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Bernard Gregory Caulfield (October 18, 1828 – December 19, 1887) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Alexandria, Virginia, Caulfield received a classical education. He was graduated from Georgetown College, Washington, D.C. in 1848, and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School at Philadelphia in 1850. He was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced the practice of law in Lexington, Kentucky. He moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1853 and continued the practice of his profession.
Caulfield was elected in 1874 as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress to succeed John B. Rice, who had not sought reelection; when Rice died a month after the election, Caulfield won an additional special election to complete Rice's term in the Forty-third Congress, and served from February 1, 1875 to March 3, 1877. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Forty-fourth Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1876.
He resumed the practice of law. He moved to Dakota Territory in 1878 and settled in Deadwood. He continued the practice of law and became a large landowner. He died in Deadwood on December 19, 1887. He was interred in Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.
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If you were to ask UFC president Dana White (Pictured), which we did following Thursday's press conference in Las Vegas, Showtime really stuck it to Strikeforce and its athletes before finally deciding to pull the plug on the MMA promotion. "What has happened to the fighters in Strikeforce is horrible," White stated. "The way that this thing went down and what's happened with these guys, and these guys have been very patient. I feel sorry for them and I'm just happy they are coming to the UFC now. "What's happened over there has been completely [expletive]." After helping Strikeforce finalize an extension with Showtime just 13 months ago, White promised to be more hands-on with the UFC's little brother. However, after Showtime turned a deaf ear to several of White's production suggestions, he took himself completely out of the mix. That's why White refrained from discussing Strikeforce in detail, but it was clear he holds plenty of resentment towards Showtime. "I literally took myself out of this thing 100 percent," White said. "I have nothing to do with it. Obviously, big picture stuff I'm involved in, and I'm involved in pieces and parts that I want to be involved in." Although, White did clear up some loose ends regarding Strikeforce. For starters, their January 12th event will in fact be its last. The original press release was quite vague, stating it was Strikeforce's final show on Showtime. In addition, White is unsure what Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker's future holds. Furthermore, what White was hellbent on clearing up was that Zuffa never intended to collapse Strikeforce when it purchased the UFC's largest stateside rival in March 2011. "I see a lot of [expletive] on the internet and stuff, 'Oh, I see what's gonna happen. They bought it to bury it,' and all that stuff. Any of you guys who were around me during that time, that was absolutely not the plan,' White expressed. "I was pumped up about it and looking forward to get into it, but, it's over, man. I'm just happy it's over. "None of the companies that we bought were perfect except for the WEC. The WEC was great, a great move, great transition, everything worked out great with that. But all the other ones, they were what they were." There you have it. After 61 events spanning over seven years, Strikeforce will officially be yesterday's news. And the curtain couldn't have dropped any sooner for White.
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From Holy War to Peaceful Co-habitation. Diversity of Crusading and the Military Orders
July 14 - 25, 2008
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|Jozsef Laszlovszky, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Michel Balard, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Jochen Burgtorf, California State University, Fullerton, USA
Ronnie Ellenblum, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
John France, University of Wales, Swansea Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UK
Jürgen Sarnowsky, University of Hamburg, Germany
Hugh Kennedy, St. Andrews University, UK
Janus Moller Jensen, University of Southern, Denmark
Alan V. Murray, International Medieval Bibliography, Leeds University, UK
The crusades and the emergence of the medieval military orders was one of the most debated historical issues in the last century. Historical, archaeological, religious studies were dedicated to this problem, and political, economic and military explanations were put forward to highlight and to explain the relatively fast development of the concept of the new type of holy war and the emergence of new power centres (Kingdom of Jerusalem, Latin Empire, etc.). The transformation of the early medieval political and religious system in the Mediterraneum is one of the key historical issues in this context, and the religious confrontations of the Christian and Muslim worlds have been interpreted in many fundamentally different ways since the beginning of the twentieth century.
Recently, major international conferences and monographic studies reinterpreted the whole period and they proposed fundamentally new concepts for the explanation of this religious and military conflict. They represent an extremely wide range of modern ideas of reinterpretation and many complex issues concerning the concept of holy war, as a new type of warfare and interaction between Christian and Muslim societies, regional development patterns in the Holy Land and other crusader states, and the very general concept concerning the clashes of cultures. These very important new historical works were also confronted with contemporary political events and with the most recent religious and military conflicts between the Western world and the Islam. "Nine eleven" and the fundamentalist Islam movement confronted the scholars dealing with the problem of crusades and the military orders that their research agenda is not simply an academic problem, but one of the most difficult political and religious issues of our world. The thought-provoking, or rather provocative essays interpreted the whole issue in the light of recent political agenda, arguing that this entire circle of discussions is only the result of historical retrospective arguments, where modern Western or Islam civilizations want to find their historical justification in a very misleading interpretation on the holy war. In this argument, the peaceful co-habitation, the concept of acculturation is just a modern political agenda, and the crusades and the emergence of medieval military orders is indeed should be seen as a period of cruel wars, terrible destruction and conflicts and confrontations leading to the hostilities of our contemporary world. A fundamentally different explanation and interpretation can be found in several other well-documented and clearly argued studies of scholars, who follow the concept of a gradual transformation and take into consideration the evidence for war and destruction just as the evidence for revival, restructuring or co-habitation. New research methods and approaches (environmental-historical studies, architectural history of military constructions, art historical interpretations of Christian-Muslim interactions) offer a wide panorama on the fast growing published written source material, the archaeological evidence of this period, which fundamentally changed our understanding on the main issues of the period.
Based on these recent studies and the discussions and debates generated by them the summer course wants to focus on these questions and plans to offer an interdisciplinary approach for scholars.
Topics And Course Structure
The SUN course will focus on four major issues starting from a local-regional context of one of the most important power centres of the period (Holy Land, Latin Empire, etc.). Until very recently the main emphasis of research was connected to the religious, political and military aspects of the crusades, but recent studies started to focus on economic, social and environmental issues and on their impact on the areas affected by the early and late crusades (Iberian Peninsula, Baltic region, South-East Europe). The local regional aspect then will be incorporated to a European wide panorama of the period, with the main questions concerning the interactions of different power zones and religious centres. In this part, the interaction of Christian and Muslim societies, the transformation of the idea on holy war and the emergence of the new power centre will be discussed, also in the context of military confrontations, invasions and the arrival new groups (Military orders, assassin, Ottoman-Turks etc.) The third main block of lectures and discussions will focus on the general interpretation of the period on a European-wide basis, and the new research data derived from the archaeological projects in the Holy Land, the Baltic region and South-East Europe. These data will be confronted with the general historical debates mentioned in the introduction. Finally, the afterlife of the crusades and military order sites will be discussed, to what extent this medieval ideology and its archaeological, architectural heritage was reinterpreted, transformed and re-utilised in modern historiography and political ideas.
Course structure and topics for the seminars
1) Crusading warfare: techniques, logistics, military architecture
- The emergence of the Holy War and its impact on warfare
- Large-distance military expeditions and their logistics: transport, weapons, food and water
- Transformation of the military architecture and its impact on the crusades
- The impact of the military orders on the crusades - from hospitaller orders to military orders
- Pilgrimages to the Holy Land and their transformation during the crusades
- Contemporary Christian and Muslim reports on the crusades and the idea of the Holy War
- Transformation of the idea of Holy Wars during the Late Crusades and its impact on the Christian-Muslim interaction
- Heroes of the crusades and their literary and artistic image
- Land exploitation, conflict management
- Transformation of the landscape and the environment as the result of the crusades
- Colonization and warfare: the impact of the military orders
- Natural scientific and archaeological approaches to the understanding of Christian and Muslim interaction
- Land colonization and the Baltic crusade
- Social structure and its impact on the military orders
- Transformation of rural societies in the areas of crusades
- Estate management and the accumulation of wealth by the military orders
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Could it be Time to Dump Gold Miners in Favor of These Silver Producers?
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Traditionally, gold is a safe haven asset, or it used to be. Currently, gold is anything but safe. Indeed, the SPDR Gold Trust has a beta of 0.19 indicating that the price of the fund and gold have a positive correlation to the general market. Additionally, the price of gold has hardly been steady in recent times as a combination of Federal Reserve comments and high frequency trading has thrown the price around.
Is it time for gold bugs to give up?
Well it might be, the volatile price of gold would be enough to discourage even the steadiest of investors and the shares of gold miners have been on a steady decline for almost a year now without any signs of staging a turnaround.
Furthermore, these declines could be about to get a lot worse. After the suspension of the development at its Pascua-Lama mine Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX) has been forced to admit that it will have to take a write-down of $5.5 billion on this one mine alone. Moreover, the company still uses a gold price of $1,500 per ounce to value the price of gold in its mines, paving the way for further write-downs and re-valuations - the company's average cost of production from its Australia Pacific mines is expected to be between $1,200-$1,300 indicating that some of Barricks' production is already unprofitable.
Perhaps it is time to consider sliver?
Compared to gold silver appears to be relatively stable. Indeed, it would appear that silver miners have been much more sensible with the way that they spend their cash and reinvest their profits over the past few years when the times were good. In particular, Hecla mining (NYSE: HL), personally one of my favourite mining stocks on the market.
You see, during 2011 and 2012 when precious metal prices were high, both Barrick and Hecla were pulling in profits, however, closer look at company cash flows reveal a different story.
Figures in $US millions
Hecla's spending is almost matched with income, while Barrick is spending more than it can afford.
Figures in $US millions
Hecla had a positive cash inflow of $68 million during 2009 and $179 million in 2010, the operating cash flow was impacted during 2011 by a $160 million change in working capital.
Barrick had a positive cash inflow of $1.3 billion in 2009 and $1.45 billion in 2010,but compared to Hecla this was nowhere near as strong. In addition, Barrick has been spending almost double its net income on capital spending and investing activities, which has led to increasing borrowing. In comparison, Helca's spending has been kept under control and borrowing is negligible.
It's not just Barrick and Hecla
This trend continues across the industry and further comparison between gold and silver miners shows the trend continuing. For example, Pan American Silver (NASDAQ: PAAS) and Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM):
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Pan American had positive cash inflow during 2011 but Newmont spent much more than it could afford.
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For this example I have used Newmont, as the company is facing writedowns as the company uses a price of $1,400 per ounce to value its gold assets.
Like Helca, Pan American has been conservative with its finances and not overspent to rapidly increase output like Newmont. Indeed, Pan American has generated a positive cash flow for the last four years. What's more, for the most part, this change in cash has been stronger than net income signifying the quality of the company's earnings. Newmont on the other hand has not generated a positive cash flow, spending more than it can afford on CAPEX and investing activities - using debt to fill the gaps.
Foolish Summary
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C-SPAN recently interviewed Medea Benjamin about her efforts with Code Pink. In the Q&A interview, you can see many clips of the Code Pink demonstrations that are often seen on C-SPAN. In addition, C-SPAN hosted a call-in on Code Pink and political protests. Use the C-SPAN Video Library research other political protests.
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I love code pink and if I lived near DC, I would join. They are wonderful and its disgusting how corporate america controls congress but its because Congress is too stupid to know they dont need the Federal Reserve to print up their own $$$$


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SDS - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) will be holding its 9th National Convention, October 10-12, at the University of Minnesota.
Contact: UMN SDS, 1930 Elliot Ave S #3, Minneapolis, MN 55404; http://www.newsds.org/.
COLUMBUS- October 13 is Columbus Day. Many groups around the country, including the Transform Columbus Day Alliance, are working to challenge traditional ethnocentric views of Columbus the sole discoverer of America, as well as challenging the celebration of invasion, cruelty, oppression and cultural imperialism. Immigrant-rights groups are organizing a Day of Not One More Deportation.
Contact: http://www.transform columbusday.org.
TEACHERS - The 14th Annual Conference, Teaching for Social Justice: The Roots of Resistance, will be held October 11 in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.
Contact: 415-676-7844; teachers4socialjustice @yahoo.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.
HISTORY/WWI- Georgian Court University and the Peace History Society will hold a conference on the theme: World War I: Dissent, Activism, & Transformation, October 17-18.
Contact: Georgian Court University, 900 Lakewood Ave., Lakewood, NJ 08701; 800-458- 8422; [email protected]; http://www.georgian.edu/WWI conference.htm.
ENVIRONMENT - The APIEL (Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law) Conference 2014 will be held October 17-19, at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville. The conference brings together hundreds of eco- minded and socially conscious activists, attorneys, students, scientists and citizens in the interest of social justice.
Contact: PO Box 20363, Knoxville, TN 37920; apiel.info @gmail.com; http://www.apiel. org/.
FILM FESTIVAL - The Seattle Social Justice Film Festival will be held October 20-26 in venues around Seattle. Revived by the national group Books to Prisoners, the festival's main theme is around prisoner justice and imprisonment.
Contact: http://www.socialjustice filmfestival.org/.
POLICE BRUTALITY - The Stop Mass Incarceration Network (SMIN) has announced October 2014 as the Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation, leading to nationwide demonstrations October 22. SMIN is currently seeking artistic contributions for the campaign, from amateur as well as professional artists.
Contact: http://www.october22. org/; SMIN, PO Box 941 Knickerbocker Station, New York, NY 10002-0900; 347-979-7646; stopmassincar ceration@gmail. com; http://www.stopmassin carceration.net/.
RESTORATIVE PRACTICES - The International Institute for Restorative Practicies (IIRP) will host its 17th World Conference, October 27-29, in Bethlehem, PA. The theme is: Restorative Works: What Works, What Doesn't, How and Why.
Contact: 610-807-9221; [email protected]; http://www.iirp.edu/.
WWI CENTENARY - Stop the War, No Glory, and a range of peace organizations are organizing meetings, debates, and cultural events to mark the First World War centenary, opposing attempts to use the centenary to celebrate a slaughter that killed 15 million people as a just and noble cause.
Contact: 020-7561-4830; office@stopwar. org.uk; http://stopwar.org.uk.
CORRUPTION - November 4 is the March Against Corruption, an international campaign to raise awareness about the corrupting influence of money and special interests in governance and public policy making; to provide a forum for people, to organize and speak out against corruption; and to educate the public about the consequences of corruption.
Contact: http://marchagainstcorruption.com/.
EDUCATION - The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) will host its annual conference in Tucson, AZ, November 5-9.
Contact: http://nameorg.org.
MILITARY JUSTICE - The Global Seminar on Military Justice Reform will be held at YaleLawSchool, November 7-8, in New Haven, CT.
Contact: [email protected]; http://www.law. yale.edu/.
RACE - The 2014 Facing Race national conference will take place November 13-15, in Dallas, TX. The conference is a national, multi-racial gathering of leaders, educators, journalists, artists and activists.
Contact: arc.org/facingrace/.
WOMEN/LAW - The Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) will host its Women, Law & Legal Advocacy seminar November 13-15, in Washington, DC.
Contact: 1001 Connecticut Avenue NW, #930 Washington, DC 20036; 202-872-1585; [email protected]; www.plen.org.
WOMEN'S STUDIES - The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) will host its annual conference November 13-16, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, under the theme Feminist Trangressions.
Contact: NWSA, 11 E Mount Royal Ave., Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21202; 410-528-0355; [email protected]; http://www.nwsa.org/.
ARTS - The 76th Annual Conference For Community Arts will take place November 19-22, in Los Angeles. The conference provides professional development and networking opportunities for staff, faculty, trustees and teaching artists at more than 350 arts education organizations and programs.
Contact: 520 8th Ave., Suite 302, New York, NY 10018; 212-268- 3337; guildinfo@ nationalguild org; http://communityartsed. nationalguildorg/.
SCHOOL OF AMERICAS - The annual vigil to protest the School of the Americas is scheduled for November 21-23 at Fort Benning, GA, by School of the Americas (SOA) Watch. SOA Watch is facing repression of their protest and assembly rights and is circulating an online petition and other actions.
Contact: SOA Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017; 202-234-3440; [email protected]; http://soaw.org.
U.S. SOCIAL FORUM - The United States Social Forum is currently fundraising through 2014 to raise funds for the 2015 US Social Forum.
Contact: USSF 2010, Detroit, MI 48226; [email protected]; http://www.ussocialforum.net.
WHISTLEBLOWERS - Launched by the Institute for Public Accuracy in June 2014, ExposeFacts.org represents a new approach for encouraging whistleblowers to disclose information that citizens need to make truly informed decisions in a democracy.
Contact: Institute for Public Accuracy, 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C., 20045; 202- 347-0020; info@expose facts.org; http://exposefacts.org/.
LEFT FORUM - The Left Forum has announced the expansion of the work of the Forum. Left Forum will sponsor classes and develop events throughout the year. They will experiment first with activities we can most easily arrange to test their feasibility and effectiveness. They invite your attendance and feedback.
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½ cup butter (1 stick), softened slightly
1/3 cup canola oil
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
2 extra large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1½ cups white whole-wheat flour (prefer King Arthur brand)*
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground allspice
½ teaspoon salt
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2/3 cup raisins*
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Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 10x15x1-inch jelly roll baking pan with vegetable cooking spray. In a large bowl with electric mixer, beat butter, oil and sugars until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice and salt and mix thoroughly. Add oats, raisins and dates and mix until blended. Spread or pat batter in pan and bake 22 to 25 minutes or until light golden brown. Bars may appear slightly sticky in center with toothpick and they will appear a tad "puffed". They'll deflate once cooled. Be sure not to overcook, as bars harden slightly as they cool. Cool on wire rack; cut into bars and store in tightly covered container. Bars can be frozen. Simply wrap individual bars in plastic wrap and place all bars in zippered freezer bag. Makes about 24 bars (4 x 6 cut)
*Use ¾ cup all-purpose and ¾ cup regular whole wheat flour if you can't find the white whole wheat flour. Toss raisins in small bowl with about 2 teaspoons flour before adding to batter. This helps separate all the raisins. Enjoy with a glass of 1% low fat milk for a calcium, vitamin D and protein boost!
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DALLAS, July 7, 2010 - The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF), announced today the recipients of four of the NFF's 2010 Major Awards, winners of the 2010 Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football, John L. Toner, Chris Schenkel and Outstanding Football Official awards.
"The 2010 recipients of these awards have given tirelessly to college football, and it is a privilege to recognize them for their dedication," said NFF President & CEO Steve Hatchell. "They now join an elite few who have claimed these national awards as college football pioneers who have made significant contributions in their respective professions."
Each honoree will accept his award at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner on December 7, 2010, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Also that evening, the NFF will recognize the National Scholar-Athlete class (announced in the fall); award the Campbell Trophy, endowed by HealthSouth; and induct the 2010 Football Bowl Subdivision College Football Hall of Fame Class.
Presented annually, the Toner Award is given to a director of athletics who has demonstrated superior administrative abilities and shown outstanding dedication to college athletics and particularly college football.
Former Director of Athletics, Rutgers University
A visionary in New Jersey athletics, Mulcahy has spent his life working towards the betterment of sports in his home state, steering the Rutgers football program toward national prominence during his time in Piscataway.
Coming off a winless season the year before his arrival as athletics director in 1998, he worked fast to improve conditions for Rutgers football. In 2001, he hired Greg Schiano, who in four short years would lead the Scarlet Knights to their first postseason appearance in nearly 30 years. Mulcahy, a Villanova graduate, also obtained funding from the state legislature for a massive renovation of the university's athletic facilities, raised the athletics department's endowment and secured increased television coverage for the football program.
Mulcahy is also credited with positively affecting student-athlete welfare, putting an emphasis on academics and community service. He initiated significant upgrades in athlete tutoring and supervision programs, boosting Rutgers to one of the top academic institutions in the Big East. He also encouraged participation in area toy drives, blood drives, reading programs and hospital visits. And, in 2006, Scarlet Knights' team captain Brian Leonard took home the NFF's William V. Campbell Trophy as the top senior football scholar-athlete in the country for his combined academic, athletic and community involvement.
Prior to joining Rutgers, Mulcahy served as president and CEO of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) for 19 years. Under his watch, the NJSEA created the Kickoff Classic; attracted the Army-Navy game; and hosted eight NCAA Men's Basketball Regionals and the last Final Four ever to be held in an arena. He also negotiated contracts to host the NHL's New Jersey Devils, the NFL's New York Jets and Giants and the MLS' MetroStars to play at the Meadowlands.
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Contributed by Gerry Silverman of MetsMerizedOnline.com Hitting for the cycle has always been one of the more singular batting feats in baseball. It is a relatively rare occurrence but not one that guarantees anything in particular for the team of the player who achieves one beyond a mention on the sports page. Granted, it involves getting four hits (a good thing) with three being for extra bases (a very good thing), but from a pure baseball perspective one could propose that if a batter had four singles in a game, he might well provide a greater benefit to his team than a cycle would, provided those singles occur with runners in scoring position. In other words, a cycle is a feat we regard with admiration primarily because it is COOL. It is so COOL that it even has a more refined version, the so-called "natural" cycle (single, double, triple, home run in order). This unique quality allows a cycle to actually transcend the game itself, remaining COOL even if your team loses the game...
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| Continuing updates below |
Here's a roundup of analysis related to India's long-foreseen electricity gap and the resulting grid failure and blackouts affecting half the country's 1.2 billion people. [Keep track via The Times blog India Ink and live blogging of "The Great Power Outage" at The Wall Street Journal. Read "India Struggles to Deliver Enough Power," from The Times in April, for invaluable context.]
It'd be great to think that renewable energy sources and distributed electricity generation could solve such problems, and they're great where they work. [And India is ramping up an ambitious effort to expand solar energy.] But the reality is that grids and central power plants are a mainstay of increasingly urbanized economies. In India, that means coal will be an economic keystone for decades.
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This interview with Charles Ebinger, a Brookings Institution analyst focused on India and energy, is an essential read: "India's Energy Policy and Electricity Production"
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Another profoundly important factor is the country's straining infrastructure and engineer shortage, as reported by Vikas Bajaj in 2010.
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Here's an excellent National Geographic feature by Jeff Smith, posted just a week ago, on the limits of India's coal resource, the environmental issues raised by its coal boom and the end of an era there when coal-fired power was cheap.
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Here Comes the Dunce!
The chivalrous Man in Yellow, the broke bloke faking rich, the dunce with a heart of gold… He's a jack of many trades but known and beloved as master of one – as the chou san, the clown. He added such breadth and depth to the comic in Cantonese opera that he raised it to an art form.
A Nanhai native, Leung Sing-po was born in Singapore in 1908 into a family of opera players. Leung was trained in Cantonese opera early in life, initially in the singing style of opera great Ma Sze-tsang and quickly acquired an outstanding repertoire of the basics. Landing a place in a troupe at 17, he later left for Hong Kong in 1939 and, at Ma's invitation, joined the Taiping Opera Troupe. After the war, he joined the New World Opera Troupe, trading his lead roles at Taiping for the clown, a pivotal turning point in his career which eventually earned him the accolade, the King of Chou San.
Presenting the double Leung Sing-po attractions of The Dunce Attends a Birthday Party (1956) and The Dunce Gets a Son (1957), "Here Comes the Dunce" not only allows viewers to immerse themselves in a cinematic reverie on Cantonese Opera Day 2010, but is also a fitting tribute to the comic who had delivered a stream of inspired humor that flew from the opera stage onto the silver screen, bringing to audiences old and young the timeless gift of laughter.


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Travel Politics / Cell Phones / Electronics Travel / Politics Travel / Travel Technology / FAA / FCC / → All Tags
Flight Attendants Absolutely Do Not Want In-Flight Cell Phone Use Legalized
Less than a year ago, the FCC floated the idea of allowing cell phone use in-flight, a movement that most, including us, think would be a terrible, terrible decision. This week, the Association of Flight Attendants, an organization that represents about 60,000 flight attendants working across 19 carriers, confirmed that it too thinks allowing passengers to use cell phones in midair would be absolutely insane.
Here's an update on the situation: This week, a bipartisan group of 77 House Representatives sent a letter to the Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Communications Commission that expressed their concerns over the safety and security issues in-flight cell phone use would bring up.
TSA / Travel Politics / Politics Travel / Travel Safety / Airport News / Airport Security / → All Tags
New Law Would Ban TSA from Accepting IDs That Aren't IDs
What a strange little story. Over the summer news began to emerge that TSA was letting people confirm their identities, and then to board planes, using only Notice to Appear letters and paperwork. Those documents don't have photos or really any kind of security information - so that would have been problematic, which was one problem. But the story was actually much more about travel politics than about airline security, because it was wrapped up in the immigration debate. In any case it eventually made international headlines.
TSA for its part promptly denied that it was doing something as stupid as just letting people show random letters they could have printed at home. Agency spokespeople actually got kind of pissy about it - "completely wrong... never contacted us for a statement" - and made sure to let people know. Snopes.com rated the story flat out false.
Travel Politics / North Korea Travel / North Korea / South Korea Travel / Asia Travel / → All Tags
Video Shows How Airlines Go Out of Their Way to Fly Around North Korea
We'll readily admit that don't have that much North Korea travel content. The section's not totally empty, since we take care of business. So you can find posts on travel safety near the country to how you can get inside to what the airplane food might look like along the way. But it's not exactly bursting with content.
There are a couple of reasons for that.
First, North Korea is - all things considered - not a very nice place. The people functionally live as slaves who are owned by the central government. The leaders are constantly threatening to destroy their neighbors and launch ballistic missiles at the United States, and they make a point of reminding people that they have nuclear weapons. The entire place is kind of a batshit crazy basketcase.
Travel Politics / Russia Travel / Crimea Travel / Dobrolet / Aeroflot / European Union Travel / → All Tags
As Drama Brews, Russia Considers Banning European Carriers from Airspace
Meeting of the minds between Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (center), Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov (right), and Aeroflot's Deputy General Director Vadim Zingman (left).
Citing sources within the Russian government, a series of news articles ran yesterday reporting that Russia was considering banning all European air carriers from flying in its airspace.
In general, such a move would be in response to the growing tension between the European Union and Russia over the political issues surrounding Crimea. More specifically, Russia is upset that the EU canceled its leasing agreement with the low-cost carrier Dobrolet, a subsidiary of the country's national airline, Aeroflot. Originally, the EU cancelled the agreement because the airline flew to Crimea, and the sanctions against Russia were widened after MH17 was shot down a few weeks ago.
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Airlines Suing TSA for Cheating on Controversial New Security Fees
As you know because you've been following along, the new TSA fees that we've been trashing since 2010 went into effect earlier this month. They had been jammed up for years by airlines - more on that below - but the administration finally managed to get them passed. The old caps, which had been set at $2.50 per flight segment with a $10 roof for a four-flight round trip, were abolished.
Would you believe that TSA may have taken advantage of the new situation to collect fees even higher than what Congress allowed? That's the argument being made by airlines, who are now suing the security agency. Game on.
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Misleading Airline Ads Closer to Returning as House Passes 'Transparency Act'
We've been keeping you up to date on the Department of Transportation's battle with the airline industry over the Transparent Airfares Act of 2014, most recently explaining why we are backing the DOT and calling for the rejection of the Act.
On Monday, Congress voted to pass the Act, which would allow airlines to advertise rates online and in print with asterisks that do not include taxes and extra fees.
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If You Flew Yesterday, You Paid More for Your Ticket and Here's Why
There's no shortage of domestic and international travel politics stories floating around. There's the potential for a new Cold War because of the MH17 downing. There's the 24 hour FAA ban on flights into Tel Aviv. There's even the ongoing nonsense about how airport security officials are threatening to confiscate electronics that run out of battery power during trans-Atlantic flights, which is something that happens literally all the time.
But this story about hiking airline security fees is - rightly - driving people absolutely out of their minds. We flagged this for you last month as a heads up, but we've actually been tracking these legislative efforts since 2010. The Obama administration has tried to raise the fees that travelers pay for security through the normal budget process, outside the normal budget process, and probably at least once via occult wizardry. Every time it was justified as a way to make people travel more, which is not a very good argument because it's not how supply and demand works.
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Yes, There are TSA Agents Who Don't Know Washington DC is a Place in America
We like to think of ourselves as fair-minded, in the sense that we are equally likely to publish facepalms about TSA agents and about the passengers that they have to deal with. Last week we gave a shoutout to idiot travelers who were bringing fireworks on airplanes, and let this be your official notice that there are also apparently idiot travelers who are bringing credit card knives through security. Idiots.
Now let's talk about this incident, in which a Florida TSA agent refused to accept a Washington DC driver's license. In this case, the problem appears to have been that the agent did not know that Washington DC, the capital of the United States, was in fact a real place, in the United States. This kind of stuff happens so much that the District's delegate to Congress was getting into the debate months ago.
That's annoying, and the obvious reaction is to worry about those agents' overall competence in keeping Americans safe. But let's be clear about what that means.
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New Investigation Discovers Rogue Drones are Buzzing Commercial Airplanes
Just posted online: part 3 of the Washington Post's "Hazard Above" investigative series on drones. Based on the premise that drones are "set to become a widespread reality in American skies," the Post spent a year investigating whether pilotless plane thingys will accidentally kill everybody. Over 50,000 pages of accident and other records were apparently examined and, indeed, it does turn out that we're all going to die.
We're paraphrasing and exaggerating for effect, of course, but not really.
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Yes, It's True. TSA's Old Body Scanners are Now Being Used in Prisons.
We saw this story break two weeks ago on the insidery Federal Times, which is a place where DC bureaucrats go for hour-by-hour updates on all the things they've broken that day. At the time we hoped the news wouldn't get wide traction, partly because it's not actually that interesting but mostly because we knew that Internet conspiracy theorists would blow it completely out of proportion (actual email sent around Jaunted HQ in case it became a thing: "Suggested hed for scanner/prisons post: TSA scanners first tested on sheeple, now used on convicted felons!").
Anyway here we are. You can now read all about how the government yanked TSA's full-body scanners out of airports and then sent for use in prisons. The story is on Slate and at TIME and posted to the LA Times or on The Blaze and screw it here's the Google News Search. As we read on one conspiracy theory forum, it all proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the government was trying to break the will of its citizenry in preparation for giving our children school lunches loaded with GMO tomatoes (give/take).
Travel News / Politics Travel / Travel Politics / FAA / LAX / → All Tags
The FAA Crash That Shut Down Southern California Could Have Been Much Worse
Sorry. We know that we're beating this thing into the ground, but it's one of those travel news things that begins as an off-beat story and evolves into a bona fide airplane security firestorm. Of course we're seeing more and more of those stories, but this one is kind of special. Without giving away any details, the most recent Reuters expose includes the phrase "the same vulnerability could have been used by an attacker in a deliberate shut-down," where the thing getting "shut down" was a part of America's air traffic control system. There's a reason people are still talking about this incident.
Just to catch folks up. Two weeks ago something caused the FAA to issue a ground stop across four airports across the greater Los Angeles area, including at LAX, for about an hour. Reporters asked the agency to explain the order, and got more or less nowhere. Another way of describing that move: the FAA shut down most of Southern California's airspace and declined to explain why. Later journalists found out that the military was flying a U-2 spy plane in the area, and that its flight plan caused the FAA's flight tracking server to crash. Cue the batshit crazy conspiracy theorists, who declared that alien signals from the U-2 had beamed autism-filled vaccines into their kids (or something; we didn't read very closely).
Travel News / TSA / FAA / LAX / BUR / SNA / ONT / Travel Politics / Politics Travel / Airport Safety / → All Tags
The Convoluted Tale of a US Spy Plane and an FAA Ground Stop
When last we left off, the FAA had just gotten over imposing a ground stop on four Southern California airports - LAX, Burbank, Ontario, and John Wayne - because of unnamed "technical issues." Or maybe it was because of mysterious "computer issues." Or maybe because of "the system" that managed the airspace for a particular air traffic control center. The agency wasn't exactly being helpful or clear on why they decided to ground, delay, or divert hundreds of flights. That frustrated at least one local outlet to the point where they kind of snarked that the FAA was sending journalists to functionally useless websites.
We'll remind you that a ground stop is a big deal. It's not just that planes get frozen on the runway at whatever airport gets slapped with the stop. It's that any plane anywhere in the country bound for the ground-stopped airport also gets grounded. These things cascade very, very quickly.


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Origins News Roundup for September 17, 2014
Read about the death of Wolfhart Pannenberg, still debating creation and evolution, and a really big dinosaur discovery.
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Read about the death of Wolfhart Pannenberg, still debating creation and evolution, and a really big dinosaur discovery.
This week's news features volcanoes, skeletons, and stars, as well as a thought-provoking new book from InterVarsity press.
While it is true that Goodwin and others believe that their discoveries pose a major challenge to neo-Darwinian orthodoxy, this does not cause them to abandon their belief that the history of life can be explained as the outcome of biological processes!
The new Gallup survey shows in broad strokes the challenge we face. But more nuanced surveys find that only 8% of Americans are convinced creationists whose beliefs are dear to them, and only 4% are convinced atheistic evolutionists whose beliefs are dear to them. The vast majority of Americans are not sure of their position and are open to a conversation.
What we do learn from scripture is that there is only one Creator and that there's a clear distinction between God and the created world. And that we who are created in the image of God are able to investigate a creation that is remarkably tuned for our discovery.
Because BioLogos accepts the scientific evidence for the age of the earth and common ancestry, Ham believes we are undermining the Bible and denying its authority. However, the authority of the Bible is key for all that we do at BioLogos.
Watch to see whether the debate encourages the opinion that science and Christianity are at war. We don't think you have to choose sides.
Last week Ken Ham addressed BioLogos specifically in a blog post, in response to Daniel Hamlin's testimony told in our blog on October 14th.
These excerpts from Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design, written by BioLogos president Deborah Haarsma and her husband Loren Haarsma, offer a sampling of the book's many topics, from exploring our disagreements and agreements on origins as Christians to explaining scientific processes to looking at how we read Genesis.
... I would exhort these, my fellow conservative evangelical shepherds and thinkers, to set aside all reticence and fear, emerge from anonymity, and storm the forum of discourse, engaging this most pressing matter with vigor, equanimity, and humility. In doing so, know upfront that there will be few handrails to guide; you will not be building upon an extensive precedence of published conservative thought.
In this video Conversation, Denis Alexander asserts that contemporary Christians are not taking the early chapters of Genesis seriously enough.
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Although committed to the principle of sola Scriptura, Calvin recognized that the Bible would have been written in terms its original recipients would have understood. Calvin inherited the medieval cosmology of his time, a way of viewing the world heavily influenced by Greek thought and one which was about to receive shocks from astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo. But not just yet.
A common argument leveled against the theory of evolution is that scientists have not been able to produce transitional fossils that show the change of one species into another. In this podcast, we address a common misconception about what transitional fossils actually are.
Yesterday, biology professors Randy Moore and Sehoya Cotner raised the concern that workshops focused on evolution-related training do not reach creationism-based biology teachers. Today, we'd like to focus on BioLogos' efforts to address that divide through our Biology by the Sea workshops.
High school biology courses have a strong and lingering impact on students' views of evolution and creationism.
In this series, James Kidder provides an intriguing study on transitional fossils and the evolutionary history of modern humans. He begins by discussing the fossil record, explaining how new forms are classified. He then explains the physically distinguishing trait of humankind—bipedalism. From the discovery of Ardipithecus, the earliest known hominin, to the australopithecines, the most prolific hominin, Kidder focuses on the discovery, the anatomy, and the interpretation of these ancestral remains.
This ongoing series written by historian Ted Davis begins with a brief synopsis of his personal background, and then goes on to reveal his passion for debunking "the now-common view that the history of science and Christianity is one of ongoing, inevitable conflict."
Augustine had a great deal to say about those chapters in Genesis that are especially controversial within Christianity today.
In this series, David Buller pays careful attention to the original language and cultural context of Genesis 2, revealing that our responsibility to care for creation is a sacred task given to us by God, not merely a modern secular activity. By taking Scripture seriously, we learn that we have a God-given mandate to be diligent stewards of His creation.


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"Generic manufacturers need to be doing even more to ensure the quality of their products—for example, sharing best practices," Dr. Margaret Hamburg told members of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association. "And you have a particular responsibility to step forward when a product you are producing is medically necessary."
Despite the tough love from FDA officials, the agency continues to dedicate resources to bolster the image of generic drugs. Recent legislation passed by Congress includes FDA funding to study how differences in the color, shape and size of generic drug tablets can influence patients' view of their quality, compared to traditional products.
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