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Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site
In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War, the United States of America decided to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall archipelago. After the displacement of the local inhabitants, 67 nuclear tests were carried out from 1946 to 1958, including the explosion of the first H-bomb (1952). Bikini Atoll has conserved direct tangible evidence that is highly significant in conveying the power of the nuclear tests, i.e. the sunken ships sent to the bottom of the lagoon by the tests in 1946 and the gigantic Bravo crater. Equivalent to 7,000 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb, the tests had major consequences on the geology and natural environment of Bikini Atoll and on the health of those who were exposed to radiation. Through its history, the atoll symbolises the dawn of the nuclear age, despite its paradoxical image of peace and of earthly paradise. This is the first site from the Marshall Islands to be inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Site d'essais nucléaires de l'atoll de Bikini
Au lendemain de la Seconde guerre mondiale, en étroite relation avec les débuts de la guerre froide, les Etats-Unis décidèrent de reprendre leurs essais nucléaires dans l'océan Pacifique sur l'atoll de Bikini dans l'archipel des Marshall. Une fois les habitants déplacés, 67 essais nucléaires furent réalisés entre 1946 et 1958, dont celui de la première bombe H (1952). La flotte coulée dans le lagon par les essais de 1946 ou le gigantesque cratère Bravo constituent des témoignages directs des essais nucléaires. D'une puissance totale 7000 fois supérieure à celle d'Hiroshima, ils eurent des conséquences importantes sur la géologie de Bikini, son environnement naturel et la santé des populations irradiées. Par son histoire, l'atoll symbolise l'entrée dans l'âge nucléaire malgré une image paradoxale de paix et de paradis terrestre. Il s'agit du premier site des Iles Marshall à être inscrit sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial.
أتول بيكيني، موقع تجارب نووية
بعد انتهاء الحرب العالمية الثانية، وفي ظروف الحرب الباردة، قررت الولايات المتحدة استئناف تجاربها النووية في المحيط الهادي على أتول بيكيني في مجموعة جزر مارشال. وبعد أن تم إجلاء سكان هذه المنطقة، أُطلِقت 67 قذيفة نووية بين عامي 1946 و1958، من بينها أول قنبلة هيدروجينية (1952). ويمثل الأسطول الذي غرق في البحيرة الشاطئية جرّاء التجارب التي جرت في عام 1946والحفرة الضخمة التي نجمت عن تفجير قنبلة "برافو" شواهد مباشرة على إطلاق قذائف نووية. وأفضت هذه القذائف، التي بلغت قوتها أكثر من 7000 أمثال قوة قنبلة هيروشيما، إلى تأثيرات خطيرة على جيولوجية بيكيني، وعلى بيئتها الطبيعية وصحة سكانها الذين تعرضوا للإشعاع. ومن خلال تاريخها، ترمز مجموعة جزر بيكيني، بشكل متناقض، إلى الدخول في العصر النووي، رغم أنها تُعتبر ملاذاً للسلام والنعيم.
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第二次世界大战后,历史进入了以冷战为标志的新一页。在此背景下,美国决定在位于太平洋马绍尔群岛的比基尼环礁恢复核试验。他们疏散了居民,并在1946 年至1958年间,在此进行了67次核武器爆炸试验,其中还包括第一枚氢弹(1952年)的爆炸。在泻湖中还沉睡着1946年试验时被击沉的舰队,环礁中还能看到巨大的"布拉沃"弹坑,它们都是核武器爆炸最直接的证据。这里爆炸的总当量达到了广岛原子弹爆炸当量的7000倍,对比基尼环礁的地质、自然环境和遭辐射人群的健康造成严重的影响。出于这一历史原因,比基尼环礁成为原子时代到来的象征,尽管环礁的和平美丽如天堂般的风景与这一象征大相径庭。这是马绍尔群岛首个被列入《世界遗产名录》的遗址。
source: UNESCO/ERI
Атолл Бикини
Вскоре после завершения Второй мировой войны, в обстановке "холодной войны" США решили возобновить ядерные испытания в Тихом океане на атолле Бикини, Маршалловы острова. Выселив местных жителей, США провели здесь в период 1946-1958 г.г. 67 ядерных взрывов, включая испытание первой водородной бомбы (1952). Суда, затопленные в лагуне в ходе испытаний 1946 года, и гигантский кратер Браво являются прямыми свидетельствами произведенных ядерных испытаний. Превышая в 7000 раз мощность бомбы, взорванной в Хиросиме, они оказали глубокое воздействие на геологию Бикини, его окружающую природную среду и здоровье подвергшихся радиационному излучению. Атолл стал выражением исторического парадокса – райский уголок Земли, превращенный в устрашающий символ вступления в ядерный век. Это – первый объект Маршалловых островов, включенный в Спиcок Мирового наследия.
source: UNESCO/ERI
Atolón de Bikini
Inmediatamente después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en el contexto internacional de la Guerra Fría, los Estados Unidos decidieron reanudar las pruebas de armas nucleares en el atolón de Bikini, situado en el archipiélago de las Marshall. Una vez evacuados sus habitantes, se llevaron a cabo 67 explosiones nucleares en el periodo 1946-1958, entre las que destacó la de la primera bomba H (1952). Los buques hundidos en la laguna del atolón durante las pruebas efectuadas en 1946 y el gigantesco cráter originado por la mayor de todas ellas –la operación Castle Bravo– son testigos de las explosiones nucleares. Dotadas de una potencia siete mil veces mayor que la de la bomba lanzada sobre Hiroshima, esas explosiones tuvieron hondas repercusiones en la geología y el medio ambiente de Bikini, así como en la salud de las poblaciones sujetas a las radiaciones atómicas. Pese a su imagen de pacífico paraíso terrenal, el atolón de Bikini es paradójicamente el símbolo de la era de las armas atómicas.
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Nucleair testcentrum Bikini atol
In het kielzog van de Tweede Wereldoorlog en in de aanloop naar de Koude Oorlog, besloten de Verenigde Staten van Amerika om kernproeven in de Stille Oceaan voort te zetten op het Bikini atol van de Marshall eilanden. Na de verplaatsing van de bewoners werden 67 nucleaire testen uitgevoerd van 1946 tot 1958, waaronder de explosie van de eerste waterstofbom in 1952. De gevolgen zijn duidelijk zichtbaar; gezonken schepen en de gigantische Bravo krater. De proeven hadden grote gevolgen voor de geologie, natuurlijke omgeving en de gezondheid van degenen die blootgesteld werden aan straling. Het atol staat symbool voor het aanbreken van het atoomtijdperk.
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Brief synthesis
In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War, the United States of America decided to resume nuclear testing. They choose Bikini Atoll in the Marshall archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. After the displacement of the local inhabitants, 23 nuclear tests were carried out from 1946 to 1958,. The cumulative force of the tests in all of the Marshall Islands was equivalent to 7,000 times that of the Hiroshima bomb. Following the use of nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bikini tests confirmed that mankind was entering a "nuclear era". The many military remains bear witness to the beginnings of the Cold War, the race to develop weapons of mass destruction and a geopolitical balance based on terror.
The violence exerted on the natural, geophysical and living elements by nuclear weapons illustrates the relationship which can develop between man and the environment. This is reflected in the ecosystems and the terrestrial, marine and underwater landscapes of Bikini Atoll.
The nuclear tests changed the history of Bikini Atoll and the Marshall Islands, through the displacement of inhabitants, and the human irradiation and contamination caused by radionuclides produced by the tests.
The Bikini Atoll tests, and tests carried out in general during the Cold War, gave rise to a series of images and symbols of the nuclear era. They also led to the development of widespread international movements advocating disarmament.
Criterion (iv): Bikini Atoll is an outstanding example of a nuclear test site. It has many military remains and characteristic terrestrial and underwater landscape elements. It is tangible testimony of the birth of the Cold War and it bears testimony to the race to develop increasingly powerful nuclear weapons. In the wake of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, the Bikini Atoll site confirmed that mankind was entering a nuclear era. It also bears witness to the consequences of the nuclear tests on the civil populations of Bikini and the Marshall Islands, in terms of population displacement and public-health issues.
Criterion (vi): The ideas and beliefs associated with the Bikini nuclear test site, and more generally with the escalation of military power which characterized the Cold War, are of international significance. These events gave rise to a large number of international movements advocating nuclear disarmament; they gave rise to powerful symbols and to many images associated with the "nuclear era", which characterized the second part of the 20th century.
Integrity and authenticity
The integrity of the property is acceptable, in view of the simultaneous presence of the remains of human artifacts and the process of natural recomposition which has followed the use of the nuclear bombs. In a very exceptional way, the degradation of the human artifacts by the natural elements forms part of the cultural process illustrated by the property. The integrity of the testimony of the property must be strengthened by the appropriate use of the considerable mass of documentary material associated with the site and its history.
The site has not undergone any substantial reconstruction; human presence there has remained very limited because of the radionuclides produced by the explosions. The authenticity of the material elements constituting the property is unquestionable.
Protection and management measures required
The main threats to the property are the effects of climate change and the presence of stocks of bombs and fuel in the underwater part of the property. The property is protected by the Historic and Cultural Preservation Act (1991). The legal protection and traditional protection in place are appropriate, but they must be reinforced to include the protection of the land-based military remains. In view of the changeable nature of the property, which is slowly returning to a natural state, conservation takes on a specific meaning in this case, and it may be considered therefore that no specific programme to preserve tangible remains is necessary. However, it is essential to ensure safety by dealing with any remaining military risks, to draw up a detailed inventory and to ensure regular monitoring of the constituent parts of the property. The management system is adequate, but it must be confirmed, and must be strengthened in several areas, particularly as regards the Bikini Divers Group, visitor reception and interpretation, the Peace Museum and the documentation centre.
Historical Description
The emergence of the atolls forming the Marshall archipelago is relatively recent. The arrival and settlement of the Micronesian populations in the islands goes back to the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE. Their lifestyle, which remained largely traditional over a long period, was based on fishing, and the gathering of fruit, coconut in particular.
The traditional Micronesian way of life was little affected by the visits in the 16th-18th centuries of the first European explorers such as Captain Marshall, after whom the islands were named. The same was true of the first colonial episode, as a German protectorate at the end of the 19th century. Coconut plantations were developed. After World War I the islands were made a Japanese mandate by the League of Nations.
In the inter-war period the Japanese considered the Marshall Islands to have strategic importance and turned them into a strong military site. During the Pacific War a substantial American naval force of 40,000 men captured the outpost at Kwajalein and the archipelago in February 1944, following a hard-fought battle which resulted in the deaths of the entire 8,000-strong Japanese garrison. The Americans then counted the Marshall Islands as territory conquered in battle against the enemy.
The use of atomic bombs by the US Army on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (6 August 1945) and Nagasaki (9 August 1945) led to the unconditional surrender of Japan and the end of World War II. However, these military actions took place just after a number of major agreements between the Allies: the territorial divisions made at Yalta (February 1945), the end of the war in Europe (May 1945) and the Potsdam Conference, and finally the San Francisco Conference that created the United Nations (June 1945). The use of nuclear weapons had suddenly changed the balance of power between the Allies. Nuclear disarmament and/or nuclear non-proliferation under the control of the United Nations immediately became an issue and a major source of disagreement: the USSR pressed for disarmament as a priority whilst the USA, the only nation to possess atomic weapons, wanted non-proliferation at any cost. The issue was increasingly keenly debated at several international meetings during the winter of 1945- 46, particularly at the 1st General Assembly of the United Nations (January 1946). The principle of the United Nations having a controlling power over nuclear weapons was recognized, but the Americans and the Soviets were unable to reach an agreement on how to implement the decision.
Suspicion became the keynote of relations between the former allies over a long period. The Cold War had just begun between the West and the Soviet Union. The Soviets, excluded from the occupation of Japan (February 1946), shortly afterwards announced the formation of a Communist government in North Korea. In the spring, military tensions between the two blocs that were beginning to emerge developed in various regions of the world.
This was the context in which President Truman gave his approval to a plan proposed by the US Army to resume nuclear tests on an isolated Pacific island. The Bikini Atoll at the north-eastern tip of the Marshall archipelago, which shortly before had been the core of the Battle of the Pacific and was still occupied by American troops, was chosen. The inhabitants of Bikini Atoll, who numbered just over one thousand, were evacuated in March 1946 to the neighbouring atoll of Rongelap. Extensive preparations then took place on the main islands of the atoll to create the necessary military base, including command and firing control bunkers and logistical installations. Tens of thousands of military personnel were involved in the operations.
The first two tests at Bikini took place on 1 and 25 July 1946, under the codename Crossroads. They consisted of an air strike (Able) followed by a underwater strike (Baker), on the same position in the east of the lagoon. There were two objectives: on the one hand to stage an impressive display of American nuclear power, and on the other to carry out a military study of the direct impact of a nuclear explosion on a naval fleet.
The Russians' development of a nuclear weapon capability (1949), followed by the Korean War (1950), led to the intensification of the Cold War. The Americans then developed thermonuclear weapons, in the form of the massively powerful hydrogen bomb. In October 1952 the H-bomb was tested for the first time at Bikini, in a 10,400kt explosion (Ivy Mike), 800 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This was the first man-made nuclear fusion, and was carried out using cores of deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen (resulting in the name 'hydrogen bomb'). An operational version, the most powerful ever made by the Americans, was tested in March 1954 (Castle Bravo, 15,000kt), and this was followed by three other firings of similar power in 1954, all of them at Bikini.
Twenty-three tests were carried out at Bikini between July 1946 and August 1958, including the most powerful explosions ever conducted by the US Army. The neighbouring site of Enewetak Atoll, a little over 300km to the west, was also used from 1948 to 1958 (44 explosions). The Bikini inhabitants were relocated several times from one atoll to another. Those on Rongelap were authorized to return to their island in 1957, but the return proved a failure as the high degree of cesium-137 pollution made food grown on the islet hazardous.
Following the dropping of the two bombs on Japan and the spectacular Operation Crossroads tests at Bikini, a series of symbols and images began to impinge upon international public opinion, and this awareness was bolstered by the many nuclear tests carried out in the 1950s by the Americans, the Russians, and the British (from 1952). They acquired a considerable value and have played a major role in post-World War II history right up to the present day. The huge nuclear mushroom cloud emerging in a few seconds above the ocean is an image universally associated with such explosions. Initially created in Japan, the monster Godzilla emerging from the sea has become a popular icon of nuclear terror and its infinite power of devastation. Reflecting the international diffusion of American culture in the post-war period, the fashion of the two-piece bathing suit was launched in Paris under the name 'bikini.' The theme of nuclear explosions in the Pacific was taken up by various artists, including the painter Salvador Dalí and the film director John Huston.
From a political viewpoint, the balance of terror born out of the Cold War was perfectly illustrated by the parallel development of nuclear weapon testing by the two blocs. Soviet efforts to catch up with and overtake the Americans culminated in the 50 megaton Big Ivan thermonuclear bomb (tested in 1961).
These events marked the course of a new nuclear age which was suddenly opening up for mankind. After beginning at Hiroshima in 1945, it was followed up less than one year later at Bikini, at a time when the warring nations of World War II were officially at peace. It was thus inevitable that a powerful anti-nuclear feeling should develop. The Japanese fishing boat irradiated in 1954 by the Castle Bravo test was to become a symbol; the irradiation of the populations of the Marshall Islands also raised concerns in international opinion. Several conferences then took place. Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein published a celebrated manifesto protesting against the Bikini tests. The years 1954-55 marked a turning point as the fears inspired by military nuclear capabilities, which until then had been shared only by limited circles of specialists, spread to international public opinion. A powerful popular movement calling for an end to tests and for nuclear disarmament was launched, a movement which had failed to take hold at the time of the creation of the United Nations Organization at the end of World War II.
Pressure of public opinion, together with the advances made in the digital simulation of nuclear tests, a new field of technological and military progress, led the US Government to take a unilateral decision to end nuclear tests (1958). This gave the USA the opportunity to revive its diplomatic efforts to ratify a non-proliferation treaty, at a time when new players were preparing to join the nuclear club, including France (whose first test was conducted in 1960).
From 1967 onwards the US authorities considered the possibility of the Bikini people returning to their atoll, and this led to work to clean up radioisotope contamination This was carried out from 1970 onwards, backed up by an agricultural production programme. Medical follow-up of inhabitants showed, however, high levels of human contamination as a result of consuming food produced on the atoll and water from its wells. The atoll had therefore to be evacuated once again in 1978.
Long after the ending of nuclear tests, the Marshall Islands remained subject to an exceptional legal status from the viewpoint of international law. They were still the site of a large-scale American conventional military presence in the Western Pacific. The legal situation was only gradually normalized during the 1980s, leading ultimately to the independence of the archipelago in 1990.Source: Advisory Body Evaluation
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Our thanks to Avon A for sending us a review copy of this book:
The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë
By Syrie James
Imprint: Avon A
On Sale: 6/30/2009
Format: Trade PB
ISBN: 9780061891786 (ebook)
ISBN: 9780061720192 (large print)
If deals and publication dates are to be believed, it looks like The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë is - after the slow recent trickle of Emily's Journal, The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë and, a few weeks ago, The Taste of Sorrow - among the first of the many fictional takes that we are to read on the Brontës and their writing. Fiction on Jane Austen seems to have led onto fiction on the Brontës, and Syrie James has first-hand experience of that, her début novel having been The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen.
What first draws attention to her second novel is its beautiful, original sort of cover, which includes a little drawing by Charlotte Brontë herself. Besides, it also includes resources for what we believe to be the target audience of the book: readers with a remote and superficial interest in nineteenth-century literature in general and members of book clubs with said interests in particular. Thus, the book includes a Q & A with the author, fragments from Charlotte's letters, selected poetry by the Brontë family (including Patrick Brontë's hilarious poem for Arthur Bell Nicholls against the washerwomen of Haworth's practices), the Brontë family bibliography and a guide for book clubs. Add to that Syrie James's extensive research, which shows all throughout the book - sometimes, perhaps, a little too much if we may say so - and you have a very complete book indeed.
Syrie James, in her foreword, asks the reader to:
Dear Reader,(Incidentally, though, we are never told how the diaries got to that 'remote farmhouse' in the first place). Also, Syrie James states in the Q& A that,
Imagine, if you will, that a great discovery has been made, which has sparked enormous excitement in the literary world: a series of journals, which have lain buried and forgotten for more than a century in the cellar of a remote farmhouse in the British Isles, have been officially authenticated as the private diaries of Charlotte Brontë. [...]
The story you are about to read is true.
The novel is based almost entirely on fact. All the details of Charlotte's family life, her experiences at school, her friendship with Ellen, her feelings for Monsieur Heger, the evolution of her writing career, and her relationship with her publisher, George Smith, are all true and based on information from her letters and biographies. [...]As Syrie James must have known too, Karen Joy Fowler began her novel The Jane Austen Book Club stating that, 'each of us has a private Austen', to which we add that each of us has private Brontës as well. This results in reading facts and personalities differently. To us, for instance, Emily Brontë was a highly private person, both in her personal and public life. To Syrie James, Emily - at least at the beginning of the book - is quite the gossipy, open girl who chats with a made-up acquaintance from Haworth and laughs quite a lot(1).
I was obliged to conjecture some of the events during the earlier years of Charlotte and Mr. Nicholls's acquaintance, to flesh out their love story--but based on what we do know, I feel that this telling is very close to the truth.
Fictional accounts get the two sides of the coin. On the positive side, we get the 'fleshed out' version, which paradoxically helps - through at least partially made-up events - to draw out a more real, three-dimensional person. Syrie James excels at her depiction of life at Roe Head School, for instance. She visited the place while researching this novel and she not only got - we suppose - the locations right but she also seems to have taken with her the whole atmosphere of the place. The boarding school life, the misfit that Charlotte must have been when she first got there and the actual train of events are all clearly, magically evoked. On the negative said, and connected to what we were saying before, the differing image the author and the reader might have if the reader is well-acquainted with the characters might clash sometimes. This reader found too much sugar in Branwell's death scene or in Charlotte and Arthur Bell Nicholls's married bliss.
Fiction also allows the author to be selective when it comes to the facts that his/her novel is being based on, which might be seen by the knowledgeable reader as quite a tricky, deceitful resource but might work to advantage on a more casual reader. Unreliable narrator though she must be, Charlotte states that she has never felt anything but friendship for her young editor George Smith when actually her infatuation with him is quite firmly supported by letters and accounts and is certainly more proved than Anne's love for her father's charming curate William Weightman and which Syrie James takes at face value. Charlotte's statement makes it easier for Syrie James to create Charlotte and Arthur's love story without having to deal with that. Later on, the couple's married bliss is - with one made-up exception - depicted as whole and uninterrupted. Ellen Nussey's jealousy and troubled relationship with her friend's husband is only touched upon prior to the wedding. Afterwards all three seem to live 'happily ever after'. Neither is it mentioned Arthur's position as censor of Charlotte's letters to Ellen Nussey and - fiction or not - we find the following conversation to be wholly out of character with him:
'Haven't you been writing something anyway, in the months since we've been married? A diary, I think it is?'The man who said that Charlotte's letters to Ellen Nussey were 'dangerous as lucifer matches' would have indeed objected to Charlotte keeping a diary. And we actually have a soft spot for Arthur, but - while we are at it - we find his fictional counterpart to be quite the Hollywood gentleman as opposed to the strict - loving yes, but strict - man of his time that he was(2).
[...] 'Yes, I have. I did not think you knew. Do you object?'
'Why would I object? Charlotte: you are a writer. I knew that long before I asked you to marry me. It's what you love, and a part of who you are. I'll love you whether you write or not. If you've had your fill of it, then stop. If you enjoy keeping a diary, then keep it. . .'
Charlotte begins keeping this, then, not-so-secret diary shortly after receiving Arthur's proposal of marriage. She then tells the story of her life, which is inseparable from her family's, through flashbacks inserted in-between the chain of events that led to said proposal - and beyond - ever since Arthur Bell Nicholls arrived in Haworth in 1845. This non-linear structure works surprisingly well, as Syrie James aptly places each flashback at the precise relevant moment. It's not at all confusing or chaotic and it does keep the knowledgeable reader alert and glued to the story which he/she obviously knows all too well. That, too, would be one of the great things of fictional accounts: much as we may love the story, much as accounts may overlap in certain points, each one is radically different from the rest. We wonder, though, whether Syrie James kept Jane Austen present - and the sisters discuss her works too - on purpose, as Charlotte and Arthur's love story is highly reminiscent of Pride and Prejudice.
The style in which the novel is written imitates Charlotte Brontë's style of writing, which works irregularly. Syrie James has included direct and extensive quotes and occurrences from all sorts of sources (novels, letters, prefaces, etc.). This effort to keep Charlotte Brontë and her family and friends speaking for themselves is truly praiseworthy, even though sometimes the insertion is quite obvious as it clashes somewhat with the rest (sometimes it is also subtle enough). Charlotte's addresses to the 'diary' as substitute of her famous 'reader' sound a bit forced, though. But our main problem with the style actually comes with the editing, which is contradictory. A British spelling has been adopted ('favour', 'endeavour') and typically British words such as 'daft' are used throughout. However, Americanisms also filter in which give the whole book an uncertain, undefined status in that sense: Patrick Brontë 'hires' a curate - the word 'hire' in this context is extensively used in a way a British person would not use -, people walk 'out the door' (a Britton would say 'out of the door') and, despite the British spelling, Mr and Mrs are abbreviated as 'Mr.' and 'Mrs.', which is the American way. Also, 'loan it to you' and 'loan me a copy' are considered ungrammatical in the UK and would not have been used by Charlotte Brontë or Arthur Bell Nicholls. The surname Heger is consistently spelled 'Héger' which , although used in some sources, is not correct(3). And the few sentences in French are precarious at best(4).
As a whole, The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë by Syrie James is completely readable and extremely respectful to its subjects. It reads as a modern-day Devotion, where everything is sweeter and more charming than it supposedly was, but it serves to tell the Brontë story to readers who might not otherwise have thought it initially interesting or intriguing. They will be glued to its pages from start to finish and, no doubt, will want to read more by and about the Brontës. And for that, especially, we thank Syrie James.
(1) Charlotte Brontë to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848:
Ellis "the man of uncommon talents but dogged, brutal and morose", sat leaning back in his easy chair drawing his impeded breath as he best could, and looking, alas! piteously pale and wasted--it is not his wont to laugh--but he smiled half-amused and half in corn as he listened. (Our bold)(2) Another anachronistic reappraisal seems to be that of Tabby when she is said to feed 'our eager attention with tales of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and ballads--or, as I later discovered, from the pages of her favourite novels, such as Pamela'. We are grateful for the effort to have Tabby be more than just a servant, but in all probability and fairness Tabby couldn't read, didn't have a 'favourite novel' and had never even heard of Pamela. EDIT: However according to Mrs Chadwick in her book In the Footsteps of the Brontës (1914), 'Tabby seemed to have read Richardson's Pamela', but no source is given.
(3) Speaking of Heger, he is unwittingly helping The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë to be marketed.
For years, Charlotte harbored a secret love for her Belgian professor, Monsieur Hegér [sic]—a married man. Monsieur Hegér is the basis for all the heroes in Charlotte's books, including Mr. Rochester in her most famous novel, Jane Eyre.This marketing is a bit misleading as inside the book itself, Charlotte admits that Rochester owes a lot to the Duke of Zamorna as well (we would hazard that he owes more to Zamorna than to Heger, but that is just us). We might as well say here, that one conversation taken from Jane Eyre and made to take place between Heger and Charlotte didn't work for us.
(4) M. Heger saying 'ainsi je vois' for 'so I see' is simply wrong, to quote just one example.
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Natural Packaging: The Coconut Husk Solves Shipping Problems!
Today we're thrilled to kick off a brand new series that explores a greener future for packaging design, brought to you by Eco Chick founder and green journalist Starre Vartan!
Each year households in the U.S. send over 270 million tons of trash to the landfill, and much of this waste comes from packaging. This is a glaring problem, which is why each week we'll be exploring how to make packaging greener and cleaner, by examining natural models for packaging, new innovations in packaging design, and ways in which we can improve how packaging is created and used. Read on for our first installation, and stay tuned for this new series every Thursday on Inhabitat!
The Coconut – Nature's Best Packaging Design
The humble and tropically ubiquitous coconut, besides producing one of the tastiest cocktail starters out there (mmmm…..piña coladas!), is one the best package design solutions for a perishable food item ever designed by nature. Not only do coconuts survive falling from heights of 50 feet to the ground (landing on anything from cushy golf courses to lava rock), but they often travel thousands of miles via ocean waves, still perfectly protected. Viable Caribbean coconuts, which are the seeds of the Coconut palm, have been found as far north as Norway, which is why the tree has propagated so successfully from 26 latitude North to 26 degrees latitude South.
The waterproof, super tough coco-container is impervious to hard knocks, salt and heat, and it keeps its electrolyte-rich interior water fresh and coconut meat cargo protected and ready-to-consume (or take root and grow). All of this in a totally biodegradable package produced with free energy from the sun, water and (sometimes minimal) locally available soil nutrients.
This is just one example of a packaging 'problem' that nature has solved so well, while we have…plastic, which is made from nonrenewable petroleum products, pollutes air and water when it's made (including our food supply ), takes thousands (and thousands) of years to degrade, and then just ends up breaking into bits, not actually breaking down. Plastic even pollutes when it's recycled! (Though yes, it's still better to throw it in the blue bin than in the trash).
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November 4, 2010 at 1:16 pm
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July 27, 2010 at 1:10 pm
I love this new feature. We have got to find a way to stop using so much plastic. Of course, as long as use is regulated, it seems nature has provided us with the perfect packaging with the coconut. I work on the Isla Palenque project, a sustainable resort on a Panamanian island. We have so many coconut groves on the island, we should definitely find ways to reuse the shells for packaging or harvest them in our organic farm for someone that can. Thanks for sharing this!
July 26, 2010 at 1:39 pm
I strongly agree with mothergrace, research is key, finding a way to use any resource in a balanced way so that we don't abuse it is critical for it to become a solution. I work for a green moving company in Los Angeles, CA (NorhtStar Moving) and its amazing how something as simple as using popped popcorn instead of bubble wrap or recycled white packing paper instead of newspaper can make a difference on your carbon footprint. Consider for yourself when packing for moving day to choose a green moving company or ask them for tips! we are happy to help.
July 26, 2010 at 12:47 pm
coconut milk was used as an iv fluid in W.W.2. also the sheii is the main feedstock for activated carbon used in water and air purification. one of the most useful things on the planet.
July 25, 2010 at 11:47 pm
While I am completely against all the plastic we use, I hesitate to wholeheartedly endorse new solutions unless all aspects are investigated. In this case, I would want to know if coconut shells were to become popular, would it be a sustainable source for packaging? No sense trading one bad idea for another. Of course, coconut shells could be part of the solution.
July 23, 2010 at 3:03 am
Pineapples also. So you can drink pina coladas without a qualm.
Citrus fruit, bananas and any food with a mostly non consumable outer casing also qualify.
Then there are the ideal packaging solutions- you can consume the packaging! Like most fresh fish, grapes and potatoes.
Less than ideal but usefull packaging would be helpfull for everyone. Packaging that you can reuse to store the item you bought rather than throw out. All it takes are manufacturer's few nurons concentrating on solving the problem rather than what model car they are going to buy next.
July 22, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Very interesting information, but I cannot keep thinking about that piña coladas you've mentioned :).
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Just would like to mention here another productivity tool: Focuth (I'm it's author). It's is an online free time\task management tool that allows you not only to manage your tasks but to track how productively you spent your time and help you concentrate doing things. Unlike many other time\task management tools it's aimed to train your own productivity habits rather than to replace them with a software.
Aimed for people who find themselves being hard to concentrate on their work, those who are easily distractable due to their work online. Also it is for people who's hard to force themselves creating todo lists every day but they wish being organized.
How it works?
Write any activity (or choose from the assigned for today ones) you are going to do and specify time to perform. Even time wasting activity like reading news\surfing the internet. After you have done it, check whether the activity was useful or not. Afterwards you can analyse how productively you spent your time, and how good you are in time estimations.
Also the project has built-in todo list with an ability to split complex things on steps (subtasks) and schedule them to a day, week, month and etc (not only days).
The project is in its early beta stage so any feedback highly appreciated.
Focuth's web-site's here: http://focuth.com/
Hope this is a good place to get a feedback for a web app. If not feel free to remove it.


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aaahhhhh......welding fuel tanks.
You just had to bring that up didn't ya
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Anyway, they had an accident when they were welding an old fuel tanker truck, the kind that only had two axles. There was a leak in the side and when the welder touched it with his torch, the side blew out of the rear of the tank. Apparently there was a compartment inside into which fuel had leaked. He wasn't killed but it was a serious accident with some burns.
I also had a British Matchless motorcycle tank welded once when I was a kid in Chicago. The welder filled it with water and left the cap off. The instant that he used a torch on it, it blew a flame out of the cap straight up that sounded like a stick of dynamite. The flame shot about 20 feet in the air and it was hair-raising for sure. After that, he finished the job with no further problems.
So much for welding fuel tanks. I've tossed a few Harley tanks that had bad cracks in them. It's not worth it.
I'm well awre that many people on this forum are expert welders and have probably welded fuel tanks and worse. I'm only talking about my experiences and what I won't do. I guess that tanks can be welded safely, but there's always that one time that something happens, if you catch my drift.Miller Syncrowave 200
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But as far as liability goes....when welding a fuel tank, chances are you're only gonna blow your own head off. Unless someone is gonna hang around and watch. (I don't usually let many jobs get done while people wait).
Trailers and trailer hitches are dangerous things that only get worse from the day you make them. There are other things as well, such as steering components on about anything. Sending something out of control that weighs thousands of pounds into oblivion is a liability nightmare.
Welding a wheel isn't as big of a deal as many people make it out to be. When they come to you, all the customer knows is it doesn't hold air. I have been in the tire biz more than once. Worst case scenario is it leaks still. It's not gonna fly to pieces unless you are making it worse than it was and the guy who mounts the tire is dumb enough to let it out the door.
Every time a tire shop patches a tire they are assuming the same risk.
If you weld a wheel and it is fine, yet a year later for some other reason a tire on that wheel blows, and that wheel has obviously been welded....it could be your a$$!!!
Welding is SERIOUS BUSINESS when you do it for money. If you are going to be in the welding business you better KNOW exactly why things broke and how they can fail after you repair them. Or else you can expect to have your butt sued off sooner or later.
Understanding metallurgy, components and why they fail, insurance liability, combined with how ignorant the general population is..... all in a days work for any welding shop.
These are some of the reasons why so many of us "old guys" on the forum have a reputation for being grouchy and seemingly negative towards less experienced people at times. Not always trying to be unfriendly. Simply trying to open people's eyes to the obvious dangers, to us, that the average person would never think of. Then there are things that seem dangerous and scary that we have to deal with on a regular basis. Things like basics of electrocution, working with acetylene and oxygen, pressure checking. If these things aren't treated with as much respect as the topics we are discussing here, you can be just as dead as welding a gas tank.
IMO welding has become much much more commonly dangerous since all the welding machine companies have made so many low priced, light duty machines that makes everyone think welding is easy. All over America it is a DIY society.
Welding is cool and trendy these days. But because of that, many things are taking place that probably shouldn't.
I'm sure there are building contractors out there seeing the same trends in their trades as well. Anywhere you shortcut the basics of formal occupational education you're gonna have this.
Just my opinion from my experience and observations and it is subject to change with time.
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Fusion King, Very well said.
I sometimes work on really big gas tanks that hold about 13,000 gallons.
Its for a company that rents Pumps, tanks, filter boxes, Etc., I never know what one of their customers may have put in one of these tanks so I treat every one as if gasoline has been stored inside.
Just the other day I was in their yard and they said, can you cut off a plate on a 3" nipple welded to the tank and put a new nipple on, I said, not today, so I opened the port hole doors and brought in my 12" blowers that pump fresh air inside which change the air out every 60 seconds, I'm not talking about a window box fan either, these are blowers with 20' hoses that pump outside air in.
Here another scenario, If a inexperienced guy tries to do this and he puts the fan inside the tanker, the sparks from the fan motor can cause it to blow up, Its knowing things like this which is required so you don't kill yourself and others.
Not to mention going another step farther because this is an over flow pipe which is about 30' long so I take a argon tank inside the tanker and slip my argon hose 20' inside the pipe to make sure the pipe is purged before making the cut.
Oh man do I ever hear ya!
When I do gas tanks I get really pricey. If they don't wanna pay for my pickyness they can simply leak fuel. Or buy a new factory tank.
Heck, the place I use for metal and braking won't even sell me anything if they know for sure it's on a fuel tank. They suspect but don't ask.
And it's a cash only no receipts deal too. Plus I have THE correct insurance for the job. Not gonna test it.....no way no how.
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Getting back to the original question:
- I don't think that this is as big a deal as people make it out to be. Unless you're piecing together stuff that's thoroughly hammered, typically what comes in is something that was usually driveable and leaking, if it didn't let go completely, it' snot going to after you weld it. The bigger issue is to get it clean and find the whole deal that needs to be repaired.
- I don't see why MIG with a spool gun is _that_ bad. Most multi piece wheels that are welded were welded using mig... I suppose that they are intrinsically unsafe???Mark
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Silver back, I don't agree with you, Back about 12 years ago, Ford Motor company had a problem with tires blowing out.
If I remember correctly it was the Ford Expedition and I think Fire Stone tires,
( Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. ) and they had a issue with tires blowing out and the truck rolling over, It just so happens that my neighbors mom died in one of the roll overs.
Since it doesn't sound like your a very experienced welder when it comes to dirty aluminum, This might not be the best topic for you to give advise about.


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Lewis Hamilton is adamant his goals haven't changed since the start of the season despite finding himself third in the Drivers' Championship....
Lewis Hamilton is adamant his goals haven't changed since the start of the season despite finding himself third in the Drivers' Championship.
Prior to the start of this season, Hamilton made it clear that he did not expect to be fighting for this year's World title.
Instead the new Mercedes signing conceded it would be a year for laying a foundation.
However, this season's results have been better than forecast with Hamilton having already achieved two podium finishes in Malaysia and China.
As a result the Brit is third in the Drivers' Championship on 50 points, 27 behind reigning World Champion Sebastian Vettel.
But despite his results, Hamilton says he's still not thinking about a title bid.
"It is just the same thing as we had coming into the season," the 28-year-old told Autosport.
"It is far too early to start thinking about the championship. The fact that we can say we are even in the group that is fighting for the Championship is a big bonus for us.
"We will have the same approach. We are trying to win; the approach we were having before was trying to win, and we have to take it one race at a time to try and improve."
In fact the Brit reckons the only change is that the steps Mercedes now have to take are smaller but also more difficult.
"The guys are trying as hard as they can, so obviously if we were further back it would be easier to make bigger steps.
"Now we have a car that is quite competitive it is harder to make steps, improvement steps.
"But the guys are pushing just as hard, but perhaps they have more force behind them from the likes of Ross [Brawn], Toto [Wolff] and me."


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I heard on radio today about how Brady has a large playbook to pull plays from at his discretion. I heard that the 49ers have myriad plays for Kaepernick to go with.
In reverse fashion, we understand that Sherman gave Tannehill a basic playbook with select plays to go with. Plays he was comfortable with in college. Mostly due to his lack of experience from college in the qb spot.
Well now he has a year of NFL experience under his belt, and he has seen the defenses, speed of play, and intricacies presented to him. I'm hoping Sherman will add more plays and have confidence that Ryan can make good adjustments at the line. Even better than he did this year.
So for the second part of my question to you, I expect a confident, even more poised Tannehill to come into camp with a "Take the ACF East by storm" mentality. He has played the Pats, Jets, and Bills twice, both home and away. I'm not saying he didnt have a killer attitude this season, its just that he had to experience a year under NFL duress first.
So how do you think the coaching staff will improve Tanny next season, and what do you expect of Tanny?


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In 2006, Alexander Noyes was on tour with one of the hottest pop bands in the country, the Jonas Brothers. At just 20 years old, he was playing drums in front of thousands of fans. But Noyes found that on some nights, it was an effort just to get up on stage.
"There were a couple of times where I'd be throwing up minutes before the show," Noyes, now 24, remembers. "I'd go through the motions, then, as quick as I could I'd get off stage and get back to trying to get myself better."
Noyes had been diagnosed with Crohn's disease when he was 18 and a freshman at Wagner College in New York. At the time, he didn't think his condition was a big deal.
"I think some part of you is in denial at that point, especially at that age. You kind of have a feeling of invincibility," he says. "I've talked to other people who have Crohn's disease ... they go through that period of time when they think that they're still bigger than the disease."
Noyes threw out the pamphlets his doctor had given him, along with his medication.
Then he went on tour with the Jonas Brothers, and Noyes discovered that he wasn't bigger than his disease.
After a year-and-a-half of hectic days and long nights on the road, he was feeling sick all the time. He went back to his doctor, who told him that his health had gone downhill and his Crohn's had progressed. "I had gone through so many flare-ups that the scar tissue in my small intestine was so thick, there were sections of my intestine where food could not pass through," he says.
In December 2007, Noyes had surgery to treat his Crohn's. Since then, he has gotten a lot more serious about taking care of his condition, and he's feeling much better as a result.
Noyes is now an advocate for Crohn's disease, sharing what he's learned on his road back to good health. WebMD asked Noyes, and two Crohn's specialists, to offer their tips on how to avoid common mistakes and stay flare-free.
See Specialists for Crohn's
Crohn's is a complicated disease and the treatments are always evolving. So it's best to be seen by an experienced gastroenterologist.
"The care of a patient with inflammatory bowel disease now requires an increasing degree of specialization," says Joshua Korzenik, MD, director of the Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. "It's important to go to somebody who really knows your disease."
Your treatment doesn't end with your GI doctor. It should involve a team of specialists, which can include pathologists, radiologists, and nutritionists.
Stick With Your Treatment Plan for Crohn's
Treating Crohn's isn't a one-time deal. It's a long-term strategy. Even if you're feeling better, don't stop taking your medication without your doctor's advice.
"A significant number of patients, once they're in remission and they're feeling well, don't want to take medications long-term. That can be a mistake," says Raymond Cross, MD, associate professor of medicine and director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Going off your medication can lead to flares -- and then to complications, Cross says. Your intestines can get narrowed (strictures), like Noyes experienced. Or you can develop abnormal connections, called fistulas, between different parts of the intestines or other organs. Or tears, called perforations.
"What I try to tell patients when they come back in feeling well is, 'Listen, this is a perfect outcome. Why would you want to mess with success by stopping your medicines?'" says Cross.
Living With Crohn's: Eat Right
Your food choices can have a big impact on how well you feel. There isn't any defined Crohn's eating plan, so designing your diet is a matter of trial and error. It starts with cutting out foods that tend to aggravate your symptoms, Cross says. "It's common sense. If something bothers them, they should avoid it."
Tracking what you eat and how each type of food affects you can help you home in on the diet that works best for you. By keeping a food journal, Noyes discovered that dairy and fiber irritated his symptoms. Today he limits dairy and high-fiber foods and eats a lot of nutrient-dense foods, like vegetable juices. He says his new diet has given him more energy and has helped him feel better overall.
Another reason to eat well is that Crohn's can make it harder for your body to absorb the nutrients it needs. If you're not getting enough vitamins or minerals from your diet alone, your doctor might recommend that you take supplements to replenish what you're missing.
Keep in Touch With Your Crohn's Doctor
You should be seeing a lot of your gastroenterologist. Going to all of your scheduled appointments will keep your treatment on track and let your doctor make changes to your medication, if needed.
"Some of the medications we use, such as immunosuppressants and biologic drugs, require monitoring in person. If you're not coming to the doctor as suggested, you could have side effects that are percolating," says Cross.
Because of his touring schedule, Noyes has two doctors: one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast. "I try to see them as much as possible," he says.
How often you see your own doctor depends on your condition. When you're feeling well, you might be able to get away with seeing the doctor just once a year, Korzenik says. During a flare, you could be making office visits as often as once a week.
Stop Smoking With Crohn's
If you smoke, one of the best things you can do for your Crohn's disease -- and your health in general -- is to kick the habit. Not only does smoking increase the chance of developing Crohn's in the first place, but the more you smoke, the greater your risk for flares.
An added bonus of quitting is that you'll lower your odds of getting cancer, heart disease, and the dozens of other dangerous conditions that are linked to smoking.
Get Support for Crohn's
Having a disease like Crohn's can be extremely isolating. "It's really easy to feel alone in your battle and in your struggle with it," Noyes says.
"I think it's important for people to understand that they're not alone, there are other people who have these diseases," Korzenik says.
One of the best ways to relieve some of the seclusion is to take part in a Crohn's disease support group, where you can share experiences with people who've gone through the exact same challenges. To learn about support groups in your area, contact the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.
Staying Flare-Free With Crohn's
Taking medication and redesigning his diet have helped Noyes get a good handle on his Crohn's disease. He's been flare-free since his 2007 surgery, which has allowed him to focus on other things -- like touring and recording a second album with his new band, Honor Society.
Having lived with Crohn's for several years, Noyes has learned a lot, including that laughter really is the best medicine. He says humor has gotten him through some of the lowest points in his disease.
"When I was really going through a tough stretch with the Crohn's right before my surgery, I was going to the emergency room on probably a weekly basis. My mom would take me to the emergency room and we would joke that it was 'date night,'" Noyes remembers. "If you can't laugh at the situation, it can become overwhelming."


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Hola, Jose.
Thanks for taking your time to talk to us on HQ's anniversary.
I have a couple of questions for you :
1. I've always loved your sound in every one of your Incubus albums and Time Lapse Consortium, and
I wonder if you choose the way your drums will sound before you even sit down to record? or do you change it after you listen to the whole context of the song being played by the band?
and 2. (optional) Is it annoying if we feel the need to talk to you in spanish when we talk to you? (I certainly hope not)
Thanks again. Take care. and congrats on this 1st anniversary of IHQ :)
if you could not play a concert and you could pick anyone in the world to replace you for this only show, who would you pick?
How has becoming a father changed your art (within Incubus and your other endeavors)?
First of all, thank you for posting the videos from the tour, keep them coming! They're so awesome to watch from your POV. I know that Brandon gets a lot of attention for his art, but any serious Incubus fan knows that you are an incredible artist as well. That being said, has your outlook on art, life, music, changed since becoming a father? Who do you think is next in line for the guys to become a daddy? Thanks for taking the time for our questions!
What would you do for a living if you never picked up a set of sticks all of those years ago and start Incubus? I have a hard time imagining you rocking a suit and tie 40 hours a week. Would art be your 9-5?
Hey, Jose.
What combination of taco ingredients do you enjoy the most?
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1. If you could steal one current or past drummer's set and tone, which one would it be?
2. Has there ever been a concert you've been to or band that completely changed how you feel about drumming/music?
3. What do you think is your greatest weakness/something you can improve on as a drummer?
Dear Jose,
Have you ever thought of doing an art show of your own work in a small gallery? It would be very cool to see more pieces of your art, especially up-close and in person.
Hello Jose!
I'm so stoked to see you video chattin with us later.
My questions are:
1. What is the best Morning View song to do a cover of for a beginner drum player?
2. Do you still skate? If yes, could you please post some pictures of you skateboarding?
Thank you, Jose! <3
You guys really seem to like playing at The Joint since that's where you're always at. In my opinion, that's one of the worst venues in Las Vegas since it seems that a lot of non-fans go there, and not just for your shows. Do you prefer to play there or are there other reasons you don't play elsewhere?