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We've received the following report from participants in the occupation around the Portland facilities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). While our collective has no official position on issues internal to the occupation, we consider it important to promote constructive conversations about power dynamics within our movements and the ways that they can impose limits on what we can accomplish together. For more material on this subject, consult our earlier report, "The ICE Age Is Over: Reflections from the ICE Blockades." Shortly, for the sake of amplifying multiple perspectives, we will add one more text from Portland.
"Criticize the comrade, take a criticism from the comrade." -Bambu
"We do NOT touch the police tape. We do NOT block the street," a "leader" of the Portland occupation screamed through a megaphone at a crowd of newly arrived demonstrators near the reopened ICE facility. Organic anger from a group of mostly liberals led to a brief confrontation with Federal Protective Services (FPS/DHS), which was quickly quashed by an internal security team. People were ushered onto the sidewalk and scolded for not following supposedly "collective" agreements. The building remained untouched as protesters who were eager to agitate were made to feel guilty and illegitimate.
In the last three weeks of Portland's occupation at the ICE building, we've found ourselves caught between a desire to build with folks and a need to critique the ways that violence is sustained by our work. We've failed to address interpersonal violence and have left people isolated from the movement. We've prioritized the security of our "leaders" because of their contributions and their assumed necessity to our commune rather than making space for conversation about sexual violence and the strategies we must implement to make sure folks are held accountable rather than simply "vouched for." And we've lost sight of the initial goal of abolishing ICE.
Our occupation is said to be leading the movement against deportations across the country. We're currently cohabitating with the ICE facility; as their work continues, we continue to sit back with our La Croix in hand and practice "self-care." In many ways, this commune has been helpless since its inception, demonstrating the need to build conversation and criticism into our work.
When it comes down to it, the vast majority of us here have no idea how to coexist in a commune; we are improvising. We offer up this criticism knowing that it's much easier to critique than to build. We write this in hopes of making space for continual analysis, collective reflection, and commitment to future organizing.
More than anything, we must practice humility and be conscious of our role in this organizing work. Shutting down an ICE building for over two weeks is a huge feat, and we do not want to diminish this accomplishment. But we cannot forget the people who our commune is said to be built on behalf of: undocumented folks, and specifically undocumented children, who are suffering in detention centers around the country. We remind ourselves first and foremost that these people do not need our saving. Amazing organizing efforts have been led by undocumented folks in and out of detention centers, often largely by undocumented women. They'll be doing that whether or not we sleep out here tonight. Still, solidarity efforts are crucial to dismantling these walls and to abolishing ICE.
The commune is exciting because it's an opportunity to experiment with different organizing strategies and visions for another world. We have an amazing kitchen staff, an incredible kids area, and overall an impressive space. But we also have a pseudo-policing unit, extremely flawed approaches to navigating accusations of sexual violence, and potential security threats. At this point, preserving the commune has become a more central project than actually disrupting ICE. We've failed to build a space to assess and change our strategies as they inevitably fail or are co-opted. Consequently, our commune has done little to interrogate the ways it reproduces and legitimizes policing, surveillance, and heteropatriarchal violence.
Ultimately, much of our work has been whitewashed, neutralized, and made non-threatening to the state—that's how we've been able to be legitimized as an action that will not be touched by the Portland Police Bureau (PPB). We supposedly decided that the commune will now only engage in "passive resistance," a concept as oxymoronic as "good policing" or "public property." The commune's internal police force, known as the "Care Team," has worked to ensure that protesters "keep in line." Our commitment to the commune's continued existence has become a commitment to establishing a framework in which insurgent and revolutionary politics become unimaginable.
"All Cops" Means the Pretend Ones Too
Seizing the lack of structure as an opportunity for a power grab, a group of people created a self-appointed security team within the first few days. Sporting pink bandannas as an emblem of this new committee, the group established a visible manifestation of their higher status.
From the beginning, the team consisted primarily of individuals with a pattern of taking control and policing others at past demonstrations. Masquerading as anarchists and radicals, these people implement authoritarian practices and recreate the state structures we have set out to abolish. The ideology of many of those on the security team is indecipherable; sometimes it appears that their primary motive is power.
The security phenomenon is a recurring issue in Portland. At almost every rally or march, one finds the same dozen people role-playing as cops, following around "suspicious" people. They hold themselves above the participants, who they are there to "protect." The people who assume this role never appear on the front lines fighting riot police; they can't be found when there is a real security threat. They pounce on the lone agitator, getting enough action to bolster their ego and flex their power. The anarchist symbols covering the camp are purely aesthetic, since we continue to let security govern us.
The security team created a monopoly on information, keeping important reports about threats to themselves. Using this lack of transparency to their advantage, security members were able to justify their existence through distorted threats and the instilling of fear—a tactic habitually used by the state. Calling a "code red" one night, security commanded people to retreat into tents while refusing to offer information as to what the situation was. Terrified newcomers and children scrambled back with no grasp on how severe the threat actually was.
Their authority allows them to determine the political legitimacy of people's thoughts and actions, as well as deciding which actions are "too risky" for the commune to engage in. We've seen women enter the space with questions about the work, only to be told, "Do you really want to know or are you just being facetious?" We've seen folks heckling Homeland Security Officers told that they're "kids" and therefore should get back in line and listen to the commune authority. We've seen comrades lambasted and told to leave for attempting civil disobedience.
All of this is done under the guise of "protecting" people of color and trans folks. We are open to discussing tactics, but we will not stand for a security team that grounds its work in the patriarchal protection of black, brown, and trans people and that insists on policing all forms of political action, analysis, and engagement.
The members of the security team are able to absolve themselves of responsibility for their policing efforts by leaning on "consensus-based decisions." In confronting someone who is "out of line," they argue that they're simply carrying out orders. Whose orders these are is entirely unclear. Consensus by itself can be employed as a tactic for repressing autonomous action. But the commune takes it one step further by neglecting to actually engage in true consensus decision-making. The general assemblies here occur sporadically and happen at inaccessible times. The result is that an invisible, unknown, exclusive committee of people reach a decision which is then stamped as group consensus and forced on everyone else. There is a hidden rigid hierarchy disguised in careful leftist language to isolate critics. Blatantly false statements are thrown around, such as "EVERYONE living at camp agrees that…" or "the overwhelming CONSENSUS is…" This destroys any space for critique and gives those new to the camp the impression that everyone is in unanimous agreement.
We understand the need to disrupt the "ally industrial complex" in which white people, those new to the movement, and other "privileged" folks sit on the side and cheer on our POC comrades. At this point, more and more people want to get involved, and that's crucial. People who show up must be understood as potential comrades and legitimate political actors. The liberal who decides to scream at the cops is engaging in an activity that might further radicalize them—and yet we choose to police that work, tell them it's out of line, and demand that the ways we disrupt ICE be narrow and pre-approved. How do we expect to expand this movement if we teach our potential comrades that their political analysis is irrelevant? Why should they return to this work if they are told that their ideas, opinions, and forms of action are incorrect? If our goal is to build a new world, we have to start by not replicating the old. Ultimately, we're isolating potential comrades and disciplining our collective political imagination.
Security Team 2.0: Your Misogyny is Showing
After initial criticism of the internal police force, the security team rebranded themselves as "the Care Team." This attempt to rebrand leans on understandings of the importance of care—the feminized labor that sustains the social and emotional well-being of the commune. When we think of care, we think of our kitchen staff, the folks who hold down the childcare tent, and those partaking in other forms of feminized work. Excluding those folks from "the" Care Team is not only a tactic the internal police uses to to avoid accountability, but is also a disrespectful manipulation of feminist understandings of care.
We hear more and more in leftist circles about the need to build a new world based on a politics of care. We understand care as feminized work of listening, working to understand people's emotional needs, and validating and supporting all who enter our spaces. It's a call to collectivize our traumas and strategies for healing, which should not be conflated with neoliberal notions of "self-care." We see much of the work of care tied to Black Feminist analysis, the work of the Movement for Black Lives, and in prison abolitionist circles. We want to expand that work in order to build a movement for each other.
Contrary to many beliefs, "care" is not about a practice of patriarchal protection, nor a politics based on policing potential threats. The current campaign of Critical Resistance, "Care Not Cops," does the necessary work of disrupting notions of "good policing," making it clear that policing and care are incompatible. Care is an acknowledgement of our vulnerability to others and a recognition of the need to collaborate for our collective survival.
Men Ruin Movements: Addressing Gendered Violence within Our Communities
Within minutes of entering the commune we learn that one of the core organizers is a person with serious accusations against them. Of course, it's not our job to snoop around and try to determine whether or not this specific person is "guilty," nor necessarily to call for their immediate removal. But we do want to know whether there is a process by which accusations are heard, people's experiences are validated, and action is taken to hold people accountable and to ensure that those making these accusations feel welcomed in. We want to see a commitment to addressing and disrupting gendered violence and other forms of harm. And we want to know that these conversations are at the forefront of the community we seek to build.
When men are in charge, apparently, this becomes too much to ask for. When we ask why someone is still on the core "Care Team," we are told that despite accusations, this person has been "vouched for." His leadership position and the amount he's contributed become grounds for delegitimizing and failing to address accusations. We hear excuses about organizational capacity used to put accusations of sexual violence on the back burner until we can give them the attention they need.
Our shared critiques of criminal justice procedures and commitments to abolishing the prison industrial complex are being used to justify not addressing the sexual violence accusations against people. The counterargument that people of color are more likely to face incarceration is not wrong; however, to use this as a justification not to hold people accountable is disappointing. To manipulate these realities in order to avoid even having conversations about feminist praxis only further embeds our work in the same patriarchal structures that we claim to oppose.
The work of transformative justice is tricky and we've seen few attempts at it done well. But that should not cause us to conclude it is not necessary in our work. If we learned anything from zines like Why Misogynists Make Great Informants, essays like Betrayal: A Critical Analysis of Rape Culture in Anarchist Subcultures, and the book The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, it is that this sort of misogyny in our circles is nothing new. We know that these forms of violence and harm take place within our communities. We build with our shared commitment to holding ourselves and each other accountable.
What's the Point: Passive Resistance and Smashing the State
If you've spent any time at the camp, you are probably familiar with the obsession with "passive resistance." It's hard to miss. The phrase is posted on the entrance to the camp, mindlessly thrown around by "leaders," and praised by the liberals who come and go. As much as it is used, nobody seems to know what it means or how we came to embrace it. This section will not be focused on the failures of nonviolence. That story has been written countless times and we've all sat through arguments over it. Instead, we focus on how self-appointed leaders twist the idea to shut down virtually any resistance to ICE.
Passive resistance is not about passivity, it is about resistance. It is peaceful, but it is not compliance. At the camp, the term is being pulled further and further from its definition. When a few daring comrades tried to lock arms on the side entrance, blocking in the federal agents, they were attacked for not practicing proper resistance. Other people tried linking themselves together in the driveway, but were criticized by leaders for poking the bear. Even yelling at police is a bit too provocative. Passive resistance has lost its meaning and value, and it seems that the leaders don't care about resisting, just about passivity.
The assumption at the camp seems to be that by engaging in their version of passive resistance, we will swing the media coverage and stall a police attack. It sounds great in theory, but it appears to ignore history altogether. Those who embrace this framework are operating under the illusion that if we are peaceful and compliant with police orders, we can exist in harmony with the state. This ignores every peaceful protest that has been ambushed by riot police, every "passive" mobilization that has been squashed by the state, every instance of police brutality. It buys into the notion that our behavior dictates how the police will treat us, the same idea recited by Fox News pundits after police murders. In reality, the state cares little about how we behave. The authorities make their own excuses with the assistance of the media and attack on their own initiative. The goal of abolishing ICE and the practice of physically shutting it down puts us in conflict with the state. Since the camp is diametrically opposed to the state and its wishes, a police attack is inevitable. Peacefulness and compliance will not seduce the state into inaction, it will just take away our power. In conceding our power, we let our safety lie in the hands of the police.
On June 28, while most of the camp slept, federal police cleared the entrances and arrested multiple people. Our barricades were ripped down, and the veteran camp in the driveway was torn to pieces—despite their peacefulness. The police proved that they didn't need an excuse to move on the camp. Yet leaders are still calling for "passive resistance" and employing vulnerability politics to suppress militancy.
The Care Team frequently falls back on the claim that any escalation would "put __ group at risk," using the most convenient marginalized identity at hand to make this argument. The "risk" that they claim to be defending people from is the potential for arrests or police brutality directed towards people of color and trans people. This analysis is not incorrect; less privileged people will be further targeted by police, face harsher sentences, and gain less sympathy from white civil society. However, the weaponizing of identity in order to police certain actions not only means speaking on behalf of a population "in need of protection," it also attempts to make any discussion about risk, tactics, and actions impossible and to shut down political conversation.
If we believe that we can remove risk and danger from this work, then we ultimately must commit to reproducing the existing social order. There will be risk in disrupting ICE and danger in threatening white civil society. People should analyze the risks, the dangers they face personally, and determine whether or not they want to take an action or be in a specific space. We need to build in support so we do not reserve specific actions for more privileged people—but winning with "passive resistance" is a fantasy.
To assume that we must resist passively in order to accommodate more vulnerable commune members falsely ties militance to whiteness. We think of Jackie Wang's essay, "Against Innocence: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Safety," in which she takes on this question of risk. Wang writes,
"When an analysis of privilege is turned into a political program that asserts that the most vulnerable should not take risks, the only politically correct politics becomes a politics of reformism and retreat, a politics that necessarily capitulates to the status quo while erasing the legacy of Black Power groups like the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army."
We think about people who have been resisting in deportation centers since before ICE's inception,about militant direct action taken by undocumented students across the country and the need for further militancy to dismantle patriarchy, white supremacy, and the settler-colonial state.
A feeling of complacency has spread throughout the camp as it has transitioned from a militant attempt to shut down ICE operations to a sort of Burning Man commune peacefully coexisting with DHS. With an assortment of sparkling water, open yoga sessions, and nightly concerts contrasted by armored snipers on the roof and makeshift barricades covered in circle-As, the camp has the look of a leftist music festival—Anarchoachella, if you will. Camaraderie is important and nothing is inherently wrong with creating a comfortable space. But our focus has been abandoned and our inclination towards action has dissipated.
When attempting to initiate an urgently-needed discussion on possible actions the night before ICE resumed work in the building, organizers were met with hostility for interrupting a music show and berated by a crowd of mostly newcomers about the necessity of "self-care" and "taking a break." After a night of dancing and consuming kale salads, they put up no resistance as ICE agents poured into the building the next morning. While this is unintentional, we are capitalizing on the suffering of children and wasting resources to live out our collective ideological fantasies. If holding space is prioritized over disrupting deportations and separations, the commune is nothing more than a bourgeois liberal playground.
Stop Embarrassing the Movement
In our struggle to smash the borders and end the deadly policing of them, we have replicated the same institutions we oppose. Our camp is encircled in barriers separating ourselves from the capitalist hellworld and the flow of people is strictly controlled. Our own security cameras monitor the movements of occupiers and the entrances and exits are restricted to a few gates. We have created categories of those who belong and those who don't. A list has been compiled of commune exiles that includes critics, utopians, and anti-authoritarians. ACAB adorns the wall but the "Care Team" is a border patrol of its own. Rampant anti-houseless rhetoric prompts exclusion of those perceived as houseless while simultaneously labeling ourselves a tent city. If nothing changes, our commune will collapse before the police even attempt to raid it.
The occupation has been remarkable in garnering support and sparking grand aspirations. The amount of effort and organization put into sustaining the commune is commendable. But right now, we are doing nothing to hinder deportations or support detainee organizing. Occupiers are living comfortably while ICE continues its reign of terror next door. With all its flaws, the commune has taught us and transformed us. Still, it's time to abandon our notions of space and romanticized community and consider what it would mean to build a movement based on unconditional hospitality, real care, and actual militancy.
If it stays as it is, the commune will continue to drain resources and police insurrectionary potential while amounting to nothing more than a mild inconvenience to ICE employees. With the widespread popularity of increasingly radical abolitionist politics, we have the opportunity to bring people into our analysis and agitate against state control and hierarchy in general. We must back up our utopian visions by showing the revolutionary possibility of a world free of borders and authority. This is not a call to abandon the occupation altogether or to allow ICE to resume as normal. This is a reminder of the need for constant critique and a space to have these conversations. We ask our comrades to consider our goals and examine our tactics. Opportunities for meaningful action exist within the commune but only if we overhaul our current commitment to passivity and let go of our desire to be palatable to the state.
Furthermore, we call for a decentralized approach. ICE isn't just a building, so don't let your actions be limited to it. Seek out all of the appendages that keep the machine running and strike while we have the power. The information is out there. Find your comrades, form an affinity group, and get to work. Redecorate your local GEO Group building, throw a block party in front of an ICE agent's house, and always hold yourself and your comrades accountable. ICE is starting to melt, but we're just warming up.
with love,
Your local mindless anarchists hell-bent on nothing but destruction


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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1)
Rowling J.K.
Bloomsbury Publishing
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!


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She spoke to me,
Not a word said
Yet her silence whispered secrets
only a true mate to my soul could know
As I contemplated her silence
She seemed to blur
I saw her speaking to another
Or was it a reflection in her mirror?
Was it me?
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With the world's population expected to exceed nine billion by 2050, scientists are working to develop new ways to meet rising global demand for food, energy and water without increasing the strain on natural resources. Organizations including the World Bank and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization are calling for more innovation to address the links between these sectors, often referred to as the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus.
Nanotechnology – designing ultrasmall particles – is now emerging as a promising way to promote plant growth and development. This idea is part of the evolving science of precision agriculture, in which farmers use technology to target their use of water, fertilizer and other inputs. Precision farming makes agriculture more sustainable because it reduces waste.
We recently published results from research in which we used nanoparticles, synthesized in our laboratory, in place of conventional fertilizer to increase plant growth. In our study we successfully used zinc nanoparticles to increase the growth and yield of mung beans, which contain high amounts of protein and fiber and are widely grown for food in Asia. We believe this approach can reduce use of conventional fertilizer. Doing so will conserve natural mineral reserves and energy (making fertilizer is very energy-intensive) and reduce water contamination. It also can enhance plants' nutritional values.
Impacts of fertilizer use
Fertilizer provides nutrients that plants need in order to grow. Farmers typically apply it through soil, either by spreading it on fields or mixing it with irrigation water. A major portion of fertilizer applied this way gets lost in the environment and pollutes other ecosystems. For example, excess nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers become "fixed" in soil: they form chemical bonds with other elements and become unavailable for plants to take up through their roots. Eventually rain washes the nitrogen and phosphorus into rivers, lakes and bays, where it can cause serious pollution problems.
Fertilizer use worldwide is increasing along with global population growth. Currently farmers are using nearly 85 percent of the world's total mined phosphorus as fertilizer, although plants can uptake only an estimated 42 percent of the phosphorus that is applied to soil. If these practices continue, the world's supply of phosphorus could run out within the next 80 years, worsening nutrient pollution problems in the process.
In contrast to conventional fertilizer use, which involves many tons of inputs, nanotechnology focuses on small quantities. Nanoscale particles measure between 1 and 100 nanometers in at least one dimension. A nanometer is equivalent to one billionth of a meter; for perspective, a sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick.
These particles have unique physical, chemical and structural features, which we can fine-tune through engineering. Many biological processes, such as the workings of cells, take place at the nano scale, and nanoparticles can influence these activities.
Scientists are actively researching a range of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, also known as nanofertilizer, for use in plant science and agriculture. These materials can be applied to plants through soil irrigation and/or sprayed onto their leaves. Studies suggest that applying nanoparticles to plant leaves is especially beneficial for the environment because they do not come in contact with soil. Since the particles are extremely small, plants absorb them more efficiently than via soil. We synthesized the nanoparticles in our lab and sprayed them through a customized nozzle that delivered a precise and consistent concentration to the plants.
We chose to target zinc, which is a micronutrient that plants need to grow, but in far smaller quantities than phosphorus. By applying nano zinc to mung bean leaves after 14 days of seed germination, we were able to increase the activity of three important enzymes within the plants: acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and phytase. These enzymes react with complex phosphorus compounds in soil, converting them into forms that plants can take up easily.
When we made these enzymes more active, the plants took up nearly 11 percent more phosphorus that was naturally present in the soil, without receiving any conventional phosphorous fertilization. The plants that we treated with zinc nanoparticles increased their biomass (growth) by 27 percent and produced 6 percent more beans than plants that we grew using typical farm practices but no fertilizer.
Nanofertilizer also has the potential to increase plants' nutritional value. In a separate study, we found that applying titanium dioxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles to tomato plants increased the amount of lycopene in the tomatoes by 80 to 113 percent, depending on the type of nanoparticles and concentration of dosages. This may happen because the nanoparticles increase plants' photosynthesis rates and enable them to take up more nutrients.
Lycopene is a naturally occurring red pigment that acts as an antioxidant and may prevent cell damage in humans who consume it. Making plants more nutrition-rich in this way could help to reduce malnutrition. The quantities of zinc that we applied were within the U.S. government's recommended limits for zinc in foods.
Next questions: health and environmental impacts of nanoparticles
Nanotechnology research in agriculture is still at an early stage and evolving quickly. Before nanofertilizers can be used on farms, we will need a better understanding of how they work and regulations to ensure they will be used safely. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has already issued guidance for the use of nanomaterials in animal feed.
Manufacturers also are adding engineered nanoparticles to foods, personal care and other consumer products. Examples include silica nanoparticles in baby formula, titanium dioxide nanoparticles in powdered cake donuts, and other nanomaterials in paints, plastics, paper fibers, pharmaceuticals and toothpaste.
Many properties influence whether nanoparticles pose risks to human health, including their size, shape, crystal phase, solubility, type of material, and the exposure and dosage concentration. Experts say that nanoparticles in food products on the market today are probably safe to eat, but this is an active research area.
Addressing these questions will require further studies to understand how nanoparticles behave within the human body. We also need to carry out life cycle assessments of nanoparticles' impact on human health and the environment, and develop ways to assess and manage any risks they may pose, as well as sustainable ways to manufacture them. However, as our research on nanofertilizer suggests, these materials could help solve some of the word's most pressing resource problems at the food-energy-water nexus.
Ramesh Raliya, Research Scientist, Washington University in St Louis and Pratim Biswas, Chairman, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St Louis
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The Evolution of the Inaugural Ball
On January 20th, a new president will take office in Washington, DC. There will be a big parade, a swearing-in ceremony, and boxes moving in and out of the White House. Then the balls begin at night. Inaugural balls were once the most elegant and sophisticated affairs in the nation, although they were joyous occasions, too. Now they are a once-in-a-lifetime event, because so many people who attend say they won't ever do that again!
For the inauguration of George Washington in 1789, the custom of the inaugural ball hadn't yet been established. A fancy dress ball was held in New York a week after he was sworn in. Washington particularly enjoyed dancing the minuet. A good time was had by all, and subsequent presidents (or First Ladies) strove to match the elegance of the celebration. Dolley Madison, wife of James Madison, was the first president's wife to attend inauguration ceremonies, and the first First Lady to host an official inaugural ball, in 1809. Tickets for the event cost $4, equivalent to $50 today. Madison had experience in this area, as she had played White House hostess for president Jefferson on several social occasions. In fact, Madison was the first woman to be referred to as the First Lady.
Ulysses S. Grant's inaugural ball in 1869 became a free-for-all as too many guests competed for too little food until a fight broke out! Grant's 1873 ball didn't fare even that well. A temporary building was constructed to accommodate the anticipated crowd, and temperature outside plunged to four degrees below zero. The food froze, the champagne was slushy, and worst of all, 100 canaries brought in to sing froze to death!
The elegance of the inaugural ball has given way to the massive crowds and budgetary restraints of modern times. The ball held when Grover Cleveland was inaugurated in 1893 was the epitome of elegance.
A 120-piece orchestra led by John Philip Sousa played for the guests, who could pause from dancing to nibble on 60,000 oysters, 10,000 chicken croquettes, 150 gallons of lobster salad and 1,300 quarts of ice cream, among other things.
Things have toned down a lot since then. Space was at a premium at Lyndon Johnson's 1965 inaugural balls. "Never have so many paid so much to dance so little," Johnson quipped. In 1977, Jimmy Carter insisted on scaling back the luxury and called the balls "parties" instead of balls. At Bill Clinton's 1997 inaugural balls, water cost $2 and sandwiches cost $5.50.
In modern times, checking coats has become so much of a problem at inaugural balls that the coat-check fiasco is almost a tradition in itself. In 1985, people were trying to claim their coats and furs days after the inaugural balls were over. A 1989 ball saw a riot develop when people couldn't retrieve their coats. In 1997, police were called in to control irate crowds who had trouble claiming their coats. The crowds and experiences of previous balls inspire insiders to publish "survival guides" for those attending this year. Their advice? Wear flat shoes, eat before you go, and leave your coat in the car.
Some presidential inaugurations had no balls. In 1853 Franklin Pierce requested that the ball be canceled as he was grieving the death of his son. Woodrow Wilson in 1913 and Warren G. Harding in 1921 had no balls because they thought the custom was too extravagant. Roosevelt worked through the night during his first inauguration, and canceled celebrations for his next three because of World War II. Official balls returned with Harry Truman in 1949. Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1953 inauguration saw two balls to accommodate crowds, and his second inauguration had four. The number of official balls rose to fourteen for Bill Clinton's second inauguration in 1997, but fell for subsequent presidents. There will be ten official balls for Barack Obama's inauguration on January 20th.


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VIDEO Of Robert Pattinson On Le Grand Journal (With Translation)
Michel: You were here in 2009, you walked the red carpet. We have footage. You did it again yesterday for another movie, for On the Road and you're going to do it again tomorrow for your first movie in competition. Cosmopolis by David Cronenberg, that's long-awaited. You said this movie changed you life. I quote from Premiere magazine: you said it gave you balls.
Rob: I don't know why everyone brings up the balls thing. I think it got lost in translation. I wanted to say that I got balls surgically attached to my body during the whole movie.
Michel: So it's the story of a golden boy working in finance, an adaptation from Don DeLillo's novel, Frédéric.
Frédéric: He's an AMmrican author that's very well-known who talked a lot about society and the dangers of finance. But also about power. I was thinking, I mean I'm sure you've read the book to prepare for the role but did you also study bankers or watch trader movies, Wall Street or American Psycho maybe to work on the role of Eric Packer, this dangerous banker? That was a long question.
Rob: I didn't think it was related to finances or traders. I liked the lyrical aspect of the script. I tried to prepared myself my own way like for my other roles. But it was pretty much impossible because there was no way to deal with this the normal way.
I don't know, there might be some inconscious aspects that come out of the character.
Ariane: Sarah, apparently you guys had a fight on the first day on set?
Frédéric: You're his wife, right?
Ariane: Is that true?
Sarah: No!
Frédéric: In the movie you have a fight.
Ariane: Robert, on the first day on set, apparently she asked you how you worked on your character and you got upset?
Rob: Oh no, it wasn't an argument. It's just that she asked me an embarrassing question and ..
Sarah: I just asked how he prepared for the role, I'm sorry
Rob: And I started crying, there.
Sarah: I'm sorry, maybe I shouldn't have. I just, I was trying to make conversation, I wasn't trying to fight.
Rob: I was so nervous, if anyone asked me anything, even for a camera test, I was shocked and panicked. It was terrible.
Michel talks about the movie coming out tomorrow in France and then they show the trailer.
Michel says that the movie happens in one day, in pretty much only one setting, in Manatthan that's stopped because of the president's visit's in town.
There are French actors in the movie, Mathieu Almaric and Juliette Binoche.
Rob: Oh sorry, I am so deaf. I'm 26 and an old man already.
Élise: We know that you're an Audiard fan, could we see you one day make a movie with a French director?
Rob: No, definitely. My next film is with Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, who directed Johnny Mad Dog that was presented here a few years ago. I love French filmmakers, I love French people, they're very easy to like.
Asking Sarah about filming with Brandon Cronenberg and if it was different working with both father and son.
Sarah: there's definitely a 'Cronenberg gene'and it was fun to see the difference between the two directors.
Asking her about David not giving much direction son his sets and if she was surprised when she saw Cosmopolis.
Sarah: When I saw Cosmopolis was I surprised? No, not really at all. I think david knows exactly what he wants when he directs you. It was sort of like a journey and what I admire is all these layers, finding meanings hidden behind other meanings. You see things completely differently after that.
Michel: We received Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart not long ago and in La Boite Questions, one was about you, Robert Pattinson.
Question: Something really not sexy about Robert Pattinson?
Kristen: Oh come on.
Charlize: I'm gonna have to say his socks?
What's the matter with your socks?
Rob: Charlize likes to come into my house at night and sniff my socks and underwears. When you do stuff like that, there are necessarily some surprises. It's not my fault.
Do you have socks on right now?
Rob: *laughs* Yesss. I'm really nervous now that there might be something wrong with my socks, I never payed attention to it before. It's so weird.
You're reaching a mark with Cosmopolis and then we'll see you again in Breaking Dawn part 2.
Rob: Yeah, it's coming out in November. It's funny we did some reshoots recently and it's funny. I mean the Twilight movies aren't funny but we do laugh a lot. I hope that people will like it.
And then Frédéric asked Rob to sign an autograph for his daughter.
Finally, they're saying that the movie premieres tomorrow and that we might see on Sunday night for the winner's announcement. Thank you both for coming.
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What Is Fortified Wine Actually?
Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, is added. Many different styles of fortified wine have been developed, including Port, Sherry, Madeira, Marsala, Commandaria wine and the aromatized wine Vermouth. The original reason for fortifying wine was to preserve it, since ethanol is a natural antiseptic. Even though other preservation methods now exist, fortification continues to be used because the process can add distinct flavors to the finished product.
Although grape brandy is most commonly added to produce fortified wines, the additional alcohol may also be neutral spirit that has been distilled from grapes, grain, sugar beets, or sugarcane. Regional appellation laws may dictate the types of spirit that are permitted for fortification. The source of the additional alcohol and the method of its distillation can affect the flavor of the fortified wine. If neutral spirit is used, it will usually have been produced with a continuous still, rather than a pot still.
When added to wine before the fermentation process is complete, the alcohol in the distilled beverage kills the yeast and leaves residual sugar behind. The end result is a wine that is both sweeter and stronger, normally containing about 20% alcohol by volume (ABV). During the fermentation process, yeast cells in the must continue to convert sugar into alcohol until the must reaches an alcohol level of 16%–18%. At this level, the alcohol becomes toxic to the yeast and kills it. If fermentation is allowed to run to completion, the resulting wine will (in most cases) be low in sugar and will be considered a dry wine. The earlier in the fermentation process that alcohol is added, the sweeter the resulting wine will be. For drier fortified wine styles, such as sherry, the alcohol is added shortly before or after the end of the fermentation.
In the case of some fortified wine styles (such as late harvest and botrytized wines), a naturally high level of sugar will inhibit the yeast. This causes fermentation to stop before the wine can become dry.


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Prior to the Industrial Revolution, barns, farms, and stables were once representing the social life, culture, and economy of the United States. Long ago, most of these historical buildings have been abandoned, but still stand all along New England's and the East Coast countryside. Besides the antique wood beams, we also harvest all the antique wood planks and wide planks that we can get our hands on, so that every woodworker, artisan, designer, architect, and construction worker can achieve their projects. You have the opportunity to bring a part of American history in your living or commercial space by getting antique wood planks and wide planks. You can use these amazing vintage barn wood planks for flooring, wall panels, decks, ceiling, shelves, furniture, that will bring a rustic charm, while remaining highly practical and easy to clean.
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The major publication of ISC is the scientific journal "Sericologia" and proceedings of the ISC Congresses
The Publications Division (PD), one of the leading publishing houses in the Country and the largest in the public sector, functions under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It attempts to promote National Integration by disseminating information and creating awareness about the various activities, regions, people and the myriad cultures & beliefs of the Nation. The Division publishes and sells books at affordable prices through its outlets in important cities and also through agents. It also participates in exhibitions and books fairs to promote the sale of books and journals. Till date, 7600 titles have been published, of which 1500 are live today. Besides books, the Publication Division has also brought out 21 Journals about various issues of national and social significance.


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Tell us about your book(s)!
So far, I have released two books and I think they're as different as chalk and cheese.
The first, 'From This Day Forward', is a 'Pride & Prejudice' sequel for history fanatics – my take on the Darcys' marriage, set in context. Written at a time when I wasn't even dreaming of publication, it was my sweet escapism into the long-lost world of Regency charm and into a vanished way of life, after spending ages reading everything I could find about how Regency gentry lived – what they did for fun, what they gossiped about and what sort of events or people influenced their lives.
My second release, 'The Subsequent Proposal' is very different – history dialled right down, but plenty of drama. It's a fast-paced variation – a 'what-if' story that sprang from my fascination with both 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Persuasion'.
I've always wondered what might have happened if, on a rebound after Hunsford, Darcy came across someone who was very like him in temperament and manner. Or if the dashing Captain Wentworth came home from the high seas to settle down – and didn't encounter the cheerful and scatterbrained Louisa Musgrove, but someone else, who had cheerfulness aplenty, but also sparkling wit, intelligence and charm. Someone like, say, Elizabeth Bennet…
I've often wondered – and I've always found that, after 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Persuasion' is Jane Austen's second most romantic novel, and it was very tempting to bring the two together! 'The Subsequent Proposal' does exactly that. It brings together characters who are very much alike, at a time of upheaval in their lives, when they should have known better than making life-altering decisions on the rebound from heartache and disappointment!
Perhaps I should stop here for fear of spoilers, but I just can't move on without saying that, in this wonderful JAFF world of ours, I believe there is another truth, just as universally acknowledged: no matter what crazy obstacles are dreamed up and heartlessly set before them, Elizabeth and Darcy should never be apart!
What is your next project?
I have two other stories in the pipeline, and both are 'Pride & Prejudice' variations (looks like there's a pattern forming here).
'The Second Chance' is based on an older story, posted eight years ago on 'Derbyshire Writers Guild' in a different version and under a different title – 'Steady To His Purpose'. I'm revising it now and hope to release it in 2014, probably sometime in the spring. 'The Second Chance' is another tie-in, this time with 'Sense & Sensibility', where I once more attempt to bring similar Austen characters together. It struck me, all those years ago, when I first started writing this story, that some of Jane Austen's wonderful creations just beg to be allowed to interact, and that they would get on like a house on fire. Mrs Bennet and Mrs Jennings for instance; Elizabeth and Elinor; Darcy and Brandon even, if there is no conflict of interest in their association.
My other project is a different kind of variation – a more daring one that takes Elizabeth and Darcy out of their comfort zones of tame, reasonably peaceful life in England and brings them into a world of secrets, on the windswept coasts of Cornwall. No swash buckling pirates though – this has been done beautifully by other authors – but plenty of mysteries and some 'cloak-and-dagger' thrown in for good measure!
Which actor/actress would you like to see playing the lead character from your most recent book?
If I knew a way to put Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle back in their late twenties and keep them there… I enjoyed all other adaptations, but I must admit, I often write with the 1995 Pride & Prejudice cast in mind.
Any tips on how to get through the dreaded writer's block?
Nothing is foolproof for me, but it feels good to sit outside somewhere (back garden; park; coffee-shop forecourt) with a hot cup of chocolate, and try to imagine what the characters are likely to do next. This is a lot more fun in the summer though, so at this time of year swapping the hot chocolate for mulled wine sounds like a far better game plan. Also, parks and coffee shops have their disadvantages: it won't do to look like a mad woman sipping hot drinks and talking to myself, so I guess mulled wine in the back garden will just have to do!
What are your thoughts on good/bad reviews?
Good reviews are heavenly, there's no doubt about it! I hope my kind reviewers read this, so that I can let them know how much I appreciate their thoughtfulness!
It's the greatest feeling in the world to read a review and think: "Yes! THANK YOU! You got me, 100%! You understand exactly what I wrote and why – and you like it more than I ever hoped you would!"
I really wish I could meet these lovely people and hug them! I honestly can't thank them enough for the happiness they brought me, and the tremendous encouragement, especially when I needed it most!
As for bad reviews, I think they come in very different categories. Most of them are tremendously helpful actually, and I have learned a lot from them. It's great to have someone point out the failings I haven't seen for myself, and show me how they can be corrected. I'm enormously grateful to those reviewers, because they've helped me write a better story, and thank goodness for Amazon and the option of uploading revised versions!
I can't possibly be upset either by reviews that just say 'It's not my style, I didn't enjoy it'. It's fresh, it's honest and it's true. We all like different things, and that's exactly how it should be! In fact, regardless of the number of stars they come with, none of the above reviews can be classed as bad!
The only difficult ones, in my opinion, are those that misunderstand the premise and are dismissively critical, without offering anything constructive. Still, what can I say? It's not fun, but we put ourselves out there, so we just have to take the rough with the smooth.
How do you relax?
With a warm drink and a good book.
What is your favorite motivational phrase?
"Thank your stars that matters are not worse!"
What is your favorite book?
This is where I get totally boring! 'Pride and Prejudice', what else! I actually have it in several copies all over the house. This is what obsession looks like!
Who is your favorite author?
Predictably, Jane Austen.
What is your favorite movie?
1995 'Pride and Prejudice' – but if that's a series and doesn't count, then it's a draw between 'Love, Actually' and 'Master and Commander'.
Which famous person, living or dead would you like to meet and why?
Again – the lady herself, for so many reasons, but first and foremost to find out from her what was edited out when she turned 'First Impressions' into 'Pride and Prejudice'. It's one of the things I can't stop wondering about: what was there, in that large chunk (a third of the book, no less!!) that was left out, and we'll never get to see?
Still, if I was asked to leave my obsession aside for a moment and come up with at least one answer that's not Austen related, my second choice would be Lord Byron. I've always wondered whether he might have lived longer and written more if he hadn't made that disastrous marriage of his! I would have liked to warn him – but of course he wouldn't have believed me and would have probably imagined he just had a very weird dream or a bad hangover!
What is the most interesting trip you have ever taken?
A distant cousin of my grandmother's had a holiday cottage kept totally unchanged in terms of décor since about 1912, down to the tiniest detail. I don't know why she chose to do that, I was very young when I visited the place and I didn't have the courage to ask her – but it was an amazing sentiment of going back in time!
What was your most embarrassing moment?
My sister's boyfriend mistook me for her and kissed me (same haircut & poor lighting).
Probably his most embarrassing moment too!
Lighting Round:
White wine or red? Red, always!
Coffee or tea? Coffee in the morning. Tea on a miserably cold day.
Cook dinner or order take-out/delivery? Home cooked – provided somebody else cooks it!
Vanilla or chocolate ice-cream? Chocolate, every time!
Pancakes or eggs? Pancakes.
Sleep in or get up early? Get up early.
Laptop or desktop for writing? Desktop, mostly.
This was great fun! Thanks again for inviting me here, it's been a great pleasure.
Joana is Generously giving away one copy of her first release and two copies of her 2 release to three Lucky commenters who answer the question, "What brought you to Jane Austen Fan Fiction and what sort of stories keep you here?"


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Interferential current (IFC) therapy is a therapeutic modality that is used often in an orthopedic physical therapy setting. The following article serves as a brief introduction to the modality and it's uses.
A piece of equipment commonly used by physical therapists is the interferential current machine. This machine produces electrical currents (~4000HZ) that pass through the affected area of the patient. The current tends to penetrate deeper than other electrical modalities and has a number of physiological effects that have therapeutic value.
The physiological effects of IFC
The physiological effects include:
1. an increase in localized blood flow which can improve healing by reducing swelling (the additional blood flowing through the area takes edematous fluid away with it) and as a result helps remove damaged tissue and bring nutrients necessary for healing to the injured area
2. the stimulation of local nerve cells that can have a pain reducing/anaesthetic effect due to potentially blocking the transmission of the pain signals (pain gate mechanism) or by stimulating the release of pain reducing endorphins (opiod mechanism)
3. some degree of muscle stimulation as muscle contraction can be achieved through external application of an electrical current, overcoming some of the muscle inhibition often caused by local injury and swelling
The electrical current is applied to the affected area using four electrodes. The four electrodes are placed in such a way that the two currents produced cross each other in the affected area. For example, if it is a knee injury that is being treated, the two currents can be applied so that they cross deep within the actual knee joint itself. Where the two currents meet, they actually 'interfere' with each other; hence the name 'interferential.'
Should the Patient Feel Interferential Current?
The patient should not feel any discomfort from the application of the interferential current. The electrodes will usually be used with a damp sponge placed between the electrode and the patient's skin. If discomfort is felt it is usually because an electrode sponge is not damp enough or because the sponge is not entirely covering the electrode and therefore is allowing some direct contact between a portion of the electrode and the skin.
During treatment patient will feel a tingling or 'pins and needles' sensation at the contact area of the sponges and may also feel the tingling sensation throughout the area being treated. This sensation may continue for a brief period following treatment as well. The intensity of the current should be increased within the patient's comfort level. A stronger current will usually have a more beneficial effect but the intensity should not be turned up so high as to cause pain.
Safety and Contraindications
IFC has been used in physical therapy treatment for many years and has been proven to be very safe. However, use should be avoided on individuals with pacemakers and near the low back or abdomen of pregnant women. You should also avoid the use of this modality in a body part where there is any possible risk of metastasis.
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lens, in optics, piece of glass or other transparent substance that is used to form an image of an object by focusing rays of light from the object. A lens is a piece of transparent material, usually circular in shape, with two polished surfaces, either or both of which is curved and may be either convex (bulging) or concave (depressed). The curves are almost always spherical; i.e., the radius of curvature is constant. A lens has the valuable property of forming images of objects situated in front of it. Single lenses are used in eyeglasses, contact lenses, pocket magnifiers, projection condensers, signal lights, viewfinders, and on simple box cameras. More often a number of lenses made of different materials are combined together as a compound lens in a tube to permit the correction of aberrations. Compound lenses are used in such instruments as cameras, microscopes, and telescopes.
Optical principles for lenses
A lens produces its focusing effect because light travels more slowly in the lens than in the surrounding air, so that refraction, an abrupt bending, of a light beam occurs both where the beam enters the lens and where it emerges from the lens into the air.
A single lens has two precisely regular opposite surfaces; either both surfaces are curved or one is curved and one is plane. Lenses may be classified according to their two surfaces as biconvex, plano-convex, concavo-convex (converging meniscus), biconcave, plano-concave, and convexo-concave (diverging meniscus). Because of the curvature of the lens surfaces, different rays of an incident light beam are refracted through different angles, so that an entire beam of parallel rays can be caused to converge on, or to appear to diverge from, a single point. This point is called the focal point, or principal focus, of the lens (often depicted in ray diagrams as F). Refraction of the rays of light reflected from or emitted by an object causes the rays to form a visual image of the object. This image may be either real—photographable or visible on a screen—or virtual—visible only upon looking into the lens, as in a microscope. The image may be much larger or smaller than the object, depending on the focal length of the lens and on the distance between the lens and the object. The focal length of a lens is the distance from the centre of the lens to the point at which the image of a distant object is formed. A long-focus lens forms a larger image of a distant object, while a short-focus lens forms a small image.
Usually the image formed by a single lens is not good enough for precise work in such fields as astronomy, microscopy, and photography; this is because the cone of rays emitted by a single point in a distant object is not united in a perfect point by the lens but instead forms a small patch of light. This and other innate imperfections in a lens's image of a single object point are known as aberrations. To correct such aberrations, it is often necessary to combine in one mount several lens elements (single lenses), some of which may be convex and some concave, some made of dense high-refractive or high-dispersive glass, and others made of low-refractive or low-dispersive glass. The lens elements may be cemented together or mounted at carefully calculated separations to correct the aberrations of the individual elements and obtain an image of acceptable sharpness (see also aberration). The precise mounting also ensures that all lenses are properly centred; that is, the centres of curvature of all the lens surfaces lie on a single straight line called the principal axis of the lens. A frequently used measure of the quality of any lens system is its ability to form an image that is sharp enough to separate, or resolve, two very close dots or lines in an object. Resolving power depends on how well the various aberrations in a lens system are corrected.
The simplest compound lens is a thin cemented combination of two single lenses, such as that used in the objective (the lens nearest the object) of a small refracting telescope. Microscope objectives may contain as many as eight or nine elements, some of which may be made of different materials in order to bring all colours of light to a common focus, and thus prevent chromatic aberration. The objective lenses used in cameras may contain from two to 10 elements, while a so-called zoom or variable-focal length lens may have as many as 18 or 20 elements in several groups, the different groups being movable along the axis by levers or cams in order to produce the desired change in focal length without a shift of the focal plane. Lenses also vary greatly in diameter, from as small as 0.16 cm (1/16 inch) for an element in a microscope objective to as large as 100 cm (40 inches) for an astronomical telescope objective. In reflectors and several other types of astronomical telescopes, concave mirrors are used for the objective instead of lenses.


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The CARE Team is a campus resource for students, faculty and staff who have concerns regarding alarming, problematic, and/or disruptive student behavior. The team responds to non-emergency concerns and uses a proactive approach to discuss potential problems, intervene early, and develop appropriate courses of action for referred students. The goal is to support students who may be in distress and/or whose behavior is of concern to others before they rise to crisis levels.
What We Do
The CARE Team meets bi-weekly (and on an as-needed basis) to consult on, assess, and triage referrals for students who display troubling or worrisome behaviors.
Specifically we:
Gather and analyze information
Assess needs of those impacted
Determine and implement plans for students of concern (including both immediate and ongoing strategies)
Provide and make referrals for advice, support, and assistance
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Recycled Wine Bottle Drinkware, Green
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Made from a recycled bottle that is cut and polished to ensure safety for your family. These glasses have a sturdy lovely feel to them. Handcrafted in USA.
This is for the GREEN glass (clear is not available)
Dishwasher safe. 3" dia. x 6-7" h. 14-16 oz.
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