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Due to the impacts of Hurricane Sally, both New World Inn and Skopelos at New World are temporarily closed. We hope to re-open as soon as power is restored and we have had a chance to assess/repair any damages. Please follow us on social media for up-to-the-minute updates. Read More
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The Faculty History Project documents faculty members who have been associated with the University of Michigan since 1837. Key in this effort is to celebrate the intellectual life of the University. This Faculty History Website is intended as a component of the effort to document the extraordinary academic achievements of Michigan's faculty in building and sustaining one of the world's great universities. It provides access to a comprehensive database of information concerning the thousands of faculty members who have served the University of Michigan.
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On July 20, William Warner Bishop, Librarian of the University, reaches the age of seventy years and in accordance with the regulations of the Regents will retire from active service. In connection with this event, I recommend the adoption of the following preamble and resolution:
William Warner Bishop, a distinguished graduate of the University of Michigan in the Class of 1892 and recipient of the degree of Master of Arts in the following year, and Librarian of the University since 1915, reaches the age of seventy years on July 20, 1941.
His career has been coextensive with the greatest period of growth of the libraries of America and with the development of librarianship as a necessary concomitant. In his earlier years he learned much from the founders of the modern science of librarianship who were his older colleagues and friends; subsequently his genuine scholarship, his marked administrative abilities, his qualities of leadership, and the human traits which have endeared him to many friends made him, in turn, one of the great librarians of America and of the world.
He was elected President of the American Library Association in 1918 -1919; he became the chief consultant of the Carnegie Corporation in its widespread enterprises of aid to libraries and library personnel; his advice was sought on almost every occasion when a large library building was being planned; and his influence extended to other countries, notably when he was invited to aid in organizing the library of the League of Nations and in reorganizing the Vatican Library.
Well-deserved recognition of Dr. Bishop's unique place as a Nestor among American librarians has come to him from all parts of the world, in the form of honorary memberships and fellowships in learned societies and through honorary degrees conferred upon him by leading universities and colleges; the International Federation of Library Associations, representing the library workers of the world, has made him its honorary president.
The University of Michigan has indeed been fortunate, during the past twenty-six years, to have commanded the skillful and loyal services of this distinguished alumnus in one of the key positions of its staff. Under Dr. Bishop's direction, instruction in library science has been instituted; the libraries of the University have grown both in size and in usefulness; their operation has been smooth and efficient; and the importance of their contribution to the success of the University's instructional work and to the scholarly investigations of its faculties and graduate students cannot readily be overestimated. In view of the foregoing circumstances and of Dr. Bishop's approaching retirement, the Regents have adopted the following resolutions:
Resolved, By the Regents of the University of Michigan, that this University owes to Dr. William Warner Bishop, its Librarian, a loyal alumnus, distinguished scholar, skillful administrator, and gifted leader, the deepest gratitude for his unique services over the past twenty-six years; and be it further
Resolved, That, since Dr. Bishop attains the age of seventy years on July 20, 1941, he be retired from active service on that date and be granted the title Librarian Emeritus, and that he be recommended for the retiring allowance provided for by the regulations of the University; and be it further
Resolved, That the Regents express their cordial hope that Dr. Bishop's years of retirement may be filled with health and happiness, and that he will continue to make use of the University's facilities as he may desire, in the prosecution of his literary and scholarly activities.

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LuckyBackup isn't a backup utility in the traditional sense, but a front end for your old command-line friend rsync. As far as reliability goes, there is no substitute for rsync. That said, having a straightforward graphical interface on top is a very nice touch.
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Although most Linux distributions come with an archive manager, such as File Roller in Ubuntu, PeaZip is much faster and works with more formats. With support for over 150 archive types when extracting and the ability to create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, and ZIP files, the feature list is fairly comprehensive.
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Angelina Jolie gets caught in her dress and trips a tiny bit while leaving the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards held at the beach on Saturday (March 1) in Santa Monica, Calif.
The 38-year-old actress was accompanied by her fiance Brad Pitt while heading to their car and he luckily saved her from a fall. What a man!
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Angelina Jolie
Earlier in the afternoon, Angelina and Brad sat together at the awards show where he won the award for Best Feature Film for producing 12 Years a Slave.
We can't wait to see what Brad and Angie wear to the Oscars tomorrow night!
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I'm so sick of this "robots are evil" trope—we created them. They live to serve. They love us. And they also love each other! Like these swarm bots who scurry around following their quadrocopter pal. Awwww.
The Khepera robots, out of Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems, don't talk to each other. Instead, they're guided by a peppy leader, who in this case beams out silent orders to keep them all in a neat formation. The goal? Providing a roaming landing pad for an accompanying drone copter. They may just look like toys here, but I'm sure this is the kind of tech the Pentagon would love to push into the desert. [Ted MacDonald via Engadget]


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Three Random Thoughts on the Real World:
1. I always hated when teachers would say, "In the real world . . . " to justify practices that felt unjust. Or they would say, "Life isn't fair," to explain away something wrong within the classroom. In the real world there are people who fight on the side of justice. In the real world, there are people who believe in compassion.
2. In the real world, grownups drink and operate vehicles (though hopefully not at the same time). They procreate. They pay the mortgage. They vote. I don't want kids doing any of those things.
3. The real world is great, but I want a good portion of life to be chiseled out for fantasy. If there isn't room for a few unicorns and wizards then life just got way too boring.
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John T. Spencer is a teacher in Phoenix, AZ who blogs at Education Rethink. He recently finished Pencil Me In, an allegory for educational technology and A Sustainable Start, a book for new teachers. He also wrote the reform-minded memoirs Teaching Unmasked: A Humble Alternative to Waiting For a Superhero and Sages and Lunatics. He has written two young adult novels Drawn Into Danger and A Wall for Zombies. You can connect with him on Twitter @johntspencer


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Being Kristen Stewart probably has its perks. She's on Forbes' list of the top 10 highest paid actresses, she gets to glower on the cover of every major fashion magazine, and her boyfriend and Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson is considered reasonably attractive in some circles.
But while some Hollywood wannabes might pray they were just like K-Stew -- wishing upon their Twilight Saga box sets for just a sparkly smidge of her fame -- Jennifer Lawrence is having none of it.
As 21-year-old Lawrence told Glamour UK: "I look at Kristen Stewart now and I think, 'I'd never want to be that famous.'" The Oscar nominee continued: "I can't imagine how I'd feel if all of a sudden my life was pandemonium."
It's right here that we'll remind you (and Lawrence) that the Kentucky-raised actress is the starring in upcoming adventure flick, The Hunger Games, one of the most anticipated movies of the year, a franchise-in-the-making based on Suzanne Collins' best-selling young adult novels.
She's also scheduled to take off on a Hunger Games mall tour March 3. Ask Stewart -- or anyone working a Twilight Hot Topic meet-and-greet: she's got about three days before she won't have to "imagine" pandemonium again. She'll be living the nightmare.
Lawrence realizes she could be on the edge of super-fame, though, and as she told Glamour: "I feel like I am in the eye of the hurricane right now. It's daunting. I feel like I got a ticket to another planet and I'm moving there and there's no turning back, and I don't know if I'm going to like that other planet or have friends there. It's just scary."
No friends? What about Stewart? You two are days from having oodles in common.
On the topic of Twilight's prettiest sad sack, Stewart and boyfriend Pattinson made a rare public appearance together over Oscar weekend. According to People, the couple took in a Grey Goose-sponsored Oscar pre-party. According to spies, they looked "quite affectionate." Reports suggest squealing and other instances of Stewart-induced pandemonium were kept to a minimum.
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The sounds of those distant dynasties are no longer extant in one language in Chinese, or any other sino-xenic language which adopted Chinese. One can only say that from the most consitent early systemisation of sounds, such as Qieyun in AD 601, that elements of sintial sounds, medials, vowels, endings and tones survive in modern sounds of modern dialects. As there are no recordings of speech in Chinese from the late Qing to the earliest dynasties, all he have to go on is the written texts in poetical works to guess, -that right, "guess" - the sounds which may have existed then.AlexNg wrote:We are going to side track a bit here.
Which chinese language - min, mandarin, cantonese, wu, xiang, hakka
resembles the chinese spoken in ancient china (shang, chou dynasty)
and which resembles middle chinese (chin, han, tang dynasty) ?
This is a difficult question as it isn't an area that I've read up on much. However, many Min dialects does not seem to obey certain sound changes by comparing them to Qieyun and Guangyun rime books. All the other dialects seem to be able to, except Min. Min dialectologists have found the existence of syllabic prefixes surviving in modern Min dialects, and this has been theorised as being an element of Old Chinese as a grammatical indicator of word usage. See Laurant Sagart - Roots of Old Chinese. These are said to date to Western Zhou or earlier.AlexNg wrote: I heard that min branch off from ancient chinese and the others branch off from middle chinese ? What does it mean ?
Vietnamese has a rich vowel set, and includes a fairly rich initial set. It also has medials too, and maintain MC endings.AlexNg wrote: Which language has the richest sounds. Personally, I think that mandarin is a very weak language due to its lack of p, t, k endings. Of course, it has the r sound at the beginning which other chinese language doesn't have.What about vietnamese sounds ?AlexNg wrote:
There are many Mandarin dialects, some of which retain the Ru tone. The Beijing dialect being prestigious on account of it being the capital is unfortunate to have lost its endings as early as the Yuan Dynasty. Other than Min, the Wu dialects retain features of voiced initials, rich variety of vowels, rich variety in endings, and retain all the four main tones.
Vietnamese has preserved sounds from pre-Middle Chinese, and Middle Chinese. The evidence of the the former can be found just by analysing the readings of characters. Take a list of characters from Middle Chinese rime books. Compare the readings of these characters modern SV and sort them by tone. You'll find that there are characters which unexpectedly populate the wrong tone categories, and some of these may be remanants of pre-MC readings.


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Jamaican powerhouse Tessanne Chin captured the Season 5 crown on 'The Voice' Tuesday night.
Chin, a 28-year-old native of Kingston, is a former backup singer who toured with Jimmy Cliff before releasing her own solo album. She wins a recording contract with Universal.
Jacquie Lee, a 16-year-old dynamo from Colts Neck, N.J., came in second place, while Reseda's Will Champlin, 30, took third.
The seasoned Chin was considered a heavy favorite coming into the finale. She performed with power and charisma all season and her soaring performance of Whitney Houston's 'I have Nothing' on Monday landed in the No. 1 spot on the iTunes download chart. A poll conducted byEW.com had Chin capturing over 61 percent of the vote.
Chin, the third straight female winner on 'The Voice,' was mentored by Adam Levine, who collected his first victory since Season 1. Levine also coached Champlin, the son of Chicago band member Bill Champlin. Lee was coached by Christina Aguilera.
After being announced as the winner by host Carson Daly, Chin broke into tears, but still managed to belt out 'Tumbling Down,' an original song penned by Ryan Tedder, the show's newly-appointed in-house songwriter and producer.
As usual, the contestants and viewers were forced to wait though a bloated two-hour episode before finally learning the results. The night, however, was filled with big stars. Celine Dion performed her hit 'Love Can Move Mountains' with Chin, Paramore sang 'Ain't It Fun' with Lee, and Aloe Blacc teamed with Champlin on 'Wake Me Up.'
Dion also joined Ne-Yo for their new duet 'Incredible.' OneRepublic performed 'I Lived' and Lady Gaga took the stage for a rousing rendition of 'Do What U Want' with Aguilera. The two divas were decked out in glittery gold outfits, and each had a glass of bubbly, which they sipped through interlocked arms after finishing off the song.
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First ladies: Lynn, Spacek reunite Saturday
Sissy Spacek is having an old friend over on Saturday, and everyone in Charlottesville is invited. Organizers booked a live band months ago, but the set-list seems flexible.
"She said something about singing a couple of songs," says Spacek. "And I said, 'Which ones?' And she said 'I don't know; just pick a couple.'"
The two met when work began in the late 1970s on the film Coal Miner's Daughter. At the time, few folks probably realized the impact it would have on its two principals more than two decades later.
For its subject, the motion picture would introduce her songs to an audience who considered country music terra incognita. For its star, who had electrified audiences as the vengeful high-school star of Carrie, it not only helped her avoid typecasting, but catapulted her into the upper echelon of the dramatic arts.
Now, 25 years after the film's release, the First Lady of Country Music and the woman who told her story to millions are getting together again. On July 30, the Charlottesville Pavilion inaugurates its season by reuniting Loretta Lynn and Sissy Spacek.
They won't simply shake hands. According to Spacek, Lynn has asked her to be her duet partner on a few numbers.
Despite a quarter-century friendship with the country star, Spacek admits to being nervous about following in the footsteps of such musical giants as Conway Twitty and Ernest Tubb by appearing onstage with the Loretta Lynn.
"I'm thinking 'What the heck am I going to do?' I'm thinking, 'Oh my God, I haven't done these songs in 20 years!'"
Spacek is no stranger to nervousness. It's that same anxiety she felt when Lynn handpicked the young up-and-coming actress to be her celluloid doppelganger in Coal Miner's Daughter.
"I had mixed emotions," confesses Spacek, who has lived in Albemarle County since 1980, the year the film was released. "I was thrilled, but then Loretta decided before I decided," she says.
After receiving Lynn's blessing, Spacek began an extensive regimen of vocal training. She worked with the people who taught Loretta Lynn how to sound like Loretta Lynn: her band, her longtime producer, Owen Bradley– and Lynn herself.
As if looking, moving, and talking like a living legend weren't difficult enough, Spacek decided to take her transformation a step further. In order to truly become Lynn, she insisted on doing all of her own singing for the role. It was a conclusion she reached by watching one of her contemporaries portray another icon of American music.
"I'd seen a film with Gary Busey called The Buddy Holly Story where he did his own singing," recalls Spacek, "and it was so amazing, and it added such an element of realism."
To this day, the veteran actress waxes rhapsodic about Coal Miner's Daughter. "It was a real, real special group of people, and it was a great experience. I think everyone in that film did extraordinary work," she says.
Apparently, others agreed. Not long after her 30th birthday, Spacek found herself onstage at the 53rd Academy Awards accepting the Best Actress Oscar for her performance, beating out the likes of Ellen Burstyn and Mary Tyler Moore.
Although she compares that night to an "out of body experience," Spacek does remember giving her acceptance speech and spotting Lynn. "She was in the audience, I could see Doolittle's [Lynn, Loretta's husband] cowboy hat."
What did Loretta say to her after the win? "I think she said something like, 'I knew it,'" Spacek recalls.
It was the ultimate affirmation of a lesson that Spacek took to heart throughout the making of Coal Miner's Daughter: "I learned to just do whatever Loretta said. She's never wrong."
Which is precisely why Spacek, 55, has agreed to sing along with her old friend at Saturday's show.
When that moment comes, she'll be looking out on an audience younger than those who have gone to see Butcher Holler's favorite daughter in the past. That's because the 70-year-old country music legend won a whole new generation of fans last year with the album Van Lear Rose, a collaboration with ultra-popular garage rocker Jack White of the White Stripes.
That Grammy-winning LP was the first time many teens and 20-somethings had heard of Lynn, but at least two young'uns at the Pavilion show will know her older material: Spacek's daughters, Schuyler and Madison Fisk.
"Loretta has always been synonymous with the family," says Spacek, "so they have her songs on their iPods along with Jimi Hendrix and Jack Johnson and Dave Matthews Band."
So what exactly will Schuyler and Madison's mom sing with Lynn at the concert? Pressed for details, Spacek says sheepishly, "I'll just be humming along in the background, and it will be my honor because I love and adore her.
"Everyone has a façade, but Loretta doesn't," Spacek says. "I can't think of how to explain it." It's likely that after Saturday's performance, explanations won't be necessary for Lynn's Charlottesville audience to know exactly what her old friend means.
Loretta Lynn and Sissy Spacek join in a duet during a 1980 party to launch the national release of Coal Miner's Daughter in Los Angeles.


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The number of people in England adding salt to food at the table fell by more than a quarter in the five years following a national campaign, according to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition.
In 2003, the UK Food Standards Agency and the Department of Health launched a national salt reduction campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of salt on health and to work with the food industry to reduce the amount of salt in processed foods.
Although previous research found that the national campaign led to an overall reduction in salt intake, this is the first study to look directly at the effect it had on the amount of salt people add to their food at the table.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine looked at salt intake from 1997-2007 in large nationally-representative samples of more than 6,000 adults living in England. They found that since the campaign launched in 2003, the proportion of people reporting that they add salt at the table dropped from 32.5% to 23.2% in the following five years.
Lead author Jennifer Sutherland from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "Salt use at the table accounts for 15-20% of total salt intake. Our study shows that from 1997-2007 there was a steady decline in salt use at the table, but this reduction was greater after the introduction of the salt reduction campaign in 2003."
Researchers also found differences in the amount of salt added at the table by different population groups. Women were less likely to add salt at the table, as were those from younger age groups, non-white ethnic groups, higher income households and people living in central or south England.
Co-author Dr Alan Dangour, a nutritionist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said: "These findings indicate a need to tailor future salt reduction efforts to specific target groups. More work is needed as a quarter of adults still add salt at the table and salt intake levels in the UK remain well above the recommended amount of 6g per day. Eating too much salt can lead to raised blood pressure, which increases the risk of heart disease and stroke."
More information: Jennifer Sutherland, Phil Edwards, Bhavani Shankara and Alan D. Dangour. Fewer adults add salt at the table after initiation of a national salt campaign in the UK: a repeated cross-sectional analysis. British Journal of Nutrition. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007114512005430
Journal information: British Journal of Nutrition
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Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos review: Pocket rockets
Pocket rockets
This sure looks like a pair of ducks but a good player can play it as an ace. And it's got nothing to do with luck. You cannot always hold the best cards but you can try and make the best of the cards you're dealt. And they may as well be SIM cards.
Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos official shots
While the popularity and practicality of dual-SIM devices can vary, there are certain markets where single-carrier coverage is incomplete, making the use of two SIM cards almost a necessity. Not to mention the money that can be saved by combining different plans.
The ever-popular Galaxy line from Samsung is one of the most versatile ever, offering devices which range across all sorts of specs and sizes. It offers more and more dual-SIM handsets too, keeping with the Samsung strategy to cover every segment of the market. In the past few years the Koreans have cooked up a dual-SIM solution for almost every taste but it's dual-SIM smartphones that have shown big potential for growth.
We are now looking at the dual-SIM version of the Galaxy Ace, while the entry level Galaxy Y line has two of those already. Even the premium Galaxy S series will soon enlist a dual-SIM, so Samsung must be serious about two-in-one smartphones. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos builds on the Galaxy Y Duos but tries to keep within budget. Here it is at a glance:
Key Features
- Dual-SIM, calls received on both cards, simultaneous calls and data
- Quad-Band GSM (both SIMs) and dual-band 3G support (only one SIM at a time)
- 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
- 3.5" 256K-color HVGA TFT touchscreen
- ARMv6 832MHz processor, 512MB RAM
- Android OS v2.3 (Gingerbread) with TouchWiz v3.0 UI
- 3GB internal storage, hot-swappable MicroSD slot
- 5 MP auto-focus camera with VGA videos @ 30fps
- GPS receiver with A-GPS
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- 3.5mm audio jack
- Document editor
- Accelerometer and proximity sensor
- Swype text input
- MicroUSB v2.0
- Stereo Bluetooth 3.0
- Good audio quality
Main disadvantages
- Sub-par ARMv6 CPU limits performance and choice of apps
- Mediocre display
- No hardware shutter key, no flash
- No secondary video-call camera
- No HD video recording
- Abysmal video codec support
A look at the spec sheet tells us that the Ace Duos is marketed towards a budget-minded crowd. It looks to convert yet more of those die-hard featurephone enthusiasts into the smartphone game, with a device that provides the functionality they're used to (in this case, two SIM cards simultaneously), without the monetary burden of a premium device.
Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos S6802 studio shots
Let's take a look at how this lower-midrange dual-SIM smartphone from Samsung handles. The unboxing and hardware inspection start on the next page.
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In an opinion piece for CNBC.com on Wednesday, Street Signs anchor Brian Sullivan argued: "...for the majority of the country, $4 gas isn't going to doom us or our economy....right now it just doesn't add up. After all, it looks like $5 is the new $4 when it comes to gas prices and the economy."
Sullivan cited new car sales being on the rise, with those vehicles having better gas mileage, and pointed to inflation causing $4 a gallon to actually be "somewhere in the $3.64 range in 2007 dollars today." In addition, he noted the payroll tax cut "mitigates much of the impact."
The popular internet browser homepage MSN.com seized on Sullivan's commentary, making it a top story on the site on Wednesday, even embellishing Sullivan's original headline: "No Fuel on This Fire: $4 Gas Won't Hurt Us." In other words, "move along, nothing to see here."
On his 2 p.m. et CNBC program on Wednesday, Sullivan elaborated on his article:
Most of the comments to the story, how should I put this, told me that I'm an idiot, if not worse....And Listen, I got to say something too. Because, you know, people read, they don't know, you know, they say, "Oh, you're just some rich TV anchor." My father ran – middle class upbringing – my father ran a gas station, right? During the gas crunch. We got crushed. My family got destroyed....you know, by higher gas prices. When I was a kid, my mother was a telephone operator. I mean, so people, "You one-percenter" and whatever, all this other stuff, I lived through it. I know it's painful for a lot of individuals. My point was the macro for the overall economy.
In February, the Business and Media Institute's Julia Seymour detailed how the broadcast networks hyped rising gas prices during the Bush administration four times more than they did under President Obama. Apparently now they dismiss high gas prices altogether under Obama.
Despite the somewhat out-of-touch article, Sullivan is actually a pretty solid financial journalist. On the October 28, 2011 edition of Martin Bashir's MSNBC show, Sullivan challenged the left-wing anchor to a real debate on economic policy: "...And if you ever want me to come on and debate the guy you just had on for The Nation about the real problem of raising the 99 percent up instead of bringing the one percent down, I'll be happy to be your guest."


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Time to wise up to the Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood plays off the naivete of the media and politicians, but with its background and what we all now should know, it's time to wise up to this illiberal organisation
In June, the House of Commons hosted a talk on the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and how it is spreading across the globe. Steven Merley, a former financial trader turned investigator of extremist movements, has probed the Brotherhood for over a decade. It is particularly active in Britain and according to Merley, its strategy is to "create mischief" with a heavy emphasis on Muslim victimhood including the charge that the West has been waging a war on Islam. This has been a powerful radicalising factor in young Muslims.
The Brotherhood's tactic to advance this strategy, says Merley, has been to establish a dizzying number of organisations and initiatives which create the impression of broad-based support. In reality, the sponsors are the same individuals and groups whose leaders have not changed over decades.
Just as the US Justice Department and FBI take Merley's work seriously, we should too. He is no ideologue and is as troubled by right-wing groups demonising ordinary Muslims today as he is by the Brotherhood itself.
By "ordinary" Muslims he means the vast majority who see Islam as a religious belief, rather than the political ideology usually known as "Islamism". The latter is a variant of Islam developed over 80 years ago in Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood's founder, a teacher called Hassan al-Banna.
Disturbed by what he perceived as the corrupting influence of Western secularism on Muslims, al-Banna believed that only a return to what he saw as the original and pure form of Islam would restore the Muslim world to former glory.
Accordingly the Brotherhood adopted the slogan "The Koran is our constitution" around which all of society should be organised. To al-Banna there was no difference between religion and politics because religion was politics.
Over the decades, from this Islamist ideological trunk have sprung more radical offshoots, including al-Qaeda. For it was al-Banna who inspired the jihadist belief in elevating death over life, which arouses such incomprehension in the rest of us.
Today the original "Society of Muslim Brothers", as al-Banna called his group, has morphed into a broader movement which the Brotherhood's former "Supreme Guide" Mohamed Akef says now spans more than 70 countries. Some say that following the collapse of fascism and Communism it is fast becoming the latest — and potentially most dangerous —of history's grand political ideas. The former head of the MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, for example, has described the Muslim Brotherhood as being "at heart, a terrorist organisation".
Let me be clear: followers of the Brotherhood in Britain are not advocating violent jihad here. They condemned the beheading in May of Drummer Lee Rigby by two Muslims on a London street in broad daylight. Their organisations have civic-sounding names; they emphasise human rights, respect for democracy and integration.
And by and large they are regarded as harmless, more pious than political with some in the bien pensant slightly in thrall to them as moderate alternatives to violent extremists. The Guardian comment pages have provided leading Brotherhood thinkers with platforms.
Yet it is Merley's contention that what the Brotherhood actually do and say has also contributed to keeping young Muslims angry. I think he is right.
Here in Britain, we cheered on the Arab Spring, which has brought the Brotherhood's parent organisation in Egypt to power. Last year, the "Freedom and Justice" party created by the Brotherhood won the presidential election. We were told there was nothing to be fearful of because since al-Banna's day, the Brotherhood had embraced pluralism and democracy. As Khairat al-Shater, an influential Brotherhood strategist, put it: "We respect the rights of all religious and political groups."
Well, not quite. Since the Muslim Brotherhood came to power in Egypt, for example, they have rejected a draft UN declaration calling for an end to "all forms of violence against women". The Brotherhood say it "contradict(s) established principles of Islam" and "undermines Islamic ethics". It does so by "granting equal rights to adulterous wives", "full rights to file legal complaints against husbands", "allowing Muslim women to marry non-Muslims" and "cancelling the need for a husband's consent in matters like travel, work or use of contraceptives".
The government of President Mohamed Morsi has also prosecuted journalists and bloggers and he tried to introduce a decree preventing judicial review of his decisions. Greeted by outrage, Morsi replaced it with a new constitution, but it didn't protect freedom of expression and religion, or end military trials.
Why should this worry us? The received wisdom among many academics and analysts in Britain and America is that the original Egyptian Brotherhood has evolved into a set of diffuse alliances among Muslim communities around the world sharing only a loosely linked ideology. "There is no reason to fear it as a menacing global web," says Professor Nathan J. Brown of George Washington University.
Really? Not according to Steven Merley. He scours the web and other sources for prime source facts and publishes them in a daily intelligence digest called "Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch".
The Brotherhood movement may not operate as a rigidly disciplined, centralised Stalinist organisation like the Comintern in the Soviet era. But Merley says its global network clearly does have a structure which operates in semi-secrecy.
In Europe, the Brotherhood has established 19 organisations dealing with theology, education, political lobbying, organising conferences, publishing newsletters, and sponsoring youth events. Their umbrella organisation is the Federation of Islamic Organisations Europe (FIOE), created in 1989. Little is known about its sources of funding.
The FIOE has close links to Egypt. Its secretary general, Ayman Aly, recently moved to Cairo to become one of President Morsi's advisers. Belgian FIOE executive Bassem Hatahet has also been appointed to the Brotherhood-dominated opposition to Assad in exile, the Syrian National Council, backed by Barack Obama and David Cameron.
A key group within the FIOE is the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), whose chairman is Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, often referred to as the Brotherhood's spiritual leader. ECFR fatwas advise imams on what to tell Muslims in Europe about what is compatible with sharia.
The rare glimpses of ECFR proceedings do not inspire confidence that it engenders integration. A Sudanese cleric, for example, ruled that marriage without a male guardian's consent is invalid, and that adoption is haram(forbidden) because the non-biological child might see their adopted mother in a state of undress. Nor should the adopted child's rights be equal to the mother's biological child.
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood's deputy chairman, Professor Mohammed Habib, has said that although the Brotherhood's foreign "entities . . . work in different circumstances and different contexts", they all "have the same ideology, principle and objectives". So what exactly are those objectives?
By far the single most influential figure over the global Muslim Brotherhood has been Sheikh Qaradawi. Now 86, the cleric has described its objective as ensuring that "Islam will come back to Europe for the third time", having been expelled twice. This "conquest", says Qaradawi, will not be "through the sword, but through Da'wa", a form of proselytising; the FIOE has been established to start that "conquest". And after Europe? "We will conquer America," he says. It's a message Qaradawi has repeated since the FIOE was set up.
In 2005 I talked all this through with a British Brotherhood follower, Anas Altikriti, founder of a lobby and research group named after Cordoba, capital of the last Islamic Caliphate to have a toehold in Europe nearly 1,000 years ago. He admits to having been "extremely closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood" when he lived in the Arab Emirates, and today acknowledges that in London he also belongs to a "very similar school of thought". So I asked him if he thought that his spiritual leader's prophecy was perhaps a bit fantastical?
Altikriti: No, I believe in it because that is the prophecy of the Prophet. It's not an invention of Sheikh Qaradawi. The Prophet Muhammad, in a famous authentic Hadith, promised his companions that at a great time of strife —which was miraculous in itself — that Constantinople would be conquered and Rome . . .
Ware: So it's an aim to convert all those people . . .
Altikriti: Who said it was an aim? I said it was a prophecy.
Ware: I thought it was an imperative.
Altikriti: The only obligation that I have, the only obligation I have is what I call Da'wa.
Before arriving in Britain to set up the Muslim Association of Britain in 1997 (which became part of the FIOE), a senior Egyptian Brother Kamal Helbawi said: "This religion that is Islam shall govern the whole universe, the Islamic civilisation should rule and govern and direct people in every walk of life, but not be governed by others." As fanciful as this dream might seem, it does appear to be shared by those Muslim Brothers regarded as enlightened.
In the wake of the Arab Spring, Rachid Ghannouchi, the exiled leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunis, returned there from London to help run the country after President Ben Ali was ousted. In the Islamic world Ghannouchi is regarded as one its foremost scholars. Last year, Time magazine included him among the world's 100 most influential people and he was presented with the Chatham House Prize by the Duke of York for promoting "a culture of tolerance and bridge-building" with minority secular parties in the new Tunis.
Yet Ghannouchi has also spoken of his hopes for what he calls the "Islamic project" and the "rebirth of a civilisation" which is "qualitative and humane rather than quantitative and secular". And what has prevented the rebirth of civilisation?
"Zionism," according to Ghannouchi. Zionism "represents a secular onslaught on the heart of our Islamic nation" (i.e. Palestine), which he has portrayed as a sort of virus spreading "octopus-like over the whole planet, embracing and transforming every aspect of existence by means of its economics, communications, arts, and literature, or — more crudely — through the presence of its fleets, intelligence agencies, and the recruitment of local converts . . .", and thereby repressing "hope for a global liberation".
Zionism, Ghannouchi has written, is "hostile to every element rooted in ethical and religious principles", spreading godlessness, greed and materialism. "The Islamic Project, by contrast, is its polar opposite representing the hope that human civilisation can be rescued from this new worship of the golden calf."
It's hard to believe that such an admired scholar and leader would have wished to conjure up a 21st-century echo of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the notorious early-20th-century anti-Semitic fraud. And yet some leading Muslim Brothers clearly still do believe in the authenticity of the Protocols. Listening to one of Qaradawi's fatwa council meetings in Watford in 2004, Steven Merley nearly fell off his stool when he discovered that the Protocols had been introduced in the proceedings as a serious reference source.
This is no aberration. In 2009, Sheikh Qaradawi thanked Hitler for having "managed to put Jews in their place . . . Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the (Muslim) believers."
Ghannouchi has served alongside Qaradawi as a member of both his European Council for Fatwa and Research and his International Union of Muslim Scholars. They and leaders of the designated terrorist group Hamas were also joint signatories to a 2004 jihadi declaration in support of Iraqi fighters attacking UK and US forces in Iraq — despite the UK having provided Ghannouchi with sanctuary from his oppressors in the former Tunisian regime.
Why, one is left wondering, did the Foreign Office allow Prince Andrew to dignify Chatham House's exaltation of Ghannouchi as an icon of "bridge-building" let alone "tolerance" when Ghannouchi has also worked so closely with a man who thanks Hitler for exterminating six million Jews?
Indeed, why would Ghannouchi himself wish to have anything at all to do with the Brotherhood when, according to Merley, anti-Semitism is core to its ideology? Shortly before becoming Egyptian president, not only did Mohamed Morsi refer to Jews as "apes and pigs", but Merley also discovered that he subscribes to yet another paranoid fantasy: the one about the real 9/11 attackers being as yet "unknown".
So what of the Brotherhood network in Britain? For clues we can turn to the structure we know was established in America in the 1980s by what the FBI has called the "International Muslim Brotherhood". And much of what was strctured there, we know was structured here even earlier.
In the late 1990s, a mass of videos and documents recovered by US law enforcement revealed a tangle of organisations structured like a Russian doll, with one front organisation inside another, inside another and so on. The immediate objective was to strengthen the Brotherhood's Palestinian branch, Hamas, by covertly promoting its goals in America. The focus was to be on the "brutality of the Jews" and religious aspects of the Israel-Palestine conflict, especially Jerusalem. The American investigation led in 2008 to the successful prosecution of four executives of an Islamic charity used as a smokescreen for funding Hamas.
But there was also a longer-term and broader objective. The documents revealed a clear understanding of American culture and political structures and how these could be exploited, to establish what, in essence, was an Islamic beachhead. A memorandum from a US Muslim Brotherhood leader said:
"The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilisation from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
We may scoff at the sheer audacity of this ambition, but Islamism is not an ideology that can stand still. It has to expand and it plays a long game, as Dr Muzammil Siddiqi, the British university-educated ex-president of the Islamic Society of North America, has explained to American Muslims:
"By participating in a non-Islamic system, one cannot rule by that which Allah has commanded. But things do not change overnight. Changes come through patience, wisdom and hard work. I believe that as Muslims we should participate in the system to safeguard our interests and try to bring gradual change for the right cause, the cause of truth and justice. We must not forget that Allah's rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction."
Have "all the efforts" of the Brotherhood in Britain also been directed towards that goal? In Britain, a strong and influential Brotherhood network has been built up since the 1970s — both south Asian and Arab in origin — with some organisations identical to those uncovered by US law enforcement agencies. It is through these organisations that we see what Steven Merley describes as "mischief making".
As with anti-Semitism, the grievance narrative is core to Brotherhood ideology, and it is one that has been worked up very successfully by inflamed rhetoric since 9/11 over British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and over the Israel-Palestine conflict. Apocalyptic language is routinely used. Israel can be criticised for many things, despite the provocation of a near-permanent terrorist threat. But "ethnic cleansing", introducing "apartheid", inflicting "genocide" and even a "holocaust"?
We have seen this grievance narrative relentlessly at work on the Islam Channel, the most popular Islamic satellite TV channel in Britain today, which has given platforms to Brotherhood followers and been fined by the broadcasting regulator Ofcom for bias in breach of the Broadcasting Code after mainstream Muslims complained it had been promoting a fringe and intolerant form of Islam at the expense of mainstream voices, including in its coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Hamas supporters had gone unchallenged, asserting opinion as fact. Today, the channel still feeds the grievance narrative of a global war on Islam by repeating to viewers in programme breaks that it is a "voice for the voiceless" and a "voice for the oppressed". Most recently we have seen the grievance narrative in the Brotherhood's response to Woolwich.
One senior Muslim Brother in Britain today is Mohammed Sawalha, a fugitive Hamas commander described by a Brotherhood website as being "responsible for the political unit of the international Muslim Brotherhood in the UK". Membership of the Brotherhood is not a badge Sawalha wears publicly for members; followers have been generally careful to obscure their radicalism, forever cleaving towards the Muslim and non-Muslim mainstream as "noble" (a word they often use) campaigners for justice and civil rights.
In Britain, the latest of several Brotherhood-aligned umbrella organisations is the "Enough Coalition". It includes the British Muslim Initiative (BMI, of which Sawalha is chairman), Friends of Al-Aqsa, Federation of Students Islamic Societies, London Muslim Centre and the Islamic Forum of Europe in alliance with the hard-left "Stop the War Coalition" and a group run by Ken Livingstone called "One Society Many Cultures". The Enough Coalition condemned Woolwich, only then to call for a public debate about the "effect of Britain's foreign policy" instead of Muslims being "collectively demonised" for the attack. At the same time the BMI tweeted a photograph of Tony Blair taking a picture of himself, smiling in a self-satisfied way superimposed against a raging inferno.
While not excusing Woolwich, this attempt by the Enough Coalition to "explain" the barbarity of the attack as a consequence of Britain's involvement in the 9/11 wars is both mischievous and harmful.
Iraq and Afghanistan were the response to 9/11, not the other way around. Ah yes, goes the counter-argument, but the West was supporting Israeli oppression of Palestinians long before 9/11.
In fact, the decade before 9/11 was one of hope. The Oslo Accords had been signed, and the PLO said it would recognise Israel's right to exist. And what did the Muslim Brotherhood do? Its Palestinian branch, Hamas, did everything it could to destroy Oslo — by building up Hamas's power base with funds to its welfare network, by inflaming the conflict through its portrayal as a religious war rather than a struggle for land, and by popularising suicide bombing. The barbaric legacy was felt in London and Madrid years later. The Brotherhood network in this country, and throughout the West, played its part in snuffing out one of the few glimmers of light that have flickered in the 65 years of Arab-Israeli conflict.
Echoing both Qaradawi, and Ghannouchi, Kamal Helbawi has said that the Israel-Palestine conflict represents far more than just a battle for land: "Oh honoured brothers," he told American Muslims before coming to London, "the Palestinian cause is not a struggle on borders or on land only. Rather, it is an absolute clash of civilisations: a satanic programme led by the Jews and those who support them and a divine programme carried by Hamas and the Islamic Movement in particular and the Islamic peoples in general."
Helbawi is, of course, right, although the "clash" is not one, as he interprets it, between "satanic" Jews against "divinely" inspired Muslims. Rather, the Israel-Palestine conflict has confronted mankind with a test, like no other, about universal values to do with fairness, justice, and above all, evidence-based truth about the cause and conduct of both sides.
The Brotherhood's reaction to the Syrian crisis has exposed a very important truth about what the "Islamic project" to which Sheikh Ghannouchi referred is really about. Sheikh Qaradawi galvanised the global Brotherhood's opposition to the 9/11 wars on the apparently inviolate principle that Muslim majority lands had been invaded, and that violence was justified in removing British and American forces. But just listen to him when it comes to Syria where, with a bit of help from the West, the Muslim Brotherhood — now begging for help from the West — aspires to power.
The Brotherhood's self-same spiritual leader has "implored America . . . to behave like men of honour and intervene in Syria . . . we thank America for the delivery of non-lethal military equipment to Syrian fighters, but this is not enough." Now "direct military aid" is coming. Could it just be that the Brotherhood sees here the chance of inching one more Arab country into the Islamic world order under Sunni Islam?
Anger over foreign policy may be the proximate cause of Woolwich and other atrocities. But for the root cause, we must look elsewhere — though manifestly not to Muslims in general. Look at the faces and listen to the speeches of the vast majority of Muslim leaders in their condemnation of Woolwich. They were heartfelt, devoid of excuses, unlike some post-7/7 responses.
The problem of violent extremism is not "political" requiring "only a political solution" in the shrill words of Asghar Bukhari of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee which claims to be the UK's "leading Muslim civil liberties group". MPACUK may not be part of the Brotherhood but it is an example of how successful the Movement has been in getting other Muslim groups to adopt their narrative.
No, the problem of violent extremism lies with the political and ideological strain injected into Islam by the Muslim Brothers for 85 years — a strain which is not, at its heart, compatible with a pluralistic, open-minded, tolerant, liberal society. Woolwich was the very extreme end of this ideology: a misplaced grievance narrative, cosmic anti-Semitism, and violently inflammatory rhetoric. To deny that this brew cannot possibly be a product of the political variant of Islam (as distinct from its religious one) is not merely complacent. It is also irresponsible.
But here is a question: why are so few fair-minded people in this country not prepared to admit and confront the malign influence that the Muslim Brotherhood has brought here?
Steven Merley has fought a long, lone battle to get people even to acknowledge the existence of a global Brotherhood network. By exhaustive attention to detail, he has patiently built up a picture that ought to worry anyone. Yet the Brotherhood scarcely rates a mention in the most of the media. The centre ground seems to have lost its nerve.
What particularly worries Merley is that extreme right-wing groups here and in America are filling this vacuum. They claim that all Muslims are the problem and that the Koran is at the heart of a Muslim master-world plot. This is as dangerous as it is unjust.
Yet it is precisely this fear of being tarred by a far-right brush that has caused the centre to press the mute button. The Brotherhood and its secular allies on the Left have succeeded in closing down the debate.
Without the Brotherhood's protective "faith" shield there would be no such inhibition to labelling this movement for what it is: a parallel universe, wreathed in paranoia about the intentions of the West, swearing fealty to anti-racism, community cohesion, peace, justice and all the rest, while simultaneously behaving in a way that keeps young Muslims in a permanently febrile state. "Basically, they play games with the facts," says Merley. "And they count on the naiveté of reporters, academics and politicians to push their agenda."
Brotherhood scholars, even the "enlightened" Raschid Ghannouchi, have got it the wrong way round. His "polar opposite" of "human civilisation" is not the West, or "Zionism" for that matter. It is the Brotherhood's version of what he calls the "Islamic Project". Chatham House, Prince Andrew and other well-meaning folk, please take note.
John Ware is a former BBC journalist mostly noted for his work on BBC Panorama.
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Phenotypic switching is characterized as a virulence factor of Candida spp. This study was carried out to evaluate the phenotypic switching ability of C. krusei ATCC 14243 and to determine its effect on the biological properties, adherence capacity and susceptibility towards chlorhexidine digluconate (CHX). To induce switched generations C. krusei was cultured under nitrogen-depleted growth conditions by adding phloxine B. These phenotypically switched colonies were designated as the 1st generation. Subsequent sub-culturing was performed to produce the 2nd, 3rd and 4th switched generations. The recovery of the 3rd generation was the highest at 85.7 while that of the 4th generation was lower at 70.8, and the recovery of the 1st and 2nd generations gradually reduced to 46.6 and 36.4, respectively. All generations of C. krusei were susceptible towards CHX. The unswitched C. krusei was the most susceptible but the least adherent to coated hard surfaces. The 2nd generation was the least susceptible, but with the highest adherent ability. The minimum inhibition concentration and minimal fungicidal concentration of C. krusei of all generations were determined at 0.4 mg mL(-1). These observations suggest that the switching activity of C. krusei induces changes to its biological properties and susceptibility towards CHX.
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In three short years we will reach the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
The international community has certainly made incredible inroads since these targets were set by world leaders in the year 2000 to significantly slash extreme poverty and disease.
Child mortality rates have fallen in all regions of the world in the last two decades -- down by at least 50 percent in Eastern Asia, Northern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South-eastern Asia and Western Asia. Maternal mortality has nearly halved since 1990.
But it's too soon to pat ourselves on the back and say job well done. Despite these gains, the majority of developing countries are still expected to fall short of the MDG targets for reducing maternal and child mortality by 2015.
That dry sounding phrase, "falling short of targets," means dead women and children. Lots of them -- nearly 19,000 children under five and about 800 women during pregnancy and childbirth, every day.
A report just released by The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health sheds light on the reasons why more progress is not being made to end these needless deaths.
The report looks at commitments made to advance the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, which was launched two years ago by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a roadmap to enhance financing, strengthen policy and improve services on the ground for women and children in the poorest regions of the world.
The Global Strategy originally called for US$88 billion to be committed to women's and children's health by the MDG deadline. More than US$55 billion has been committed to date, of which at least US$ 20 billion represents new resources mobilized by the Global Strategy since its 2010 launch. But stakeholders will need more money to finish putting the plan into action.
New commitments will need to be directed to more of the places where they are desperately needed. And the right interventions will need to be funded to make best use of the resources available.
Donors tend to focus on the same countries, usually those receiving the most development assistance, as these countries usually also contain a significant proportion of the world's maternal and child deaths. More attention is needed in countries like Azerbaijan, Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, and Turkmenistan, which are not on track for either MDG 4 (reducing child mortality) or MDG 5 (reducing maternal mortality) and have yet to receive much help from the international community.
More will also need to be invested in the prevention and treatment of three major, yet largely neglected, childhood killers: diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria. And investments in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health could be better integrated with other sectors that are critical to improving women's and children's health, such as education, water and sanitation, transportation and information and communications technologies.
Global stakeholders point to shortages of skilled health workers as another major barrier to improving women's and children's health. What is especially concerning is that they not only identify financial and human resource constraints as holding back efforts to put commitments to advance the Global Strategy into action, they also say these challenges are keeping them from following accountability recommendations.
Fortunately, the Global Strategy's emphasis on private-public partnerships has already begun to foster innovative approaches to tackle human resource issues. The World Health Organization, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS and the World Bank, for instance, have started working with Johnson & Johnson to train health workers (including nurses, midwives and general practitioners) in Ethiopia and the United Republic of Tanzania and encourage the sharing of clinical knowledge among East African countries.
Working together through the Global Strategy, we have seen how sound planning, sufficient resources and, above all, political will, can make a significant difference in the lives of millions.
But the global community can still do a much better job keeping its promises to women and children.
Thanks to the recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health, which was created by the Global Strategy to provide guidance on reporting, oversight and accountability, we know how to get better at showing our work. And, the first report of the Global Strategy's independent Expert Review Group will spotlight what's working, and what isn't.
We need to make sure those recommendations are followed and encourage better reporting on progress at the country level, where accountability belongs, actively engaging governments, communities and civil society, with support from regional and global actors.
We already have many tools at our disposal, including health sector reviews and human rights frameworks, which can go a long way to strengthen accountability. Parliamentarians and media also have a powerful role to play. And citizens can assert their collective voice and influence to hold their governments and other stakeholders to account.
We know what needs to be done. We know what we have been doing so far is already working.
Let's step up our efforts to save millions of more lives by 2015, and beyond.
Once preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths are history, then we will have accomplished something truly worth celebrating.
This blog is published in collaboration with a larger campaign spearheaded by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and conducted by Heads of State and Government; Heads of U.N. Agencies; CEO's; Leaders of Civil Society Organizations; and other global leaders who have demonstrated their leadership in the health field, in support of Every Woman Every Child. Learn more at www.everywomaneverychild.org.


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BEST apple cobbler! How to make apple cobbler packed with apples, not too sweet, with a ginger cobbler topping.
Filling ingredients:
- 3 lbs of a variety of good cooking apples such as Granny Smith, Pippin, Fuji, Golden Delicious, Gravenstein
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice
- 4 Tbsp unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 Tbsp flour
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Crust ingredients:
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick or 4 ounces) unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 Tbsp finely chopped crystallized ginger
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest or orange zest
1 Prep the apples: Peel, quarter, and core the apples. Cut them into 1/4 to 1/2 inch chunks. As you prep the apples, add them to a bowl and toss with lemon juice to keep them from oxidizing (turning brown).
2 Make the apple cobbler filling: Melt the butter in a large pan over medium heat. Add the chopped apples (and the lemon juice from the bowl), sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Toss to coat with everything so that the spices and sugar are well distributed throughout the apples.
Partially cover the pot and cook until the apples are just tender, about 10 minutes.
Stir in the vanilla, and toss to coat with a tablespoon of flour.
3 Transfer filling to cobbler dish: Transfer the apple cobbler filling (including any juices from the apples) to a 10-inch pie dish, a 9-inch deep-dish pie dish, or a 9x9-inch baking dish.
4 Preheat the oven to 425°F.
5 Make the cobbler topping: In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Add the cubed butter and toss to coat with the flour mixture. Use your fingertips or a pastry blender to cut the butter into the flour mixture until the largest piece of butter is no bigger than a pea.
Stir in the candied ginger and zest.
Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and pour in the buttermilk. Use a fork to stir the flour and buttermilk together until the flour is all moistened. Do not overwork the dough!
6 Crumble topping over apples: Crumble the cobbler dough over the top of the apples in the baking dish. (If you want extra pizzaz you can sprinkle the top with a little brown sugar.)
7 Bake: Place a rimmed baking sheet on the lowest rack in the oven (to catch any drippings), and place the cobbler on the next lowest rack.
Bake for 10 minutes at 425°F until the top is beginning to brown, about 10 to 15 minutes.
Then lower the temperature to 350°F and bake for 30 more minutes until the topping is cooked through and the filling is bubbly.
Serve warm with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.


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AUGUSTA, Maine — Organized labor advocates and their opponents clashed Monday at a sometimes heated public hearing over a bill that would make Maine a "right-to-work" state by allowing an employee to work at a unionized private-sector business without having to support the union financially as a condition of employment.
Proponents characterized the measure as a needed policy change that would set Maine apart from every other New England state, making it more economically competitive and attractive to business owners.
Opponents called the right-to-work legislation "union-busting" and said it would ultimately depress wages and make personnel matters unwieldy for employers who would have to strike different arrangements with different employees depending on union membership.
"Workers should not be coerced into paying for services they don't want and didn't ask for," Rep. Lawrence Lockman, R-Amherst, who sponsored the right-to-work legislation, LD 831, told legislators on the Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee.
The public hearing, which lasted about four hours, also dealt with another bill sponsored by Lockman, LD 786, which would repeal the law allowing public employee unions to deduct the equivalent of union dues from the paychecks of public-sector workers who choose not to join the union.
The bills are similar to two that were introduced by Rep. Tom Winsor, R-Norway, during the last legislative session but didn't pass. While those bills died in a Republican-controlled Legislature, Lockman said he was inspired to propose the bills again in a Democratic-led Legislature where they're less likely to pass.
"The political and economic landscape has changed dramatically in the past two years," Lockman said, citing Indiana and Michigan, which last year became the 23rd and 24th right-to-work states, respectively, and the first in the manufacturing-heavy rust belt.
"The right-to-work states are emerging from the recession much faster than states with compulsory unionism, and they're doing it with good-paying jobs," Lockman said. "Maine needs to get on the right side of this economic renaissance."
But representatives from unions said the legislation simply masks efforts to undermine unions' strength and interfere with their ability to bargain on behalf of all employees.
"We have a duty to bargain in good faith," said Timothy Belcher, general counsel for the Maine State Employees' Association. "We have the duty of fair representation toward those employees [who aren't union members], and we treat that very seriously."
Currently under Maine law, workers don't have to belong to a union as a condition of employment. However, employers and unions are allowed to require that all workers covered by a union contract — union members and nonmembers — share in the costs of representation. LD 831 would outlaw that requirement and make imposing it a Class D crime.
LD 786, the other measure that came up for a hearing Monday, would repeal the " fair share provision" in state law that lets public employee unions deduct dues from the paychecks of nonunion-member public sector workers. The bill also would require public employee unions recertify annually — through employee votes — as the collective bargaining agent for each public employee unit.
Lockman said he proposed the measure on behalf of "the disenfranchised minority of state workers who have a union that won't take care of them," but to whom they're forced to pay dues. Those dues, he noted, are collected by the state through a payroll deduction.
"This fat revenue goes into bankrolling the campaigns of politicians who are bought and paid for before they even arrive at the State House," he said. "LD 786 will clean up this mess. Compulsory unionism is a relic of a bygone era. It's time to get on the right side of history."
Belcher, the MSEA's counsel, said the state employees' union uses only member-paid dues for political purposes. The MSEA has nearly 9,000 regular members and receives fees from nearly 2,700 workers who don't belong to the union, the union told the Bangor Daily News in February.
Jim Mackie of AFSCME Council 93, which represents corrections and mental health workers in Maine, said repealing the fair share provision could lead to more expensive legal battles for the state.
"I can't imagine the lawsuits the state and employers would have without the unions," he said. "Discharge cases would no longer be resolved through an arbitration and grievance process. They would be resolved through the court system."
Monday's hearing was dominated by claims from right-to-work proponents that economic, job and population growth in right-to-work states has exceeded growth in other states. Proponents countered that wages are generally lower in right-to-work states and that a number of right-to-work states still rank high on lists of states with high poverty rates and low GDP.
The Wall Street Journal reported in December that private sector employment has grown more quickly in right-to-work states than elsewhere — 4.9 percent compared with 3.9 percent respectively over the past three years. The newspaper also reported average wages were lower in right-to-work states, but that they were the same or greater as wages elsewhere when economists factored in the cost of living.
Gov. Paul LePage supports Lockman's right-to-work legislation. His senior economic adviser, John Butera, said right-to-work legislation is "one piece of the puzzle" to attracting investment in Maine.
"I spent nine years as a site location consultant. The reality is, I've sat in corporate boardrooms and was told point blank by CEOs that they would not expand in a state that was not right-to-work," he said. "I continually found myself in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Texas."
That comment sparked a rebuke from independent Rep. James Campbell of Newfield that Sen. John Patrick, D-Rumford, the committee chairman, called "out of line."
"If all this stuff is so great in all the states you mentioned, why didn't you just stay there?" Campbell asked Butera.


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I love making art books and filling them with art. This little book was made with 3 separate sections of mixed-media paper and sewn to a stiff watercolor paper cover. I'll be adding small watercolor paintings of California Wildflowers.
Cover 6″ x 4 1/2″
Open book size: 6″ x 8 1/2″, number of pages: 22


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Board of Directors
Mark Potter
Mark Potter is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Director of Hewlett Packard Labs, the company's advanced research organization. In his CTO and Labs leadership role, Potter works closely with the business, sales and Hewlett Packard Labs to set the strategy, help incubate new businesses and accelerate the company's innovation agenda to a broader set of customers. Prior to his current role, Potter served as the general manager over key business areas at HP for over a decade. Most recent, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager (GM) of the $14+ billion server business which included the industry standard, high performance computing and mission critical server portfolios. Before taking the server leadership role, Potter was the GM of HP's emerging Blades business where he rapidly grew the business to over $3B in revenue as well as establishing it as the clear #1 market leader. In addition, he served as the GM of the strategic software business at HP which focused on developing key leadership software products for cloud, virtualization and infrastructure management. In this role, Potter also managed the business relationships with Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware. Mark has a track record for linking technology and business, having incubated and created 4 separate $1B+ businesses in his career. He has also been the recipient of eight engineering patents. Potter currently serves on several boards including private and public companies as well as non-profits. Before joining HPE, Potter served in leadership and engineering roles in the aerospace industry. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University and serves on the University's Dwight Look College of Engineering Board of Advisors.