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Saffron tea was very loved by the ancient Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians for its use in culinary and herbal foods as well as for folk medicinal use. Aside from its promising benefits, it also looks as pleasing as it sounds since it belongs to the lily family, where its flower has a delicate part that houses pollens.
It is extremely difficult to make saffron tea since the bright red stigmas are carefully picked off the plant leaving only the golden stamen on position.
Organic yellow saffron tea benefits have recently gained popularity with more clinical trials being conducted to show its health benefits, according to the author of "The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods" Michael Murray N.D. as reported in the Live Strong.
Important Health Benefits of Saffron Tea
Health benefits of saffron tea to depression is one of the most popular since it has been proven to have similar effects as the over-the-counter drugs. The anti-depressant effect of saffron, as discussed in the Health Benefits Times, goes through the nerves providing some sort of calming effect on the person. Experts say that the best thing is that saffron is a natural herb and regular consumption will not do much harm. In addition, it even provides prevention of depression if taken on a regular basis giving people the 'happy' feeling that everyone needs.
Saffron is an aphrodisiac so saffron tea benefits to skin are more on the sexual side of the body making the drinker have increased libido than normal.
The SF Gate reported that a cupful of saffron tea a day could lessen the risk of blindness in the future as a direct interpretation of the article "Saffron: Golden Secret of Clearer Sight". Scientific studies showed that saffron has special fatty acid content that protects human vision. Clinical trials showed that eye vision of patients with eye issues significantly progress as they regularly drink saffron daily.
Saffron Tea Recipe
People should know how to make saffron tea bags recipe since it is very easy. They first need to purchase saffron tea bags or use loose saffron threads to make a tea. Every bit of saffron is important since it is very expensive. Experts advised that homemade saffron is the best since the quality is much more controlled. Threads will be steeped in room-temperature for iced tea beverages while 180 degrees Fahrenheit is needed to fully activate its aromatic and healthy components. Only a little over one milligram of threads is needed for 8 ounces of water and steep for 10 minutes. It is best to stir the solution before drinking to dissolve all threads in hot water. The tea can last for three days inside the refrigerator.
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By Eliot Van Buskirk, Evolver.fm
Spotify continued its quest to become the operating system of music on the internet with Wedneday's launch of an embeddable music player that puts legal tunes on websites and blogs, for free, while compensating copyright holders.
[partner id="evolverfm"] Wherever these buttons are used — and there's a long list of launch partners below — people with Spotify installed will be able to play a track, album or playlist wherever they find it. A play progress meter appears on the webpage as the Spotify desktop or mobile app plays the music in the background.
"Streaming on the web seemed broken," Spotify director of product development Charlie Hellman told Evolver.fm. "There was no good, reliable, easy, straightforward way to post licensed tracks, albums and playlists on the web. The goal of this was to give a simple tool to the web for all music."
Before this, he added, posting music involved finding and posting MP3s, or YouTube videos that can disappear at any time, sometimes confusing users when they already have a song playing in Spotify (or anything else) and another one plays in a webpage. That can lead to a frantic search for the page that's playing the song, as we know all too well.Spotify's play button solves those and other problems by handling the music behind the web, whenever sites embed it. See the small version at right and the large version at the bottom of this post). Launch partners include The Huffington Post, ShareMyPlaylists, FanRx, Popdust, The Independent, Time Out, The Guardian, NME, Rolling Stone, Mashable, FanBridge, Wonderwall, The Fader, Chegg, Elle, Noisey.com, Entertainment Weekly, People.com and SPIN.com. These and other publications have always been able to post links to music on Spotify; the difference is that now, the music plays within the webpage where you found it, so you can keep reading instead of switching over to Spotify.
Crucially, Spotify's play button is also now part of the standard Tumblr dashboard. So if you have one of the 50 million-plus blogs on Tumblr, where more than 20 billion posts have already been published, you can blog about music with zero technical knowledge — a very "Tumblr" solution to music blogging.
"If you want to talk about music on Tumblr, you click Audio, type in the name of the track or album that you want to blog about," said Hellman. "Spotify search results come up, you click the Spotify track, and Tumblr will make a widget that's going to fit perfectly in your Tumblr theme. All you have to do is type in what you want to say about it and hit Post. Without ever having to know what an embed code is, or do anything techie, on one screen, you just made a music blog.
"We're anticipating that not only will a lot of individual websites start embedding licensed content on their sites, but also that the internet will embrace this and start making other tools on top of it," he added. (Perhaps streaming services won't be bad for MP3 blogs after all.)
In all of these cases, Spotify pays the same per-play fee to copyright holders that it does when you play a song within Spotify, providing a new source of revenue for artists — even if it's only a trickle — every time one of these embedded songs plays.
Rdio does something similar, but only includes 30-second samples unless you subscribe for $5 per month. Likewise, imeem used to provide a similar service but it went under years ago, leaving the door open for Spotify to try to become the default streaming audio format of the web, music blogs and Tumblr.The new music players do for the rest of the web what Spotify and other music services already do within Facebook: embedding a play button (via embed.spotify.com). However, it goes beyond the Facebook integration by offering customization options: "a small version, a big version, a black version, a white version, track lists or cover flow for playlists."
It also means that some artist pages on Facebook will now pay artists, the way artist pages on MySpace did not. FanBridge and BandRX, which make artist pages for artists and labels, are both Spotify play button launch partners.
"We want to be the soundtrack to the web, and this is definitely a big step towards that," Hellman told Evolver.fm.
Spotify's embedded music will play on any computer, smartphone, tablet or other device with Spotify installed. That means it's only available in countries where Spotify is available; if you're somewhere else, the buttons appear as a note to that effect. In addition, to use the links on a smartphone, you'll need the Spotify app installed — only possible as part of a premium $10 per month account or as part of the 30-day free trial.
But if you're in a supported place with a supported device, the web just got a lot more musical.
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The A's just sent out this news release:
OAKLAND, Calif. – The Oakland A's reinstated Seth Smith from the disabled list, the club announced today. The A's also placed left-handed pitcher Jordan Norberto on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to August 18 with left shoulder tendinitis and optioned second baseman Jemile Weeks to Triple-A Sacramento. To clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Stephen Drew, the A's designated right-handed pitcher Graham Godfrey for assignment.
Smith was placed on the 15-day disabled list August 3 with a strained left hamstring. He was sent to Sacramento on a rehab assignment last night and went 2 for 3 in a start at designated hitter against Las Vegas. Smith was batting .177 over his final 30 games before the injury and is hitting .237 with 11 home runs and 39 RBI in 92 games overall with Oakland.
Norberto goes on the disabled list for the second time this year as he was also out from May 31 to June 20 with a strained left shoulder. He posted a 1.69 ERA in 18 appearances since he was reinstated from the DL June 21 and is 4-1 with a save and a 2.77 ERA in 39 relief appearances overall with Oakland. Norberto is eligible to be reinstated September 2.
Weeks was batting .220 with two home runs and 20 RBI in 113 games with the A's. He was tied for the American League lead with eight triples but had the second lowest slugging percentage (.302) and fourth lowest batting average.
Godfrey was on the A's Opening Day roster and went 0-4 with a 6.43 ERA in five games, four starts, over two stints with Oakland. He has been with Sacramento since May 27 and is 9-2 with a save and a 3.29 ERA in 20 games, 17 starts, overall with the River Cats.


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The Rush Copley Heart Rhythm Center provides excellence in the evaluation and treatment of patients with many different kinds of arrhythmias. We have an ongoing commitment to provide you with technologically advanced and personalized care.
The integrated team of physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals provides a comprehensive approach to diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorders and we strive to make your experience with us as comfortable as possible.
Our team will provide you with vital information that will help you to understand your arrhythmia, tests you may have, and your treatment. They provide instructions prior to hospital discharge and see you again after ablation or device implantation, if you have one of those treatments.
Your heart is a complex organ that is regulated by slight electrical impulses generated by the body. An abnormal heart rhythm is a change in the speed or the regular pattern of how your heart beats.
Cardiac electrophysiology deals with the electrical system of the heart and abnormal heart rhythms. If your heart beats irregularly, too rapidly, or even too slowly, it can cause significant problems.
An electrophysiology (EP) study is an invasive diagnostic test to evaluate the electrical system of the heart. A thin, flexible catheter tube with an electrode on the end is threaded through an vein into the heart, where it both records electrical activity and emits electrical impulses to test the heart's response. The EP study is usually an outpatient procedure and can last anywhere from one to three hours and will help to determine the location of the heart's abnormal electrical activity. The location and type of rhythm problem help confirm the appropriate treatment option(s).
Arrhythmias appear as a change in the speed or pattern of your heartbeat and can cause:
Many arrhythmias are common and may not require any specific treatment, but certain abnormal heart rhythms, left untreated, can cause death.
Even though symptoms may not be readily apparent, it is very important to identify the nature and the cause of any abnormal heart rhythms. If you've been diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia, your doctor has probably referred you for an electrophysiology study or procedure as a treatment or therapy for your heart rhythm disorder.
Electrophysiology offers many effective treatments and therapies for heart arrhythmias.
Pacemaker Implantation and MonitoringA pacemaker is a small, battery-powered electronic device that is implanted in the patient's chest to keep the heart beating at the proper rate. Pacemakers are used when a defect, blockage, or age-induced slowing of electrical impulses causes the heart to heat too slowly or to fail to speed up during activity. This deprives the body of the blood flow it needs. Recently, special pacemakers have been developed that improve heart function in patients with congestive heart failure. Patients with pacemakers must be monitored several times a year using a computerized programmer device that can communicate with the pacemaker and adjust its settings as necessary.
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)An ICD is a device, similar to a pacemaker, which is implanted in the chest to monitor and treat episodes of abnormally fast heartbeats (tachycardia) or chaotic, quivering heartbeats (fibrillation). The ICD is programmed to detect the abnormal heartbeats and deliver electrical impulses or a shock to terminate the dangerous rhythm. Like those with pacemakers, patients with ICDs, must be monitored several times a year with a programmer.
Radiofrequency Catheter AblationThis breakthrough, non-surgical procedure is similar to the electrophysiology study, except that it identifies and then destroys the malfunctioning electrical pathway in the heart.
An electrophysiologist inserts a special wire (catheter) through a blood vessel in your groin. This is then directed into the ehart and focused on the cells that cause irregular heart rhythm. Heat energy is then sent through the wire to destroy (ablate) the problem cells without harming the rest of the heart. RF ablation has a 98% success rate for many supra-ventricular arrythmias. This procedure is relatively low risk and can replace surgery in most instances. IV sedation is used during the procedure not general anesthesia. The patient is comfortable and sleepy. Most of the time patients are able to go home the same day, but occasionally some patients may have to stay overnight. Your stay will be in a private room where your family can remain during your recovery.
For patients with a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), our follow-up programs help assure each patient's device is doing its job properly. Quick visits allow for staff to check the status of each device and to answer any questions.
Living with an arrhythmia may mean you have to make some changes in your lifestyle. To smooth your adjustment to life with an arrhythmia, the Heart Rhythm Center holds periodic support meetings at our offices for patients and their families. These gatherings feature educational presentations and also provide an opportunity to share experiences with other people who have arrhythmias. The meetings are coordinated and led by our physicians, nurses, and support personnel.
As part of our commitment to advancing the care of patients with arrhythmias, the Heart Rhythm Center works closely with Fox Valley Clinical Research Center to participate in many clinical trials to assess new treatments that possess the potential to improve each patient's outcome. For more information or to see if you or your patient is eligible for one of these trials, please contact the Heart Rhythm Center.
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:11 PM
People in North America with at least $1 million in investable assets climbed 11.5 percent to 3.73 million in 2012, regaining the No. 1 ranking after being overtaken in 2011 by the Asia-Pacific region, according to the 17th annual World Wealth Report. High-net-worth individuals in Asia-Pacific increased 9.4 percent to 3.68 million.
The combined wealth of the world's millionaires rose 10 percent to a record $46.2 trillion last year, after declining 1.7 percent in 2011. North America remained the richest region with $12.7 trillion of high-net-worth assets, compared with $12 trillion in Asia-Pacific, according to the study.
"Both the U.S. and Canada benefited from marginal GDP growth as well as equity and real estate markets," Jean Lassignardie, chief sales and marketing officer for Paris-based Capgemini Global Financial Services, said at a press conference in New York. Still, Asia-Pacific's total wealth increased 12.2 percent, outpacing North America's 11.7 percent growth, he said.
The increase in wealth was led by the super-rich, those with at least $30 million to invest, whose assets and numbers rose by about 11 percent following declines in 2011, according to the report.
Latin America
The MSCI AC World Index, which tracks global stocks in developed and emerging markets, climbed 13 percent in 2012 and the MSCI AC Asia Pacific Index jumped 14 percent.
All regions had strong gains in high-net-worth populations and wealth except Latin America, which faltered amid slow economic growth and "challenged" equity markets, according to the report.
The population of millionaires worldwide rose 9.2 percent to 12 million, according to the report. In Europe, the high-net- worth population increased 7.5 percent to 3.41 million and their wealth climbed 8.2 percent to $10.9 trillion, the report found.
Global wealth will grow at 6.5 percent annually over the next three years, led by the 9.8 percent increase from the Asia- Pacific region, the report shows. Assets of the high-net-worth are projected to reach $55.8 trillion in 2015.
Cautious Wealthy
The dominant source of wealth for the world's richest people is from entrepreneurship rather than inheritance, according to a separate report by London-based Barclays Plc. Wealth is being created twice as quickly in developing regions such as Asia-Pacific and Africa, where it took rich people an average of 12 years and 16 years, respectively, to accumulate their assets, the Barclays study found.
A Pew Research Center study in April found that while the U.S. economy has recovered for households with net worth of $500,000 or more, the recession continues for almost everyone else. Wealthy U.S. households boosted their net worth by about 21 percent between 2009 and 2011 as the rest of America lost 4.9 percent of household wealth during that period, the Pew study found.
The world's affluent remained cautious in 2012, with a focus on preserving assets, according to the report from Capgemini and Royal Bank's RBC Wealth Management unit, which surveyed more than 4,400 high-net-worth individuals. A third were primarily focused on preserving wealth, while 26 percent sought to increase assets. Almost 30 percent of high-net-worth wealth was held in cash and deposits, the report found.
'Surprising' Allocations
"To still see an allocation to cash and deposits of 30 percent from high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals is surprising," George Lewis, group head of RBC Wealth Management and RBC Insurance, said at a press conference in Toronto. "Part of that is related to a very natural and good focus on preservation of wealth."
Millionaires in the Middle East and Africa were the most focused on wealth accumulation, with about 42 percent making asset growth a priority compared with 33 percent seeking preservation, the study found.
North America's wealthy held most of their assets in equities, at 37 percent, while those in Latin America and Asia- Pacific, excluding Japan, preferred property. Latin America's rich had 30 percent of their portfolios in real estate, compared with 25 percent for Asia-Pacific. Millionaires in Europe favored cash and real estate, allocating 27 percent to each.
Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management compiled data from 71 countries accounting for 98 percent of global gross national income. Toronto-based RBC Wealth Management manages more than C$369 billion ($361.5 billion) for customers globally.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold futures on Monday settled with their biggest monthly gain since February, as traders awaited the market's next likely catalysts, which will likely come in the form of monthly U.S. employment data and the European Central Bank meeting later this week.
Gold for August delivery US:GCQ4 tacked on $2, or 0.2%, for the session to settle at $1,322 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Prices for the yellow metal, tracking the most-active contracts, saw gains of around 6.1% for the month and 3% for the quarter.
It's unlikely that traders will take any large bets ahead of the U.S. nonfarm payroll data due out on Thursday, said Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at AvaTrade. "It is the most important data on earth, and it can cause a big fluctuation for gold and especially given the GDP data print last week."
Last week, data showed that the U.S. economy contracted by 2.9% in the first quarter, marking the biggest drop since early 2009.
Gold saw little reaction to U.S. reports released Monday showing that Chicago PMI retreated in June and May pending home sales jumped 6.1%.
Over in Europe, inflation in the euro zone remained stable at 0.5% in June, missing forecasts of a 0.6% reading ahead of the ECB's meeting on Thursday.
The "wild card" for the market is the geopolitical tensions, said Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at EverBank Wealth Management, who mentioned Iraq, Ukraine and North Korea, in particular. "Any flare up in these areas could quickly lead to another round of 'safe haven' buying in the precious metals," he said.
On Comex Monday, September silver US:SIU4 fell nearly 8 cents, or 0.4%, to settle at $21.06 an ounce following a gain of around 0.6% last week. For the month, prices were up nearly 13% for the month and logged a quarterly gain of 6.6%. Read Commodities Corner: Why silver has been outperforming gold.
October platinum US:PLV4 settled at $1,482.90, climbing $2.60, or 0.2% and September palladium US:PAU4 added 30 cents to $843.15 an ounce. Platinum futures rose 2.1% for the month, and saw a rise of 4.4% for the quarter, while palladium was up roughly 0.8% for the month and up 8.5% for the quarter.
High-grade copper for September delivery US:HGU4 settled at $3.20 a pound, up nearly 4 cents, or 1.1%. Tracking the most-active contracts, prices were up around 2.5% for the month and gained 5.9% for the quarter.
Shares of gold and silver miners turned higher Monday afternoon, with the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index
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Prof. Rao, the chairman of the Science Advisory Council to India's prime minister is the keynote speaker at Purdue University's Discovery Lecture Series event on June 18, outlining how India is reaching out to the international research community. Dr. Gail Cassell, Eli Lilly and Co.'s vice president for scientific affairs and the company's distinguished research scholar for infectious diseases will then give a presentation on how the United States is responding to the need for more college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Dr. Arabinda Mitra, executive director of the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum, also will discuss funding opportunities for bilateral research activities between the United States and India.
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Kashmir has become the petri dish of the 21st century and thus it shall be viewed by political scientists of the future. What would challenge their concepts of a modern state is not where state and religion may cohabit neither detracting from the other, but to what extent a state may let religion its free exercise of its hold on their believers. Religion is self expression of belief and it must remain where it belongs as springboard for impulses and actions that which could be best expressed for the common good of the society. If prayer is a cornerstone of one's belief- system praying to his god or Allah or whatever that he may be instrument of peace to all and conducting himself to live at peace makes him serve his private belief and the requirements of the state. Instead to use certain passages from here and there and sow discord and disaffection to all and sundry must be practicing a religion of hate. Looking at what goes on in Kashmir I wonder if a mixture of state and religion have not been applied wrongly. As a preface I only need to compare her early history and now.
Kashmiri culture,melting pot of many faiths
Historically The Muslims and Hindus of Kashmir lived in relative harmony, since the Sufi way had much in common with the Rishi tradition of Kashmiri Pandits. Hindus and Muslims revered the same local saints and prayed at the same shrines in the former times and this was but one example that their culture didn't require man's belief as a hurdle for acceptance. Their culture, I mean Kashmiri culture, had absorbed from various belief-systems Hinduism, Buddhism. Later in 1349 Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir. For the next five centuries, Muslim monarchs ruled Kashmir, including the Mughals, who ruled from 1526 until 1751, then the Afghan Durrani Empire that ruled from 1747 until 1820. That year, the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh, annexed Kashmir. In 1846, upon the purchase of the region from the British under the Treaty of Amritsar, the Dogras—under Gulab Singh—became the new rulers.
We can see fortunes of this state followed the turn of history as followed elsewhere- and the only pivot that history revolves upon in true sense of the word, is on changes.
If under the rulership of Hindu kings were grievances by any particular section the aggrieved parties had recourse to change what was evil. History shows Kashmir tolerated their rulers both good and bad and their culture, arts and literature were never in danger of annihilation. From all records set down by the historians, travelers and officials we do not see systematic extermination of the minorities and their way of life in the state as we have seen of the Jews and Gypsies under the Nazi Regime.
Law is paramount-The Act of 1947
It is true Jammu and Kashmir has a Muslim majority population. As with changes being the only course of history it is neither special if at present Islam is practiced by about 67% of the population of the state and by 97% of the population of the Kashmir valley,. Against this in order to put the demographical changes in perspective, we need to account for Buddhists and Sikhs as well. According to political scientist Alexander Evans, approximately 95% of the total population of 160,000–170,000 of Kashmiri Brahmins, also called Kashmiri Pandits, (i.e. approximately 150,000 to 160,000) left the Kashmir Valley in 1990 as militancy engulfed the state. According to an estimate by the Central Intelligence Agency, about 300,000 Kashmiri Pandits from the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir have been internally displaced due to the ongoing violence. The state of Kashmir under the union of India cannot be treated as altogether another entity since the Indian Independence Act 1947 gave rise to the creation of two new nations: the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. This Act had validated Pakistan and India as well as voided the British suzerainty over the 562 Indian princely states. According to the provisions of this Act these states were left to choose whether to join India or Pakistan or to remain independent. Jammu and Kashmir, the largest of the princely states chose India and the provisions laid in the Act have been met. Period. The fact that there is a predominantly Muslim population or it was determined by a Hindu ruler (Maharaja Hari Singh) do not invalidate the union. To sum if Pakistan is a nation so is India and the state's choice also legally correct.
In October 1947, Muslim revolutionaries in western Kashmir and Pakistani tribals from Dir entered Kashmir intending to liberate it from Dogra rule. Unable to withstand the invasion, the Maharaja signed the Instrument of Accession that was accepted by the government of India on 27 October 1947.
Shifting focus
Now in order to understand what ails Kashmir we need to separate those players who have no right to be there whether in the form of ideologues or as fighters. For example what is the interest of Al-Qaeda in a purely internal issue? If they want to organize a campaign of terror in Kashmir the only way that can be done is with the help of Pakistan. Apart from the majority of Jammu and Kashmir being Muslims, Pakistan has no moral or legal right to interfere in internal affairs of India. When Mujahiddins were being armed and trained in Afghanistan against Soviet Russia in the Eighties it was known that the Talibans were largely helped by Pakistan. We see its repercussions even now. Only that Pakistan is forced into a false position where they have to fight Al-Qaeda elements hiding in northwestern Pakistan. (Their collusion with Taliban in Afghanistan then has now created homegrown Taliban forces.) Therefore Al-Qaeda wants Pakistan to fight India on the issue of Kashmir. Thereby they reason it will force Pakistan to move its troops to the border with India and relieve pressure on them. (US Intelligence analysts say al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan-administered Kashmir are helping terrorists they had trained in Afghanistan to infiltrate Indian administered Kashmir. There is nothing that can verify reports from the media of Al Qaeda presence in the state. As it seems now it is a proxy war waged by Kashmir militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan. It must be noted that Waziristan has now become the new battlefield for Kashmiri militants who were now fighting NATO in support of Al-Qaeda. Kashmir issue has now owing to the run of events (that originally had nothing to do with Kashmir state or India as a Republic) become free for all. It is not politics but religion as interpreted by some that is hogging up the headlines.
After Islam what then?
From experience it has been brought home with regards to the Kashmir issue in a chilling manner, terrorism has completely kept away the focus so a new trail is impacted into the sub-continent where religion may if allowed would do away with geographical boundaries that was sacrosanct earlier. An Islamic crescent from Europe to Russia straddling Asia is what some extremist Islamic groups harbor in depths of their hearts. (Instead of tolerance and harmony that were natural impulses in the hearts of Kashmiris irrespective of their religion we see hardening into set opinions and ill will. Under such a mindset mischief of extremists is easier done than cured.) What happens to such nations wrenched out violently from their political history when Islam finally becomes a spent force as Christianity is now. ( It is my belief that religions may have two millennia to run their course). This is what would interest the political scientists in future.
I hope the present Indian government will take the lesson of the blunder of the Vajpayee government when on Dec 24th, 1999 Indian Airlines IC 814 from Kathmandu to Delhi was hijacked to Taliban-controlled Kandahar airport in Afghanistan. The drama lasted a week exposing the weak kneed approach of BJP led government and it has caused more serious damage in the years to come. Five high profile terrorists in Indian prisons were released to secure the lives of the Indian passengers on the flight.
One of the released terrorists, Masood Azhar, went on to start the terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, that killed hundreds of Indians — security personnel and innocents — in later years. Also it gave another innocent victim, the American journalist Daniel Pearl. India need to know that appeasement of terrorists is not an intelligent option.
Finally much has been said about validity of Jihad as legitimate Islamic requirement to turn the world into Darul Islam. Al Koran do speak of Jihad but its interpretation as intended would mean different for different people. My essay is with special reference to the state of Kashmir enjoying special privileges under the Union of India as no other states enjoy. On what basis shall these know-all apply? Is Jihad to be waged against the past and for hospitality of the host nation? Those who are sure of their Koran may ask if hospitality of people,- Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and their way of life that allowed Muslims to prosper and live in amity are to be paid back with ill-will and rancor?


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It was another record day on Wall Street — barely.
After spending most of Friday flat or down, stocks rallied at the last minute and closed slightly higher, just enough to post new record highs for the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
The gains were tiny. And the new record doesn't mean much for investors, who hardly have any more money now than they did a day earlier. But it is a sign that investors believe the market's rally this year may not be over yet.
The S&P 500 has closed higher seven days in a row. The last time it did that was in March.
Investors had to look past a pessimistic outlook from UPS, which said it was seeing a slowdown in U.S. industry. And in the afternoon, Boeing shares tanked after one of its 787s caught on fire in London, reviving fears of the troubles that plane had with smoldering batteries earlier this year.
Other economic news was mixed. Profits at big banks Wells Fargo and JP Morgan came in better than expected, and that helped financial stocks. But a University of Michigan measure of consumer sentiment came in lower than expected for this month.
Investors will get a lot more information next week, when key reports on inflation and retail sales are due. That's also when the pace of company earnings reports picks up sharply. Results are due from the remaining big banks as well as General Electric, Intel, Microsoft and other industry bellwethers.
"This is the jump ball, this is the Lebron James of the market," said David Darst, chief investment strategist for Morgan Stanley Individual Investor Group, referring to the second-quarter earnings rush. "It's going to determine where the market goes."
The Dow closed up 3.38 points, just 0.02 percent, at 15,464.30. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 5.17 points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,680.19. Both indexes also closed at all-time highs on Thursday.
The Nasdaq composite edged up 21.78 points, or 0.6 percent, to 3,600.08. It's still well short of its record high of 5,048, set in March 2000.
The Russell 2000, which is made up of smaller companies, rose 3.35 points, or 0.3 percent, to close at 1,036.52.
All the big indexes are ahead for the week.
Stocks spent most of Friday down, but not down much. Analysts believe investors are waiting for several major earnings and economic reports next week before deciding whether the rally has further to run.
Key reports on inflation and retail sales are due next week, and the pace of company earnings reports picks up sharply. Reports are due from the remaining big banks as well as General Electric, Intel, Microsoft and other industry bellwethers.
"This is the jump ball, this is the Lebron James of the market," said David Darst, chief investment strategist for Morgan Stanley Individual Investor Group, referring to the second-quarter earnings rush. "It's going to determine where the market goes."
Anthony Conroy, managing director and head trader for ConvergEx Group, thinks it's likely that stocks will move higher, as long as second-quarter earnings reports at least match the low expectations that investors have. "The three most important things in the next couple of weeks are earnings, earnings, and earnings," he said.
Cost-cutting boosted profits at Wells Fargo, and its stock rose 74 cents, or 1.8 percent, to $42.63. JPMorgan Chase reported a 32 percent jump in profits, but its stock fell 17 cents to $54.97.
Conroy said JPMorgan's credit numbers were strong. "That means the consumer's out there spending and borrowing and propping up the whole economy, and that's a good thing," he said.
United Parcel Service sank $5.33, or 5.8 percent, to $86.12 after saying its second-quarter and full-year earnings will be less than analysts have been expecting because the company's customers are using cheaper shipping options. UPS also said it's seeing a slowdown in U.S. industry.
FedEx fell, too. Its shares were down $2.11, or 2 percent, to $102.29.
Boeing dropped after a fire on a 787 parked at Heathrow Airport, and after another 787 had to divert to a different airport. Boeing struggled earlier this year after its new 787 was grounded for more than three months because of smoldering batteries, and investors are nervous about any additional problems with the plane.
Before news of the fire broke, Boeing set a new 52-week high of $108.15 earlier Friday. The stock dropped $5.01, or 4.7 percent, to close at $101.87 on high volume. Boeing was the biggest decliner in the Dow.
Other stocks with notable moves included:
— Gap rose 34 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $45.10. Three analysts lifted their price targets after Gap posted revenue at stores open at least a year that was better than the market was expecting.
— WebMD jumped $6.86, or 25 percent, to $33.82 after the medical website operator sharply raised its forecast for its second-quarter results, citing strong demand from advertisers.
— RadioShack Corp. rose 29 cents, or 11 percent, to $2.92. Investors were spooked late Thursday after a report that it had hired financial advisers. But they appeared to be reassured after the struggling electronics retailer said it has a strong balance sheet and that the "sole focus" of its discussions with advisers is making its balance sheet stronger.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose slightly to 2.59 percent from 2.57 percent.
The yield has risen almost a full percentage point since early May, pushing interest rates higher for mortgages and other loans. There's a fear that higher rates could hurt housing and business borrowing.
John Fox, director of research at Fenimore Asset Management, said housing is improving, employment is improving, and retail and auto sales are good. "Is that all just going to disappear if we have a 3.5 percent Treasury bond? I don't think it will."
Crude oil rose $1.04 to close at $105.95 per barrel in the U.S. Other energy prices also rose. Gold slipped $2.30 to $1,277.60.


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WASHINGTON (AP) Longwood had this kind of night against No. 15 Georgetown: seven Lancers had multiple turnovers; seven Hoyas scored at least six points.
It all meant an 89-53 victory for Georgetown on Monday.
``It's a team effort in the wrong direction,'' Longwood coach Mike Gillian said.
Otto Porter scored a career-high 22 points, added seven assists and four steals and returned after taking an apparent hit to the head during the second half.
The point total for Georgetown (8-1) against Longwood (2-8) was much bigger than the Hoyas managed in two of their last three wins. They beat Tennessee 37-36 and Towson 46-40 around a 64-41 win over Texas.
``When you look at that last game, the ball didn't go in, and so you have to fix that,'' Georgetown coach John Thompson III said. ``But most of the looks we got were wide open shots.
``It wasn't a question of movement within the offense. Our guys just put the ball in the basket a little bit today.''
Porter went to the bench with 13:46 left, holding his hand to his face. He took a hit to the head during the Hoyas' season-opening win over Duquesne and missed the next game with ``symptoms indicative of a mild concussion.'' But unlike against Duquesne, Porter didn't leave the court area, and fans gave him a noticeable ovation when he returned a few minutes later.
After the game, he laughed off the injury.
``I just caught an elbow from my teammate going for the rebound,'' Porter said.
Before Porter left the game, Georgetown had already built a sizable lead.
Markel Starks was 4 for 5 from 3-point range and had 17 points for the Hoyas while Whittington had eight points.
The Hoyas used a 17-5 run over the first 4 minutes of the second half to pull away, forcing several turnovers in the process. Their 30 turnovers forced were the most since Elon turned the ball over 32 times on Dec. 13, 2003. Seven Longwood players had multiple turnovers.
Georgetown has won five straight games and appears likely to stretch that streak to seven before Big East play begins. They Hoyas will host Western Carolina and American before playing at Marquette on Jan. 5.
In its first game against Longwood, Georgetown boosted its record against Big South Conference teams to 13-0 and extended its overall win streak to five games. Longwood falls to 0-7 against Big East teams and 0-8 against ranked opponents since playing its first full Division I schedule in 2004-05.
Jeylani Dublin led Longwood with 10 points.
The Hoyas had assists on their first nine field goals, building a 21-12 lead while shooting 9 of 19. They had 14 assists at halftime, three shy of their game high this season. They finished with 25 assists to set a season high.
Georgetown used two 9-0 runs in the first half, one early in the period and one late, to build a 40-24 lead.


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Corning Optical Communications LLC, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, introduces its FlexNAP™ Façade Multidwelling Unit (MDU) Solution.
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The FlexNAP Façade MDU relies upon Corning's proven expertise in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments and expands on its existing FlexNAP System technology for aerial FTTH applications.
The core of the solution is a prefabricated central riser segment that runs vertically up the exterior of the high-rise from the building distribution terminal. At the floor level, individual factory-prepared breakout points are terminated into a multifiber, outside plant-hardened connector. Breakout points are then routed through the façade to the inside of the building, where the connector is terminated inside a floor distribution terminal. Individual customer apartments are connected by horizontal drop cables.
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OAKLAND — A government fleet of 90 electric vehicles is rolling onto Bay Area streets this week from San Jose to Santa Rosa, completing a $5 million regional initiative that took four years to get off the ground.
The plug-in sedans and vans will carry building inspectors, health workers, park maintenance crews and other municipal employees working for 10 local agencies.
Alameda County is leading the way with 26 new vehicles, doubling its electric fleet. An additional 27 battery-powered vehicles are being delivered to Sonoma County and its water agency, 14 to San Francisco and 10 to the city of Concord.
Oakland and San Jose are each acquiring three new vehicles, and Fremont two, in what proponents call the largest government deployment of electric vehicles in the United States.
The cars will bring "immediate fuel savings for the agencies," reduce emissions and require low maintenance, said Rafael Reyes, director of the Bay Area Climate Collaborative, a nonprofit initiative of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group established in 2009 by the mayors of San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland to accelerate clean energy initiatives around the bay.
The fleet of sedans (Ford Focus and Nissan Leaf) and vans (Zenith Motors) is part of a broader $33 million environmental project authorized by the nine-county Metropolitan Transportation Commission in 2010. The commission awarded local governments $2.8 million in federal money for the cars, and the local agencies that acquired the vehicles paid the balance.
With a range of less than 100 miles before they need to be recharged, "the vehicles really are ideal for small or midsized cities" where government workers make short but frequent trips, Reyes said.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and other officials from around the Bay Area showed off the vehicles Tuesday afternoon at Alameda County's parking garage in downtown Oakland.
The Bay Area already has the highest per-capita concentration of electric vehicles in the country, but clean energy proponents hope to get 100,000 on the region's roads by 2020 — up from just under 25,000 today.
"It also is a demonstration project to show what can be done," Reyes said of the 90 new government vehicles. "It's building the expertise, documenting the benefits, and really serving as a national model."


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The video here is instructive not because of the discussion that ensues, but because of the question Jake Tapper asks. DCCC chair Rep. Steve Israel can be relied upon to carry Barack Obama's water on this subject and cry about the "politicization" of the debate over whether to authorize strikes on Syria, but the truth is that as many Democrats publicly opposed the rush to military strikes as Republicans did. Worse, Obama's push forced Democrats like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to start making Hitler comparisons and Munich analogies, only to discover that the President had retreated and left them twisting in the wind.
What happens the next time he calls his party to arms, either literally or figuratively?
Political capital does not come cheap in Washington, D.C. After weeks of trying to rally Congress to support him on a fast-changing policy in Syria, President Barack Obama may have broken the bank on what political capital he has left in his second term. ….
But Israel said Obama is not hurting his credibility with Democratic members of the House, adding that after a Democratic caucus briefing, the party is now focused on Russia's diplomatic proposal to disarm Syria of its stockpile of nuclear weapons.
"Our focus on both sides of the aisle right now, quite honestly, is on ensuring that this is a legitimate, transparent, verifiable proposal," said Israel.
But much of the Democratic caucus, people Israel helped get elected in the last cycle, are against the president.
Asked if that lack of support stems from a distant relationship with the president, Israel said no, saying it is the shadow of Iraq that is driving Democrats' doubts on authorizing a strike against Syria.
Not any more, it's not. It's the shadow of incompetence combined with hubris, as Obama clearly didn't bother to consult with the very people he asked to get out in front of the intervention push. What's the next climbdown that will leave them twisting in the wind after provoking constituents with public support for very unpopular policies? If the DCCC chair thinks that purple-district incumbents aren't going to worry about that with the midterm cycle approaching, he's going to be in for an unpleasant surprise.
Speaking of incompetence, the Pee Wee Herman defense ("I meant to do that") isn't flying with the media, not even those outlets inclined to be sympathetic to Obama. The New York Times offers a measured analysis that includes the secret-genius argument, but Peter Baker doesn't sound as though he's buying it:
Over the last three weeks, the nation has witnessed a highly unusual series of pivots as a president changed course virtually in real time and on live television. Mr. Obama's handling of his confrontation with Syria over a chemical weapons attack on civilians has been the rare instance of a commander in chief seemingly thinking out loud and changing his mind on the fly.
To aides and allies, Mr. Obama's willingness to hit the pause button twice on his decision to launch airstrikes to punish Syria for using chemical weapons on its own people reflects a refreshing open-mindedness and a reluctance to use force that they considered all too missing under his predecessor with the Texas swagger. …
But to Mr. Obama's detractors, including many in his own party, he has shown a certain fecklessness with his decisions first to outsource the decision to lawmakers in the face of bipartisan opposition and then to embrace a Russian diplomatic alternative that even his own advisers consider dubious. Instead of displaying decisive leadership, Mr. Obama, to these critics, has appeared reactive, defensive and profoundly challenged in standing up to a dangerous world. …
But Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former State Department official under Mr. Bush who broke with his old boss and has been supportive of Mr. Obama at times, is highly critical of the way he has handled Syria. "Words like ad hoc and improvised and unsteady come to mind," Mr. Haass said. "This has been probably the most undisciplined stretch of foreign policy of his presidency."
Baker quotes one analyst who gets to the heart of the political-capital question:
"Each time he's done an about-face or a sharp turn, other people who kept marching in the same direction look kind of foolish," said Peter D. Feaver, a Duke University professor who worked on the National Security Council staff under Mr. Bush and Bill Clinton. "It's clear he didn't fully think through the implications of going to Congress and prepare for that."
Time's Joe Klein dispenses with the measured approach and calls this episode "one of the more stunning and inexplicable displays of presidential incompetence that I've ever witnessed":
He willingly jumped into a bear trap of his own creation. In the process, he has damaged his presidency and weakened the nation's standing in the world. It has been one of the more stunning and inexplicable displays of presidential incompetence that I've ever witnessed. The failure cuts straight to the heart of a perpetual criticism of the Obama White House: that the President thinks he can do foreign policy all by his lonesome. This has been the most closely held American foreign-policy-making process since Nixon and Kissinger, only there's no Kissinger. There is no éminence grise—think of someone like Brent Scowcroft—who can say to Obama with real power and credibility, Mr. President, you're doing the wrong thing here. Let's consider the consequences if you call the use of chemical weapons a "red line." Or, Mr. President, how can you talk about this being "the world's red line" if the world isn't willing to take action? Perhaps those questions, and many others, fell through the cracks as his first-term national-security staff departed and a new team came in. But Obama has shown a desire to have national-security advisers who were "honest brokers"—people who relayed information to him—rather than global strategists. In this case, his new staff apparently raised the important questions about going to Congress for a vote: Do you really want to do this for a limited strike? What if they say no? But the President ignored them, which probably means that the staff isn't strong enough.
The public presentation of his policies has been left to the likes of Secretary of State John Kerry, whose statements had to be refuted twice by the President in the Syria speech. Kerry had said there might be a need for "boots on the ground" in Syria. (Obama: No boots.) Kerry had said the military strikes would be "unbelievably small." (Obama: We don't do pinpricks.) Worst of all, Kerry bumbled into prematurely mentioning a not-very-convincing Russian "plan" to get rid of the Syrian chemical weapons. This had been under private discussion for months, apparently, the sort of dither that bad guys—Saddam, the Iranians, Assad—always use as a delaying tactic. Kerry, in bellicose mode, seemed to be making fun of the idea—and the Russians called him on it. Kerry's staff tried to walk back this megagaffe, calling it a "rhetorical exercise." As it stands, no one will be surprised if the offer is a ruse, but the Administration is now trapped into seeing it through and gambling that it will be easier to get a congressional vote if it fails. …
There are domestic consequences as well. This was supposed to be the month when the nation's serious fiscal and budgetary problems were hashed out, or not, with the Republicans. There was a chance that a coalition could be built to back a compromise to solve the debt-ceiling problem and the quiet horrors caused by sequestration and to finally achieve a long-term budget compromise. But any deal would have required intense, single-minded negotiation, including political protection, or sweeteners, for those Republicans who crossed the line. Precious time has been wasted. And, after Syria, it will be difficult for any member of Congress to believe that this President will stick to his guns or provide protection.
Slate's William Dobson laments that Obama doesn't seem to realize that being rescued from such a trap by an autocrat like Putin isn't a big confidence-builder:
Give President Obama credit: He has done such a good job of acting unpredictably in the lead-up to his proposed military strikes on Syria that no one knows what he will do next. He has successfully confused ally and enemy alike. Sun Tzu would be proud.
But President Obama cannot take all the credit for sowing confusion. Secretary of State John Kerry also has the unique distinction of becoming the first chief American diplomat whose offhand quip at a press conference launched a last-minute, global diplomatic initiative to disarm a murderous dictator. Kerry never thought that he was making a bold bid to avert military strikes that his president's party and public had no interest in supporting. He simply suggested that if Bashar al-Assad handed all of his chemical weapons over in a week, that might stave off an impending U.S. attack—and of course, Assad wasn't going to do that. The State Department rushed forward to clarify that Kerry wasn't floating an actual proposal—he was just speaking rhetorically. You know, riffing. To say that the Obama administration is freelancing when it comes to foreign policy is an insult to freelancers. …
No one believes that the House of Representatives (and maybe even the Senate) was going to sign off on the authorization of force in Syria. But Putin's late-breaking gambit has prevented Democrats from having to eviscerate their own president's foreign policy. Putin is providing President Obama political cover that even his own party wouldn't supply.
But if your foreign policy has to be rescued by a dictator, you are doing it wrong. That's where President Obama finds himself today.
Is there anyone who could put any stock in Obama's competence and commitment at this point? Obama may well be the President who found the quickest way to lame-duck status in second-term history.


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...But I've been wrong before.
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And especially the fact that they have only had girlfriends for 5 seconds (remember Wendy and Cartman in "Chef Goes Nanners")
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But I think its possible that he may have feelings for Kyle Btw i think Cartman's gay
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I think that they should bring back Cupid-Me again for Kyle and Cartman. They were so close to be having my dream episode. I knew that Cartman was going to profess his love for Kyle before the episode even started.
But during the 16B episodes, he was being himself again which made me and the Kyman fans pissed. They had their moments but something didn't set right with me. Like I said before, they had better do an episode about this before the series end.
Maybe they can bring back the song "I Swear" and see what their reaction would be and they would start showing their emotions toward each other.
Season 17 starts in March next year. I can't wait to see what happens between these two. But with South Park, anything can happen.
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I think they're friends just because they're both friends with Stan and Kenny. Cartman is just messed up anyway, so he loves to annoy Kyle even it means he goes too far sometimes. Kyle saves Cartman and is nice to him when he's upset just because Kyle is the "nice guy". That's my opinion anyway.
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In my own little corner of the universe, all of the main boys are straight and the gay kids are outside the main group, and blah blah whatever
This isn't my universe, this is Trey and Matt's, and there are so many numerous gay jokes from Cartman at Kyle's expense there is just no excuse unless Cartman's actually gay. Cartman has a sexual fixation on Kyle, and there is no, no way around it.
And believe me, I'd love to find a way around it, but there just isn't at this point.
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cartmanisthebestever wrote:Yes, we all know that Cartman hates Jews. And, we know he hates redheads. But is Kyle the only reason he hates them both?
Cartman's relationship with Kyle has gotten... better over the years, maybe? Well, Cartman has saved Kyle many times. He rescued Kyle from the smug storm in San Francisco, he brought him back to life after he was killed by manbearpig, and he gave him his kidney( well, he didnt exactly give). AAND Kyle has saved Cartman from drowning, and in Up the Down Steroid, Kyle says he is worried about 'his friend going to hell.' They have gotten HIV together, they've hugged, they've cried together... and Cartman agrees his life is dull and empty without Kyle to rip on. Well, maybe, Cartman, ERIC CARTMAN, cares, about Kyle. But does such a good job covering it up.
...or maybe it's more than a friendship. I mean, look at what Cartman forced Kyle to do. Suck his balls. He went all the way to Supreme Court, to Kyle's house, to Washington D.C., broke into the Pentagon twice, to the hospital with Kyle, and to Imaginationland where he finally got Kyle to suck his balls (kind of). Cartman once told Kyle to kiss his ass, and pulled his pants down, and said it HAD TO BE Kyle. And don't forget the time he took a picture of his balls and sent it to Kyle, or when he was a mere inch or two from a sleeping Kyle's face while talking to him. Eric also once pulled out a photo of an innocent looking Kyle and dragged his finger across his mouth as an act of lust, and says 'You will suck my balls.'Cartman also apolagized to Kyle for all the times he called him a 'Big dumb Jew,' and that he 'didnt mean it.'
...it's no secret any more. Cartman has a little crush on Kyle. He loves his constant bitching and arguing.
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If punk emerged today – instead of in 1977 – how would it take hold on the popular consciousness?
"You'd pull it up on YouTube, as soon as it was played," hypothesized William Gibson in a recent phone interview with Wired. "It would go up on YouTube among the kazillion other things that went up on YouTube that day. And then how would you find it?"
Part 1: William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong
Part 2: William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions
Part 3: William Gibson on Punk Rock, Memes and 'Gangnam Style'
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In the third and final installment of the Wired interview with William Gibson, the noted science fiction author discusses punk rock, internet memes, the dawn of recorded sound, and the now-infamous "Gangnam Style" video by Korean pop star Psy. The video, which has nearly 170 million views on YouTube and counting, has captured Gibson's imagination.
"That's something from a subculture we would have no way of knowing anything about, and suddenly it's on YouTube and it's got millions and millions of hits, and people all over the world are saying, 'Wow, will you check this out?'" Gibson said.
It's unlikely, Gibson noted, that the video will be more than a blip in popular culture – soon to be supplanted by the next big meme. But, as he added with a laugh, "I want to see his next video. I will be totally on it. I'm sure I will be, because people will tell me about it on Twitter."
Wired: In your essay in the new book Punk: An Aesthetic, you write that punk was the last pre-digital counterculture. That's a really interesting thought. Can you expand on that?
Gibson: It was pre-digital in the sense that in 1977, there were no punk websites [laughs]. There was no web to put them on. It was 1977, pre-digital. None of that stuff was there. So you got your punk music on vinyl, or on cassettes. There were no mp3s. There was no way for this thing to propagate. The kind of verbal element of that counterculture spread on mostly photo-offset fanzines that people pasted up at home and picked up at a print shop. And then they mailed it to people or sold it in those little record shops that sold the vinyl records or the tapes. It was pre-digital; it had no internet to spread on, and consequently it spread quickly but relatively more slowly.
I suspect – and I don't think this is nostalgia – but it may have been able to become kind of a richer sauce, initially. It wasn't able to instantly go from London to Toronto at the speed of light. Somebody had to carry it back to Toronto or wherever, in their backpack and show it, physically show it to another human. Which is what happened. And compared to the way that news of something new spreads today, it was totally stone age. Totally stone age! There's something remarkable about it that's probably not going to be that evident to people looking at it in the future. That the 1977 experience was qualitatively different, in a way, than the 2007 experience, say.
Wired: What if punk emerged today, instead of in 1977? How do you think it would be different?
Gibson: You'd pull it up on YouTube, as soon as it was played. It would go up on YouTube among the kazillion other things that went up on YouTube that day. And then how would you find it? How would it become a thing, as we used to say? I think that's one of the ways in which things are really different today. How can you distinguish your communal new thing – how can that happen? Bohemia used to be self-imposed backwaters of a sort. They were other countries within the landscape of Western industrial civilization. They were countries that most people would never see – mysterious places. You'd pay a price, potentially, for going there. That's always cool and exciting. Now, where are they? Where can you do that? How are people transacting that today? I am pretty sure that they are, but I don't have that much firsthand experience of it. But they have to do it in a different way.
My initial experience of punk was I went to Toronto, and I happened to go to a couple of nights of what historically turned out to be their first punk concert series. They had some bands from as far away as Los Angeles playing this kind of music I'd never heard before. So I absorbed that, and went home to Vancouver sort of thinking, "I wonder what that was about."
Then a friend of mine who had been in art school in London returned with a knapsack full of British punk zines and everything that the Sex Pistols had released up to that point. And he pulled these records out of his knapsack. I had never heard of the Sex Pistols, and neither had anyone else in Vancouver. By the end of the evening we were all talking about them [laughs]. That's just a very different kind of spread, than getting up in the morning and seeing the first page of Boing Boing.
Wired: Perhaps punk, if introduced now, would be a meme that goes viral, and the Sex Pistols would have millions of hits on YouTube.
Gibson: You know that "Gangnam Style" video from Korea? That's kind of in the ballpark, you know? That's something from a subculture we would have no way of knowing anything about, and suddenly it's on YouTube and it's got millions and millions of hits, and people all over the world are saying, "Wow, will you check this out?" That's something. That's something like that. But it doesn't necessarily play out in the same way.... Our expectations and what it could become are different.
Gibson: But you know, I want to see his next video [laughs]. I will be totally on it. I'm sure I will be, because people will tell me about it on Twitter.
Wired: You've had some interesting thoughts about the dawn of recorded sound, and how weird it must have been to suddenly have recorded sound. And in the early days, how it was almost grotesque to hear sound emanating from a disembodied source.
Gibson: People at the time learning about it....were extremely upset, judging by the records they left of it. I think what I said there, and I know I'm sure I've said elsewhere, is that it's harder to imagine a world without recorded music than it is to imagine some things in that strange, fabulous imaginary technological future.
The recorded music industry was a huge deal for those of us who lived through it, and we took it absolutely for granted, and now it's really gone; it's not what it used to be. You can't really get super rich just doing that; you have to be able to sell merch or something to go along with it, or have concert tours.
One thing I realized when I was having my vintage wristwatch hobby was that the mechanical wristwatch lasted from about 1914 to about 1970. We still make them and stuff, but they're actually kind of pointless, because a two-dollar quartz watch is more accurate than all but the very finest mechanical watches, which cost as much as small cars now. So that was something that all humanity took absolutely for granted, that this technological thing that was absolutely ubiquitous, and kept the world on time, and was absolutely necessary. It's gone because it was supplanted by something cheaper and more efficient.
And recorded music – in the sense of what it was when The Beatles arrived – was probably really gone with the advent of cassette tape. Because that was all of what it took to break
the monopoly of production, of manufacture. There was never any real way to copy a vinyl record except to make another record, or make a copy on a reel-to-reel machine. It just wasn't something you could carry around. But as soon as that cassette tape was there, the monopoly was gone and the things started falling apart...I've yet to come to a very clear opinion myself on how that's going to play out with printed books, but definitely, something is happening.
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18-Jun-2003 -- We planned this trip early this month when June 19th, a Thursday, is a holiday in Laguna where I work, the town where the Filipino National Hero, Dr. Jose Rizal was born. I took a two-day leave on June 18th and June 20th to complete a five-day long weekend. It would be a 670 kilometer trip from Manila to Calbayog City in the island of Samar and along the way near the southern tip of Luzon is Sorsogon, the city about 3 kilometers away from 13N 124E. Calbayog City is our final destination and is the hometown of my wife. We were inspecting an ongoing construction of our two-storey vacation house in the fishing village of Matobato.


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The Money Shot: The Half-Bill Face
Posted by Jay at 3:41 PM
There's playing with money, and there's really playing with money. You may have spotted a few of these half-money, half face pictures over the last few weeks. All that's needed is half a banknote held up to your face in front of your webcam. The moment you click the shutter, you've just created your money shot.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Karl Blossfeldt: Majestic Plant Portraits
Posted by Jay at 4:59 PM
In line with Nick Brandt's majestic animal portraits, it's only fair that this blog should also feature plant portraits of the same quality. As with animals, plants have also been featured on the blog, from Fong Qi Wei's exploded flowers to Carl Werner's amazing foodscapes to Michel Tcherevkoff's flowery shoes and bags. As with Nick Brandt, these previous flowery creations are no match for the simple yet majestic plant portraits created by artist and photographer Karl Blossfeldt.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Nick Brandt: Majestic Animal Portraits
Posted by Jay at 2:34 PM
This blog is no stranger to photographs featuring animals, from Joel Sartore's intimate look at North America's endangered animals to Yann Arthus-Bertrand's formal portraits of farm animals to Tim Flach's adorable images of dogs. These photographers have rightly earned their place in the field of animal portraits, but in the area of majestic wild animal portraits, only photographer Nick Brandt reigns king.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Marco Grob: Celebrity Photographer of the 21st Century
Posted by Jay at 8:15 PM
What will people think of celebrity photographs of the 21st century? Will they think that they were beautiful? Revolutionary? Boring? In the previous post featuring Nadar's portraits of the 1800, one reader commented how the celebrities of the day are now lost in the pages of history. Will today's portraits be forgotten in the world of tomorrow? At the very least, photographer Marco Grob is making sure that his portraits will stand out in the world of today.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Félix Nadar: Celebrity Photographer of the 19th Century
Posted by Jay at 2:14 PM
It's not hard to come by good portrait photography these days. From the movie-like photographs of Annie Leibovitz's to the impressive close-ups of Platon to the somber images of Dan Winters, viewers are spoiled for choice when it comes to celebrity photographers. It was a different story some 200 years ago, when pioneering portrait photographer Félix Nadar took it upon himself to change the face of portrait photography with his unorthodox approach to the medium, effectively becoming the most famous celebrity photographer of the 19th century.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Michel Tcherevkoff: Design by Nature
Posted by Jay at 1:47 PM
From the simple flower disassemblies of Fong Qi Wei to the more elaborate constructions of Klaus Enrique Gerdes and Carl Warner, the number of permutations one can do with simple ingredients such as flowers, fruits and vegetables is mind-boggling. These creations, however, take the cake. From a simple creation based on a single leaf, photographer Michel Tcherevkoff has truly elevated design inspired by nature in his Shoe Fleur.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Fong Qi Wei: Creating Flowers from Flowers
Posted by Jay at 6:30 PM
Fruits, vegetables and other flora have been featured on this blog as intricate portrait recreations and impressive mini-landscapes. It was only a matter of time until somebody else took the idea into a different direction. Here, the photographer Photographer Fong Qi Wei creates flowers out flowers, crafting something simple and beautiful out of something that's already simple and beautiful. In his series Exploded Flowers these natural constructions are given a clever and enchanting man-made touch.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Nazee Abbassi: Self-Portraits of the East and West
Posted by Jay at 6:47 PM
Yes, you're seeing double, but that's because that's what the photographer intended. With the week's theme on self-portraits, it would be a nice touch to end it with a more personal look at the method and process. In this case, photographer Nazee Abbassi shows her take on her own identity as she photographs herself for a self-study, in effect giving viewers a glimpse of her self-portraits of the East and West.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Martin Liebscher: Self-Portraits of Me, Myself and I
Posted by Jay at 7:40 PM
Have you ever wanted to duplicate yourself in pictures you've taken of yourself? With the advent of digital photography, it's become relatively easy to Photoshop yourself into the same image as many times as you like with the clone stamp or the simple cut-and-paste tools. The only question is, "How many duplicates is enough in one image?" Artist and photographer Martin Liebscher probably hasn't asked that question as he has perfected the art of duplicating himself in the thousands in his imposing collection of self-portraits entitled "Familien Bilder".
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Cindy Sherman: Self-Portraits of Others
Posted by Jay at 6:50 PM
Dressing up as someone or something else has been a popular Halloween tradition ever since people found it fun just to do so. There is no apparent reason or rationale behind most people's costumes, which makes sense given it's only done one night every year. One person however has found that dressing up can conjure up different accounts from different people at any time of the year. In these images, photographer and artist Cindy Sherman redefines dressing up by presenting self-portraits of other people through herself.
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Car designers usually have their hands tied by engineers and the bean counting department. If they don't, beautiful things can happen.
Like the De Tomaso Mangusta. It's so cool that David Carradine chose it as his ride instead of a futuristic Cadillac concept in Kill Bill 2. But does the gullwing engine and luggage covers make (the very often needed) maintenance easier? I doubt it.
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Performance Measurement, Nonprofit Management, Strategic Planning, Women in Management, Venture Philanthropy, Nonprofit Marketing
The case discusses the challenges associated with measuring and demonstrating performance in a nonprofit organization with a venture philanthropy operating model. Case A focuses on the strategic planning process and defining/demonstrating the value of the venture philanthropy operating model applied to public education. Case B deals more specifically with the challenges of performance measurement and articulating results to stakeholders. Both cases feature a female in the protagonist role as leader of the organization.
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Robert Brockway is a Senior Editor and columnist for Cracked.com. He is the author of two books, the cyberpunk novel Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity, and the comedic non-fiction essay collection Everything is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Meagan and their two dogs, Detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh. He has been known, on occasion, to have a beard.
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Take a closer look at our planet at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris
ESA PR 15-2007. From Tuesday 3 April to Sunday 26 August, visitors to the 'City of Light' will have one more attraction to pack into their busy schedules. A stop at the Palais de la Découverte will allow them to take a closer look at our planet, as ESA and this renowned Parisian museum have teamed up to exhibit an amazing selection of views of our Earth, with a high science content, taken by ESA's environmental satellite Envisat.
A large 1:4 scale model of Envisat will be the centrepiece of the 280m² exhibition, while videos and interactive demonstrations will show Envisat's achievements over its five years of successful operation since launch aboard an Ariane 5 in March 2002.
Huge 4 x 4m images, produced using data from the satellite's highly sophisticated imaging instruments, will highlight features of our environment as seen by Envisat, giving the visitor an impressive view of changes in the ice sheets, vegetation and rivers, together with a global picture of water-vapour content, sea temperatures, chlorophyll content and other such vital indicators of the state of our planet and of global change.
In a dedicated room next to the exhibition, videos and slide-shows will enable visitors to extend their journey into our planet and discover more about our fragile environment and the means Europe deploys through ESA to help care for it.
The official inauguration of the exhibition, open to the press, will take place on Monday 2 April. Media representatives wishing to attend the opening ceremony under the auspices of Jack Guichard, Director of the Palais de la Découverte, and ESA's Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain, are kindly invited to fill in the attached registration form and return it by Friday 30 March at the latest.
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Launched from Kourou in French Guiana on the night of 28 February 2002, ESA's Envisat spacecraft marks its fifth year in space.
Having orbited Earth over 26,000 times, the world's largest and most complex environmental satellite ever launched has travelled a distance of more than 1,000,000,000 km, which is almost equivalent to travelling to Jupiter and back.
Envisat is the largest Earth observation spacecraft ever built. It carries ten sophisticated optical and radar instruments to provide continuous observation and monitoring of the Earth's land, atmosphere, oceans and ice caps. Envisat data collectively provide a wealth of information on the workings of the Earth system, including insights into factors contributing to climate change. Furthermore, the data returned by its suite of instruments are also facilitating the development of a number of operational and commercial applications.
Its largest single instrument is the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), operating in the C-band. It features unprecedented capability in terms of coverage (i.e. radar beam elevation steerage and the selection of different swaths, 100 or 400 km wide), range of incidence angles, polarisation, and modes of operation.
The MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) measures the solar radiation reflected by the Earth, at a ground spatial resolution of 300m, with 15 spectral bands in visible and near infra-red and programmable in width and position. MERIS enables global coverage of the Earth every three days.
The primary mission of MERIS is the measurement of sea colour in oceans and coastal areas. Knowledge of sea colour can be converted into a measurement of chlorophyll pigment concentration, suspended sediment concentration and aerosol loads over marine areas. It is also used for land and atmospheric monitoring.
Generating some 280 Gigabytes of data products daily, in the course of five years' service, Envisat has gathered 500 Terabytes of data. The amount of data returned by Envisat's suite of ten instruments is providing scientists with a global picture of our environment and helping to fulfil the initial needs of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative until the launch of the future Sentinel satellites.
The satellite was initially only intended to stay in orbit for five years. However, given the excellent overall record and condition of the satellite, the ESA Member States have agreed to fund mission operations until 2010.
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ProPublica's New App Explains Why the President Sent You That Email
With the presidential horse race slowly trotting toward November, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are doing what political campaigners do best: Asking for your money.
Now, a nonprofit news site is pulling back the curtain on how the campaigns use different forms of the same email to ask for juuuuust the right amount.
ProPublica's Message Machine is an eye-opening experiment in crowdsourced journalism. Its algorithm takes in emails users have received from political campaigns and committees, and spits out answers to two interesting questions: How many versions of that same email were sent out, and why?
After all, we aren't just voters anymore — we're customers.
For decades, political campaigns have collected and used data about potential supporters to target their efforts toward specific areas and demographic groups. But since 2000, reliance on things like targeted emails and online voter databases has become the new normal.
As the New York Times Magazine's Jon Gertner noted in 2004:
… someone who appears nonpartisan, someone who might even think of himself as nonpartisan, may nevertheless have a political DNA that the parties will be able to decode.
So, the Message Machine will work in the opposite direction — matching up users' "political DNA" (i.e., demographic info, which they'll have to provide) with the one email they've received. Then, it will show how that email is different from similar emails sent to people with different DNA.
Previously, ProPublica had asked readers to forward the emails they received from any and all political campaigns to email@example.com. But the (admittedly cool) products, like "You Probably Don't Know Janet" emerged long after the original emails had dropped off most peoples' inboxes.
Web developer Jeff Larson calls the new Message Machine a "living news app," since it will have answers in "semi-real time," provided that it has received enough similar emails to figure out a trend.
In its first few months (without the real-time functionality launching today), the Message Machine's users submitted about 9,000 emails, Larson said. But about a third of them aren't usable, because they come from local or state elections, and the Machine doesn't have enough examples to look at.
One of the advantages to the "living news app," though, is that that can easily change.
"If there is a hot race, there are a lot of emails and it looks like there's a lot of targeting going on, we'll include that in the app," Larson said.


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If you're interested in native bees, you'll want to read the newly published University of California research article, "Tiny Saviors in Our Backyard."
Native pollinator specialists Robbin Thorp and Neal Williams of the UC Davis Department of Entomology are featured in the article as is conservation biologist Claire Kremen of UC Berkeley.
Author Erik Vance describes Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology, as "the patriarch of a rag-tag group of scientists who have pioneered research on non-honey bees that just may hold a solution to the world's pollination problems."
Williams' work with conservation biologist Claire Kremen of UC Berkeley involves monitoirng which native bees are effective on Yolo County farms.
It's great to see so much attention on native bees.
As Vance says, "Honey bees get most of the buzz, but some native bees are better at spreading pollen. They may hold the solution to world pollination problems that affect important crops."
Honey bees are often considered "native" bees but they are not. English explorers brought them to America beginning in the 1620s.
The Xerces Society of Invertebrate Conservation, based in Portland, Ore. (and celebrating 40 years of conservation this year), is rightfully pleased with the UC scientists' work.
"The work out at the UC is some of the best work in the country right now," Mace Vaughan, who oversees national pollinator work for Xerces, told Vance. "They are actually demonstrating the benefits."
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You've read the amazing reviews and now the day is finally here. Without a doubt, one of the biggest launches of the year is Windows 7!
It's available for immediate purchase where you can choose to either have it shipped to you or to download it direct from Microsoft.
In addition to the availability of Windows 7, I'm happy ecstatic to announce the launch of the brand new Microsoft Store, which coincides with the opening of new Microsoft retail stores. Our first retail location opens tomorrow at 10am in Scottsdale followed by our second store in Mission Viejo on October 29th. In fact, we already had 4 fans standing in line at 4pm earlier this afternoon in anticipation of the opening!
On the new online Microsoft Store, we've added a bunch of new products, including Windows 7 PCs as well as select 3rd party software and accessories. And let's not forget a ton of gaming products that have been added including a bunch of the top selling Xbox 360 titles.
We initially launched the online store last November, and since then we have had nearly a years worth data coming in from usability studies, web analytics and direct customer feedback. Based on all of this data, coupled with the newly expanded product catalog, one of the biggest goals we had in this release was to simplify site navigation for our customers. With the new site, you'll notice a re-designed categorization, navigation and filtering system aimed to make it easier and faster to navigate as well as help you find products you want more quickly.
Go check our new store out, find information about our new retail locations, and while you're at it, get your copy of Windows 7!
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Students, faculty, and staff honored for strengthening community
May 21, 2013
From those who have helped shape our community for decades to those who only recently began their Lewis & Clark journey, the Impact Awards honor individuals who make the campus a more inclusive place. Each year, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) recognizes faculty, staff, and students whose tremendous contributions make Lewis & Clark a more welcoming community.
During the April 2 banquet, dozens of students, staff, faculty members, and friends gathered to congratulate and thank the 32 nominees and to learn more about the accomplishments of the four recipients of 2013 Impact Awards.
"We were thrilled to break bread with everyone as we celebrated seniors and acknowledged the significant contributions so many in our community have made to promote diversity and inclusion at Lewis & Clark and the greater community," said Tricia Brand, associate dean of students and director multicultural affairs.
Emerging Voice Award Winner: Marisol Jenkins
Though she is only a sophomore, Marisol Jenkins '15 has established herself as an energetic and passionate member of the community focused on issues of racial, cultural, and religious identity. From helping plan the 2012 Ray Warren Multicultural Affairs Symposium to serving on the Religious and Spiritual Life Advisory Council, Jenkins has already become a leader on campus and shows great promise for her remaining time at Lewis & Clark. Brand introduced her award by saying:
"If you don't know who this remarkable and energetic young woman is yet, you need to meet her and get to know her. Marisol lights up the room when she enters and her commitment to making her community better has already made a significant impact in ways that represent the mission of the college."
Ray Warren Leadership Award Winner: Kerry White
A dozen students earned nominations, but Kerry White '13 earned the award for his many campus contributions, including founding the Queer Resource Center. The award honors graduating seniors who exemplify the spirit and determination of the late Ray Warren, a beloved, long-time staff member.
Faculty Impact Award Winners: Joann Geddes and Janet Davidson
For the first time, a pair of professors earned the award that honors mentorship and devotion to fostering a more diverse learning environment. Janet Davidson, associate professor of psychology, and Joann Geddes, codirector of the Academic English Studies program, have over 50 combined years of service to the college.
Kristi Williams Staff Impact Award Winner: Rachel Orlansky
In January, the community mourned the passing of Kristi Williams, a member of the advising staff whose work touched the lives of an untold number of students over more than 30 years with the college. In her honor, the Impact Award for staff members now bears Kristi's name. For her work to make the community a welcoming and supportive place, Rachel Orlansky, director of student support services, earned the staff award this year.
The Office of Multicultural Affairs welcomes the campus community and members of the public to attend events and participate in programs focused on building a diverse and culturally vibrant campus. Learn how you can get involved on the OMA website.