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"Over the shoulders of the Obama administration will be a growing grass-roots political force," Nader said while speaking to supporters at ZuZu's restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., around noon Saturday. He referred to a vote for Obama as a vote for the "least of the worst."
Ralph Nader is running for president.
If you didn't know that, don't feel bad – you're not alone.
Nader, who ran a 21-stop campaign marathon across Massachusetts Saturday stopping in Central Square and Tufts University, has remained relatively off the radar this election season, despite having launched his campaign in February.
But as Nader worked a fever pitch of coffee shops, college campuses and cafes Saturday, he had his sights set clearly on rallying politically dissatisfied Americans into what he repeatedly called a "third political force."
Those looking to check something other than "Republican" or "Democrat" on their ballot were listening.
A little more than a week before the election, Nader would not outright concede his chances in the election were nil – although he told supporters in Cambridge that Sen. Barack Obama would surly "landslide McCain" in Massachusetts and referred several times to "the Obama presidency." But while the country looks to the Nov. 4 election, Nader was clearly looking beyond it.
"The more votes you get before Nov. 4 the more you can build a force after Nov. 4," Nader said by phone Saturday night on his way to Stockbridge after completing 19 of the scheduled 21 stops for the day stretching clear across the state.
The aggressive campaign push itself was part of Nader's message. Small gatherings scattered throughout communities rather than big fundraising events is how presidential candidates should be addressing voters, he said. And it's not entirely coincidental he packed so many into one day. Nader is trying to nab the record for most campaign stops in a state in one day – campaign workers whisked him from one location to the next from 8 a.m. to midnight. As the campaign neared its end Saturday, Nader said pending confirmation from Guinness World Records, the record should be his.
But campaign stops and world records aside, Nader appeared to be on a mission Saturday – a mission beyond the White House in '08 . Nader continually voiced the need for a new force that would put pressure on the two major parties, which Nader has for years accused of being beholden to big business and special interest groups. Is Nader looking to form a new political party? That depends largely on the public he's spending time shaking hands with.
"If there's enough groundswell," Nader said
All along the campaign trail Saturday, Nader told supporters that the majority of Americans aren't represented by the two main parties. A former Green Party candidate in 2000, Nader said, the Green Party has some great ideals, but that it can't seem to organize or raise money effectively. Instead, Nader referred to the 2012 election and building a force that could realistically challenge the Republican and Democratic parties.
A longtime political activist, Nader is campaigning on a host of reform policies such as taxing Wall Street securities speculators, adopting a single-payer national health plan, shifting the nation's energies to solar power and reversing U.S. policy in the Middle East.
"Over the shoulders of the Obama administration will be a growing grass-roots political force," Nader said while speaking to supporters at ZuZu's restaurant in Cambridge around noon. He referred to a vote for Obama as a vote for the "least of the worst."
This new political force, he said, will be a "watchdog and a hammer and a constant rising political eminence of the kind that the two parties understand." What those parties understand, he said, "is losing votes to a third political force."
That comment may hit a sour note with Democrats, many of whom attribute Nader's more than 97,000 votes in Florida during the 2000 presidential election as having contributed to George W. Bush's narrow win over Al Gore in that state. It's an argument Nader scoffs at.
In May he told the Wall Street Journal, "If the premise is that we have an equal right to run for election, no one's a 'spoiler' – unless we're all 'spoilers' of one another. So when they say, 'You cost Gore the election,' I say, 'I thought Bush took more votes from Gore."
Nader received 2,882,955 votes in the 2000 election. In 2004, running as an independent, he pulled 463,653 votes.
Nader said this time around he's had difficulty getting media coverage of his campaign and complained of the two-party monopoly.
"Once you're excluded by the two party system, you can't get coverage," Nader said.
He said he feels the system can be cracked by a "large group of national citizens."
"We need a second American political revolution," he said.
By 10:35 p.m. Saturday, after 14½ hours of speeches and shaking hands, Nader was still going as the campaign left Northampton and continued on to Stockbridge and then the final stop: a campaign party in Sheffield.
He still had his voice.
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The world famous Harlem Globetrotters boarded their Greyhound bus in Long Island this morning and will spend the rest of today driving 464 miles to Bangor! The team finished up their annual training camp in New York on Wednesday and will unveil the premier of their 2014 "Fans Rule" World Tour at the brand new Cross Insurance Center in Bangor this Friday and Saturday (games each night at 7 p.m.). The games are the
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European Commission - Press release
Internal energy market: national legislation in 8 Member States still not in line with EU rules
Brussels, 27 February 2012 - Opening energy markets for competition is key to competitiveness of the EU economy as a whole. An efficient, interconnected and transparent European internal energy market will also offer consumers a choice between different companies supplying gas and electricity and will make the market accessible to all suppliers.
The Electricity and Gas Directives of the Third Energy Package had to be transposed by the Member States by 3 March 2011. As to date Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia have not informed the Commission of any transposition measures for the two Directives and Estonia has not done so as regards the Gas Directive.
Consequently, the Commission sent today 15 Reasoned Opinions to these 8 Member States to urge them to comply with their legal obligation. The Member States now have two months to respond. If they fail to comply the Commission may refer them to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
In February 2011, the EU Heads of States and Governments declared the need to complete the internal energy market by 2014. To achieve this, timely and complete transposition of EU legislation on the single market of gas and electricity into national law is crucial. The third energy package includes key provisions for a proper functioning of the energy markets, including new rules on unbundling of networks, rules strengthening the independence and the powers of national regulators and rules on the improvement of the functioning of retail markets to the benefit of consumers.
The concerned Directives of the Third Energy Package are:
This infringement exercise addresses non-communication cases of the transposition of the Third Energy Package. At the same time, the Commission is analysing the measures notified by the Member States which have only partially transposed the Directives, and will decide in the coming months on appropriate further steps.
More information
The Electricity Directive (2009/72/EC), and the Gas Directive (2009/73/EC), can be consulted here.
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I can remember being fourteen in a Meijer grocery store and strolling down the "Movies" aisle, trying to ignore my family behind me because I was too cool for that. As I walked, something caught my eye. A name I had become all too familiar with spotting in the baru saja months since I had discovered it. "X-Men" was emblazoned across a DVD case with cartoon figures I recognized instantly. I couldn't believe it! I had only seen two episodes of this tampil from an old VHS my dad had collected. I was so excited about my discovery that I rushed back to my parents, the same ones I had been trying to...
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The couples section is alphabetized oleh the first name of the woman in the pairing for straight couples, and the first name of the alphabetically first in a lgbt pairing. Currently, there are no spots for the latter, though it's pending....
This is an updated daftar of the link for single characters related to X-Men. As in 2015, to qualify for this list, characters must have been an X-Man, a member of a splinter X-team, a family member, friend, clone, atau enemy of the X-Men. The only two allies to qualify for this daftar due to their noted closeness are Deadpool and Captain Marvel.
The daftar is done in alphabetical order according to the character's name, not codename atau fanspot name,...
A little bit of background before we begin. For those who may not know, and without going into too much AvX detail, the Phoenix Five (which is going to be abbreviated as P5) was created for the Avengers vs. X-men crossover event a few years ago. The P5 consisted of Namor the Sub-mariner, Piotr Rasputin/Colossus, Illyana Rasputina/Magik, Emma Frost, and Scott Summers/Cyclops. The P5 was created oleh Iron Man splitting the Phoenix Force which then possessed them. One oleh one, they would start losing their control, and their portion of Phoenix, until only one would remain with the full force of...
As the judul says, this is a complete daftar of fanpop spots dedicated to members of the X-men. This is only for characters (not movies, cartoons, etc.) and they have to have been members of the X-men. However, the characters can be from comics, movies, cartoons, anime, etc.
The daftar is done in alphabetical order according to the character's name, not codename atau fanspot name, unless their real name is not known. Each character name will have a link directly to their fanspot. Please feel free to check those out!
How did anda find Fanpop?
There was a bunch of shit that went down with a group of friends both I and the user x-menobsessed26 were a part of, but when the dust settled and the few of us who were left became REALLY close. XO26 introduced me to this website over her shoulder and I would explore on her account, not doing anything atau she would get mad. ;) About three days ago, I made my own.
Where are anda from?
I was born in Chicago, but I moved to a small city in West Michigan when I four.
This post is going to be a bit lebih of a rant than it probably should be, but it's been weighing on my chest for the last few months since I saw the damned movie. I need to let it out. This is an OPINION piece. Just remember that.
X-men: Days of Future Past was a pretty good movie overall. There were parts I didn't like, parts I liked, and parts I loved. I was truly impressed with it considering I had no hope going in to see it. My expectations were virtually nonexistent.
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Spirometry is the best test to assess lung function. It
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specific therapy has improved lung function or whether your lung disease is
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Spirometry testing may be done in your doctor's
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This test measures the flow and amount of
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SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — At the epicenter of the pro-Russia rebellion in eastern Ukraine, masked men on Friday raced around in commandeered police cars, blowing through stop lights and flying over speed bumps. Although it was a warm spring day, the streets were nearly empty.
Separatists described taking up sniper positions in an unfinished office building, only to find that two floors down their enemies had the same idea.
The Ukrainian government declared Friday that it planned to surround and blockade this town, which is completely controlled by the separatists. Officials on both sides said a Ukrainian military helicopter, which had been used to drop leaflets criticizing the separatists, had been destroyed by hostile fire, apparently shot down. The separatists also detained a 13-member delegation from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which included five Ukrainian army officers.
Separatists said they were hunkering down and hoping that Russian President Vladimir Putin would come to their aid.
"We will stay to fight and face two options: Either we'll be wiped out by superior regular forces or be saved by the Russian army," said Yevgeny Yermakov, 25, an economist dressed in camouflage and wearing a black woolen mask.
Two weeks ago, gunmen wearing masks and uniforms without insignia seized the town's administrative building and offices of the police and Ukrainian security service. They built barricades and checkpoints in the center and around the outskirts, cementing their control. In contrast, separatists hold only individual government buildings in a number of other eastern Ukrainian cities.
The separatist force appears to be a mix of young toughs and heavily armed professional military men who seem to spend most of their time indoors. Though they were initially welcomed by many citizens, some grumbling can be heard now.
One woman, a psychologist, said people were tired of the constant stress, and when the separatist gunmen asked them to come out to the barricades recently to support them, no one came. "People may still support them, but they don't want to be part of their war," she said. "They don't want a war here, and many are beginning to understand who is really after a war."
Oleg Zontov, editor of the local online publication Slavinfo, said, "The town has turned into a complete gangland, as lots of marginal and criminal characters were handed fire arms by the separatist leadership."
Banks, schools and hospitals are closed. There were few people on the streets, and almost no children.
Yermakov and other armed men were cleaning hunting rifles and shotguns in front of the police station Friday, preparing for night duty. Meanwhile, men dressed in civilian suits were carrying out boxes. They were local police, according to one gunman, who were being allowed to retrieve of their files and documents from the station they no longer controlled.
On the outskirts of town, a man of professional military bearing, armed with an assault rifle and grenade launcher, was checking cars and trucks heading into Slovyansk. He identified himself by a code name, "Popeye," and said he was a former Soviet and Ukrainian army sergeant who came recently from Crimea.
In mid-March, Russia formally annexed the Crimean peninsula, where the majority of the population is ethnic Russian, after a referendum.
Here, Popeye acknowledged, things were a little different. "In Crimea it was much easier, everyone wanted to go to Russia," he said. In eastern Ukraine, "we will help them hold a referendum, but we don't know how they will vote."
And he despaired about some of the population. One motorist who came through the checkpoint showed him a handful of the government leaflets he had picked up in a field. They depicted a black-and-white image of a masked man aiming a handgun and warned of "Russian saboteurs and terrorists and local criminals under their leadership." The motorist claimed the leaflets were poisoned because his face and hands had started to itch.
"It is hard to hold a real Crimea-like referendum with crazy people like him," Popeye said as the car rolled away.
He also told of coming across the tracks of Ukrainian snipers still apparently operating in Slovyansk.
Popeye said he and a comrade took up a position on the top floor of an unfinished nine-story office building. A stray cat was living in the building, and the men fed it. One night they called it, but it wouldn't come.
Popeye said that when he went to look for it, he found a sniper nest for two men who fled when they heard him coming. The installation included light mattresses, traces of food — and the cat. Ukrainian soldiers apparently were using a different entrance, fed the same cat, and had the main door to the local office of the Security Service in their sights, he said.
The separatist force, Popeye said, was waiting every day for Russian troops to come.
In Kiev, the capital, Ukrainian officials said they planned to surround Slovyansk.
"Ukrainian special units have begun a second stage of the operation, which aims at completely blocking the town of Slovyansk to prevent a possibility for reinforcements and to localize the problem," Sergei Pashinsky, chief of the presidential administration, said at a briefing. "What we have in Slovyansk has nothing to do with politics. It is classical terrorism."
The helicopter that crashed, an Mi-8, went down shortly after takeoff from an airport between Slovyansk and neighboring Kramatorsk, said airport chief Dmitry Podushkin, "supposedly from a subversive act by Russian special services." An airplane on the ground was damaged by the helicopter when it crashed. The helicopter pilot was seriously injured, Podushkin said.
Separatists said they had shot down the helicopter.
"They kept flying across our airspace, and we decided to teach then a lesson — so to say, cut their wings," Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, the self-proclaimed mayor of Slovyansk and a separatist leader, said with a laugh. He said it was the helicopter that had dropped the leaflets.
Ponomaryov complained that his men didn't have enough firearms, but brushed off the danger of being surrounded.
"We have more than 2,500 men in our little army, and this is our turf we know inside out," he said. "We will find ways to penetrate their blockade."
Special correspondent Victoria Butenko in Kiev contributed to this report.


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A 20% sell-off in emerging markets since their peak nine months ago makes emerging markets look like a reasonable investment for long-term investors, according to Jim Lowell, editor of the Fidelity Investor newsletter, but only if they pair emerging-markets stocks with bonds from those areas to mitigate volatility.
On the MoneyLife Market Call interview with Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch\'s senior columnist, Lowell said that a "pairing strategy" of emerging-markets debt and equities "will cut the equity volatility in half, deliver some yield so that in peak, volatile and sell-off moments in the market cycle, the yield can offset some of the downside return risk. … It's a space I am committed to and want to remain long-term."
Lowell said he would mix Fidelity Emerging Markets with Fidelity New Markets Income to get the job done.
Lowell added that health-care is the sector where he is "most overweight" right now –- noting that it, too, benefits from emerging-markets demand — and said that "battleship balance sheets" on mega-cap companies are another key area of interest right now. For the health sector, he recommended Fidelity Select Health Care , Vanguard Health Care , Hartford Healthcare , or the iShares S&P Global Healthcare ETF , while Fidelity Mega Cap Stock f or Vanguard Dividend Growth were his picks for big-name, solid giants.
Lowell said that one area of the market that makes him nervous is fixed income, where he sees "real return risk on the fixed-income side of the fence," which requires diversifying beyond Treasuries and ultra-safe issues into corporate, high-yield and other things that will be a bit more immune to "the long-term bursting of the bond bubble."
During "Hold It or Fold It," when guests on MoneyLife discuss investments suggested by the audience, Lowell put buy recommendations on Fidelity Low-Priced Stock , Fidelity Blue Chip Growth and Fidelity Strategic Income . He put a hold on Fidelity China Region ), saying that he preferred Fidelity Total Emerging Markets as a "better way to play the overall emerging-markets space."
He also noted that while he would have gotten out of Fidelity Magellan ages ago, investors who have ridden with the one-time flagship of the firm should probably hang onto it at this point, making it a hold as the fund moves under the direction of a new manager.
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Ok, lemme get this straight, a little over 22 months ago the PM appointed her cabinet, most of them with Junior Ministers....and when these Ministers fly out the country, we still have to appoint replacements for them? Why? What's the point of these Junior Ministers? Not to deputise? So, take Rambachan for instance, Dyer-Griffith can't act/function for him, but John Sandy can? Well colour me confused.....you mean Junior Ministers just there to eat ah food too? I hadda give the PM the Take Win Award of the day, oui. She is suing the Express for saying there was noise coming from her house. Now let me get this straight, on March 26th, a story about Kamla's neighbour's fleeing was printed, in the story the Achilleous family complain about the visual aesthetics, the noise from the helicopters and from parties....and the only part of their complaint that the PM takes issue with is the noise coming from her house? And she has decided that this allegation of noisemaking is damaging to her character?
Of ALL the stories that have made it into the public sphere about the PM, of all the stories that have the world laughing at us and making Trinis the butt of jokes everywhere....noise making is the libellous story...so then the story about your family living at the PM's residence true? The story about the Govt Credit Card paying for the Louis Vee boots true too? The story about you using at least 2 helicopters everytime you travel correct as well? The story about the $2,000 a day for your hairdresser correct as well? The Elevator story correct too? So, Vidwattie and her son's really living at the State's expense, then?
I can't believe that of all the stories that buss in the last month that could possibly defame the PM's character that a story about noise coming from her house is the one worthy of a libel case. Is this more media intimidation? Why the pre-action protocol letter have to list all your academic and professional achievements? Oh, right.....your character....I hear you Madam PM...carry on smartly, oui, girl. Only you know what it must be like to walk a mile in your (pricey and coskelle) shoes.
So sex crimes up by a 100 per cent, and next to that headline, the Guardian have a picture of a smiling DCP Richardson...I was nonplussed. But, I soldier on, because within the first paragraph of the story Richardson takes, what for me is a horror headline and dresses it up with glitter by informing us that this increased figure reflects confidence in the Police service.....somebody please come and pick my jaw up off the floor......sighhhhh. So, apparently the logic is that more people are feeling comfortable about reporting sex crimes because they have more confidence in the police service....I willing to take bets that how it really went is like this...People went to the real Police Commissioner first, and COP Ian Alleyne tell them, make a police report first and then check meh back and we go sort this out....doh hot yuh head!
In the last 5 years, 10 years, 15 years....have you gotten the impression that anything new or different is done about how Police treat with sex crimes? Is not a month ago a woman turned up naked at a Police Station, an alleged victim of rape, and the Police refused to take her report? This is not the same Police that beating crowd like they beating pan?
Richardson had me looking for he People's Partnership symbol, oui....because that statement sound like pure PR and Spin!
Prakash under pressure! Mr Bicycle wine now has the heavy task of choosing from a pile of plum posts to make him stop crying over the loss of the San Fernando mayorship. Game, Set and Match to the UNC....consolation prizes to the COP.
The Partnership remains intact, the ones at the top of the COP will eat ah food....and their party base will find all kinds of ways to defend Prakash's balls-less grandcharging. Nothing to see here folks, move on....I tell all yuh since last month Prakash aint going no where....and all this talk about principles and hurting the country....where was it for past events? The COP has now sold out its entire birthright to the UNC...it could stop calling itself a party...there is nothing separate or distinct about either parties or their vision and mission. Coming highlights will be seeing both Carolyn and Prakash sing mightily for their suppers in Parliamentary debates.
Round 2 of PantyGate set for Monday, because Sat has decided to ignore the court ruling, while the TSC is saying if Cat continues to mis-read the ruling and block Sita it could have fireworks....I running out of Kettle Corn for this saga....The Sita and Sat show beginning to drain me...we need new cast members to spice things up....and I need popcorn donations from my devotees!
Oh, the woman who claimed to have punched 2 yr old Aaliyah to death, just announced she's preggers again! Ah, motherhood, such a blissful state!
There was a brutal and nasty attack on a couple in Freeport. Thieves stole their pension money after brutally attacking them....now I was going to joke and say, this has to be a false story because everybody knows Freeport wasn't a hotspot and doesn't have crime....but it's pretty difficult to look at the battered skull of Mrs Gangabissoon and be flippant.
But in a country that has had 3 straight years of no economic growth, no job stimulation in sight and a decline in morals and values from the top come down.....does any of this really surprise or move us anymore?
For Mrs Gangabissoon's sake, I hope she and her husband recover from the attack...but theirr bruises are now beyond physical. They are no doubt, like many of us here, brutally scarred by simply trying to get by in Trinidad on a daily basis!
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. General Services Administration today announced the appointment of Jason Klumb to serve as the Regional Administrator of GSA's Heartland Region, effective February 24, 2010.
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...or pointed enough? I wish I could get a photo of all the pointed shoes, but I think I might be a little offensive if I began to take them as I am walking on the "Bulvar"! Not just women's shoes, but men's as well. Maybe that is why we saw so many shoe stretchers in the local
Walmart "have everything" store!
Yesterday, it wasn't my shoes that needed to be pointed in the right way! We were driving through the city attempting to find, yet, another supermarket. This is a rather compact city so you are never really far from anything, but when you are in a car, it seems farther just get to the next block. If we had been on foot, we would have found it so easily.....oh, wait....we did park the car and join the foot traffic in the cold, wet rain, later, to find that we had been only two blocks away from said supermarket.
We returned to our warm, dry car to attempt another go at some one way streets. I called a new friend that has been to said supermarket hoping to be pointed in the right direction....her directions were perfect with all sorts of landmarks, but her explanation became clear as mud in my mind as I tried to direct my very patient husband who was trying so hard not to go down a oneway street the wrong way, but was apparently the street we needed to travel.
hopelessly helplessly, ended up on the hill (no Texas flatland here!) on the opposite side of town so we decided to head home for some needed nutrition.....lunch! Which did not include anything from this selection of pastries that are around every corner tempting my tastebuds....
While at home, I searched some maps of the city that I have been collecting. On one of them, said supermarket had been marked as in "X marks the spot"! I am thankful that I listened in geograhpy class, at least, on map skill day....do they even teach that anymore?
After lunch, I persuaded my, once again, patient husband to bare the cold, wet streets to find said supermarket....and find it we did! Now, I'm not going to tell if we might have gone down some deserted one way street the wrong direction, but we made it to our destination. Deserted streets are hard to find around here, so if the street is deserted and you go the wrong direction, who would know? I'm not sure if we did go down the wrong way on a one way street...there was no sign like this...
...there was no way to tell, but some of us have a conscience, spend the night tossing and turning in bed, and blog about it the next morning...this is my confession, if one is needed, and now I am redeemed....OK?
You may wonder why I was so adamant that we find that particular supermarket. If you know me well, you know that I am a mission shopper. I want to know where everything is and what I can get there...and I want to know NOW! Actually, someone told me that above that supermarket there was a furniture store that might have a coffee table that I need. The furniture store did have a bigger selection than I had previously seen, but not what I am looking for.....but I have an idea!
There are some wonderful woodworkers in this city that make beautiful doors so.....one of those doors may just become a coffee table! Great idea, huh? I have also seen objects...
...that I think I can use for decor that are really for another purpose! Are you surprised? Did you think that I wouldn't come up with projects just because I wasn't at home?
After we returned to our disorganized, box filled apartment, we set about to unpack some more boxes and make some sense out of the chaos. I was in my element....decorating, staging, nesting....until...at the end of the evening, as I sat down on the sofa to revisit our day....I was reminded by the noise of the street that I was not in
Kansas Texas anymore wearing red glittered shoes flipflops....for just a brief few hours, I had forgotten that I was not at home, but I am making a new home, in new surroundings, with new sounds, yet, still pointed in same direction...heavenward!
If the shoe fits, wear it well!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Are My Shoes Pointed the Right Way?
...or pointed enough? I wish I could get a photo of all the pointed shoes, but I think I might be a little offensive if I began to take them as I am walking on the "Bulvar"! Not just women's shoes, but men's as well. Maybe that is why we saw so many shoe stretchers in the local
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Where Were My Rainboots When I Needed Them?
....in my closet, of course, among "the shoes in my closet"! Those rainboots now have a new home....in the floorboard of our Baku SUV!
A couple of Saturdays ago, (we were without internet for a few weeks while waiting for it to be installed in our new apartment so I am behind in my blogging) we went on our first grocery shopping adventure....that's right an adventure! Each store specializes in certain items, stocking only certain brands, so several stops must be made to gather supplies. With most packages written in a language we don't speak, much less read, everything is a guess. So the guessing game we play, spending a lot of time wearing our American shoes walking the aisles searching for our needs.
Each store has many staff members ready to help at the drop of a hat....talk about service! My perspective of non-English speaking residents in my home town has changed immensely. I will never complain again about the aisle in Walmart dedicated to labels in Spanish or Asian markets on every corner of my home town. There is a real need...it's difficult to decipher a foreign language....and no matter how hard you try (even with translation apps on your iPhone), translation is difficult. So guesses are made and so are mistakes....
While we were driving down an unfamiliar street.....remember we are new to the city....with our eyes open to new sights, we came upon this.....
It was raining cats and dogs, so with umbrellas in hand and rainboots in the closet, we entered the beautiful gates to find this....
I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story....
No labels to decipher, no words exchanged, no rainboots...just smiles, lots of laughter...and multiple sacks full of beautiful fruits and vegetables to satisfy our hunger!
If the shoe fits, wear it well!
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Not Every Style Fits Every Foot
.....nor every flavor fits every tongue.
Over the last two weeks, my palate has changed some. What I didn't think I would attempt to eat, I have....like hot dogs from a jar.
We are in a hotel at the beach....a little removed from the city with transportation available, but not always worth the effort. Sometimes you just don't want to go out to eat...I can't believe that I just said that....therefore, hot dogs from a jar!
Last Sunday, though, we had a Sunday Dinner that was out of this world. I was a little skeptical having been invited to the Sea Port by a local resident and knowing that my palate is a little too "Texan", I didn't know what to expect. Of course, the menu was not in a language that I can read...makes one feel so stupid. It didn't really matter...the menu was taken from my hands just about as quickly as it was given, so I really didn't have a chance to take a look. Our hostess ordered for us in her language, so I became very concerned about how the flavor was going to taste on my "Texas" tongue. But not to worry...when will I ever learn...everything that I tasted was absolutely delicious, except the beef. She graciously told us about everything we were eating...the traditions, the preparation, the origin, the seasoning (especially of the beef...a small lilac wildflower, but she couldn't think of its name)...a lesson in culture and history. Lovely!
The first course that was presented to us was my favorite so I want to add it to my Sunday Dinners ....after all, it was a Sunday Dinner .
Mimosa Salad
4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves
3 medium potatoes, boiled, peeled
2 eggs, boiled and peeled
3 medium carrots, boiled, and peeled
salt, to taste
6 tablespoons sour cream mixed with 6 tablespoons light mayonnaise - use about 2 tablespoons each time dressing is called for.
Lots of gouda cheese or Holland Pendiri (that's what you find in Azerbaijian), shredded
Boil chicken in a large pot of salted water, cooking for about 20 minutes or until chicken is tender. Drain and set aside. When cool enough to handle, chop chicken into small pieces. Peel and boil potato and carrots. Boil and peel eggs. In separate bowls, coarsely grate potatoes, carrots, and eggs. In a small bowl, combine sour cream and light mayonnaise for the dressing.
On a serving dish, evenly layer ingredients on a single leaf of lettuce in the following order
half the chicken
half the potato
half the eggs
half the carrots
Repeat in the same order with the other half of ingredients. Top the salad with lots of shredded Gouda Cheese. Top it off with one black olive on the mountain of cheese.
It is my understanding that there are many variations of this salad and many ways to present it, but this was my first impression and the flavor fit my tongue just right!
There has been one seasoning to the beef that I have not been able to identify until last night. Every hamburger, every slice of beef, every doner (a version of a Philly steak sandwich) has had this same flavor.....not really a fan! My hard-working, steel-toed boot wearing husband has been sick the last few days with an upper respiratory ....coughing his head off kind of stuff. One of his co-workers suggested to me that he needed to take some...broncocum
...unfamiliar medicinal product, but it was worth a stop in a local pharmacy to purchase some. Although my effort at pronunciation was weak, we were able to communicate our needs. After returning to our room, unable to read the instructions on the box, he took 2 small spoonfuls with quite a grimace on his face. He wanted me to taste but all I could do was take a whiff....that would have been enough for me to be miraculously healed...and I was struck by the familiar fragrance of the beef that I had tried so hard to consume. As I looked at the box, trying to type the name into a search engine for translation and dosage amounts, I saw English words....Thyme Liquid Extact! The answer to my seasoning identity question...the small lilac wildflower!
Thyme has many medicinal purposes as my information search taught me, but I'm not sure that this "Texan" tongue will adapt to its flavor...it just doesn't fit! I am glad to say that it was a good fit on the upper respiratory...coughing his head off kind of stuff.
If the shoe fits, wear it well!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
A Place to Lay My Head, Hang My Coat , and Take Off My Shoes
I've had a place to lay my head, hang my coat, and take off my shoes since we arrived in Baku...in a hotel...temporary housing, but very soon, we will have a permanent place. For some reason, all week I have been singing to myself...."this is not my home, I'm just a passing through, my treasures are all laid up, somewhere beyond the blue". I know, I know, there's more to the song and I know it's a stretch, but somehow it seems to fit. A tune to help me get through living in a hotel room for two weeks....yes, it's been two weeks since we arrived....seems longer than that!
Hopefully, we will be moving to the city very soon....maybe today! Our hotel is located outside of the city on the beach...and in the summer, I am sure this is a bustling place, but in the winter, not so much. I'm ready to be in the city where there is shopping, eating establishments, and lots of
boots people to see!
...with a place to lay my head...
It is difficult to sleep in a different bed with a different pillow in a different place, so I am ready for my own! Our bed won't be here until sometime in February, but my pillow should arrive in the next few days....so I will have a familiar place to lay my head.
...and hang my coat...
Although, we have not had snow here like our home state has had this winter, the wind is very cold coming off of the Caspian Sea. My coat has been on my back more in the last two weeks than it has been in the last two years at home. I will be finding a coat rack for our entryway for easy access...a place to hang my coat!
...and take off my shoes...
It is customary here to remove your shoes when you enter someone's home. Not particularly a habit of mine, since at home, I'm
half barefoot wearing flip flops most of the time anyway, but I like the idea! Remember, this is a sea port/beach city so it is very sandy with lots of sand and dust blowing with the strong winds of the sea, so your shoes get dusty tracking the dust and sand from the streets into the house....sounds like a woman's way of thinking! I definitely feel at home when I take off my shoes.
So..."this is not my home, I'm just a passing through, my treasures are laid up, somewhere beyond the blue"....in more ways than one!
If the shoe fits, wear it well!
Friday, January 14, 2011
The Weight of the
World on My Shoulders Shoes on My Feet
There have been so many times in my life that I truly have felt the weight of the world on my shoulders. Those of you who know me well, know the poundage that I have carried, off and on over the years...I don't mean the bodily kind of poundage, although, that is true as well with all of its ups and downs...I mean the poundage that life gives us that tests us, producing patience in us so that we may be more like Him.
Over and over God has shown me that He will always be there to help me....proving to me time and time again that I will not be given more than I can carry....although, I so many times wanted to question Him.
As I was departing on this new and exciting adventure, it dawned on me that I would be entering a world where no one knew me or about any of the shoulder weight that I had carried more often than I desired. Meeting new people, discovering new surroundinigs, conversing more through body language than words....I had a choice...accept this as another weight on my shoulders or go along for the ride of my life and enjoy it to its fullest....I choose the latter. I will walk this path before me with joy, excitement, and wonder topped with a little jetlag every now and then.
My first encounter with joy came on the first day of my arrival in Baku. What a joyous experience it was! Not many would find joy going to a medical clinic for a check-up, but everyone in the office was so kind and eager to help. Although that did make the experience easier, it was not until the nurse took me into an examining room for the preliminary routine checks...pulse, blood pressure, weight...that I experienced that joy. Maybe it was jetlag, maybe it was nervousness, or maybe...., but I stepped on the scale and was thrilled at the sight of my weight. The nurse told me that I was the first lady that she had ever weighed that didn't ask to remove her shoes....my response....I will carry the weight of the
world on my shoulders shoes on my feet any day as long as I am weighed in kilos. My mind doesn't compute in kilos...only in pounds......kilos looks like half of the pounds.
Next time I feel as though I am carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders, I will think in kilos because I know that God is carrying the weight with me....I will face the weight with joy!
If the shoe fits, wear it well!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Looking Like a Worn Out Shoe
That's about how I am looking right now! Lack of proper nutrition and proper sleep during the long flight to Baku is showing up on this traveler's face. I haven't had difficulty with the time difference. It feels like morming when it's morning and night when it's night and I'm hungry when it's mealtime...but I'm looking like a worn out shoe!
I don't feel like one though....all comfortable, stretched out, fitting the foot just right....nope! I am anything but that! Life is requiring a lot of talking with hands to communicate, adjusting to unfamiliar surroundings, and living out of suitcases....9 of them to be exact and that was after a sea-going crate and an airbound carton left with our belongings last week.
Yesterday, I met Johnny. He is a company driver....most of the employees don't drive over here and after experiencing the "MarioCart" type driving, I understand why. He took us to have my red background picture made for my residence card and to the medical office for a medical check for the same purpose. He gets around these crowded streets
and bustling traffic
as if it is second nature. Driving is his profession! He speaks Russian, Azeri, and English...I'm a little envious of his ability to communicate and translate. He helped us with that too, when we stopped to purchase a phone for me to use while in Baku. That was an experience! I still don't understand exactly how it works...instruction booklet is in Russian...they were able to find an English version for me, but their system is so different....all prepaid phone cards, no service contracts.
As the sun came up over the Caspian Sea this morning and after we consumed a wonderful breakfast
we took a walk along the beach,
then down the highway that follows the contour of the beach.
Along the way, people were scurrying across the highway to catch a bus,
sweeping the dust from the driveways,
and making their way home after an evening in town.
We came upon a food vendor that sells roasted chicken and flat bread.
We purchased a
loaf slab of bread wrapped in newspaper
for 1 manat...or $1.20 USD. The ladies in this shop were excited to show me how their food was prepared and let me capture it in pictures.
They prepare the dough...
and after stretching it, they throw it on the wall of these round stone ovens...
I felt a little like Lucy Ricardo when she was on her European tour trying to get a room and some food while in Italy....if you're not an I Love Lucy fan, you may not understand what I'm talking about, but suffice it to say that words just didn't communicate....
fingers hands had to do the walking talking. But oh, the joy, when you come to an understanding and there are squeals of delight and breaking out in an international language....laughter!
Our afternoon was filled with a taxi ride to downtown where we got an eyeful of boots. I was so surprised at the parade of so many different styles of boots. Flat boots, stilletto boots, bejeweled boots, furry boots, ruffled boots, leopard boots, shiny boots....they are definitely a fashion statement here in Baku. I felt rather out of place in my running shoes (I was thinking of comfort....they weren't!)
So many people shopping,
walking arm in arm along the boardwalk,
so much to take in...I forgot to take pictures of all those boots....maybe next time because you must see!
We stopped in a small cafe for a late lunch...Sunset Cafe.
After eating our lunch, a young man, Ryan, came to our table inquiring if we spoke English....absolutely! As a traveling chef from South Carolina, he began his journey in Rome, made his way to Baku, and plans his next stop to be France. According to him, he is building his resume, discovering his own way with different ingredients to prepare food. He invited us to return one evening to experience one of his creations....not just a burger that is on the written menu. I think, we will go back, if for nothing but an English conversation with a southern American accent.
As we made our way to find another taxi
for a ride "home", we were sidetracked by a carpet salesman.
He drew us into his shop....we tried to resist, but he so wanted us to have a cup of tea! He took us through a hallway past several other shops to come upon his
hole in the wall shop. He required us to sit while his partner prepared our tea and he began to unroll carpet after carpet....silk carpet, wool carpet, camel hair carpet....beautiful handmade carpets. Our piping hot tea was served and we sipped our tea with a sugar cube lump in our mouths. It was quite good, I must say! When we told him that we were not interested in any carpets today, he began to show us scarfs....silk scarfs, wool scarfs, camel hair scarfs. We were persuaded to purchase a scarf...one of my choosing after he confused us with so many choices, so I'm not sure what kind of scarf will be around my neck. We finished our tea, paid for the scarf, and as we prepared to leave, he pulled out a table scarf to give to me as a gift. He wants to be our one and only "carpet man".
After a day of walking and discovery, I am so glad that I opted for comfort instead of fashion today, or I would be looking like the other worn out shoe!
If the shoe fits, wear it well!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The Right
Hand Foot Shoe Doesn't Know What the Left Hand Foot Shoe is Doing
In just one week's time, all of our belongings have been going, going, ....staying! I'm having a little bit of separation anxiety.
Many of our things left last week...
last night more was packed away in luggage...
and some stays firmly in its place at home.
Today, all of it will be out of my reach...by air, by sea, or by firmly planted on land...completely out of my control...(anxiety creeps in)


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Bucks for Buildings Update (as of May 17, 2013)
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Bucks for Buildings Project Design Overview
Commercial building owners and tenants in Portland received rebates up to 50 percent off the cost of qualifying energy efficiency upgrades. Non-profit organizations were eligible for rebates up to 75 percent off the cost of qualifying upgrades.
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Two Hungarian men have been jailed for their part in a large scale human trafficking ring which saw victims lured to Kirklees and forced into near slavery.
Heckmondwike-based Janos Orsos, 43, was sentenced to five years behind bars for masterminding the sophisticated scam in which fellow countrymen were paid as little as £10 per week for working up to 100 hours.
Sentencing him today (Tuesday), Judge Peter Armstrong said: "This was a criminal enterprise from the outset.
"Having got people to come to this country you were in effect number one in the gang over here.
"These people were forced to work by being in an atmosphere of fear of being beaten or having no alternative economic means of moving away."
Teeside Crown Court heard Orsos preyed on vulnerable Hungarians with promises of well-paid work and accommodation.
But on arrival they were faced with squalid and cramped accommodation, long hours with barely any pay and beatings from Orsos if they disobeyed his orders.
Workers lived in accommodation in Ravensthorpe, Batley, Heckmondwike and Bradford. Up to 50 men were kept in a single Batley house.
Beatings were regularly dished out by Orsos. One of the house rules was that no one could ever say 'no' to him.
They were then sent to work throughout Dewsbury, Bradford and Wakefield.
Many were too scared to escape and one woman who had lost her job feared for her life after she overheard Orsos saying she would be killed.
Orsos, of Lascelles Road, and his accomplice Ferenc Illes, 25, of Beckett Walk, Dewsbury, were part of a wider human trafficking gang.
The court heard Orsos made at least £60,000 from the conspiracy, which was sent out of the country using a Western Union account.
Orsos also pleased guilty to blackmail and converting criminal property.
Illes was described by Judge Armstrong as Orsos's "right hand man". He was in charge when Orsos was away and drove victims to and from work.
Judge Armstrong added: "You were aware of the conditions in which these people were living and the conditions in which they were working yet you were prepared to work for this gang, albeit acting under instructions from Orsos." Illes was sentenced to three years in jail.
Judge Armstrong went on to personally commend West Yorkshire Police and Hope For Justice, an anti-slavery charity combating human trafficking in the UK, for their roles in the investigation.
It was Hope For Justice officers who first brought the case to the attention of police.
Hope For Justice director of operations Alan Doherty welcomed the sentences.
He said: "With upwards of 30 or 40 people living in a two-bedroom house, can you imagine the smell, the overcrowding, the dirt? People were living on scraps of food or slop that was reheated again and again.
"You wouldn't let animals be kept in those conditions."
Det Sgt Paul Simms, of Kirklees CID said: "We are pleased to see the conviction of Orsos and Illes today for offences which, quite simply, should not be happening in 21st century Britain.
"I am quite sure the notion that men and women were working in conditions of virtual slavery in their communities will horrify residents in Dewsbury and Heckmondwike."


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Sometimes you must be resourceful when facing a challenging task, but not at the expense of safety. And what about the two people brave enough — or dumb enough — to stand in the middle of all this?
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2013 Oscar nominees with New England ties
'Argo,' starring Ben Affleck
Fans may be disappointed that Cambridge's own Ben Affleck wasn't nominated for best director for "Argo,'' but Affleck — who also starred in and produced the film — wasn't snubbed entirely. His film is up for best picture, along with eight other nominees. Affleck was raised in Cambridge and began his rise to fame as co-writer and one of the stars of "Good Will Hunting,'' set in Boston and the surrounding area in 1997, for which he won an Academy Award 15 years ago alongside fellow Bostonian Matt Damon.
Local connection: Affleck was raised in Cambridge and began his rise to fame as co-writer and one of the stars of "Good Will Hunting,'' set in Boston and the surrounding area in 1997.
'Argo' is nominated for: Best picture, best supporting actor (Alan Arkin), best adapted screenplay, best original score, best film editing, best sound mixing, best sound editing.
Pictured: Affleck posed during a photocall for "Argo'' in Rome on Oct. 19, 2012.
'Moonrise Kingdom'
Wes Anderson's latest project , "Moonrise Kingdom,'' is up for an Oscar for best original screenplay, and it was filmed in nearby Narragansett, R.I. The film takes place on a fictional island, along the lines of Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket, and screams New England.
Nominated for: best original screenplay.
Pictured (from left): Bill Murray as Mr. Bishop, Frances McDormand as Mrs. Bishop, Edward Norton as Scout Master Ward, and Bruce Willis as Captain Sharp in "Moonrise Kingdom.''
'Silver Linings Playbook'
He may not have acted in, directed, or produced "Silver Linings Playbook,'' but Holden resident Matthew Quick wrote the novel of the same name, upon which the Academy Award-nominated film is based. The film version of his acclaimed work is up for eight Oscars, including best picture.
Nominations for the movie 'Silver Livings Playbook': Best picture, best actor (Bradley Cooper), best actress (Jennifer Lawrence), best supporting actor (Robert De Niro), best supporting actress (Jacki Weaver), best director (David O. Russell),
Pictured: Quick at his home in Holden.
Some scenes in the animated movie "ParaNorman'' may seem familiar for residents of Massachusetts suburbs. The film, which is up for best animated feature film, includes shots modeled after Weymouth's Abigal Adams Middle School, Hingham's Loring Theater (see picture), the Norfolk County courthouse in Dedham, and the Salem Witch statue.
Nominated for: Best animated feature film.
Pictured: A scene from the animated film "ParaNorman," in a theater modeled after the Hingham Loring Theater.
'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
"Beasts of the Southern Wild'' director Benh Zeitlin (pictured) grew up in New York, but chose to go to Connecticut after high school, where he earned his Bachelor's Degree at Wesleyan University. "Beasts'' is up for four awards, including a Best Director nomination for Zeitlin and a Best Actress nomination for Quvenzhané Wallis. The nine-year-old is the youngest Academy Award nominee, ever.
Nominations for "Beasts of the Southern Wild'': Best picture, best actress (Quvenzhané Wallis), best director (Benh Zeitlin), best adapted screenplay.
Pictured: Wallis and Zeitlin arrived at the National Board of Review Awards on Jan. 8, 2013.
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Although Quentin Tarantino's film "Django Unchained''is not Boston based, there is one fact that links the film to the Hub: James Remar, who plays Butch Pooch in the film, was born in Boston in 1953. Fans of his work may also know him from the critically-acclaimed show "Dexter,'' where he plays Harry Morgan. "Django Unchained'' is up for five Academy Awards.
Nominations for "Django Unchained'': Best picture, best supporting actor (Christoph Waltz), best original screenplay, best cinematography, best sound editing.
Pictured: Jamie Foxx and Waltz in "Django Unchained.''


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Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences, edited by J. H. Shirley and R. W. Fainbridge,
905-907, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1997.
Venus is sometimes characterized as Earth's 'twin' because of its close proximity in solar system location (~ 0.72 AU heliocentric distance compared to 1.0 AU) and its similar size (~ 6053 km radius compared to - 6371 km radius), but other close resemblances are few. Besides the more obvious atmospheric composition and pressure differences, and the related extreme temperatures at the surface described elsewhere in this volume, events in the history and evolution of the interior of Venus have left that planet with practically no intrinsic magnetic field. The consequences for the space environment and atmosphere are numerous, ranging from the presence of an 'induced' magnetotail in the wake, to an ionosphere and upper atmosphere that are constantly being scavenged by the passing solar wind.
Venus, like the other terrestrial planets, was presumably accreted from iron and silicate-bearing planetesimals some 4.5 billion years ago. These new planets are all likely to have differentiated in a similar manner, so that they have the common feature of a molten iron-rich core of about half the planet's radius, covered by a crust of the remaining (mainly silicate) material. Only indirect information is available about these cores, but seismic measurements on the surface of Earth tell us that a solid inner core, with a size depending on the size of the planet and on its thermal history, may also be a common feature. Since no seismic measurements have been obtained on the surface of Venus, we cannot be as certain about its interior; however, the large value of the mean density of ~ 5.25 g cm-3 derived from satellite orbits suggests that Venus contains an Earth-like core. Essentially, all other deductions about the interior of Venus are based on models of Earth-like planets with internal temperatures and pressures adjusted for the slightly different radius and possible compositional differences. One of these models has led to the hypothesis that the core of Venus may be completely solid or 'frozen' today, while others propose that core solidification has not yet commenced or has stopped at some time in the past (e.g. Stevenson, Spohn and Schubert, 1983). In all cases, evidence cited in support of these hypotheses always includes the known weakness of the intrinsic magnetic field.
When Mariner 2 flew by Venus in 1962 at a distance of 6.6 planetary radii (Rv), it did not detect any evidence of an Earth-size magnetosphere. Mariner 5, passing within 1.4 Rv in 1967, detected the signatures in the solar wind of deflection around an 'obstacle' at Venus. The small inferred size of that obstacle placed an upper limit on the magnetic dipole moment of Venus of ~ 10-3 that of Earth. Later Venera 4 made magnetic measurements down to 200 km altitude, still detecting no planetary field but providing data that reduced this estimate by about an order of magnitude. In a 1974 flyby, Mariner 10 merely confirmed the existence of a small, nearly planet- size obstacle. Venera 9 and 10 were put into orbit around Venus in 1975, but did not approach Venus closer than ~ 1500 km. Nevertheless, the data that these spacecraft obtained in the wake of the planet provided the first evidence that an Earth-like magnetotail was absent, and that instead a structure related to the interplanetary magnetic field occupied that region of space. The most definitive measurements of the magnetic moment of Venus were obtained during the Pioneer Venus Orbiter mission in its first years of operation (1979-1981). Repeated low-altitude (~ 150 km) passes by that spacecraft over the antisolar region, coupled with dayside observations to the same altitude, proved the insignificance of a field of internal origin in near-Venus space. The observed fields for the most part could be explained as solar wind interaction-induced features, to be described below. The new upper limit on the dipole moment obtained from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter wake measurements placed the Venus intrinsic magnetic field at ~ 10-5 times that of Earth.
Of course, the weakness of the present measurement does not imply that Venus has always been bereft of an intrinsic field. Theories of the dynamos operating in the liquid cores of the newly accreted terrestrial planets suggest that there was a magnetic moment of Venus of the same order as Earth's for about the first billion years of Venus' life. During that time, thermal convection from the heat left over from accretion drove the dynamo. However, after that energy source diminished, there was apparently no source to replace it. While solid core formation in Earth's interior maintains its dynamo to this day by virtue of the related 'stirring' of the molten core around it, Venus appears to either lack the necessary internal ingredients (chemical or physical) for solid core formation, or to have ceased such processes at an earlier time if they resulted in complete core solidification or arrested core solidification. It is important to note that, contrary to popular belief, dynamo theory does not credit the smallness of the magnetic moment to the slow rotation of Venus (a Venus day of ~ 243 Earth days is almost equal to the length of its year of ~ 224 days, and its sense of rotation is retrograde). It is also notable that Venus would not have maintained any remanent crustal magnetic fields from its proposed early period of dynamo activity because the temperatures in the crust are expected to be above the Curie point (below which such fields could persist in rocky materials).
The 'magnetosphere' of Venus that was detected by spacecraft is now known to be an example of an 'induced' magnetosphere. In an induced magnetosphere, the solar wind interacts directly with the planetary ionosphere. The fields and plasmas that are observed are generally of solar wind or ionospheric origin. There are no belts of trapped radiation such as Earth's Van Allen belts, and there is no 'magnetotail' composed of fields of planetary origin. The basic features of an induced magnetosphere are shown in Figure 1. The ionospheric obstacle to the solar wind is defined by a surface called the ionopause. At the ionopause, pressure balance exists between the solar wind dynamic pressure on the outside and the thermal pressure of the ionospheric ions and electrons on the inside. Outside of the ionopause the solar wind interaction has all of the features characteristic to a planetary magnetosphere. A bow shock forms upstream of the obstacle. An interesting feature of the Venus bow shock is that it appears to have a location that varies with the solar cycle. The 'nose', or subsolar position, of the bow shock at sunspot maximum is near 1.5 Rv, but the terminator location moves in to - 2.1 Rv. Inside of the bow shock the solar wind plasma is deflected around the obstacle in a magnetosheath region, which is sometimes referred to as an ionosheath since the obstacle is an ionosphere. The embedded interplanetary magnetic field is compressed and draped around the obstacle in the magnetosheath region in the usual way.
|Fig. 1. Illustration of the major features of the solar wind interaction with the ionosphere of Venus. The solid dots represent the neutral atmosphere, while the circled plus symbols represent ionized atmosphere. The ionized atmosphere above the ionopause is removed by the solar wind.
Inside of the ionopause the plasma changes from solar wind-dominated to ionospheric in origin. During the primary Pioneer Venus mission, which occurred at a time of high solar activity when the planetary ionospheres are densest, this boundary between the solar wind and ionosphere proper occurred at an average altitude of about 300 km, flaring to ~ 800 km average altitude near the terminator. The boundary, which moves up and down in response to changing external (solar wind) pressure, was typically thin at a few tens of kilometers, although it increases in thickness as its altitude decreases. The observations indicated that the magnetic fields of interplanetary origin in the magnetosheath generally remain confined above the ionosphere proper, although small-scale (dimensions of a few kilometers) field increases (to ~ 100 nT) of still-unknown origin were observed. These field intrusions appeared to have twisted internal structures and so were dubbed 'flux ropes'. The exception to this behavior occurred on the rare occasions (about 15% of the time) when the solar wind pressure was high enough to drive the pressure-balance boundary to altitudes of ~ 250 km or less (the ionospheric thermal pressure increases as altitude decreases down to about 190 km altitude). At these times it appeared as if the interplanetary magnetic field in the magnetosheath penetrated the ionosphere to at least the spacecraft minimum altitude of ~ 150 km. Its magnitude in the ionosphere can reach -150 nT.
The nightside solar wind interaction features at altitudes below several hundred kilometers also show a dichotomy with solar wind pressure. When the conditions for tile 'unmagnetized' dayside ionospheres prevail, the nightside ionosphere is supplied by planetary plasma flowing across the terminator from the dayside. The observed nightside ionospheric magnetic fields are fluctuating and weak (~ 10 nT) at these times, and do not appear to be twisted like the dayside flux ropes. Near midnight, however, steady, almost vertical magnetic fields of a few tells of nanotesla were observed in conjunction with ionospheric density depletions called 'holes' by their discoverers (Brace, et al., 1982). These features are up to a significant fraction (~ 1/4) of the planetary radius in horizontal scale, and they appear to have a field 'polarity' (e.g. sunward or antisunward) that depends on the interplanetary magnetic field orientation and the associated draped field in the magnetosheath, Their origin and nature remain controversial. The 'holes' disappear when the solar wind pressure is high. The nightside counterpart of the large-scale magnetosheath field penetration into the dayside ionosphere appears to be a large-scale horizontal field of somewhat smaller magnitude (tens of nanotesla) throughout the nightside. Its relationship to the dayside field is still poorly understood. It should be noted that the high solar wind pressure scenario is expected to be common during solar minimum, when the ionospheric pressure is always weaker than at solar maximum.
The high-altitude wake of Venus is permeated with structured magnetic fields that generally point sunward or antisunward and often exhibit a 'double-lobed' structure like an intrinsic planetary magnetotail. However, examination of the polarities of the fields in the lobes shows them to be coupled closely to the interplanetary field and resulting draped magnetosheath field orientations. As shown in Figure 1, this 'induced' magnetotail can be pictured as an extension of the magnetosheath, with the draped interplanetary fields sinking into the ionospheric obstacles' wake. The draping of the field in the induced magnetotail is observed to be enhanced beyond that in the surrounding magnetosheath. This enhancement has been attributed to the 'mass loading' of those interplanetary flux tubes that pass closest to the ionopause and form the magnetotail by virtue of heavy ionospheric ion production on those passing flux tubes. In this sense, Venus can be likened to a comet, which has an induced magnetotail of similar origin.
The authors are supported for work on this subject by NASA grant NAGW 2- 501 through the Pioneer Venus project.
Brace, L. H., Theis, R. F., Mayr, H. G. et al. (1982) Holes in the nightside ionosphere of Venus. J. Geophys. Res., 87, 199.
Hunten, D. M., Colin, L., Donahue, T. M. and Moroz, V. I. (eds) (1993) Venus. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Luhmann, J. G. (1986) The solar wind interaction with Venus. Space Sci. Rev., 44, 241.
Russell, C. T. (ed.) (1991) Venus Aeronomy. Space Sci. Rev., 55, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Russell, C. T. (1987) Planetary magnetism in Geomagnetism, Vol. 2 (ed, J. A. Jacobs) London: Academic Press, pp. 457-523.
Stevenson, D. J., Spohn, T. and Schubert, G. (1983) Magnetism and thermal evolution of the terrestrial planets. Icarus, 54, 466.


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