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Steven Rosefielde
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|Steven Rosefielde
|United States
|Russian, Soviet and Communist studies, Comparative Economic Systems and International Security
|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
|Alma mater
|Harvard University
Steven R. Rosefielde (born 1942) is Professor of Comparative Economic Systems at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] He is also a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Selected works[edit]
- Russia since 1980: Wrestling with Westernization, with Stefan Hedlund, Cambridge University Press, 2009
- Red Holocaust, Routledge, 2009 (reviewed in doi:10.1080/03585522.2011.617586)
- Economic Welfare and the Economics of Soviet Socialism: Essays in Honor of Abram Bergson, Cambridge University Press, 2008
- The Russian Economy: From Lenin to Putin, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
- Masters of Illusion: American Leadership In The Media Age, Cambridge University Press, 2006
- Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth, and Power in the 21st Century, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002, 2005, 2008
- Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower, Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Efficiency and Russia's Economic Recovery Potential to the Year 2000 and Beyond, ed., Ashgate Publishing, 1998
- Documented Homicides and Excess Deaths: New Insights into the Scale of Killing in the USSR during the 1930s. (PDF file) Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 321–333. University of California, 1997.
- False Science: Underestimating the Soviet Arms Buildup. An Appraisal of the CIA's Direct Costing Effort, 1960–1985, 1988
- World Communism at the Crossroads: Military Ascendancy, Political Economy, and Human Welfare, 1980
- Soviet International Trade in Heckscher-Ohlin Perspective: An Input-Output Study, 1973

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Sao Paulo — AFRICA'S dream of starting the 2014 with a victory were shattered when Cameroon suffered an argonising 0-1 loss against Mexico in World Cup Group A encounter at Dunas Stadium on Friday.
A solitary strike by Oribe Peralta in the 61st minute sank the three-time African champions in a water soaked soccer pitch following some downpours in the first half of the match.
Had it not been for the match official's controversial decision, Mexico could have massacred Cameroon 3-0 after two of the South America nation goals were disallowed for off-side.
However, Cameroon had their own scoring opportunities, but weak shots in front of goal-posts were the weakest point for the West Africans.
Cameroon captain Samuel E'to-o, turned his Mexican marker left and right, but his left hooker was parried for a corner by an alert Mexico goalkeeper
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Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858, during the glory days of Italian opera. When Puccini died in 1924, the world was a different place: fascism was taking root in the young nation of Italy, America was emerging as the world's most powerful nation, and motion pictures were replacing opera as the dominant art form in our culture. The many-faceted career of this last great Italian opera composer reflected the multitudinous changes taking place in the world around him.
Although Puccini came from a long line of composers, at first it looked as though he wouldn't amount to much. He was a terrible student: lazy, always bored, easily distracted, and in his final year of high school, he flunked out. But Puccini was determined to become a composer and to make some money at it. His father had died when he was five years old, and as a boy Puccini (and his six sisters) had felt the bite of poverty. When he was 18, Puccini saw a performance of Verdi's Aida and decided that he would become the next Verdi.
So he applied himself diligently to the study of music, earning a diploma from the Institute of Music in his hometown of Lucca and eventually graduating with honors from the Conservatory in Milan. During his years in Milan, young Puccini made many important connections and wrote two operas. He was one of a handful of young composers all hoping to inherit the throne of Giuseppe Verdi, the undisputed king of Italian opera. With the support of the all-powerful music publisher Giulio Ricordi, Puccini emerged victorious from the struggle for succession. The year 1893 saw, within a few weeks of each other, the premieres of Verdi's final opera, Falstaff, and Puccini's first triumph, Manon Lescaut.
With his earnings from Manon Lescaut Puccini built himself a villa on the lake at Torre del Lago, a small town near Lucca. He also ran off with Elvira Gemignani, the wife of a childhood friend. Puccini's stormy relationship with the jealous Elvira was to last until his death. During this period Giulio Ricordi helped Puccini develop a wonderfully productive relationship with a pair of writers, Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. Giacosa and Illica wrote for Puccini the libretti to three of the most popular operas of all time: La bohme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly. These operas use accessible and captivating music to explore three very different worlds: the Bohemian world of starving students in La bohme, the world of historical melodrama in Tosca, and the (to Italians) exotic land of Japan in Madama Butterfly.
In 1907 Puccini was invited to New York to supervise performances of his operas at the Metropolitan Opera. Puccini ended up writing an opera for the Metropolitan: La Fanciulla del West (Girl of the Golden West), a melodramatic tale set in a California mining town. During the First World War he tried his hand at writing a Viennese-style operetta, La Rondine. Fascinated by new currents in music and art, Puccini was never content with repeating himself, even at the risk of public approval. As the war ended, he wrote Il trittico, a series of three one-act operas for the Metropolitan Opera in New York: Il tabarro, a gritty story of jealousy and murder among Parisian low-lifes; Suor Angelica, a sentimental story set in a convent and featuring an all-female cast; and Gianni Schicchi, his only comedy.
Puccini died while working on Turandot, a sadistic and erotic fairy tale set in legendary China. The opera was completed by a friend and first performed a few months after Puccini's death. Turandot was the last Italian opera to achieve widespread popularity, just as Puccini was the last popular composer of Italian opera.
It's often said that the plots of Puccini's operas have not aged well. Many snobs have condemned Puccini for being too popular, too simplistic and sometimes bordering on chauvinistic. Yet these operas have never left the stage; audiences continue to demand them, and singers love tackling them. Why such popularity, even a century later? The answer is simple: Puccini's music is perhaps the most immediately effective dramatic music ever written.
Puccini's musical mind was a melting pot. He lived during an era of tremendously exciting musical activity, and all his life he was fascinated by what his fellow artists were doing. While he dominated his era, creating the most popular operas of the day, he did so by borrowing, arranging, and assimilating ideas and influences from everything he heard. Look at the list of different national musical traditions that leave their mark on the score of Madama Butterfly:
Italy. The Italian opera tradition has always been centered on the singer, and from the Renaissance up through Puccini's predecessors, Italian opera music has always lived or died by its vocal lines. The core of Madama Butterfly is glorious lyricism for the main characters; we relate to Butterfly and Suzuki, Sharpless and Pinkerton first and foremost through the sound of their voices and the beauty of what they sing.
Germany. While the singers' voices are soaring on the wings of traditional Italian lyricism, Puccini's orchestra is repeating and varying dozens of short musical ideas, known as motives. Puccini modeled the enlarged size of his Butterfly orchestra and the complexity of his motivic writing on the music of the German opera tradition, especially the popular and controversial operas of Richard Wagner.
France. In contemporary France, musicians like Debussy and Fauré were busy trying to accomplish in music what Impressionists like Monet and Degas were doing in painting. One of their many techniques was to use a wider harmonic palette than traditional in Western music, to use forbidden harmonies (tritones, augmented triads, parallel fifths, etc.) that had been outlawed centuries earlier by the Catholic church. Puccini loved the sound of Impressionist music, and loved to use exotic harmonies for his exotic operas.
America. During Puccini's lifetime America was just beginning to develop its own musical culture. Eager to be involved, Puccini premiered two of his operas at New York City's Metropolitan Opera. In Madama Butterfly he uses American music to characterize his thoughtless American playboy, Pinkerton; in fact, our national anthem becomes one of the principal motives in the score.
Japan. Puccini studied Japanese music as he worked on Madama Butterfly, and several traditional Japanese melodies actually found their way into the opera. The music of Japan, like much Asian music, is pentatonic; it tends to use a palette of five possible notes rather than European music's eight. Make up a tune using only the black keys on the piano, and you'll hear pentatonicism. Puccini loved the curious strength and, to Western ears, exotic character of this sound.
Fascinated as he was by trends in the world of music, Puccini also kept abreast of what was going on in the other arts. In the spoken theater of Puccini's day, realism was all the rage: playwrights like Ibsen and Shaw tried to make what was onstage seem like the real life of everyday people. Opera, which is anti-realistic by definition, caught this bug as well, and the drama of Puccini's operas is far more lifelike than that in plenty of earlier opera. In fact, some historians refer to Puccini's type of opera as verismo, realism. But thank goodness, Puccini still lets his characters raise their voices in that unrealistic yet gloriously thrilling song which is the reason we love opera in the first place. Madama Butterfly is one unforgettable musical number after another, and what a treat is in store for those who have yet to hear the smug yearning of the duet for those expatriots Pinkerton and Sharpless, the fragile beauty of the duet Butterfly and Suzuki sing as they scatter flowers, the pentatonic delicacy of the famous humming chorus, Butterfly's gentle lullaby, and the blinding horror of her death scene. The opera's greatest musical treasures are surely the love duet¾which, at fifteen minutes, is one of opera's longest, yet the audience never wants it to end¾and Butterfly's aria "Un bel d"," which has become one of the most familiar tunes ever written.
If you're really interested in Japan, Madama Butterfly is not the best thing to study. True, the scenery and costume designers must recreate turn-of-the-century Japan onstage, and Puccini certainly used some authentic Japanese melodies in his music. But Madama Butterfly is European to the core, and like much European art that purports to be about Asian cultures, it is really about Europe and Europe's perception of AsiaÑor, as it was then called, the Orient.
Madama Butterfly deals in stereotypes of the Orient. It deals with a Westerner's fantasy of Japan, a Japan where white men are treated as gods, where quiet, submissive women are bought and sold, where hara-kiri is the ultimate honor. These stereotypes teach us more about the West than the East, about the patriarchal Italy that imagined this story: a Catholic Italy whose sexual politics and images of the Cross and the Madonna shine through the supposedly "exotic Oriental" setting. The concealed Western issues lurking behind stereotypes of the East made this opera (and many just like it) amazingly popular. Starting in the mid-18th century, orientalism-indulging in romantic notions about faraway places-dominated much Western art. Whether chinoiserie, japonisme, or something else, orientalism allowed European artists to deal with issues, particularly despotism, sexuality, and their intersection, taboo in polite European society but nevertheless fundamental to human life.
Japonisme, a special interest in manifestations of Japanese culture, emerged from the rest of orientalism in the 1850s, when Japan began to ease the isolationist policy that had dominated its foreign affairs for two hundred years. Heavy pressure from the United States (whose navy wanted access to Japanese ports) opened the doors to trade in 1853, and within a few years Japan was trading with England, Russia, France, Portugal, and Germany. European fascination with Japanese art and music soon followed suit.
The love story of the Japanese woman and the heartless Western man soon appeared and quickly achieved near-mythic status. Undoubtedly, it happened often enough in real life. Some of the leading literary figures who shepherded this story:
A French writer who bought a wife during his two month stay in Nagasaki in the 1880s and later wrote a novel based on their bittersweet romance. Loti, whose exotic novels were wildly popular all over Europe in the late nineteenth century, inspired at least two exotic operas; Lakmé is indebted to his Mariage de Loti, and Madama Butterfly originated with Loti's Japanese tale Madame Chysanthemum.
An American writer whose watch saw the metamorphosis of Loti's Chrysanthemum into Butterfly. Long's novella, Madame Butterfly, first appeared in Century Magazine in 1898.
American playwright David Belasco used Long's story as the basis for his one-act play of 1900, Madame Butterfly. Belasco's play is unperformable today, because of the embarrassing pidgin-English he makes Butterfly speak. But his contributions, both in dramatizing this story for the first time and pioneering new lighting techniques, have secured his place in theater history.
The composer, who understood very little English, first saw Belasco's play in London in 1900. He was so moved, particularly by the performance of Blanche Bates as Butterfly, he ran backstage after the performance and asked Belasco if he could turn it into an opera. Belasco agreed unconditionally because, he later explained, "it is impossible to discuss arrangements with an impulsive Italian who has tears in his eyes and both his arms around your neck." The opera premiered a couple of years later; after an unsuccessful opening night, Puccini withdrew the opera and revised it into the version we perform today.
Since that day, Western artists have created dozens more versions of the story, including the recent hit musical Miss Saigon by Boublil and Schönberg. The King and I, an earlier musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, varies the pattern by presenting a European woman and an Asian man, but the story's chauvinistic sex-role stereotypes are still in place. It took Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang's thought-provoking M. Butterfly to really turn this old myth on its head. In Hwang's version, based on a true story, a French diplomat with a Chinese mistress incorrectly assumes his lover is a woman (when he's really a man, and a spy for communist China's government). Why? Because, says Hwang, the West always assumes the East is passive, submissive, ripe for plunder; therefore the eastern lover could not possibly be male. Hwang dramatizes the dangers of thinking and acting based on such stereotypes when his main character, who fantasized that he was Pinkerton the betrayer, discovers he was really Butterfly the betrayed.
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In response to "State campaign spending limits rejected" (Campaign 2012, June 26): Many people miss an insidious implication in the Citizens United case, the one permitting unlimited corporate political contributions.
For this illustrative example, assume an honest (incorruptible) candidate for political office who, at his fundraiser, meets Mr. White, who is a manufacturer of widgets, who contributes $1 million, and [whom] the candidate neither sees or has any contact with until after his election to, let us say, the House of Representatives. Our honest candidate votes his conscience on all other issues, but is more or less undecided on a proposal to tax the manufacture of widgets.
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Hey guys, thanks for all the guides.
Can somebody help me to get the right wire, would love to find it on ebay ect which is very easy to buy and par for small items like that.
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if I can get it in a 30ft spool?
The dimmer switch and misc plugs is eays to find. Uh, I have a question regarding the dimmer... If I turn it halfway down, does it only use half the power? (I think it does)
Anther question, how do you "mount" the string on the jacket, I see not everyone sews it on. Are you just using tape, glue or whatever?
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^ This stuff was exactly what I used. Seems to work pretty well, and I haven't had any issues aside from the one sliced wire, which may have been my fault.
The LED dimmers don't necessarily limit the voltage, but rather just limit the amount of time for one 'cycle'. The dimmer cycles on and off at a very rapid pace, which gives you a lower average voltage and current draw from the bike. So, turned down halfway, you're essentially using an average amount of power that should be about half.
My jacket was done by simply threading the wires through the jacket's mesh liner. Most of the wire is between the mesh and the outer liner.. Every so many inches, I simply threaded the wire through the outside, and then back inside... Here's a photo to show that.
I measured the jacket's dimensions, and estimated how many 'loops' I could do, and how tight the spacing would need to be, in order to ensure I'd have enough wire to 'get back' to the other side of the jacket, where the wire was first threaded in.
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Water is everywhere that you look. It's in your sink when you turn on a faucet. It makes up the lakes and the oceans. There is so much water that it covers most of the planet. It is home to fish and helps people and animals stay healthy. Water also helps the plants to grow and stay green. These may be things you already know about water, but there are also a lot of things that you probably don't know. For example, the water we use is very old. It is even older than the dinosaurs that used to roam the Earth. In fact, some of the water that you drink and take a bath in could be the same water that was around when life first appeared on Earth. Water this old is still around because of what is called the water cycle. The water cycle is when water naturally circulates from the ocean, lake, pond, river, or reservoir, up to the air and then back down to the soil and body of water. The water cycle happens over and over again, all of the time; even though we don't always see it happening.
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Malaysian Company To Build First Plant in Large Nipah Palm Ethanol Project; Envisions Eventual Output of 1.2 Billion Gallons per Year
6 January 2007
|The nipah palm (Nypa fruiticans).
Malaysia's Pioneer Bio Industries Corp Sdn Bhd will invest RM 1.4 billion (US$ 399 million) to set up the first of some 15 envisioned plants to produce ethanol from nipah palm trees (Nypa fruiticans). Nipah palm ethanol is produced by the fermentation of the sap from the trees.
The first plant will begin operation in 2008 with output of 140 million gallons US. The majority of this and the project's planned eventual 1.22 billion gallon output will be slated for export, according to the company.
The Perak state government has also agreed to reserve and convert a 1,000-hectare piece of land previously planted with coconut palms to be used for the planting of the nipah (also called mangrove) palms.
The government has also given Pioneer bio Industries the right to tap the sap from 14,000 ha of nipah trees found in the state's coastal areas. In return for the right to tap nipah sap, the state government will share profits from the ethanol production.
Chairman Md Badrul Shah Mohd Noor said the company, which is a subsidiary of biotech company Pioneer Vaccination Biotech Corp Sdn Bhd, will invest a total of 14.4 billion ringgit ($4.1 billion) in the project over the next five years.
Partners and funding sources for the first plant will be made public in the future. The company is searching for investors for the larger project.
The nipah palm grows in the soft mud in littoral areas. The trunk of the tree is horizontal, and lies underground—the leaves of the nipah thus appear to grow straight out of the ground. Sap is collected by tapping a globular inflorescence before it blooms.
Nipah has a very high sugar-rich sap yield. According to one study (Hamilton and Murphy 1988), nipah sap can produce 6,480-15,600 liters of ethanol per hectare, compared to 3,350-6,700 liters/hectare from sugarcane.
(At least one study (Banzon 1984) has also argued the merits of harvesting coconut sap for production into ethanol rather than allowing the some of the biological energy to go into the production of non-edible parts such as the coconut husk. According to the study, the amount of energy harvested in the sap (through production of ethanol) could be 5 to 7 times higher than from the oil of the nuts.)
Nipah also is easy to tap, and the harvesting of the sap leaves no waste as in the bagasse from sugarcane.
Malaysia is also the world's top producer (44%) of palm oil. Together with Indonesia (42% of global supply), both countries are targeting biodiesel as a new growth market for their palm oil. (Earlier post.)
Oil palms are in the same family as the nipah palms (Arecaceae), but are of the Elaeis genus.
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Ai carumba!
Double sugar cane yields? I guess the downsides might be the time it takes for the trees to mature, and the specific water/climate needs.
It takes 5 years of growth before the sap is tapped. It is also considered a mongrove.
great ! lets just go and plant these loahsome palms everywhere, and create another huge monoculture, which will further knock biodiversitity on the head!
Even though the yeilds might be higher than sugarcane, I suspect tha the EROEI will be less since sugarcane EtOH is distilled by burning the cane waste, I believe... and these palms do not generate equivalent "waste" that can be burned for distillation.
Sugar cane has more avenues for improved efficiency; the bagasse could be converted to charcoal for sequestration or export, the gas used in high-temperature fuel cells (and the waste heat used for distillation), etc. You have few options with sugar sap.
BBM, Engineer-Poet,
You can gasify it, since it is a carb. You can use power plants, or other processes that produces copious amounts of waste heat, to remove the water from the sap. Producing high grade sugar for human consumption is another possibility. Additionally, it is permanent crop, one that will live for decades. OTOH sugar cane is usually - though not always - replanted yearly.
_Granted, gasifying/burning bagasse, along with converting the sugar, produces a similar amount of fuel/BTU vs the pure sap play of this palm. Nevertheless, in certain cases, Nipah Palms would be preferable. Planting these along/off riverbanks could mitigate soil erosion. They can take up excess nutrients, which is often from humans/livestock/crops, from the riverwater/runoff. It is, afterall, a plant that grows well in marshy/submerged areas. Nypa fruticans are also native to areas from Bangaladesh, through Southeast Asia, into the Pacific, and to Australia.
Is Pioneer bio Industries a part of Pioneer Hi-bred Int'l, a subsidiary of DuPont Corp.? Or is this a distinct Malaysian company?
Vin Diesel,
Pioneer Bio Industries Corp is a Malaysian firm.
They had thriving sugar cane industries in Florida and Hawaii until ADM came up with high fructose corn syrup for soft drinks and ethanol. That was part of the tariffs on imported sugar. Sugar cane is much better to make ethanol and the stalks as mentioned have value too. Now they have corn that has enzymes in it to make it easier to make sweetener out of and soon super organisms to ferment it. We get side tracked by special interesests sometimes.
It might be a bit dated, but the yields for sweet potato are very high. According to the Resources: link above, it sould be getting somewhere in the 700-2,100 ga/acre (6,750-18,000 liter/ha) range. This figure is way beyond sugar cane (3,350-6,700 liter/ha), and beats out tapped nipah palms (6,480-15,600 liter/ha).
_Heh, maybe we can get Oprah Winfrey to support this. There is already an effort to build 3 ethanol plants, partly from sweet potatoes, in North Carolina. Total investment is over $1 billion.
Does anyone know how Nipah palm is tapped? And it is said that they got a patent for converting Nipah palm sap to ethanol. Can you patent such a thing?
Promising as it sounds, but look what I found this morning..
Looks like the plant had been cancelled but a little vague on the details. I'd hazard a guess it may have something to do with either sap tapping difficulties (consistency of yield) to make it viable? Or is there problem in the realm of private equity funding for such a mamoth project?
Was interested to see how this panned out. Would have been interesting!
i will like to get feed back on step by step method of tapping the nypa sap fermentation and ethanol production
with diagrams preferably
Nipah plot joint venture.
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Juba — South Sudanese army on Friday denied carrying out attacks on rebels positions after the signing of the ceasefire agreement in Addis Ababa, however a UN spokesperson said clashes took place in different parts of the new nation.
"There have been no reports of fighting I received today. It has been quiet", Colonel Philip Aguer, Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) spokesperson told reporters in Juba on Friday.
Presidential spokesperson Ateny Wek Ateny denied in a news briefing on Friday that government forces carried out attacks on rebel held positions in the country.
"It has been calm today. The government had given out orders to soldiers not to fight anybody from now on. So it is incorrect that there has been fighting," Ateny said.
"The situation has been quiet as far as I know. There has not been fighting since yesterday", the presidential spokesperson stressed on Friday.
He further alleged that the rebel delegation negotiating team had no control on their fighters on the ground.
"We hope the rebels will do so the same so that they honour their signature," Ateny said,
The two officials were reacting to statements made on Friday morning by the rebel SPLM/A in Opposition accusing the government forces in the Unity state of attacking their positions in areas of Dan-Dok, about 50kms south of Bentiu, the Unity state capital, and in neighbouring Upper Nile state.
In line with the cessation of hostilities agreement signed on 23 January, the two warring parties committed themselves "to immediately cease all military operations and freeze their forces at the places they are in".
On Friday evening, former vice-president and SPLM in Opposition leader, Riek Machar, the claimed that the government forces loyal to president Salva Kiir attacked their positions in Unity and Upper Nile states.
The rebel leader further confirmed to Sudan Tribune the attack on his forces in Dan-Dok adding that second attack in Unity state was launched at Duar, which is about 70km from Bentiu.
"The government's forces moved out of Bentiu and attacked our forces in Dan-Dok, 50km south of Bentiu town," Machar said, adding that "The SPLA forces in Bor town on Friday moved out and also launched military offensive against the rebels-held positions in Mathiang near Bor."
Machar also said that other attacks were also launched against his forces in Adar area of Upper Nile state.
He condemned the attacks, which he said were "violations of the cessation of hostilities agreement signed on Thursday" by the two parties in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
Peter Riek Gew the rebels' spokesperson in Unity state also told Sudan Tribune that their forces managed to repel the attack in Guit County and claimed that the SPLA forces were trying to reach the Kilo 50 area and the Tharjath oil fields.
Gew said that the SPLM/A in Opposition have no intention to retaliate but added that they would continue to defend their territory. The rebel spokesperson claimed that they captured five vehicles as well as ammunition from government troops.
Sudan Tribune was unable to reach Unity state's deputy governor for comment on Friday.
Speaking at a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, Farhan Haq, a spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, confirmed that there were clashes in South Sudan despite the signing of a cessation of hostilities agreement.
"The Mission (UNMISS) says that sporadic fighting took place in parts of the country today," Haq said, urging the two parties to implement the agreement "in full and immediately".
"The UN calls on all communities to cease hostilities and refrain from any act that could harm individuals and properties, or lead to further displacement," he further emphasised. Half a million of South Sudanese have been displaced during the five week conflict, according to UN estimates.
The mediation said on Thursday that it would stop the negotiations from January 24 to 7 February in order to establish a monitoring and verification mechanism and other panels related to the implementation of the signed agreements.
Haq pointed out that the establishment of a fully functioning ceasefire monitoring mechanism is essential for the implementation of the agreement.
The spokesperson repeated that the "UN stands ready to provide critical support to this process".
Last December the UN Security Council increased the number of the peacekeepers to nearly 14,000 military and police personnel to protect civilians and eventually to participate in the monitoring of a ceasefire agreement before to negotiate a political agreement.
On Friday the 15-member body issued a press statement welcoming the truce signed by the government and rebel delegation.
In addition, the Security Council "called on all parties to immediately and fully implement this agreement as the first step in a longer process of ensuring durable peace and rule of law in South Sudan and addressing the underlying causes of the conflict through an inclusive and comprehensive political dialogue, national reconciliation, and building effective State institutions".


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Cultured stone for dome exterior
I have finished the dome, but haven't put the insulation around it yet. All my buddies love the dome look, so I have changed my mind about a "doghouse" enclosure and will be going with the igloo look. A couple of buddies think I could do some kind of cultured stone over the hemisphere, something small. They mentioned some kind of "paper backed lathe". Has anyone seen anything other than stucco for the igloo. I will be extending my outdoor kitchen roof to cover the dome, so it won't get direct rain, but it could get indirect rain, especially here in Florida ( tropical storms and such).
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I'm not aware of paper backed lathe, but small tile (1x1, 1.5x1.5) come in sheets with a poly netted backer to keep it all together. (Think of the stuff you've no doubt seen in shower enclosures and bathroom floors.) It's actually pretty flexible and due to the poly backer maintains spacing well... although, as you bend it the gaps will seem slightly bigger as the overall radius is downsized. (From flat, or 180*, the gaps would be 1/8, but as you make the radius smaller or pull the sides closer together, the gaps will elongate.)
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Paper backed lath is a pain to work with and will be doubly so trying to form it over the dome. Just use 2 layers of building paper under regular lath. Most cultured stone is somewhat large which will make it awkward on a dome.
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I have become a fan of those who have the patience (not me) to mortar flat natural stone around their dome. I really like the detailed and rustic look. If it works with your landscaping and the general appearance of your property...Go for it !
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Max Weber painted this small canvas the year after his marriage, and some scholars have attributed the quiet, decorative sensibility of this and other of his works to the calming influence of domestic life. In this Cubist rendering of a cellist, the figure's closed eyes hint at the ecstasies of making music. The shadowy profile of a woman's head that helps to define the musician's torso and merges with the cello may rely on a traditional iconography in which the curved shapes of the instrument were metaphors for the female form.
- Artist: Max Weber, American, born Russia, 1881-1961
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dates: 1917
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NXTWallet (you know that first NXT transformable Wall-e)!!But that's not all!! My real mission is to help out my LEGO bro Vassilis (NeXTSTORM) who has been invited to present a totally awesome project he has been working on... You will have to stay tuned to see it in action as right now all i can share with you is this BANNER he prepared for the occasion:
Meanwhile here are some videos of the robots that I have managed to wrap-up in t-shirts and stuff in my luggage (security is going to have a blast)
More info on LEGO WORLD CPH 2011 can be found on this post:
LEGOWORLD Copenhagen will be open to the public form February 17th to 20th, 2011.
Stay tuned for hundred of pictures and my video reports.
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I love the robot video! I have been telling everyone I know that Legos are more than toys. They are building blocks for learning!
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Is it possible to get instructions on how to build your walle? Our girls would like to build it. Thanks in advance.
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Michael, I totally encourage your girls to built their own interpretation of WALL-E using MINDSTORMS components. I can share all of the pictures i have taken from all my versions... even the upcoming WALL-E5!!! I do not have formal BI but for this one, you would need 3 NXT, 8 Motors, 4 Touch, 2 Color (for the eyes) and one UltraSonic sensor, then lots of track links, yellow Technic LEGO and lots of imagination :) email me!
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