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[LESS INFO] 2 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 10/15/12 David Skorton provides a campus update to parents of the Class of 2016. This discussion included information on the upcoming 1st Year Parents Weekend (October 19-21, 2012), Cornell's Homecoming victory over Yale, and several other topics pertinent to students and their families such as housing, campus safety, student leadership and research opportunities, and resources for parents among other issues. This webinar is part of a series, Conversations with David Skorton, which aims to bring together some of Cornell's most engaged alumni, parents and friends for an hour-long discussion with the President.
[LESS INFO] 67 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 10/14/12 MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses -- are not the usual sort of online learning. A typical course may have thousands of students enrolled all over the world. Cornell must decide whether or not to join other leading universities in offering such courses. Cornell professors David Easley and Eva Tardos spoke at a faculty forum on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) September 27, 2012, which included presentations by Anant Agarwal, director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and president of EdX, and Daphne Koller, professor of computer science at Stanford and a co-founder of Coursera, both via videoconferencing.
[LESS INFO] 5 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 10/10/12 Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, gave a talk entitled "Thinking the 20th Century" October 1, 2012 in Lewis Auditorium as part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series. Snyder began his talk by discussing his collaboration with Tony Judt, who worked on as many as three books in the time between his diagnosis of ASL (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and his death in August of 2010. Snyder received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2001, he held fellowships in Paris and Vienna, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern East European political history.
[LESS INFO] 1 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 10/10/12 Cornell President David Skorton addressed staff and faculty members October 9, 2012 at Bailey Hall. The annual talk is sponsored by the Employee Assembly.
[LESS INFO] 4 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 10/07/12 Start spreading the news! NYC's tech scene is booming and Cornell has become a go-to recruiting stop for top startup talent. Founders, CEOs and CTOs from some of NYC's hottest start-ups gathered at Cornell to kick off Startup Weekend. Panelists spoke candidly about their entrepreneurial experiences; discussed the technologies they use to solve tough, interesting technical problems; and described a "day in the life" at their NYC start-ups. Hosted by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), this event was cosponsored by Entrepreneurship@Cornell, Johnson's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, the College of Engineering and Computing and Information Science.
[LESS INFO] 2 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 10/03/12 What is the state of the planet's forests? Dr. Joan Maloof, author, ecologist and environmental advocate summarizes the condition of our forests from global and national perspectives. She focuses particularly on forests that have never been logged -- "old-growth forests." How many of these forests are left? Where are they? And why do they matter? Maloof has traveled the nation inspecting the remaining old-growth forests; in her book, Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests , she includes reflections on these questions as well as detailed directions to one old-growth forest in each of the twenty-six states east of the Mississippi River. Going beyond mere documentation, in this lecture Maloof describes her vision of an Old Growth Forest Network -- a nationwide attempt to reverse past destruction and reconnect average families with the beauty and biological abundance found only in the ancient forests. This was part of the 2012 Cornell Plantations Lecture Series.
[LESS INFO] 1 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 09/30/12 Join actor, director, producer, and political activist, Danny Glover, for a discussion with Noliwe Rooks , associate professor of Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender Sexuality Studies; Sabine Haenni , associate professor of Film and American Studies, and Marc Bayard , executive director of the Worker Institute at Cornell. The institute is part of the ILR School.
[LESS INFO] 0 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 09/28/12 Thomas Jefferson wrote that "the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture," and his 1,000-foot-long, terraced vegetable garden at Monticello was an experimental laboratory, an Ellis Island of 330 varieties of vegetables. Jefferson himself was a seedy missionary of new and unusual novelties, and his legacy in food, wine, and gardening provides us today with a profound model in vegetable cuisine, sustainable horticulture, and a passion for the earth. This was Jefferson's personal garden, but it was also a family garden where he sowed cabbage seed with his daughter, Martha; a community garden where Jefferson competed in friendly "pea competitions" with his neighbors; a national garden of seeds from the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Spanish southwest, and America's finest plantsmen; and an international garden of vegetables from around the globe. Thomas Jefferson liked to eat vegetables, which "constitute my principal diet," and his role in linking the garden with the kitchen into a cuisine defined as "half French, half Virginian" was a pioneering concept in the history of American food. Peter Hatch examines a full sample of Jefferson's favorite vegetables, from salsify to peas, by discussing both how they were grown and prepared at Monticello but also their history and place in the horticultural world of early nineteenth-century Virginia. Finally, Hatch explores the precedent-setting vegetable garden restoration of the early 1980's and the compelling Jefferson legacy in food and gardening today. This was part of the 2012 Cornell Plantations Lecture Series.
[LESS INFO] 2 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 09/26/12 With the presidential campaigns touching on equality, freedom, and the nature of American democracy but not fully exploring these ideas, the Cornell Program on Ethics and Public Life is hosting a series with visiting Scholars on "Deep Issues of the 2012 Elections: Equality, Liberty and Democracy." This second lecture of the series, focusing on the interaction of politics and economic inequality, is provided by Larry Bartels, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt.
[LESS INFO] 0 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 09/26/12 In recent years it has been unfashionable in literary studies to attempt to distinguish poetic language from ordinary language, since poetic language has no monopoly on lively imagery or figurative expressions and poets have been disinclined to adopt anything resembling "poetic diction." But Professor Culler asks whether nonetheless there are not distinctive uses of language characteristic of lyric poetry and singles out forms of lyric address to absent or impossible addressees and a special use of the present tense. When action verbs are used in a non-progressive present tense - "I wander through each chartered street?." they signal that we are dealing with a lyric poem, which attempts to be an event rather than a representation of a past event. This lecture was sponsored by the School of Criticism & Theory.
[LESS INFO] 2 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 09/26/12 In his much-discussed texts, W. G. Sebald engages the classical double bind of a posttraumatic situation, particularly a situation in which one lives in the heavy shadow of atrocities one did not directly "perpetrate" but for which one nonetheless bears a sense of responsibility if not guilt. Sensitive to both historical and formal problems in the writing of literature, this lecture explores the stylistic and substantive ways Sebald works his way into and at times through this double bind whereby one feels constrained endlessly to speak of the unspeakable. Dominick LaCapra is the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies and Professor of History and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. This lecture was sponsored by the School of Criticism & Theory.
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[LESS INFO] 1 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 09/26/12 New York Times science writer Andrew Revkin spoke on climate change and hydraulic fracturing, September 24, 2012 as part of the Atkinson Center's Outside Voices speaker series. Prof. Drew Harvell (EEB) moderated the conversation. Revkin is internationally recognized for his expertise on climate change science, energy and related policy issues. A Times reporter from 1995-2009, he writes the "Dot Earth" environmental blog for the Times' Op-Ed section. He also is a senior fellow at the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies at Pace University.
[LESS INFO] 5 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 09/25/12 For help designing the College of Human Ecology's newest community space, college leaders turned to a team of in-house experts: 10 senior interior design students in its Department of Design and Environmental Analysis. The 5,000-plus square foot Human Ecology Commons, which connects Martha Van Rensselaer Hall and the new Human Ecology Building, opened last fall and has quickly become the hub of the college. It's a place to meet, eat, study and relax, drawing visitors with its flexible furniture, abundant natural light, proximity to Martha's Cafe and an interactive, multiscreen media wall.
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[LESS INFO] 6 VIEWS | ADDED 05:00:00 09/20/12 Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google Inc., helped launch Homecoming Weekend when he spoke as the university's 31st Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education, September 20, 2012. A tech industry pioneer, Schmidt served as Google's CEO from 2001-11, overseeing the company's technical and business strategy alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation. As executive chairman, he is responsible for all external matters, including building business partnerships, government outreach, and technology thought leadership, as well as advising the CEO and senior leadership on business and policy issues.


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Keith Appling was quite a clutch player for Michigan State earlier this season, making plays for himself and teammates late in games to help the Spartans surpass relatively modest expectations.
Lately, the junior guard has simply struggled at both ends of the court.
Appling has scored in single digits in every game during a three-game losing streak that has knocked the Spartans out of first place in the Big Ten and to No. 10 in The Associated Press college basketball poll.
Even Appling will acknowledge he is struggling at both ends of the court.
"Yeah, I would agree with that," he said softly Sunday after his poor play let rival Michigan steal a one-point win at home.
Appling is also quick to say he still has confidence in his ability to have success this season.
"Things just haven't been going my way lately, but I'm a mentally tough person," he said. "So, I don't let it bother me too much. I just watch the film and try to grow from it."
His next chance is Thursday night at home against No. 22 Wisconsin.
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said last week that he was confident Appling would bounce back at Michigan, but he didn't.
Appling missed six of nine shots — limiting him to nine points —and had six rebounds, five assists and two turnovers, one of which was very costly. Continued...
"It's going to take a championship to get over this one because it's a feeling that I don't think I'll ever be able to swallow that we couldn't beat these guys again," he said, choking up. "Hopefully, we can win the championship so we can feel a little better. We still have a couple more games left in the regular season and we've got to finish strong."
Appling had the ball with the shot clock off and the score tied. He turned his head to see if Izzo wanted him to call time out. Michigan's Trey Burke snatched the ball away and raced to the other end for a dunk with 22 seconds left for the game's last field goal.
"I thought Coach was going to call time out," Appling said. "But at the same time, I've still got to be aware of what's going on and protect the ball. He made a great defensive play, it was one of the reasons they won the game."
On the final sequence, Appling was open on the left wing in front of his team's bench — saying he was confident in his chances to take and make a game-winning shot — but Burke intercepted Gary Harris' pass to seal the 58-57 victory.
Harris, a freshman, who has surpassed Appling as the team's leading scorer, said he doesn't have to say anything to Appling to help him shake off his slump.
"He's confident and we have full confidence in him," Harris said.
And, Izzo insisted Appling's latest lackluster performance doesn't make him worry.
"I'm really not," Izzo said. "I thought in a way he pushed the ball, and most of the time he checked pretty well. He got in foul trouble there to change some things. He pushed the ball a lot better than he's been pushing it. He missed some shots, but that last play, give Burke credit.
"I don't blame that on Appling."
Appling's teammates don't, either. Continued...
"We ask him to do a lot," forward Adreian Payne said. "It's hard being a point guard. We as a team have to be able to help him. Yeah, he's struggling, but everybody struggles and we're going to be here to pick him up."
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The assemblyman accused of asking young female staffers to massage him, touch his cancerous tumors and join him in hotel rooms said Saturday he will resign rather than possibly be expelled from the Legislature amid sexual-harassment allegations.
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Bill Clinton contrasted the success of community colleges with the dysfunction of Washington in a speech Saturday at Westchester County's largest educational facility.
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New York's state parks and historic sites will receive $90 million in funding for nearly 90 construction projects through the NY Works program, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Friday.
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Lance Stephenson scored nine of his playoff career-high 25 points during a late 11-2 run Saturday night, leading the Indiana Pacers past the Knicks, 106-99 and into the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2004.
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As bodies kept dropping to the disabled list this spring, Hal Steinbrenner took note of the obituaries written long before the 2013 season ever started.
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The big Z received his first victory of the season Monday night pitching a complete game shutout. He has now gone 16 innings without allowing a run, and has struck out 14 batters. It is well known that he throws in one of the better pitcher parks in baseball, and faces a favorable matchup Sunday vs. the N.Y. Mets.
James McDonald Pittsburgh Pirates- Next scheduled start Friday vs. Astros
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Berry Picking
23 comments:
- Simply Me Art said...
First can you send some of your unseasonably cool weather our way? Were burning up literally out here. Second, how fun to go berry picking, I adore Raspberries and they are almost $5 a pint here in Southern Cali. Congratulations on your shop too, can't wait to see all the Goodies.Jamie
- August 29, 2009 at 11:34 PM
- Julie@beingRUBY said...
Hi Tracey
Great collage of images. I love pink with red, has great impact.
Your kids are sweeties, I bet they had fun picking berries! Well good luck with the shop, looking forward to seeing the goodies.! Julie - August 30, 2009 at 12:16 AM
- The Little Red Shop said...
I would like to place a pre-order on some of those donuts! Yum!!!
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Julie M. - August 30, 2009 at 12:36 AM
- Zita - Mlle Magpie said...
Great job on the berry picking and canning. We've been picking and canning this summer too. I have a big question for your regarding your wonderful new shop: my best friend and I are dying to know if you will be shipping to Canada?!! We love Jeanne d'Arc Living magazine and products!
- August 30, 2009 at 6:43 AM
- C'est Moi, Julie Marie said...
Hello Tracey, that looks like so much fun! Wish we were getting some of your cool weather here, it is in the high 90's every day... I love making jam, especially with fresh raspberries... the apple cider donuts sound sooo yummy! I can't wait to see your shop on Tuesday... Bisous... Julie Marie
- August 30, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- traci said...
what a wonderful activity. i have never been berry picking or made jam. i know, not very domestic. can't wait till your shop opens. how exciting. congrats!!!
- August 30, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- koralee said...
So so so lovely...I adore raspberry jam...I make it every year too! I am so excited about your shop!!!! I have to add you to my blog roll so I do not miss a post...off to do that now!
- August 30, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- June said...
Raspberries! My favorite.
Your children are looking like they enjoyed every minute of it.
Can't wait for your opening.
June - August 30, 2009 at 10:17 AM
- Kasey said...
you know i am dying to go berry picking...
i will live vicariously thru you.
xo - August 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM
- Leah C said...
Oh it looks like so much fun! My Dad planted blueberry bushes in my backyard; we didn't get enough this season to try to make jam, though:) Maybe next year...
- August 30, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Lori said...
Wow ~ those raspberries look AMAZING ~ and congrats on making your own jam. I have wimped out and still take everything to my mother in law and she makes it for me. Someday I will try again.....
- August 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- Farmgirl Paints said...
Can't wait to see your shop. Looked like such a fun day. I LOVE doughnuts:)
- August 30, 2009 at 5:56 PM
- Olive Rue said...
Hi Tracey,
Great collage. Nothing like fresh picked berries. Can't wait to see your shop. - August 30, 2009 at 7:40 PM
- Backyard Candle Co. said...
I am VERY impressed that you made homemade jam! And I VERY excited your shop is opening soon! Yipee!!!!!!!
- August 30, 2009 at 8:59 PM
- Flower Patch Farmgirl said...
I love raspberries in any and every form. And great job on that jam!
- August 30, 2009 at 9:43 PM
- paperhill said...
all your pictures are beautiful! making jam is a lot of work but it is worth it! thanks for visiting :)
- August 31, 2009 at 7:01 AM
- the wild raspberry said...
great photo collage...looks like a ton of fun!
chasity - August 31, 2009 at 7:12 AM
- The Flying Bee said...
I just read your entire blog! I love it! And I LOVE Jeanne d' Arc, so I am so excited about your shop opening!
Adrienne - August 31, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Tracy is ... Loving Pretty Things said...
trace - i am ridiculously excited for tomorrow, to see some of your amazing products.
i LOVE a new shop - and i LOVE your taste, so this will be a good news/bad news situation for us.
GOOD NEWS: you'll get a loyal and frequent customer.
BAD NEWS: my husband may revoke - August 31, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- LuLu said...
Now my store bought jam just doesn't look the same after your homemade jam!!! did you say "shopping"? How can a girl not shop on the 1st day of September... yippee,
LuLu - August 31, 2009 at 7:43 PM
- Jen R. said...
I love berry picking! Good for you for making jam!
- August 31, 2009 at 10:40 PM
- Jeanneoli said...
Great photos...I think we would be hanging out all the time if we lived near each other:-) I had intended on making jam but we ate all the berries first!
- September 1, 2009 at 6:58 AM
- Mo said...
oo so yummy !
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"The Armageddon Test: To Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, Follow the Uranium"
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July 26, 2010
Authors: William H. Tobey, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
If you read a parachuting magazine, you might find at the back a section detailing mishaps. This brutal retelling of often tragic events is not to satisfy morbid interest, but to increase awareness among jumpers of potentially dangerous practices and to prevent them from recurring. Unfortunately, a largely overlooked incident reported last April revealed that our global community is far less rigorous in analyzing nuclear security failures than are sport parachutists, who seek to draw every possible lesson from mistakes because they understand the unacceptable consequences of even one fatal error.
Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, in about two dozen cases, intelligence or law enforcement authorities have seized fissile material that could be used to build a nuclear weapon. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili reported the most recent incident at the Washington Nuclear Security Summit. It adds to seizures of highly enriched uranium by Georgia in 2003 and 2006.
While the total amount of material that has been recovered and publicly disclosed is not sufficient to make a nuclear weapon, the matter is deadly serious. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, none of the recovered nuclear material was reported missing by its owners. Incredibly, none of these cases has been sufficiently investigated to determine the origin, destination, and all those responsible for the theft of the material.
Moreover, seizures rarely result from proactive law enforcement or intelligence operations; most are serendipitous, seemingly random events. In some cases, the culprits advertised that the small amounts they carried were samples of larger quantities for sale. Critically, not all of the material reported to be on the market has been recovered. Consider too that some cases have not been publicly disclosed. Incidents of nuclear smuggling are being quietly and secretly pursued by intelligence and law enforcement services, sometimes alone, sometimes in partnership with other countries, but manifestly neither fast enough, nor with sufficient resources and determination.
What explains our failure to get to the bottom of nuclear smuggling cases? The causes are several-fold, having to do with the nature of international cooperation, the sensitive topic of nuclear security, and organizational failures within the U.S. government.
In pursuing these cases, governments have failed to share information quickly and thoroughly, for reasons good and bad. Hence, those charged with protecting us cannot connect the dots and chase all leads to their conclusion. This reluctance to share information is sometimes due to rivalries between countries. State secrets and sovereignty limit cooperation between intelligence and law enforcement servicessometimes even within a country. The bitter relationship between Russia and Georgia is perhaps the most extreme example of these difficulties.
Moreover, many states are reluctant to move aggressively to uncover new information that might reveal nuclear security lapses in their own country. There is also little interest in acknowledging that more material might be for sale on the black market, lest that admission be taken as evidence that law enforcement and intelligence entities are not doing their jobs.
Within the United States, there is no dedicated team of intelligence, policy, law enforcement, and technical experts working together full-time to resolve nuclear smuggling cases. Intelligence and policy officials track these incidents, but after a few weeks or months, they are regarded as old news, not worth sustained attention in the face of a dizzying barrage of information, most of it bad. Other priorities prevail.
The problem might also be worse than we imagine. Seven years of failing to block small shipments of nuclear material from Russia through Georgia and neighboring countries is bad enough. Suppose a more serious group managed to recruit an insider in a nuclear facilitysomeone who could divert material in small quantities over a long period of time. Such a scheme might go undetected for years. Today's analysts are not trained to see the indicators of a sophisticated plot that is spread over time and space in a non-linear way.
Is such a nuclear black market network unknown to the outside world plausible? An overwhelming number of seizures have involved the smuggling of sample-sized quantities of weapons-usable uranium in bulk form, i.e. powders, not countable objects. The evidence suggests that it is harder to protect such materials, which are subject to less strict inventory and accounting, but could still be manufactured into a bomb.
If terrorists have been unable until now to exploit opportunities to purchase materials on the black market, it is not for lack of intent. Al Qaeda declared in 2001 its determination to acquire and use a nuclear weapon. Osama bin Laden long ago recognized the history changing potential of a group that is able to wield a "Hiroshima bomb." In the early 1990s, he set his group on the path to buying, stealing, or building a bomb. If the September 11th attacks were al Qaeda's Pearl Harbor, launching a global war against the United States, then an improvised nuclear device would be a means of winning it. The greatest obstacle preventing bin Laden and his accomplices from carrying out their plans is gaining access to plutonium or highly enriched uranium.
Contemplating the threat of nuclear terrorism is mind bending. Thankfully, it has never occurred, so we have no experience of it. Yet, some say it is almost inevitable because nuclear materials are pervasive and coveted by fanatics. Others argue that it is wildly improbable because many complex steps must be taken before terrorists could build and detonate a weapon. What we know for certainin addition to the devastating potential consequencesis that on about two dozen occasions, governments have acknowledged recovering material that could be used to make a nuclear weapon. This is an ominous sign, and one that must instruct us. Former United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix once observed that mustard gas is not like marmalade, you are supposed to keep track of itso too nuclear material that could be used to make bombs.
Nuclear terrorism skeptics argue that the negative cannot be proved, or that it has not happened, and therefore is not a threat. Some go so far as to assert confidently that terrorists cannot build a nuclear device, failing to give credence to the cohort of nuclear weapons designers who have made clear their belief that, while it is difficult to build a nuclear bomb, it is by no means impossible for a group to do so, if they were able to obtain sufficient fissile material. Consequently, the undeniable reports of weapons-grade nuclear material available for sale show such thinking to be misguided and even reckless. Indeed, since terrorist intent to steal, buy, or build a bomb is uncontested, the only reason we have not experienced nuclear catastrophe may be that thus far, insufficient material has found its way into terrorist hands.
On nuclear security, the news is not all bad. The world has made enormous progress in securing global stocks of fissile material. U.S. administrations of both parties have worked effectively with Russia, other states of the former Soviet Union, and elsewhere to improve nuclear security. Presidents Bush and Putin agreed to complete security upgrades in Russia by 2008. President Obama has build on this accomplishment with the Global Nuclear Lockdown. There is little doubt that by objective standards, our controls on weapons-usable material are far strongerand consequently we are saferthan ten or fifteen years ago. Moreover, this work will continue, which is all to the good. But, it is not enough. No security system can be perfect, and we have empirical evidence that our control over nuclear material is not absolute.
What are the top priorities and key tasks that must be accomplished to defeat nuclear smuggling?
First, we need a common international understanding of the problem. No serious effort to eliminate the nuclear black market can be effective without such a consensus. Today, there is no broadly accepted definition of the nuclear black market among the worlds law enforcement and intelligence entities. There is no consensus on the kind of threat it represents. Indeed, there is no agreement that a black market exists, much less on what to do about it. Consequently, very little work has been done to develop an effective response. Developing such an understanding will require coordination with other nations through both diplomatic and intelligence channels.
The effort should include collecting and exchanging information on: the scope and nature of the problem; the motivation and behavior of sellers, buyers, insiders, facilitators, and middlemen; sources of materials and capabilities; and the role of networks, in particular elements of organized crime. Effective action is possible only once the international community is armed with a more precise perception of the threat.
Once there is such an appreciation, the intelligence worlds traditional approach of setting rules of the road can mobilize and coordinate effective international action. Such guidelines will be essential to broaden and deepen information sharing between states, avoid sting operations that might stimulate a market in nuclear materials that otherwise would not exist, and ensure efforts to uncover black marketers and nuclear materials are not perceived as provocations directed against another state. These thorny issues have long impaired international law enforcement and intelligence cooperation. They must be addressed directly, with as much transparency as sovereignty allows. Experience amply demonstrates that a black market-related investigation pursued by one state, involving only ad hoc and limited coordination with other affected states, invariably produces mistrust, finger pointing, and a diminished capacity to recover loose nuclear materials and neutralize trafficking networks.
As a part of the international effort, development of an internationally shared forensics catalogue, containing nuclear samples from all corners of the world, would buttress collaborative law enforcement and intelligence cases. Such a program would integrate the intelligence efforts to curtail smuggling networks with steps to implement air-tight global nuclear security. It could also facilitate strengthening legal penalties for trafficking of these materials to the extent that it might be effectively deterred.
Second, within the United States, we need to form a specialized team, dedicated to investigating and resolving cases of nuclear smuggling. The team must be charged with learning: what facilities leaked the material in question; who stole it and how; what networks were involved in trafficking it; whether and perhaps which factory officials, border guards, or police may have abetted the smuggling; and who is looking to buy weapons-grade material. It should be based in the National Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency, because the problem is deeply rooted in human intelligence. It must, however, include all skill sets necessary to accomplish the missiondiplomatic, legal, and scientific. Team members should be free from all other duties, have access to resources and information that already exist in the intelligence community, and receive a full mandate to pursue activities necessary to accomplish their mission at home and abroad. In general, the team should augment and help integrate, but not replace other activities conducted by individual agencies.
This team should systematically broaden and deepen intelligence liaison cooperation against nuclear smuggling. Strategic engagement with international intelligence and law enforcement organizations is lacking today, and closer coordination is essential. It is particularly important improve coordination among the Nonproliferation Treaty nuclear weapons statesChina, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Third, the International Atomic Energy Agency should foster an ethic of disclosure and cooperation to advance the work of detecting and interdicting nuclear smuggling rings, as well as plugging security holes at nuclear facilities. More opprobrium must attach to stonewalling an investigation of recovered material than to admitting lapses in nuclear security. The agency must also continue to improve its analytical capabilities. Developing greater substantive expertise and analytical tradecraft will enable the agency play a more authoritative role. The Agency should also be given additional resources to strengthen its ability to collect overt information that may reveal nuclear networks.
These steps to improve our national and international capacities to defeat nuclear smuggling are vital. But, most of all, we need a change of mindset, greater focus, and a sense of urgency. Our collective inability to investigate thoroughly and resolve cases of nuclear smuggling amounts to criminal negligence. Unless we can be as ruthless in examining the causes of failures in nuclear security and preventing them in the future as are parachutists in assessing and correcting their errors, we will remain vulnerable to a fatal malfunction. This is intolerable, because when it comes to the threat posed by a nuclear black market, we are all hanging from the same parachute.
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The threads dealing with royalty have reminded me of a news story I read recently. Prince William's girlfriend, Kate, was accused by the press of snubbing the royal family by not accepting an invitation to spend Christmas with the royals. She declined as it was the first Christmas her family would be spending without both grandmothers, as they had died during the year. I don't think she was "snubbing" them at all. She made a decision based on what was more important to her at the time, ie spending time with her family. If she does marry William she will be expected to spend every Christmas with the royals anyway, so this may have been the last chance she has to spend Christmas with her own family. Simply turning down an invitation does not indicate a "snub"; sometimes it is intended that way, but I don't think it was in this instance. I also think good on her for knowing her own mind and having the balls to say 'no' to the royal family.What do you think?
I did hear a story a couple weeks ago - something about William's Graduation. She was not seated with the Royal Family because they are not engaged. Apparently, though, she is starting to be majorly harrassed by the paparazzi, but doesn't get protection until they are engaged.
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"One of the reasons behind the system of pressure [in higher education] is the extraordinary changes higher education in China has seen in recent decades. China's universities were shut down in the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). In the years since they reopened, 36 million students have been admitted. Expansion in Chinese higher education has taken place at a truly astonishing rate. In 1999, the country's colleges admitted 1.08 million students. By 2002, that number was up to 2.75 million. In 2007, said China's Ministry of Education, 5.7 million students would be enrolled.
No matter what course a student signs up for – or, more often, is coerced into attending, either by parents or the system itself – he or she must also take a number of mandatory courses that have nothing to do with the major.
The most burdensome of these are political indoctrination courses, such as 'Mao Zedong Theory,' 'Deng Xiaoping Theory,' and, naturally, copious quantities of Marxism, all designed to espouse political theories that almost no-one – even the tutors – believes in. Political indoctrinization courses continue right up to PhD level, and a large amount of political hagiography must be memorized and repeated by rote.
There is extremely little room for any creative thinking or disagreement in these courses; a student who has the temerity to argue against the political effectiveness of Mao, for example, will simply fail the course – no matter how cogently he or she argues – and without passing the course, they student cannot complete the degree."
China's higher education system sucks. It is lazy, corrupt, and ideological. Try as I might, I can find nothing good to say about it. Well, except that it provides a great source of ChinaBounder's lovers – but that's another entry altogether.
Again and again I talk to students about their attitudes to higher education. Their responses are almost wholly negative. And while there are a few students who will begin by giving positive comments about their university, it does not take many questions from me before they agree that their university is indeed shoddy and unprofessional.
One of these students (name withheld) recently had his MA viva at what is regarded as one of Shanghai's better universities. A viva, for those not in the know, is an interview panel of academics who quiz the student about their paper. Its purpose is to ensure the student really did write it, and to ask questions arising from the paper to test how wide the student's knowledge of the subject is. The viva is meant to be a flexible academic debate, a give-and-take tussle. At least, that is what happens in a proper university. A university that takes education seriously.
Now I have read hundreds of essays written by students in China during recent years, across all levels, BA, BSc, MA, PhD. Very few have been worthy of academic respect. But this was an extremely accomplished paper, one that was certainly fit for publication in an international journal. How frustrating, then, that the academic rigor which this student put into his paper was totally disregarded by his university.
The questions that the panel asked were all decided in advance. Each academic had his script. And how do I know this? Because the chief examiner of the viva panel wrote out the questions for each examiner to ask each student, and handed them over to two of the MA students to type out. These students promptly shared the information with their peers.
China is creating an entire generation of people who do not think, do not question. How can China ever hope to change when this is the caliber of its best-educated people?
There is also a contradiction here, one of the many that makes Chinese society so fascinating and so hard to read. Though most Chinese students will agree the education sucks, most do not care. They do not want a rigorous, creative and flexible education. Sure, they all want less of the bullshit politics courses which are mandatory for all students, and most would be grateful if their accommodation was a bit less like the gulag.
Do they want to learn? Do they want to be challenged? Most of the students I have met simply want to get their degree, to chalk up the points. All that matters to them is having a degree with the name of a half-way respectable university with which to impress employers. The quality of received education is not a consideration. And this is why too many Chinese students are content to drift through their education, doing the minimum, copying their essays and obediently, uncomplainingly, jumping through the hoops the university sets out for them.
Let me put it another way; in all my years in China, I have met perhaps five students who take pride in their academic work.
While the Communist Party keeps its Neanderthal grip on power, maintaining present educational policies, this cannot change.
The students cannot wholly be blamed for not demanding a decent education. In Chinese education, just like everyday life in the nation, it is dangerous to stand out, dangerous to be an individual with alternative opinions. Unfortunately, it is from students like these that the next generation of academics comes, and so the system repeats itself, over and over.
Those few tutors who have some spark to them are soon crushed. Take an actual tutor (name withheld) at the same university I just mentioned. He completed his doctorate in the United States and returned to China to teach literature.
Perhaps, having been so long in the dynamic States, he had forgotten how lazy, how idle Chinese undergraduates were. For he set his students to actually read books – read books! – from cover to cover, not just a selected chapter from here or there, as is usual in a 'literature' degree in China. Worse than this, he wanted his students to read beyond the core curriculum. His greatest error was that he tried to set up seminars in which students could discuss ideas.
His students revolted. They complained to the university authorities. 'Too much hard work!' they bleated. 'Too much reading!' they whined.
Pause a moment, and consider the irony of that. English Literature. University Level. Too much reading.
Chinese university students, generally too apathetic or timid to complain, only made a fuss because the education was too good.
'Fault Lines' asks, "Will your university allow you to think?"
I reply: Does anyone in China really want to?
And certainly not about sex.
'Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great' - Excerpt 8
"The authoritarian treatment of students extends into every area of their life. Sex, for Chinese students, is also a subject for control by university regulations. Shanghai University, for example, expelled a student because he allowed his girlfriend to spend the night in his dorm room.
The student, Zhu Bin, explained that his girlfriend had come to see him from another university but had missed the last bus home. 'I originally intended to arrange for her to spend the night in a nearby internet café, but it was too dangerous for a girl to stay overnight with male strangers about' he said, so he took her back to his dorm. He planned to allow her to have his bed while he slept in a chair but, suffering from a fever, he lay down beside her. The next morning a dorm mate informed on Zhu, and teachers discovered him and his girlfriend on the bed.
In insisting 'nothing happened' Zhu perhaps legitimized the belief that sex is indeed shameful. And certainly Zhu's mother said 'I know that my son did something wrong, but things are not the way teachers think… the school should give him an opportunity to reform.'
When the Family Planning Commission of China's southern Guangdong Province wanted to install condom machines in eight provincial universities in 2004, some reacted strongly. Kong Xiaoming, publicity chief of the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, said 'We firmly oppose to condom vending machines on our campus. On campus, this very move is definitely prohibited, and we would never allow students to have sex experience while in college [sic].'
Also in 2004, Beijing University – one of China's most prestigious institutions – rejected plans to hand out condoms on World AIDS Day, saying that it was 'inappropriate to hand out free condoms openly on campus.'"
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More tweed. Glen check suit accompanied by dark burgundy brogues. In between, tomato red socks with blue polka dots. Worn with a light blue glen check shirt, pinned charcoal cashmere necktie and dark silk paisley square, the combination doesn't attract attention unless I'm seated for a shoe shine.
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Suits and Socks, Installment IX
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- John said...
great look, Will. Wish I could see the rest of it. Yesterday I sported a blue pinstripe suit, whote shirt with silver cifflinks, silvery houndstooth tie, white linen pocket square and black lace up shoes. To minimize the severity of the black shoes with the blue suit, I wore solid burgundy socks. I'm still not convinced that my socks were proper because all they did was break up the pants and shoes, they really did not relate to anything above the waist. Your combo is great though!
- November 15, 2007 at 6:37:00 AM PST
- ROT said...
Hi Will,
I'm with John -- could you put the rest of your clothing on a dummy and post the pics? Sounds like a great combination. Is the shirt a smaller glen check?
EasyAndElegantLife.com - November 15, 2007 at 8:47:00 AM PST
- Will said...
I'm afraid the only available dummy was the one wearing the clothes when the photo was taken, but I will see what I can do.
- November 15, 2007 at 10:21:00 AM PST
- Jocke said...
I suppose you don't have to put the whole outfit on again, but for future reference it'd be really nice to see the whole thing.
- November 15, 2007 at 3:17:00 PM PST
- pierre said...
But what would Jeeves have to say about that?
- November 16, 2007 at 5:52:00 AM PST
- rip said...
I am always reminded of Albert's comment in The Birdcage, "One wants a bit of color"
- November 16, 2007 at 9:31:00 AM PST
- Will said...
Not the the shirt and necktie but see my post "Sunday Tweeds" from this past July 5.
http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com/2007/07/sunday-tweeds.html - November 25, 2007 at 9:40:00 AM PST


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Michigan Court of Appeals rules that Public Act 72 is still in place
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Public Act 72, the law Michigan's emergency financial managers are working under, remains in place.
On Nov. 6, Michigan voters rejected Public Act 4 in a referendum. The emergency manager law, signed by Gov. Rick Sndyer in 2011, gave state-appointed managers the ability to break labor contracts and overrule elected officials.
Emergency financial managers have worked under Public Act 72 of 1990, the previous emergency financial manager law, since Aug. 8. On that day, Public Act 4 was suspended when Proposal 1 was placed on the ballot at the direction of the Michigan Supreme Court, and Michigan's emergency managers were re-appointed in Lansing as emergency financial managers under the older law.
Friday's ruling came in a lawsuit challenging the legal authority of Roy Roberts, emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools.
After the vote on Proposal 1, "no part of 2011 Public Act 4 ... remains operative," Friday's Court of Appeals order said. "Therefore, the section of Public Act 4 repealing 1990 Public Act 72 ... did not survive the referendum and has no effect. Respondent Roberts was appointed under Public Act 72 after Public Act 4 was suspended and thus lawfully holds office."
"It's nice from the standpoint that I think it's important to have something in place," Pontiac's Emergency Financial Manager Lou Schimmel said Friday.
Schimmel said he plans to stay in Pontiac through at least the end of the year.
"Act 72 is not going to work for other communities in fiscal distress that haven't dealt with those issues that I've already taken care of," Schimmel said, including labor and contract issues.
The emergency financial manager has said that although the city's budget is balanced, a deficit could reappear next year because of retiree health care costs that drive the city's expenditures about $6 million above its annual revenues.
At his State of the City address on Thursday, Pontiac Mayor Leon Jukowski said new emergency manager legislation is being discussed in Lansing. Continued...
"What I've heard is that it would be some sort of a replacement of Act 4 which would essentially grant many of the same powers, but only after it was run by the city council, and you'd give the city council an opportunity to prepare a counter-proposal," Jukowski said.
"If the emergency manager and city council could agree, they would go forward with that decision; if not, everybody goes up to Lansing and either a panel or maybe the state treasurer issues a ruling and decides what's going to be the solution."
Schimmel said a system where emergency financial managers made proposals to city councils would be "cumbersome" and "time-consuming."
"I think they want to have something stronger than Public Act 72, because 72 does not allow the power to deal with the labor issues, and the labor issues are 70 to 80 percent of most cities' budgets that are in trouble," he said.
"If you can't deal with 80 percent of the problem, then you can't fix the problem."
State Rep. Tim Greimel, a Democrat from Auburn Hills who represents Pontiac, said he doesn't know of any new emergency manager legislation that's been introduced.
"I haven't seen any specific proposals yet. But, I know there have been discussions about a variety of possibilities. My own view is that it would be a mistake to simply enact a law that's virtually identical to Public Act 4, because I think that would be a real slap in the face to voters who just voted against Proposal 1 and therefore rejected Public Act 4," Greimel said Friday.
"I think there is room here to reach a compromise that benefits our economically distressed communities," the state representative said. "I believe that Public Act 4 went too far in giving vast and unprecedented powers to single individuals in troubled cities. But, I also believe there are some improvements that could me made to Public Act 72 to make it more effective in addressing the very real problems facing some of our local communities," he said.
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The incredible Italian street artist Blu has recently finished a political mural in Madrid, Spain. An indictment on our consumerist, capitalist culture. This piece, in true street art style, is full of big, hard hitting images designed to get the idea across in a sceond, to punch you in the guts, to make you laugh and gasp at its visual ingenuity. A runaway train becomes a metaphor for us, society, while behind it a long line of cars; waste, military hardware, consumer goods and oil follows – and the money we spend to sate our greed used to fuel the engine that is heading right off a cliff.
An image of the world we live in, a world fuelled by war, consumption, oil, money and governments that are ultimately leading us all to an unavoidable precipice. Blu makes it pretty clear like the best propogandists do. And he's brilliant. As always. So if you're in Madrid check it out at El Campo De Cebada.
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Born in Newberry County, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin Jackson Sr. and the late Bessie Neal Jackson. She was a member of Hannah A.M.E. Church.
Surviving are nieces, Helen B. Hester and Bernice Camp of Newberry, Bessie Mae Nealous (Teddy) of Valrico, Fla., Popie Wiliams of Saluda and Katherine Wells of Clinton; nephews, Bennie Bouknight of Lamott, Pa., Malverse Jackson Jr. (Rhonda) of Cleveland, Ohio, John Mangum (Mary) of Catonsville, Md., Moses Jackson Jr. (Gloria) of Columbia and Bennie Jackson (Elizabeth) of Newberry and other loving relatives.
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