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Why Empires Fail
Being an empire these days is tough. The difficulties do not go away by pretending one is not trying to be an empire.
A lot was said about empires in some comments by Charles Hill that Robert Merry recently critiqued in these spaces. If I understand the gist of Hill's message, it is that an activist United States has long been the world's guardian of the state system and of open expression and free trade and that if the United States does not continue to play that role, the world will fracture into spheres of influence, which leads to empires, which is bad. Merry's comments about this are on the mark, with regard to how a role of active world guardianship has or has not played in American political traditions and how Hill seems to have difficulty keeping states and empires straight.
My main problem with Hill's ideas are that the value-laden assertiveness that he seems to be defending and that appears to be equivalent to modern neoconservatism involves acting like an empire rather than being an alternative to empires. Even the more gung-ho neoconservatives tend to eschew the term "empire" as applied to the United States, but observers from outside the United States do not hesitate to use the term that way. The British-born historian Niall Ferguson in an article in Foreign Affairs a few years ago, for example, argued that one of the reasons the twentieth century was exceptionally bloody was that empires were disintegrating. With fewer empires still around to disintegrate, this suggests the twenty-first century will have less bloodshed. But the one region where Ferguson says that favorable scenario does not apply is the Middle East, and one reason it does not apply is that there is still an empire there—the American one.
Insofar as the United States acts as an empire (as it especially has when under neoconservative influence), it behooves us to think about what makes for successful and unsuccessful empires. That question is analyzed in a book written by a German academic, Herfried Munkler, and translated into English a few years ago: Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States. The main characteristic Munkler identifies that distinguishes successful empires, such as those of the Romans and ancient Han Chinese, from ones that quickly broke apart, such as the Macedonian and Mongol empires, is that at some point the imperial rulers determined that further expansion of the empire was unnecessary and that barbarism beyond its borders could be ignored except in very limited instances where it posed some kind of security problem. There is an important distinction, says Munkler, between imperialism and sound imperial rule. The Romans had decided by the time their empire had reached its greatest territorial extent under Emperor Trajan that they could let barbarians be barbarians and concentrate their own attention not on the periphery of the empire but on the prosperity of its central zone, which embraced most of the then-civilized Western world. The ancient Chinese had even more of a geographical basis to call a halt to further imperialism once their empire came to embrace most of the then-civilized Eastern world as the Chinese knew it and to disregard most of whatever was going on beyond the periphery of the empire.
It is harder to use such an approach in a more modern, interconnected world. It is harder to put down an imperialist, civilizing, humanitarian, value-expanding mission by which an empire has defined itself, without being seen—by those within the empire as well as by others—as in decline. "The United States today," says Munkler, "finds itself facing just such a dilemma":
The peaceful safeguarding of resources would imply not taking on too many global commitments. In order to hold its subglobal world, an astute imperial policy should keep out of the problems of the global world and protect itself from them by drawing "imperial boundaries with the barbarians." But it is scarcely an option in the age of democracy and media saturation: it would continually contradict the imperial mission of the United States, and without such a projection of moral purpose, the U.S. empire would lose much of its strength. To put it plainly, it may be that the American empire will founder not on external enemies but on the moral overload associated with its mission, because this makes it impossible to maintain the required indifference to the external world.
It seems the only way out of the dilemma is to avoid the moral overload by not trying to act like an empire in the first place.
Munkler has an interesting observation about empires that also are democracies and what this means for choice of methods. "The burdens of empire are long-lasting," he says, "but democracies have little time and are always in a hurry." He cites in particular the impact of a four-year election cycle. As for what this means in the methods used:
Probably, Washington's growing tendency in recent years to use the military for problem-solving also has something to do with the time pressure built into democratic mechanisms. Military solutions offer themselves with a suggestion of speed and finality, so that an "empire in a hurry" may grasp at them more often than would be sensible or advisable.
Being an empire these days is tough. The difficulties do not go away by pretending one is not trying to be an empire.
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More Orthopedic Physicians Sell Out to Private Equity Firms, Raising Alarms About Costs and Quality
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Dr. Paul Jeffords and his colleagues at Atlanta-based Resurgens Orthopaedics were worried about their ability to survive financially, even though their independent orthopedic practice was the largest in Georgia, with nearly 100 physicians.
They nervously watched other physician practices sell out entirely to large hospital systems and health insurers. They refused to consider doing that. "It was an arms race," Jeffords said, "and we knew we had to do something different if we wanted to remain independent and strong and offer good quality of care."
So, in December 2021, Resurgens sold a 60% share in United Musculoskeletal Partners, their own management company, to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a large New York-based private equity firm known as Welsh Carson. Although details of the sale were not disclosed, physician-shareholders in deals like this typically each receive a multimillion-dollar cash payout, plus the potential for subsequent big payouts each time the practice is sold to another investor in future years.
Orthopedic surgeons, long seen as fiercely independent, are rapidly catching up with other specialist physicians, such as dermatologists and ophthalmologists, in selling control of their practices to private equity investment firms. They hope to grab a bigger chunk of the surging market in outpatient surgery and maintain their position as one of the highest-paid specialties in medicine — $633,620 was the average compensation for orthopedists in 2021. For older doctors, the upfront cash payout and the potential second payout when the business is flipped offers the promise of a posh retirement.
Proponents say private equity investment has the potential to reduce total spending on musculoskeletal care and improve quality by helping physicians move more procedures to cheaper outpatient surgery centers, which have less overhead. It also could help the doctors shift to value-based payment models, in which they charge fixed amounts for whole episodes of care, such as total joint replacements and spine surgeries — receiving bonuses or penalties from insurers based on cost and quality performance.
But critics warn that profit-hungry private equity ownership alternatively could result in higher prices for patients and insurers, more unnecessary surgery, and less access to care for patients on Medicaid or those who are uninsured or underinsured. A recent study found that in the two years after a sale, PE-owned practices in three other medical specialties had average charges per claim that were 20% higher than at places not owned by private equity.
Critics also worry that PE investors will put pressure on doctors to see more patients and use more non-physician providers in ways that could lead to poorer care, as KHN has reported about gastroenterology and other specialties.
"Private equity has no interest in reducing the cost of medicine," said Dr. Louis Levitt, chief medical officer of MedVanta, a Maryland orthopedic management company whose physician-owners have rejected partnering with private equity. "Their goal is to increase profitability in three to five years and sell to the next group that comes along. They can only do it by making the doctors work longer and reduce service delivery."
There are now at least 15 PE-backed management companies — called platforms — that own orthopedic practices across the country, said Gary Herschman, a New York lawyer who advises physicians in these deals. The first orthopedic deals were done in 2017, and dozens of sales have occurred since then, with the pace expected to quicken. In 2022 alone, at least 15 orthopedic practices were sold to PE-owned management companies.
Dana Jacoby, CEO of the Vector Medical Group, a strategic consultancy for physician groups, said several orthopedic platforms built by private equity investors already are on the market for resale to other investors, though she wouldn't say which ones. The government does not require public reporting of these deals unless they exceed $101 million, a threshold that is adjusted over time.
Private equity investors have rolled up orthopedic practices in at least 12 states, with concentrations in Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Colorado.
Besides United Musculoskeletal Partners, other sizable PE-owned orthopedic platforms include Phoenix-based HOPCo, backed by Audax Group, Linden Capital Partners, and Frazier Healthcare Partners, with 305 physicians in seven states; Alpharetta, Georgia-based U.S. Orthopaedic Partners, backed by FFL Partners and Thurston Group, with 110 physicians in two states; and Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Orthopedic Care Partners, backed by Varsity Healthcare Partners, with 120 physicians in four states.
Private equity funds, with a reported $1.8 trillion to invest in health care, are attracted to the size of the orthopedic care market. Annual patient spending is nearly $50 billion alone for treating back pain. The soaring demand of aging Americans for joint replacements, the high rates insurers pay for musculoskeletal procedures — such as nearly $50,000 for a knee replacement — and the lucrative array of orthopedic service lines and ancillary businesses, including ambulatory surgery centers, physical therapy, diagnostic imaging, pain management, and sports medicine, make this a tantalizing line of business.
The standard playbook of private equity firms is to pull profits of 20% out of their physician groups each year, then reap up to a 350% return on their cash investment when they sell the platform, say experts involved in these deals.
Orthopedic surgeons "are very excited about getting a $5 million to $7 million check," said Dr. Jack Bert, former chair of the practice management committee of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. "But some I've talked to say the suits come in and tell the doctors, 'You're not working hard enough, you've got to increase production by 20%.' That can be a big problem."
Through their sale to Welsh Carson, the Resurgens orthopedists in Atlanta got a capital partner and executive expertise to help them expand by acquiring other orthopedic practices in Georgia and other markets. Soon after the deal, United Musculoskeletal Partners acquired large orthopedic practices in Dallas and Denver, and brought in a second private equity firm as an additional investor. Several other acquisitions are imminent, said Sean Traynor, a general partner at Welsh Carson.
The investment capital and the company's growing size in major markets will sharpen the doctors' ability to negotiate richer contracts with insurers, get better deals on equipment and supplies, build more outpatient surgery centers, and improve quality of care for patients.
The physicians, Traynor said, retain full responsibility for clinical governance, and that is protected by a permanent contract provision binding on all future owners.
"Other physicians ask what's changed [since the sale], and I say nothing, which is great," said Dr. Irfan Ansari, one of the Resurgens orthopedists.
But some large employers, whose self-funded health plans pay for orthopedic care for their workers, view the trend toward private equity ownership warily. They fear the new owners will milk the current fee-for-service system, which financially rewards doctors for providing more — and more expensive — surgical procedures, rather than promoting less costly but effective services such as physical therapy for lower back pain.
"The worry we have is we're not seeing private equity fulfilling the promise of value-based care," said Alan Gilbert, vice president for policy at the Purchaser Business Group on Health, which represents nearly 40 large private and public employers. "We're seeing the same short-term financial goals you see with other private equity investments, including pressure to perform non-indicated procedures."
At least two PE-backed orthopedic groups, however, are working with insurers on cost-saving value-based care programs. U.S. Orthopaedic Partners and HOPCo tout their partnerships with insurers, boasting that they've built systems to deliver entire episodes of care at lower costs under fixed-payment models.
Jennifer Allen, chief financial officer at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi, said her health plan has saved nearly 40% by collaborating with Mississippi Sports Medicine, now owned by U.S. Orthopaedic Partners, on bundled payments for hip, knee, and shoulder replacement procedures as well as several spine procedures. But Allen said the program was launched in 2016 before private equity investors bought that orthopedic group.
"We had established the protocols, the benefits, the bundle, and everything before that," she said. "I didn't see anything that the private equity platform brought to the table."
Dr. David Jacofsky, HOPCo's chairman, said private equity owners should be steering their orthopedic groups toward value-based care, but so far he's not seeing that happening much. "Private equity has lofty goals of wanting to build these things, but the time frame it takes is much longer than private equity wants to stay in these deals," he said. Instead, he added, most are trying to grow bigger and demand higher payments from insurers, and "that's not good for anyone."
Still, MedVanta's Levitt isn't optimistic about his orthopedic colleagues' ability, or willingness, to resist private equity. "We're on an island and pieces are being chipped away by piranhas in the water," he said. "I'm not sure it's possible to remain independent."
[Correction: This article was updated at 7 p.m. ET on Jan. 6, 2023, to remove the attribution to Sean Traynor in describing the impact of Welsh Carson's investment capital and its growing size in major markets.]

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And after Friday's unexpectedly weak jobs report, the financial markets are gearing up for more volatility.
NPR's Jim Zarroli looks at the latest slowdown and what might be done to get the economy moving.
JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE: If there was any doubt about it before, the unemployment report confirmed it: the U.S. economy has once again fallen into a spring swoon.
HEIDI SHIERHOLZ: It's sort of dampens our hopes that we're really gaining momentum.
ZARROLI: Heidi Shierholz is a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute. She says over the past few months, the economy has added nearly 100,000 jobs on average each month, which is just about enough to keep up with population growth. But she says it's not enough.
SHIERHOLZ: I'm not worried were slipping into recession. But I'm very worried that we are not getting the kind of job growth that we need to put 12.7 million unemployed Americans back to work.
ZARROLI: There's no easy explanation for this slowdown. Unlike the past two years, there's been no Japanese tsunami and energy prices have been falling. The economy is simply losing steam and not just in the United States. Europe is entering a recession, even India and China have seen growth slow.
Carey Leahey is senior economist at Decision Economics.
CAREY LEAHEY: Everywhere you look, people are taking out their erasers and reducing their growth expectations in every major market.
ZARROLI: Leahey says a big part of the problem continues to be the debt crisis in Europe. Lately, there's been talk of bank runs in Spain and Greece, and four years after the financial crisis got under way, world leaders seem unable to address it. Leahey says the markets are waiting for some clear leadership by European officials.
Meanwhile, in the United States, there is growing pressure on the Federal Reserve to step in. One idea is for the Fed to implement another round of quantitative easing, which is a way of pouring more liquidity into the financial system. Leahey says that could help.
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ZARROLI: Leahy says the U.S. economy is also being affected by the continuing disputes over taxes and spending. Unless Congress and the White House can agree on a fiscal plan by the end of this year, there will be a automatic cuts in federal spending and tax cuts will expire.
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ZARROLI: But there aren't many quick fixes right now. Heidi Shierholz says Congress could make a difference by channeling more money to state and local governments, which have cut hundreds of thousands of jobs since 2008.
SHIERHOLZ: Getting fiscal relief to state could just stop that hemorrhaging. It would be a huge boost to the economy, shoring up the safety net; substantial additional investment in infrastructure. Those are the kinds of things the economics calls for.
ZARROLI: But Shierholz acknowledges that's not so easy to do politically. There's no clear consensus about how to fix the nation's problems. And even if there were it seems unlikely in an election year that anything will get done. In the meantime, as Friday's jobs report suggests, the U.S. economy continues to sputter.
Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Impossible List is NOT a Bucket List.
There's a difference. Not just in the name, but in the entire concept.
Lots of people have a bucket list. They're static things made up at one point in time that most people don't end up actually incorporating into their lives and discard when things get tough.
The impossible list is different. It's fluid, updating status of what's coming, what's next and where you've come from. It's always changing, always updating and always evolving. The impossible list isn't just a piece of paper, it's a commentary to yourself on how you're living.
I don't have a problem with bucket lists. They're probably better than nothing, but the worst part about a bucket list isn't that it's just a bucket list, but that it's a just list. It's a set of things waiting for you to check off. If you don't get to them, you fail.
That's a really bad approach.
The impossible list is different.
It might be a list, but the impossible list is a list that helps give narrative to your story. It gives purpose to your actions and it gives context to your journey.
I've said before, that the best way to write something that matters is to first do something that matters, and then write about it. Not the other way around.
The impossible list is a good barometer for that.
If you're getting bored with your life, it might be because it's because you just have a list of things to do someday, instead of a list of things that you're actively living out day to day in an attempt to live a life worth writing about.
It's a fine line to walk so here's a quick rundown of the differences between a bucket list and the impossible list.
How the impossible list is different from a bucket list.
A bucket list is static, the impossible list evolves.
A bucket list is a set list of things you want to do. It never changes…mostly because you never do anything. The impossible list is different. It's changing, not only because you're busy actually doing things, but because you're busy adding things as well.
A bucket list gets smaller, the impossible list gets bigger.
A bucket list is a set of things you check off and hopefully you get to them all before you die. Slowly,but surely, if you're dedicated you'll eventually cross everything off your list. The impossible list is different. The impossible list expands what you're capable of doing. You should be constantly checking things off the list, but you should be adding items as well. With the impossible list, your limits expand, your horizons get bigger, your dreams become larger. You constantly check things off your list, and you realize that what's literally impossible to you now is completely different than what you thought was impossible even just 3, 6, 12 months ago.
A bucket list is focused what you do before you die, the impossible list is focused on how you live.
Hopefully you get to everything on your bucket list before you die. Hopefully. If not, too bad. The impossible list isn't as concerned with doing everything on the list, but doing some of the things on the list, exploring the limits of what you think you can do, and going even further. When you have an impossible list, doing something is much more important than doing everything.
A bucket list revoles around you, the impossible list is focused on others.
A bucket list is focused on making your life as great as possible. The impossible list is focused on telling as good of a story as possible. Sure that involves doing some great things to enrich your own life, but it also involves actively helping and enriching the lives of others as much as possible, in order to help them tell a good story of their own.
A bucket list is focused on the event, the impossible list is focused on the journey
Most bucket lists serve as a highlight reel of life – a series of unrelated exciting accomplishments between which most of the time people are bored. The impossible list is a journey. The impossible list is a series of events, each building on each other in order to create a great story. Each list has a meaning and a purpose and the list expands and changes in order to tell a story of how you've grown, what you've overcome and how you've gotten to where you are from where you're from. The check marks designate things accomplished, but the purpose is not to get to simply achieve specific accomplishments but to change in the process that occurs between those those events.
A bucket list has accomplishments, the impossible list has meaning.
A bucket list is focused on doing things. The impossible list is focused on doing things with meaning. Doings things over and over that you think other people will care about or doing what other people find impressive is not the point. The purpose is to stretch yourself to do things you never thought possible, regardless of other people's opinions on the topic.
A bucket list is made up of someday dreams, the impossible list requires action today.
A bucket list is stuff people hope to do someday. "Maybe, one day when I get lots of money, I'll do 'X'". The impossible list takes action today. It requires you sit your butt down, and go get stuff done. It's not all pie in the sky and it won't just happen if you think about it hard enough. It takes work and you have to actually do something in order to get there.
A bucket list expires, the impossible list aspires
There's a countdown for the bucket list out there. The time ends when you die. If you didn't get to everything, too bad. You lose. Failure. The impossible list is different. It's focused on challenging you to question what's impossible right now, and pushing you to bigger and better things rather than being comfortable with the status quo. It forces you to constantly expand the sphere of what you believe is possible right now. A bucket list expires when you die. The impossible list is about what you're aspiring to do right now…because that's the only time you really have.
Bucket List or Impossible List? What will you choose?
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Customers chat, read the paper and order sandwiches and espresso drinks at the counter of August First Bakery & Cafe in Burlington, Vt., but there's something different here. Where there used to be the familiar glow of laptop screens and the clicking of keyboards, now the devices are banned.
"I was here working on my laptop when I looked over and saw that there's a sign that says 'laptop-free,' " says Luna Colt, a senior at the University of Vermont.
During a recent visit, Colt is shocked that using her computer is against the rules.
"My friend and I started talking about it because we're both on screens," Colt says. "Then I said, 'Should I go up there and apologize?' "
When owner Jodi Whalen first opened four years ago, she initially offered free Wi-Fi to customers. Students like Colt flocked to the business and started typing away — and staying. All day.
"We saw a lot of customers come in, look for a table, not be able to find one and leave," Whalen says. "It was money flowing out the door for us."
That's why Whalen decided there'd be no more screens. It was a gradual move. She started by shutting down the Wi-Fi two years ago. Then, the cafe banned screens during lunch.
"A lot of people were disappointed," Whalen says. "But we actually saw our sales increase."
What's socially acceptable when it comes to using a laptop in public, anyway? Student Luna Colt says it's about how much money you spend.
"You should buy something every two hours if you're going to be here and just work all day," Colt says.
As long as you're being a good customer, she says, there's nothing wrong with working on a laptop. It's why she's been coming here in the first place.
We actually saw our sales increase.
"If I was going to be here all day, I'd probably come here and eat breakfast. Then a few hours later, I'd have lunch," Colt says. "I would guess that wouldn't lose them any money, really."
Not quite, according to Whalen. It's less about how much any given laptop user buys, and more about table space.
"Even if they think they're a good customer because they buy lunch, they're still here for four hours," Whalen says.
Stephen Gonzalez says when he has come here to work, he has paid attention to the number of tables that are free.
"If there's no tables or if there's like one table, I probably would never sit down and set up shop," Gonzalez says.
Whalen says it's not just about money.
"To walk into a place and see people looking at their screens with a blank stare, it takes away just kind of the community aspect of it — of you being in a place with other people," Whalen says.
The policy makes Gonzalez consider how much he really needs technology. Recently, he sat at a table with a notebook open.
"I thought, can I actually do work and be screen-free?" he says. "Yeah, I think I can."
Everything in moderation, though. Smartphone users won't be kicked out — at least not for now.
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…the man who virtually invented the photojournalistic motion picture still.
— Popular Photography
Bob Willoughby, whose photographs transformed the images of Hollywood's biggest stars, is a true pioneer of 20th century photography. He was the first "outside" photographer hired by the major studios to create photographs for the magazines, and was the link between the filmmakers and major magazines of the time, such as Life and Look.
Born June 30th, 1927 in Los Angeles, his parents were divorced by the time he was born and he was raised by his mother. Bob was given an Argus C-3 camera for his twelfth birthday, providing the catalyst for what would become the key to his future.
After high school, he studied cinema at night at the USC Cinema Department and design with Saul Bass at the Kahn Institute of Art. At the same time he apprenticed with a number of Hollywood photographers; Wallace Seawell, Paul Hesse, and Glenn Embree, gleaning technical and business know-how. His first magazine assignments were for Harper's Bazaar in the early '50s when famed art director Alexey Brodovitch became aware of his work.
His career took off in 1954 when Warner Bros. asked him to photograph Judy Garland's final scene on the set of A Star Is Born. His portrait of the freckle-faced star became his first Life cover. From then on his production was phenomenal. His images were in print literally every week for the next twenty years. As the first "special" he covered the making of over 100 films, including the 1960s movies The Graduate, My Fair Lady, Rosemary's Baby and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
His body of work, documenting this historic era of filmmaking, is unsurpassed. He captured with wonderful perception the most famous actors and directors of the time on and off the set, in unguarded moments of repose, vulnerability and high drama. He had a unique ability to capture what was essential to each film.
Sometimes a filmmaker gets a look at a photograph taken on his own set and sees the 'soul' of his film in one still photograph. It's rare, but it happens. It happened to me in 1969, the first time I looked at the work of Bob Willoughby during the filming of They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
— Sydney Pollack from the introduction to Bob's autobiography
Bob also had a remarkable understanding of the needs of each individual magazine; he could be shooting for seven different publications and know exactly what each one needed in terms of editorial content and design layout.
While Willoughby is most famous as the great chronicler of Hollywood, before he began covering film production he had already made an astonishing series of images of jazz musicians. Willoughby had a huge appreciation of jazz both in its technical aspects and its ability to raise the roof in performance. He had a masterful feel for the character of the artists, and he was able to convey it even in the difficult lighting conditions of recording studios and stage.
He was responsible for a number of technical innovations, including the silent blimp for 35mm still cameras, which became common on film sets. He was the only photographer working on films at the time to use radio-controlled cameras, allowing him unprecedented coverage in otherwise impossible situations, and he had special brackets built to hold his still cameras on or over the Panavision cameras.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood honored Willoughby with a major retrospective exhibition of his work. He was awarded the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Still Photography in New York in 2004. His photographs are in the permanent collections of The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The National Portrait Gallery, London; The National Museum of Photography, Bradford, UK; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, Film Department, New York; The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Tate Gallery Collection, London; Théâtre de la Photographie et de l'Image, Nice; and Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium.
In December 2009, Bob passed away at his home in Vence in the South of France, surrounded by his wife Dorothy and four children.


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February 27, 2013
His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, has prepared an extensive pastoral letter for his flock. It includes sections on Preaching, A Responsible Priesthood, Love and Pastoral Work, The Dialogue of Religions, and much more. The letter opens:
"It is a pleasure to address you through this message, hoping that it conveys to you some of my concerns as to what our Church needs today and what is demanded of each of us. I would like to resort to these words:
"'In grace we grow, in service we transcend, and in love the structure is strengthened,'" as a motto for my Patriarchate, as God has willed that I will be watching over the Antiochian Church and embracing its children with the help of my brothers the bishops. The Church is the Church of all of us. God has willed that we are in it as brethren, in order to work as one body. I know that many of you complain because they do not hear enough the voice of their Church. They think that it has abandoned them, and that it does not care for their real problems. Others, on the other hand, complain about the fact that many do not care about their Church, and are not interested in its affairs. I understand this complaint, and I am saddened by anyone who would forsake the flock of Christ because of negligence, arrogance, laziness or lack of transparency or care. It is my sincere wish that we should all share equally the responsibility for our Church, as Chrysostom has taught us. We will be responsible for it, if we respect our gifts and if we collaborate in caring for the affairs of our family as a whole.
"For a person to take care of the affairs of his family, he should get acquainted with its situation, and should hope that the family itself knows his concerns and his constraints. We should therefore come up with diverse tools and measures that could make each of us listen to the other, before we start preaching and planning."
The full text of the letter is available (source).
Source: Antiochian.org


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This product is currently sold out.
A beautiful lace-weight blend of 25% silk and 75% kid mohair, this Isager yarn is super soft and light with a gorgeous fluffy structure. This yarn can be used individually for scarves and small projects in simple designs but is especially suited for knitting together with other yarns. Knit together with Spinni to create a beautiful lightweight yet durable fabric or knit this yarn on much larger needles for shawls, scarves and other light and open garments.
Note: A structured pattern will not show in this yarn unless the silk mohair is knitted together with another smoother yarn.
Spun in Italy
Composition: 25% Silk 75% Kid Mohair
Weight: 25g Laceweight
Length: 212m
Suggested needle size: 3mm, 4mm or 5mm as a single strand
Combining Silk Mohair with other Isager yarns:
Silk Mohair and Spinni held together are knitted on 4 – 6 mm needles
Silk Mohair and Highland held together are knitted on 4 – 7 mm needles
Silk Mohair and Isager Tweed held together are knitted on 4 – 7 mm needles
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- Collection Overview
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Early Creations, 1965-1979
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
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Includes Barron's early unpublished writings.
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Materials are grouped by title of work, preceded by a file group of Barron's unpublished early writings and followed by a file group of related promotional materials and awards.
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No materials were separated from the collection during 2016-2021 processing.
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This collection was processed by Kelly Bolding in March-April 2016, with assistance from Fiona Bell '18. Finding aid description was provided by the donor. Arrangement and description of the collection existing when the materials arrived at the library was largely preserved during processing. Finding aid updated based on donor description by Kelly Bolding and Sophia Alvarez '18 in December 2016 and by Kelly Bolding in May 2017, December 2017, June 2018, January 2019, and December 2021.
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The collection is open for research. Personal materials, including personal journals and letters, fan mail, and correspondence with other authors (Series 4, housed in boxes Box B-000657 and B-000658), are closed for research until January 1, 2025, in accordance with the donor agreement.
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Windows Batch Files for Fun and Profit
- Why Batch Files?
- Creating and Using Batch Files
- Batch File Programming
- Displaying Information in Batch Files
- Argument Substitution
- Argument Editing
- Conditional Processing with If
- Processing Multiple Arguments
- Working with Environment Variables
- Processing Multiple Items with the For Command
- Using Batch File Subroutines
- Prompting for Input
- Useful Batch File Techniques
Why Batch Files?
While Windows Script Host is a powerful scripting and programming environment, the old-fashioned batch file can still be a useful, powerful tool in the Windows XP environment. Why? Whereas Windows Script Host programs use objects as tools to perform Windows management and data-processing tasks, batch files use entire programs as their tools. WSH scripts give you great control of the details of a task, whereas batch files let you work at a grosser, macro level. So, just as it's an advantage to have both small and large wrenches in your toolbox, it's an advantage to know how to write both scripts and batch files. Furthermore, like Windows Script programs, batch files serve as a form of documentation, because they capture critical business management information—procedures and configuration data—in written form.
In my work as both a software developer and writer, I've found that the batch files I write fall into three categories:
- Tiny files to manipulate the command-line environment. For example, I have several little batch files that change the working directory to the correct folder for specific projects, and perhaps add a directory to the search path. This way, I can open a Command Prompt window, type one word, and be ready to work with a particular project's files.
- Medium-sized files that perform a specific series of commands that I find myself typing over and over. For example, I frequently have to send updated versions of a particular set of files to a client. I use a batch file to update a ZIP file and e-mail the results so the whole job is taken care of with one command.
- Monster batch files that perform a long sequence of tasks and handle a variety of command-line options. In my work, these tend to involve custom-developed command-line programs for data-processing applications or Microsoft-provided utilities used to manage Windows—both the standard tools and those provided with the Windows Resource Kits. For example, I have a batch file that documents all the Internet domains managed by my Windows 2000 Server's DNS service. This batch file could reconstruct the entire set of domains if it is necessary to move to a new server. This kind of job is a snap for a batch file but would be a nightmare to reenter through the GUI.
In Chapter 11, I discussed all the commands built in to the CMD shell. In this chapter, I'll discuss the commands that are particularly useful in batch files and will give you some examples of the three categories of batch files I find useful.


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Artist Biography
By Bruce Eder
If James Taylor epitomized the definition and the original, late-'60s incarnation of the term singer/songwriter, Dan Fogelberg exemplified the late-'70s equivalent of that term at its most highly developed and successful, with a string of platinum-selling albums and singles into the early '80s and a long career afterward, interrupted only by a health crisis that led to his untimely death in 2007. He came out of a musical family, born Daniel Grayling Fogelberg on August 13, 1951, in Peoria, IL, where his father was an established musician, teacher, and bandleader. His first instrument was the piano, which he took to well enough, and music mattered to him more than the sports that were the preoccupation of most of the boys around him. At age ten, he was saving and listening to any old records he could find. And if there's a "God-shaped space" in everyone, Fogelberg's was filled with music, something his family might've guessed if they'd seen how much he loved the music in church but was bored by the sermons. His other great passions were drawing and painting. His personal musical turning point came in the early '60s, before he'd reached his teens. A gift of an old Hawaiian guitar from his grandfather introduced him to the instrument that would soon supplant the piano, and at age 12, he heard the Beatles for the first time, which not only led him to a revelation about how electric guitars could sound, but also made him notice for the first time the act of songwriting as something central to what musicians did. It was also at that point that he began picking up on the music of Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Buddy Holly, all of whom were, of course, in the Beatles' repertory.
He started writing songs soon after, and by the time he was 13, he was in a band called the Clan, playing school events with a repertory that mostly consisted of Beatles songs. Of all the members, he was the one who stayed with music, and his taste and interests evolved with the music around him. By the time he was in his mid-teens, he was listening to the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, and was finding inspiration in the sounds and songs of Gene Clark, Stephen Stills, Chris Hillman, Neil Young, and Richie Furay, among others. His second band, the Coachmen, who'd started out doing Paul Revere & the Raiders-style dance-oriented R&B, evolved into a more progressive folk-rock outfit, even embracing some of Springfield's more ambitious repertory. Yet, somehow, for all of that devotion to music, he didn't plunge directly into the field. Had he been living in California, in Los Angeles or San Francisco, it might've been different, but in the absence of a highly receptive audience, or a surrounding coterie of serious musician friends, or much encouragement anywhere in Peoria to pursue music, he ended up embracing other goals. After finishing high school, it was on to the University of Illinois at Champaign as a drama major, in hopes of an acting career, and then a switch to painting.
This was all going on amid the political agonies of the Vietnam War, which was still going on full-tilt at the time, and Fogelberg wasn't isolated from the tensions over the war as they manifested themselves. He fell back into music through one of the relatively few public centers for what passed for a counterculture in central Illinois, a club called The Red Herring, owned by a friend named Peter Berkow. The latter invited Fogelberg to play, and soon he was building a local audience with his sound and his songs, and it was from that beginning that Fogelberg came to the attention of a University of Illinois alumnus named Irving Azoff, who at the time was managing REO Speedwagon and was thinking that it was time for him to move up to the next level in the music business. One performance by Fogelberg, accompanied by his solo acoustic guitar at an otherwise drunken fraternity event in front of a singularly oblivious audience, sold Azoff on his prospects and the idea that his own future might well be quite favorable if tied to Fogelberg. He moved to Los Angeles and Azoff began the task of getting him signed. In the interim, he played some sessions and even rated a support gig on tour with Van Morrison, in a series of shows that also included Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks. His demo tape was good enough to get serious attention from Jerry Moss at A&M Records and David Geffen at the newly established Asylum Records, but it was the legendary Clive Davis, then still at Columbia Records, who got Fogelberg under contract.
Fogelberg's debut album, Home Free (1972), recorded in Nashville, with Norbert Putnam producing, was an embarrassment of riches, musically speaking. It was a sublimely beautiful melding of country-rock with the personal level of a singer/songwriter, reminiscent at times of Gene Clark's solo work, and also encompassing sounds derived from the likes of Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Neil Young, yet never sounding too much like the joint work of those three (or four) and always sounding like Fogelberg. But it was a lot like several other brilliant debut albums to come out of the Columbia Records orbit during Davis' tenure, including Child Is Father to the Man by the original Blood, Sweat & Tears and Greetings from Asbury Park by Bruce Springsteen, in that it never generated a hit single to help drive sales. Everyone who heard the album loved it, but without a single to generate AM radio play, very few people heard it; in Davis' view, fine as it was, Home Free was a little too country-ish for mainstream radio, and fell between the cracks between pop/rock and country playlists. A few years later, after the success of acts such as the Eagles, such distinctions would matter less, but in 1972, the music marketplace was that segregated stylistically.
Fogelberg kept working, mostly as a session musician, turning up on Buffy Saint-Marie's MCA debut LP, Buffy, and on Jackson Browne's Late for the Sky, among other early- to mid-'70s albums. He also managed to continue with Columbia with help from his manager. Azoff's own Full Moon label had a production and distribution deal with Columbia, through its Epic Records imprint, and it was by way of Epic/Full Moon that he got a second chance. This time out, however, Fogelberg would record in Los Angeles with guitarist/producer Joe Walsh. Fogelberg quickly discovered that he had a sympathetic and enthusiastic partner in Walsh, and everything literally fell into place, even Graham Nash's presence (at Walsh's request) singing harmonies on the resulting album, Souvenirs, which featured a range of renowned Los Angeles-based musicians. The results were more than golden -- they ended up double platinum, as "Part of the Plan" reached the Top 20 in 1974 and Souvenirs rode those charts for six months and sold steadily for years after. The album had mostly the same mix of elements as its predecessor, but this time it was widely heard and accepted. The country-flavored rock of "Part of the Plan," the reflective singer/songwriter work of "Song from Half Mountain," the bluegrass-flavored "Morning Sky," and the heavier "As the Raven Flies" (which recalled Neil Young's "Ohio") -- all seemed to fit together perfectly.
Now Fogelberg was a star, leading an Illinois-spawned band called Fool's Gold and touring almost constantly for the next two years. In the midst of it all, he completed a third album, Captured Angel (1975) -- which he produced himself this time -- which showed him extending his sound in more ambitious directions, and in surprising circumstances. It was during 1975 that he'd returned home to spend time with his father, who had been hospitalized, and afterward, while staying in Peoria, cut what were supposed to be demos of the songs he wanted to use on his new album, with Fogelbergplaying every instrument and doing all the vocals. Instead, when Azoff and Davis heard the demos, they insisted that this was the album, and that he could never recapture the feel he'd gotten on songs like "Comes and Goes" working with other musicians. He eventually came to an agreement with the label that the percussion parts would be redone by Russ Kunkel, and the final version of Captured Angel included Norbert Putnam on bass on certain tracks, and Al Perkins on pedal steel guitar and David Lindley on fiddle, plus some string arrangements by Glen Spreen, but otherwise it was truly a Fogelberg solo effort. That album only solidified his fame, as well as making him a special favorite of college students (especially coeds) across the country, and a tour with the Eagles in 1975 -- who, by then, were being managed by Azoff -- only enhanced his profile.
Fogelberg moved to Colorado in the mid-'70s, and his initial time there resulted in the songs that became the basis for his next album, Nether Lands (1977). Ironically, the songs came at the end of an extended dry spell as a songwriter, the first of his adult life. He found himself unable to compose for months, and then, suddenly, he started writing again, but in a much more ornate, elaborately conceived, classically influenced idiom. The songs were bolder both lyrically and musically -- the title track, in particular, was notable for employing the services of composer/arranger Dominic Frontiere in orchestrating it. The album was a hit, and he was still riding that initial wave of recognition and the concertizing that went with it, even if he was now taking the audience in some unexpected directions.
Fogelberg decided at this point to step back a bit -- get off that wave -- and do something purely for his own satisfaction musically. In 1978, he began work on a record that was to be more of a personal indulgence than anything else, the non-commercial side of Dan Fogelberg, sort of his equivalent to those instrumental albums that Frank Sinatra had issued as a conductor a couple of times in his career, or Neil Young's later Everybody's Rockin'. He teamed up on what became a duo album with jazz flutist Tim Weisberg for the album Twin Sons of Different Mothers (1978) -- but instead of being a curio or a footnote in his output, it ended up charting high and generating a huge hit single in the guise of "The Power of Gold" (which, ironically, had been added to the LP at the last minute). The album ended up in the Top 20 and was embraced by critics and the public alike. For the next few years, Fogelberg was literally riding a creative and commercial whirlwind, peaking with his 1980 album Phoenix, which was propelled to platinum status with help from the number two single "Longer." The year before, he also fulfilled a longtime career goal by playing Carnegie Hall in New York, to a sellout audience that included his parents.
Fogelberg's career in the 1980s began with an unexpected turn -- concept albums were common enough by then, but most record labels also tended to strongly discourage the recording of double LPs, owing to the expense and the difficulties in selling and marketing them. But midway through finishing his next album, and with the single "Same Old Lang Syne" already in release and record stores and buyers poised for a new LP, he suddenly decided to expand the planned record, writing new songs and effectively doubling its length, as well as delaying it well into 1981, the better part of a year beyond what the label or his manager had planned on. The result was his boldest production to date, The Innocent Age (1981), a massive project featuring some VIP collaborators (including Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris), from which four hit singles, the earlier "Same Old Lang Syne" plus "Run for the Roses," "Hard to Say," and "Leader of the Band" (the latter a tribute to his father), were ultimately extracted. That album marked his commercial peak, and seemed to end a phenomenally popular and productive phase of his career. As though to mark the transition, the following year Epic released its first hits compilation on Fogelberg, a ten-song LP on which four of the slots were filled by the singles off of The Innocent Age.
It was three years before his next new album, during which time Fogelberg's musical sensibilities evolved in new and more specialized directions. He turned toward more personal and experimental forms of music, none of which proved remotely as popular with the public or with critics as his 1970s work. Additionally, as was the case with many artists of the 1970s and earlier, the playing field was fundamentally altered in the 1980s. MTV and music videos as promotional devices became central to getting exposure and airplay, and recording artists now needed a distinct visual style as well as a sound to make it to the front rank; additionally, a new generation of music critics, most of whom were bent on showing contempt for most of the favored artists of the previous decade or two, were now speaking in the press. His 1984 album Windows and Walls did reach the fans, and even generated a hit in "Language of Love," but got a hostile reception from the critics of the period. And his turn toward bluegrass music, helped in part by his contact with Chris Hillman, who'd also turned back toward his bluegrass roots at the time (and recorded Fogelberg's "Morning Sky" as the title track of his latest album), didn't make him any more accessible to the mainline music critics of the day. The resulting album, High Country Snows (1985), was a good seller and showed off Fogelberg's roots brilliantly, but did nothing to enhance his pop credibility, which had waned considerably over the previous three years.
Fogelberg withdrew somewhat in the years that followed, playing anonymously in bars around Colorado as part of an outfit called Frankie & the Aliens, formed by Joe Vitale. He seemed to be headed back to his teenage roots, and in the process redefined himself musically. When he re-emerged with The Wild Places and the worldbeat-flavored River of Souls in the early '90s, he was writing what amounted to topical songs about the environment, a subject with which he'd become much concerned since moving permanently to Colorado. By that time, he'd established a fully equipped home studio that provided him with the independence that he craved, and he was beholden to the record label merely as a conduit for his work. Epic, for its part, kept releasing Fogelberg's music, including a superb 1991 live album called Greetings from the West, and his earlier albums made perennially popular CD releases. Home Free was also extensively remixed by Norbert Putnam for its CD re-release in 1988 (those desiring to hear the original mix can find it on BGO's U.K. double-CD reissue of Home Free/Souvenirs). Indeed, all of Fogelberg's compact discs reflected an unusual degree of care in their production, especially for Columbia catalog reissues of the era, when the label was often just slapping down the digital masters and batting them out without an eye toward quality.
In 1995, he and Tim Weisberg did another collaboration together, No Resemblance Whatsoever, which seemed to pick up right where their 1978 album had left off without skipping a beat. In 1997, Columbia honored Fogelberg with a four-CD career retrospective compilation entitled Portrait: The Music of Dan Fogelberg from 1972-1997, looking back over his previous 25 years of work. Fogelberg closed out the old century with First Christmas Morning, which saw him plunge several centuries into the past in pursuing traditional holiday music, evoking sounds that, in the context of work from a pop/rock artist, had previously only been heard from Jan Akkerman on his Tabernakel album and the work of the Amazing Blondel, nearly 30 years before. Finally, in 2003, Fogelberg went back to the acoustic singer/songwriter sound of his early career with the appropriately titled Full Circle album. This seemed like the possible opening of a promising new phase to his work and career. Those prospects were dashed in mid-2004, however, when Fogelberg was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, to which he finally succumbed in late 2007.


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Alternative methods proposed to detect pesticides and antibiotics in water and natural food
Water or food of natural origins (from plants or animals) that we consume on a daily basis can contain unwanted 'supplies' for our organism, such as pesticides or antibiotics. A doctoral thesis carried out by Jorge Juan Soto Chinchilla, from the Department of Analytical Chemistry (http://www.ugr.es/~qanaliti/) at the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada) (http://www.ugr.es) and directed by professors Ana María García Campaña and Laura Gámiz Gracia, proposes new analysis methods for the detection of pesticide residue (carbamates) and antibiotic residue (sulfonamides) in water, plant foods and food of animal origin (milk and meats from varied sources). These new methods constitute a routine analysis alternative to the analysis used until now. Research forms part of several projects financed by the Spanish National Institute for Agrarian and Alimentary Research (INIA) and the Ministry of Education and Science, in collaboration with the company Puleva Biotech. The main goal of the work "New analytical methodologies, under quality criteria, for the determination of pharmaceutical residues in waters and food", carried out by the research group "Quality in Food, Environmental and Clinical Analytical Chemistry (FQM-302)", has been to develop new methods to detect residues in food of these contaminants below the Maximum Residue Levels (MRL) established by the European Union, in order to guarantee the quality of the product and permit its distribution and consumption. Researchers point out, regarding water, that "the interest caused by control of residue levels of pesticides, which can be found in water as a result of treatment of crops with such compounds, is widely known. "However, concern on detecting pharmaceutical residue, specifically antibiotic, is quite recent. The presence of these contaminants in fresh waters can cause a certain bacterial resistance or allergic reactions in the consuming population. Innovative techniques In order to achieve this, the study carried out by the UGR (http://www.ugr.es) used techniques that have not been much explored in these fields. Cathodoluminiscence detection (CL) connected to Flow Injection Analysis (FIA) and High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPCL), or Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) with UV/Vis detection using an online preconcentration technique in the capillary itself, or detection via Mass Spectometry (MS). MS can also unequivocally identify the analysed compounds. Research has been specifically based on carbamates, a widely used pesticide family, and on sulfonamides, a group of wide-spectrum antibiotics commonly used in medicine and veterinary science. Researchers point out that methods developed in this work could be applied in the future to routine analysis for this kind of residue control in plant foods and foods of animal origin, in Quality and Alimentary Safety laboratories, or in the detection of such contaminants in waters of varied sources. "These methods definitely constitute interesting alternatives to the already established and less sensitive methods which imply a greater consumption of organic solvents and generate more contaminant residues," the author of the thesis points out. FQM-302 research group has been working on the proposal of methods of detecting contaminant residues in foods and in the environment for several years. Currently work is being carried out in different doctoral theses which looks at the study of other pesticide families and their degradation products, as well as the study of other antibiotics such as quinolones and beta-lactams using the methods mentioned above.
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ELT site testing — Cerro Ventarrones / Chile
The ELT programme office has studied half a dozen potential sites for the future ELT observatory. Various aspects need to be considered in the site selection process. Parameters taken into account are not restricted to 'sky quality', but include more general scientific aspects, as well as parameters essential for construction and operations (e.g. accessibility, water and power supply, political stability etc.). The above video shows an impression of Cerro Ventarones, a site located in Chile. Ventarones was on the ELT Site Selection Advisory Committee's final short list for the recommended site.
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Data de divulgação: | 5 de Março de 2010 às 10:58 |
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- 7 x 5 mm Pear
- 0.70 carats
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- eye-clean
- Origin: Brazil
- 7 x 5 mm Pear
- 0.70 carats
- AA Quality
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Known as the skilled co-pilot of the infamous Millennium Falcon, the legendary Wookiee warrior Chewbacca is flying solo for his very own limited series! Today, Marvel is pleased to present your first look at CHEWBACCA #1 – from blockbuster creators Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto! Following the Battle of Yavin, Chewbacca finds himself on his own and separated from the Rebel Alliance. Crash landing on an Imperial occupied planet, Chewie finds himself in the company of a young local girl in need. Together, they may just be enough to take on the forces invading her home and get Chewbacca back to the Rebellion. Don't call him a fuzz ball. Don't call him a walking carpet. This is Chewbacca – fierce and loyal warrior of Kashyyyk in a brand new series beginning this October in CHEWBACCA #1!
CHEWBACCA #1 (of 5) (AUG150855)
Written by GERRY DUGGAN
Art & Cover by PHIL NOTO
Variant Covers by ALEX ROSS (AUG150858), ARIEL OLIVETTI (AUG150857),
GABRIELE DELL'OTTO (AUG150856) and SKOTTIE YOUNG (AUG150860)
Ross Sketch Variant Also Available (AUG150859)
FOC – 09/21/15, On-Sale 10/14/15


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The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne's Community Health Program reports four (4) new active cases of COVID-19 in the northern portion of the community, as of January 29, 2021. There are now a total of 16 active cases, 158 total cases, and 136 resolved since the start of the pandemic. (Total cases include Tsiionkwanonhso:te active cases.)
MCA extends its best wishes for a speedy recovery to all those infected, as well as appreciation to those isolating and quarantining to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. We express our condolences to those who have lost a loved one.
In order to prevent further spread of COVID-19, please restrict social gatherings and wear a mask when around others. Wash hands frequently and maintain six feet of distance from anyone outside your household. Stay home when you're sick and isolate if you've been exposed to the COVID-19 virus.
For those who are currently in quarantine, please call 1-800-480-4208 or 613-937-4322 to receive basic food, supplies, and essentials. The Community in Quarantine Program is designed for community members who have no assistance or resources to help them throughout the quarantine/isolation process.
If you are in need of mental health support, please contact our Wholistic Health & Wellness Program at 613-575-2341 ext. 3115.
If you have questions about the COVID-19 response and emergency plans, please contact the Emergency Operations Centre at 613-575-5005, 613-575-2331 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you need to be tested for COVID-19, please make an appointment with MCA's Community Health Program by calling 613-575-2341 ext. 3220. Community members can also access free testing through the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe. Check their website, www.srmt-nsn.gov, for testing dates.
For more information on COVID-19, please visit the MCA website at www.akwesasne.ca/covid-19-novel-coronavirus-information/.


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Faculty: S. Feller (chair), R. Dallinger, S. Frey, P. LePlae, R. Olsen, L. Porter, A. Taylor++
++ McLain-McTurnin-Arnold Research Scholar, fall semester
The Wabash College Chemistry Department believes in a challenging curriculum which thoroughly investigates all areas of modern chemistry and in a significant hands-on investigative laboratory experience in which students become progressively more independent as they proceed through the curriculum. We believe that such an education will prepare chemistry majors for a variety of career outcomes, including those in research, medicine, teaching, and industry. In recent years, three-fourths of our majors have gone directly to graduate school in chemistry/ biochemistry or to medical school immediately following graduation. Others have chosen to take jobs as chemists or to attend other professional schools (business, law, and physical therapy). We strive to provide chemistry minors and pre-medical students with the knowledge base they need to succeed in their chosen fields. We seek to involve all Wabash students in the study of chemistry through non-majors courses' Chemistry 101 and 102. We attempt to teach all chemistry students about the relationship between chemistry and the world around them.
Requirements for the Major: A chemistry major requires completion of the following core courses (eight credits): 111, 221, 222, 231(1/2 credit), 241 (1/2 credit), 331, 351, 361, and 441. Students may complete the nine-course requirement by selecting among the following electives: 421, 431, 451, 452, 461, 471, 487, 488. Chemistry 421, 452, 461 and 471 may be repeated when the topics change. No more than one-half course credit of independent study (Chemistry 487 or 488) may be used to construct the minimum nine-course major. Chemistry 101 and 102 do not count toward the major.
The following courses are also required for chemistry majors' Mathematics 111 and 112, Physics 111 and Physics 112 (Chemistry/Physics double majors and Physics minors will take Physics 111, 113 and 114). The mathematics courses are best taken in the freshman year, and the physics sequence should be taken in the sophomore year, because physical chemistry (taken by all junior chemistry majors) has a two-course physics prerequisite.
The written comprehensive examination for senior majors emphasizes both knowledge of basic chemical concepts and the ability to apply these concepts to new problems. One part of the exam involves reading and answering questions over several articles from the recent chemical literature; the second part of the exam involves answering questions from the core chemistry courses the student has taken.
Chemistry majors who wish to transfer chemistry credits from another institution as part of their major must have the prior approval of the Department Chair to do so.
Chemistry Major with Biochemistry Emphasis: Students with a special interest in Biochemistry may complete a Chemistry major with an emphasis on Biochemistry (the Biochemistry Track). Students pursuing the Biochemistry Track will take the eight-course core Chemistry curriculum described above, and will complete the minimum nine-course major by taking two half-credit special topics courses which have a biochemistry emphasis. Research in biochemistry is also encouraged although this will take the student beyond the nine course minimum Chemistry major. Additionally, the Biochemistry Track student will be required to take the following courses in the Biology Department' Bio 111 and Bio 112 (General Biology), Bio 211 (Genetics), Bio 212 (Cell Biology) and one approved Molecular Biology elective, such as Bio 311 (Molecular Genetics), Bio 314 (Developmental Biology), Bio 371 (Special Topics courses with suitable topics) or other approved courses. Students and their academic advisors should consult with the Chemistry Department Chair as they plan the course work for the Biochemistry Track Chemistry major.
Requirement for the Minor: The following courses are required for the chemistry minor-Chemistry 111, 221, and 231 (1/2 course credit). The student may select any other 2-course credits from the departmental offerings (except Chemistry 101 and 102) to complete the minor, provided the prerequisites for the courses are met. No more than one-half course credit of independent study (Chemistry 487, 488) may be used to construct the minimum five-course minor.
Chemistry minors who wish to transfer chemistry credits from another institution as part of their minor must have the prior approval of the Department Chair to do so.
Requirements for Premeds: Premedical students are required to take four courses in chemistry before the end of their junior year (when the MCAT examination is generally taken). Wabash pre-med students should take the following courses to meet the premed chemistry requirement' Chemistry 111, 221, 222, 231, (1/2 course credit) and 241 (1/2 course credit).
Advanced Placement : Please refer to the College Advanced Placement guidelines under Credit by Examination. Potential chemistry majors and minors who wish to claim advanced placement credit should discuss placement options with the Department Chair. If the Chair and the student decide that it is in the student's best interest to take Chemistry 111, the advanced placement chemistry credit must be forfeited.
ACS Certified Degree: To meet the certification requirements formulated by the American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training (CPT) as a chemist and for adequate preparation for graduate school, additional classroom and laboratory work beyond the minimum nine-course major is required. The student should consult with the Chair of the Chemistry Department concerning ways in which the remaining requirements may be fulfilled. The requirements formulated by the CPT include: (1) the equivalent of year-long courses in analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry; three-fourths of a year of advanced work which is based upon a physical chemistry prerequisite; (2) a year of physics; (3) calculus through partial derivatives and simple differential equations; (4) 500 laboratory hours (which can include research). Advanced courses in physics and in differential equations are recommended. The satisfaction of the graduation requirements of the College will meet the CPT requirements in English and the Humanities.
Suggested order of courses for the chemistry major:
Chemistry 111, 231, 241 (required for major)
Mathematics 111, 112 (prerequisite for Chemistry 231)
Chemistry 221, 222 (required for major)
Physics 111 and 112 (prerequisite for Chemistry 351)
Chemistry 331, 351, 361 (required for major)
Chemistry 421*, 487*, 488* (electives)
Chemistry 441 (required for major)
Chemistry 421*, 431*, 451*, 452*, 461*, 471*, 487*, 488* (electives)
Strongly Recommended Electives:
Biology 111, 112
More Mathematics, particularly 223, 224, 225
More Physics, particularly 210 and 310
More Biology, for students interested in biochemistry and medicine
Computer Science 111
*May be included in the nine major courses required for graduation and may be needed for ACS certification.
An Area of Concentration and High School Teaching licensure in this discipline is awarded by the Teacher Education Program. For licensure information please see the Indiana Teacher Licensing Requirements for Adolescent and Young Adult License section and for information on this specific discipline see the Content Area Course Requirements for Teaching at the Adolescent and Young Adult Licensure Level section.
Course | Title | Credits | Prerequisites |
CHE 101 | Survey of Chemistry | 1 | |
CHE 102 | Topics in Chemistry | 1/2 | |
CHE 111 | General Chemistry | 1 | |
CHE 221 | Organic Chemistry I | 1 | Prerequisite: Chemistry 111. |
CHE 222 | Organic Chemistry II | 1 | Prerequisite: Chemistry 221. |
CHE 231 | Quantitative Chemistry | 1/2 | Prerequisites: Chemistry 111, Mathematics 111. |
CHE 241 | Descriptive Chemistry | 1/2 | Prerequisite: Chemistry 111. |
CHE 331 | Advanced Analytical Chemistry | 1 | Prerequisite: Chemistry 231. |
CHE 351 | Physical Chemistry I | 1 | Prerequisites: Chemistry 231, Physics 112 or 113, Mathematics 112. |
CHE 361 | Biochemistry | 1 | Prerequisites: Chemistry 222; 231 or concurrent registration in 231, or with permission of the instructor. |
CHE 421 | Advanced Topics in Organic Chemistry | 1/2 | Prerequisite: Chemistry 222. |
CHE 431 | Advanced Laboratory | 1/2 | Prerequisite: Chemistry 331 or permission of instructor. |
CHE 441 | Advanced Inorganic Chemistry | 1 | Prerequisites: Chemistry 241 and 351 |
CHE 451 | Physical Chemistry II | 1/2 | Prerequisite: Chemistry 351. |
CHE 452 | Advanced Physical Chemistry | 1/2 | Prerequisite: Chemistry 451 or permission of instructor. |
CHE 461 | Advanced Topics in Biochemistry | 1/2 | |
CHE 471 | Special Topics in Chemistry | 1/2 | Prerequisites: Vary with each individual topic; watch for course announcement prior to pre-registration. |
CHE 487 | Special Problems | 1/2 | |
CHE 488 | Special Problems | 1/2 |


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Los molinos planetarios son ideales para la molienda ultrafina de materiales duros, semiduros, blandos, quebradizos, viscosos y húmedos. El material a moler se tritura en su mayoría mediante impacto de alta energía por medio de bolas de molienda en vasos de molienda rotativos.
La molienda se puede realizar en seco, en suspensión o bajo gas inerte. Además de para moler, los molinos planetarios se pueden emplear para mezclar y homogeneizar emulsiones y pastas o para aleaciones y activaciones mecánicas en la investigación de materiales.
Variable Speed Rotor Mill
classic lineEffective comminution due to highest rotor speed
The FRITSCH Variable Speed Rotor Mill PULVERISETTE 14 classic line is the ideal mill for fast, effective comminution of soft to medium-hard, brittle and fibrous materials as well as temperature-sensitive samples – proven worldwide for the use in trace analysis.
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Inside the Variable Speed Rotor Mill PULVERISETTE 14 classic line, the sample is comminuted by impact on the ribs of the rotor rotating at a high speed and additionally sheared between the rotor-teeth and between the utilized sieve ring.
More powerful frequency converter
With a more powerful frequency converter, the Speed Rotor Mill PULVERISETTE 14 classic line ensures that the motor output is precisely matched to the grinding material.
Your advantage: faster sample feeding, a constant rotational speed and a higher throughput. The well-designed LED display in the ergonomic operating panel with membrane keyboard, displays the speed and motor load and alerts in the event of reaching the temperature limit and overload.
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Fast exchange of all grinding tools - easy cleaning
All grinding parts can be removed without tools with just a few motions – for quickly exchanging all grinding parts and for cleaning them outside of the instrument. The especially smooth surface of the stainless steel impact rotors simplifies a thorough cleaning – fast and easy! The wear-free labyrinth seal between the grinding chamber and the motor offers secure protection against contamination of the instrument.
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In combination with the FRITSCH Cyclones the Variable Speed Rotor Mill PULVERISETTE 14 classic line is ideal for ultra-fine grinding of temperature-sensitive samples like powder coatings and plastic samples or for smooth pre-crushing and fine grinding of hard-brittle to soft, fatty or samples with residual moisture.
Small volume Cyclone separator: The compact FRITSCH small volume separator completely made of plastic can be dismantled completely and cleaned in the dishwasher thus reliably preventing contaminations. The comminuted sample is collected in a screwed-on sample glass of 250 or 500 ml volume. The small volume Cyclone separator can be combined with the exhaust system, which can be ordered along, or can also be used with the supplied fine-dust filter 80-100 µm for passive utilization.
High-performance Cyclone separator: Especially for the analytical sector and for the food and pharmaceutical industries is the high-performance separator completely made of stainless steel 304 in combination with the exhaust system indispensable. The exhaust system for the operation of the FRITSCH Cyclones may be ordered along.
The result: an especially fast and effective comminution with minimized thermal load with significantly higher throughput and especially fast and easy cleaning.
Configure your Variable Speed Rotor Mill PULVERISETTE 14 classic line exactly to your specific application
The Centrifugal Mill PULVERISETTE 14 classic line includes a collecting vessel and lid. In order to operate the mill, you must also order a rotor, a sieve ring, an impact bar or a pin insert - allowing you to select your grinding tools according to your specific application! To ensure this, an extensive accessory programme for the PULVERISETTE 14 classic line is available with rotors and sieve rings in various designs and materials, as well as additional accessories. Choose exactly what you need!
For grinding large quantities we recommend the special conversion kit. This allows the comminution of sample quantities of up to 1 litre in a single step without the need to open the grinding chamber and empty the collecting pan during the process.
Combine your PULVERISETTE 14 classic line with the FRITSCH Vibratory Feeder LABORETTE 24 to ensure continuous feeding of the sample during the entire grinding process, even of smallest quantities. Due to a direct connection, the mill automatically matches the sample feeding to its load state at any given moment.
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Amira Hass: The Price of Peace
Successive Israeli governments since 1993 certainly must have known what they were doing, being in no hurry to make peace with the Palestinians. As representatives of Israeli society, these governments understood that peace would involve serious damage to national interests.
Economic damage:
The security industry is an important export branch - weapons, ammunition and refinements that are tested daily in Gaza and the West Bank. The Oslo process - negotiations that were never meant to end - allowed Israel to shake off its status as occupying power (obligated to the welfare of the occupied people) and treat the Palestinian territories as independent entities. That is, to use weapons and ammunition at a magnitude Israel could not have otherwise used on the Palestinians after 1967. Protecting the settlements requires constant development of security, surveillance and deterrence equipment such as fences, roadblocks, electronic surveillance, cameras and robots. These are security's cutting edge in the developed world, and serve banks, companies and luxury neighborhoods next to shantytowns and ethnic enclaves where rebellions must be suppressed.
The collective Israeli creativity in security is fertilized by a state of constant friction between most Israelis and a population defined as hostile. A state of combat over a low flame, and sometimes over a high one, brings together a variety of Israeli temperaments: rambos, computer wizards, people with gifted hands, inventors. Under peace, their chances of meeting would be greatly reduced.
Damage to careers:
Maintaining the occupation and a state of non-peace employs hundreds of thousands of Israelis. Some 70,000 people work in the security industry. Each year, tens of thousands finish their army service with special skills or a desirable sideline. For thousands it becomes their main career: professional soldiers, Shin Bet operatives, foreign consultants, mercenaries, weapons dealers. Therefore peace endangers the careers and professional futures of an important and prestigious stratum of Israelis, a stratum that has a major influence on the government.
Damage to quality of life:
A peace agreement would require equal distribution of water resources throughout the country (from the river to the sea) between Jews and Palestinians, regardless of the desalination of seawater and water-saving techniques. Even now it's hard for Israelis to get used to saving water because of the drought. It's not difficult to guess how traumatic a slash in water consumption to equalize distribution would be.
Damage to welfare:
As the past 30 years have shown, settlements flourish as the welfare state contracts. They offer ordinary people what their salaries would not allow them in sovereign Israel, within the borders of June 4, 1967: cheap land, large homes, benefits, subsidies, wide-open spaces, a view, a superior road network and quality education. Even for those Israeli Jews who have not moved there, the settlements illuminate their horizon as an option for a social and economic upgrade. That option is more real than the vague promises of peacetime improvements, an unknown situation.
Peace will also reduce, if not erase entirely, the security pretext for discriminating against Palestinian Israelis - in land distribution, development resources, education, health employment and civil rights (such as marriage and citizenship). People who have gotten used to privilege under a system based on ethnic discrimination see its abrogation as a threat to their welfare.