and ½-1½' across; they are lanceolate-elliptic in shape and usually crenate-serrate along their margins. The upper leaf surface is medium green and rough-textured from minute stiff hairs, while the lower surface is pale green with spreading white hairs along the major veins and minute stiff hairs inbetween. The minute stiff hairs of the leaves are sparsely to moderately abundant in their distribution. Individual leaves taper gradually into short petioles up to ½' long, and they taper gradually into acute tips. The upper stems terminate in one or more flowerheads about 2-3' across. Each flowerhead has 10-20 yellow ray florets that surround a dense circular cluster of yellow disk florets in the center. The petaloid extensions of the ray florets are oblong and slightly notched at their tips. The tiny disk florets are tubular in shape with 5 spreading to ascending lobes. The disk florets are perfect, while the ray florets are sterile. At the base of each flowerhead, there are floral bracts (phyllaries) that are loosely arranged in several series; they are ascending to widely spreading when the flowerhead is in bloom. Individual floral bracts are medium green, narrowly linear-lanceolate, and covered with stiff minute hairs; their margins are often ciliate. The peduncles (up to 6' long) of the flowerheads are similar to the stems, except they are usually light green. The blooming period occurs from mid-summer into the fall, lasting about 2 months. The disk florets are replaced by small achenes that are oblongoid and slightly flattened in shape; each achene has a truncate apex with a pair of membranous awns that soon become detached. The root system has fleshy fibrous roots and shallow rhizomes. Small colonies of plants often develop from the rhizomes.


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It has been brought to my attention that some folks are haveing problems loging in and or posting after loging in IF you do post here, and what kind of computer you are running.
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It has been brought to my attention that some folks are haveing problems loging in and or posting after loging in IF you do post here, and what kind of computer you are running.
I can't log in to the new chat applet. I'm running OpenSuse12.3 with most recent version of FireFox & all software up to date. Got a notification of new applet requesting permission, set my browser to auto-accept & run for this applet, then chat opener window message changed to "applet not initialized" ... that's all I can get from it upon reloading the page, or trying to open chat again. Will try with another browser for the moment, but hoping to get chat functionality back on FireFox.
Chat is 100% non-functional in Rekonq browser...pop-up window opens, but then neither window is navigable
Chrome gives me the same issue as FireFox ... I'm out of browsers :(
Chat no longer works for me. It's a bummer. I miss the people I've met. I believe it has to do with the fact that the site needs to update it's java chat applet due to security fixes finally patched by Oracle, the maintainer of Java. I cannot roll back and exploit my system. It would be in the site's best interest to combat against the exploit as well and update.
There is an irc room on freenode.net called #beekeeping that a couple of us hang out in. Come join us if you're feeling left out as well.
From AddOnChat's website:
March 28
AddonChat v10.0 is in the works- and it won't be Java based!
It's been a long time since our last major update was released, and the World Wide Web has change considerably during that time. Oracle's acquisition of Java has been fraught with issues, and an unprecedented, unimaginably irresponsible security advisory regarding Java by the US Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) has caused a great deal of panic among our users.
Fortunately, new real-time communication technologies available in modern browsers ('WebSockets') are becoming commonplace. With most major browsers now supporting this new technology (including IE 10), we're beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel and we're confident we have a viable "non-Java" alternative that will rival our current client software.
We'll also be launching a new web site and a new, intuitive and eye-pleasing control panel interface with the release of AddonChat v10.0. Screenshots of the new control panel can be found on our Facebook page.
Please understand that this is a great deal of work for a small company. We're effectively rewriting nearly every line of code we have- much of that code has been in use for over a decade, and it's imperative that we get this right.
More updates are coming, and within the next two months we'll be seeking volunteers to assist us in both Alpha and Beta testing of AddonChat v10.0 and the new control panel.
These are two free feature rich IRC implementations that open up in the browser and are easy to use. They are perfect for new and experienced users alike. Always nice to see the other fish swimming in the pond, but I also understand the need for something like AddOnChat. Keep up the great work Barry! I love the community and culture you and others alike have been able to cultivate through this site. :) Cheers
Log in if you cant get in make sure your "JAVA" is the latest version
I have had trouble w/ a cpl of things on beesource lately, since getting a new computer w/ Windows8. I could get into Chatroom at first, but when I Posted on the Forums or Replied to a PM I couldn't move the cursor to drop down for a Reply or to make a new paragraph. So, a computer Doctor installed Mozilla Firefox and that fixed the problem.
Then, after a cpl of days I couldn't get into Chatroom. Something about security setting. So the computer guy got me out of Windows8 and now I can get into Chatroom.


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Why Alcoa Is a Buy Ahead of Earnings
Not only does the company expect a 6% rebound in demand for aluminum, but the stock is currently undervalued relative to long-term growth potential. And with the company expected to report on its fourth quarter on Tuesday, investors would do well to buy the stock ahead of a market still filled with doubt.
The company is expected to post earnings of 6 cents per share, which is 1 penny lower than estimates from three months ago. Revenue is expected to arrive at $5.64 billion. Although pessimism among analysts remains, investors have begun to realize that the situation for Alcoa can't possibly get any worse.
For instance, in its third-quarter report, the company posted a loss of $143 million from continuing operations. This included a payout from an environmental lawsuit totaling $175 million. When excluding one-time items, its earnings reached $32 million or 3 cents per share.
Despite the difficult macro climate, the company still managed to generate $5.8 billion in revenue -- better than analysts' estimates of $5.54 billion. The prolonged weakness in the price of aluminum, which has declined by 5% from since the second quarter and by 17% annually, has hurt its revenue growth.
However, that Alcoa was able to beat on both its top and bottom lines shows how the company continues to make the best out of a bad situation. And its commitment toward return value to shareholders can't be understated. And it seems that investors have begun to appreciate this fact as shares have risen over 14% off the mid-November lows.
During the conference call, investors should expect more clarity regarding aluminum prices and the outlook for the year. Management has maintained the 6% and 7% improvement in demand for most of 2012. A slight uptick would be a welcome signal.
Management also have spoken favorably about the automotive and aerospace industries where companies such as Ford (F) and Boeing (BA) have started to migrate toward using aluminum in their vehicles and jets.
This has been in addition to projecting significant improvements in other areas of it business, which includes gas turbine markets, food packaging and commercial transportation. Likewise, there are also plenty of growth opportunities in areas such as appliances where names such as General Electric (GE) might become a significant consumer of aluminum.
Ahead of the report, the stock looks incredibly cheap. But as I've said before, unless aluminum prices recover, we may be repeating this for the next several quarters. Alcoa today has considerable amount of value, but it requires a lot of patience for that value to be realized.


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Sometimes I wonder if it is more about the size of the mill rather than the level of the protein that is most important for our pizzas taste.
Some of the best flour I have ever tasted was of the 00 variety. Mostly I hear people saying that it is next to impossible to achieve a decent pizza with a 00 flour and a standard home oven. I suppose I will have to try for myself.
I sort of got the impression that this caputo 00 flour is lower in protein (in the range of 8-9%) rather than a high protein flour (15-17%). Am I mistaken?
The interesting thing is, if you look at KAF's "Italian Flour", they claim it is a clone of Italy's 00 flour, and it has a protein level of 8.5%. I think I've also seen other flours that claim to be 00 flour with the same protein level. That's why I thought this was the typical range for00 flour. Thank you for clarifying this. Actually, now that I look at this, Forno Bravo's Caputo 00 is 11.5% protein. Hmmmm.http://www.fornobravo.com/store/Caputo-Flour-5-Pack-p-16133.html
(or my modified Deni)...
toddster63,Would you by chance have a link to what you feel is your best dough for use in the Deni? (I have one too) Thanks!Bob
I'd also like to ask those of you who've got some experience using the Caputo 00 flour (Pizzeria or "Chef's flour), is there an ideal hydration to use?


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If you haven't taken the children to see "Polar Express" yet, there's still time.
The holiday movie is showing at the Maritime Aquarium IMAX in Norwalk through January 3.
Based on the 1986 Caldecott Award-winning book, the animated film follows a young boy as he boards a magical train taking him and other children to Santa's North Pole headquarters. Academy Award winning actor Tom Hanks provides the voice for the mysterious train conductor as well as four other characters. "Polar Express" also features the music of Josh Groban and the Academy Award nominated song, "Believe." And, viewed in 3D IMAX, it's said you'll feel as you if can "reach out and touch the snowflakes!"
For show times visit the Maritime Aquarium website. And for more details on the movie or the book visit Warner Brother's Polar Express site.


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text: Kenya Airways launches an On-board Donation Platform Nairobi, July 20, 2011…. Kenya Airways has launched a fund-raising initiative in support of the various charitable activities across the network. In the initiative dubbed "Change makes Change", passengers can make voluntary cash donations in specially designed envelopes each Kenya Airways flight. Kenya Airways hopes to raise the funds for its community social responsibilities by encouraging passengers on both international and local flights to make the donations. The airline serves over three million passengers every year and flies to 55 destinations worldwide. "Kenya Airways Corporate Social Responsibility team will ensure the funds are then used in selected projects aimed at improving lives of the various communities across the network that we fly into," said Dr Titus Naikuni, the airline's Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Kenya Airways offers support to communities in countries that it operates; namely in the areas of education, environment, water and health as part of its contribution to the sustainable development of its destinations. Last year, Kenya Airways investment in communities increased to KSh 28M with an aim of enriching, empowering people and reducing poverty. Pride of Africa also planted over 250,000 seedlings during its "Plant a Future" day. The airline is also the first in Africa to join the European Union Emissions Tax system EU ETS program. Kenya Airways donated desks, built classrooms and dining hall in various schools including Iloirero primary school in Kajiado district, Ikuu special school in Meru district. The airline also supported initiatives in Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria. The Change Makes Change campaign has also factored in passengers request for their donations to be used to various CSR activities. This is a show that the airline supports the cause that is close to its customers hearts.