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History not only bites
You might say it also regurgitates. All of us following events in Ukraine (including Crimea) and surroundings now know far more about its georgraphy, history, languages, etc., than we did a week ago. We may not know all that much about how matters have come to this pass, but it has a certain familiarity.
The U.S. media is big on the events of recent days and, in some cases, the perfidy of Vladmir Putin. But nothing's simple, including Ukraine. This post by former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, (19887-1991) Jack Matlock steps back from the fray, offering a cool assessment of what is going on. Here is his take on Obama's "you will pay a price."
"Obama's 'warning' to Putin was ill-advised. Whatever slim hope that Moscow might avoid overt military intervention in Ukraine disappeared when Obama in effect threw down a gauntlet and challenged him. This was not just a mistake of political judgment—it was a failure to understand human psychology—unless, of course, he actually wanted a Russian intervention, which is hard for me to believe." Matlock's whole post is here.
In the same vein, news that SOS John Kerry will go to Kiev seems ill-advised. A drawback to big shows of support by the U.S. is that it encourages people to do provactive things (case in point, the Syrian Opposition when Obama said Assad must go), and then we pull back.
Here is Professor Stephen F. Cohen, another Russian expert, on U.S. media coverage.
Professor Charles King of Georgetown: "The Crimean affair is a grand experiment in Mr.
Putin's strategy of equivalence: countering every criticism of his government's behavior with a page from the West's own playbook. If his government has a guiding ideology, it is not the concept of restoring the old Soviet Union. It is rather his commitment to exposing what Russian politicians routinely call the "double standards" of American and European foreign policy and revealing the hidden workings of raison d'état — the hardnosed and pragmatic calculation of interests that average citizens from Moscow to Beijing to New Delhi actually believe drives the policies of all great powers." New York Times, March 3.
Here is a dyspeptic look at the economic consequences of Putin's moves in Ukraine: None! Salon, "Why Russia No Longer Fears the West."
The BBC reports the decline of the ruble and exchange rate issues with the euro and the dollar (currency exchanges are running out). The Russian stock market is down, then so is the Dow, etc.
Here is the most hardline view I've read today that can also claim a rational basis (thus I exclude Lindsay Graham and Co.): "Yes, Crimea may already be gone. But we have to make absolutely clear – and in the most credible way possible – that Russian military intervention in other regions of Ukraine is a red line that will mean war with Ukrainian and NATO military forces if it is crossed. U.S. and NATO naval forces need to be deployed to the Black Sea in close proximity to the Ukrainian Coast. Military forces of neighboring NATO member countries, meanwhile, should be deployed closer to the Ukrainian border." From the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Andrew Kuchins.
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, a former editor of Commonweal, writes frequently in these pages and blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Here's my take: Obama's warning to Putin seems mostly pro forma. He feels obligated to say something, but has little intention of actually doing anything significant about it. The mood of the American people is overwhelmingly against involvement in this affair, despite dislike of Putin. Putin is surely aware of this; he's going to feel free to ignore the rhetoric. Because this situation really isn't about us, no matter how the media tries to spin it.
Important opinions countering Ameican media beliefs and the government. No one really has the moral advantage at present. With the Arab Spring in tatters and Africa in bloody baths, not to mention Afghanistant and Iraq, stability might be preferred to another Syria. This post was an education for me. We need people like Matlock and Cohen around to keep things in perspective. The White House surely reads both authors. Hope it helps them.
Is it historically feeble to be thinking about the Sudetenland? I understnad the call for a quiet diplomacy that allows some face savinf solution and only hope the now totally extinguished - if always fabricated -Olympic torch could be somehow prevail here....
Margaret, thanks for pointing us to that blog post, which seems grounded in practical wisdom.
I happened to read it just minutes after reading this editorial from the Washington Post. its editors are advocating some specific things that Washington could do to punish Putin and Russia. I would think that Matlock would find these recommendations ill-advised, too.
It will be interesting to see whether Cohen defends Russia's takeover of Crimea. There is something noble about his contrarianism on this subject. He makes several good points about the complexities of the situation in Ukraine (though he is wrong to claim that no one in the mainstream media is making the same points). But if he can't bring himself to concede that "thuggish" is the right word to describe Putin's intervention in the Crimean peninsula, then I think it will be hard to avoid the conclusion that Cohen is the one blinded by his parti pris. There is complexity, and then there is perversity.
What absurd articles. Professor Cohen is currently eating crow over his comments on the Crimea and Vladimir Putin's 'good' intentions and reverting to the 2004 Constitution. After spending the first two thirds of his article ensuring that his readers are aware of his amourous relation with Mr. Putin and crying foul about the poor former KGBers treatment in American media, he finally notes that Ukraine's population is divided between east and west. Thank you. No mention of the fact that the vast majority of the Russians in Ukraine were sent there to replace the absence of people following the Hlodomir and collectivization.
Professor Cohen makes special effort to decry the protesters as "the Ukrainian extreme right" "neo-facist" "anti-semitic" with a "hatred of...gay rights" but it is Professor Snyder who is vindicated concerning the "arned intervention" after the Olympics. Little or nothing is said of the pro-Russian Russians living in Ukraine and their positive attitude to the 20th century beacon of human rights, Uncle Joe Stalin.
Likewise (Ambassador?) Matlock's ahistorical approach to 19th century nation-state success is similarly naive. I suppose South Korea cannot ever expect " ever be a prosperous, healthy, or united country unless it has a friendly (or, at the very least, non-antagonistic) relationship with [North Korea]"
The Crimea being the conquered ancestral homeland of the so many people (though never the Russians until the 18th century) one wonders why 60% of the current population is Russian. A century ago Russians constituted only a third of the population but the Russian population exploded following the persecution and mass killings of predominantly anti-bolschevik Crimeans and the mass deportation of the Tatars.
Sadly, at this point Ukraine can only hope for a painful amputation of the infected eastern and southern regions. But let us not call this amputation anything but what it is. Nessary. If the east and Crimea want to join Russia (or become puppet states like Belorus) that is for them to decide. Better to cut off a hand and enter the EU a cripple than for the whole body to be thrown into hell.
I have no idea of the role of the Ukrainaian Orthodox or uniate churches or the Russian Orthodox (which, I understand, usually represent the government position) in any of this or how Pope Francis will choose to weigh in, but I would welcome any posts in this regard,
Haven't seen anything from the Vatican. Presumably there is a papal nuncio somewhere there. Anybody look at Polish sources?
Walter Russell Mead, in the course of making a number of interesting observations, makes this reference to more recent history:
When Ukraine escaped from the Soviet Union in 1990, Soviet nukes from the Cold War were still stationed on Ukrainian territory. After a lot of negotiation, Ukraine agreed to return those nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange for what (perhaps naively) its leaders at the time thought would be solid security guarantees from the United States and the United Kingdom. The "Budapest Memorandum" as this agreement is called, does not in fact require the United States to do very much. We can leave Ukraine twisting in the wind without breaking our limited formal obligations under the pact.
If President Obama does this, however, and Ukraine ends up losing chunks of territory to Russia, it is pretty much the end of a rational case for non-proliferation in many countries around the world. If Ukraine still had its nukes, it would probably still have Crimea. It gave up its nukes, got worthless paper guarantees, and also got an invasion from a more powerful and nuclear neighbor.
The choice here could not be more stark. Keep your nukes and keep your land. Give up your nukes and get raped.
Maybe this was explained elsewhere, but complicated history notwithstanding how is Russia sending troops into the Crimea, NOT considered an invasion of the Ukraine? I've been reading the NY Times, and haven't seen the word "invasion" used in describing this military action- "intervention" seems to be the word of choice in the news. Is this some kind of wordsmithing, or is it really not an invasion?
It seems oddly tame language for what looks like a pretty aggressive act.
JP - not sure that I agree with the article you link to. First, this happened more than 20 years ago; second, yes, the nukes were physically in Ukraine but who actually controlled the codes; launch or use of the weapons, etc? Doubt it was Ukraine but Russian military in Ukraine. That is where the standoff happened and why the US and other nations executed the memorandums to achieve control of Russian nukes in former Russian satellite nations. His viewpoint is not nuanced and to make his point he paints a rather simplistic black and white scenario.
(Note: The command and control system for Soviet strategic and tactical nuclear weapons remains centered in Moscow. Leaders in other former Soviet states could not launch weapons on their territory, and none stated a desire for operational control over those weapons. Even so, in the past Russian President Yeltsin has stated that he would attempt to gain their agreement before authorizing the use of these weapons. The command and control structure for strategic nuclear weapons involves tight central control. The weapons cannot be used unless President Yeltsin, Defense Minister Grachev, and the Chief of the Russian General Staff generate and transmit the necessary codes. Even though all tactical nuclear weapons have been moved to storage areas in Russia, questions exist about the locks employed on these weapons and possible breaches in security at Russian storage facilities. Many now believe that the risk of acquisition or use by rebels, criminals, or rogue military leaders may be greater for tactical nuclear weapons than it is for strategic nuclear weapons.
Officials in Ukraine refused to recognize Russia's jurisdiction over nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory. Ukraine insisted that the weapons were Ukraine's property and should be under Ukraine's administrative control, i.e., although only Russian President Yeltsin could authorize the use of the weapons, Ukraine should be responsible for activities related to the weapons and the troops supporting them while the weapons remained on Ukrainian soil. Russian officials objected to the Ukrainian approach and argued that Ukraine's efforts to maintain and store the weapons contradicted its pledge to become nuclear free. Russia also argued that Ukraine's approach contributed to problems with the maintenance of the missiles deployed on Ukrainian territory. Some Russians argued that the missiles in Ukraine did not receive proper periodic maintenance and were, as a result, beginning to become unsafe.
Russian officials contended that the absence of proper maintenance was caused by the fact that Ukraine has taken responsibility for day-to-day operations at the bases but that it lacked the technical ability to maintain the missiles. Ukraine, in contrast, insisted that Russia had agreed to maintain the missiles and warheads as a part of the joint operational command of strategic systems, but that it has failed to provide needed spare parts and technical expertise)
The goal of the West at that time and in Russia itself was to ensure that former Soviet nukes, nuclear materials, etc. were safe and under appropriate management/control (this was an issue even in Russia). The US and other western nations (actually spearheaded by non-military associations and groups; civilian corporations, etc.) have worked wonders in former Soviet nations and Russia itself to find, identify, control, and neutralize nukes, nuclear materials, etc. See this link for a more comprehensive and complete history and current status of this effort (it identifies that your writer's story is half baked and incomplete given the actual nuclear realities)
The most recent, released on Nov. 7, 2012, said that the United States has "greatly accelerated its efforts to reduce nuclear and radiological threats since President Obama"s pledge in Prague in April 2009 to secure all vulnerable nuclear material in four years."
Since the speech, the office says, the United States has:
• Removed 1376.1 kilograms of HEU and plutonium (enough material for approximately 55 nuclear weapons).
• Removed all weapons-usable nuclear material from nine countries and areas, including: Romania, Taiwan, Libya, Turkey, Chile, Serbia, Mexico, Sweden and Ukraine.
Meanwhile, activity has continued on implementing the goals of a the 1991 bill authored by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and former Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia. The Nunn-Lugar program provided U.S. funding and expertise to the former Soviet Union to dismantle stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
According to a running tally compiled by Lugar's office, 7,610 warheads have been deactivated -- 82 percent of the number targeted under the law. The categories in which 85 percent to 100 percent have been deactivated include intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, nuclear-equipped submarines, nuclear air-to-surface missiles, bombers, and test tunnels.
Perhaps most importantly, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine are now nuclear-free. Ukraine agreed to eliminate all highly enriched uranium -- potentially a key component of nuclear weapons -- on its soil by 2012.
( Note: The former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan—where the Soviets based many of their nuclear warheads—safely returned their Soviet nuclear weapons to post-communist Russia in the 1990s, but all three countries still have stockpiles of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. Ukraine and Kazakhstan also have nuclear power plants the byproducts of which cannot be used to make a nuclear bomb but might tempt terrorists trying to make a "dirty bomb"—a regular explosive laced with lower-grade radioactive material.)
• Nuclear material removals. The United States has helped six countries eliminate all materials capable of making nuclear weapons, most recently, Serbia in December 2010. That same month, the U.S. helped remove 50 kilograms of highly enriched uranium from Ukraine. The U.S. has now removed or helped dispose of 3,085 kilograms of highly enriched uranium and plutonium -- enough material to make more than 120 nuclear weapons, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration.
But, Russia is threatening to pull out of this agreement going forward with much work still left to be accomplished. (this is where your writer appears to be simplistic - it is not black and white)
Irene Baldwin: Why hasn't the Russian "presence" in Crimea been called an "invasion"?
At least at the beginning it isn't clear there was an invasion. The Russian have a long-term lease for their Black Sea Fleet whose home is in Crimea. There are no doubt various security foces/military that are part of protecting the fleet, the sailors, the facilities, etc. The first "uniformed" forces to show up had no insignias. Were they from these security forces? Or were they Russian military who "invaded" Crimea. Perhaps intelligence sources know the answer to this. But, so far, they have not been interviewed.
JP and Bd H: "When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the newly independent Ukraine had on its territory what was the third largest stratetic nuclear weapons arsenal in the world. It was larger than those of Britain, France, and China combined. On June 1, 1996 Ukraine became a non-nuclear nation when it sent the last of its 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads to Russia for dismantling. The first shipment of nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia (by train) was in March 1994. In return for giving up its nuclear weapons, Ukraine, the United States of America, Russia, and the United Kingdom signed the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, pledging to respect Ukraine territorial integrity, a pledge that was arguably broken by Russia's 2013 invasion of Crimea." Wiki
Here Yulia Tymoshenko March 3 speaking on CNN: "We alll well remember that when Budapest Memorandum was signed and when Ukraine was giving up its nuclear weapons then the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia were providing guarantees of peace and independence, integrity of its territory. And now when the crisis is happening Ukraine is relying on its partners, and if Russia in such a cynical and rude way violated this memorandum then every person in Ukraine believes that the United States and the United Kingdom will stick to their guarantees and now it's up to the world to find out the mechanisms which are better to be applied here."
She doesn't consider the Budapest Memorandum a moot point!
But good point, JP about the undermining of non-proliferation.
Also recall, Ukraine still has the Chernobyl mess on its territory.
The Matlock and Cohen pieces certainly throw cold water on the general message being put out by the US media (and not only the US, it would seem). I remember a friendly argument with a colleague back in the 90s, when NATO was advancing towards Russia. I thought it a bad idea; he -- a Czech refugee from the Soviet invasion of his country in 1968 -- thought it absolutely the right thing for NATO to do. I'm still uncertain which of us was correct.
I haven't read a great deal of Cohen's work over the years, but I always come away a bit with the sense that he was a rather willing to give Russia, in either its present or its Soviet form, the benefit of the doubt. Which is not by any means to suggest he's wrong, or a pro-Russian apologist, or anything like that. His arguments here seem in ways very sound, though I wonder if he's really correct about the leaders in Kiev being quite so right wing, anti-Semitic, and all the rest of it.
One of the US spokesman on the PBS Newshour this evening claimed that fourteen members of the UN Security Council came down against the Russian actions. Is that true? I couldn't find anything to substantiate it. If it is, I wonder what they know that Cohen doesn't know; or indeed what Cohen does know, that they don't.
Perhaps if a) we did not have a large naval base in a hostile Cuba; and b) paid no attention to the Monroe Doctrine; and c) had not been so willing to resort to force in places ranging from Grenada to Iraq, we might be able to speak with a more convincing voicee.
Could we have a compare and contrast between Russia in Crimea and the U.S. in Guantanamo. Both long-term leases, I believe.
Tonight on the Newshour Cohen was firm in his convictions, including not letting Gwen Ifil interrupt him with what sounded like inane questions.
Don't consider the Budapest Memorandum to be a moot point....on the other hand, don't also accept the unnuanced and simplistic argument laid out by the writer that JP linked to.
Non-proliferation....Ms. Steinfels, suggest you are buying into the same simplistic argument. Ukraine backed off and postponed the transfer of some nuclear weapons until the US, GB was able to push through the Budapest Memorandum....but, it was a complicated and complex process. Fact, Ukraine still has tons of fissionable material that some do not consider safe today.
Ukraine could have held onto the nuclear weapons - but, they would not have been able to use them...that is my point and why this non-proliferation argument is moot or simplistic.
Putin says Russia has a right to use force in response to the coup in the Ukraine. Is Russia stable enough itself to successfully attack the Ukraine? (I'm still looking for the right verb for whatever it is Russia is doing).
I didn't think Russia was all that strong itself.
Irene Baldwin: Reading the Times this morning suggest to me that perhaps the most accurate word to describe Russian behavior is "infiltration." The locals seem to know very well that the masked men wearing unmarked uniforms in Crimea are Russian military.
In Eastern Ukraine the locals report that some of the most provocative actions, seizing public buildings and harassing local officials, have been carried out by Russian "tourists" and/or members of Russian nationalist groups and militias. A photo in one story has men looking much like "thugs," the word Putin has used of those who seized power in Kiev.
Of course, Putin and many Russians seem to believe that the various Democracy projects of the U.S. and support for NGOs, etc., are themselves forms of infiltration. Everyone is now calling everyone else "fascists."
Story about Russian "tourists" in March 4 NYTimes.
One of the comments above refers to Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale. Has his article in the current New York Review of Books been linked? If not, here it is:
It is dated February 19th, before the eruption of the present situation, but I found it quite helpful.
I think it counters some of the line propounded by Stephen Cohen in his ubiquitous media appearances yesterday.
Did anyone catch the scene in "The Situation Room" last evening where Cohen enjoyed the fracas between Wolf Blitzer and Christiane Amanpour regarding how to characterize the protesters in Kiev? Amanpour thought that Blitzer was seconding Cohen's view and called him on it. Professor Cohen smugly suggested that the "Situation Room" be renamed the "War Room," since it set CNN colleagues at odds.
I take a certain amount of ironic [political?] pleasure [not actual pleasure as real people are invlolved]in this flagrant show of Russian power..Only because it seems like it was only yesterday the whole American right wing,and the left, [except for a few like McCain, Graham]were practically lauding Putin for preventing military action against the Assad regime.These right wingers denounced Obama and Kerry and anyone else who even thought of interveing with the Russian backed Assad governrment Even as this regime engages in a literal holocaust of sunni muslims;by massive bombings, torture prisons, and ,gassing, and now by starvation.These right wingers, hawks when they had visions of genocide dancing in their heads when they supported the Iraq ,Afghanistan invasions ,became "war weary" as their genocidal fantasies or total subjugation against muslims never materialized.Our more rational and decent military elites and Obama did not give the volunteer troops a green light to turn the place into a parking lot[our hands were tied the muslim hating hawks now lament]So civil war or more accurately a Stalinist like regime engaged in genocide, in the mid east is something they welcome[let Allah sort it out Palin said].So regarding Syria these right wingers were actually praising Putin for UN vetoes that would harm Assad and help the the sunni victims of his genocidal campagn.Suddenly he was the reaonable, rational,clear headed leader,the man behind the power that prevented the west from toppling Assad .These right wingers welcome a holocaust of sunni muslims.They were actually lauding Putin and his pro Syrian government vetoes as they believe muslims in general should continue to ilve under tyranical regimes .Anyone oppossed to them is now labeled alqada.Putin was also hailed for his crackdown on any muslim separatists.Suddenly torture, executions, brutality against Muslims is seen as a good thing and Putin believed in that.Now the right scrambles to denounce him and even Obama after THEY tied his hands, for not being a strong leader who stands up to Putin.In their hearts they know it was their hatred of Muslims[and Obama] that blinded them to Putin and he Putin capitalized on their professed "war weariness". Obama and Kerry tried to do the right thing.These right wingers were and are easily manipulated, Putins actions exposes.They are NOTas rational as they profess they are. I'm sure they realize this,If they listen or acknowledge the things they were saying in praise of Putin just a few weeks ago.
Yahoo News reports on the responses of Russia's former Communist satellites to his Ukrainian move. They are fearful of his claim that Russia has a right to intervene militarily in the affairs any country which has a substantial Russian sub-population. The Russian Eurasian alliance is being weakened by this more, with even Russia's former supporters criticizing Putin publicly.
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The God Slot Friday 25 April 2014
A contemporary look at religious affairs worldwide
'The Catholic Church', said Oscar Wilde 'is for saints and sinners. The Church of England is for respectable people.
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As the Catholic Church will gain two new saints on Sunday April 27, Blessed Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, we have assembled a highly respectable and respected panel to preview the event. Joining Eileen Dunne are Dr. Jim Corkery SJ from Milltown Institute, Dr. Andrew Pierce from the Irish School of Ecumenics at TCD, Dom Mark Patrick Hederman OSB, Abbot of Glenstal, and broadcasting legend Ruth Buchanan.
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Wood leads flag-to-flag, earns win at Smoky Mountain Speedway
Published: Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 10:40 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 10:40 p.m.
MARYVILLE, Tenn. — Dillon Wood traveled to the Tennessee mountains loaded for bear and left with a trophy and a $4,000 check for the wall. The New Smyrna Beach, Fla., native led flag-to-flag Saturday night at Smoky Mountain Speedway in a 40-lap Ultimate Super Late Model Series main event to claim his first win of the year.
Finishing in the runner-up position was Billy Ogle Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn. Bringing home a third place finish after transferring in with a B main win was Ray Cook, of Brasstown, N.C. Fourth-place finisher Chris Ferguson, of Mount Holly, N.C., battled early for the lead from his front-row starting position. Reigning series champ and current point leader Casey Roberts, of Toccoa, Ga., brought home a solid fifth-place finish.
Wood got the jump on fellow front-row starter Ferguson at the wave of the green flag. Wood utilized the high line in the early laps, giving Ferguson the low groove to work with early on.
Although able to match Wood's laps down low, and able to pull the nose of his car ahead at times, Ferguson could never complete a pass to take over the top spot. In the latter stages of the event Ferguson battled hard with Ogle. The two pulled off matching slide jobs on each other while battling for the second position.
Cook showed the strength of his machine late, sliding by Ferguson for third with less than 10 laps to go.
A caution with two laps to go for Dallas, N.C., racer Jeff Smith's machine that pulled up lame on the front-stretch gave Ogle one more shot at Wood. But as Wood had been able to do throughout the event, he simply drove away and opened up a sizable margin.
At the fall of the checkered flag, Wood crossed the finish line with about a seven car-length advantage.
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Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Sixth AnnualAntibacterial Drug DevelopmentIntegrating Chemistry and BiologyApril 17-18
Day 1 | Day 2Download Drug Discovery Chemistry Brochure or Antibacterial Brochure
For quite some time now, the lack of new antibacterials has been broadly recognized as a major unmet medical need. To successfully tackle antibacterial resistance, screening for novel targets and developing new strategies to interfere with bacteria are just as important as other challenges, including predicting toxicology, selectivity, resistance, permeability and pk of a new lead, and creating new models for optimization of leads and compounds. This conference is designed to bring together executive level scientists from the academic, pharmaceutical and biotech areas to discuss progress, novel insight, lessons learned and current bottlenecks.
7:00 am Registration and Morning Coffee
8:00 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Lessons Learned: When it Comes to Drug Discovery Not All Gram-Negatives are Created Equal
Herbert Schweizer, Ph.D., Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University
Whole cell activity screening is a crucial step in the drug discovery process. It is safe to say that cell permeation remains a major hurdle in the development of antibacterials with activity against Gram-negative bacteria and, in synergy with efflux pumps, exclusion is in fact often the primary mechanism for high level resistance. I will present evidence in support of the notion that when it comes to drug discovery not all Gram-negatives are created equal mainly because of disparate exclusionary properties of the outer membrane.
8:50 Dual-Targeting DNA Supercoiling Inhibitors for the Treatment of Bacterial Infections
Jim Palmer, Ph.D., Director, Drug Discovery, Research, Biota Holdings, Ltd.
The emergence of new resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria presents an increasingly serious challenge to global health. We have identified a series of potent bacterial DNA gyrase/topoisomerase type IV inhibitors with a novel mechanism of action distinct from fluoroquinolone-based drugs. Advanced members of this series are well tolerated, and demonstrate class-leading intravenous and oral efficacy.
9:20 The Discovery of Potent, Dual Targeting Pyrrolopyrimidine Inhibitors of Bacterial DNA Gyrase B and Topoisomerase IV with Broad Spectrum Antibacterial Activity
John Finn, Ph.D., CSO, R&D, Trius Therapeutics
To combat antibacterial drug resistance, we are focused on discovering new antibacterial agents that work via novel mechanisms of action. To reduce emergence of resistance against these new antibacterial agents, we have used structure-based drug design to discover agents that target two essential bacterial targets: bacterial DNA gyrase B (GyrB) and topoisomerase IV (ParE). While these targets have been utilized in other antibacterial discovery programs, to date, no clinical compounds have emerged and spectrum of the compounds has been limited mainly to gram-positive bacteria. This presentation will detail our efforts leading to the pyrrolopyrimidine series: the first series of GyrB/ParE antibacterial agents that have an expanded antibacterial spectrum that includes important gram-negative pathogens.
9:50 Networking Coffee Break
10:15 Microbiological and Pharmacodynamic Interactions of Avibactam with the Anti-MRSA Cephalosporin Ceftaroline
Ian Critchley, Ph.D., Vice President, Microbiology, Cerexa, Inc.
Ceftaroline fosamil (Teflaro™) is a cephalosporin that was approved in the US in late 2010 for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP). Although ceftaroline is active against resistant gram-positive pathogens such as MRSA its activity against enteric gram-negative organisms is limited to non-ESBL-producing organisms. Avibactam is a novel non-β-lactam β-lactamase inhibitor that inhibits Ambler class A and C β-lactamases, that in combination with ceftaroline, extends its antibacterial activity against AmpC and ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae. This talk will summarize the microbiological properties of ceftaroline-avibactam and the studies conducted to date to understand and optimize the pharmacodynamic interactions of avibactam with ceftaroline that result in optimal bacterial killing with reduced propensity for resistance development.
10:45 Identification of Novel Drug Targets by Exploitation of Indel-Based Structural Differences in Highly Conserved Proteins: Pyruvate Kinase as a Test Case
Roya Zoraghi, Ph.D., Research Scientist and Director of Screening, Indel Therapeutics
Historically, antimicrobial drug development has been focused on targets found uniquely in pathogens, while avoiding proteins conserved between host and pathogen. However, recent discoveries have shown that many of these conserved proteins can be selectively targeted in the pathogen by exploiting indel-based sequence differences. This approach has the potential to develop into a platform technology that can be applied to selectively target highly conserved microbial proteins.
11:15 Artilysins: Antibacterial Enzymes that Attack Bacterial Surface Structures
Stefan Miller, Ph.D., CEO, Lisando GmbH
11:45 Lunch on Your Own
1:25 Chairperson's Remarks
David Harper, Ph.D., CSO, AmpliPhi
1:30 Safe Drugs to Kill Bad Bugs — Evolva´s Novel Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Jutta Heim, Ph.D., Professor, Biotechnology; CSO, Discovery, Evolva SA
Evolva has discovered a new series of potent antibiotics, called 2-pyridones, which are chemically bioisosteres of quinolones. Like quinolones, our 2-pyridone EV-035 series are inhibitors of bacterial topoisomerases IIA BUT retain activity on mutated, quinolone-resistant bacteria by binding to a different site on the target enzyme. 4 members of the EV-035 series were fully profiled and exhibit the following characteristics: • Broad spectrum of activity, covering all Gram+ and Gram- pathogens tested • Active on multidrug- and quinolone resistant pathogens • Low propensity of resistance development in E. coli and S. aureus • Binding to a different site in the QRDR of gyrase than marketed quinolones • High aqueous solubility and high oral bioavailability • Favourable ADME-tox profile • Oral in vivo efficacy in mouse thigh models of MRSA and E. coli infections Those features make Evolva´s EV-035 a very promising candidate for further pre-clinical and clinical examination.
2:00 Bacteriophages as Antibacterial Agents
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect and can then destroy their bacterial targets, amplifying themselves in the process. They are able to destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria, even in biofilms. Driven by the crisis of antibiotic resistance, modern clinical trials are now under way. Results of the first phase II clinical trial of the efficacy of a bacteriophage therapeutic were published in 2009. This, together with other work has shown the potential of bacteriophages as a novel antibiotic approach.
Sponsored by2:30 ASINEX Inverse MedChem Approach: Amphiphilic Small Natural-Product Like Compounds for Probing the Antibacterial Area
Roman Kombarov, Ph.D., Project Manager, ASINEX
The creation of innovative chemotypes is a great challenge in anti bacterial drug discovery. Via our "Inverse Medchem" Approach, we show our proprietary platform for antibacterial design based on synthetic natural product-like molecules. This method allows for clogP and solubility control by using hydrophilic scaffolds, suitable for attaching multiple lipophilic or hydrophilic substituents. The scaffolds contain elements inherent to antibacterials such as tepenoids, glycomimetics & macrocycles which are often lacking in traditional screening libraries.
3:00 Selected Oral Poster Presentation
3:15 Networking Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
4:00 PK/PD and Emergence of Resistance
Ursula Theuretzbacher, Ph.D., Center for Anti-Infective Agents (CEFAIA)
With antibiotic usage emergence of resistance is unavoidable. However, several factors in the drug development process can be adjusted to reduce the risk of rapid emergence of resistance in clinical settings. During drug development, PK/PD models are appropriate tools for mitigating the risk of resistance.
4:30 Harnessing the Power of Transposon Mutagenesis for Antibacterial Target Identification
Tim Meredith, Ph.D., Infectious Disease Division, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research (NIBR)
Determining the mechanism of action of bacterial growth inhibitors can be a formidable challenge in the development of antibacterial therapies. To help address this bottleneck, we developed a robust transposon mutagenesis system using a suite of outward facing promoters to generate a comprehensive range of expression genotypes in Staphylococcus aureus from which to select compound resistant transposants. Using this approach, an inhibitor's molecular target, route of cellular entry, efflux susceptibility, and other off-target resistance mechanisms can be rapidly identified in a single experiment.
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How is it possible (with the standard Java2D engine) to use small sprites like graphic objects?
For those who don't know what I mean, in all those Flash-games like on Facebook they put small sprites on the screen which react to mouse-over and clicks. I tried to do the same in Java but can't find a good method. Swing components always spread over the whole bitmap, but I only want to get a reaction from the object when the mouse is over a pixel that's not transparent.
So basically checking every time if the object below the mouse contains a non-transparent pixel (which i believe could be pretty intense in a gameloop or repaint loop). I have no idea how to implement such a thing efficiently.


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If possible, how could one prove that every short exact sequence $0 \to A \xrightarrow f B \xrightarrow g C \to 0$ of vector spaces (here $A$, $B$ and $C$) splits without using any basis of $A$, $B$ or $C$. I was not able to exhibit a morphism $h \colon B \to A$ such that $h \circ f=Id_A$ without considering a basis.
You can prove this using Zorn's lemma on the pairs (D,h) where D is a subspace of B and h is a partial section.
And yes, you do need Zorn's lemma: without it, there may exist vector spaces none of whose nontrivial subspaces has a complement (Herrlich, Axiom of Choice, LNM 1876, Disaster 4.43).
So, for example, $0 \to \mathbb{Q} \to \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Q} \to 0$ ... the inclusion of the rationals into the reals, these are all vector spaces over the rationals. Can you write down your split? Not constructively!
One can show the short exact sequence by proving that a field is a semisimple ring—alhough one could argue that somewhere hidden in that proof a basis is considered...
I cannot imagine a negative answer to your question in any other form than a model of ZF without the axiom of choice, so that there are vector spaces without bases, and in which maybe there are short exact sequences of vector spaces which do not split.
Without using any basis of A, B or C specifically, but rather using the existence of bases for all vector spaces, we may observe that all vector spaces are free as modules; and all free modules are projective.
Finally, the projectivity property gives us a splitting by lifting the identity map on C along the surjection from B by projectivity of C. This gives us a splitting, thus splitting the entire sequence.
ETA With the arguments in the comments to Ben Websters answer, it is pointed out that without AC, and without at least the existence of bases, things can fail badly. Obviously, if we disallow AC, this answer fails as badly.
Apply $\mathrm{Hom}(C,-)$ to your short exact sequence. It remains exact, so the identity map from $C$ to $C$ has at least one preimage. In fact, the splittings are exactly its preimages.
I would guess the problem with the axiom of choice is that you need to actually choose one of them. Or it hidden somewhere else?
It should feel natural that splittings and bases go together; in the opposite direction, suppose you only consider short exact sequences $0\rightarrow 0 \rightarrow V\rightarrow k^\beta\rightarrow 0$ where by $k^\beta$ I mean of course the free vector space on the set $\beta$ taken with its standard basis $\{x\in\beta\}$. In this case a splitting is (essentially the same thing) as a basis for $V$. Why would you want to avoid that sort of thing?


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I have a feeling that I have seen some kind of theory of linking and intersection that applies in spaces that are not manifolds. I've found two kinds of theories in the books I've checked:
1) intersection product of homology classes, defined in terms of Poincare duality,
2) linking numbers defined for disjoint subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$ using the vector space structure of $\mathbb{R}^n$.
What I really want to do is to talk about intersection/linking of subcomplexes of a finite simplicial complex. Can anyone point me to a reference?


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I am new to the Quantum Plugin development and wonder if there is more information about the following.
I have added a shape file and am (off course) able to select a point from this shape file. In the shape file I have stored the location (x,y) and an id.
Now I would like to be able to select a point in this layer and then my plugin should be able to recognize the id of the point, look up a database and display a graphical representation of the data in the database.
So what I am looking for is this,
- how do I get the information of a selected point to my plugin
- is it possible that my plugin overwrites the default information dialog (so the plugin pops up instead of the normal dialog)
- is there perhaps a plugin that already shows such behaviour and I can learn from (haven't found one so far)
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This is a very popular festival that is well established in the Municipality of Silleda'scalendar. Every year, more than 10,000 people gather together to savour around 2,000 portions of omelette and 1,000 litres of wine free of charge. The festival began to be held in 1989, reaching its 22nd year in 2010.
2015 events: Opening speech delivered by invited celebrities. Competition-tasting. Bidding for winning omelettes. Dinner in the "carballeira" (oak grove) and musical performances featuring traditional groups, street bands and orchestras.
Every year, the organising commission, and householders work hard to make hundreds of different kinds of omelettes: with cod, peppers, chorizo, meat, prawns…
About 2,000 portions are served (a lot of people bring their own food), while 1,000 litres of food are distributed free of charge to those buying small bowls and jugs. Small bowls sell for € 2, while a jug costs € 10. There are also t-shirts, polo shirts, drinking jars and omelette flipper on sale.
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From wikipedia I obtain the following definition of an injective function :
Let $f$ be a function whose domain is a set $A$. The function $f$ is injective if for all $a$ and $b$ in $A$, if $f(a) = f(b)$, then $a = b$; that is, $f(a) = f(b)$ implies $a = b$.
From this I conclude that a function $f$ is injective if the below statement is true for all $a,b \in A$:
$$f(a)=f(b) \implies a=b$$
My question is: Can I re-formulate the above statement as $f(a)=f(b) \iff a=b$ ?


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That depends on the medium.
When you publish something on the web it can be difficult to use typographic quotation marks, as they don't exist in all fonts installed on all computers over the world. Using typewriter quotation marks would be the safe bet, as they are part of the basic ASCII set, so any font (except Wingdings) has them.
Otherwise typographic quotation marks are always better looking.
I have generally been told to just use the " on your keyboard and not worry about it. If it's for print, the desired characters will be inserted at layout. For online, whoever edits or maintains the site will apply any different characters desired.
My experience, as a writer and as editor (or whatever you'd call the person who takes Word docs and publishes them in whatever online form is called for), is that manuscript or copy should be submitted in the plainest fashion possible. Look at submission guidelines and you will usually see a plea for no fancy fonts or typography.
I'm not sure this answers your question. I read it as asking someone writing something to be submitted to someone else for publication.
Definitely use curly quotation marks if you can. If you can't, no one will fault you for using the straight or typewriter quotation marks.


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At the beginning of the afternoon I usually feel tired, so I take a nap. However my naps usually last 1 to 2 hours, and when I get up I'm really not in the mood of doing anything productive, I'm lethargic.
I think I've read not long ago than a nap shouldn't last longer than [I don't remember how many] minutes because after that you go into a sleep stage incompatible with an efficient nap, but I can't remember where I've seen that.


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The most crucial from the Turkoman tribes within the nineteenth century was the Tekke. They occupied the majority of the habitable part of what's the Turkoman S.S.R. (Turkmenistan) between your Caspian ea and also the River Amu Darya. Throughout the very first 1 / 2 of a lifetime their territory broadened to engulf those of other tirbes, particularly the Salor and then the Saryk within the valley from the Murghab between your Merv (Mary) oasis and also the Afghan frontier. The Tekke highlighted has lots of features which suggest an earlier nineteenth-century dating. It's under 300,000 knots/m2 (194 knots/in2), counting 40 knots towards the decimeter (about 10 per inch) over the width and 72 per dcm (about 18 per inch) across the length within the typical flat-backed double-weave structure.
Persian Turkoman
You will find several categories of Turkomans in north-east Persia, mainly Yamuts as well as other Tekke sub-tribes. Today it's not always easy to distinguish the items of the several groups. The Persian Turkoman goods originate from a small area between Bujnurd and Gombad Qabus, just east from the southern finish from the Caspian Ocean. The output is small , the items not particularly popular in the western world given that they frequently hae a lot of whitened within the design, which causes it to be busy', and they're excessively vulnerable to puckering. Probably the most interesting pieces are 1005 silk. The Iraninan Turkomans also sometimes use considerable amounts of eco-friendly, not necessarily to get affordable effect, an error usually prevented by their Russian and Afghan brother.
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Bokhara, nowadays the 3rd town of the Uzbek S.S.R. (Tashkent to be the capital and Samarkand the 2nd city), was for 100s of years a vital center of among the branches from the ancient Silk Route, the main artery of exchange antiquity. Throughout its nearly two 1000 many years of history, Bokhara has loved several periods of fame. The title originates from Sanskrit word for any monastery. When from the Arab conquest in AD 709 the town had been a thriving cultural center. It arrived at its peak within the tenth century because the capital from the Samanid Empire.
Bokhara's interest towards the carpet lover is based on its importance because the principal marketplace for that creation of the entire Turkoman tribal areas. The title Bokahara has lengthy been accustomed to indicate any rug within the Tekke design even though the production area was always hundred of miles away. Today the outline is further extended to incorporate such products as Pakistan Bokahras. Modern Russian Bokahras are created mainly in Ashkabad along with a string of small cities reaching across towards the Caspian Ocean, as well as in the Merv (Mary) oasis around the river Murghab. A few of the significant options that come with the current Russian production are using attractive wealthy dark eco-friendly and medium fast in small amounts within the Tekkes and elsewhere- indeed richness and heat of color generally. All dimensions are created, even though the creation of pieces over 4 m2 (43 ft2) is small carpets are frequently lengthy and narrow. All carpet dimensions tend to be more costly per square meter than rug dimensions.
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She was born September 14, 1917, in Beckley, WV, the daughter of the late Luther Hodges and Marie McCray.
Mildred was a Catholic and retired from the former St. John Medical Center housekeeping Department, so could baby sit her grandchildren, with the birth of her first granddaughter in 1986.
Mildred is also preceded in death by her husband; David A. Lloyd, brothers; Robert, Basil and Jack English and sisters; Hazel Straka, Marie Liggett and Betty Saunders.
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Customer service skills and patience are needed for this job, particularly during the beginning of the semester, when students are making a mad dash to purchase their textbooks. Job duties include helping confused students find the supplies they need, restocking shelves, and manning the cash register. A great perk is the major discounts employees receive on merchandise, including textbooks!
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A stunningly beautiful woman. Gorgeous. Unusual. Rare. Possessing godess like qualities. Unrivaled in beauty with a stong sexual attractiveness. Darien's are usually dark in hair color, but came come in blonde. The blondes tend to be much more flirtacious and daring than their dark haired counterparts and have the ability to drive men wild. Keep hold of your heart, Darien's take their time in the "love" department. They have a great sense of humor but take themselves seriously. They have a big bill to fill and they know it! Darien's rarely disappoint in any area. If you know one, don't let go. You are the luckiest of men.
Now that is some serious Darien e-sizzle...Red mallard that shit....eye boner....damn!
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not too shabby looking
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has some evil stowed upon them but when a nice sweet short girl walks up all the evil seems to dissapear and they seem to have a sort of light come out in them
Darien's are normally amazing friends and will be there when you need them and sometimes need a little looking after. they have amazing hair and are alot of fun to talk to and are really funny
normaly they are
not too shabby looking
awesome hair
has some evil stowed upon them but when a nice sweet short girl walks up all the evil seems to dissapear and they seem to have a sort of light come out in them
Darien's are normally amazing friends and will be there when you need them and sometimes need a little looking after. they have amazing hair and are alot of fun to talk to and are really funny
that kid right there is a real Darien
by The Amazing Dani June 18, 2008
A small town located in the southwestern corner of Connecticut. Darien is situated in Fairfield County, which contains some of the most wealthy and impoverished towns and cities in the entire country. Statistically, the majority of the town is W.A.S.P.y (White Anglo Saxon Protestant), although there is the occasional Jew or Asian around. Most adolescent Darien residents identify strongly with their town, whose mascot is the "Blue Wave", and aren't even offended when outsiders call them "D-Baggers". Darien is very well-known for its lacrosse team, which has accomplished infinite success in the past. Most teens attend Darien High School, which can barely be considered a public school. Those who do not attend 'the high school' are shipped off to some of the most elite boarding schools in New England, such as Loomis Chaffee, Exeter, Deerfield, and Rosemary Choate. Those who choose to live at home will attend any of the local private schools, including Brunswick, St. Luke's School, Greenwich Academy, Fairfield Preparatory, Greens Farms Academy, or Convent of the Sacred Heart. On the whole, Darienites define themselves by their material wealth, which is usually reflected by their country club membership(s), home size and location, number and brand of cars owned, and quality of their wardrobe. Darien is most well-known for its coastal areas, which are monopolized by those who live in such private associations as Tokeneke, Noroton Bay, and Delafield Island, to name a few. Those who are raised in Darien generally begin drinking and experimenting with narcotics before they begin high school, which is probably why so many of them are sent to rehab or receive DUIs before they go off to college. Despite all of this, Darien teens have a glorious time in high school. In fact, most pride themselves on how much they can drink, which is a considerable amount. In terms of what there is to do, many individuals choose to go into New York City on the weekends, where most of their parents work during the week. O.A.R., Dave Matthews, and moe. concerts in the city are a town-wide event. Norwalk and Stamford are the two cities that neighbor Darien, and are (for the most part) dangerous and horrible places that are only worthwhile for the mall and a couple movie theaters. If you ever want an idea of the "Darien Dress Code", walk into the Darien Sport Shop, which is equipped with a Burberry section, a Ralph Lauren Polo Room, an extensive Vineyard Vines selection, a Lily Pulitzer area, and an array of over-priced skis, snowboards, lacrosse equipment, and Northface apparel. In any case, Darien is not the real world, which is why it is such a perfect bubble!
Tom: Hey, I'm from Darien, how about you?
Harry: I'm from Fairfield County too!
Tom: Really? Where?
Harry: I'm from Norwalk.
Tom: I see... Oh, look, there's my driver!
Kerry: Sally, where do you belong?
Sally: Tokeneke Club, and you?
Kerry: Weeburn... my parents didn't bother with the beach club.
Harry: I'm from Fairfield County too!
Tom: Really? Where?
Harry: I'm from Norwalk.
Tom: I see... Oh, look, there's my driver!
Kerry: Sally, where do you belong?
Sally: Tokeneke Club, and you?
Kerry: Weeburn... my parents didn't bother with the beach club.
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Great guy, An amazing boyfriend. One who you can feel comfortable talking to about anything. One who is willing to change his life (in a better way) for you. The guy who gives you butterflies everytime you see his name. The guy who treats you like you deserve to me treated. The guy who makes you the happiest girl on earth. The guy who loves you for you. The guy who you would want to spend the rest of your life with even after knowing him for just over 4 months. The most amazing guy on this earth <3
I am so in love with Darien. He's my forever.
by babygirl316.kt August 05, 2011
The most beautiful girl ever. She is the best thing that will ever happen to you. She's very out-going. And has a smile that can lighten up your day. Don't ever let her go. For God help your soul, just don't let her go. <3
Boy; Dude, my girlfriend is such a Darien
Boy 2; She is bro!
Boy 2; She is bro!
by Gurro December 12, 2010
A beautiful girl who's cute (even though she won't admit it), short, curvy, awesome, funny, nice, sarcastic, slightly ghetto fabulous when the time calls for it, fiercely protective of her friends, and just way cool all the way around. People need to f-ing realize what they're missing out on when they don't take her friendship seriously. SO TAKE SOME FUCKING NOTICE! And men, man up and grow a pair and ASK HER OUT!!!
Eli: Dude, that girl is so fine. She has to be a Darien.
Vinny: I know right? Damn...
Vinny: I know right? Damn...
by EveyLove April 28, 2010
A small town in between Norwalk and Stamford (the ghettos of fairfiled county) consisting of rich family's that own a boat, belong to a summer club and have homes in Vermont and a summer getaway such as Block Island, Nantucket, Cape Cod, the Hamptons and Maine. All the teenagers wear Juicy Couture, Polo, Lacoste, and many different brands of jeans that cost about 200$ each. The moms all have blonde or dirty brown hair and have gorgous bodies. The husbands all work in NYC as CEO's or major corporate owners. All of the toddlers wear designer clothes like polo, mini ribbon belts and little Lilly Pulitzer sun dresses. On the weekends the teens have nothing to do so they spend there nights out late on the post road at restaurants like COSI or Post corner Pizza. And after dinner witht he girls and boyfriends you would catch a movie at the Darien Playhouse where there is only 2 screening rooms. The moms are always waiting by the phone for their children to call for them to pick them up. The mothers live to serve their children and teens. Darien is 99% white and 1% black. In every grade there is only about 3 black children that have moved from either stamford, norwalk or greenwich. In the spare time of most high schoolers they will design there own jewelry and spend long hours at chikaboom, wishlist and the darien sport shop buying all designer clothes and searching through the many designs of Vineyard Vines bags. Lacrosse is a major sport in darien, you will get started playing at around the age of 6 or 7 and will go all the way to the high school team and then go to an IVEY league college to play. Other sports consist of swimming, water polo, gymnastics, feild hockey, skiing and sailing. Darien is a world of its own in the middle of the world. A bubble in the universe.
Darien= The Stepford Wives (the movie was actually filmed in Darien and was based on Darien.
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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz arrived in Casablanca, Morocco today coming from New York. At Mohammad V International Airport, he was received by King Mohammad VI, Prime Minister Dr. Abbas El-Fassi; Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Prince Meteb bin Saud bin Saad bin Abdurrahman; Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, Assistant to Interior Minister for Security Affairs; Prince Nawaf bin Saud bin Saad bin Abdurrahman; Prince Abdulaziz bin Majed bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Madinah; Prince Salman bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Assistant Secretary General for the National Security Council for Intelligence and Security Affairs; Mohamed Halab, Governor of Grand Casablanca, and Saudi Ambassador to Morocco Dr. Mohammad Al-Bishr. King Abdullah will spend some time recovering from back surgery he had in New York last December.
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Just as the acclaimed Sci Fi Channel series "Battlestar Galactica" enters its final episodes, Universal has quietly entered into negotiations with Glen A. Larson to write and produce a big-screen version of the property he created.
The movie effort would have no connection to the series and would relaunch the story in a new medium. However, staples such as the characters Adama, Starbuck, and Baltar will remain.
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I am asked to show the following argument is valid:
I know you need to use the rules of inference like modus ponens/converse fallacy but I'm confused because it doesn't look like any of the forms I've learned about?
$$N\to B\lor S\\ S\to W\lor A \\ M\to N\land W \\ \text{therefore, }M\to B\lor A$$
I don't want to use the truth table because it will be real long. If someone can get me started i would really appreciate the help. thx


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Rigoberta Menchú (1992)
Rigoberta Menchú is a Guatemalan social reformer. Of Mayan descent, she and her family were caught in Guatemala's bloody civil war. Protesters against human-rights abuses, her father, mother, and younger brother were killed by Guatamalan soldiers, and in 1981 Menchú fled the country and settled in Mexico. At home and abroad, she has worked to secure and protect the rights of indigenous peoples in her country and to promote intercultural peace. For her efforts, Menchú was awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize.
Fun Fact: Menchú became a candidate for the Guatemalan presidency early in 2007.
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Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who became first to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 11, has died. He was 82 years old.
He was born in the small town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, on Aug. 5, 1930.
On July 20, 1969, half a billion people -- a sixth of the world's population at the time -- watched a ghostly black-and-white television image as Armstrong backed down the ladder of the lunar landing ship Eagle, planted his left foot on the moon's surface, and said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Twenty minutes later his crewmate, Buzz Aldrin, joined him, and the world watched as the men spent the next two hours bounding around in the moon's light gravity, taking rock samples, setting up experiments, and taking now-iconic photographs.
"Isn't this fun?" Armstrong said over his radio link to Aldrin. The third member of the Apollo 11 crew, Michael L. Collins, orbited 60 miles overhead in the mission's command ship, Columbia. President Richard Nixon called their eight-day trip to the moon "the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation."
'I Believe That This Nation Should Commit Itself....'
Armstrong's step fulfilled a challenge laid down by an earlier president, John F. Kennedy, in May 1961. Struggling in his first months in the White House, Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress:
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"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth," he said. "No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
Armstrong was a 30-year-old test pilot at the time of Kennedy's challenge, flying the X-15 rocket plane for a new government agency called NASA. He had served as a Naval aviator in the Korean War, flying 78 missions, and had an engineering degree from Purdue University. A native of the small town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, he was married to the former Jan Shearon and living near Edwards Air Force Base in the high desert of California.
NASA already had seven astronauts, flying its Mercury space capsule. In 1962 it sent out word that it was looking for more, and Armstrong was one of the nine it selected.
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Most people perceive my job as helping people make money. What I really do well is help injured people.
I keep injured people from wasting a settlement. I help them find every government benefit and program available that might make their lives better. I find ways for them to minimize taxes and maximize what they keep. I assist in mediations and help them get claims settled.
Most of my clients are in the top one percent of income earners. The bracket that some people are marching against.
Most of my "one percenters" are in wheelchairs or had their families wiped out in accidents.
I've been doing my work for nearly 30 years and would never trade places with any client who got a large settlement or judgment.
No sane person would give up their health or their family for money.
Thus, going to war against the top one percent is not black and white for me.
I'm for making hedge fund managers pay ordinary income tax like the rest of us do. I'm for tying Wall Street bonuses to doing something productive for society, instead of taking a bonus but not creating wealth.
I want to see more being done for Main Street and less being done for Wall Street. I want the average American to get a fair shake and not be ignored by Washington.
But what I really want is to keep doing things to help injured people with their money. It's something I am very good at. It's also a career where I get the psychological reward of being able to help people.
A financial guru once called me a "financial evangelist." I think I am more like a financial pastor or minister.
I want to comfort the injured and help them heal. I also want them to hang on to their money.
Thus, when they start going after the top one percent, I want to make sure my clients are not the one percent of people they are going after.
I want them to go after Wall Street but found that Wall Street has better lobbyists than injured people do.
I've been encouraged that injured people will benefit from health care reform.
I've spent the past few months becoming immersed in the nuances of the new health care reform act. I've read all 1990 pages of the law several times.
After months of study, I understand it. I see how it helps people I want to help.
If you like the law, you call it health care reform, if you don't like it, you call it Obamacare.
Before I took the time to really study the legislation I called it Obamacare.
I encouraged my Democratic Congressman to vote against it, which he did.
Now I am calling it health care reform. It is going to turn the medical system upside down and I don't know how we will pay for it, but I see where it truly helps the injured people that I care about.
Some of the reforms are coming to place now, before 2014, and I am learning how to use them to help my clients.
When you dig into the details of the law, you see how health care reform empowers and enables people who have been shut out or minimized by the health care system.
It promotes wellness and good health. That's not such a bad thing.
I can also see the new law, along with the bailouts and stimulus packages of recent years, putting a huge strain on the federal budget.
There have been calls of "tax reform" to pay for the larger deficits.
I've learned one thing from watching Washington. Whenever there is a "reform" or "call to sacrifice" it is normally the little people are supposed to do the sacrificing.
Wall Street gets paid back 100 cents on the dollar.
I can see reforms, aimed at the "one percent," actually hitting people like my clients who are using their resources for medical care and a better quality of life.
I don't mind taxing a Wall Street banker's second yacht or third vacation home.
I don't want them taxing a client who wants to buy a lift for his wheelchair.
It's simple to aim at the top one percent of income earners and assume they are all doing something wrong.
It's more complicated when you add in people who got to the one percent by having a drunk driver smash into their car and kill their family.
When we start talking about the "one percent," we need to think about the one percent of society who are hurting and need government assistance and help.
And make sure that help is provided.
Don McNay, who lives in Richmond, Ky., is an award-winning financial columnist for Huffington Post Contributor. You can learn more about him at www.donmcnay.com.


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Hoboken Weighs Hunkering Down
HOBOKEN, N.J.—A broad range of ideas is under review to fortify this compact city against the kind of floodwaters that overwhelmed it from two directions during superstorm Sandy—from building a sea wall to raising power stations high above ground.
Protective structures also have been proposed for New York City across the Hudson River, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg has rejected projects such as a sea wall as too expensive. Hoboken, though, is so vulnerable and so small—just one mile square—that experimental measures might be feasible.
"Hoboken is small enough. Maybe some crazy idea would be useful," said Philip Orton, a research scientist and storm-surge expert at the Stevens Institute of Technology, a private university in Hoboken.
Mayor Dawn Zimmer said she wants new flood protection in place by the end of 2013.
"From my standpoint, we can't go another year like this," she said.
Among the ideas are raising city roads, adding pumps and building a mammoth system that would channel floodwaters into tunnels and onto lower-lying land to take advantage of the Meadowlands' natural function as a drainage system for New Jersey cities—including Hoboken.
Zoning changes are also being considered to prevent the building of ground-floor apartments in flood zones, as is a shift to an energy system that would allow the city to produce some of its own power to supplement the utility grid.
"I think Hoboken is a perfect candidate for smart grid," said Adam Zellner, president of Greener by Design, a New Brunswick consulting firm that has spoken to the city about creating independent power production. "It can be done in a way that's much more digestible because it's small."
Although the proposals have sparked the imagination of engineers, the federal government has yet to weigh in on what it would recommend.
Ms. Zimmer is assembling a task force of property owners, local officials and engineers from the Stevens Institute to discuss the city's flood-protection options.
One measure the mayor supports would raise the city's power substations onto platforms such as shipping containers, a novelty that has been used in other flood-prone areas. An estimated 90% of the city lost power after Sandy flooded Hoboken's three substations.
"We have to think outside a box," Ms. Zimmer said. "I don't want to be going into hurricane season with my substations exposed."
A sea wall also could have helped prevent flooding from the Long Slip Canal—an industrial inlet near NJ Transit's rail yards that was overwhelmed by Sandy's storm surge, said Ron Hine, director of the Fund for a Better Waterfront, a group monitoring Hoboken coastline development. Two luxury developments sustained serious flooding from the canal storm surge.
"A sea wall in front of the canal could help solve that problem," Mr. Hine said.
Few debate the need for better flood protection in Hoboken, a city that until the 19th century was on an island. Swaths of it remain below sea level.
Hoboken has flooded repeatedly in the past, and in the spring a $17 million pump was completed in the city's southwest section to help mitigate heavy rains.
The pump can remove 75 million gallons of water per day from the city when running, and it did its job during Sandy, said city spokesman Juan Melli.
"It makes the water drain a lot faster," Mr. Melli said. "If we hadn't had it, the flooding would have remained for many more days."
Sandy pushed floodwaters into the city from Weehawken Cove in the north and from Long Slip Canal in the south. Residents, some of whom were trapped in their buildings for days, said floodwaters were chest-high in some streets.
Sandy caused $10 million in damage to city infrastructure, and the Hoboken City Council recently approved $4.2 million in emergency expenditures to repair damaged city facilities.
"I lost everything," said Karen Nason, a Hoboken resident and business owner who sustained flooding both in her home and her floral shop. Her car was ruined, and much of the stock in her store died.
Flood-protection efforts will depend on federal funding. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie included more than $7 billion for mitigation and prevention in his request for congressional funding for the state after Sandy. Details on what the mitigation funds would cover haven't been made available.
Even routine flood-prevention projects are costly.
One such, to restore 21 miles of shoreline between Sea Bright and Manasquan in New Jersey, will cost $222 million, with additional spending in store to continue replenishing sand once it erodes.
A tunnel system to divert floodwaters from Hoboken and other New Jersey cities to the Meadowlands would likely cost billions of dollars, though it would offer a more long-term flood-projection strategy than simply lifting roads or building a sea wall, Mr. Orton said.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers doesn't have mitigation studies specifically looking at Hoboken, but top agency leaders spoke with Hoboken officials immediately after Sandy, and those conversations likely addressed future flood prevention, said Chris Gardner, a spokesman for the New York District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Hoboken resident Chris Halleron has seen his commute time double since PATH service was suspended due to Sandy. He said he was open to flood-mitigation measures, even those that were unsightly.
"We moved to Hoboken for its pretty views of Manhattan, but if we had to look over a sea wall to maintain those views, I'm all for it," said Mr. Halleron, a magazine editor. "It needs to be addressed."
—Sharon Adarlo and Jennifer Weiss contributed to this article.
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Young singer speaks at Salinas and Hollister schoolsUPDATED 8:35 PM PDT Oct 28, 2013
Students in Salinas and Hollister learned about how to handle bullies thanks to 15-year-old country singer Lizzie Sider.Video Transcript
BEING VERBAL AND SOCIAL BULLYING. THIS MONTH, SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND HERE ON THE CENTRAL COAST HAVE FOCUSED ON RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT THE PROBLEM AND PREVENTION ... WE GET MORE TONIGHT FROM ACTION NEWS REPORTER MAY CHOW.#### NATS 5:44-5:51 "can i have a pen? Oh... " LOOKING AT LIZZIE SIDER INTERACT WITH CHILDREN... YOU WOULDN'T THINK THAT THE OUTGOING 15- YEAR-OLD WAS BULLIED IN SCHOOL. BUT THE FLORIDA TEEN WAS...IN FACT, ALL THROUGHOUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. IT GOT SO BAD, SHE BEGGED HER PARENTS TO BE HOMESCHOOLED. SHE EVENTUALLY OVERCAME THE BULLYING AND FOUND HER VOICE, WHICH SHE'S NOW USING TO HELP OTHER CHILDREN. NATS BUTTERFLY MUSIC VIDEO LIZZIE WROTE A SONG CALLED "BUTTERFLY" ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE....AND THE SONG BECAME NOT ONLY AN OVERNIGHT HIT, BUT HER WAY OF TELLING KIDS THAT THINGS WILL GET BETTER. LIZZIE 5:00-5:14: "we wrote butterfly about my experiences being teased and bullied and butterfly has become my anthem, message that we can spread wings and fly." LIZZIE BROUGHT THAT MESSAGE TO HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS ON MONDAY, SPEAKING AT LINCOLN SCHOOL IN SALINAS AND R-O HARDIN ELEMENTARY IN HOLLISTER. QUICK NAT POP OF LIZZIE AND KIDDIES ENZO 34:15-34:25: "she talked about how bullying needs to be stopped and how it happened to her as a kid, and how you can stand up for other people and yourself." ALLISON 38:25-38:34: "it doesn't matter if you're scared, good for you to speak up once and for all, it will make you feel better as well." APRIL 37:52-38:00: "what lizzie said, nobody can ruin your day, no bully can ruin your day." THE STUDENTS SAY THEY WERE SAD AND HAPPY TO HEAR LIZZIE SPEAK...BECAUSE MANY OF THEM ARE BEING BULLIED THEMSELVES.... BUT KNOW THAT THEY CAN GET HELP AND THAT THEY CAN STOP BEING VICTIMS. ALLISON 39:17-39:28: "it does not feel good makes you not feel good about yourself, but just like the bracelet said, nobody as the power to ruin your day, that's what i'm going to stick with." LIZZIE 5:26-5:43: "I think very important to get my message out and one of things really important that it's kid on kid, i'm only 15, and some same age as me, make my message every stronger." REPORTING IN SALINAS, MAY CHOW KSBW ACTION NEWS EIGHT.###
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The Lufthansa Terminal at Dusseldorf Airport
At the Lufthansa Terminal in Dusseldorf you can expect not only the usual Lufthansa comforts but also an excellent connection to around 50 Lufthansa Group destinations in Germany and Europe and to two intercontinental destinations (New York Newark, Chicago). The airport's own InterCityExpress mainline station, with more than 300 train services daily and a direct connection to the Rhine Ruhr public transport network, ensures you can enjoy a relaxed journey to Dusseldorf Airport.
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New offer for Lufthansa passengers in Dusseldorf: the myDriver chauffeur service
For a comfortable journey to and from the airport, Lufthansa passengers can now take advantage of an attractive partner offer in the Dusseldorf area: the myDriver chauffeur service. This can be booked exclusively by Lufthansa passengers at a lower fixed price, which in the myDriver 'Economy Class' is around 11 per cent below the standard price. This means that passengers have the option of being driven to the airport or to their final destination in the Dusseldorf area in the comfort of a limousine. By way of an example, the journey from Dusseldorf Messe (Trade Fair) to the airport costs from €9.99.
Passengers can look forward to travelling in premium vehicles equipped with leather upholstery and air-conditioning. In addition still mineral water and a magazine are provided free of charge. Professionally trained chauffeurs take care of their passengers' luggage and ensure they enjoy a pleasant and safe journey.
The chauffeur service can be ordered up to 60 minutes before departure from myDriver by quoting the Lufthansa flight number. Bookings can also be changed or cancelled by calling the myDriver hotline: +49 (0)30-340 440 440 or +49 (0)30- 223 833 88.
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At Dusseldorf both you and your baggage have only short distances to and from flights: after landing and, if necessary, going through passport control you will receive your baggage safely in next to no time.
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The presence of Lufthansa and our Star Alliance partners under one roof ensures a tight route network with optimized connections. As a result you have shorter distances to the aircraft and changing flights is particularly fast and pleasant.
Please note: the airport's transit area is closed between 21.00 hours and 06.00 hours. If you have an onward flight on the following day, you will require a limited residence permit for Germany (e.g. a Schengen visa).
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Take advantage of the variety of shops, services, restaurants, bars and cafes throughout the whole terminal. You will find a detailed overview of all the facilities on offer in the terminal plan (see above).
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The viewing platform can be reached from Level 3 of the terminal. The SkyTrain connects the station directly to the terminal. The SkyTrain ticket also acts as your entry ticket to the observation terrace.
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What's equation would I use to calculate distance to an object, if I know it's actual and perceived size?
Say there is a line, and I know it's actual length is 65 (units), I perceive it as 62 (units).
I found various angular size equations on wikipedia and calculators like http://www.1728.org/angsize.htm however I don't know angle.


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So, after declaring my blog one of the best of the web, Veg News magazine has not seen fit to put me in the running for the 2008 Veggie Awards. In a rush of snivelling self-importance I wrote in my blog and voted for myself. (whimper, whine)
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
The Fleeting Nature of Fame
16 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I wrote in your blog too! But only because you post more often than Susan does at FFV. So keep it up! (Can't wait for the cookbook!)
- August 5, 2008 at 10:52 AM
- Celine said...
dude, don't even get me started. <3
- August 5, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- Jan said...
Me too! I wrote you in because I use lots of your recipes and you post so much more than anyone else. You go, Dad!
- August 5, 2008 at 11:43 AM
- in2insight said...
Hey, I wrote you in as well.
Everything I have made from your blog has been great. Can't say the same about the others that I visit...
As for the cookbook (two birds going on here), yeah, the fake thing is good and all, but it sure looks a bit carni to me.. Some color would be good.
- August 5, 2008 at 12:01 PM
- Heathere Willoughby said...
If it makes you feel any better - I got the survey and wrote you in as well.....and that was before you even whimpered and whined about it! :)
- August 5, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- lauren said...
i wrote you in too, even before i saw this... i actually checked the list 3 times, shocked that you weren't on it already!
- August 5, 2008 at 12:57 PM
- Johanna W. said...
I put your blog in the "other" catagory, too! I did, because of your uniqueness of a vegan blog theme, and you seem to do what you do for better reasons than most people. I don't care what Oprah does like some other blogs will list.
Grapes and Peas,
- August 5, 2008 at 1:17 PM
- Ivy said...
I, too, wrote you in for favorite blog in the Veg News survey, before you even mentioned it. You should have been one of the choices. Maybe you'll win by write-in!
- August 5, 2008 at 2:48 PM
- Janet said...
Looks like you have an army of at least 10 folks who (independently) wrote you in! As far as I"m concerned, there are only two blogs vegan parents need to read: vegan lunchbox and you!
- August 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM
- Jan Scholl said...
I don't normally do those online polls because they spam you with offers after, but I set up a Yahoo just so I could vote. You are the first place I look in over 50 food blogs. Best right in I ever did. Ya wanna run for president?
- August 5, 2008 at 6:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Yeah, I wrote you in, too.
- August 5, 2008 at 9:23 PM
- Nikki Douglas said...
I'm not a parent but I love my Vegan Dad and my Tofu Mom. You have a terrific blog - I actually didn't know a couple of the blogs there.
- August 6, 2008 at 2:19 AM
- Sarah said...
of course i wrote you in a few weeks ago. I was also surprised that i had to actually write your name in, instead of just click.
- August 10, 2008 at 2:14 AM
- dangerkate said...
I wrote you in too!
- August 10, 2008 at 12:32 PM
- dangerkate said...
I wrote you in too!
- August 10, 2008 at 12:33 PM
- Chris said...
Hey at least you got the award ;-)
- August 15, 2008 at 9:57 PM


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The EV3 is coming in Fall/Summer of 2013 and we tons of unknowns that will come in EV3. I am curious what software EV3 will run and will older generation software run on EV3 (NXT 1.0). And my final Question EV3 will work with Apple and Android devices, so that would mean iOS and Android developers could make application for EV3 or will only Lego make apps for EV3.
As you say, there are still tons of unknown at this point, so asking the question is way premature.
However, considering the software is said to be based on the same technology as the one in the NXT, it's likely it won't be too different, and that's why that software will be able to control NXT bricks. However, I also doubt you'll be able to control EV3 bricks with NXT software.
That software is going to work on Mac OS and Windows (not 8 or 8.1 rt); it's likely the apps for Android will not be a full-blown development environment (although, it's just a guess, it would be way cool if it was).
As for third-parties, LEGO has been very very open about its software in the past, and they will be this time too - opening the door for a plethora of applications/firmwares/whatever on several platforms.
The graphical software that ships with the EV3 set can program both EV3 bricks and older generation bricks. We assume that this means NXT 1.0 and 2.0 bricks. However, it is unlikely that NXT-G will work with EV3 bricks as EV3 bricks run a custom build of Linux, whereas older bricks run a custom firmware.
LEGO will create an offical app for both Apple and Android devices, but other app developers will be able to use the API to interface with the EV3. There will most likely be some documentation available (as it was for the NXT), and perhaps a SDK available for download.


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