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Look around and check if you see any wood surfacing. It might be a cupboard in your kitchen, your chair, or the desk you are reading this on. Then chances are you see tropical veneer.
There is also a chance that the wood for that veneer has been sourced illegally. Possibly even from thousands of miles away in the Democratic Republic of Congo where companies cut through the country's vast intact forests to harvest timber.
Illegal logging is rampant in the DRC and in other countries throughout the Congo Basin, home to the world's second largest rain-forested area. Several international companies are involved and much of the wood makes its way to Europe.
Greenpeace recently investigated one shipment of endangered Wengé wood. Its journey and destination demonstrate why new legislation, recently introduced by the EU, needs a lot more attention from governments and companies.
Greenpeace Belgium spotted immediately that the wood was illegal. Then, emphasising the global nature of the timber trade, a Swiss-based trader Bois d'Afrique Mondiale bought the wood, but left it in the customs zone for two months, while the company was presumably searching for a buyer.
Almost two months later, Greenpeace found the same shipment of wood at a veneer processing facility in the Czech Republic, which is owned by none other than the Danzer Group. The controversial Swiss-based timber giant was disassociated from the Forest Stewardship Council just over a month ago after a complaint from Greenpeace alleging that they were involved in human rights violations through one of their then subsidiaries in DRC in 2011.
This week our team in the Czech Republic staged an action before the timber was able to be moved on. Briefly commandeering the wood, they called for the authorities in the country to seize it immediately and implement the terms of the European Timber Regulation (EUTR).
A thorough and immediate investigation into Danzer's practices as well as into the other companies involved in the supply chain is required.
The European Union, after many years of campaignsing by an array of NGOs, adopted the EUTR in 2010, which prohibits timber traders and companies placing any illegal timber or timber products on the EU market. It became effective in March 2013, but clearly faces challenges with its enforcement.
The trade of illegal timber operates essentially in a vicious circle. While companies will continue to fuel illegal logging in the DRC if they break the EUTR and place illegal timber on the market, the lack of good governance and enforcement in the country's chaotic logging sector means shipments can leave the country with impunity.
Those that stand to lose out most are ordinary Congolese whose environment is being destroyed and whose livelihoods are removed. Last month Greenpeace visited the Bakri Bois Corporation's logging area in Equateur province. Local witnesses described how the company had broken its social contract.
The authorities in the DRC need to begin enforcing their own regulations and governments in the EU need to make sure they do not turn a blind eye to illegal timber trade, epitomized by the shipment of endangered Wengé from the tropics of the Congo to a veneer facility in the Czech countryside. Otherwise the forests and communities of the Congo Basin will continue to suffer as their trees end up lining the inside of yachts and adorning high end furniture.
Danielle Van Oijen is a Forests Campaigner at Greenpeace International.
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We need a monitoring system for wood. If this is the case then wood and wooden products should be given a made in logo (or comes from logo) to prove i...
We need a monitoring system for wood. If this is the case then wood and wooden products should be given a made in logo (or comes from logo) to prove it comes from sustainable sources If it Burmese teak or other illega foresting activity then we must stop buying it, and only wood which is sustainable should be given an OK logo. Can Greenpeace do this - give an OK logo and in return companies pay Greenpeace for that logo to prove it is from sustainable sources. Tell us what to buy and not to buy and I am sure people will respond. if it does not have an OK logo then people should not buy it. So many stories abut wrong doing but until people stop buying it then what is the point?
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However when I put them all together in a function, it does not re-highlight the region. Here is non-functioning function and binding:
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Along with the debut of the 2015 Corvette Z06 comes the debut of a new Corvette race car. The new C7.R promises to take up where the last Vette left off, and that's beating up on every other manufacturer in sports car racing.
This year in the freshly united... uhhh... Tudor United Sports Car Championship, or TUSCC, the new C7.R will take on the likes of the Porsche 911, SRT Viper GTS.R, BMW Z4 GTE, among others when it hits the track at Daytona in just a few weeks.
Adhering to the sports car rules, it has a 5.5 liter version of the Corvette's V8 and is wide as the dickens (yes, a technical term that I use often). It was closely developed with the Z06, and has a lot of the same lineage, namely the aluminum frame and many of the aero mods. Chevrolet says that the race team barely needed to modify the car in order to get the aero changes they needed to make it perfect for racing. That's impressive.
There should be a paddle shift trans, the same unique radar based blind spot warning system, and a sound that is likely to make people who can hear go deaf and make people who are deaf hear. We'll see it on track in just a few weeks at the 24 Hours of Daytona.
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Thermo Fisher reportedly nears deal for Life Tech
(AP)—Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is reportedly nearing a deal to buy Life Technologies Corp., a maker of genetic testing equipment, for almost $12 billion.
Thermo Fisher's bid for Life Technologies topped $70 a share, beating out bids from other suitors, including the Blackstone Group, the Carlyle Group and other private equity firms, according to published reports. Life Technologies' stock closed Friday at $68.
Life Technologies, based in Carlsbad, California, said in January that it had hired Deutsche Bank and the boutique bank Moelis & Co. to help with its strategic review. That's usually a sign a company is considering putting itself up for sale. Since that announcement, the company's stock has climbed 24 percent.
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CHAPEL HILL � With as many as eight freshmen or redshirt freshmen on North Carolina�s two-deep depth chart with the opener less than a week away, the Tar Heels are counting on young players to be advanced enough to tangle with No. 6 South Carolina on Thursday night.
North Carolina�s initial depth chart was released Friday and there was a youthful presence.
�We would like to know a guy can do it,� Fedora said, addressing the added uncertainty as the season approaches. �It�s running and blocking and tackling. It�s just on a bigger stage.�
For the Tar Heels, game week has already arrived.
�We�re counting the days down almost,� senior quarterback Bryn Renner said.
It will be an especially anxious time for players about to embark on their first Division I game.
Redshirt freshman linebacker Nathan Staub is set to be among the starters.
Another member of that class, Jon Heck, will start at right tackle on offense. Caleb Peterson, a redshirt freshman, was dubbed the starter at left guard.
Peterson will be backed up by newcomer Will Dancy, a Southern Alamance graduate who transferred to the Tar Heels and has three seasons of eligibility remaining.
Another former Southern Alamance player, sophomore walk-on Arien Smith, shares the backup role at center with freshman Lucas Crowley behind junior Russell Bodine.
Freshman running back T.J. Logan out of Northern Guilford isn�t listed on the two-deep at all after entering August practice as a player considered likely to fill a key role, at least on special teams. He has been hobbled with an unspecified injury.
�I don�t know if he�ll make this trip or not,� Fedora said.
Sophomore Kendrick Singleton not only is listed as a first-string receiver, but he�s the lone Tar Heel on four special teams units.
Those are among the notable developments from the depth chart.
There�s uneasiness and excitement surrounding the team.
�In practices, there�s a sense of urgency in the offseason,� Fedora said. �You don�t have a game to warm up.�
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NEW YORK — The co-founder of one the nation's oldest venture capital firms fears a possible genocide against the wealthy. Residents of Manhattan's tony Upper East Side say the progressive mayor didn't plow their streets as a form of frosty revenge. And the co-founder of Home Depot recently warned the Pope to pipe down about economic inequality.
The nation's wealthiest, denizens of the loftiest slice of the 1 percent, appear to be having a collective meltdown.Continue Reading
Economists, advisers to the wealthy and the wealthy themselves describe a deep-seated anxiety that the national — and even global — mood is turning against the super-rich in ways that ultimately could prove dangerous and hard to control.
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President Barack Obama and the Democrats have pivoted to income inequality ahead of the midterm elections. Pope Francis has strongly warned against the dangers of wealth concentration. And all of this follows the rise of the Occupy movement in 2011 and a bout of bank-bashing populism in the tea party.
The collective result, according to one member of the 1 percent, is a fear that the rich are in deep, deep trouble. Maybe not today but soon.
"You have a bunch of people who see conspiracies everywhere and believe that this inequality issue will quickly turn into serious class warfare," said this person, who asked not to be identified by name so as not to anger any wealthy friends. "They don't believe inequality is bad and believe the only way to deal with it is to allow entrepreneurs to have even fewer shackles."
And so the rich are lashing out.
In the latest example, Thomas Perkins, co-founder of legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, wrote a letter to The Wall Street Journal over the weekend comparing Nazi Germany's persecution and mass murder of Jews to "the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the 'rich.'"
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He went on to say he feared a progressive "Kristallnacht," referring to the 1938 German pogrom in which nearly 100 Jews were killed and more than 30,000 arrested, a dark omen of the murder of 6 million that would follow.
People, to put it mildly, went nuts.
Even Perkins's old firm disavowed him and his comments and said he no longer has anything to do with the company. Perkins then went on Bloomberg television, ostensibly to apologize for the remark. But instead he doubled down on the analogy, saying "when you start to use hatred against a minority, it can get out of control."
Perkins was not the first wealthy investor to invoke Nazi Germany as a warning over current attitudes toward the wealthy. In 2010, when Obama suggested raising the tax on "carried interest" earned by private equity executives, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman said, "It's a war. It's like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939."
Obama still hasn't managed to persuade Congress to hike the 20 percent rate on carried interest even though most on Wall Street expect to lose the perk at some point. Schwarzman eventually apologized for his Hitler remark.
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More recently, the New York Post dedicated considerable ink to complaints from residents of the Upper East Side that newly elected progressive mayor Bill de Blasio directed plows to avoid the neighborhood as some kind of revenge for their wealth and support of de Blasio's opponent.
"He is trying to get us back. He is very divisive and political," Upper East Side resident Molly Jong Fast told the Post. "By not plowing the Upper East Side, he is saying, 'I'm not one of them.'"
The mayor dutifully trundled up to the neighborhood to admit mistakes in plowing but strongly denied any ulterior motive.
It doesn't end there.
Ken Langone, a wealthy investor and co-founder of Home Depot, recently told CNBC that the Catholic Church in New York might see a decline in donations if Pope Francis did not tone down his comments about the dangers of economic inequality. "You want to be careful about generalities. Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country," Langone said.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman this week wrote that even plutocrats who manage not to invoke Nazi Germany "nonetheless hold, and loudly express, political and economic views that combine paranoia and megalomania in equal measure."
The phenomena is not limited to the U.S. bankers across the globe who gathered for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week and complained publicly and privately that in their view vilification of the rich, particularly in the financial industry, has gone far enough.
"Life is hard enough, and I think this constant lecturing on ethics and on integrity by many stakeholders is probably the most frustrating part of the equation. Because I don't think there are many people who are perfect," Sergio Ermotti, chief executive of UBS AG, told The Wall Street Journal. "We are far from being perfect … but it's not going to be very helpful to be constantly bashing banks."
But perhaps nowhere is the collective freakout more pronounced than the financial capital of the world. Here in New York, even wealthy donors who tend to favor Democrats are deeply concerned about the current political discourse at the city level in which de Blasio wants to increase taxes on the rich, and the national level, in which Democrats have pledged to make the 2014 midterm elections about addressing economic inequality.
"I think this is going to be disastrous for the city," one top executive at a large Wall Street bank said on the eve of de Blasio's election. "The people who pay taxes could move out, the businesses could leave. What's keeping us here?"


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TAMPA, FL–(Marketwire – December 14, 2010) – Sage Healthcare Division, a unit of Sage North America, announced today it has been named a preferred vendor by South Florida Regional Extension Center (REC). Sage will make the ONC-ATCB certified Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition available to the center's thousands of participating healthcare providers throughout the eight-county region.
Sage Healthcare Division is a major provider of electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software and solutions, serving approximately 80,000 physicians in North America, and has been named a preferred EHR vendor for numerous RECs including New York eHealth Collaborative, Ohio Health Information Partnership, Missouri Health Information Technology Assistance Center and Massachusetts eHealth Institute.
Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition, a certified meaningful use software solution, is a comprehensive clinical, financial and administrative solution that empowers physicians to advance the quality and efficiency of care they deliver. The Sage Intergy family of products includes integrated practice management, electronic health records, clinical and business intelligence and a Web-based portal for online patient engagement. Providers can access Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition from multiple practice locations, from home, or other remote locations either through a central patient database server, or as a Sage-hosted solution on a monthly subscription basis.
Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition easily tracks the details of a patient's clinical history, shares and manages clinical information and combines complex medical practice functions into easy-to-navigate menus. Sage Intergy features centralized financial operations including billing, reporting, task management, and fully integrates with EDI services, Sage Intergy Practice Portal, Sage Intergy RIS and Sage Practice Analytics.
The South Florida REC was formed to assist healthcare providers in adopting EHRs and achieve meaningful use. The Office of the National Coordinator tasked RECs with helping physicians adopt EHR systems and qualify for the financial incentives that come with achieving meaningful use standards.
South Florida REC will partner with physicians and practices to provide them subsidies, tools, services and EHR guidance. Providers may seek REC assistance for free. The REC is part of an extensive network of more than 60 Regional Extension Centers across North America that serves as a neutral source for EHR and health information technology (HIT) as providers seek to navigate EHR options and select vendors that meet meaningful use requirements.
"Sage continues its alignment with RECs to support the mission of serving all physicians as they move toward EHR adoption," said Ken Ernsting, Vice President of Business Development for Sage Healthcare Division. "South Florida is among the group of exceptional organizations assisting physicians as they navigate the new and continually evolving healthcare economy."
Clinics eligible to utilize South Florida REC's subsidized services include Priority Primary Care Providers in the area of family medicine, obstetrics, and gynecology, general internal or pediatric medicine. In addition, practices must be either individual or a small group practices (defined as 10 or fewer professionals with prescriptive privileges in the practice) primarily focused on primary care; public and critical access hospitals; and community health centers and rural health clinics.
About South Florida Regional Extension Center
The South Florida Regional Extension Center (REC) was established to promote and facilitate the adoption of electronic health records by health care providers in eight Florida counties from Key West to Vero Beach. Funded through the Office of National Coordinator of Health Information Technology and coordinated by a collaboration of health organizations, the nonprofit South Florida REC has already enrolled hundreds of physicians and hopes to eventually serve 2,500 with assessment, qualified hardware and software vendors, cost discounts, training, support and maintenance.
About Sage Healthcare Division
Sage Healthcare Division provides integrated electronic health records, EDI applications and practice management systems to approximately 80,000 physicians and thousands of ambulatory care practices throughout North America. These systems enable physicians and practice managers to better manage their practices and improve profitability. Sage Healthcare Division is based in Tampa, Fla., and is a division of Sage North America. For more information, please visit www.sagehealth.com or call (877) 932-6301.
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Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and services. Sage North America employs 4,000 people and supports 3.1 million small and midsized business customers, including medical practices in the United States. The Sage Group plc, formed in 1981, was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and now employs 13,100 people and supports 6.2 million customers worldwide. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.sagenorthamerica.com.
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Make or break time in division, Wild Card races
With the All-Star break having come and gone, a number of division and Wild Card races are bound to start heating up down the stretch.
While a number of variables will alter each race on a day-by-day basis, certain teams may already have an edge when it comes to their remaining schedules. Especially in the inaugural year of season-long Interleague Play, some clubs find themselves with much more favorable schedules -- on paper, anyway -- than their competition.
With the All-Star break having come and gone, a number of division and Wild Card races are bound to start heating up down the stretch.
While a number of variables will alter each race on a day-by-day basis, certain teams may already have an edge when it comes to their remaining schedules. Especially in the inaugural year of season-long Interleague Play, some clubs find themselves with much more favorable schedules -- on paper, anyway -- than their competition.
Though the games will ultimately be decided on the field, some teams have already gone through the more demanding parts of their schedules, while others still have those stretches awaiting over the season's final two months.
Tigers: Not much separates the American League Central-leading Tigers' remaining schedule from that of the second-place Indians', but Detroit has two significant advantages working in its favor.
First off, Monday's series opener against the White Sox marks the Tigers' first of 16 remaining games against the AL Central's last-place club. The rivals met just three times during the first half of the season, and despite Detroit going just 1-2 in that three-game set, the club is 26-13 against Chicago since the start of the 2011 season.
Overall, the Tigers play just 17 of their final 65 games against teams that currently have winning records, seven of which are against the Indians. Likewise, Cleveland has only 19 games remaining against winning teams, and both Detroit and the Tribe will play another 32 road games before season's end. After Sept. 4, neither team plays a club that currently has a winning record.
The other positive for the Tigers, however, is they enter play Monday holding a 1 1/2-game lead in the AL Central. In each of the past two seasons, they entered play on July 22 clinging to a half-game lead in the division en route to winning AL Central crowns both seasons, including by a runaway 15 games in 2011.
"I think it's typical with the guys we have here and the veterans we've got," ace Justin Verlander said. "We've been a second-half team, because we know what it takes to prepare yourself to play 162 and not just the first half."
Athletics and Rangers: Oakland and Texas will play nearly identical schedules from here on out. As they battle it out for the AL West crown, each club plays just 24 of its final 64 games against teams currently with winning records.
In contrast, the Angels -- who are hoping to make a second-half run similar to that of the A's in 2012 -- have 40 such remaining games.
The lone separation between Oakland and Texas is the fact that the division-leading A's host six of the nine second-half meetings with the Rangers.
Angels: The Halos will have plenty of opportunities to close the gap on the Athletics and Rangers down the stretch -- but it certainly won't be easy.
As already mentioned, 40 of their 66 remaining games will come against teams that currently sport a winning record. The one positive is that 23 of those games -- 13 against Texas and 10 versus Oakland -- are against the two clubs they are chasing in the AL West.
"Those are the teams in front of us," Angels slugger Albert Pujols said. "Those are the teams we need to beat, one game at a time. I think in the second half of the season, every game is critical. It's not like there's tomorrow. Before you know it, you're in September."
Unfortunately, seven of those 10 games against the A's will come in Oakland, a sign of another daunting second-half trend. Starting with Monday's series opener at home against the Twins, the Angels play just 29 more games at Angel Stadium. Their 37 remaining road games are the most awaiting any Major League team.
Blue Jays: Toronto's brief surge before the All-Star break hit a roadblock after a three-game sweep by Tampa Bay, and things don't figure to get any easier the rest of the way.
Sitting in last place in the AL East following their busy offseason, the Blue Jays have a difficult task ahead as they try to battle back into the postseason picture. Along with a number of remaining series against the powers within their own division, the Jays have non-division games against the AL West-leading Athletics (seven), as well as the D-backs (three) and Dodgers (three), who enter play Monday as the top two teams in the National League West.
In all, Toronto plays 41 of its remaining 65 games against teams with winning records. Only the White Sox (42) play more such games among AL teams.
Braves: No club plays fewer teams with a winning record the rest of the way than the NL East-leading Braves.
Atlanta has just three series (10 games) remaining against teams currently above .500. The Braves host the Cardinals for a three-game set this weekend, then travel to St. Louis for a four-game series from Aug. 22-25. Their following series, a three-game set against the Indians from Aug. 27-29, marks the last time the Braves play a team that currently has more wins than losses.
Along with playing 54 of their final 64 games against losing teams, Atlanta leads the NL East with 35 home games remaining on the docket. Still, don't expect the Braves to get complacent with their 6 1/2-game division lead.
"Once you get comfortable, that lead's going to be gone, or you're going to be shipped somewhere else," Atlanta second baseman Dan Uggla said. "We're definitely not satisfied."
Pirates: Schedule-wise, the Bucs have a favorable path in their bid for their first postseason appearance in more than two decades.
Pittsburgh plays 40 games down the stretch against teams with losing records entering play Monday, more than either the division-leading Cardinals or third-place Reds. Of those 40 games, 30 are against teams currently in last place or second-to-last in their respective NL divisions.
Regardless, the Pirates aren't looking too far down the road after suffering second-half collapses in each of the last two seasons.
"We're just focused on today," Bucs All-Star Andrew McCutchen said. "Which is what we've been doing all season to get us to this point.
"We only focus on the game we have in front of us. We're not thinking about the future."
Cardinals: Though the Cards hold a two-game lead in the NL Central, maintaining that edge through September won't come easy.
More than half of the Redbirds' remaining games (35 of 66) come against teams with winning records, including 17 straight from Aug. 22-Sept. 8. After a four-game series against the NL East-leading Braves, the Cardinals will play 13 consecutive games against either the second-place Pirates or third-place Reds.
Rockies: Colorado has remained within striking distance in the NL West through the All-Star break, but things will only become tougher as the summer progresses.
The Rockies play 34 of their remaining 63 games against teams with winning records, but the true obstacle will come over the final two weeks of the season. Colorado's final 15 games come against the D-backs, Dodgers, Cardinals and Red Sox -- all of whom are currently leading or in second place in their respective divisions.
Making matters worse, following their current 10-game homestand, the Rockies will play just 24 of their final 56 games at home.
"I don't want to get caught up in saying how many games we have to win on this homestand," Colorado manager Walt Weiss said. "You've got to be careful getting too far ahead or getting caught up with what's happened. But it's a nice opportunity we have here, opening up [the second half with] this 10-game homestand."
Paul Casella is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @paul_casella.


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Chevrolet Cruze wagon
Cruze station wagon, a variant that General Motors hopes will boost the brand's fleet sales in Europe, where wagons are popular company cars.
The wagon, which is not expected to come to the United States, also will get a 1.7-liter diesel engine. The diesel also will be offered in the Cruze hatchback and sedan in Europe.


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Paul Klee
Paul Klee (poul klā), 1879–1940, Swiss painter, graphic artist, and art theorist, b. near Bern. Klee's enormous production (more than 10,000 paintings, drawings, and etchings) is unique in that it represents the successful combination of his sophisticated theories of art with a very personal inventiveness that has the appearance of great innocence. The son of a music teacher, Klee himself was a violinist, and musical analogies permeate his writing and his approach to art. He traveled through Europe, open to many artistic influences. The most important of these were the works of Blake, Beardsley, Goya, Ensor, and, especially, Cézanne. In 1911 he became associated with the Blaue Reiter group and later exhibited as one of the Blue Four. Klee's awakening to color occurred on a trip to Tunis in 1914, a year after he had met Delaunay and been made aware of new theories of color use. Thereafter his whimsical and fantastic images were rendered with a luminous and subtle color sense.
Klee's works are neither abstract nor figurative, but have strong elements of both approaches. Characteristic of his gently witty paintings are The Twittering Machine (1922, Mus. of Modern Art, New York City) and Fish Magic (1925, Phila. Mus. of Art). Other works reveal strong, rhythmic patterns, as in the unsettling Viaducts Break Ranks (1937, Hamburg). World famous by 1929, Klee taught at the Bauhaus (1920–31) and at the Düsseldorf academy (1931–33) until the Nazis, who judged his work degenerate, forced him to resign. He and his family fled Germany for his native city in 1933. In his series of Pedagogical Sketchbooks (tr. 1944) and lecture notes entitled The Thinking Eye (tr. 1961), Klee sought to define his intuitive approach to artistic creation. His last ten years were spent in Switzerland, and some 4,000 of his works are in the Paul Klee Center, Bern.
See his notebooks, ed. by J. Spiller (2 vol., tr. 1992); his diaries, ed. by his son Felix Klee (tr. 1964); his life and work in documents, ed. by F. Klee (tr. 1962); studies by J. M. Joran (1984), C. Lanchner, ed. (1987), O. K. Werckmeister (1989), and M. Franciscono (1991).


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Gallup: Majority of Human Race Does Not See Global Warming as Serious ThreatTuesday, April 26th, 2011
Source: CNS NEWS
(CNSNews.com) – Most of the human race does not see global warming as a serious threat, according to a Gallup poll released last week that surveyed individuals in 111 countries.
Respondents were asked: ?How serious of a threat is global warming to you and your family?? They were given the options of anwering: not at all serious, not very serious, somewhat serious or very serious.
Worldwide, only 42 percent told Gallup they believed global warming was either a ?somewhat serious? or ?very serious? threat. Gallup did not publish the separate percentages for each answer.
In the United States, 53 percent said they believed global warming was a ?somewhat serious? or ?very serious? threat to themselves and their families. That was down from 63 percent in polling that Gallup did on the question in the United States in 2007 and 2008. (more…)


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Nissan 240SX Performance Modification/Engine Swaps/SR20DET
The SR20DET is the most commonly swapped engine into the 240SX Chassis. The Availibility of the engine and the relative ease of the swap make this a popular choice for 240SX owners who want more power.
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SR = Block
20 = 2.0L Displacement
D = Dohc E = Electronic Fuel Injection
T = Turbocharger
SR20DET Red Top
2.0L DOHC Turbo
Turbo Type: T25
Compressor A/R: 0.80
Injector Size: 370cc
Bore x Stroke: 86.0mm x 86.0mm
Displacement: 1998cc
Performance: SR20DET:
Power (HP): 208@ 6,000 rpm
Torque (TQ): 204@ 4000 rpm
Compression Ratio: 8.5:1
Speed Limiter:180 Kmh -112 mph
Stock Boost: 7 psi
ECU: 62 (redtop) OR E5 (blacktop). 63 (automatic) will also work.
MAFS: 89-90 240sx mafs works. MAF is a 52F00 for SR20DET. the 40F00 from the 89/90 240SX works, but resolution is off a bit. Not the same power/drive ability potential as factory SR MAFS
Rev Limit: 7500rpm (no need to really go over 7000)
The SR20DET is available in several different stock forms ranges in power from between 205HP and 250HP.
S13 "Redtop" - Came from S13 Silvias and 180sx 1990-94 (Garrett T25 turbo). Easily identifiable by bright red valve cover. Equipped with 370cc injectors and a side mount intercooler. Uses 'Skinny' O2 sensor. With raised boost to the s13 Redtop motor can push 250hp safely with no modifications. Maximum Safe boost on the stock turbo is 13psi-15psi. The Engine Should produce 230-250rwhp on safe boost. With a larger turbo (e.g. GT2871r), bigger MAF (e.g. Z32 N62) and upgraded fuel delivery (e.g. 255lph pump, 740cc injectors) 375-430 can be had on stock internals (yes, It's actually true).
S13 "Blacktop" - Came from 180sx's 1994-1998 (Garrett T25 turbo). Most of the same physical construction as S13 "Redtop", with black valve cover and additional cooling fins on the front. Uses slightly different engine management configuration (higher bit fuel map) and uses a different 'Fat' O2 sensor. The pistons are made from a denser aluminum for higher strength. the port design on the heads are more open to allow more air flow. Maximum Safe boost on the stock turbo is 13psi-15psi. The Engine should produce 230-250rwhp on safe boost. With a larger turbo (e.g. GT2871r), bigger MAF (e.g. Z32 N62) and upgraded fuel delivery (e.g. 255lph pump, 740cc injectors,cams) 375-430 can be had on stock internals (yes, It's actually true)
S14 - 94-98 Silvias (also referred to as a notch top by some to avoid confusion with the S14 and S13 "blacktop") - Variable Timing Control aka VTC was introduced. Equipped with 370cc injectors and sidemount intercooler. Intake manifold is significantly different from S13 SR20DET, and valve cover is black with a large lump on the forward portion. Maximum Safe boost on the stock turbo is 13psi-15psi. The stock engine should produce 250-260 RWHP at safe boost using stock turbo. Upgrading turbo, fuel and rest of need parts will yield 300-375.
S15 - 2000+ Silvias. (Garrett Ball Bearing GT28R turbo and 6 speed transmission) Equipped with 480cc injectors and larger sidemount intercooler. Valve cover is black with a large lump on the forward portion. The easiest way to tell if you have an S15 motor and not an S14 is the ECU plug. Also the A/C compressor part number. other than that, the S15's front cooling fins on head surface appear to have been sanded off. The stock engine should produce 250-260 RWHP at safe boost using stock turbo. Upgrading turbo, fuel and rest of need parts will yield 300-375.
Fluid Capacities
Oil(with filter change): 3 1/4 qt (3.7 L)
Cooling System (including reservoir): 5 1/2 qt (6.2 L)
Manual Transmission: *GL-4* 4 1/4 pt (2.4 L)
Differential carrier gear oil: *GL-5* 3 1/8 pt (1.8 L)
Automatic Transmission: 7 qt (7.9 L)
Power steering 3/4 qt (0.9 L) ATF recommended
Swap Guide[edit]
Required Items[edit]
If you are swapping into a chassis that had the KA24E, and want to retain power steering, DOHC power steering reservoir and lines are needed. Keep the KADE power steering pump as they are interchangeable if you have the SR20det pulley and bracket.
An aftermarket electric fuel pump(z32 or sr20 stock pump).
A twin cam 91' and above cluster for s13 models due to Rpm reading not working with a pre 91' cluster (how to tell the 2 apart?... pre 91'reads 115mph post 91' reads 110mph.
If you are swapping from auto-manual, you will need the manual driveshaft or a custom one piece.
- Drive shaft lengths differ with ABS(shorter) and Non ABS(longer), earlier base models may require separating drive shafts and using half auto/manual to fit.
Custom wiring is required as well. You can either splice the KA harness with the SR (which can get hectic at times) or purchase a pre-made harness from a provider or specialist such as Wiring Specialties or run a standalone such as a Painless harness.
Step by Step[edit]
-Relieve fuel pressure. Do this by removing the fuel pump fuse in the engine bay, start the car, let it die, crank the motor over a few more times. -Drain all engine and transmission fluids. Be sure to drain the coolant from the block if you don't want coolant all over your work area. - Disconnect battery. - Remove anything in the way, items like intake piping, fan shroud, and radiator. - Disconnect exhaust.
-Disconnect all harness connections and then plug everything back in the other engine.
Greddy Oil Pan - Worthwhile upgrade. Baffled interior and extra port for temp sensor is very nice.
Greddy Oil Catch Can - Nothing Special, just a catch can!
Greddy Pulley Set - Lightweight aluminum, blue in color. Easy install.
Greddy VSPL Intercooler Kit - Must modify or remove front bumper support.
Koyo Aluminum Radiator - Consider this upgrade when doing the swap.
HKS SSQV - Universal application, extremely loud when not recirculated (depending in insert), pull type so it wont leak under vac.It is not recommended to run an open BOV, without the aid of some type of fuel controller. Some people have had success from tightening down the BOV (resulting in the BOV not opening within cruising RPM range), but in general it causes the car to run rich due to the air that has been metered is being dumped to the atmosphere. Since the ECU thinks the engine will be receiving that mass of air, the amount of fuel is still injected into the engine even though that mass of air is missing which in thus causes it to run rich temporarily. (not really necessary as this costs extra money, those on a budget should consider putting the MAF sensor after the BOV i.e. in between the BOV and the block itself, its probably a better idea anyways).
Nismo Thermostat - Another part to help with keeping the engine temps down. This is not necessary for most SR owners that do not track their cars for the Nismo unit opens at a lower temp than the OEM one.
Greddy Airnix Air Filter - Foam cone style with 2 different layers of foam. The inner is denser than the outer for better filtration. Good product. (Non-oiled filter recommended for MAF-operated cars)
Samco Silicone Radiator Hoses - More reliable than standard hoses because silicone can stand up to temperatures better than the standard rubber hoses.
Flex-a-Lite Dual 12" Fans - Extremely nice fans. I have them hooked up with a painless wiring kit which turns them on at 190 and off at 170 and it takes them less than a minute to do that. Very impressive and fits perfectly on the S13 SR20 Koyo radiator. Or a set of Altima Electric Fans, from the '93-'97 Nissan Altima, these fans have a higher CFM rating than Flex-a-Lite and are cheaper to boot. You can pick a good set with shroud for $40-$60. They wire up just as easy and the shroud allows for more air flow. E-fans are a common upgrade. The stock clutch fan is prone to slippage, and robs power (up to 20hp), E-fans are a much better choice. (FAL's often burn up if not wired with an independent relay for each fan. do not wire the fans both through one relay - Taylor Durdan)
Power Enterprise V-belts - the best belts that I've ever used. They hold up strong
OEM USDM Replacement Parts[edit]
Some parts Courtsey of Kazuo - Zilvia.net
Oil filter (S13 SR20DET)- 91-94 Sentra SE-R Part number: 15208-53J0A
Oil filter (S14 SR20DET)- 95 Sentra SE-R/200SX Part Number: 15208-65F0A
Fuel Filter - 1990-1996 300ZX TT
Upper injector o-ring - 7/95 and newer 300ZX TT (small/upper)...
Lower injector o-ring - 7/95 and newer 300ZX TT (big/lower)
o2 sensor (S13 SR20DET REDTOP)- '87 300ZX Turbo AKA Skinny Type.(requires splicing of harnesses. 300zx is 3 wire square plug, SR is 3 wire linear plug. Stock redtop 02 sensor was never produced in US market)
o2 Sensor (S14 SR20DET BLACKTOP)- 95 300ZX TT
Exhaust Manifold Gasket (Red Top)- 91-94 Sentra SE-R
4 Hole Turbo Manifold gasket / 5 Hole Turbo Extension Gasket - 91-96 300ZX TT (Z32)
Fuel Injectors - 91-96 Z32 300ZX TT (purple plugs; 370cc)
Timing Chain Kit - 91 B13 Sentra SE-R
Belts (PS, AC, alt) - Gates K050370 Alt., K040345 PS & most AC (Dayco belts - 5050370 ALT, 5040345 PS)
Spark Plugs - 91 Sentra SE-R (USE ONLY NGK Iridium/Platinum BKR6E or BKR7E gapped to .028 (upgraded turbo) - .032 (Stock turbo)
Water Pump - JDM ONLY!
Head Gasket - JDM ONLY! (can be ordered from GReddy)
IACV Gasket - JDM ONLY!
Engine Coolant Temp. Sensor - '91-94 B13 Sentra SE-R and KADE Temp Sensor
Throttle Position Sensor - '91-'94 B13 Sentra SE-R
Water Temperature Sensor - Sentra (equal to year of you motor)
Front and rear main seal(Red Top) - 93 sentra SER
Stock sr clutch disk - 89 Nissan Maxima
Nissan Part Numbers[edit]
Oil filter for S13: 15208-53J0A
Connecting Rod Bearing: 12111-1N500
Crankshaft Bearing: 12207-60J00
Front main seal: 13510-53J00
Rear Main seal: 12279-0M300
Piston Ring set: 12033-53J10
Exhaust Manifold Gasket (S13): 14036-53J10
Exhaust Manifold Stud: 14065-75F00
Intake Manifold Gasket (S14): 14035-5U000
Intake Manifold Gasket (S13): 14035-53J00
Oil Strainer Gasket: 15053-1E400
Intake Valve: 13201-1E711
Exhaust Valve (Not found at Nissan): 13202-53J01
Shim: 13229-53J00
Tensionner Gasket: 13079-2J200
Intake Valve Seal: 13207-84A00
Exhaust Valve Seal: 13207-53F00
Intake/Exhaust Valve Seats: 13205-53J00
Valve cover gasket (S13): 13270-52F00
Spark Plug Well Gasket: 13271-52F00


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May 24, 2011 1:59 pm ET - by Kerry Eleveld
The leader of a right-wing organization, who made a name for herself by pushing abstinence-only based programs in Africa and has ties to the virulently antigay Ugandan pastor, Martin Ssempa, is stepping up efforts to promote homophobic messages among delegates at the United Nations.
The Arizona-based Family Watch International (FWI) hosted "26 UN delegates from 23 different countries" at a policy forum in January that provided "expert presentations" and policy briefings about "how to better protect and promote the family and family values at the UN," according to an FWI newsletter written by the organization's president, Sharon Slater.
"The list of governments represented read like a geography lesson, as diplomats from countries around the globe-including from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean Islands-met in Gilbert in January," trumpeted an article that has since been removed from the website of the Arizona Beehive, a publication that serves Arizona's Mormon population.
Slater's newsletter characterizes the presentations at the meeting as providing information on "how the UN system is being manipulated by sexual rights activists to promote the sexual agenda" and adds that "the institution of the family is being undermined by these efforts."
According to invitations distributed to attendees and obtained by Equality Matters the two-day session included briefings by lawyers on family policy issues dealt with by the UN's Third Committee – the social, humanitarian, and cultural affairs committee – and those addressed by subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), including the Commissions on the Status of Women, Sustainable Development, and Population and Development.
"Delegates will be provided with current research, statistics, and resources on a number of sensitive family issues that will be negotiated at upcoming UN conferences in 2011," says the invitation.
Presumably, "family issues" would include matters like the vote last November in which a bloc of 79 countries, led by the African Group in the UN General Assembly, removed "sexual orientation" from a UN resolution that condemned extrajudicial and arbitrary executions of certain vulnerable minorities. The U.S. Mission reintroduced the language and successfully restored "sexual orientation" to the resolution the following month.
As Slater told the Arizona Beehive, "Of grave concern to the UN delegates, were recent attempts by developed countries, with the United States taking the lead, to pressure developing countries to change their laws and policies to accept and promote a number of controversial sexual rights. The delegates said they urgently needed the scientific information we presented regarding sexual orientation and homosexuality, as these are emerging issues in UN policymaking."
FWI's forum answered that call by including a testimonial provided by "a patient" (as Slater puts it) who allegedly transformed her or his sexual orientation through reparative therapy – exactly the type of misinformation that is often touted by those who support criminalizing homosexuality in places like Africa and the Middle East.
"One of the most moving presentations," Slater writes of the conference, "was the personal testimony of a patient who is successfully reorienting from homosexuality to heterosexuality. For many of these diplomats, this was their first exposure to the scientific and clinical evidence that proves homosexuality is not genetically determined and fixed like skin color or race and that in many cases, individuals who experience same-sex attraction can be helped by therapy."
While the right-wing rhetoric is perhaps unsurprising, what's most fascinating and unsettling about Slater is her access to international leaders who have key roles in African countries such as Uganda – relationships that were originally fueled by the American push to export religious zealotry as the HIV/AIDS epidemic spread across the continent.
Sharon Slater stands at the intersection between the war on gender equity and the effort to stymie LGBT rights – advancing her crusade against the international "assault" on the family. She is the quintessential portrait of a religious fundamentalist who got her start doing the abstinence-only work that thrived during the Bush years and has parlayed the international connections she made during that time into helping to spread her corrosive homophobic views abroad.
People like Slater, says Ugandan lesbian activist Val Kalende, are proffering the tools that are being wielded by African politicians and religious leaders to stigmatize and suppress a vulnerable minority.
"Conservative US evangelicals are fueling the homophobia in Uganda – they are actually providing the language that the antigay movement in Uganda is using," says Kalende, who hails from Kampala but is currently attending Episcopal Divinity School in the United States. "This whole idea of the so-called change therapy – praying for people to heal them of their homosexuality – was a non-issue to most Ugandans, not until these three Americans came to Uganda and started talking about it."
The three Americans Kalende references were anti-LGBT activists Scott Lively, Caleb Lee Brundidge, and Don Schmierer, who visited Uganda to provide three days worth of information to audiences that included politicians, teachers, and police officers about how to turn gay people straight and how to counteract the LGBT movement's goal "to defeat the marriage-based society."
In this vein, the website for Slater's group provides a treasure trove of classic fear mongering and junk science about the LGBT issues of which Kalende speaks. FWI's "Family Policy Resource Center," for instance, includes briefs that explain how "Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction Can be Successfully Treated" and how "so-called 'homosexual rights' are driving much of the current worldwide assault on marriage, the family and family related issues."
Kalende says these concepts feed right into African notions of family and cultural fears that not reproducing will undermine the foundations of their society.
"It fits in with the African concept of what the family is supposed to be because in Africa, men and women are supposed to have children. And if you have any relationship that is non-reproductive, then it means there is something wrong," she says. "So the issues of the family in the United States, especially those promoted by people like Sharon, fit in very well with the African view of what relationships are supposed to be and I think that's what has given strength and growth to their movement."
FWI's website says Slater founded the group in 1999. In the first few years of the 21st century, however, Slater's energies were invested as president of another conservative organization called United Families International (UFI) from 2001-2006, right around the time abstinence-only programs got a huge boost in both prestige and, in some cases, funding from President George W. Bush's national faith-based initiative and international program PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). From 2003 to 2005, grants to faith-based organizations (FBOs) increased 21%, with $2.1 billion being distributed to FBOs in 2005 alone, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. And through PEPFAR, the U.S. government committed more than $30 billion to international HIV/AIDS relief between 2004 to 2010.
It is extremely difficult to track exactly how Slater's organizations have derived their money over the years, but their international initiatives have clearly benefitted from the environment fostered by the Bush Administration, and United Families International garnered enough financial heft to become an international player. The organization's 990 tax form shows a cash infusion of $1.6 million in "direct public support" in 2002, the same year the organization's Statement of Program Service Accomplishments stated, "Began implementation of the 'Stay Alive' program (an AIDS prevention program) in Africa to educate the population in an effort to control the spread of AIDS."
The Stay Alive program's prevention efforts focused on teaching African youth ages 9-14 an abstinence-only and fidelity-in-marriage curriculum. It represents two-thirds of the ABC technique (Abstinence, Be faithful, and correct and consistent Condom use) that public health experts have found most effective in combating transmission of the virus.
The perfect case in point is Uganda, where Slater and her organizations focused a good portion of their efforts. Uganda was one of the African countries hit earliest by the AIDS epidemic and by the early 90s, the country's HIV infection rate peaked at about 18% of the population. But by the first few years of the 21st century, infections had leveled off at around 5% and by 2009 they stood at about 6% of the population.
The reasons for Uganda's success in lowering HIV prevalence are the subject of much debate, but the fact that condom use by single women aged 15–24 almost doubled between 1995 and 2000/2001, according to UNAIDS, is a behavioral indicator that many public health experts consider to be at least as important as the fact that more women in that age group delayed sexual intercourse or abstained entirely. And one study by researchers at Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities found that increased condom use along with the premature death rates of those infected in the 90s had a greater impact on Uganda's declining infection rate than either abstinence or fidelity.
But religious conservatives like Slater were sure to attribute the victory exclusively to Uganda's abstinence-only initiatives.
"There is clear evidence that abstinence programs are successful," Slater wrote in a 2008 newsletter for Family Watch International. "Uganda is the classic example. It is the only African country that has significantly reduced its infection rate. In 2002, I invited the First Lady of Uganda, Janet Museveni, to give the keynote speech at a conference I chaired for UN delegates to discuss the reason for this success. She made it clear that Uganda's success was due to the promotion of abstinence before marriage and fidelity in marriage and NOT the use of condoms."
At that 2002 conference in New York, Mrs. Museveni – infamous for her zealous promotion of abstinence-based programming in Uganda – "sharply criticized" the UN practice of distributing condoms, according to a Washington Times article published about the event.
"The young person who has trained to be disciplined will, in the final analysis, survive better than the one who has been instructed to wear a piece of rubber and continue with 'business as usual,'" Mrs. Museveni told the meeting sponsored by the ultra conservative World Congress of Families (WCF) – an international coalition of religious groups that purport to protect the "traditional family" against activists working to advance basic human rights.
Another of the WCF event speakers was Wade Horn, who served as President Bush's assistant secretary for the administration for children and families (ACF) at the Department of Health and Human Services. ACF is the bureau that was primarily responsible for awarding billions of dollars in grants that went to faith-based organizations, much of which was directed at abstinence-only education programs.
Assistant Secretary Horn stayed on message too, telling attendees that they should reaffirm marriage and sexual fidelity because "government ought to make it clear that government is in the business of promoting healthy marriages because it is an effective strategy for improving the well-being of children."
Slater, who helped organize the event, reportedly "pleaded with UN diplomats from more than 50 countries 'to ensure that religions are respected and protected in UN documents, insofar as they respect the family and the dignity of the human person.'"
In addition to rubbing elbows with Mrs. Museveni, Slater has ties to an equally as strident anti-condom activist in Uganda, Pastor Martin Ssempa, an Evangelical minister who is known for his exhibitionist condom burnings in the name of Christ as well as his fervent support for the Uganda bill that would impose harsher criminal penalties – including death in some cases – on Ugandans found to be gay and/or spreading HIV/AIDS (homosexuality is already illegal in Uganda). Ssempa has served as the Special Representative to the First Lady of Uganda's Task Force on AIDS.
And in the "Who We Are" section of FWI's website, Ssempa is listed among seven other people who either work or volunteer for the organization:
"Martin Ssempa, FWI African Coordinator (volunteer) – Internationally renowned family activist. Helped Ugandan government develop its national policy on abstinence in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Has spoken extensively on the subjects of AIDS, marriage, pornography and drug addiction. Testified before the U.S. Congress, explaining how the U.S. aid programs that rely on condom promotion and distribution have exacerbated the AIDS problem in Africa. He is helping Family Watch coordinate pro-family efforts in Africa."
Ssempa gave his Congressional testimony in April of 2005 before the House Committee on Foreign Relations, which was conducting a 2-year review of the U.S. response to the global AIDS crisis.
Two years earlier, in a report on a 2004 appropriations bill, the House appropriations committee had affirmed the abstinence-only program, Stay Alive, that Slater's organization originated.
"In Uganda, Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, as part of a broad range of responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the Committee supports expansion of programs to promote sexual abstinence education programs in primary and secondary schools throughout the continent. Proposals by established programs such as Stay Alive and Silver Ring merit special consideration by the AIDS Coordinator," the report stated.
Through her efforts in HIV/AIDS prevention, Slater took an active role at the UN that she has continued to leverage more recently. Last year, for instance, she worked with delegations from Iran, Syrian, Nigeria, Qatar and Saint Lucia to co-sponsor a meeting at one of the main convention halls on "Recognizing the Critical Role of Mothers in Society."
The meeting, which sounds rather innocuous, commenced during a two-hour break in the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) – the UN's principal global policy-making body dedicated to promoting gender equality and the advancement of women. Slater used the opportunity to relay to CSW participants her view of how women's rights have contributed to the disintegration of the family and indeed ravaged the foundations of society altogether.
She was introduced with distinction by the Syrian ambassador, who said Slater had been "very active in the deliberations of our meetings."
Slater proceeded to spin her cautionary tale about female empowerment by harkening back to what most women's rights activists view as the groundbreaking Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted 15 years earlier by the Fourth World Conference on Women.
"The women's rights movement since Beijing has opened many important and much needed opportunities for women," she said on March 8 of 2010, International Women's Day. "But in women's search for gender equality, in some cases, the pendulum has swung too far. When the quest for women's rights begins to devalue the role of mothers and contributes to family breakdown, not only do men and children lose, but women and girls lose too."
Slater then added information about how costly the push for women's rights can be. Citing what she referred to simply as a "US study released in 2008" – which was actually a report authored by Benjamin Scafidi for the antigay think-tank The Institute for American Values – Slater said the "breakdown of the family" was costing American taxpayers "a staggering $112 billion every year."
"Any deviation from the married mother-father family structure, the data shows, generally leads to such things as poverty, crime, violence, substance abuse and other problems that world governments must spend billions of dollars trying to repair," she observed.
The event was notably sponsored by countries where women typically have few rights and limited control over their own destiny (these same countries also joined the UN bloc that voted later in 2010 to remove "sexual orientation" from the UN resolution condemning executions of vulnerable minorities). Slater later told a reporter for Inter Press Service News Agency that the Iranians and Syrians "thought it was time for the issue of motherhood to be put on the UN's agenda." Asked if she was troubled by partnering with the Iranian government on the meeting, Slater responded, "We're a non-denominational, nonpolitical group. We'll partner with anyone who believes in the value of family."
Slater, who talked approximately 15 minutes and can be seen on video here, was joined on the panel by Dr. Alveda King, who is the niece of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and has referred to same-sex marriage as "genocide," and Theresa Okafor, director of the Foundation for African Cultural Heritage (FACH) and CEO of the pro-life group Life League Nigeria (abortion is illegal in Nigeria.) FACH is an umbrella organization that includes a variety of right-wing organizations such as the Association of Concerned Mothers, Nigerian Association for Family Development, Doctors Health Initiative, Life League Nigeria, the Christian Association of Bishops Conference of Nigeria and the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Nigeria.
Okafor's group FACH co-sponsored Slater's Gilbert, AZ, Global Family Policy Forum earlier this year. Among her achievements, Okafor counts keeping sex education out of Nigerian schools while eschewing the "conspiracy to strip Africa of its cherished values by international organizations like Planned Parenthood and the United Nations."
Okafor also managed to convince the conservative World Congress of Families to hold its first "African conference" in Abuja, Nigeria in 2009, a gathering that this unambiguously homophobic article from a Nigerian outlet hailed as "aimed at giving the Nigerian perspective to a troubled world lurching from one moral crisis to another." (Slater reportedly presented at the conference what a caption of her picture calls the "hidden agenda of international bodies.")
Okafor also recently refuted the notion that LGBT people experience prejudice in Nigeria.
"I have heard accusations that they are being discriminated against," Okafor said, "but this is completely false because if you think deeply about it, it is not the person that is being despised, it is the conduct."
It's a classic love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin argument put forth by religious conservatives, especially when they are vilifying homosexuals. Slater made a similar argument at a 2008 High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS at the UN.
According to LifeSiteNews, "Sharon Slater of Family Watch International met with anger and resistance when she drew a distinction between stigmatizing individuals with HIV, which she condemned, and stigmatizing high-risk behavior, such as intravenous drug use and homosexual activity, which significantly contributes to the spread of HIV."
In her own newsletter for Family Watch International, Slater recalled the 2008 meeting as "the worst conference" she had ever seen for "openly promoting an anti-family agenda."
"We watched and listened as a parade of homosexuals, transsexuals, prostitutes, and drug users demanded in official speeches on the UN floor that their behavior be decriminalized and recognized as a human right," she wrote.
Many questions still surround Slater and her organization. FWI is listed as a 501 (c)(3), but its 990 tax forms could not be located after multiple searches were conducted. FWI did not respond to inquiries about its tax status, funding, or a request for comment. But even with the 990, it would be impossible to trace who exactly is funding FWI because nonprofits are not required to list their donors.
But one thing is clear, Slater isn't going to walk back her homophobic rhetoric or "family advocacy" just because countries like Uganda are considering imposing the death penalty on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender women and men. Hyping the attitudes that lead to draconian policies and the brutal and deadly beating of fellow human beings like Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato isn't her concern.
Even though Kalende believes the murder of her friend and colleague David Kato – who was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in his home – helped unite the LGBT movement in Uganda, she also fears for her safety, even here in the United States.
"I began questioning, how safe am I, even here?" she says. "Every time I think about going home, I think about how safe I will be? And a lot of it is psychological – I keep thinking about the circumstances under which David was killed. I keep imagining that."
But Kalende doesn't know any other way to stem the rising tide of homophobia in her country than to keep speaking out about it and the way that American fundamentalists are stoking it.
"I can't think of anything that is going to stop this fire that has been raised by the antigay movement here and in African, not just Uganda, but also other countries like Malawi – I can't think of anything other than to keep talking about this and to keep exposing some of these people," she says.
"I didn't choose it," she says of the activism. "It just followed me."
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Australia might be 'tickled pink at having its first female prime minister', but what else is being said about the dramatic leadership change that saw Kevin Rudd suddenly ousted by Julia Gillard this week?
Eva Cox at Crikey sees Julia Gillard's achievement as the first step, rather than the end point, for those desiring gender balance in positions of power:
'We will know we really have made progress when women in top positions become normal and not worthy of comment. It will also mean we get better leaders, not just because many are women, but because we no longer exclude good people because of their gender.' (register to read)
Also at Crikey Shakira Hussein warns us that Gillard's ascension to the top job means that some will think that feminism is finished:
'The danger now (well, one of the dangers) is that feminists will be told that the battle is won, that anyone who is still on the battlefield is just a whinger, that if a woman can become prime minister, then we have no further reason to complain.'
Annabel Crabbe acknowledges the sense of hope that has accompanied Gillard's promotion:
'The approbation of her colleagues, seasoned with a groundswell of genuine delight at the elevation of Australia's first female prime minister, give her an opportunity to make the sort of progress that eluded her predecessor.'
Catriona Menzies-Pike at New Matilda considers Gillard's momentous caucus win and is left seeking answers:
'Once the fuss dies down, some of these questions will be answered and a bigger one will emerge: are Australians really ready to elect a female prime minister?
'There's no doubt that Gillard's promotion is an important symbolic victory for Australian women. But is this the exemplary trajectory for female success? To act as deputy until those whom you have vehemently opposed act to support you?'
The Australian's Caroline Overington sees evidence of change stamped all over our new PM:
Julia Gillard is a woman, but that's not the only extraordinary thing about her rise.
She's got a de facto.
Imagine that, 30 years ago: an unmarried woman, living in sin with a man. Who is a hairdresser. And aspiring to high office.
Leo Shanahan at The Punch believes Gillard could be the person to get the government back on track:
Call me a honeymooner if you want, but in both policy and rhetoric Prime Minister Gillard made a lot of sense today, and that's something that's been missing from the Federal Government as of late.
In Josephine Tovey's piece at SMH, Gillard's fruit bowl runneth over, Tovey wants women to stay on their toes:
Just being a woman in power is not enough. There will be questions, rightly so, from women across the feminist spectrum.
Will she, as Prime Minister improve the lot of other women, and make their paths to equality easier?
But these are all questions for tomorrow. For now at least, we should all celebrate this landmark moment.
More excitement over at Femisting, with another reminder that all is not yet equal:
Julia Gillard, our new WOMAN PM – sorry, I can't stop writing that in delighted caps – is a very impressive woman, and I have high hopes that this ouster will get voters' approval in the upcoming Federal election. But one woman leader does not an egalitarian society make.
At The Drum Helen Razer, enjoying 'a little gynaecological bloat as Her Majesty's female representative swore in the female representative of the people', writes:
'A colony founded in masculinity, Australia can still feel like the land that feminism forgot. On this "historic" day, perhaps Overington, Wilkinson and co can be excused their greeting card gush.'
Mia Freedman briefed her readers about their new PM, adding:
Julia Gillard is a remarkable woman. A fighter who has fought and won against many odds. A self confessed feminist and socialist, Gillard has survived the many attacks from the media and conservatives in Australia to become the Prime Minister of Australia, put in the position by the right wing factions that have previously tried to tear her down.
Catherine Deveny sees Julia Gillard's win as 'a victory for all who do not fit into the category of white, middle aged, middle class, straight (or acting), god fearing (or pretending) university educated males granted a priority pass access to power (and therefore money, control, leisure and choice) at birth.' Deveny affirms her faith in Gillard, writing:
I believe in Julia Gillard. Not because she is a woman. But because she's Julia Gillard. Smart, brave, strong, experienced and independent. I believe in equality and diversity. Which means knowing she can be a maggot and a mongrel when necessary. Delight and disappoint. Her promise not mine.
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We have a classic car museum out in Menifee, CA. We will be opening in January. The museum is in an old rustic barn that my uncle built a while back. At that time it had the attached logo (Pin Logo.jpeg). We would like to not stray away from the old logo as much as we can. However, since the building was developed so long ago, with no computers or "logo makers" we do not have a logo on hand (digital image) and need one.
Our family has much history in Southern California, mainly farming and we do have a classic car collection which we will be showing and is the main attraction. Attached you will also see a picture of the outside of the barn and see how rustic it actually is to get a feel of the venue. You will also see another picture attached of a pin of the old logo we had in the 70's.
We like the templated version of the pin logo from the 70's however want to transform it a bit with a classic car in the middle of the logo instead of the farming image. We also want it to say "Motte Historical Museum" instead of "Motte's Romola Farms"
Anyone who comes to visit museums and loves car collections.
Historical, vintage, looking logo
Don't stray too far away from the old logo that is attached, however we would like to have a classic car in the middle of the logo replacing the farming image.
We have two cars that were our first cars that would be wonderful if they were within the logo, either the 1924 model T bus, or the 1926 Chevrolet Touring. See all 4 photos attached.
Instead of the logo saying "Motte's Romola Farms" Est. 1910, we want it to say "Motte Historical Museum" Est. 1910.
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It's been awhile since I've shared the cyber mailbag's offerings, so here goes. Sunday, I opined that the problem plagued Department of Veterans Affairs should jettison the Veterans Administration, a 300,000-person bureaucracy that treats 230,000 veterans a day for $153 billion a year. The VA has backlogs of people waiting to get an appointment for care, and where whistle-blowers have changed that at some facilities — administrators created phony lists to mask the delays.
I said vets should be given health care cards when they're discharged to use in the civilian health care system. The U.S. would pay the bills. I posted the link to the column (as I do all my columns) on my Facebook page and asked people what they thought of my controversial idea. Here are a few of the edited responses:
"Great idea," said Jesse Dabson, "screw them with consumerism." I'm taking that as a no. Dabson wants the VA fixed, saying he'd "rather my tax dollars go to a government program that can be fixed than to a profit-driven corporation that I can't."
Craig Beiersdorff said, "Single Payer for all will solve this and much, much more." And Diana M. Johnson said, "My father-in-law is in the Veterans Home in Manteno and he gets wonderful care."
And Linda Ksiazek thought I had a "wonderful idea!"
While readers were divided on how to improve veterans health care, there was no debate on my column warning that some legislators are eyeing state oversight or outright takeover of high school sports, which are coordinated by the Illinois High School Association, a private, not-for-profit corporation that uses no state money to govern high school sports and other extracurricular activities. Most of its money comes from corporate sponsorships, donations and some comes from a portion of ticket sales at tournaments. Responses were universally negative.
Linda Castor said, "No, they can't handle what they have and they would use the money for something else. That would be the end of sports."
Bob Meany said, "Another reason to move to Florida."
"I disagree with some of the IHSA decisions, but I do not like the idea of the state of Illinois taking over the IHSA," said Don Rose.
"Just the usual cash-grab mentality. We can't manage ours, so we'll take yours!" said Scott Jeffrey.
Mark Carlson, said, "What an absurd concept. Incredulous that they are serious about it. They are drunk with power. And just like the alcoholic, they must first hit rock bottom before rehab can have a chance to work ..."
Bill DeMarco had a novel idea: "No, I think the state of Illinois should try to rid itself of corruption, pay its bills and try to create a welcoming climate for business."
Jori Peterson, a middle school bowling coach, was emphatic: "Keep any and all politicians out of IHSA! Please don't let them get to the (Illinois Elementary School Association!) We have so much going on that is positive for our students ... please do not ruin this! This state is looking for any way to control and make money. Please leave our children and any and all sports alone!"
And Hubert R. Baker sums it up for us: "Oh, yeah! They have done a great job running the state into (the) ground. Why not athletics, too?"
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November, 1967
Historically, slot antennas have taken several shapes—rectangular, ellipse, dumbbell, bowtie, cruciform, "U,", "H," and annular. To prevent radiation from both sides of the slot, a backup cavity is used on one side. But, space, missile and aircraft vehicle packaging design demands that small-sized cavities and slots be used. This restrains the antenna designer because small sizes are not amenable to broadband, high-power reasonable-gain designs.
The problem is that for matched bandwidths, antenna impedance and input VSWR have a direct dependence on slot length. Also, the self-impedance of the rectangular slot is highly reactive with small real impedances if the slot length is very small in terms of wavelengths. In addition, the backup cavity will only sustain certain modes above a cutoff frequency which is dependent on the cavity internal dimensions.
The luna-slot antenna was thus developed using both empirical and theoretical methods. As a measure of bandwidth improvement for the same volume, a cross-slot dual-channel antenna was used. The configuration of this antenna is shown in Fig. 1 together with its VSWR characteristics. The following design goals were established based on specific volume constraints (4-1/2 in. dia by 1-1/2 in. high) imposed by vehicle design: weight, less than one pound; power handling, 10 W; VSWR, less than 2:1 over a 5-Mc band centered at 442 Mc; and a broad radiation pattern.
Antenna impedance
An electrically short rectangular slot and a shallow backup cavity result in a high-Q antenna because of the high reactances and low resistances. These are predominant parameters that limit the bandwidth and VSWR of a basic slot antenna.
A series feed, in which the cavity becomes a transformer from the coaxial-line TEM mode, and a stretching of the slot into a lunar shape, largely overcome the described limitations. Such a feed is shown in Fig. 2, where the cavity field excitation is the radially symmetric TEM mode which has no low cutoff frequency. This is one of the modes used in the luna-slot antenna development to avoid cutoff restrictions.
A basic model was constructed of a cylindrical cavity. The resulting annular slot was used as the initial radiating aperture geometry as shown in Fig. 3. The model had a 4-1/2-in. dia, 1-1/2-in. deep cavity. A coaxial center conductor, soldered to a circular disc placed in the plane of the cavity aperture, resulted in a flush disc antenna.
Impedance measurements were made of the flush disc antenna at uhf frequencies, but because of the small sizes (relative to a wavelength) the VSWRs were exceptionally high (30:1). A re-analysis of the slot region was made using a rectangular slot-aperture analogy with its known current and field distribution. The rectangular slot was then progressively evolved into a luna-slot by stretching it into a crescent or lunar shape shown in Fig. 4. The radial asymmetry of this new geometry was also considered to fill in the null normal to the symmetrical annular slot aperture.
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The conducting vane was introduced between the disc and cavity wall to generate an internal E field as shown in Fig. 5. This E field excites currents around the slot edges, a necessary condition for radiation. The slot E field and current flow was then assumed to be shown in Fig. 6.
Because of boundary conditions imposed by the vane, this field distribution should assume a magnitude variation proportional to E = A sin ψ/2 (vane position at reference ψ = 0°). The E-field assumption was initially confirmed during high-power breakdown tests which resulted in a bright corona glow being visible 180 degrees (ψ/2 = 90) away from the vane (Fig. 7). Later, in probing the E fields in the region of the slot, this assumption was further validated.
Impedance tests were made of this geometry, and VSWRs less than 2:1 over a 20-Mc band centered at 620 Mc were obtained. A Teflon dielectric disc in the plane of the slot resulted in a center frequency of 505 Mc.
The power handling capacity was increased by translating the metallic disc toward the vane. This increased the gap where the corona occurred. This new geometry is depicted in Fig. 8. The electric field, E, now becomes proportional to AK (ψ) sin (n ψ/2).
The input impedance was remeasured, and the VSWR was reduced to less than 2:1 over a 6-Mc band centered at 505 Mc. A single-element shunt-capacitance stub network, placed at the junction of the input coaxial connector and the cavity, was used for matching with Smith-Chart techniques. A model of the unit is shown in Fig. 9.
To further lower the operating frequency, the electrical length of the slot was increased by altering the disc in the vane region. This lengthened the path of current flow around the slot. The aperture region was analyzed and the current flow assumed as shown in Fig. 10.
Impedance tests were made, and a shunt capacitance was added using Smith-Chart data. A matched input impedance occurred from 439 to 444 Mc. Power handling tests were repeated with the unit operating satisfactorily at 17-W input at simulated altitudes in a vacuum test chamber from sea level to 280 kilofeet.
Radiation-pattern tests and conclusions
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Radiation patterns were measured using a linear, polarized transmitting antenna and the coordinate system shown in Fig. 11. The antenna was mounted on a circular ground plane, one wavelength in diameter, for all tests. Polar plots were measured every five degrees, and the data were graphed on a contour diagram as shown in Fig. 12. Maximum measured gain for the antenna is 3 dB above isotropic, with the main lobe in the direction of ϕ = 270 deg, θ = 45 deg.
Initial development indicates that the field distribution is similar to the rectangular slot, and the radiation patterns indicate peak gain levels which are higher than a dipole. This would indicate good efficiency.
Techniques are being investigated to further improve bandwidth and other performance characteristics with the many design parameters available. Printed-circuit and strip-line applications are also being considered to further reduce the weight, and simplify fabrication and assembly problems. Other disc and slot shapes are presently being investigated to provide useful antenna types easily adaptable to airborne vehicle structures.
- John D. Kraus, Antennas, (McGraw-Hill, 1950).
- Avco In-house Development Report, RAD TR-64-35.
- G.A. Bakalyar, "High Altitude Breakdown Prediction." NASA TM-33-280.


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VIDEO: Iberia's Airbus A330 world Cup livery
In an era where the concept of "flag carrier" has lost most of its meaning, major sports events present airlines with a rare opportunity to show support for its colours.
We reported already this phenomenon during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2012 London Summer Olympics..The football World Cup is possibly the other such occasion that merits the effort of painting a whole wide-body airliner.
Here is the paint-job that Iberia has performed on the Airbus A330 (EC-LYF) that will carry the current champions, Spain, to Brazil. Will this Airbus get back with some extra piece of luggage?


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CINCINNATI (AP) — The shortest outing of Bronson Arroyo's season might be the last of his career.
The 40-year-old right-hander was roughed up for five runs and seven hits in just three innings on Sunday as the Los Angeles Dodgers built a seven-run lead before holding on for an 8-7 win over the Cincinnati Reds, who have lost nine straight.
Arroyo (3-6), attempting a comeback this season with his former team after missing 2 1/2 seasons with arm and shoulder problems, including Tommy John surgery and a procedure on his shoulder, revealed after the game that he'd been receiving cortisone shots in his shoulder since spring training.
"We tried to patch it up and it worked for a while, but I've been hit around the yard for a while now," Arroyo said. "Have I thought 'This time might be my last time on the field?' Yeah."
Arroyo, who gave up for nine runs and a career-high 13 hits in his last start at San Diego, planned to meet with manager Bryan Price either late on Sunday or sometime on Monday.
"It's not just a challenge with his stuff," Price said. "It's a physical challenge."
Logan Forsythe and Justin Turner homered, Kenta Maeda pitched five strong innings and drove in two runs and Kike Hernandez made a spectacular game-saving catch to lift the surging Dodgers to their ninth win in their last 10 games.
"It got a little close for us," Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said. "Our bullpen has been lights out all year. They put some good at-bats against us. Like I've said, that's a very good offensive club. To get out of here with three (wins) is huge."
Cincinnati nearly rallied all the way back from an 8-1 deficit in the sixth inning. However, Hernandez went back to the left-field wall and made an awkward leaping grab of Joey Votto's attempt at a go-ahead extra-base hit with runners on first and third in the eighth.
Maeda (5-3), in his first appearance since June 9 and first start since June 4, allowed just three hits and one run in five innings to help the Dodgers complete a three-game sweep.
"The team wanted me to be aggressive and pound the zone and that's what happened," Maeda said through an interpreter. "It took some time for me to start again, but I was able to get into a rhythm. I tried to stay aggressive and not change my plan with runners on base."
Scooter Gennett hit a three-run home run, his first since he had a major league record-tying four on June 6, and Adam Duvall and Eugenio Suarez each added solo shots for the Reds.
Kenley Jansen got the last three outs for his 15th save.
Cincinnati scored more than three runs for the first time in six games, but still extended its longest losing streak of the season. The Reds' skid, their worst since an 11-game streak in May 2016, started with a three-game sweep by the Dodgers in Los Angeles, setting up their first sweep of a season series with Cincinnati since 2006.
The Dodgers scored all of their runs with two outs, including Forsythe's two-run drive in the third inning and Turner's three-run shot in the sixth. Both of those shots reached the upper deck in left field and gave the Dodgers seven homers in the series.
Dodgers RHP Josh Ravin was recalled on Friday, pitched two innings of relief on Saturday and was optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City on Sunday when RHP Brock Stewart was recalled from Oklahoma City.
Los Angeles also claimed OF Peter O'Brien off waivers from the Texas Rangers and designated LHP Jason Wheeler for assignment. O'Brien will be assigned to Triple-A.
After getting Saturday off, Turner wasted no time extending his hitting streak to 13 games, lining a first-inning single to left field. Turner strung together a career-high 16-game streak in April.
Reds CF Billy Hamilton, a Gold Glove finalist each of the last three seasons, went a long way to the left-center field wall in the third inning to track down leadoff batter Turner's deep fly, snagging it with a backhand grab while glancing off the glass in front of the Reds bullpen.
Hamilton went into Sunday's game leading the major leagues in stolen bases despite not swiping one in 13 games, the longest drought of his career and one he snapped with a steal of second in the fifth inning.
Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (9-2) is 8-1 with a 1.49 earned-run average in 13 career starts against the Mets, who've hit a combined .177 against him.
Reds: RHP Scott Feldman (5-5) was roughed up for eight hits and four runs in five innings in his last start on Tuesday at San Diego.
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I am a concerned citizen who thinks that government does a lot of good things (roads, schools, delivers the mail, and so on) and I'd like to see these contributions more broadly acknowledged and discussed.
Want to start a "Government is Good" viral marketing campaign.
I'd like a catchy graphic with the slogan "government is good." I want to make some buttons, maybe mugs, stickers, and a facebook fan page, with this graphic on it. Sort of a thematic viral marketing campaign to make people think about the good things that government does, think about how bad things would be without government, and challenge the common wisdom that government is bad.
My initial design idea is an American flag smiley with the slogan under it, but I'm sure there are other, better design ideas.
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They should value social justice, equality, and will probably be environmentalists.
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