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Fredonia Presbyterian Church opens its doors to county's Compeer
Jan Ball, director of Chautauqua County Compeer, a United Way and STEL (Southern Tier Environments for Living) agency, again expressed her gratitude to the Fredonia Presbyterian Church congregation for making their community room available for Compeer social events as well as Compeer Youth Services programs.
Compeer has long been based in Jamestown with events there being held in the United Methodist Church. Because of the driving distance involved, mentors and friends who live in the northern parts of the county are more likely to miss social events. Now Compeer is beginning to build a strong circle of friends in the Dunkirk/Fredonia area.
Popular and lively bingo, pizza and wing nights took place in October, February, and March, and a family movie night, complete with snacks and popcorn, closed out the year in April. The first annual November Thanksgiving dinner held in the church hosted a full house, and was the highlight of the year.
Church members provided favors and table decorations which were much appreciated by the guests. This event will now serve as a complement to the Christmas party held in Jamestown each year.
Chris Gibson, hired under a STEL grant this year to expand public awareness of Compeer's offerings to the community and expand its mentoring program, is hosting a series of events in the church's community room on the second Thursday of the month from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Gibson's programs, open to all community members, are aimed at helping parents, teachers, and other professionals working with young people, especially middle school children and teens, gain helpful hints and share ideas that work.
The May program is titled "Listening With Both Ears – Communicating with Youth" and will provide suggestions on how to respond effectively to young people. Programs will resume again in September and will be held monthly until the end of the year.
Rosie and Marty Sanden, longtime mentors in Compeer, are the coordinators of the Compeer events. Awarded the STEL Community Service Award for Individuals in 2012, they have made several presentations at both SUNY Fredonia and community events, promoting the rewards of participation in the program for both mentors and their friends.
Persons recommended for the program by their mental health providers benefit immensely from social interactions with their mentors and participation in group social events. Studies have shown that friendships are indeed part of the healing process for everyone, so mentors find themselves receiving as much as they give.
Anyone interested in knowing more about Compeer can check the organization's Facebook page, call Jan Ball at 800-887-7337 or call Marty and Rosie Sanden at 366-9242.

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Hopefully Peter can share his emergency NY dough recipe with me... It looked kind of complicated, if it require a calculator... My dough is one hour dough, the only thing I measure is flour and water using measuring cup.
You gotta get the peel with the skin on it in there and place on the stone.
I would think you need a certain amount of height to get the skin to slide off the peel - less chance of unplanned calzone.
I put a couple of spaced-apart fennel seeds (1") on each dough ball (on the tops of the dough balls) in order to monitor the degree of rise. I didn't note the time that the dough balls spent outside but the spacing of the fennel seeds suggested that the dough balls had increased in size by about 275%. I was looking for something between a doubling and a tripling in volume.Peter
Pete, That is genius, I always feel I am not properly estimating how much my dough has increased in volume and this is such a simple elegant way to do it. Thank you! How much of an increase in distance between the seeds do you feel corresponds to a doubling? If the volume of a hemisphere is related to the cube of the radius then it seems a 25% increase in circumference corresponds to a doubling of volume. Is that what you use or is it different in practice?
I've long had the same question about LBE's. Why not just make the front vent big enough to launch the pie?


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Central Point man indicted on murder and arson charges.
A Central Point man suspected of killing his former girlfriend has been indicted on a murder charge, five counts of first-degree arson and a charge of first-degree abuse of a corpse.
A Jackson County grand jury indicted 36-year-old Jeffrey Wayne Wheeler, Thursday after hearing testimony from 13 people in the course of four hours.
Murder carries a possible life sentence with a mandatory 25-year sentence. Arson carries a mandatory minimum sentence of seven and a half years. Abuse of a corpse is a class B felony with a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years.


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I teach to "empower kids to live satisfying and productive lives,", writes Esther Wojcicki, a long-time English and journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, on Learning Matters. "I am helping grow adults."
(Teenagers) tend to be energetic, creative and humorous, and their drive for independence empowers them to think outside the box. I love to see what far-out ideas they dream up. Some of them have turned out to be real winners. Kids are amazing — if you encourage them.
I try to create a classroom atmosphere in which students are not afraid of making mistakes. In fact, they are encouraged to take intellectual risks and occasionally fail, because that is the way they learn best.
Paly journalism students develop their own story ideas, she writes. Student editors assign the stories and supervise the reporters. She lets them "do the work themselves."
I know this is true because Woj was my daughter's journalism teacher. Working on the newspaper as a writer, news editor and editor was one of the most important experiences of Allison's life. Woj lets students lead, even when she's the one who's going to catch the flak. She really does grow adults.


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Stocks to Watch: Disney, Yum!, BP
NEW YORK -- Entertainment giant Walt Disney(DIS) is expected by Wall Street analysts Tuesday to report fiscal first-quarter earnings of 76 cents a share on revenue of $11.21 billion.
Disney earned 80 cents a share on revenue of $10.8 billion during the year-earlier period.
5 Rocket Stocks to Buy in February
Yum! Brands(YUM) said Monday that fourth-quarter profit fell 5% and it warned that it expects earnings for the year to decline amid a controversy over its chicken suppliers in China.
Yum!, which operates KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants, said for January and February it expects sales at restaurants open at least a year in China to drop 25%.
The stock was cut to neutral at Baird on Tuesday and its price target was reduced to $60 from $72.
BP(BP) , the energy giant, said fourth-quarter earnings fell 79%, largely because of payouts related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
BP said net profit fell to $1.62 billion in the fourth quarter from $7.69 billion a year earlier. BP recorded a charge of $3.85 billion for its settlement of all federal criminal charges with the U.S. government related to the spill.
The fourth-quarter results topped analysts' expectations.
Kellogg(K) , the cereal maker, is forecast to report fourth-quarter earnings of 66 cents a share on revenue of $3.44 billion.
Chinese search giant Baidu(BIDU) said Tuesday that profit for the quarter ended Dec. 31 rose 36% as advertising spending increased.
Amazon vs. Netflix: Jeff Bezos Could Squash Reed Hastings Like a Bug
Expedia(EXPE) , the online travel agency, is expected by analysts Tuesday to post a profit of 65 cents a share in the fourth quarter on revenue of $929.8 million.
Zynga(ZNGA) , a Facebook partner, is expected by analysts Tuesday to post a quarterly loss of 3 cents a share on revenue of $212 million.
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Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861-1907
(Also wrote under the pseudonym Anodos) English poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, biographer, and critic.
An esteemed novelist in turn-of-fhe-century England best known for her historical romance The King with Two Faces (1897), Coleridge is largely remembered for her relatively small but significant contribution to English verse. In short, lyrical poems she wrote of personal loss, human identity, and the facts of urban existence with a characteristically reserved and dignified voice. Additionally, the pithy, inventive style of Coleridge's many essays and other prose writings—particularly her journals, diaries, and criticism—is valued alongside her poetry and remains a source of critical interest in this versatile writer.
Biographical Information
Coleridge was born in London, the daughter of Mary Anne Jameson Coleridge and Arthur Duke Coleridge, a lawyer, amateur musician, and grandnephew of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Relatively shy and reserved, she was educated at home under the instruction of a private tutor, read eagerly, and learned a variety of languages, including French, German, Italian, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. She traveled widely throughout Europe but lived with her parents for her entire life, never marrying. At the age of thirteen Coleridge—typically surrounded by the literary and artistic acquaintances of her parents: John Ruskin, Holman Hunt, Anthoy Trollope, Fanny Kemble, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and others—had taken an interest in painting and begun to write poetry. By age twenty her essays started to appear in periodicals such as the Monthly Review and later the Times Literary Supplement. Coleridge published her first novel, The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, in 1893. Two years later she opted to spend a portion of her time teaching at the Working Women's College in London, a position she held until the end of her life. In the meantime Coleridge continued to write poetry, fiction, and essays. She published her first collection of verse, Fancy's Following, under the pseudonym Anodos in 1896 and a companion piece, Fancy's Guerdon, the following year. In 1897 her second novel, The King with Two Faces, appeared and firmly established Coleridge's popular reputation in England. She also wrote several more novels, poems, and an assortment of prose, as well as a biography of the painter Holman Hunt, written at the artist's request. This last work was published posthumously in 1908, the year after Coleridge's death due to a severe attack of appendicitis.
Major Works
The majority of verse Coleridge published during her lifetime is contained in the slight volume Fancy's Following. This collection includes her notable piece on the subject of estrangement from one's self, entitled "The Other Side of the Mirror," along with forty-seven more poems that meditate on themes of love, personal loss, and human identity. Fancy's Guerdon, her second collection, contains only seven additional pieces of verse, while The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge, published posthumously in 1954, extends this number to almost two hundred. In her first novel, The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, Coleridge offers a dream-like depiction of the adventures of several young men. She followed this work with a trio of historical romances, The King with Two Faces, The Fiery Dawn (1901), and The Shadow on the Wall (1904). In the first, her most popular, Coleridge evokes a fictional world based upon the life of Sweden's King Gustav III. Her introspective novel The Lady on the Drawing Room Floor (1906) is recounted by a middle-aged male narrator as he explores the intricacies of deeply hidden emotions that resurface from his past. In this story of romantic constancy, the narrator recalls a woman he once loved but never pursued, and a letter she wrote to him, now lost, that he never opened. Examples of Coleridge's essays, criticism, journal entries, short fiction, and other writings are contained in her Non Sequitur (1900) and Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge (1910). The former includes several articles on literary subjects and travel, while the latter demonstrates her characteristically imaginative, humorous style in essays on various topics—literature, art, and spirituality among them—and in a handful of short stories.
Critical Reception
During her lifetime Coleridge was widely hailed as a novelist and essayist. Since her death, however, critics have tended to emphasize the importance of her poetry, which is thought to bear affinities to that of the PreRaphaelites and to stylistically prefigure the writings of the Imagists in its lyrical austerity. Coleridge's fiction, on the other hand, has most recently been deemed of secondary importance to her verse, and many commentators have agreed that her novels and short stories are marred by weaknesses of plot and execution. Her essays, furthermore, have been valued more for their historical significance than their literary merit, though many are still studied and appreciated, particularly as documents suitable for feminist inquiry.
Principal Works
The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (novel) 1893
Fancy's Following (poetry) 1896
Fancy's Guerdon (poetry) 1897
The King with Two Faces (novel) 1897
Non Sequitur (essays) 1900
The Fiery Dawn (novel) 1901
The Shadow on the Wall (novel) 1904
The Lady on the Drawing Room Floor (novel) 1906
Holman Hunt (biography) 1908
Poems by Mary E. Coleridge (poetry) 1908
Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge (essays, letters, and short stories) 1910
The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge (poetry) 1954
Robert Bridges (essay date 1907)
SOURCE: "Mary Elizabeth Coleridge," in The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 5, November, 1907, pp. 205-229.
[In the following essay, Bridges eulogizes Coleridge and analyzes some of her best-known works.]
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, whoo died unexpectedly abaut two months ago, after a few deys of acute illnes, is very widely moorn'd. Her personality was wun of those rare combinations of caracter and intelect whoose presence is everywhere beneficent and welcum; nor amung all whoom she cumforted, instructed, incurag'd, or amus'd wil ther be eny whoo can think of her with more sorrow than is inseparable from mortality. We mey imagin hau elegantly a Latin epitaph miht indulge the superlativs of its Ciceronian solicitude lest the good shud be interred with her bones; it is better tu think hau her fragment of life, a good seed of bewty, imperishable as eny link of physical cause and effect, must liv on bi the lau which writes aur fates in eternity.
But of the little ships that she bilt and launch'd, hau long wil eny wun of them flot on the surging deluge of literatur? I am not surpris'd that sume of her frends hav alredy hoisted her flag on the poems; for, tho' the fact was generally unknown or neglected, Mary Coleridge was a poetess. It was Fancy's Following, a deinty volume of forty-eiht short lyrics, privatly printed bi Mr. Daniel in 1896, that first wun her adequet recognition, and gave her real distinction as a writer. His 125 copies, hauever, must hav been distributed almost entirely amung her personal frends and the collectors of rare books. In the following yeer she was persueded tu reprint sume of these poems in Mr. Elkin Mathews' Shilling Garland; but this second ventur, in which a few new poems appeer'd, met with so little fevor in the market that not half of the edition of Fancy's Guerdon, as she nem'd it, has sold aut in ten yeers, and the book mey still be purches'd in Vigo Street for twelve pence.
The delicat harmony of special excellences that makes originality, if it dues not at wonce fascinat, is likely bi its very strangenes tu embarras the judgment of eeven a professional connoisseur; and ther is no uther account tu be given of the neglect of these poems, for they are both bewtiful and original, and of'n exhibit imagination of a very rare kind, convey'd bi the identical expression of true feeling and artistic insiht. Indeed I hav seen it asserted that of al her distinguish'd family Mary Elizabeth was the wun whoo alone inherited eny share of the magic faculty which fruted in Christabel and The Ancient Mariner, nor is the contention absurd. It is likely inuff that the smallnes of the volum affected the opinion of its importance; and yet forty-eight lyrics, meinteining so hih a standard as these, wil not be deem'd a trifling performance.
They hav alreddy prov'd their vitality bi usurping the fevor'd place in meny families where they are known. They wer selected from a much larger number, among which wer uthers wurthy tu rank with them; but the hope of Mary Coleridge's admirers is that, since she wrote continuusly tu the end of her life, the promis'd selection from her complete wurk wil be of considerable bulk, and secure her a hih position amung English lyrical poets.
Besides her bold and sumwhat capricius imagination, with its natural and simple expression, the qualities which Mary Coleridge brauht tu her poetry, so far as I can analise or tabulate them, wer a grat literary appetite, knoledge, and memory—a wide sympathy, tendernes of feeling, and profaund spirituality—and a humur withaut which such seeriusnes and devotion of life as wer hers can hardly be mede palatable in literatur. Her humur was almost super-abundant, and in her social life supli'd deep roots tu thatt luxuriant merriment and fun which brihtly culur'd all her conversetion and letters when ther was nuthing tu forbid their pley.
She was in no sense a blue-stocking. She did not write poems because she had lern'd the grammar of verse, nor because she thauht she had valuable moral lessons for well-intention'd peeple. Her poetry is the irrepressible song of fancy whoose vageries she wud hav thauht it impertinent tu analise; and, al tho' these records of her soul wer so sacred tu her that she wud hardly show them tu her most intimat frends, she did not appeer tu set eny greit value on them. They are at wunce sincere and mysteerius, so that Fancy's Following is apt tu giv a reeder the impression that its author had sum desperat life-seecret for the spring of her inspiration, and that she wud reveel it only in enigma.
I have forged me in seven-fold heats
A shield from foes and lovers,
And no one knows the heart that beats
Beneath the shield that covers.
If I had met with thatt in Heine's Buck der Lieder, I think I shud hav noted it for its excellence, certeinly not hav distinguish' d it for difference; and the seme miht be sed of sum uther lyrics in this book; but most of those that recall Heine's manner add sumthing tu it. The following poem is call'd
The clouds had made a crimson crown
Above the mountains high,
The stormy sun was going down
In a stormy sky.
Why did you let your eyes so rest on me,
And hold your breath between?
In all the ages this can never be
As if it had not been.
These quotations wil justifi the inevitable reference tu Heine, and ther are uther points of contact where Miss Coleridge wil sustein sume comparison; but it must be understood that she was not in eny wey a copyist or imitetor of Heine; nor was she more comparable with him in conscivs artistic fabrication than in spiritual likenes. Heine's file was as full of geenius as his soul, so that, like Beethoven, the more he retuch'd his work the neerer it approch'd the perfect eese of spontaneeity; and his atteinment in his very best songs seems tu show the baundary of what was possible in his mateerial. His wurkmanship is so definit and cleen and mesur'd that the flaus appeer as inevitable incommodities of the German langueg; he set himself abuv rivalry, and yet Mary Coleridge has of n the seme kind of masterful eese, while the facility with which his form adapts itself tu varieties of mood and subject has also its caunterpart in her work. Tu take only wun well-mark'd class for example, I wud cite the meny poems which, like Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, revivifi and etheerialise the popular poetry of the forteenth century, with its everlasting topic of luve and springtime, where the seesons are us'd as landscap for the elemental human passions, preserv'd tu us in such namenlose Lieder as the following:
Ich wil trûren varen lân.
Uf die heide sul wir gân,
Ir wil liebe gespilen mîn:
Dâ seh wir der bluomen schîn.
Ich sage dir, ich sage dir,
Mîn geselle, kum mit mir.
Süeze Minne, rame mîn,
Mache mir ein krenzelîn:
Das sol tragen ein stolzer man,
Der wol wîben dienen kan.
Ich sage dir, ich sage dir,
Mîn geselle, kum mit mir.
In this universal tipe Miss Coleridge is eequally modern, successful and original. The last poem quoted from her is an example, but this is simpler:
When wintry winds are no more heard,
And joy's in every bosom,
When summer sings in every bird,
And shines in every blossom,
When happy twilight hours are long,
Come home, my love, and think no wrong!
When berries gleam above the stream
And half the fields are yellow,
Come back to me, my joyous dream,
The world hath not thy fellow!
And I will make thee Queen among
The Queens of summer and of song.
And this same facility she exhibits in meny varieties of matter; but, not tu press the likenes further, it is just where Heine shows defect that Miss Coleridge is rich. If the sheeld which Heine forg'd tu hide his heart was of finer workmanship than hers, it is not only because of its bewty that we doo not desire tu thrust it aside; and tho' it wud be unjust tu him tu sey that he is not spiritual, yet he is of'n contemptuus and infected with a cynicism—tu use an old wurd in its modern sense—which is antagonistic tu what is spiritual.
It may be difficult tu sey what the artistic requirements of modern poetry are or shud be, but twoo things stand aut, nemely, the Greek atteinment and the Christian ideeal; and art which nauadeys neglects ither of these is imperfect; thatt is, it wil not command aur highest luve, nor satisfi our best intelligence. Heine, I think, for al his incomparable bewty and tendernes, manifestly falls short of the Christian ideeal. Where, for instance, he procleims himself ein Ritter von dem Heiligen Geist, tho' the metaphor correctly givs his meening, and exactly serves his purpos, and is in a sense profaundly true, yet it is plein that in his mauth the expression looses all its glamur and the bewty proper tu the ideea. Compere the half-jocular self-assertion of his devotion tu the good of mankind with the following:
I may not call what many call divine,
And yet my faith is faith in its degree;
I worship at a dim and lonely shrine
On bended knee.
The secret grace of faith's celestial part
I hoard up safely for my own selfs own;
Within the hidden chambers of my heart
I love alone.
This poem, so far as the distinction has meening, exhibits ideeal rather than ideealis'd luve. It mey be call'd a religius poem; but the attitude of the poetess is generally the seme in poems which cud not be call'd religius. Almost eny wun of her lyrics wud illustrate it, but the following sonnet must be preferr'd here for the seke of its matter:
True to myself am I, and false to all.
Fear, sorrow, love, constrain us till we die.
But when the lips betray the spirit's cry,
The will, that should be sovereign, is a thrall.
Therefore let terror slay me, ere I call
For aid of men. Let grief begrudge a sigh.
'Are you afraid?—unhappy?' 'No!' The lie
About the shrinking truth stands like a wall.
'And have you loved?' 'No, never!' All the while
The heart within my flesh is turned to stone.
Yea, none the less that I account it vile,
The heart within my heart makes speechless moan;
And when they see one face, one face alone,
The stern eyes of the soul are moved to smile.
Her wide spiritual autlook is very like Dixon, a poet so absolutely different from Heine that it is wurth while tu compere the following poem bi him with the twoo poems quoted [earlier]. The solitary givs the landscap without the figurs.
The feathers of the willow
Are half of them grown yellow
Above the swelling stream;
And ragged are the bushes
And rusty now the rushes,
And wild the clouded gleam.
The thistle now is older,
His stalk begins to moulder,
His head is white...
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The Spectator (essay date 1910)
SOURCE: A review of Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, in The Spectator, Vol. 105, No. 4, 279 July 2, 1910, pp. 20-1.
[In the following review, the critic praises the posthumous collection of letters, diary entries, stories, essays, and poems by Coleridge.]
This book [Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge] is something more than an act of pious homage to a rare, gracious, and gifted woman. Mary Coleridge's talents as a writer of exquisite, if unequal, fiction and of verse of true poetic quality have already been acknowledged. Her claims to abiding recognition are now enhanced by extracts from her correspondence,...
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Laurence Binyon (essay date 1925)
SOURCE: "Mary Coleridge," in The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, M.A., The Macmillan Company, 1925, pp. 614-5.
[In the following essay, Binyon praises Coleridge's "lyric art."]
No one was ever less of a professional poet than Mary Coleridge. She was writing verse for twenty-five years, but the greater part of her poems were never printed in her lifetime, and she refused to publish under her own name. Yet assuredly her place is secure among the lyric poets of England. Perhaps just because they were produced with so little thought of the public, her poems have a fresh directness and intimacy which few lyrists attain so perfectly. They were the spontaneous...
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B. Ifor Evans (essay date 1933)
SOURCE: Chapter X, English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1933, pp. 208-10.
[In the following essay, Evans discusses Coleridge's lyric poetry.]
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907), who had Samuel Taylor Coleridge among her forebears, published in her lifetime but little poetry, and that under the pseudonym of 'Anodos'. In 1896 Robert Bridges persuaded her to issue a private and limited edition of poems, Fancy's Following, and a modified form of this collection appeared in 1897 as Fancy's Guerdon in one of Elkin Mathews's Shilling Garland Series. The main collection of her verses was made in 1907, after...
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Joseph J. Reilly (essay date 1942)
SOURCE: "In Praise of Mary Coleridge," in Of Books and Men, Julian Messner, Inc. 1942, pp. 166-75.
[In the following essay, Reilly provides a brief overview of Coleridge's works and explains prominent themes in her writing.]
A contemporary woman critic is on record as lamenting the paucity of women poets in literary history and asserting that those who have achieved fame are inferior to their brother lyrists even in the writing of cradle songs. My concern is not with the fact alleged or with possible explanations of it, but with the danger of overlooking real poetry because its author was a woman who, being dead, can depend on no clique to press her claims....
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Theresa Whistler (essay date 1954)
SOURCE: An introduction to The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge, edited with an introduction by Theresa Whistler, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954, pp. 21-76.
[In the following introduction to The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge, Whistler discusses Coleridge's family background, her literary influences, and her aesthetic sense.]
Not very many people today have heard of Mary Coleridge. Yet her poems, when they first appeared, were praised with delight by Bridges, Newbolt, Binyon, Edward Thomas, and the young Walter de la Mare, and they have continued to give a special pleasure to their small circle of readers for half a century. This is not fame, but it is, in a modest...
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Further Reading
Newbolt, Henry. "Preface." In Poems, by Mary E. Coleridge, pp. v-xii. London: Elkin Mathews, 1908.
Introduction to Coleridge's verse that mentions some of her exceptional poems.
Review of Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. In The Dial XLIX, No. 584 (16 October 1910): 289-90.
Acknowledges the "human insight" of Coleridge's writing, but observes that "abruptness and obscurity and lack of construction mar her fiction."
Review of Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. In The New York Times (27 August 1910): 466.
Comments on Coleridge's "gracious and exquisite spirit"...
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International assistance for Mali – an overview
The town of Gao
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The international community is continuing to assist Mali at various levels after the return to constitutional order following the presidential elections in August 2013 and the parliamentary elections at the end of 2013. The focus is on the political process.
The German Government also considers a political solution central to the country's long-term stability and national reconciliation. The Federal Foreign Office is thus assisting the new Ministry for Reconciliation and Development of the North by providing advisory services and equipment for local reconciliation meetings in every community in northern Mali.
Germany has pledged Mali around 100 million euros for 2013 and 2014 for development cooperation in the priority areas agriculture, drinking water/sewerage disposal and decentralisation.
Multifaceted international support
International support for Mali is currently being mobilised at various different levels. French troops have been in Mali as part of a combat operation since 11 January 2013. With their assistance, most major towns in the north, previously controlled by Islamist groups, have now been liberated. They continue to fight against terrorist groups. January 2013 also saw the start of the African-led Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA). As of 1 July 2013, their tasks were taken on by the UN mission MINUSMA, the establishment of which was decided by the UN Security Council on 25 April 2013. MINUSMA is to make an extensive contribution towards bringing stability to Mali.
Fighting between Government troops and Tuareg rebels broke out in the north of Mali in January 2012. The situation was then exacerbated by a coup in March 2012, in which sections of the military overthrew President Touré. Islamist groups managed to gain control of large parts of northern Mali during the coup and the related unrest. They advanced southward at the beginning of 2013, prompting France to respond to the Malian Government's request for intervention.
EU Strategy for Security and Development in the Sahel
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Mali's problems are partly also the problems of its neighbouring countries: borders which are difficult to control, drug, arms and human trafficking, organised crime, high youth unemployment as well as susceptibility to food shortages due to climate change.
The European Union therefore drew up a Strategy for Security and Development in the Sahel back in 2011. It mainly focuses on Mali, Mauritania and the Niger, and since recently also on Chad and Burkina Faso. The core aspect is an integrated approach comprising security and development. It has a total volume of around 606 million euros (country programmes, stability instrument and the 10th European Development Fund) First and foremost, existing national programmes should be further developed by, for example, providing partial funding or seconding experts to provide assistance. The aims of the strategy are: improving political stability, security and good governance as well as creating conditions conducive to sustainable development. Crucial here is the ongoing cooperation with the African Union and the regional organisation ECOWAS. The aims are to be reached through four fields of action: 1. development, good governance and internal conflict settlement; 2. political and diplomatic approaches; 3. security and the rule of law; 4. measures to prevent and combat extremism and radicalisation.
One of the purposes of the UN Integrated Strategy for the Sahel of 2013 is to fund major infrastructure projects in the region with a newly created donor platform. Until the end of January, the former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel. His tasks were taken over by Saïd Djinnit, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNOWA (seat: Dakar). In 2014-2015, Mali is chairing a platform intended to coordinate the various international Sahel strategies (also those of the AU, ECOWAS and the World Bank).
EU Training Mission: EUTM Mali
Unloading a German Transall plane in Bamako
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The European Union is also helping to enable Mali to once more guarantee security throughout the country on its own. EUTM Mali, the training mission which EU Foreign Ministers had agreed on at their council in Brussels on 18 February, officially began operations on 2 April 2013. The EUTM Mali mandate includes advising the Malian armed forces and providing training for soldiers. The mission's members do not participate in combat missions. The mandate is to be extended for two years until 2016. The EU is also planning to set up a civilian CSDP mission. The internal security sector is to be strengthened by training and advising the police, gendarmerie and national guard.
The maximum number of German troops participating in EUTM Mali at any one time was increased from 180 to 250 soldiers in the Bundestag mandate of 20 February 2014. Germany's involvement in the mission concentrates mainly on training army engineers and providing medical support. Furthermore, Germany has provided the UN mission MINUSMA with two Transall transport aircraft, senior officers as well as police officers – a total of 80 persons.
Bundeswehr mission in Mali expanded
Humanitarian assistance
At the same time, Germany is also engaged in humanitarian relief efforts to improve conditions for people in Mali as well as the many refugees.
Germany contributes 12.3 million US dollars per year, making it one of the biggest bilateral donors of humanitarian assistance for Mali. German assistance in Mali focuses on two areas:
- Food aid via the World Food Programme, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe as well as smaller NGOs such as ADRA Adventist Development and Relief Agency (distribution of seed).
- Improvement in the returnee situation in northern Mali, usually via NGOs (ADRA, Help e.V., Plan International, Caritas Germany) with a view to bringing about improvements in the water supply/hygiene/sanitation as well as non-food items, travel assistance, training in income generation, food security.
Children in Mali
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The Sahel will remain the focus of German humanitarian assistance. Furrther improvement of the returnee situation is of key importance to us.
Germany has also taken steps to assist its Malian partners in their efforts to combat the problem of landmines. For instance, the German Ambassador in Bamako has handed over more than 100,000 euros' worth of body armour and mine detectors to the Ministry of Internal Security and Civil Protection.
Security Council resolutions
The legal basis for this international intervention is provided by decisions taken by the United Nations Security Council. On 20 December 2012, the Council adopted Resolution 2085 (2012) to sanction AFISMA and authorise ECOWAS to re-establish Mali's territorial integrity.
The resolution calls on all countries to support these objectives. Resolution 2071 (2012) of 12 October 2012 also sees the Security Council pledge support for the planning of an international military operation as well as calling on regional and international partners to help improve the capabilities of Mali's army.
- UN Security Council Resolution on MINUSMA, 25 April 2013 (Englisch)
- Council Conclusions on Mali, Brussels, 17 January 2013 PDF | 86 KB
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TNT's 'Dallas' gets off to a deliciously nasty start with 'Changing of the Guard' and 'Hedging Your Bets'
As a native Dallasite who's lived here most of my life, I must admit, I've done my share of making fun of CBS' Dallas, a show that anyone who lived here in the late '70s through the early '90s had to live down in one way or another. "No, I don't have an oil well in my backyard." "No, we don't all scheme nonstop and betray our families." "NO, I don't wear a cowboy hat everywhere." You get the idea.
That said, I was happily surprised at the wave of emotion and yes, pride, that swelled in me watching the credits of the new TNT re-boot of the show, which debuted tonight with two back-to-back episodes. The opening credits have changed slightly to convey 2012 Dallas — there's the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, there's the Omni hotel and Cowboys Stadium, and oh, look, some DART trains and bronze steers. But the music and majestic sweep remain the same, and as the camera zoomed in on that iconic final shot of Southfork Ranch, I felt like, at least in TV land, I was coming home.
SPOILER ALERT: DON'T READ ANY FURTHER UNLESS YOU'VE WATCHED THE FIRST TWO EPISODES. You've been warned.
What happened? SO MUCH! Before the opening credits even rolled, we'd seen cows, horses and a gushing well with oil raining down on a jubilant Ewing (J.R.'s son, John Ross, played by Josh Henderson, is drilling at Southfork, a major no-no as far as his Uncle Bobby is concerned); Bobby (Patrick Duffy) learning he has cancer; and John Ross, just like his daddy, looking into a woman's eyes and declaring, "Trust me." Oh, we are so on.
Bobby decides that because it's two days till his son Christopher's (Jesse Metcalfe) wedding to Rebecca Sutter (Julie Gonzalo), he's keeping the cancer news to himself, but then drops a bombshell at a family dinner: He's selling Southfork to a land conservancy (and a nation gasps in horror), partially to help Christopher fund his alternative-energy plans using methane gas. Elena Ramos (Jordana Brewster), John Ross' partner in the drilling venture, also works with Christopher and had been Christopher's love before he sent her an email calling things off on the eve of their wedding. Or did he? Elena's a whip-smart energy expert who's also the daughter of the longtime Ewing family cook, so she knows all the Ewing back-story. When Christopher finds out about the email, he naturally suspects that John Ross sent it, which John Ross vehemently denies. Christopher and Elena look longingly into each other's eyes, even though he's marrying Rebecca. Potential love triangle afoot.
J.R. (Larry Hagman), meanwhile, is suffering from clinical depression and holed up in a very snazzy nursing center, where Bobby visits him, followed soon by John Ross with the news about Southfork. Well, that perks J.R. right up, and soon he's back to his old self, scheming with John Ross to keep SF in the right Ewing hands. Turns out that J.R. is in cahoots with Marta (Leonor Varela), the daughter of the land-conservancy guru. Oh wait, she's also in cahoots with John Ross. And when it turns out that Christopher's methane plan might cause earthquakes, of course, J.R. and son try to blackmail him to convince Bobby not to sell SF. Oh — and Sue Ellen may be running for governor!
Thoughts: LOVED that first shot of J.R. in the nursing home; with those wild, winged eyebrows and his chiseled gnarlyness, he reminded me of the statue of the demon in The Exorcist. The shots of oil wells everywhere was a nice touch — they're represented with real ones, as side tables at Southfork, even as a coffee-table ornament in John Ross' hotel room. Ray Krebbs (Steve Kanaly) and Lucy Ewing (Charlene Tilton) haven't aged nearly as well as the rest of the clan, and we won't miss them if they don't show up in future episodes. Nobody has ever looked as good as Patrick Duffy on a horse, and still doesn't. No one has ever had eyes that twinkled as wickedly, or a grin so dastardly, as Larry Hagman as J.R., and never will. Nice touch using Adele's "Turning Tables" over the wedding scenes.
The writers set things up nicely to ease into the younger crowd taking over, with John Ross and Elena standing in for J.R. and Sue Ellen in terms of trickery and scheming, and Christopher and Rebecca as the saintly son and daughter-in-law. But it's still the old-timers, Duffy, Gray and especially Hagman, that'll keep us watching. They're as aged, hot and juicy as a slice of prime Texas beef.
Best lines:
* Christopher to his potential investors, who offer him a crappy deal: "I ain't a virgin, but I ain't a whore, either."
* John Ross, on being told by Bobby that he has no right to drill at SF: "I'm a Ewing. I have every right."
* Annie (Brenda Strong), Bobby's wife, on catching an intruder in the house (a Ewing at heart, the first thing she does is grab a shotgun and load up): "I don't miss, mister, not at any range."
* Of course, J.R. always gets the best lines. His first words in the show, to John Ross: "Bobby always was a fool." Later, "The courts are for amateurs and the faint of heart. No, this is personal." Finally, "Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is thicker than both."
Sightings of the real Dallas:
* Lots of cityscapes, lots of Southfork Ranch in Parker. If you want to learn about touring Southfork, read our Guide story.
* Cowboys Stadium, where John Ross and Marta have a clandestine meeting on the empty field. Has Jerry Jones started renting the thing out for scheming and dealing? Centerfield? Wouldn't you think John Ross and Marta would want some Champagne or something in one of those nice suites?
What happened? Bobby and Rebecca cancel their honeymoon so he can focus on his business and the plans to sell Southfork. Bobby's in a lot of pain and has surgery scheduled for his cancer; he tells Annie, who, of course, already knows (she found his meds the night the house was broken into). John Ross didn't send that email that killed Christopher's relationship with Elena; he sets his minions to finding out who did. Tommy (Callard Harris), Rebecca's brother, announces his plans to stay in town. Annie welcomes Rebecca to the family with a Ewing recipe book going back to Miss Ellie's mom (food: the only thing stronger in Texas mythology than oil or cows). Turns out Bobby's lawyer is also in cahoots with John Ross over the Southfork deal, as is Candy, J.R.'s nurse (the betrayal tree's roots stretch everywhere, and so soon!).
Sue Ellen gets into business with Elena on some oil leases in Collin County. At the Cattle Baron's Ball, J.R. makes nice to Bobby and Sue Ellen (well, he pretends to make nice). "You won, honey," J.R. tells his former wife Sue Ellen (as if). "You'd make a helluva governor, and if I do say so, you're still the prettiest girl at the ball." Elena breaks up with John Ross. Marta drugs John Ross with something that makes him even more … er, amorous … than usual and videotapes their romantic encounter, unbeknownst to him. Siblings Tommy and Rebecca are also in betrayal mode, having been plotting for "the last two years working on this job." They've set Rebecca up as Mrs. Christopher Ewing as part of some long con, but Rebecca seems to be turning soft. J.R. flies to Mexico to visit the land-conservancy honcho, Marta's father, only to find out that his "Marta" isn't the real Marta, and has no connection with Del Sol Conservancy.
Thoughts: When John Ross wakes up after his night from Elena, he's tangled up in rope. My guess: At some point, she's going to edit that footage to make it look as though he raped her. Mitch Lobell, the devious attorney, is not long for this world. As Marta says, "Where I come from, you don't feed a stray dog." (i.e., you destroy it.) I suspect that Tommy and Rebecca may NOT be siblings, but may actually be lovers. We'll see. When J.R. confronts John Ross about the conservancy-Marta deception, blood, or at the very least fists, will fly. I put my money on J.R.
Best lines:
* J.R., to John Ross: "Son, never pass up a good chance to shut up."
* J.R. at the Cattle Baron's Ball, to John Ross, "Watch and learn." Also at the CBB, in a brazen display of false modesty when he's complimented as a "legend": "Mostly in my own mind, darlin'." HAH!
* J.R. on meeting the real Marta. "I'm gonna have to introduce you to my son, John Ross. He's a chip off the old block." Yep, he sure is. J.R. just met his match when it comes to conniving and betrayal, and it's is HIM, in younger form.
Sightings of the real Dallas:
* A really gorgeous bar with bookshelves in the front entrance. Anyone know what it is? Mr. Dallas, can you help me here? UPDATE: Eagle-eyed Katie Niederee tells me that's The Cedars Social on South Lamar. Thanks, Katie!
* American Airlines Center (setting for the Cattle Baron's Ball).
* Fair Park and the Texas Star Ferris wheel, where John Ross takes a meeting to order his henchman to find out who sent that damned email (John Ross takes meetings in strange places; see Cowboys Stadium in first episode).
I'm sure I missed some spots; comment on this post to let us know what Dallas landmarks, restaurants, bars, etc., you caught on the show! Also, see any Dallas-based actors? We'd love to know who.
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Officials representing the Group of Eight (G-8) countries, along with China, India, and South Korea, met last week to develop a strategy in response to volitility in oil, gas, and coal markets. They issued a joint statement calling for oil producers to increase output and examined means by which wealthier nations could decrease consumption, improve energy efficiency, and reduce carbon emissions.
How Does the Strain on Natural Resources Affect U.S. Foreign Policy?
SNP in Syria writes:
You mean the G8 is calling for the same-O-same O. At $5 per gallon, average price in the G8 States, anyone that can cut use of gasoline has already done so. It is simply not possible to run a modern economy using any less oil/gas resources. You would have to drastically curtail these economies or dramatically change people habits, these solutions can not be relied upon to solve the energy problem because they are far fetched. Additionally, the fossil energy resources are finite and it is proven that we are heading downhill the curve on the supply line that is why the prices are so high, demand is high, supply is limited and quickly being exhausted. The solution is alternative energy and more of it to reduce demand, lower prices and extend the reserves at least to the end of the Century when the alternative energy technologies are matured and incorporated into daily life, industries and manufacturing uses.
Short of handing cash out for the alternative energy developers, the G8 States are heading into speedy Economic Bankruptcy with all its effects on society. Since people don't care, the sheeplet will pay $12 per gallon and not whisper a complaint, no one care on the other side as well.
Michael in California writes:
Excavating more carbon from what should be it's final resting spot so we can chew it up and spew it to the atmosphere where it will wreak havoc for decades to come IS NOT a policy responsible governments should be pursuing. Given that your question is targeting foreign policy, it seems to me the best foreign policy for energy hogs like the US would be to expand aid, technology transfer, and policy know-how to developing economies. These programs should be focused on energy efficiency, effective urban planning (including mass transit), and wind/solar energy resource development. By keeping developing economies 'off oil' so they never get hooked, the U.S. can help keep global energy prices down over what they otherwise would be if those economies do get 'addicted to oil'. This will certainly benefit the U.S. consumer in the long-run. Additionally, there might be markets for U.S. renewable energy companies (in areas where the market might be already saturated here at home) -- that is if we weren't so pathetically behind Europe in renewable energy equipment design/manufacturing. I suppose that sort of integrated domestic and foreign policy for growth would require cooperation we aren't likely to see from you over there in the swamp.
Ralph in Washington, DC writes:
It would be nice if Democratic countries had fanatical elements which would walk into an OPEC meeting and the major Speculators who are intentionally driving up the price with a FALSE consumption marketing ploy and blow themselves up....
Everyone wants to live. Elimenate the problem. ...LOL!
Honestly, here in America:
In America when I take a shower, I have to use a gallon of water to simply get hot water ...another words, a gallon of water goes into the sewer before I even shower. So, I waste on two utilities: water and the energy to make the hot water. We over consume and have never made adjustments.
It is obvious there is much going on in which information is not being presented to the public that concerns the entire economy worldwide ...but, us as citizens do need to take some responsibility for it all. While we can blame our Representation to a great degree, on an individual basis in America we have over consumed since WWII.
Personally, I honestly believe this has all happened here because Economic Freedom is like any other Freedom; it does not exist unless there are limitations. That was the responsibility of Government. These responsibilities should include: Subsidies for alternate energy, windfall taxes, not bailing out failed Corporations which lay off the citizens anyway-let a viable new Corporation emerge, non outsourcing of Military hardware and Intelligence networks to non U.S. firms, limitation of tax evasion techniques as offshore corporation, regulation/price control of all energy industries as is the case with Power production in the U.S.A... I mean something is wrong when you can go to the democratic country of Mexico and get diesel fuel for less than two dollars and it's over four in the U.S.A.
Little things like just parking and using public transit where it exist, car pooling, newer appliances, recycling ...all of that is on the citizen and we should have made a lot of concessions long ago, before it became Hip or a necessity.
World wide, it seems we are heading for a One World Government to continue exisitence ...but, greed will prevent that. One evil will stop another ...interesting actually when you view it that way ...but the UN has to have the power to implement change collectively with all Nations as it is the only established platform to work from. That would mean including everyone and having the power to dispose those who do not comply with a democratic vote of all Nations ...just like in comic books.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
When the price of crude jumps a record $10 per barrel shortly after the Israeli Defense Minister indicates sanctions against Iran are not working and that military action is seen as inevitable....this is a symtom of the political volatility in the global energy market in extremis.
Traditionally traders know when war is imminent long before governments ever admit to the public that diplomacy has been exhausted.
President Bush, Sec. Rice and DoS are to be commended for having lead the way in creating a multilateral framework and understanding on a coercive aproach to ending security threats in a peaceful manner, first and formost through diplomacy. Secondly via sanction, and third through political and economic isolation (or the modern updated concept of "containment" )
It is only civilized to offer ethical infants a choice, but it may be heard in the near future, now that Iran has once again rejected the common sense "demands of the free world" for peaceful coexistance, some sudden realization uttered , "Why did we bother thinking a state sponsor of terror would listen to reason?" when the Iranian government will soon anounce itself as a nuclear weapons state. As a "gift" to the next president of the U.S. I suspect.
Energy markets are the canary in the coal mine where it concerns conflict impending. Speculation runs rampant, and the global consumer is stuck in the middle.
What everyone does know is that this status quo with Iran is not stable nor viable. That the solution ultimately will not be pretty failing a diplomatic miracle, and that it will potentially get a lot worse before the Iranian question gets solved once and for all.
Whereas no "behavior change" begets military confrontation, not just isolation.
When the fourth largest oil exporter happens to be the world's leading state sponsor of terror, it becomes all too apparent where the long term solution to energy supply is concerned. That it is time for the regime in Tehran to be encoraged by one and all (and by all means) to go back to their mosques, preach peace so they may live in peace and live more correct lives outside of politics.
I think that suggestion would be the last gasp for diplomacy, short of war.
Personally, I don't think we as a nation should be afraid to do what we must, election or no. Unpleasent as war is to contemplate, let alone engage in.
Israel will do what they will do, and it won't come as a suprise.
I would offer a thought to the "powers that be" that any military action contemplated that leaves the current Iranian regime and system of government in power afterwards, is foolhardy at best, and insanely dangerous.
If the action levels the playing field for the Iranian people to see and end to their repressive leadership at their own hands, then more power to them. They deserve our support, and that's 70 million who would otherwise have no voice in the matter at all.
One will hear inevitable cries of "blood for oil", but what is more accurate is that it will be blood for blood, wheras Iranian activities in Iraq have targeted coalition troops, killing Americans.
30 years of this..."Death to America"...song...it is time to end this dirge.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
Who said there is an actual STRAIN?
Other than water and food, the energy crisis is a perpetrated event caused by deliberate speculation. There is ample oil available world wide which is still untapped.
The fact we let it happen shows that external elements not associated with the Governments of the world have taken precedence in power over the general welfare of civilization.
Another words: Money rules, not democratic governments at this period in history. It only seems that certain governments have control because they have oil; or maybe that was the plan. Who knows...and we do have ships going to the artic circle. We found the N. Pole..thats an American Flag there...so what is going to happen when Russia plants one on the Floor under the caps?
Good article in Conservative Politics about the change of control elements in Government.
CID in France writes:
@ Eric in New Mexico -- Responding to Mr. Eric in New Mexico, he stated:
"...30 years of this..."Death to America"...song...it is time to end this dirge..."
Syrians living impovrished and threatened by Israeli-American backed Baath Party security and military apparatus for more than 45 years under this slogan " Baathye, Baathye, Baathye, Ahdafuna, One Arab Nation with one Arab Eternal Messege). If Americans and Israeli thinks Syrians should, must and can live for 40 more years hearing this, then you should accept Americans living the same hearing Death to America for as long.
Should Israel or United States attack Iran, it will not be just Islamists from Arab Countries fighting you in Iraq and Israel on all fronts, but few million Syrians and Lebanese as well shall come to Iran defense. So please, do not make the same miscalculation you did during teh Iraq invasion planning, plan right this time will you.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
How does US foreign policy increase the strain on natural resources? In as many was as humanly possible, it seems.
A foreign policy promoting global prosperity is one reason why less developed countries increase oil consumption; another reason is continual war. The last two US wars have used up huge quantities of fuel.
Our oil wells are dry and despite our Kuwait rescue, nobody in the middle east offers free oil to replace what we used in wars to protect them. This incredible lack of gratitude alone is astonishing, and even more amazing is that the current administration demands little from our middle eastern "oil friends" who sell us oil at the highest possible price so our soldiers can die for their freedom, or whatever passes for liberty in that region.
There is no reason to believe that the next administration will be any better at foreign policy. Our middle eastern foreign policy has been an ongoing disaster for America and it only gets worse. OPEC is now discussing dumping the dollar, a nice "thank you" for saving their oil fields.
Nation-building is bankrupting America. Maybe we should stop and rethink this idea?
Eric in New Mexico writes:
I'm begining to think that maybe DoS should offer Zharkov a position with the policy planning Dept. And whatever he suggests, DoS needs only to do the exact opposite to have a foreign policy that will long endure his isolationist ramblings from the "Utopia of Soviet America"....and remain highly successful in solving problems globally. (chuckle)
The strain exists on supply and demand because demand has just about reached maximum global supply levels. Even though Saudi Arabia has increased its pumping capacity over half a million barrels and will increase it again by about the same in the near future, the capacity to refine crude is one of the bottlenecks creating the global strain on the supply side.
We haven't built a new refinery in America for almost 30 years. That's not a foreign policy issue per se, that's a result of a long ongoing debate within America Congress as to the environmental impact of drilling in pristine areas, and off the continental shelf. It has now become a national security issue of critical proportion, which is exactly what proponents of drilling warned Congress about decades ago.
I believe it is possible to protect the environment and extract the crude. We've got the tech to do it properly now 30 years later.
Even if we had done so already, and in better position to absorb shocks to the market...this situation would still be excacerbated by the factors both Joe and I pointed to in regards to speculation and the threat of war driving the increased prices.
Yeah, war wastes a lot of resources, especially human resource, not just energy.
I think it would be interesting though to do a comparison with how much gasoline was used over the last eight years freeing 55 million folks from tryrany, as compared to how much gasoline was wasted by the rest of America while waiting at fast food drive ups for their lunch over the same period of time.
Anyone care to wager on the results?
I would also suggest to Joe that to plant a flag on the sea floor at the North pole is akin to the difficulty of placing a flag on the moon, and in that sense it may be the only place left on Earth "undiscovered" and unexplored.
So I don't see it so much as a bogus claim of Russian soverign rights in internationasl waters, but more as the continuing human saga ...to go where no man has gone before.... And you actually might have an easier time extracting fossile fuel from the moon of Titan than from beneath the polar ice cap. In any case, if it is not economicly viable to extract, the resources will remain in place.
Perhaps "Dipnote Bloggers" will opine on this interesting development of the opening up of the Arctic due to global warming, and the opportunities it presents.
Be a good topic for discussion I think.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
OIL: I don't actually believe there is a STRAIN. There are no figures to support that issue.
The real problem we face is the Power struggle that is occurring behind the scenes. The real problem is not the lack of oil, nor getting it out of the ground at all.
1. Read the history of speculation: http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3123oil_speculation.html
2. Oddly, the Senate information on ICE has been taken off the Internet availability. It shows the major US companies responsible for over speculation and control outside. While the majore investors in ICE are American Companies, they set up OUTSIDE US legal authority.
3. The market is tied to many Pension funds through a loop hole. To offset their cost, banks as Goldman Sacks use speculation and help promote over cost.
4. Mexico has laws which prevent private investments from negatively influencing oil prices.
It is the accountability factor which is the problem right now, nothing more, nothing less.
If Fraud, greed, poor ethics and corporate special interest are the problem, the only resource problem is lack of better leaders.
Food: With the abundance of unused land through out the world; especially the US, there is no real excuse beyond the Futures market and capital investments. While it is difficult to alter money flow when established, the Humanity Issue needs to be re addressed. This includes subsidy redirection for growth, not non growth.
Water: We are consuming more water than we have in natural form. Why do you think depleting billions of gallons of Salt water will have no effect on the earths homeostasis? Funny how this figure is lacking from the rest of the Global Green Earths policies and Water may well become the next Oil. Why are large investors purchasing land in America and even Romania (largest number of natural springs in Europe)?
It is self evident that the largest natural resource being wasted in this world is its people:
This has come about simply because the idea of self sufficiency has been superseded by inter dependence. Many of the worst areas of starvation simply should not exist and the only reason they have no infrastructure is because they do not have PEACE due to poor leadership or outside influence. We seem to be the only country that actually does care from the governmental standpoint, not corporate. Our Government arms as the DOS. Our objective is never war, we always have an olive branch to work with first and foremost.
I am afraid I actually thought this blog was limited to a college function and did not mean to misrepresent my standings on our Great Nation or Societies. I have been simply trying to provoke legitimate responses by taking, in some cases, adversarial views. I called someone in AZ last night at a personal residence attached to a secure server and found it to be a legitimate blog.
My apologies for any misrepresentation of the Greatest Nation on earth, but we do have some internal problems which make us look hypocritical and they need addressing.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Propaganda, Eric, propaganda - and you will find your same thoughts repeated endlessly in the news media - tune in and see how much of what you believe was what you were told rather than what you researched yourself. Most of what you will write next was already written elsewhere because everything you know came through the media. I am as guilty of this as you. I believed as well until the lies were exposed. Now that they are exposed, we owe ourselves a duty to become informed of the truth, however ugly it is.
If you care to research the subject on your own, you might conclude that we are in the middle east to liberate the oil because that is about the only thing in the middle east worth anything. Sand has a very low resale value and flies are not in demand. Anything other than oil is just not credible to justify sending US soldiers into the area where most of the people who live there do not want us there. Iraqi people who like America have already left Iraq to come here. The rest prefer Iraq without checkpoints and green zones, according to soldiers who were there.
Freedom is being free from government interference. The people "freed from tyranny" are the dead ones. Those remaining alive still have to deal with increasing oil prices and governments which cannot keep auditable, balanced books, including our own.
Whether foreign policy strains resources, or resources strain foreign policy, is a chicken and egg question - which came first? Does foreign policy matter when you buy fuel for your automobile? Which came first, the Iraqi invasion or the OPEC oil extortion?
Who has more than enough money to manipulate the oil market other than OPEC members?
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Zharkov in U.S.A. -- Zharkov, you wish you could pass off my words as "propaganda," but when you consider the lack of oil in Afghanistan, and the following... your entire premis falls to pieces.
If you have doubt, ask a Kuwaiti if we liberated them in 91 for their oil.
I guess you forgot that the U.S. is in Iraq today at the invitation of the Iraqi gov.
Google "Michael Yon" and read some of his on the ground reporting. It's a little out of the mainstream, but accurate.
As I said, one must be careful of what one accepts as the truth.
I wonder how the fellow in his cubical in Langley feels now about having said I was "making it up" in 2005 now that a lot of what I told him has become public knowledge regarding Iranian activities. Constituency services is a beautiful thing. His superiors found out rather quickly I was for real. Frankly, I wish I didn't know what I know about Iran. Disturbing to say the least.
Folks at Cabinet level and beyond know what I'm talking about, even if you don't. So don't sweat it, it's been taken very seriously. If it was "propaganda", I wouldn't be blogging, I'd be in jail for delivering falsified info to my gov in a time of war. "It" being classified, I must leave it at that.
So read this and do your own research, things might look a bit different after.
With the support of the United States and international partners, the Afghan National Army is now almost 60,000 strong.
Focused District Development is currently underway in 32 districts throughout Afghanistan. Since November 2007, more than 1,400 members of the Afghan National Police have been trained through the program.
Through alternative development programs, the U.S. paid over $25 million in salaries to more than 270,000 Afghans and helped more than 1 million farmers produce and market high-value vegetable crops.
Governance, Rule of Law, and Human Rights
Provided voter registration, education, and logistical assistance in support of the successful 2004 presidential and 2005 parliamentary elections.
Built or rehabilitated 40 courthouses and justice facilities in 18 projects.
Compiled and published Afghanistan's entire body of law.
Trained over 950 judges and virtually all members of Parliament, legislative drafters, provincial counselors, and journalists.
Established or upgraded 37 independent community radio stations whose broadcasts reach 60 percent of the Afghan population.
Helped establish the Independent Electoral Commission and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
Economic and Social Development
Built or rehabilitated approximately 2,700 kilometers of roads, including 715 kilometers of the Ring road, as well as national highways, and provincial and rural roads.
Disbursed over 28,000 micro-finance loans.
Constructed or refurbished more than 680 schools.
Printed and distributed more than 60 million textbooks nationwide.
Trained over 65,000 teachers through radio broadcasts and 10,500 teachers through accelerated learning programs.
More than 170,000 students (55% girls) have completed accelerated learning programs to recover years of education lost under the Taliban.
Built or rehabilitated over 670 health facilities and trained over 11,400 health workers.
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by Anton Shilov
Intel Corp. admits that IBM's approach for optical interconnections for chips is very interesting and progressive, but claims that its own way is more efficient in terms of performance and manufacturability.
IBM's CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics combine electrical and optical devices on a single chip. The new IBM technology can be produced on the front-end of a standard CMOS manufacturing line and requires no new or special tooling. With this approach, silicon transistors can share the same silicon layer with silicon nanophotonics devices. According to IBM, the new technology adds just a few more processing modules to a standard CMOS fabrication flow, to enable a variety of silicon nanophotonics components, such as: modulators, germanium photodetectors and ultra-compact wavelength-division multiplexers to be integrated with high-performance analog and digital CMOS circuitry. As a result, single-chip optical communications transceivers can now be manufactured in a standard CMOS foundry, rather than assembled from multiple parts made with expensive compound semiconductor technology.
By contrast, Intel proposes to make chips using the latest process technology on contemporary manufacturing foundries and then add all the necessary elements needed for optical interconnections.
"This [IBM] research is another example of others also validating that silicon photonics is the path to high bandwidth, low-cost optical communications. While this research is interesting, there are still many challenges to commercialise this approach such as integration of lasers and integration with advanced future transistor processes," said Nick Knupffer, an Intel's global communications manager, told in an interview with ZDNet UK.
According to the representative of Intel, IBM's approach simply makes manufacturing difficult. For example, chipmakers will have to develop fabrication processes with optical-related elements in mind.
"Keeping the CMOS and photonics separate will allow us to use the most energy-efficient, leading edge manufacturing process for electronics as we scale link speeds. For exascale systems, energy efficiency is a major concern. [...] Although [Intel's approach to nanophotonics] does require the bonding of indium phosphide to the silicon, this is done at the chip or wafer level, allowing us to create all the lasers we need in one bonding step," said Mr. Knupffer.


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Extended maintenance of Ruby 1.9.3 ended on February 23, 2015. Read more
TCPServer represents a TCP/IP server socket.
A simple TCP server may look like:
require 'socket' server = TCPServer.new 2000 # Server bind to port 2000 loop do client = server.accept # Wait for a client to connect client.puts "Hello !" client.puts "Time is #{Time.now}" client.close end
A more usable server (serving multiple clients):
require 'socket' server = TCPServer.new 2000 loop do Thread.start(server.accept) do |client| client.puts "Hello !" client.puts "Time is #{Time.now}" client.close end end
Creates a new server socket bound to port.
If hostname is given, the socket is bound to it.
serv = TCPServer.new("127.0.0.1", 28561) s = serv.accept s.puts Time.now s.close
static VALUE tcp_svr_init(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE sock) { VALUE hostname, port; rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "011", &hostname, &port); return rsock_init_inetsock(sock, hostname, port, Qnil, Qnil, INET_SERVER); }
TCPServer.open("127.0.0.1", 14641) {|serv|
s = serv.accept s.puts Time.now s.close
static VALUE tcp_accept(VALUE sock) { rb_io_t *fptr; struct sockaddr_storage from; socklen_t fromlen; GetOpenFile(sock, fptr); fromlen = (socklen_t)sizeof(from); return rsock_s_accept(rb_cTCPSocket, fptr->fd, (struct sockaddr*)&from, &fromlen); }
Accepts an incoming connection using accept(2) after O_NONBLOCK is set for the underlying file descriptor. It returns an accepted TCPSocket for the incoming connection.
require 'socket' serv = TCPServer.new(2202) begin # emulate blocking accept sock = serv.accept_nonblock rescue IO::WaitReadable, Errno::EINTR IO.select([serv]) retry end # sock is an accepted socket.
Refer to Socket#accept for the exceptions that may be thrown if the call to #accept_nonblock fails.
#accept_nonblock may raise any error corresponding to accept(2) failure, including Errno::EWOULDBLOCK.
If the exception is Errno::EWOULDBLOCK, Errno::AGAIN, Errno::ECONNABORTED, Errno::EPROTO, it is extended by IO::WaitReadable. So IO::WaitReadable can be used to rescue the exceptions for retrying accept_nonblock.
static VALUE tcp_accept_nonblock(VALUE sock) { rb_io_t *fptr; struct sockaddr_storage from; socklen_t fromlen; GetOpenFile(sock, fptr); fromlen = (socklen_t)sizeof(from); return rsock_s_accept_nonblock(rb_cTCPSocket, fptr, (struct sockaddr *)&from, &fromlen); }
Listens for connections, using the specified
int as the
backlog. A call to listen only applies if the
is of type SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_SEQPACKET.
backlog - the maximum length of the queue for pending
require 'socket' include Socket::Constants socket = Socket.new( AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0 ) sockaddr = Socket.pack_sockaddr_in( 2200, 'localhost' ) socket.bind( sockaddr ) socket.listen( 5 )
require 'socket' include Socket::Constants socket = Socket.new( AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0 ) socket.listen( 1 )
On unix based systems the above will work because a new
sockaddr struct is created on the address ADDR_ANY, for an
arbitrary port number as handed off by the kernel. It will not work on
Windows, because Windows requires that the
socket is bound by
calling bind before it can listen.
If the backlog amount exceeds the implementation-dependent maximum queue length, the implementation's maximum queue length will be used.
On unix-based based systems the following system exceptions may be raised if the call to listen fails:
Errno::EBADF - the socket argument is not a valid file descriptor
Errno::EDESTADDRREQ - the socket is not bound to a local address, and the protocol does not support listening on an unbound socket
Errno::EINVAL - the socket is already connected
Errno::ENOTSOCK - the socket argument does not refer to a socket
Errno::EOPNOTSUPP - the socket protocol does not support listen
Errno::EACCES - the calling process does not have appropriate privileges
Errno::EINVAL - the socket has been shut down
Errno::ENOBUFS - insufficient resources are available in the system to complete the call
On Windows systems the following system exceptions may be raised if the call to listen fails:
Errno::ENETDOWN - the network is down
Errno::EADDRINUSE - the socket's local address is already in use. This usually occurs during the execution of bind but could be delayed if the call to bind was to a partially wildcard address (involving ADDR_ANY) and if a specific address needs to be committed at the time of the call to listen
Errno::EINPROGRESS - a Windows Sockets 1.1 call is in progress or the service provider is still processing a callback function
Errno::EINVAL - the
socket has not been bound with a call to
Errno::EISCONN - the
socket is already connected
Errno::EMFILE - no more socket descriptors are available
Errno::ENOBUFS - no buffer space is available
Errno::ENOTSOC -
socket is not a socket
Errno::EOPNOTSUPP - the referenced
socket is not a type that
supports the listen method
listen manual pages on unix-based systems
listen function in Microsoft's Winsock functions reference
VALUE rsock_sock_listen(VALUE sock, VALUE log) { rb_io_t *fptr; int backlog; rb_secure(4); backlog = NUM2INT(log); GetOpenFile(sock, fptr); if (listen(fptr->fd, backlog) < 0) rb_sys_fail("listen(2)"); return INT2FIX(0); }
Returns a file descriptor of a accepted connection.
TCPServer.open("127.0.0.1", 28561) {|serv| fd = serv.sysaccept s = IO.for_fd(fd) s.puts Time.now s.close }
static VALUE tcp_sysaccept(VALUE sock) { rb_io_t *fptr; struct sockaddr_storage from; socklen_t fromlen; GetOpenFile(sock, fptr); fromlen = (socklen_t)sizeof(from); return rsock_s_accept(0, fptr->fd, (struct sockaddr*)&from, &fromlen); }
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Johnny Griffin: April 24, 1928 - July 25, 2008
July 25, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: arts music, blank title, coleman hawkins, hard bop, injustice, jazz musician, johnny griffin, little giant, Masters, muscular sound, News, no doubt, Notes, ny times, nytimes, obit, rhythm and blues, rough and tumble, saxophone, saxophonist, stature, target, wails
WBGO bids farewell to Johnny Griffin, a master jazz musician. Many jazz people referred to Griffin as "The Little Giant," no doubt because of his dimunitive stature (he was a shade below 5 and a half feet tall). The consensus, however, was that Griffin's true stature loomed large in the music. Johnny Griffin could easily fall under the category of "hard bop saxophonist," but to do so would be an injustice. When you listen to the raw muscular sound of early Johnny Griffin records, you can hear a combination of saxophone legend Coleman Hawkins, the rough-and-tumble rhythm and blues of Griffin's Chicago hometown, and some definitive gospel wails. It was a big, combustible sound. One that will be missed.
If you're looking for good music from Griffin, you have plenty of options.
Some suggestions after the jump.
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Redmen's Calovecchi avenges U.P. Championship loss, wins wrestling title
GAYLORD – Curt Calovecchi led a group of four Marquette Senior High School seniors who scored top-five finishes at the 29-school Northern Michigan Championships high school wrestling meet held in downstate Gaylord on Saturday.
Calovecchi posted a perfect 4-0 record to win the 171-pound division, edging Roscommon's Mitch Tyler 8-7 in the championship match.
Just as importantly for he and his MSHS teammates, Calovecchi avenged a loss a week earlier by holding off Galloway Thurston of St. Ignace, 3-1, in the semifinals.
In their only other meeting this season, Thurston defeated Calovecchi 6-1 in the 171 finals on Jan. 19 at the Upper Peninsula Championships held in the MSHS gym.
On Saturday, Marquette was sitting in seventh place in the team standings with one match to go, according to MSHS co-coach Tony Gentz.
"We had a lot of bright spots," Gentz said about the 10 wrestlers he brought downstate. "It's a great tournament for a lot of our kids. They get to see wrestlers they don't normally see. They saw how they match up head-to-head with the types of wrestlers we'll face in the district and regional tournaments."
Several other U.P. schools were in the field, including St. Ignace, Escanaba, Gladstone and Sault Ste. Marie.
Joe Iwanicki, the Redmen's lone U.P. Championships winner a week ago, nearly made it two in a row before he lost in the title match at 215, losing 3-0 to Donovan Fouthey of Oscoda. In the quarterfinals, he beat an Escanaba wrestler, Devon Olson, 6-2, as he compiled a 3-1 record Saturday.
Rainger Rossway finished third at 285 and also went 3-1. He pinned Dawon Petty of West Branch Ogemaw Heights at 4:18 in the third-place match.
Austin Johnson came in fifth at 145, also going 3-1, and pinned Houghton Lake's Logan Dunmore in 45 seconds in the fifth-place match. In his first match, he pinned Teddy Peippo of Escanaba in 1:50.


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Project Information
Key species:
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People Involved:
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If a Blog Fell in the Forest...
"Just as long as we have we!" - Dr. Seuss and Albert Hague
In OCC lurks great power, but we do not harness it, nor do we wield it.
We have 175 members, 110 published authors, and myriad experts on everything from computer technostuff to cover design to contracts to self-publishing. And what makes the whole of OCC so much stronger than the sum of these amazing parts? Our interconnectedness, our willingness to share and communicate. So...our A Slice of Orange Blog should rock much more than it does.
We have the power to make A Slice of Orange grow into a cornucopia of talent, resource, tidbits, and discussion that romance readers and writers will consume voraciously. But when many of our published authors have a book coming out, they guest blog somewhere else. And many of our experts have their own blogs, and they ask OCC members to go there to read a good blog. Can we bring some of this love home to OCC? I think we can, and when we do, A Slice of Orange will be so much mightier than the sum of its parts.
-If you have your own blog, perhaps you can pick a blog day on A Slice of Orange (Marianne Donley has the master list of available blog dates firstname.lastname@example.com). Then, on that day, on your own blog, instead of blogging, you can have a link to A Slice of Orange where your blog will appear that day.
-If you are a published author, you can blog about your upcoming book and add charming stories. Check out Jina Bacarr's recent Titanic blogs.
-You can feature your upcoming book and add tidbits from your personal life. Check out Janet Cornelow's latest blog. That is the kind of stuff reader's LOVE! To feel they KNOW an author!
-Linda O. Johnston and Monica Stoner provide insight into the life of a writer – pure gold to fledgling writers tying to get to know the biz.
-Rebecca Forster's recent blog on characters and Barb DeLong's conversations with Jann Audiss offer such fodder for readers and writers alike to talk about the things readers and writers love to discuss!
-Louisa Bacio's and Kitty Bucholtz's blogs are always choc full of info info info about everything that a writer would want to know about. Calls for Submissions, details about self publishing, reading recommendations and more and more and more...
We need more participation to make A Slice of Orange as strong as it has the potential to be. And not just writing the blogs. Do you read the blogs? Comment! Check those boxes at the bottom if you found it interesting or funny or cool or great! Do you write blogs? Comment back – get discussions going. I think it would be great if the commenters even got into discussions with each other. For instance, today Laura Drake posted a link to a great blog by Larry Brooks, Storyfix. I looked 10 minutes ago, and he had 44 comments - I want that kind of interaction on A Slice of Orange!
Are you too busy to blog? You can pitch in by reading the blogs, checking the boxes, and commenting! We can all share and build our collective strength.
Why would this be such a great thing?
-A popular blog home base where you can publicize an upcoming release could be very useful - so the bigger our readership, the better.
-If you are self published and you blog about your book on our widely read blog, the more books you will sell.
-If you are not yet published, you can fortify your profile as a potential author who can sell her or his name by showing that you are a regular blogger on a popular blog.
-If you write your own blog, having it linked to such a strong hub can only increase your readership.
-If you are writer who feels unconnected, isolated or clueless, you can tune in to read about and chat with writers who love to share.
-If you are a reader, you can peek inside the world you love so much and get a heads up about what books are coming soon from some of your favorite authors. Or you might discover new favorites.
-Anyone in OCC can blog. Send Marianne Donley a request.
-Everyone in OCC and beyond can read and comment and discuss. But it has to start with us.
We need more OCC members writing, reading, commenting, commenting back, commenting back and forth, and telling others about our blogs in order to drive A Slice of Orange to its fierce destiny!
And even though many blogs are up for only a day before the next blog goes up, remember, the blogs don't go anywhere! You just have to scroll down and you can keep the conversation going. For my Davy Jones blog, I was commenting back and forth for 4 days, even though Kitty's blog posted above mine on day 2. And yes, I shamelessly asked some of you to read my blog and please comment so I could light a fire under my blog, and this flurry of comments brought in 8 unsolicited comments - but I want us all to have more than 8 every time! If we check in on the blogs and scroll through and comment and keep checking and commenting back, we can really get something going.
In OCC beats the power of its incredible membership. We need to harness and wield this power for the good of our careers. Unleashing such power will also enhance the vivacity and might of the romance community of readers and writers. And gleaning power from love and from loving what we do is good for everyone.
Please, let's discuss. Let's make this happen. All comments, pros and cons, will be welcomed, considered and discussed! And I hope we all discuss: commenters with me and commenters with other commenters.
Where better to discuss blogging than in a blog?
-Geralyn Ruane
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