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When you think about hardy arctic creatures bracing for a cold winter, you're probably thinking of something huge and furry and possibly antlered. Odds are you're not thinking of … wood frogs.
But it may be time to cast that amphibian prejudice aside in light of a new study in The Journal of Experimental Biology that examines the astounding ability of Rana sylvatica to freeze—and live through it. R. sylvatica is a species of wood frog with a range that stretches from the state of Georgia all the way through Canada and into the Arctic Circle.
The study was led by Jon Costanzo of the Department of Zoology at Miami University in Ohio. Costanzo's research interest in wood frogs goes back 25 years, to when he first learned of their extreme freeze tolerance. (Read about an octopus that survives in extremely cold temperatures.)
"I wanted to understand how the frog could do that on a physiological and chemical level," he said.
Deep-Frozen Frogs
There are a number of creatures, from reptiles and insects to marine life, that possess some level of freeze tolerance, but few can perform the trick quite like Rana sylvatica. The tiny amphibians can survive for weeks with an incredible two-thirds of their body water completely frozen—to the point where they are essentially solid frogsicles. (Related: "Antifreeze-Like Blood Lets Frogs Freeze and Thaw With Winter's Whims.")
Even more incredible is the fact that the wood frogs stop breathing and their hearts stop beating entirely for days to weeks at a time. In fact, during its period of frozen winter hibernation, the frogs' physical processes—from metabolic activity to waste production—grind to a near halt. What's more, the frogs are likely to endure multiple freeze/thaw episodes over the course of a winter.
To test the freeze tolerance of Alaskan populations of Rana sylvatica specifically, the researchers compared them with frogs of the same species taken from the local Ohio population. While both exhibited impressive freeze tolerance, there were some obvious differences as well. While the Ohioan wood frogs could be frozen at -4 degrees Celsius (24.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and revived, the Alaskan wood frog was frozen at temperatures as low as -16 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) before being thawed out and returning to its normal healthy state.
And Costanzo is convinced that the small but sturdy amphibians can survive even colder temperatures.
Avoiding Death
The way wood frogs avoid freezing to death is due to so-called cryoprotectants—solutes that lower the freezing temperature of the animal's tissues. These include glucose (blood sugar) and urea and have been found in much higher concentrations in the Alaskan wood frogs than in their southern counterparts.
Increased levels of cryoprotectants help the frogs' cells survive. In most animals, prolonged exposure to subzero temperatures causes cellular shrinkage—a process in which the formation of ice in the tissues pulls water from the body's cells, essentially sucking them dry and eventually killing the cell. (Related: "Champions of the Cold.")
But cryoprotectants help the cells resist that shrinkage.
"The solutes tend to depress the freezing point [of tissue]," said Costanzo. "It limits the amount of ice that actually forms in the body at any part. The more of that cryoprotective solute you can accumulate, the less ice will form and therefore the less stress there is on cells and tissues."
Costanzo and his team also detected the presence of an additional mystery solute in the northern wood frogs, not shared by the local Ohio frogs, and are planning future research to determine its exact nature.
Applications for Medicine
Beyond being fascinating science, the ability to freeze and unfreeze living organs and tissues without damaging them has potentially profound implications for areas such as organ transplantation.
"There's an obvious parallel between what these frogs are doing to preserve all of their tissues simultaneously and our need to be able to cryopreserve human organs for tissue-matching purposes," said Costanzo, noting that attempts to successfully freeze human organs for transplants have so far proved unsuccessful, perhaps due to their relative size and cellular complexity.
"If you could freeze human organs even for a short period of time, that would be a major breakthrough because then these organs could be shipped around the world, which would greatly [improve] the donor-matching process," noted Costanzo.
And that, ironically, is a heartwarming thought.
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Eulogy of Broadcast Television
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Public lecture with Bonnier Guest Professor Milly Buonanno.
The vanishing centrality, the obsolescence of broadcast television following the proliferation of the narrowcast channels and the spread of new digital media has turned into a key issue within contemporary media studies, thus making 'the end of television' (with or without question mark) a familiar trope in scholarly discourses and opening the way to a redefinition of the present-day television phase in terms of post-broadcast or post-network era (Amanda Lodtz). Is broadcast television really dying? (Elihu Katz and Paddy Scannell). And should it be the case, what is gained and what is lost from its demise? Besides recognizing that there are plenty of places in the world where 'the broadcast era is still in full swing' (Graeme Turner), the discursive formation of 'the passing of televisione as we knew it' may offer media scholarship the opportunity to assume the viewpoint of the end – as suggested by Frank Kermode for literary fiction – as the privileged perspective from which the broadcast era can be looked at anew, eventually acknowledging the reasons why it is liable to be praised rather than buried.
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Having a signature in one forum doesn't cross over to another. Also, the forum gets lots of posts every day, so it doesn't seem to be struggling to me.


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While most people never venture far beyond the coast, the open ocean provides a range of goods and services that are an integral part of our health, economies - and even our weather.
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These goods and services include:
- Fisheries: Marine fisheries have traditionally been located near the coast, both because this requires simpler technology and because coastal waters are much more productive than the open ocean. However, many of the most commonly caught species - such as tuna, swordfish, herring, sardine, and anchovy - are also caught in the open ocean, often on the high seas. In addition, as overfishing has depleted epipelagic and coastal fisheries, fishers are targeting new species in deeper waters: as many as 40% of the world's fishing grounds are now in waters deeper than 200m.
- Shipping routes: The oceans provide convenient transport routes - which we take full advantage of. Around 90% of all trade between countries is carried by ships. These transport everything from food and fuel to construction materials, chemicals, and household items.
- Oxygen: It's not just ocean life that depends on phytoplankton. These tiny marine plants are estimated to produce over half the oxygen that we, and all other land animals, breathe.
- CO2 sink: Ocean waters have the capacity to absorb vast amounts of the greenhouse-warming gas carbon dioxide (CO2), and thus have helped to buffer human-caused global warming and climate change. Indeed, nearly half the CO2 produced by human activities in the last 200 years has dissolved into the ocean. Phytoplankton also lock CO2 away. Like land plants, these microscopic algae use CO2 to grow. When they die, this CO2 sinks as organic matter to the bottom of the ocean, keeping it out of the atmosphere.
- Temperature and weather control: The surface layer of the ocean absorbs over half the heat reaching the Earth from the sun. By distributing this heat around the world, ocean currents - which flow for thousands of kilometres, both at the surface and far below - are extremely important in determining the climate of the world's continents.
For example, the Gulf Stream carries warm water from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to western Europe. This water warms the air above, which is then blown across to the land. As a result, northwest Europe is much warmer than other lands at the same latitude.
Hurricanes and cyclones can be destructive when they hit land, but these tropical storms also help distribute heat from the tropics to higher latitudes through the atmosphere.
- Water cycle: The oceans are also an integral part of the water cycle. Vast amounts of water evaporate from the ocean surface, rising into the atmosphere as water vapour. When this vapor collides with colder air, it condenses to form clouds and rain.


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Eclipse Paho, Open Source, and other newsNovember 3rd, 2011 - 5 Comments
A big day for MQTT… "the little protocol that could"? 🙂
Back in August, we mentioned the intent to take MQTT to a standards body – that process is in progress.
On November 2, IBM and Eurotech, the originators of the MQTT protocol specification, announced that they were joining Sierra Wireless and the Eclipse Foundation in a new Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Industry Working Group at Eclipse. Sierra Wireless have already contributed M2M frameworks and tooling to the proposed Eclipse Koneki project.
Today, November 3, IBM and Eurotech also announced the donation of Java and C MQTT clients to the newly-proposed Eclipse Paho M2M messaging project.
What does this mean? Well, to start off with, the IBM Java and C clients will be donated to the Paho project. The project proposal defines the ongoing scope as:
…to provide open source implementations of open and standard messaging protocols that support current and emerging requirements of M2M integration with Web and Enterprise middleware and applications. It will include client implementations for use on embedded platforms along with corresponding server support as determined by the community.
In order for M2M device and client developers to integrate, develop and test messaging components end-to-end, Paho will address the development of frameworks and sample code needed to support testing and development of end-to-end device connectivity with a server. The project will make these available in an Eclipse M2M sever "sandbox", as recommended by the Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group.
The Paho project scope includes the development of tooling that will support effective use, integration and testing of the messaging components.
This has created a lot of buzz, as tweets and articles we've been seeing today confirm. It's great news, and we encourage everyone to join the Google Group for more discussion on the future of MQTT, or to watch the progress of Eclipse Paho and other related projects as they develop.
As always – we also thank everyone involved in the MQTT community for their passion and interest – it's just amazing that there are so many implementations out there already. Here's to the M2M space powered by MQTT!


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MANILA, Philippines - The second warship to be acquired by the Navy from the United States (US) is expected to arrive by February, Defense Secretary Voltraire Gazmin said Monday.
Gazmin said US Pacific Command chief Adm. Samuel Locklear III gave him the assurance of the second warship's delivery during their meeting in Hawaii early this month.
"Our new ship will be coming sometime next year, about February. I met with Admiral Locklear in Hawaii before I joined the trip of the president to Australia and New Zealand. He assured us that the ship will arrive by February 2013," he said.
The scheduled arrival of BRP Ramon Alcaraz in February is a month later than the initial expectations.
During his state of the nation address last July, President Aquino said BRP Alcaraz was expected to reach Philippine shores by the end of January.
Gazmin said the BRP Alcaraz is "a better conditioned water craft" than the BRP Gregorio del Pilar, the first ship provided by the US last year.
"We have sailors undergoing training [on how to maneuver the ship] and they will be the ones who will bring the ship here from Charleston (South Carolina)," the defense chief said.
Last year, the government acquired its first Hamilton-class vessel from the US Coast Guard to enhance the military's external defense capabilities.
The ship, which has been renamed BRP Gregorio del Pilar, has been deployed to the West Philippine Sea to secure energy projects in the area. It is now the Navy's largest vessel.
The US, however, stripped the ship of some of its accessories before it was turned over to the Philippines.
Officials earlier said that the BRP Alcaraz, the second warship to be acquired from the US, would cost more than BRP del Pilar since the government had to buy weapons and accessories that were removed from the vessel.
The ship was named after Commodore Ramon Alcaraz, a Philippine Navy officer, who distinguished himself during the Second World War when the patrol boat he commanded shot down three Japanese aircraft.
BRP Alcaraz was largely used by the US Coast Guard for drug and migrant interdiction, law enforcement, search and rescue, living marine resources protection, and defense readiness. The ship can accommodate up to 180 officers and sailors.
Meanwhile, the military hailed the awarding of a contract for the purchase of modern weapons system for BRP Alcaraz.
Armed Forces spokesman Col. Arnulfo Burgos Jr. said the weapon system would boost their maritime security capabilities and enable them to guard the country's territory.
"This acquisition will greatly and significantly contribute to the fulfillment of our mandate which is to protect the people and uphold the sovereignty and integrity of the national territory," Burgos said.
"The system acquisition will definitely help us in the enforcement of maritime laws and support us in our fight against transnational crimes like drug trafficking, human trafficking human trafficking piracy illegal fishing and poaching," he added.
On Sunday, the Philippine embassy in US announced that the Pentagon has awarded a $1.8 million contract for the purchase of modern weapons systems for BRP Alcaraz.
The purchase and installation of two Mk38 Mod 2 autocanon systems for the Alcaraz is part of a $24-million contract the Pentagon recently awarded to the Kentucky-based BAE Systems Land and Armaments Inc.
The contract, which is covered under the Foreign Military Sales Program, involves the purchase of 21 units of the remotely controlled naval gun systems and spare parts.
The new weapon systems are upgraded versions of the Mk38 M242 Bushmasters that were removed from BRP Alcaraz prior to its turnover to the Philippines. The remotely controlled chain gun system can fire as many as 180 25m rounds per minute at targets as far as two kilometers.


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Here's a snippet of market data of interest to folk keeping tabs on the Ultrabook market. In the UK, during the past four years, laptops costing £800 or more have never taken more than 7.5 per cent of notebook sales as a whole.
That's no great surprise, perhaps - you'd expect cheaper laptops to outsell pricey ones. But it is a problem for Intel, which wants World+Dog to ditch their old, thick notebooks in favour of new, skinny Ultrabooks that cost more than £800.
According to GfK, a market watcher which tracks sales of this kind of kit, Ultrabooks and other such machines - Apple's MacBook Air most notably, but it's not the only non-Ultrabook ultra-slim laptop out there - are experiencing positive growth.
But, says GfK analyst Manish Goenka, their sales haven't yet expanded sufficiently to turn around the broader decline in the £800-plus notebook segment.
That section of the notebook market has only experienced positive growth in January 2011 and, later, in December 2011, and it has been rapidly declining since then. The rate of decline is rising.
That doesn't bode well for Intel's hope that the Ultrabook will this season become a mainstream product. To that end, Intel is now demanding that Ultrabook makers - those of them who want to use its Ultrabook trademark, at least - build even more technology into their offerings, specifically its anti-theft and identity protection tech, plus either USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt.
All nice-to-have features to be sure, but adding more kit is not a strategy geared toward reducing the cost to the consumer.
Goenka notes that the notebook market as a whole is "struggling" to achieve positive growth. Ultrabooks may be being widely promoted by Intel, but persuading punters to upgrade to an £899 machine rather than a £499 notebook will be, as Goenka says, "a major challenge".
Will consumers make the move? Goenka is noncommittal: we'll have to wait and see, he says. While Ultrabooks are having a job pushing up notebook demand, tablet sales have been showing 200 per cent plus year-on-year growth for the last few months and there's no sign of that trend slowing.
Folk will want to take tablets on holiday with them this summer. Come the autumn, Windows 8 will launch, and that looks set to drive tablet demand further.
The arrival of Windows 8 will help Ultrabook sales too. But if they stay priced above £800, in the UK at least, buyers are more likely to eye tablets at half the price or less. ®


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TNA Against All Odds opened with Jeff Hardy entering the Impact Zone. He was asked how his health was and whether tonight was the night for him. Hardy stopped, smirked and entered the venue.
TNA aired a video feature on the TNA title bout to open the PPV.
Mike Tenay and Jeremy Borash welcomed everyone to the PPV. They discussed the four way match that will headline the show.
They announced that Taz was missing the show due to a "loss in his family.†Obviously, everyone here at PWInsider.com wishes Taz and his family nothing but the best and we are deeply sorry for their loss.
Jesse Sorensen vs. Zema Ion
SoCal Val is handling the ring announcing. No Christy Hemme as she'll be doing backstage interviews.
Sorensen and Ion went at it outside the ring to start the bout. Sorensen caught Ion with a back suplex and a bridging pin attempt early, then clotheslined Ion over the top the floor. Ion, who was obsessed with spraying his hair with hair spray, shoulderblocked Sorensen through the ropes, then missed a slingshot back into the ring. Sorensen caught Ion with a series of offensive maneuvers and several near falls, but Ion went to the floor to break up the momentum.
Ion got into it with a child that Sorensen had given a football too and grabbed it away. Sorensen nailed a sliding kick to the outside, but missed a pescado to the floor. Back in the ring, Ion drilled him with a missile dropkick, sending Sorensen back to the floor. Ion used the apron as a base and leapt off the corner to nail a moonsault to the floor.
Sorensen was knocked out and didn't return to the ring. He was counted out.
Your winner by countout, Zema Ion!
Several officials and security checked on Sorensen. Ion left the ring and told the cameras that's why he is the best high flyer in the business. Ion was very good at covering and acting like this was the plan, even though Sorensen was obviously hurt. That's the mark of a good pro.
Mike Tenay and Jeremy Borash talked a lot about the finish of the match. It looked like Sorensen had been KO'd legit.
It was going fine before the injury but they never really got out of the gate.
Christy Hemme interviewed TNA champion Bobby Roode. He said that its fitting that it's titled Against All Odds because he has to defend against three top contenders in TNA, but you can flip that coin. He said that he's been the most dominant champion in TNA history. He said that you can call it greed or something else, but he gets the job done. He said that Jeff Hardy has had multiple chances at the belt but has failed. He's beaten James Storm every single time. Roode said that he has no idea what Bully Ray's problem is, because they were a team on Impact but Ray has some selfishness of his own. Roode said that he is the leader of the selfish generation and when his arm is raised in victory tonight, Sting will know finally that Roode is the "it†factor in pro wrestling.
TNA TV champion Robbie E. (with Robbie E.) vs. ?
E said that he and Robbie T created something special for tonight and that's the Robbie E. Invitational. He said they can try to take his title but they aren't on the guest list.
Out came Shannon Moore. E. acted like he was going to lock up but then decided he was going to walk out. Moore chased him down and attacked him on the ramp, then whipped him into the guard rail.
Moore tossed E. into the ring but was quickly cut off. E. worked him over in the corner but was nailed with a hiptoss and a spinkick for a near fall. Moore chopped E. in the corner and drilled him with a knee in the gut. Moore went for a head scissors out of the corner but was caught and sent over the ropes to the apron. E used a running knee to send Moore crashing off the apron into the railing.
E. retrieved Moore and began pie-facing him into the ring. E cut him off with a running elbow and covered him for a two count. E locked in a side chinlock, trying to wear Moore down. Moore fired out with elbows and several right hands. Moore was caught with a running back elbow. E drilled Moore with an elbow off the middle turnbuckle.
Moore tried to fire back with rights but was kicked down by E. Moore was locked back into a side chinlock but Moore escaped and nailed him with an enziguiri. Moore sent E. to the floor and drilled an Asai Moonsault.
Moore rolled him back into the ring and covered him several times for near falls. Moore missed a moonsault and was drilled with a running clothesline for a two count. E. went to the top but played to the crowd, allowing Moore to dropkick him and cut him off. Moore ascended to the top and snapped E. with a top rope rana for a near fall.
Moore went for a neckbreaker but E tried to reverse. Moore rolled up E. who kicked up. Moore was sent into the ropes, where Robbie T. drilled him with a knockout punch. E. covered the stunned Moore and scored the pin.
Your winner and still TNA TV champion, Robbie E!
Solid back and forth match. The crowd was into Moore's near falls and being the challenger but the audio micing is so bad (at least in HD, which is how I am watching the show), you can hardly hear them.
TNA Knockouts champion Gail Kim (with Madison Rayne) vs. Tara
Kim and Rayne were having words at ringside, allowing Tara to go right after Kim in the corner, using her hair to snapmare Kim across the ring and then locking her in a Hangman's neck breaker. Tara drilled her with a kick and went for a suplex but Kim turned it into a neckbreaker for a two count. Tara fired back but Kim used the ropes to snap her throat across the ropes.
Kim kicked her in the face and peppered her with right hands. Kim ran Tara into the corner turnbuckles. Kim nailed a leaping clothesline into the corner. Kim came off the top with a missile dropkick. Rayne told Kim, "Screw you†and walked off. Kim blew her off and went right back to work on Tara, trying to force a submission by going after her bad knee.
Tara forced her off but was trapped in an Octopus. Tara collapsed towards the ropes to break the hold. Kim kicked away at Tara, then positions her on the top rope. Kim nailed a top rope rana and walked around the ring, mocking Rayne's wave to the crowd. This delay allowed Tara to nail her with a powerslam out of nowhere. Kim recovered first but Tara fired back. Tara nailed a sideslam for a two count,
Kim and Tara battled on the top. Kim was backdropped from the top to the floor. Tara then nailed a top rope moonsault, but began grabbing at her bad knee. She was in pain but dragged herself onto Kim for a two count. Tara went for the Widow's Peak but Kim slipped out and drilled Tara's knee, then snapped her with the Eat Defeat for the pin.
Your winner and still TNA Knockouts champion Gail Kim!
OK match.
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Google has acquired Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence start-up Halli Labs. Halli, which means 'village' in Kannada, has announced the news in a blog post which was later confirmed by Google. "Welcome @Pankaj and the team at @halli_labs to Google. Looking forward in building some cool stuff together," tweeted Google's Vice President, Product Managment, Caesar Sengupta.
The start-up, founded by Pankaj Gupta, is focused on building deep learning and machine learning systems. "We are thrilled to share the news that the Halli Labs team is joining Google," the firm said in a blog post.
Gupta is a data scientist with an interesting history that includes running recommendation and personalisation at Twitter and a role as CTO at now-defunct Indian Airbnb rival Stayzilla, among other entrepreneurial ventures.
"Halli Labs was founded with the goal of applying modern AI and ML techniques to old problems and domains in order to help technology enable people to do whatever it is that they want to do, easier and better," the post added.
"Well, what better place than Google to help us achieve this goal. We will be joining Google's 'Next Billion Users' team to help get more technology and information into more people's hands around the world. We couldn't be more excited!" wrote the Halli Labs team.
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The Golden Virgins: remember them? 2004's hotly-tipped indie-darlings, an act who were hyped up but let down at a crucial point in their life by both the media and the music-buying public.
Preceding praise-ridden column inches, important support slots and airtime on national radio, The Golden Virgins started life after a successful three-track demo stirred interest at labels looking for The Next Big Thing. The rest - as they say - is history, and The Golden Virgins did go on to bigger and better things.
Their debut album Songs Of Praise (XL, 2004) was a critical success, and despite its commercially failure it's still seen as a classic by many. After that, information regarding The Golden Virgins became sketchy at best. The eventual split came last month, and the band played their final gig in their hometown of Sunderland on Friday October 27.
Former singer and guitarist Lucas Renney agreed to talk to DiS about the split, through e-mail, following their farewell gig. Here's what he had to say...
Firstly, what do you think you've achieved as a band over the years? Have you learnt any important lessons?
I think the band's proudest achievements in terms of tangible things would be playing the Glastonbury / Leeds / Reading /T in the Park festivals, recording a John Peel session and making an album for one of our favourite labels. But what I'm most proud of is the music we made and the fact that we concentrated on writing songs that meant something to us rather than pandering to prevailing trends, trying to fit into hip scenes or copying other bands. That feels nice.
News and information about the band over the last year has been patchy: what happened during this time? What happened to the second album?
I think it's best we draw a veil over this period of the band's history, for the time being at least. It's too soon to tell the full, grisly tale...
You cited_ "lethargy, alcoholism and a deep-seated hatred of the music industry"_ as reasons for the split. Would you mind elaborating on that?
We were just exaggerating for comic effect, I suspect. We don't hate any individuals in the music industry, in fact we've made a lot of genuine friends there. But the music industry machine as a whole is, as everyone knows, a fairly brutal and horrible thing.
As far as alcoholism goes, none of us is an alcoholic in the true medical sense of the word, but whenever we do one of those 'Are you an alcoholic?' questionnaires in magazines we always pass with flying colours - but that's the same for everyone who drinks, isn't it?
As for lethargy, well, I can't be bothered to elaborate on that!
Why do you think Songs Of Praise sold badly, despite getting rave reviews from both the press and the fans?
I think the album didn't sell for a number of reasons - we didn't tour enough, the record company didn't spend much on advertising and we had all sorts of other problems that I don't want to go into here. But I'm glad it got such great reviews and that it seems to have meant so much to the people who heard it. And I think Cliff Jones deserves much of the credit for the wonderful job he did of producing it.
Are there any bands that you're particularly proud of sharing a stage with during The Golden Virgins' lifespan?
We were proud to be playing at the same festival as the Pixies at T in the Park, although we were on a different stage. We met them, though, which was a big thrill. But not as much of a thrill as meeting June Brown, aka TV's Dot Cotton, at Glastonbury. Nice woman. Gave me a signed photo. I think our proudest moment, though, was when we had a great live review in NME, on the same page as Morrissey's big comeback gig at the Albert Hall or somewhere. This is kind of pathetic, but I was excited to think that he might read his own review, then scan down to ours and become vaguely aware - for however fleeting a moment - of our existence. I told you it was pathetic, but hey! The Smiths were one of my favourite bands at school, what can I say...
Any regrets or things you wish you could have gone back and changed?
No regrets, man. Although, saying that, I suspect the rest of the band are still slightly miffed at me that I turned down the chance to have one of our songs on the soundtrack of a PlayStation football game (FIFA Euro 2004, fact fans). The thing is, I hate computer games and don't really like football, so I didn't want The Golden Virgins to be associated with either of those two things and certainly not with both. Maybe we'd have sold more albums if I'd said yes, but I couldn't bear to see a song I'd sweated blood over being cheapened and trivialised by a fucking computer game.
What's the view on Songs Of Praise, two years on?
I love it. It's obsessive and funny and scary and sad. It makes me laugh in parts, and brings a lump to my throat in others, which is more than most popular music does these days. I'd like to think that future music historians will analyse and acclaim it as one of the lost masterpieces of the 21st Century, but, y'know, I'm not pinning my hopes on that happening any time soon...
Which songs are you most proud of?
I like everything we released, but I think 'Light In Her Window' is probably my favourite. That was such a bizarre single. I mean, it's got no drums for the first minute, it's got nothing even vaguely resembling a chorus, then a demented slide-guitar solo comes screaming in and then it cuts down to nothing. And it got played on daytime Radio 1! And it's about a drunken fool keeping a moonlit vigil outside his ex-girlfriend's house while she goes to bed with another man! Amazing.
How did the farewell gig go?
Firstly, we'd like to thank everyone for coming along, and say "we understand" to those who couldn't make it. It was a great night, like a drunken Irish wake or something. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of singing and dancing, and quite a few people in tears by the end of the night. And it was what you'd imagine being at your own funeral to be like; all your friends, family and ex-girlfriends there, and people you haven't seen for years turning out to pay their respects. Weird.
What are the individual post-Virgins plans? What hopes do you hold for the future? Is there ever a chance of a reunion?
Neil is continuing with his other band, Former Cell Mates, who are amazing, like a cross between Steppenwolf and Motorhead - Motorwolf if you like.
Chris and Allan are supposedly working on some mysterious new project together. They claim it's "experimental post-hardcore-folk with Sisters Of Mercy-style vocals", but are probably lying.
David is working on his magnum synth opus.
Ross is now in the Futureheads.
And I'm currently sorting out a publishing deal and preparing to launch a solo career.
As for a reunion, Jesus! We've only just split up! But I would be happy to work with any of the ex-members of the Virgins in the future - I love them all and I miss them already. And I'm sure I'd miss them more if I wasn't under such heavy sedation.
So there you have it! The Golden Virgins are no more, but Songs Of Praise lives on. For those unaware of The Virgins' work, go and hunt down their album, or at least check some 'choons' out at their MySpace page. And of course, Lucas Renney's rather great new solo-project is here, while Neil's band Former Cell Mates currently resides at this MySpace address. The Golden Virgins will be sorely missed.


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jythonc Guide
What is jythonc
jythonc transforms Python source code into Java source code then invokes a Java compiler to turn it into .class files. This allows Python to be integrated into Java in several places that regular Jython currently doesn't support. It also processes special annotations in docstrings on methods in Python code to determine the static type information to expose when turning a dynmically typed Python method into a statically typed Java method.
jythonc is unmaintained and will not be present in its current form in Jython 2.5. While jythonc handles all the language features of Python 2.2, it doesn't support Python 2.3 and later features such as generators. As such, we cannot maintain the current jythonc going forward; however, Jython 2.5 will include a replacement (likely also called jythonc) which produces class files directly instead of generating Java source files. The current jythonc is included in Jython 2.2.x to support existing users and for these features:
- Running in a JVM with a classloader that will not load dynamically created classes
- Declaring Java method signatures in Python code
- Loading Python classes dynamically from Java with Class.forName
Most uses of the second feature, adding method declarations to docstrings, can be handled by declaring a Java interface to implement with a Python class. Each implementing Python method inherits its type signature from the corresponding method in the Java interface. Exposing the Python class as an instance of that type to Java code is explained in Accessing Jython from Java Without Using jythonc and its followup, Simple and Efficient Jython Object Factories.
Using jythonc
A script called jythonc should have been installed in the Jython installation directory when you installed the package. If it was not, it can be invoked as follows: jython Tools\jythonc\jythonc.py.
The jythonc tool generates actual Java source code, and then invokes a Java compiler over this source code to create the .class files. Thus, you will need access to a Java compiler in order to use jythonc. It is recommended that you use Sun's standard javac compiler, or IBM's excellent jikes compiler. Specifically, the Microsoft SDK jvc compiler is not recommended.
Invoke jythonc like this:
jythonc [options] [module]*
Options are given in the table below. Note that jythonc now uses the standard Python getopt module, meaning that both long and short forms of the options are available. The old option names still work, and are described below, but noted as deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
--package package -p package -package package Put all compiled code into the named Java package. --jar jarfile -j jarfile -jar jarfile Specifies a .jar file to create and put the results of the freeze into. Implies the --deep option. --deep -d -deep Compile all Python dependencies of the module. This is used for creating applets. --core -c -core Include the core Jython libraries (about 130K). Needed for applets since Netscape doesn't yet support multiple archives. Implies the --deep option. --all -a -all Include all of the Jython libraries (everything in core + compiler and parser). Implies the --deep option. --bean jarfile -b jarfile -bean jarfile Compile into jarfile, including the correct manifest for the bean. --addpackages pkgs -A pkgs -addpackages pkgs Include Java dependencies from this list of packages. Default is org.python.modules and org.apache.oro.text.regex. --workdir directory -w directory -workdir directory Specify the working directory where the generated Java source code is placed. Default is "./jpywork" --skip modules -s modules -skip modules Don't include any of these modules in compilation. This is a comma-separated list of modules. --compiler path -C path -compiler path Use a different compiler than `standard' javac. If this is set to "NONE" then compile ends with the generation of the Java source file. Alternatively, you can set the property python.jythonc.compiler in the registry. --compileropts options -J options Options passed directly to the Java compiler. Alternatively, you can set the property python.jythonc.compileropts in the registry. --falsenames names -f names -falsenames names A comma-separated list of names that are always false. Can be used to short-circuit if clauses. --help -h Print a usage message and exit. [module]* A list of Python modules to freeze. Can be either modules names that are on the python.path or .py files
In order to create real java class, the Python module must contain a Python class with the same name as the module, and that Python class must subclass exactly one Java class or interface. The real Java class created will be a subclass of whatever Java class is subclassed.
Compiling python methods to java methods
Normally, compiled python methods are not directly callable from java. There is simple not sufficient information in a python method definition to create a useable java method. There are however two ways a python method be made into real java method. Both ways require that the python class have a java class or a java interface as its base classes.
Overriding / Implementing a java method.
By overriding a java method, the overridden method's signature is used for the real java class. That includes return type, privacy modifier, arguments, argument types and throws clauses.
Adding java method signature to python methods docstrings.
Using a special convention in the method docstring allow for the creation of a corresponding java method. The signature must be written on one line and must start with the text "@sig". All class names (except those ion java.lang) must be specified as fully qualified class names. Example:
def setExpression(self, e): "@sig public void setExpression(java.lang.String e)"
On my Windows NT machine, I used the following command to create the file appletdemo.jar (containing all of the applet demos on the web site, as well as the core Jython libraries):
c:\jython\Demo\applet> jythonc --core --deep --jar appletdemo.jar *.py
Note: One special thing to consider when building applets is the java VM version used when compiling the sources must usually be the same as the VM version used by the browser. If a newer JVM is used when compiling the applets, the compiled code may have references to classes that does not exists in older JVM's.
To generate a skeleton class to allow a Python class to be used as java.awt.Component in a Java gui program, I used the following command:
c:\jython\Demo\javaclasses> jythonc Graph.py
To generate a Jython-based bean I do the following:
c:\jython\Demo\bean> jythonc --deep --bean f2c.jar conversion.FahrenheitToCelsius
To use this with SUN's BDK, I do the following (the important steps are to make the bean and the Jython libraries known to the tool).
- modify BDKbeanboxrun.bat (or run.sh) to include the jythonJavaCode in the CLASSPATH
- copy f2c.jar to BDKjars
You should now be able to access the FahrenheitToCelsius bean from SUN's BeanBox (or other Bean-aware tool).
Freezing modules
jythonc can also be used to freeze a python application. The frozen application can then be distributed and deployed as any other java application.
Some diffrences between an interpreted application and a frozen application exists:
- Properties are diffrent
- sys.argv[0]
- loading of python classes


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A serious medical issue with a parent would scare most young girls. For Jennifer Evemeyer, it proved to be a career-molding moment.
"My mom had heart problems from the time I was little," says Evemeyer, a first-year MBA student at Purdue's Krannert School of Management. "When I was 12, she had to have open-heart surgery, and they had to replace one of her valves.
"I remember thinking to myself, 'Someone who will never meet my mom invented this thing that saved her life.' I thought if I could do that someday, it would make me very happy."
The San Francisco native headed down the coast to the University of California, San Diego, where she majored in biomedical engineering. During an internship there, she realized that she would not be able to advance her career as she desired without an MBA.
"When I started, I thought I wanted to invent medical devices. After a while, I realized I would prefer to help introduce devices into the marketplace or improve those already there," Evemeyer says.
As part of her school selection, she compiled a list of medical device companies where she would desire to work. Then, she found which schools had students recruited to work at those companies. Her list included Notre Dame, Virginia, Chicago, and Illinois, but one name kept popping up through the search—Purdue.
"It was a great choice," she says. "The coursework has been challenging and I've been very busy, but I can spend 16 hours a day at Rawls Hall and still be truly excited about what I'm doing."
Evemeyer works as a graduate assistant in Purdue's Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises. She believes that her experience gained in operations management, combined with her technical background, will make her a valuable asset for a medical device company. Companies agree—Evemeyer has received five internship offers for next summer.
Until then, she will continue to interact with her classmates—"learning from them has been great,"—and planning for her career once she graduates in 2013.
And she'll keep mom smiling as well. "She realizes that I chose an interesting way to look at my experience when I was young," Evemeyer says. "I think she's really proud of me."


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Last week, I interviewed a Google Glass "Explorer" for an article about Glass and privacy. It wasn't Sarah Slocum.
"Explorer" is a Google term for people enrolled in a program to beta-test Glass, a wearable computer that can surf the Internet, livestream, geo-locate, and record through a computerized prism affixed to a set of eyeglasses.
There are at least 10,000 Explorers currently giving the $1,500 prototypes a test run, and more than 27,000 participating in a Google+ community about it. The Silicon Valley tech giant views its Explorers as inhabiting a "living laboratory," and is actively seeking feedback on the gadgets' use and functionality.
The Explorer I spoke with is Matt Hunt, and his recent removal from Oakland bar Telegraph for wearing Glass is chronicled in detail in this Medium story by journalist Susie Cagle. The writer discloses that her partner, Billy Agan, told Hunt to remove the Glass before he was kicked out.
Not yet available for retail, Glass has proven to be a lightning rod – particularly in bars, where people are more apt to feel that it is invasive. Some bar owners are concluding that the best approach is to ban Glass altogether, to avoid headaches.
Unlike most new technology, this particular device has quickly come to be associated with class tension in the Bay Area, a region that is being radically altered by an economic shift fueled by an influx of tech workers. Glass has also caused people to fear surreptitious surveillance in an era when new revelations about secretive government spying programs are surfacing with every passing week.
There are conflicting accounts of what unfolded when Hunt was booted from Telegraph after his confrontation with Agan. Hunt says he refused to remove the Glass because he didn't think Agan had the authority to tell him to stop wearing it; bar owner John Mardikian says Hunt responded by defaming the bar on social media, which Hunt refutes (Hunt had previously been helping Mardikian with social media and IT work). Agan wasn't available for comment. All told, the conflict appears to have produced two major outcomes: hurt feelings all around, and a ban on Glass at Telegraph.
"I don't want it here, because it's anti-community," said Mardikian, who imposed the ban. "I want people to feel comfortable when they are here."
Other bars have proactively banned glass too.
Conflict aside, Hunt did share a perspective on wearing Glass that might interest anyone who has wondered about it – whether from a standpoint of curiosity or suspicion. Because while some people are viscerally repelled by the gadget and may assume that it is recording (it might be, but you can tell by checking to see if the user's eye is lit up), there's also a low level of understanding about what the thing actually does.
Hunt told us he was excited about Glass before it came out, and saved up the $1,500 required to get it. "I've always been a techie," he said. "I'm always about smart everything."
To wear Glass is to be an attention a magnet, he said. "There are some people who approach me about it who are very calm, and they are curious, and they ask me about it."
But as evidenced by the drama that unfolded at Telegraph, wearing Glass can stir up trouble when people feel that their personal boundaries are being violated. "Something I hear all the time is, there's a camera on your face, and therefore it's in my face." But he said that since he rarely ever uses the camera, that fear is unfounded – at least as it pertains to people who are encountering him wearing Glass.
Constant recording and even live streaming through Glass is technically possible. It's also problematic with the current model, due to battery drain.
"If you were out and about, it would have to be tethered to your phone's Internet connection," he explained. "It uses a lot of data." When content is captured through Glass, it is automatically backed up to the cloud, meaning it's copied onto a server somewhere. That means people who are photographed can't control what happens to their image, but it doesn't mean it will be viewed publically or by anyone at all.
So, if he's not constantly recording, what is Hunt doing when he's looking at that little computerized prism?
As with a smartphone, he'll read the news, and check email. There are other functions. "You can have things translated," he said, like a menu or sign in a foreign language. "Based on your location, it will tell you what's around you," such as attractions. But a lot of times it just sits on his face, not doing anything in particular. "Just because you're wearing it, doesn't mean you're using it."
People who wear Glass can also take advantage of some bizarre "Glassware" apps, like this one, which can feed users hints on people they are encountering in real time.
Taking a picture with Glass involves either tapping the side of the device, or speaking "take a picture" out loud, Hunt explained. There is also an optional feature of winking to take a snapshot.
That may sound like a smooth spy maneuver, but Hunt said it's actually rather awkward. "I don't like it," he said, "because you have to wink like ten times to make it work. It's very dramatic winking." Wearing a computer on your face and winking dramatically? Talk about socially awkward.
As for the privacy issue, Hunt said he thought bar owners had a right to ban Glass but believed it was short-sighted, because he thinks Glass will catch on. "Wearable technology is the technology of the future," he told us with confidence. "What will you do when everyone is wearing it?"
And ironically given what happened at Telegraph, Hunt insisted during our phone interview that Glass users should not wear the device in places where it causes others to feel uncomfortable.
"I want privacy as much as you do," he said. "And I feel terrible sometimes that people think the NSA is watching them through my eyes."


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To what degree was the Easter Rising of 1916 successful?
"The republic which was declared at the Rising of Easter Week, 1916, was Ireland's expression of the freedom she aspired to. It was our way of saying that we wished to challenge Britain's right to dominate us". 1
Those the words of Michael Collins, a rebel in the rising and one of the signatories of the agreement signed with the British government in 1922 that granted dominion status to the 26 counties of Ireland that would become the Republic of Ireland today. In order to establish whether the rising itself was a success and to what degree one must first recognize the groups that made up the rising and their goals, these often remarkably different, then to see to what degree these were successful or unsuccessful .The main groups that planed and had goals for the rising are generally accepted to be the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) and Germany, although a number of other smaller groups did play a part these are considered the main parties.
The IRB and more importantly the military council which contained the leaders of the rising and the main signatories of the declaration for a republic, consisted of the leadership of nearly all the republican organizations in Ireland, from the Irish Volunteers to "Comman na Ban" had many goals for the Rising, most incorporated in the declaration which was read aloud from the General Post Office during the rising, but also responses to offers of home rule and counter offers. One aim that the IRB pursued was a free Ireland, including the north that was not under British rule, the leaders saw offers of home rule as "mere crumbs from the rich man's political table".2.This aim is further supported in the declaration during the rising where they proclaimed "the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State".3 The aim of an independent state is further enforced by the large numbers of rebels that were part of the Rising who were or had been part of other republican groups such as Clan Na Gael , Sinn Fein and the Irish Parliamentary Party, all of whom in their own way pursued Irish independence. One major point of controversy in the aims of the rising is in the theories of "blood sacrifice", against that of actual military aims. Many historians argue that the IRB saw the rising as a chance to make a stand against British occupation; they argue though that this stand was more symbolic than realistic and that the leaders sought to inspire a sense of nationalism across the country and in future generations. This theory is backed up by the character of Patrick Pearse , one of the leaders of the rising , evident in such examples as a speech he made at the funeral of O'Donovan Rossa , a republican in 1915 : "Life springs from death : and from the graves of patriotic men and women spring living nations."4 Pearse's had a very strong belief in martyrdom and death for a cause, he wrote of it in relation to the Great War, "the old heart of the earth needed to be warmed with the red wine of the battlefields. Such august homage was never before offered to god as this, the homage of millions of lives given gladly for love of country".5 However the strongest claim for the theory that the rising was a sacrifice came in Pearse's last letter home to his mother before his execution: "This is the death I should have asked for if god had given me the choice of all deaths – to die a soldiers death for Ireland and for Freedom…. People will say hard things of us now, but later they will praise us".6
However other historians in light of the evidence that has been released both by the British, Irish and German administrations have argued that the rising had a strong, competent and valid military plan and goals. The "Irish Report" is the greatest source of evidence and was written primarily by Joseph Plunkett. The report was an in depth plan of taking control of Ireland including the landing of German troops in the west, a large number of arms to be imported as well as the taking of important strategic places such as the English harbors for the Germans, very lucrative for the German war struggle as "an independent Ireland would provide the German navy with naval bases in the west of the country from which U Boats could sever England's Atlantic lifeline."7 Many historians argue that the Ireland report is one of great military competence and shows that the rising was aimed at more than just sacrifice but higher goals: "What emerges from any study of the Ireland report is the wealth of hard detail which the military council had assembled, a definite belief that given the right circumstances, a quick victory over the British was both desirable and attainable".
The Irish Citizen Army was founded by James Connolly in wake of the Dublin lockout of 1914, to protect workers in the union from violent oppression by the British forces. Connolly was a true socialist and student of Karl Marx, he saw the rising as a chance for a better system for the working class, his classic statement was "The cause of labor is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour"8 The socialist background of the ICA is further seen by Connolly who was editor of Irelands first socialist paper "The Workers Republic" in fact at Liberty hall , ICA headquarters, just before the Rising Connolly warned his men that he had separate goals to the Irish volunteers "if we should win , hold on to your rifles , because the volunteers may have a different goal. Remember, we are not out only for political liberty, but for economic liberty as well."9. However due to the conservative and highly devout catholic culture of Ireland a socialist cause was never going to receive much attendance, therefore Connolly in this frustration started to threatened action to free Ireland with his own army, "By the end of 1915 Connolly's frustration had lead to increasingly strident demands for action and to threats that if nobody took the lead then he would act with his tiny citizen Army."10 The IRB saw this as a threat, not to them but to the rising as any smaller rising would bring about a stricter system by the British government and make the Easter Rising a less likely success. So in 1916 the military council of the IRB had Connolly kidnapped and brought for three days of negotiation , where it was decided that "in return for abandoning his own insurrectionary plans Connolly was offered an alliance between the Irish Volunteers and he Citizen Army , and a place on the military council."11 The ICA was too small to have actually beaten the British out of Ireland but with this combination Connolly was in a position where he could hope to bring about socialist changes under an independent Ireland , this best seen by his appointment during the rising as "Vice President and commandant General of the Dublin Division of the army".12
The final group that had hopes for the rising were the Germans, it is often questioned however if the Germans took the rising seriously, given the mixed support from them. Plunkett in his Irish report took the Germans as a serious ally who would be the keystone in turning the rising into a success, he had hoped for military leadership and ammunition as well as a U boat to control the waters. However it is clear that the Germans were not serious in showing tangible support and their aims were to cause disruption to England, "The Germans rendered assistance to both Orange and Green factions in the hope of making trouble for the British and to a degree the Americans."13 This help is seen by at different times the Germans offering assistance to the Orange side through pamphlets such as "The Kaisers Ulster Friends", as well as meetings between the Kaiser and Carson where they seemingly agreed to support the Ulster Volunteers. The IRB was given assurances itself of German help when Plunkett visited Berlin with roger casement, there they were assured that "an expeditionary force armed with artillery, was a real possibility". 14 However this a lie and when the assistance was supposed to be delivered by Roger Casement he was outraged to find out that no tangible help would come , his liaison Captain Nadolny told him that , " The Germans had little interest in Ireland beyond the possibility of some military diversion". 15 It is clear therefore that the Germans wanted the Irish to fight on their own , the did provide a shipment of Arms that was to be delivered to the rebels on board the vessel the Aud , it however was discovered by British warships and was forced to destroy itself. The Germans aim was to cause the British confusion and divert troops from the war, to do this however they expected much but contributed little.
Depending upon how one looks at the events of Easter week one can see it as a massive success or a terrible defeat, or of course somewhere in between. For the IRB if ones take the belief that Easter week was to be that of "blood sacrifice", an example for future generations to fight for a free Ireland to determine its success is to look into the future. "1916 helped give birth to a period in which an alternative, more aggressive brand of Irish nationalism replaced that of the IPP [Irish Parliamentary Party], with Sinn Fein".16 the result of the Easter Rising gave Sinn Fein great support and lead it massive success in the coming election of 1918:
Another point of success is to look at Sinn Fein's leadership, after the election results of 1918 Sinn Fein took it upon themselves to set up an independent government the "Dail Eirann", "a cabinet including leading military men such as Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha and Richard Mulcahy"18, all men whom had been involved in the Easter Rising, lead by Eamon de Valera who was the only surviving member who signed the declaration in the rising. It is clear that not only did the rising invoke a cry for national independence, seen by the leadership of Sinn Fein and its success; it also created those who had died into Martyrs seen best by murals in Belfast and commemorations:
A final success of the "blood sacrifice" theory comes from Tom Barry, a prominent figure in the IRA (Irish Republican Army); his words echoing Pearse's own are an account to the impact the rising had on the Irish population "through the blood sacrifices of the men of 1916, had one Irish youth of eighteen been awakened to Irish nationality. Let it also be recorded that those sacrifices were equally necessary to awaken the minds of ninety per cent of the Irish people."22 This ninety percent of the Irish people that Tom Barry refers to is not only seen in the election results that with Sinn Fein and the IPP combined meant that the call for Irish independence was shouted by 70% of the people but also by the military action of the formed Irish Republican Army against the British forces between 1916-1922 which forced them into negotiations and the coming treaty.
On the other hand the strong evidence that the rising was meant to be that of a military success is clearly a failure. The Irish report had banked upon the help of German forces this was a complete failure as to avoid capture the Aud carrying the arms was exploded "to send to Aud to the bottom, taking with her what little prospect there had been of the rising succeeding".23 Not only was there no support from the Germans in any form but the hopes that there would be a national rising was also destroyed by Eoin MacNeil, one of the leaders of the Irish Volunteers who was being used by the IRB military council. After the failing of the Arms with the sinking of the Aud MacNeil using his position and trying to save lives in what was now becoming a inevitable defeat for the rising wrote a countermanding order to all volunteer brigades ordering them to not mobilize "MacNeill now dispatched messengers such as the O Rahilly throughout the country with countermanding orders for the Sunday Manoevueres".24 MacNeill also tried to save bloodshed in Dublin by writing a message to the volunteers in the Sunday Independent "oweing to the very critical situation , all orders given to the Irish Volunteers for tomorrow Easter Sunday are hereby rescomded."25 From the start of the Rising it is clear that it was a doomed affair although one minor piece of success comes from the casualties list that state during the whole rising that 450 dead, 2614 wounded and 9 missing of the dead 116 were British army and a roll call for the volunteers stated that 64 were dead rebels. 26
The ICA had hoped the rising would lead to socialist reform, not only in terms of politics but economically. Connolly who was a devout socialist had hoped that this would spark a change in the fortunes of the working class in Ireland, this majority Catholic. After the rising the IRA and was comprised of mostly lower class Catholics , the people Connolly was attempting to help, "the IRAs 1919-21 war was a sense of social or status resentment amongst a Catholic lower-middle class."27 Although after 1922 and the civil war there were good movements by the government to improve the situation of the poor such as the 1924 Ministers and Secretaries act that included "slum clearance and new housing construction, making grants of some £300,000 available," as well as to restrict the squalor such as drinking hours being contained however the Irish government never truly became what Connolly wanted, a socialist government.
Finally the Germans saw the rising as a distraction for Britain one which might give an opportunity for them in the great war, this however would prove to be a failure too. Firstly the rising was not popular enough , thanks to MacNeill's orders as well as the failure of the Aud the Rising turned from what the Germans hoped would be a distraction to a small contined battle in Dublin between just over a thousand rebels. "64 rebels as having died out of a grand total of 1,558".28 When you compare that this was contested agains some twenty thousand british troops it is a miracle that the rebels held out for so long , this in due thanks to their training in street fighting , the easter rising ended after just
1. [Armed Struggle the History of the IRA, Richard English]
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15. [Ireland in the Twentieth Century, Tim Pat Coogan]
16. [Armed Struggle the History of the IRA, Richard English]
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18. [Armed Struggle the History of the IRA, Richard English]
19. [Falls Road, www.stanford.edu/group/ww1/spring2000/B ... Image2.htm]
20. [90th Year Commemoration of 1916 Easter Rising, 2006]
21. [Celebrative Post Stamps of 1916 Leaders]
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23. [1916: The Easter Rising, Tim Pat Coogan]
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28. [The Easter Rising , Micheal Foy]


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Attorney and educational activist Molly Munger is just one example of really wealthy political neophytes who are becoming a new breed of Artie Samish-- the master lobbyist of the 1940s and 50s.
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer is another.
Munger and Steyer have both committed millions of dollars of their own money to promote tax initiatives on the November ballot. And both are going head-to-head against Governor Jerry Brown's own tax proposal.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that. (Well…actually there is something wrong with that.)
For those of you who aren't California political history geeks, Samish notoriously used his clients' copious resources to strong-arm—or skirt–California's legislators, to push his policy agenda.
Samish famously boasted, "I am the governor of the legislature. To hell with the governor of California."
And, on occasion, when that didn't work, he turned to the initiative process to get his way.
That's not so different from attempts by other well-heeled, unelected movers to shape public policy in their own images.
When asked by a reporter why she wouldn't acquiesce to Brown's request to pull her competing tax proposal, Munger, whose brother Charles Munger bankrolled successful redistricting reform initiatives, replied, "I don't think we have a good functioning democracy if we let the person on the top get what he wants."
Did Ms. Munger forget that Californians chose "the person at the top" to guide policy by dint of his election?
State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg told NBC4's Conan Nolan, "Molly Munger may be well intentioned, but she's not accountable to anyone." She's "someone who is wealthy, who believes in what she believes, but is trying to override the governor."
Sure, Democrat Steinberg has his own political agenda.
And Governor Brown, like political leaders before him, has himself channeled Samish's arrogance on occasion.
Take the recent moves by Brown and his Democratic legislative allies to try to ensure a high ballot placement for the governor's tax initiative. Munger, whose competing measure would be in a less prominent spot, is challenging their maneuvers in court.
Samish had similar respect for ballot positioning, writing in his memoir that it "pays to be on the top of the ballot."
"How did I get the high position?" Samish wrote. "Well, I had a lot of good friends in Sacramento."
It's not that rich "do-as-I say-do-gooders" are corrupt—as Samish was ultimately proved to be. They're not.
But their egocentric power over the path of public policy provides another example of the dangerous perversion of the initiative process.
Conceived as a means for ordinary Californians to break the stranglehold of special interests on state government, the process first morphed into a tool for powerful interests to circumvent the Governor and legislators completely.
Now it's a stratagem for loaded individuals who don't like the direction our duly-elected representatives are taking to single-handedly attempt to put their own imprimaturs on the policy process.
The political gamesmanship engaged in by all sides in the tax initiative war cannot help but turn an electorate soured on government even more sour—while the state remains mired in fiscal crisis.
Artie Samish would have appreciated that.
Sherry Bebitch Jeffe is a Senior Fellow at the USC Price School of Public Policy and the political analyst for NBC4.
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Schoenberg buys Einstein letter for Holocaust museum (Jewish Journal)
Schoenberg buys Einstein letter for Holocaust museum
Posted by Tom Tugend
The "anonymous" buyer of a historic letter by Albert Einstein has identified himself as E. Randol "Randy" Schoenberg, president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
Schoenberg paid $13,936 for the one-page letter, signed by Einstein on his personal stationery and written on June 10, 1939 to New York businessman Hyman Zinn.
Einstein congratulated Zinn for aiding Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, adding "We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity and our knowledge that the cause for which we are suffering is a momentous and sacred cause."
The letter had been put up for sale by the Nate D. Sanders auction house in West Los Angeles, and Schoenberg said he learned of its availability from a jewishjournal.com article, just a day before bids closed.
The highest bid at that time was $3,058, and Sanders himself estimated that the letter might go for between $5,000 to $7,000.
Schoenberg's late entry spurred some lively bidding, until he finally clinched the deal with his offer of nearly $14,000.
Schoenberg, a Los Angeles-born lawyer and grandson of famed composer Arnold Schoenberg, is donating the letter to the museum, which opened its striking new building a year ago in the Pan Pacific Park.
He gained wide attention, and considerable wealth, by pursuing a seven-year legal battle forcing the Austrian government to return five paintings by the Viennese artist Gustav Klimt, valued at more than $325 million, to a descendant of the original Jewish owners.
Besides his policy and administrative duties at the museum, Schoenberg has been deeply involved in its financial support, the design of the building and in curating its contents.


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